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The UK paperback was released by Vintage on 5 March 2015 while the US paperback, retitled The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, was published on 10 March 2015 by Penguin Books. The book is written as a quick-start guide to restarting civilization following a global catastrophe.
The Book of Knowledge was an encyclopedia aimed at juveniles first published in 1912, by the Grolier Society.. Originally largely a reprint of the British Children's Encyclopaedia with revisions related to the United States by Holland Thompson, over time the encyclopedia evolved into a new entity entirely.
The encyclopedia was a successor to the Book of Knowledge, published from 1912 to 1965.This was a topically arranged encyclopedia described as an "entirely new work" under the editorial direction of Martha G. Schapp, head of overall encyclopedia direction at Grolier, and the specific direction of Dr. Lowell A. Martin.
The Discoverers is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes The Creators and The Seekers. The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration ...
A History of Knowledge is a 1991 book on intellectual history, with emphasis on the western civilization, written by Charles Van Doren, ...
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge is a 1998 book by the biologist E. O. Wilson, in which the author discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences and might in the future unite them with the humanities. [1] Wilson uses the term consilience to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called the Principles of Human Knowledge, or simply the Treatise) is a 1710 work, in English, by Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by Berkeley's contemporary John Locke about the nature of
The Degrees of Knowledge is a 1932 book by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain, [1] in which the author adopts St. Thomas Aquinas’s view called critical realism and applies it to his own epistemological positions. [1]