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 ...

The World Book Encyclopedia was the first challenge to my faith in Santa Claus. Its matter-of-fact description of Saint Nick ...

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 ...

In an age before Google, parents pinned hopes for their children’s future onto promises made on their doorsteps by encyclopedia salesmen. Denis Boyles, the author of a history of the Encyclopaedia ...

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 big picture: The information superhighway sounds like the ideal place to learn about virtually anything and for the last few decades, that's been an accurate assessment. In recent years, however, ...

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 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 ...