Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Books

Guinness World Records 2009 is packed with 1000's of new records, amazing 3D photography, fold-out features including Harry Potter, the Moon Landings and 3D Dinosaurs, celebrity interviews and 100% new photography.

An annual volume that tells the real stories of the year. Section headings include: Chronicle; World; Society and Health; Sci, Tech, Net; Celebrity and Media; Music and Cinema; Books and Arts; Travel and Leisure; Money; Parliament and Politics; The Establishment; Sport; and, Ephemerides.

Covers the period from the late '50s, when albums began to be considered as an oeuvre, to the early twenty-first century. This book contains insights into why each album is significant, the key tracks, the circumstances of its creation, the critical reception in its day, and why it stands the test of time.

Fully revised and updated, this is the tenth edition of the world's most comprehensive and bestselling guide for the massive record collecting market. Based on nearly 25 years of detailed research by the staff of Record Collector Magazine, the world's leading publication for all pop and rock collectors.

It's a fact that men love lists: with lists, men can find the interesting information with the least amount of effort. This book contains over 250 lists covering the important subjects in life - cars, sports, barbecues, gadgets - and answers the vital questions: Are Ferraris faster than Lamborghinis? What's the common murder weapon?

Fully updated and revised for 2009, this family reference book comes from the publishers of the renowned Whitaker's Almanack. It combines the most up-to-date, 'must have' information on every important subject on earth. Hugely entertaining and informative, this book is a superb reference title for all the family.

Whether they're a work of wacky imagination, a piercing insight into social and cultural traditions at the time of writing, or simply a absorbing story, this work features these stories that have come about out of people's desires to communicate a story, a message or a lesson.

The perfect gift for every occasion. Packed with 4,000 quotable quotes new and old, this little book offers the words of famous thinkers and great wits on any subject or special event.

Offers information from Bow Bells to Byzantine art, from Komodo dragons to kamikaze pilots, and from literary pseudonyms to a chronicle of global history.

Second volume of theis bestselling miscellany featuring new and updated material.

Quite simply, Whitaker's Almanack 2009 is the perfect book for anyone interested in current affairs and general knowledge.

Presents an off-road safari through a hundred interesting members of the animal kingdom, with illustrations and diagrams. This title covers: the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom.

Stuff you've forgotten, things you never thought you knew and lessons you didn't quite get round to learning.

Offers facts and figures about the world we live in. This title contains facts on more than 200 topics, data on 182 countries and profiles of more than 65 of the world's major economies, together with profiles on the Euro Zone and the World.

New edition of the bestselling compendium of general knowledge

A major new edition of Oxford's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of quotations brings you the wisdom of the ages and the sound bites of today. Find that half-remembered quote in a browser's paradise of over 20,000 fully indexed quotations.

Reflects changes in politics, sport, culture and the arts to the end of 2006. This book is about the basic facts from one of Britain's information providers.

'The funniest book in the history of the world' Daily Express