The Cambridge Gazetteer of the United States and Canada is a comprehensive, one-volume, alphabetically arranged encyclopedic dictionary of places. It contains over 12,000 entries based on the latest census data and on a wide range of economic, cultural, historic, and topographical sources. The Gazetteer's coverage is unique in that it extends ...
We all know what the words cat and dog and mother and tree mean. What we really need is a dictionary that helps us with the tough words, like elucubrate, or demesne, or cynosure. True, a standard dictionary can bail us out when we run across a tough word at home or in a library. But we often read elsewhere--in a doctor's waiting room or on a plane ...
This directory and guide, the first of its kind, is a helpful reference to over 1,000 small museums in America. There is even an index by subject, which makes it easy to locate such oddities as the Barbie Hall of Fame in Palo Alto, California and the Museum of Ordinary People in Hurtsboro, Alabama.
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