If Encyclopedia Britannica comes in 24 volumes and costs $126.50; if the smallest New International comes in 14 volumes and costs $95; if Everyman’s comes in twelve volumes and costs $30, then how can ...

For four years, their marriage bore the weight of 6.6 million words – which turned out to be about 11 pounds when printed. Bedeviled by a last-minute geographical scrambling of Eastern Europe, torn by ...

For four years, their marriage bore the weight of 6.6 million words-which turned out to be about 11 pounds when printed. Bedeviled by a last-minute geographical scrambling of Eastern Europe, torn by ...

As a journalist, I think of myself as a fairly savvy news consumer, but there are times when I find myself in need of information that is not just a click away. Perhaps I need a quick refresher on ...

The best one-volume encyclopedia in the world used to be the Columbia Encyclopedia, first published by Columbia University Press in 1935. In our house we have the fifth edition, from 1993, and we ...

THIS massive volume, twelve inches by nine inches in its superficial dimensions, nine and a half pounds in weight and containing, within the compass of its nineteen hundred and fifty pages, not less ...