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   Coming Soon!


>> Animal Lives
  • 7 Volume Set
  • Pre-Publication Offer!
  • Delivery & Payment October 2009
Each volume explores a particular animal group covering physical features, behaviour, life cycles, adaptations, habitats, endangered animals and conservation efforts. For a sneak preview, click here
>> Inventions and Discoveries Digital Library

World Book Digital Libraries offer an online, interactive complement to World Book's most popular print reference sets. Each library features all the content from the print set as well as videos and animations, interactive activities, curriculum correlations, and links to encyclopedia content.

Inventions and Discoveries Digital Library is the latest addition to the World Book Digital Libraries collection. In this comprehensive site, students explore the transformative impact of inventions and discoveries that continue to shape our world today. For a free trial and further information click here
Inventions and Discoveries - 12 Volume Set click here.

Other titles in the World Book Digital Libraries collection are:
Early Peoples Digital Library
Living Green Digital Library

  What's New

>> The following are among those articles and features revised over the past month.
New pictures:
Abacus
Australian cattle dog
Christina Aguilera
Christopher Wren
Dark matter in the "bullet" cluster
Hinode image of the sun
Padre Pio
Velociraptor
New articles:
Binge eating
Cave bear (extinct type of bear)
Hinode (spacecraft)
Islamic Empire
Padre Pio (Italian saint)
Reality television
Mikheil Saakashvili
New dictionary:
chaos theory
Kuna
perfusionist
Revised articles:
Annunciation
Antioch
Bank
Blitzkrieg
Cane toad
Caribbean Sea
Electromagnetic waves
Football, Association
Gone with the Wind
Projector
Volkswagen AG

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Choose the Spinescape for The World Book Encyclopedia 2010

World Book introduced the first Spinescape in 1999, and this year YOU can vote for your favourite from among the top four finalists.  Vote at:   http://vote.worldbook.com/spinescape/
   Important Dates & Events

May 1 - May Day (International Labor Day).
May 2, 1729 - Catherine the Great of Russia, born.
May 3, 1841 - New Zealand was proclaimed a separate colony.
May 6, 1840 - First postage stamp issued in England.
May 6, 1937 - Airship Hindenburg blew up and burned.
May 7, 1915 - A German submarine sank the passenger liner Lusitania in World War I.
May 8, 1945 - Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day); the day after Germany surrendered, ending World War II in Europe.
May 9 - Mother's Day
May 9, 1806 - J.M. Barrie, Scottish author, best known play is Peter Pan (1904)
May 10, 1871 - Franco-Prussian War ended.
May 12, 1820 - Florence Nightingale, English nurse, born.
May 12, 1926 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, flew over the North Pole.
May 14, 1796 - Edward Jenner, British physician, performed the first vaccination against smallpox.
May 14, 1948 - Israel became an independent country.
May 15, 1928 - Royal Flying Doctor Service began in Australia.
May 19, 1861 - Dame Nellie Melba, Australian singer, born.
May 20, 1932 - Amelia Earhart began the first solo transatlantic flight by a woman.
May 20, 2002 - East Timor became an independent country.
May 21, 1927 - Charles Lindbergh finished first transatlantic solo flight.
May 21, 1930 - Malcolm Fraser, prime minister of Australia between 1975 and 1983, born.
May 22, 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author, created Sherlock Holmes, the world's best-known detective.
May 26 - National Sorry Day in Australia.
May 29, 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the top of Mount Everest.
May 30, 1431 - Joan of Arc burned at the stake.
May 30, 1498 - Christopher Columbus began his third voyage.
May 31, 1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm began the first air crossing of the Pacific Ocean.
June 2, 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
June 3, 1621 - Dutch West India Company chartered.
June 3, 1790 - first ship of the Second Fleet from England entered Sydney Heads, Australia.
June 4, 1942 - Battle of Midway in World War II began.
June 5 - World Environment Day.

   Hints & Tips

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  • Did you know ...
>> How to Do Research

The educators' section includes:
"How can I design a plagiarism-proof research assignment?"

"How can I use Web 2.0 technologies to enhance the learning experience of my students?"
    >> The World Book Student Research Tools section allows students to compile, create, and save research projects with:
    • How to Do Research
    • My Backpack
    • Timeline Builder

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