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Product Description
Get thousands of facts right at your fingertips with this updated resource.
Praise for the previous editions:
"The World Almanac is the most useful reference book known to modern man."--Los Angeles Times
"The most versatile single volume, and probably the biggest bargain on the shelf."--Esquire
"For the most information in one source, The World Almanac remains the champion."--American Library Association
The World Almanac and Book of Facts is America's top-selling reference book of all time, with more than 80 million copies sold. Published annually since 1868, this compendium of information is the authoritative source for all your entertainment, reference, and learning needs. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific and educational statistics and information" by The Wall Street Journal, The World Almanac contains thousands of facts that are unavailable publicly elsewhere--in fact, it has been featured as a category on Jeopardy! and is routinely used as a go-to, all-encompassing guide for aspiring game show contestants. The 2012 edition of The World Almanac and Book of Facts will answer all of your trivia questions from history and sports to geography, pop culture, and much more.
Features include:
-2010 Census Results: An up-to-date portrait of the changing face of the American people, based on newly released 2010 census data. Includes essential population statistics about each state's demographics, typical households, and new congressional apportionment.
-Time Capsule: The World Almanac lists the 10 items that most came to symbolize the year 2011, from the news and sports to pop culture.
-Year in Sports: Coverage of every major sport, with bonus World Series coverage including play-by-play and game-by-game playoff action. The 2011 MLB individual batting and pitching statistics give baseball junkies a jump-start on next year's fantasy baseball draft.
-The World at a Glance: Fully revised and updated, this annual feature of The World Almanac highlights surprising stats and curious facts that define the changing world today.
-The Year in Review: The World Almanac takes a look back at 2011 while looking forward to 2012.
-Offbeat News Stories: The World Almanac editors found some of the wackiest news stories of the year!
-2011--Year in Pictures: Striking full-color images from around the world in 2011, covering news, pop culture, and sports.
-U.S. Colleges and Universities: This feature compiles statistics on thousands of public and private U.S. colleges and universities--an indispensable tool for college-bound students and their families. Complete with student enrollment, tuition and fees, and other useful information on schools.
-and much more.
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012 Reviews
The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012 Reviews
| 16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:  Can't live without it!, By Magellan "snakehips" (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012 (Paperback) I was happy to get my new Almanac. It has all the latest census data, updated gov't info, and lots of facts for fact freaks. I suppose I'm getting older, but the print size seems to have gotten smaller over the years and I have probems reading it in dim lighting. I feel like every home should have one of these to help in solving questions about almost anything. 14 of 17 people found the following review helpful: The standard in almanacs, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012 (Paperback) There are many imitators on the market, some of them quite good, but this almanac has set the standard for more than a century. The New York World newspaper began publishing an almanac in 1868, "a 120-page volume with 12 pages of advertising." The newspaper suspended the almanac's publication in 1876, but publisher Joseph Pulitzer revived it in 1886 as a "compendium of universal knowledge." The almanac has been published annually since, outliving the newspaper whose name it still bears. (The World Almanac is not the oldest almanac in publication, though: that distinction belongs to The Old Farmer's Almanac, which is "North America's oldest continuously published periodical," founded in 1792.) The World Almanac contains much useful information that belongs in any serious basic-reference set. For the world, the almanac presents basic statistics about each nation, and about the world's major religions; and summarizes the world's history, with more detailed histories of the... Read more 4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:  Love this treasure trove for trivia freaks!, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012 (Paperback) This is about as good as it gets for trivia freaks. All manner of facts and figures. All manner of data. One of the things that I like to do is to simply randomly pick pages and take a look at what shows up.Here are some examples. Page 192. Political Leaders. The first few examples from this page: Frances Perkins (first female Cabinet member under FDR); Eva Peron; Juan Peron; Joseph Pilsudski; Charles Pinckney; and so on. Page 329. Celestial Events, 2012; Astronomical positions and constants (not necessarily a must read for me!). Page 577. Information about two states--Montana and Nebraska. For these (and other states), we learn about the states' populations, their geography, chief industries, state motto and flower and song (Did you know that the state flower of Montana is the Bitterroot?), tourist attractions, and so on. Page 665. Here, we see a description of world history from 1950-1959. Among the entries here: Events in... Read more |
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