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The know-it-all : one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world / A.J. Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, A. J., 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jacobs, A. J., 1968-.
- Jacobs, A. J.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- Learning and scholarship.
- Intellectual life.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Intellectual life--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 386 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2004]
- Summary:
- Alarmed and more than a little chagrined at the massive gaps in his personal knowledge base, Jacobs sets for himself a suitably daunting, and some might say insane, task: to fill in the holes in his Ivy-league education by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 370) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0743250605
- OCLC:
- 55067170
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