How do you keep up in the age of information when there's so much to know and so little time? Here's the ideal solution: a practical book of knowledge offering in-depth analysis, detailed interpretation, and penetrating insight into the key concepts, the most influential minds, and the major intellectual movements in history. A World of Ideas is an essential tool for anyone who wants to be fully informed and stay ahead of the curve in today's world.Now you can get to the bottom of ...

Dave "Ask Dave" Smith, retired Chief Archivist of The Walt Disney Company, has been fielding Disney trivia questions for over 30 years. And now, the most intriguing of those questions and answers have been compiled in this secret-filled book!

So you think you're one of Corrie's biggest fans? Test your knowledge with this trivia quiz book.What faulty household item caused the death of Valerie Barlow in 1971?The Imprisonment of which character in 1998 caused a real-life freedom campaign entitled 'Free the Weatherfield One'?Who died after being run over by a Blackpool tram in 1989?If you’re more at home in The Rovers than anywhere else, these brain-teasing questions will be right up your street!

Do you know what’s really good for you?In this age of countless miracle cures, it’s vital to separate the myths that endanger your health from the medical facts you need.FACT:Unfiltered coffee can clog your arteries.FACT:Donating blood may lower your risk of heart disease.FACT:You don’t really need eight glasses of water a day.FACT:Coughing won’t help if you’re having a heart attack. (But aspirin will!)

A parent who wishes to teach a child more about the universe needs to definitely help the child understand the many items that occupy our galaxy. This book would be excellent because a young child will not be skilled enough to gather information from a text only book. However, this is an illustrated guide of the cosmos that will show beautiful and artistically created pictures that will stick in the mind of a child. This also allows the child to ask questions of the parent, which can invol...

This is a follow-up to last year's runaway bestseller Now You Know ... The Book of Answers, which went through five printings and sold over 20,000 copies!Why do we shout "Fore" on a golf course? Why is confetti thrown at a wedding? Exactly how long is a "moment" or a "jiffy"? Why is breaking a mirror bad luck, and a rabbit's foot good luck?In this second book, Lennox continues to trace the concise and fascinating history and reasons for hundreds of expressions in o...

Musical instruments come in all shapes and sizes! Some look very different, while others look very similar. As such, written definitions are not enough to point out which is which; and that's where picture books step in. Within the pages of this book, you will be educated on the different musical instruments. You will be surprised to see new finds too! Buy a copy now!

Nice is the secret ingredient to a better life. It makes us happy. It may even be what makes us civilized—when we say thank you, shake hands, send flowers, we’re doing the nice things that bring people together.?A compulsive and chunky book for lovers of trivia, popular history, customs, and culture—and a perfect gift to say “you’re nice”—The Book of Nice is an entertaining, quirky compendium of those signs, traditions, and expressions that we so often take for granted, ye...

This is the perfect learning tool that your child tap to learn about all things round. Picture books, albeit the lack of lengthy sentences, mold your child's communication skills. Your child will begin to understand objects, as well as emotions and concepts relayed through images. Over time, he/she will form strings of words as part of self-expression. Grab a copy today!

An introduction to one hundred great Jewish books, arranged as a concise and thought-provoking guide to the Jewish conversation across many centuries. Each of the entries features one work in its historical and cultural context, provides a summary of content and author, and reflects on its relevance for today’s readers.

For decades Americans have turned to the Commerce Department's Index of Leading Economic Indicators to spot trends in the economy. The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators brings a similar kind of empirical analysis to the moral, social, and behavioral condition of American society from 1960 to the present--a vivid, clearly accessible portrait in numbers of who and where we are as a nation.First published in 1994 and now completely updated and considerably expanded...

Mars, A.K.A The Red Planet, has been the topic of many alien life speculations for so many years. With this picture book, you will finally learn about Mars; maybe enough to decide for yourself whether life can exist in it or not. Reading a picture book fuels the imagination and makes facts more easily understood. Order your copy today!