Reference: Books & Ebooks

The World Almanac is the #1 best-selling American reference book of all time. It is the source for essential and authoritative facts for entertainment, reference and learning. The book contains thousands of facts and statistics that aren’t publicly available which are sourced and double-checked by the staff of World Almanac experts.

Over 10 years in the making, American National Biography is a fascinating study of the people who have shaped the United States.

Oxford's Atlas of the World is one of the most authoritative atlas on the market. Full of crisp, clear cartography of urban areas and virtually uninhabited landscapes around the globe, the Atlas is filled with maps of cities and regions at carefully selected scales that give a striking view of the Earth's surface. It opens with a fascinating look at world statistics, a six-page special on "The Future of the Oceans and Seas," and satellite images of earth, including eleven stunning images sourced from NASA's latest Earth Observation Satellite, Landsat 8, launched in 2013. The hundreds of city and world maps that form the body of the Atlas have been thoroughly updated for this 22nd edition.

First published in 1855, Bartlett's has been completely updated and revised by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This 17th edition, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2,500 authors, 90 of whom are new to BARTLETT'S. With quotations presented in chronological order, in the famous BARTLETT'S tradition, BARTLETT'S gives the reader a vast panorama of the world, from the ancient Egyptians to the latest movie, from the inspirational and the beautiful to the sardonic and the downright funny.

A collection of this often reviled but endlessly fascinating area of the English language, these volumes cover slang from the past five centuries right up to the present day, from all the different English-speaking countries and regions.

This classic reference work presents a political, economic, and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis.