What you see is not always what you get in Magic Encyclopedia 3: Illusions, a new hidden object adventure with an extra layer of visual trickery.

Newly updated for 2010, the Britannica Student Encyclopedia provides children with a broad collection of information to help them gain a better understanding of their world. Designed for ages 7 12, this set provides more than 2,250 captivating articles across a wide range of subjects, making it the perfect resource for homework help, classroom assignments and everyday answers for curious minds.

Buswell (Korean & Chinese Buddhism, UCLA), a strong editorial board, and 250 contributors from around the world have produced an outstanding encyclopedia that succeeds in its aim to document the range and depth of the Buddhist tradition in its many manifestations. Intended for nonspecialists, some 470 scholarly, signed, and highly readable entries, ranging from 50 to 40,000 words in length, address Buddhist history and doctrines from cultural and national perspectives worldwide. The entries also address sacred texts and significant places, people, and schools. Each concludes with a bibliography of scholarly works, many of which, however, will prove difficult to locate in public or smaller academic libraries. Access to the alphabetically arranged entries is effectively augmented by a detailed subject index, a thematic listing of entries, and plentiful cross references.

This new edition admirably continues the standard set in 1986 of providing high-quality, insightful, and thorough essays by leading constitutional scholars, law school professors, judges, historians, and political scientists on practical and theoretical topics dealing with every aspect of constitutional law in the U.S., from the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to the Clinton impeachment.

Eating junk food and fast food is a great all-American passion. American kids and grownups love their candy bars, Big Macs and supersized fries, Doritos, Twinkies, and Good Humor ice cream bars. The disastrous health effects from the enormous appetite for these processed fat- and sugar-loaded foods are well publicized now.

If you want to learn about wines of the world and advance your comprehension of wine production, grape varieties, appellations, and individual wineries, understand the factors (such as location, soil, climate, and methods of viticulture) that affect the taste and nose, and visit your wine shop with a list of quality wines to explore, Tom Stevenson is the man to read.

Although openness and inclusion are cornerstones of life in the United States, intolerance and reactionary politics are also very real. As the nation prepares to elect a new president, The Culture Wars addresses the key defining issues of contemporary American society through the lens of political and social controversy.