title: My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things: For Little Learners Who Want to Know Everything (My Very Important Encyclopedias)
author:  DK 
description: K-Gr 2Tackling everything from the seven continents and the night sky to creatures great and small and important inventors, this is a compendium of information ideal for younger elementary students interested in, well, just about everything! Not in-depth about any particular subject, this page-turner provides just enough blurbs and colorful photos to pique children's curiosity on subjects as varied as history, biology, geography, astronomy, meteorology, and more. Who doesn't want to know what the tallest buildings in the world are or the differences among various dinosaur species (and how to pronounce their very long names)? VERDICT This book won't be useful for writing papers or doing exhaustive research. Rather, consider it a browsing title for young and inquiring minds and a springboard to more comprehensive works, once the little ones are hooked.Sharon Verbeten, Brown County Library, Green Bay, WI
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  # 801 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
  
  
  ## From Greek Philosophy to Today’s Technology
  
  
  ## Theories, Events, Discoveries, Trends, and Movements that Matter
  
  
  ## DAVID OLSEN
  
  
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  FOR DAD AND MOM
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  [Introduction](int.xhtml)
  
  
  [**1** Things You Should Know about **Philosophy**](c01.xhtml)
  
  
  [**2** Things You Should Know about **History**](c02.xhtml)
  
  
  [**3** Things You Should Know about **Business & Economics**](c03.xhtml)
  
  
  [**4** Things You Should Know about **Art & Literature**](c04.xhtml)
  
  
  [**5** Things You Should Know about **People & Culture**](c05.xhtml)
  
  
  [**6** Things You Should Know about **Politics**](c06.xhtml)
  
  
  [**7** Things You Should Know about **Science & Technology**](c07.xhtml)
  
  
  [**8** Things You Should Know about the **Social Sciences**](c08.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Introduction
  
  
  Abnegate. Confabulate. Encomium. Hyperopia. Ineluctable. Monolithic.
  Peripatetic. Saturnine. Torpor. Zenith.
  