Sentences with phrase «old encyclopedia»

Another fun book idea is to buy old encyclopedia volumes for pennies at garage and library sales.

Does this mean that Wikipedia will soon become likely stodgy old Encyclopedia Britannica, with only certain people providing information; will it become static rather than dynamic?

Wanting to check out my memory and just dug out my old encyclopedia from the 50's (Book of Knowledge by Waverley).

Titus, no offence to your old encyclopedia, but there is more solid information available than that:

I have old encyclopedia entries that talk about the gradual increase in ice from the early 20th century.

About the Work In «Asylum», Gibson takes a leaf from each of his two most recent artist's books: «Dupe: A Partial Compendium of Everyday Delusions» (a dictionary of quasi-clinical, art - world pathologies; sardonic but earnest) and «Sarsaparilla to Sorcery» (a picture book exploring perceptual ambiguities between allusive abstract photographic images and taxonomic illustrations swiped from an old Encyclopedia Britannica).

The old Encyclopedia Britannica entries were actually signed.

One 46 - year - old encyclopedia salesman is so overcome by a seizure of laughter that the experiment has to be stopped to allow him to recover.

McVeigh isolates pages from sources such as sailing manuals, old encyclopedias and book keeping ledgers and assaults them with drawing or mark - making, prompting dialogues through obliteration and accretion.

I seem to remember diagrams of storm clouds in old encyclopedias which had lots of + + + + and ---- signs at the top and bottom.

To check my memory last night I consuluted one of my old encyclopedias (Book of Knowledge by Waverley 1950's edition).

I agree with Neil that Halsburys evolved from older encyclopedias to meet the real needs of the practitioners of law.

Not exact matches

The current division of theological studies into Bible, history, theology, ethics and practical theology reflects a very old Theological Encyclopedia, but one whose foundations in a theology of the Word, of teaching office, of church and ministry, if not discredited, are at least invisible to present - day students — probably because many of them simply do not share the old consensus about the church which produced this Theological Encyclopedia.

The Babka is the European cousin of coffee cake, the rich yeast bread derives its name from bacia, a Slavic term of endearment for grandma, which the Encyclopedia of Jewish Food points out may have been because the fluted tube pans in which babkas were originally baked gave the cakes the appearance of an old woman's pleated skirt.

«Santanachelys gaffneyi is the oldest known sea turtle» — this sentence from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is no longer up - to - date.

Yes, it's the good old Arnold's Classic «The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding ``.

As she grew older she became fascinated with science, biology, medicine and biochemistry, and would spend her time reading through medical journals, encyclopedias and textbooks.

In my old copy of Rodale's Encyclopedia of Natural Home Remedies, which I bought in 1982, author Mark Bricklin considers vitamin C and ascorbic acid as one in the same.

The Computer Desktop Encyclopedia is the oldest computer reference manual in history, dating back

Reference books, such as full sets of encyclopedias and dictionaries less than fifteen years old

he said, referring to another encyclopedia, the oldest in the English language still in print and one that is often pitted against Wikipedia.

Many students who cheat do it the old - fashioned way: by copying from an encyclopedia or reference book, «borrowing» a term paper or homework from a friend, or obtaining test answers from a student who has already taken the exam.

According to On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio, advertising salesmen for the station would approach people on the street with their portable microphones and ask questions, offering token prizes for correct answers.

A Spanish language encyclopedia for older students and the general public.

He said it's not uncommon to see a decade - old computer manual or an incomplete encyclopedia set on a library shelf — not exactly inspiring reading material for young people.

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Another of my passions was history and old books, thanks to my father's collections of children's encyclopedias.

XL brings it's «Legend Mode» along with a new Challenge Mode and the old gallery and encyclopedia from the previous title.

Complementing 2009's «Encyclopedia of 8 - Bit Heroes», the latest issue (# 7) of GameSpite Quarterly offers An Encyclopedia of 8 - Bit Villains, profiling old - school enemies «both infamous and hardly famous at all» from Carmen Sandiego to Tetris» S and Z blocks:

Channeling those influences through The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement, she merged her passions for the contrasting sensibilities of allover ornament and minimalist monochromes, producing kaleidoscopic collages that play havoc with perspective and the good old modernist grid.

The guy is an encyclopedia of old print publications.

By literally dissecting literary and visual records of the past — old books, maps and encyclopedias — Dettmer gives new form to what might otherwise be discarded and forgotten.

Old atlases, reference books and encyclopedias are cut up and transformed by this artist into fractal - inspired works of paper art.

In between, I'd try the old method: look for print dictionaries and encyclopedia with the LC subject headings Computers — Dictionaries.