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- Animal Farm. George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens | 5.00. Animal Farm is one of the most famous warnings ever written. Orwell's immortal satire - 'against Stalin' as he wrote to his French translator - can be read on many levels.
- The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Joseph Campbell | 4.82. The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the archetypes of world mythology, the book creates a roadmap for navigating the frustrating path of contemporary life.
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. Samin Nosrat | 4.69. Now a Netflix series WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON BEST DEBUT FOOD BOOK 2018 Sunday Times Food Book of the Year and New York Times bestseller While cooking at Chez Panisse at the start of her career, Samin Nosrat noticed that amid the chaos of the kitchen there were four key principles that her fellow chefs would always fall back on to make their food better: Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat.
- The Case for Christ. A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus. Lee Strobel | 4.57. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! OVER 5 MILLION COPIES SOLD!
Aug 24, 2023 · This list includes the best encyclopedia novels, textbooks, and stories, so use it to find books you haven't already read and add them to your reading list. This list contains books like The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings and The Penguin Guide to Jazz.
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Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, making it one of the best-documented early printed encyclopedias. Encyclopedias have progressed from the beginning of history in written form, through medieval and modern times in print, and most recently, displayed on computer and distributed via computer networks.
Feb 26, 2023 · As Wikipedia dominates, an homage to the encyclopedia. Simon Garfield’s book ‘All the Knowledge in the World’ is a fascinating history of the encyclopedia and what we have lost as it...
Conrad Gessner, Historia animalium (Gessner book), 1551–58, 1587. Charles Estienne, Dictionarium historicum, geographicum et poeticum, 1553. Theodor Zwinger (1533–1588), Theatrum Humanae Vitae, 1565. Pal Skalic, philosopher born in Zagreb, first to use the term encyclopedia in the current sense.
Written by international experts and scholars, the articles in this collection reflect the standards that have been the hallmark of the leading English-language encyclopedia for over 240 years.
Mar 1, 2023 · Simon Garfield. Simon Garfield is a feature writer at the Observer (London) and the author of nine works of nonfiction, including Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and The End of Innocence, which won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1995.
