You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia by Jack Lynch, Jack Lynch
You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia
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Jack Lynch, Jack Lynch
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You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

Jack Lynch, Jack Lynch

444 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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"Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the lat...

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