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The Book of General Ignorance is the first in a series of books based on the final round in the intellectual British panel game QI, written by series-creator John Lloyd and head-researcher John Mitchinson, [1] to help spread the QI philosophy of curiosity to the reading public. [2]
The original Book of General Ignorance was first published in the UK on 4 October 2006. [3] The book became a hit, becoming an Amazon bestseller in Christmas 2006, selling more copies in the last quarter of the year than any other book. [4] The Book of General Ignorance became the fourth bestselling book in the history of Amazon. [5]
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.
Book of Knowledge (1922) British ed. Returned to this title in 1959 Cassell's Book of Knowledge; Waverley Book of Knowledge; Hammerton Book of Knowledge; Wonderland of Knowledge (1933) New Book of Knowledge (1938-1953)
Grolier was one of the largest American publishers of general encyclopedias, including The Book of Knowledge (1910), The New Book of Knowledge (1966), The New Book of Popular Science (1972), Encyclopedia Americana (1945), Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), and numerous incarnations of a CD-ROM encyclopedia (1986–2003).
The Children's Encyclopædia was an encyclopaedia originated by Arthur Mee, and published by the Educational Book Company, a subsidiary of Northcliffe's Amalgamated Press, London. It was published from 1908 to 1964. Walter M. Jackson's company Grolier acquired the rights to publish it in the U.S. under the name The Book of Knowledge (1910).
The Children's Encyclopedia – by Arthur Mee, published 1908–64 in the UK and in the US starting in 1910 as Grolier's The Book of Knowledge; Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia – published by Dorling Kindersley; Collier's Encyclopedia; Columbia Encyclopedia – one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press last published in 2000
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.