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A Brief History Of Encyclopedias: From Pliny To WikipediaStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionEncyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge, yet with information now among the world's most valuable commodities, this Brief History is a timely consideration of how accurate that claim can ever be. Author descriptionAndrew Brown is a translator and former teacher of French literature and philosophy at Cambridge University. He is the author of Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert and Brief Lives: Stendhal (both Hesperus Press). |