TY - BOOK AU - Boyles,Denis TI - Everything Explained that is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopædia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911 SN - 9780307269171 (hardback) AV - AE5.E3633 B69 2016 U1 - 031 BOY 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Encyclopedias and dictionaries KW - History and criticism KW - HISTORY / World KW - bisacsh KW - REFERENCE / Encyclopedias KW - HISTORY / Study & Teaching N2 - "The audacious, improbable tale of 20th century American hucksterism, outlandish daring, and vision that resurrected a dying Encyclopedia Britannica in collaboration with a floundering London Times, its astonishing success that changed publishing and that produced the Britannica's eleventh edition (published between 1910 and 1911), the most revered edition of English-language encyclopedias (all 44 million words), considered by many to be "the last great work of the age of reason" (Hans Koening, the New Yorker)"-- ER -