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In 2020, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. released the Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know and What We Don't, an encyclopaedia aimed primarily at younger readers, covering major topics. The encyclopedia was widely praised for bringing back the print format. It was Britannica's first encyclopaedia for children since 1984.
In 2020, Encyclopædia Britannica released the Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know and What We Don't, an encyclopedia aimed primarily at younger readers, covering major topics. The encyclopedia was widely praised for bringing back the print format. It was Britannica's first encyclopedia for children since 1984.
Britannica Book of the Year (1913, 1938-) The Britannica book of the war (1914) Britannica Home University (1920) Weedon's Modern Encyclopedia (1931) a non-Britannica publication that was bought out and repackaged by Britannica as Britannica Junior (1934) Great Books of the Western World (1952) Children's Britannica (1960) aimed at ages seven ...
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World is a book by Esquire editor A. J. Jacobs, published in 2004. [1]It recounts his experience of reading the entire Encyclopædia Britannica; all 32 volumes of the 2002 edition, extending to over 33,000 pages with some 44 million words.
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period of 3 ...
(The Great Books were also published by the Encyclopædia Britannica Inc.) Adler stresses in his book, A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom, that the ten categories should not be taken as hierarchical but as circular. The whole of the Propædia's synoptic outline of knowledge deserves to be read carefully. It represents a ...
The New American Desk Encyclopedia. New American Library. 1984. [121] The New American Encyclopedia: A Treasury of Information on the Sciences, the Arts, Literature, and General Knowledge. The Publishers Agency, 1973. [119] The New Book of Knowledge. Grolier Inc. 1966–. [44] [122] The New Caxton Encyclopedia. Caxton Publications, 1979. [123]
Because old sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica are worth less than the cost of delivery, Garfield calls them “the fastest depreciating assemblage of information ever known.” [1] “What is and isn’t valued knowledge, and how best to present it, has been the recurring headache of every encyclopedia editor in history,” he writes. [3]