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You Could Look it Up The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

Out of Print
By: Jack Lynch(Author)
464 pages, 16 plates with colour illustrations
Publisher: Walker Books
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  • You Could Look it Up ISBN: 9780802777522 Hardback Apr 2016 Out of Print #226612
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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 latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge – reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries.

You Could Look it Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge.

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Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He specializes in English literature of the eighteenth century and the history of the English language. He is the author of several books including The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park and Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights, and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master. He lives in New Jersey.

Out of Print
By: Jack Lynch(Author)
464 pages, 16 plates with colour illustrations
Publisher: Walker Books
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