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Ethnologue: Languages of the World (stylized as Ethnoloɠue) is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensive catalogue of languages. It was first issued in 1951 and is now published by SIL Global, an American evangelical Christian non-profit organization.

The World Is brow

essay by Thomas Friedman

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

2005 Robert Dimery book

Mitrokhin Archive

KGB leaked secret files given by Vasili Mitrokhin

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. Published on April 12, 2005, by William Morrow, the book has been described as melding pop culture with economics. By late 2009, the book had sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Based on the success of the original book, Levitt and Dubner have grown the Freakonomics brand into a multi-media franchise, with a sequel book, a feature film, a regular radio segment on National Public Radio, and a week

A Briefer History of Time

book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Miodinow

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

2005 essay by Jared Diamond

World Atlas of Language Structures

database of language structures

The Singularity Is Near

non-fiction work by Raymond Kurzweil

American Prometheus

philosophical essay

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

essay by Michel Onfray

Mao: The Unknown Story

biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

The China Study

book by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II

Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

essay by Stephen Lewis

2005 non-fiction work by Malcolm Gladwell

The Reason I Jump

book by Naoki Higashida

God Created the Integers

The Glass Castle

2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls

The Year of Magical Thinking

2005 memoir by Joan Didion

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

2005 novel by Neil Strauss

rational trigonometry

reformulation of planar distance and angle measurements in terms of polynomial functions of Cartesian coordinates

Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary

regional encyclopædia about Ternopil Oblast and Ukrainian Galicia

Misquoting Jesus

essay by Bart D. Ehrman

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

non-fiction work by Charles C. Mann

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam

Life Before Life

book by Jim B. Tucker

The Hitler Book

2005 book edited by Matthias Uhl and Henrik Eberle

leading general dictionary of the Dutch language

A Man Without a Country

The End of Poverty

non-fiction work by Jeffrey Sachs

The Universe in a Single Atom

book by Tenzin Gyatso

Parallel Worlds

2004 popular science book by Michio Kaku

Der Ort des Terrors

The Great War for Civilisation

book by Robert Fisk

Christelijke Encyclopedie

Dutch Reformed Church (and later ecumenical) encyclopedia

Female Chauvinist Pigs

book by Ariel Levy

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong

book by James R. Hansen

iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business is an unauthorized biography by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon about the return of Steve Jobs to Apple Inc. in 1997. It was published in 2005.

2005 book by Ian Lowe

2005 non-fiction work by Reza Aslan