You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

by Jack Lynch

EPUB, 2016

Publication

Bloomsbury Press (2016), 464 pages

ISBN

080277752X / 9780802777522

Tags

information technology, encyclopedism and lexicography

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Your library, 💽 digital

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