All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary Story of the Encyclopaedia Condition:Very Good In From Bacteria to Bach

In From Bacteria to Bach and Back

And "Click-Clack the Rattlebag" explains the creaks and clatter we hear when we're all alone in the darkness

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All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary Story of the Encyclopaedia Condition:Very Good In From Bacteria to BachThe 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?