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This year's edition compiles the very best of the thousands of new records approved over the past year. And with lockdowns and quarantines gradually ...
The first and best compendium of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing information and must-talk-about trivia has spawned many imitators - but none as addictive or ...
This informative and engaging illustrated reference provides the stories behind 1,001 signs and symbols, from ancient hieroglyphs to modern-day political and subculture symbols. What ...
From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to superhero Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, a wondrous atlas of ...
The third edition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics is an authoritative and invaluable reference source covering every aspect of its wide-ranging field. In ...
This is not a book of facts; it's a book of 'facts'. Should you finish it believing we became the planet's dominant species ...
From Mental Floss, the premier destination for curious minds, comes a deep dive into the the world of words! You'll discover the surprising (and ...
A sweeping exploration of the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells ...
Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out ...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM ZOE BALL
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