Format: Hardcover  

ISBN: 9781571985743

Pages: 288

Copyright Year: 2012

Availability: Usually ships within 24 to 48 hours unless otherwise noted in the product description.

America's best-selling annual publication is also the most beloved. A reference book that reads like a magazine, the Almanac contains everything under the sun: facts, feature articles and advice … and all of it still guided by the words of the Almanac's first editor, Robert B. Thomas, who demanded content that was "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor."

The 2013 edition, which marks the publication's 221st anniversary, will feature:

• Weather predictions for every day and climatic trends for each season, plus hints of how a low sunspot cycle could influence conditions in the coming years
• The most accurate astronomical data in the solar system, with recommendations for best viewing every month
• Safe and easy home remedies for each season’s most common—and uncomfortable—aches and ailments
• Fail-safe gardening tips to ensure a hefty harvest, ideas for using vegetable plants as ornamentals, plus gardening by the moon
• Delicious recipes for home-baked cakes, cookies and pies; plus readers' best bacon dishes
• Amusing and enlightening articles on raising children, kisses, and why pets bite (and how to stop them)
• And much more!

Added value this year:

• 80 full-color pages
• Full-color national weather maps of winter and summer forecasts