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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
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All the Knowledge in the World explores the history of encyclopedias, from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, revealing how they reflect changing attitudes towards sexuality, race, and technology and whether complete knowledge is forever beyond our grasp.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 07 September 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Witty and geekily eclectic
The Times
An erudite and amusing exploration
Financial Times
Full of jawdropping facts
Mail on Sunday
Remarkable . . . engrossing
Sunday Times
A pleasure
Spectator
An infectiously enthusiastic history
Times Literary Supplement
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Now these huge books sell for almost nothing on eBay while we derive information from our phones. What have we lost in this transition?
All the Knowledge in the World
tracks the story from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume Chinese manuscript that was too big to print. It exposes how encyclopaedias reflect our changing attitudes towards sexuality, race and technology, uncovers a fascinating part of our shared past and wonders whether the promise of complete knowledge - that most human of ambitions - will forever be beyond our grasp.
Weight: 296g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474610797
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