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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. split in 1999. One part retained the company name and developed the print version, and the other, Britannica.com Incorporated, developed digital versions. Since 2001, the two companies have shared a CEO, Ilan Yeshua, who has continued Powell's strategy of introducing new products with the Britannica name.
Britannica acquired Merriam-Webster in 1964 and Compton's Encyclopedia as well in the early 1960s. [2] [3] Benton died in 1973, before the fifteenth edition was published in 1974. The newly titled Britannica 3 was composed of a ten-volume Micropædia, a 19-volume Macropædia and a one-volume guide to the encyclopædia's use, called Propædia.
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 ...
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
The reader's guide to the Encyclopædia britannica; a handbook containing sixty-six courses of systematic study or occasional reading. (1913) Britannica Book of the Year (1913, 1938-) The Britannica book of the war (1914) Britannica Home University (1920)
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.
Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite – DVD version of Encyclopædia Britannica Encyclopædia Metropolitana – 39 volumes in 59 parts published between 1817 and 1845 Encyclopedia Americana – both a print work and currently a part of Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
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]