ISBN:
9780262365499
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xlii, 129 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wells, Herbert George, - 1866-1946 World brain
DDC:
306.4/2
Keywords:
Knowledge, Sociology of
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Digital & Online Resources
Abstract:
World Encyclopedia (Lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, November 20th, 1936) -- The Brain Organization of the Modern World (Lecture delivered in America, October and November, 1937) -- The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia (Contribution to the new Encyclopédic Française, August, 1937) -- Passage from a Speech to the Congrès Mondial de la Documentation Universelle, Paris, August 20th, 1937 -- The Informative Content of Education (Presidential Address to the Educational Science Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, September 12th, 1937) -- Appendix I. Ruffled Teachers (Sunday Chronicle, September 12th, 1937) -- Appendix II. Palestine in Proportion (Sunday Chronicle, October 3rd, 1937) -- Appendix III. The Fall in America 1937 (Collier's, January 28th, 1938) -- Appendix IV. Transatlantic Misunderstandings (Liberty, January 15th, 1938).
Abstract:
"A compilation of essays by H. G. Wells describing a future world encyclopedia, similar to what we now know as Wikipedia"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
DOI:
10.7551/mitpress/13630.001.0001
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