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The Book of Knowledge
Rhino
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I picked one of these up at a local book store:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Encyclopedia
http://www.hstreasures.com/bookofknowledge.html
In short, it's probably one of the most awesome books I've ever seen. It has a wide range of topics. Has lots of poetry, stories, history, math, science, etc. The only problem is that it's written for kids.
I'm looking for something that would be in a kindred spirit of this, but written for a older and more educated audience, high school (or basic/intro college) level.
The Great Books look promising, but from what I can tell don't touch any subjects like math or science (or even "modern" history)??
Basically if you took take all the classes and knowledge (even the advanced ones) in an American high school and condense it to a book; what would be the closest thing that currently exists do you think? Something that touches on all the disciplines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Encyclopedia
http://www.hstreasures.com/bookofknowledge.html
In short, it's probably one of the most awesome books I've ever seen. It has a wide range of topics. Has lots of poetry, stories, history, math, science, etc. The only problem is that it's written for kids.
I'm looking for something that would be in a kindred spirit of this, but written for a older and more educated audience, high school (or basic/intro college) level.
The Great Books look promising, but from what I can tell don't touch any subjects like math or science (or even "modern" history)??
Basically if you took take all the classes and knowledge (even the advanced ones) in an American high school and condense it to a book; what would be the closest thing that currently exists do you think? Something that touches on all the disciplines.
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The Complete Library of Universal Knowledge. I believe the last printing was in 1949 and I really cannot remember how many total volumes there are in said printing. It may be only 25 but I think it may be more.
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The world is rather more complicated than it was in 1949. You could fill that many volumes on a single specialism now. Plus half would be out of date by the time printing finished.
I've seen that book. It looked neat but I could swear as I was flipping through that some of it was of questionable truth.
I just read it and it's pretty good. The authors try to approach the material with a sense of humour and/or sarcasm so it keeps it fun. Contains everything from art to architecture, films to philosophy. Get it from your library!