All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary Story of the Encyclopaedia Condition:Very Good is a particularity of western

is a particularity of western thought

making Red Notice an early candidate for any list of the year's best books" (Fortune)

and his own deepening religious commitment

but was forced to abandon when life suddenly intervened

In From Bacteria to Bach and Back

All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary Story of the Encyclopaedia Condition:Very Good is a particularity of westernThe encyclopedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Now these huge books gather dust and sell for almost nothing on eBay. Instead, we get our information from our phones and computers, apparently for free. What have we lost in this transition? And how did we tell the progress of our lives in the past?