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bride and groom can record wedding ideas, create budget guidelines, check items off their to-do list, generate the guest list, store contact information for their wedding vendors, and get tips and advice on the best way to plan their big day. Chapter by chapter, the planner walks the bridal couple through each major step: for example, choosing the reception site, picking a photographer, and deciding on a menu. Author Carley Roney and the editors of The Knot Web site have talked with both wedding professionals and hundreds of thousands of brides and grooms, and have a good idea of the necessary ingredients for a successful wedding. Most helpful and thorough are each chapter's "Questions to Ask" checklists and the "Knot Knowledge" tips, which include money-saving ideas. The book also contains a gift log, a budget tracker, and a wedding-day phone contacts sheet. Roney offers loads of helpful advice, such as recommending that the bride and groom declare "wedding free zones" where the couple makes time for activities together that have nothing to do with planning the wedding. Each chapter also includes her down-to-earth answers to commonly asked questions, such as whether it's appropriate for a relative to host a shower or if the wedding couple should pay for guests' travel expenses. With all of its tips, advice, and organizers, The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner may just be, next to a wedding coordinator, the best way for modern couples to ensure their wedding is a smoothly run, stress-free affair. --Kris Law

a huge amount of historical and folkloric information on everyday of the year (including, yes, 30th February, which has happened three times), on the days of the week, months and seasons, and on the major feast days and festivals in a wide variety of different cultures. This is the section that readers will find most fascinating; its 658 pages provide endless browsing. The second part concentrates more on the making of calendars over the centuries: how our own complex calendar evolved with its irregular month lengths and its rules for when leap year occur, plus details of the calendars of many other cultures--Chinese, Hindu, Muslim and many more--all trying to find a regular system which can cope with the fact that the roughly 29½ day lunar month and the roughly 365¼ day solar year simply can't be matched. Bonnie Blackburn and Leofranc Holford-Strevens must be congratulated on the huge amount of work this book must have taken, with such splendid results. --David V Barrett