All the Knowledge in the World

Resumen del libro

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped millions of children with their homework. But now these huge books gather dust and sell for almost nothing on eBay, and we derive our information from the internet, apparently for free. What have we lost in this transition? And how did we tell the progress of our lives in the past? All the Knowledge in the World is a history and celebration of those who created the most ground-breaking and remarkable publishing phenomenon of any age. It tracks the story from Ancient Greece to Wikipedia, from modest single-volumes to the 11,000-volume Chinese manuscript that was too big to print. It looks at how

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Simon Garfield x{0026}lt;/B (Londres, 1960) es autor de más de una docena de exitosos libros de no ficción, entre ellos los best sellers internacionales x{0026}lt;I Es mi tipo. Un libro sobre fuentes tipográficasx{0026}lt;/I (Taurus 2011), x{0026}lt;I En el mapa. De cómo el mundo adquirió su aspectox{0026}lt;/I (Taurus 2013) y x{0026}lt;I Postdata. Curiosa historia de la correspondenciax{0026}lt;/I , y editor de una trilogía de diarios del Mass Observation Archive -x{0026}lt;I Our Hidden Lives, We are at War x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I Private Battlesx{0026}lt;/I -, que proporcionan información única sobre la II Guerra Mundial y sus secuelas. Por su estudio sobre el sida en Gran Bretaña, x{0026}lt;I The End of Innocencex{0026}lt;/I , obtuvo el premio Somerset Maugham. Vive entre Londres y St. Ives, Cornualles.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P www.simongarfield.comx{0026}lt;/P