All the Knowledge in the World

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<i>All the Knowledge in the World</i> is a history and celebration of those who created the most ground-breaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age. It 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 explains how encyclopaedias have reflected our changing attitudes towards sexuality, race and technology. <b>The extraordinary history of the encyclopaedia.</b>

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