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Provides facts and figures on a wide variety of topics, including health and nutrition, science and technology, and sports and records, accompanied by easily understood graphics.

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Booklist Review

"Attractive, accessible, and authoritative, its highly visual format makes all the other dull and confusing almanacs obsolete," says the press release that came with this book. This is an overstatement, for while the graphics do illustrate statistical data, there are no numbers to back up the charts. It will still be necessary to "sift . . . through cramped columns and tiny numbers" if this is to be anything more than a source of pictures to illustrate homework. There is no bibliography. Graphs and charts list a source, but never more than the name of an organization or government agency (U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture), without a date. The book is divided into 12 sections, each with a short introductory essay and a sidebar of fast facts. Within the sections are brief essays and more fact sidebars--reminiscent of USA Today. The more than 2,000 charts and graphs are attractive and well-designed. Topics covered range from the number of prime-time TV viewers in the U.S. per night to the top-10 PAC spenders, Amtrak operating expenditures, and how users learn about Web sites. Both the black-and-white and color illustrations have strong enough contrast to photocopy well. In conjunction with other reference materials, this book can provide the illustrations teachers like in homework assignments. An optional purchase for an adult collection, where it would be more suitable as a browsing tool than as a reference source, this almanac could be useful in a children's department serving upper-elementary and middle-school students. (Reviewed May 1, 1996)

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Jenny Tesar has written or edited numerous science books. She lives in Bethel, Connecticut.

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