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In March 2012, Britannica's president, Jorge Cauz, announced that it would not produce any new print editions of the encyclopaedia, with the 2010 15th edition being the last. The company will focus only on the online edition and other educational tools. [1] [29] Britannica 's final print edition was in 2010, a 32-volume set. [1]
Free Encyclopedia of Appalachia: English Dedicated to the region, people, culture, history, and geography of Appalachia. Defunct Encyclopedia of Arkansas: English Project of the Central Arkansas Library System and is the only U.S. state encyclopedia sponsored by a public library Free Encyclopedia of Chicago: English Free Encyclopedia Virginia ...
In 1945, Adler began writing the initial forms of the essays for the Great Ideas and six years and $940,000 more later, on April 15, 1952, the Great Books of the Western World were presented at a publication party in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in New York City. In his speech, Hutchins said, "This is more than a set of books, and more than a ...
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 ...
Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC-27 BC) Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder (AD 77-79); highly influential through the Middle Ages, the oldest encyclopedia for which there is an extant copy; De verborum significatione by Sextus Pompeius Festus (2nd century AD) Onomasticon by Julius Pollux (2nd century AD)
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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]