Henry Carter Hull

Provides basic information on its geography, natural resources, economy, political structures and covers the history and culture of traditional Chinese civilization.

Encyclopedia entries are designed for students from fifth grade through high school and are written or reviewed by subject specialists.

An informative guide to the beginnings of over 500 ordinary things, from the brown paper bag to animal crackers.

"Zia remembers the exact night the Shadoom arrived. One moment she was laughing with her best friends, and the next a dark room of shadows had crept into her chest...Until Zia discovers an old family heirloom: the C. Scuro Dictionary...Hidden within its magical pages is a mysterious blue eraser...When Zia starts to erase words that remind her of the Shadoom, they disappear one by one from the world around her...But things quickly dissolve into chaos,...

"Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong feelings about the word (and, yes, it is a word) "irregardless?" Did you know that OMG was first used in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill? These are the questions that keep lexicographers up at night. While most of us might take dictionaries for...

"A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word"--

Recounts Dr. Johnson's efforts to establish the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language in the early eighteenth century.

Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by the editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating \"artificial notions of correctness,\" basing proper usage on how language was actually spoken. The dictionary's revolutionary style sparked what David Foster Wallace called \"the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars.\" Editors and scholars howled for Gove's blood, calling...