Literature

From Chapter Focus on: East African savanna There are more kinds of large animals on the grassy plains of East Africa than anywhere else in the world. They...

A guide to more than one thousand beasts, specters, and other monsters, from the Bible's Leviathan to Hollywood's Alien, arranged alphabetically and cross-r...

An exciting new edition to the DK First Reference series, this fun-packed nature encyclopedia introduces children to every aspect of the natural world. ...

Meet Sully, Nemo, Woody, and all of your other favorite Disney•Pixar characters in DK's Disney•Pixar Character Encyclopedia! Each page gives you instan...

Covering key curriculum topics including geography, physics, biology, chemistry, history, science, and technology, The New Children's Encyclopedia is create...

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is one of the world's best-loved reference books. First published in 1870, this treasury of 'words that have a stor...

The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of t...

Fascinating bridge facts, hands, and anecdotes, interesting biographies of many world-class players, explainations of bridge terms and conventions, history ...

Long Recognized As The Outstanding Reference On World Literature, Benetʼs Readerʼs Encyclopedia Is The One Against Which All Others Are Measured, And Is T...

Bursting with eerie photos and Special Investigations, a nonfiction compendium of all things ghoulish and ghastly--from Aliens to Zombies! Vampires, ghost...

Featuring more than 1,500 images that bring the story of the past to life through a detailed timeline, this visual world history book helps children naviga...

Contains A Fully Updated A-z Guide To Over 1,200 Definitions Of Terms From The Fields Of Literary Theory And Criticism, Rhetoric, Versification And Drama. R...

language Is The Life Blood Of A Culture, And To Be Interested In Culture Is In Some Sense To Be Interested In Language, In The Shapes And Sounds Of Words, ...