All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia

All the Knowledge in the World

The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia

By
Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield
2022 • 352 pages

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516 books

History

MBonus
PB
European History for Dummies
Secret Victory: The Intelligence War that beat the IRA
Mossad
One Minute to Midnight - Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
In Search of the Dark Ages
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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2,160 books

Ebooks

MBonus
PB
… And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know
Forensics: The Science Behind the Deaths of Famous People
False Memory OCD Recovery: Step by Step Recovery Guide
I Travel by Night
Last Train from Perdition
The Border
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

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166 books

Microhistory

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Libraries in the Ancient World
Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart
Who Cut the Cheese?: A Cultural History of the Fart
Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding
Sweat
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Royal Art of Poison

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26 books

Libraries And Librarians

spiritomb
Spiritomb
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
Read Dangerously
Cruising the library
Purity in Print
Imperiled Innocents
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library

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20 books

Information Science

spiritomb
Spiritomb
Sorting Things Out
BiblioTech
Library: An Unquiet History
The Book on the Bookshelf
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
A Brief History of the Book: From Tablet to Tablet