Several times this week, I’ve had occasion to pull down a volume of The World Book Encyclopedia from the set that lived on a bookshelf at my parents’ house and now lives with me. Unfortunately, in my ...

These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt ...

Promotes comprehension, knowledge retention, and research skills necessary for learning success Includes index, map volume, fact-in-brief boxes, special features, and quiz-based activities Contains ...

The American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville began in 1959 a yearslong effort to compile the first encyclopedia ...

As well-known and highly respected publishing entities like newspapers and reference books struggle to compete with free information available on the internet, publishers of these types of content are ...

Entries in a dictionary are “dry, functional, almost bureaucratically sapped of color or pop, like high-modernist architecture. Which trains you to think of the dictionary as a utility, not a quarry ...

World Book and Software MacKiev, a company that specializes in helping software publishers adopt and implement Apple technology, are introducing a Speech Enabler for World Book Encyclopedia for Mac OS ...

The last doors slammed shut on encyclopedia salesmen years ago. Beginning in the early 1990s, many parents decided that instead of shelling out hundreds of dollars for a weighty set of books, the ...