Features lists that cover a broad range of subjects including bizarre eating habits, famous historic misquotes, books that changed the world, and differences between Europe and America.

From the "New York Times" comes a thorough, authoritative, easy-to-use guide to a broad range of essential subjects.

A collection of quirky, fun facts.

So if you've always wanted to find out how porcupines really mate, how comedy can kill and -- that most essential piece of knowledge -- how long the longest recorded nose was, this is the book for you.

A comprehensive, visual reference, enhanced by two thousand photographs and illustrations, provides information on all major fields of knowledge and includes timelines, sidebars, cross-reference, and other useful features.

Provides answers to kids' questions about stuff that happens at home, in the backyard, at school, and on vacation.

A discovery book for children, with illustrations and instructive chapters on light, animals, music, weather, soldiers, food, insects, ad infinitum.

More than 100 colorful photos are paired with kid-friendly and age-appropriate maps along with basic facts about each continent. This book will quickly become a favorite at storytime, bedtime, or any other time.

This much-needed manual presents the first empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed specifically for PTSD and substance abuse.

Here are just a few of the topics covered in this second volume of Sources of Chinese Tradition: -- Early Sino-Western contacts in the seventeenth century; -- Four centuries of Chinese reflections on differences between Eastern and Western ...