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Everything Explained That Is Explainable
Denis Boyles
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On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016-06-07
主題History / WorldReference / EncyclopediasHistory / Study & Teaching
ISBN11019477729781101947777
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8CCeCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in so doing produced a series of books that forever changed the face of publishing. Thanks to the efforts of 1,500 contributors, among them a young staff of university graduates as well as some of the most distinguished names of the day, the Eleventh Edition combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia had (or ever has again). Denis Boyles’s work of cultural history pulls back the curtain on the 44-million-word testament to the age of reason that has profoundly shaped the way we see the world.