An entertaining array of facts and trivia features more than one thousand separate lists and more than four hundred illustrations that cover a broad range of subjects, including Culture & Learning, Sports, the Universe & the Earth, the Human World, and Town & Country. Simultaneous. (view table of contents)

Features more than one thousand separate lists that cover a broad range of subjects, including Culture & Learning, Sports, the Universe & the Earth, the Human World, and Town & Country (view table of contents)

An entertaining array of facts and trivia features more than one thousand separate lists and more than four hundred illustrations that cover a broad range of subjects, including Culture & Learning, Sports, the Universe & the Earth, the Human World, and Town & Country. (view table of contents)

Product Description: From DK's famed "factmaster" himself, Russell Ash comes the perfect memento to mark the millennium. Packed with intriguing information and entertaining anecdotes, Factastic: Millennium Facts charts the key worldwide political, social, and cultural events of the last 1,000 years in Ash's lighthearted yet informative style...read more

Features more than one thousand separate lists that cover a broad range of subjects, including Culture & Learning, Sports, the Universe & the Earth, the Human World, and Town & Country

Presents unusual facts and comparisons about a variety of topics, including human population, travel, buildings, and forces of nature.

One thousand and one lists of facts and trivia include information on opposites, world records, milestones, and more, grouped by subjects such as nature, science, sports, space, culture, and countries

Features more than one thousand separate lists that cover a broad range of subjects, including Culture & Learning, Sports, the Universe & the Earth, the Human World, and Town & Country

Product Description: The irresistible mix of facts and trivia featured in over 1,000 lists in this special millennium edition covers a diverse range of subjects from presidents to air disasters to what's in a name to toys and games. Top Ten dips into every area of human achievement and every area of the natural world, with such sections as the Universe & the earth; Culture & Learning; the Human World; Town & Country; Music, Stage, Screen & Broadcasting; and Sports...read more

A collection of fascinating facts, dealing with a wide variety of subjects and events from the last 1000 years, offers an informative look at important social, medical, and political events, historical anecdotes, and much more.

Product Description: Divided into 4 seasonal chapters this book shows how the Impressionists depicted the seasons of the year. The masterpieces are accompanied by selected prose and verse from Zola, Blake and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning.'

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Encompassing more than six hundred subject areas, this entertaining collection of up-to-date lists reanges from the most expensive cities in the world to the leading automobile-producing nations to the most popular breeds of pedigree cats in America. (view table of contents)

Frederick, Lord Leighton (1830-1896) was one of the most respected artists of his day. He was a leading exponent of what has latterly been described as "sentimental classicism", a style that drew together traces of the ancient classical traditions of Greece and Rome, with the moral idealism and emotional content typical of much Victorian art. In Leighton's work the rich, jewel-like colours of the Pre-Raphaelite circle are evident, as are the flowing lines and arabesques of the Symbolist school. These differing influences combine in Leighton's art to produce sensuously coloured, often erotically charged paintings, best characterized by his masterpiece "Flaming June". His painting and sculpture were much admired in his lifetime, and he was rewarded with presidency of the Royal Academy and honoured by being the first artist to be granted an English peerage. His work is well distributed in important galleries around the world, and many of his works are displayed at Leighton House, now a museum in London's Holland Park. This monograph is published to celebrate the centenary of the artist's death.

An annual, illustrated book of lists includes obscure trivia and facts about everything from animals to xylophones, and covers such subjects as culture, daily life, nature, food, travel, and crime. Simultaneous. 75,000 first printing.

More than 350 full-color, captioned illustrations chronicle what happens over the course of a twenty-four-hour day on Earth, offering a host of facts and statistics about the forces that shape the planet, human life, world production and consumption, the environment, and more.

An illustrated appraisal of the turbulent life and career of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and painter, recluse and drug addict and founder and leader of the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

Product Description: A companion volume to the Top 10 of Everything. Packed with irresistible facts and trivia, this is the perfect book for children who need to know everything about the biggest, tallest, longest, and strangest things in the world. Challenge your child on any subject, from art and space to snakes and the weather...read more

Featured in an exclusive illustrated book of lists is a remarkable selection of facts and figures on all areas of human achievement and the natural world, covering topics such as favorites candies, movies, food, crime, and life on earth.

This new visual guide, with hundreds of illustrated comparisons of objects from the world around us, turns statistics into pictures through tangible evidence of sizes, heights, speeds, and numbers, while revealing a whole new world to young readers.

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Featuring many off-the-wall titbits of information, this book is filled with fascinating facts and little-known trivia about history, science, sports, music, movies, nature, people and places. It is suitable for general knowledge fans.

Features more than one thousand separate lists that cover a broad range of subjects, including Culture & Learning, Sports, the Universe & the Earth, the Human World, and Town & Country

The paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema reveal much about 19th-century values. His forays into sentimentality, escapism and hedonism were adored by the Victorian public. This book features his work from private and public collections, in large-format colour plates.

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