Pocket World in Figures 2017* More than 200,000 copies sold worldwide each year*For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been informing and entertaining readers around the world with its blend of the serious, the quirky and the downright surprising. Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that a Big Mac will cost you twice as much in Israel as one in South Africa, that Rwanda, Bolivia and Cuba have the highest proportion of women in parliament or that the

'Years in the making this is a fisherman's treasury the definitive collection of every recorded landing of a giant Atlantic salmon and the stories of their capture whether on the fly or by other means

open your mind and prepare to be shocked

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His is a shocking revelation of a regime's total disregard for human life and dignity

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Julian and Peter offer answers to all the questions that baffle us well-intended

Rachel Watkins has her hands full

' The memory of this inexplicable command to nine-year-old Diana Quick by her terminally ill grandfather was to remain buried for years

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epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis

Natalie puts her wants and desires on hold and returns to Philly to take her mother's place at the firm

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