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2. World Book Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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   World Book Encyclopedia. The World Book Encyclopedia is an American encyclopedia. [1] World Book was first published in 1917. Since 1925, a new edition of the encyclopedia has been published annually. [1] Although published online in digital form for a number of years, World Book is currently the only American encyclopedia which also still ...

3. Open Library - Wikipedia

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   Open Library. Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz, [3] [4] Brewster Kahle, [5] Alexis Rossi, [6] Anand Chitipothu, [6] and Rebecca Malamud, [6] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization. It has been funded in part by grants ...

4. Commonplace book - Wikipedia

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   Overview. "Commonplace" is a translation of the Latin term locus communis (from Greek tópos koinós, see literary topos) which means "a general or common place", such as a statement of proverbial wisdom. In this original sense, commonplace books were collections of such sayings, such as John Milton 's example. "Commonplace book" is at times ...

5. History of books - Wikipedia

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   The history of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Contributions to the field have come from textual scholarship, codicology, bibliography, philology, palaeography, art history, social history and cultural history. Its key purpose is to demonstrate that the book as an object, not just the text contained within it, is ...

6. Category:History books - Wikipedia

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   This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. History books by century ‎ (28 C) History books by topic ‎ (29 C) History books by type ‎ (7 C)

7. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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   List of writing genres. Writing genres (more commonly known as literary genres) are categories that distinguish literature (including works of prose, poetry, drama, hybrid forms, etc.) based on some set of stylistic criteria. Sharing literary conventions, they typically consist of similarities in theme/topic, style, tropes, and storytelling ...

8. History of life - Wikipedia

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   The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and fossil organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. [1] [2] [3] The similarities among all known present-day species ...

9. Recorded history - Wikipedia

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   Recorded history or written history describes the historical events that have been recorded in a written form or other documented communication which are subsequently evaluated by historians using the historical method. For broader world history, recorded history begins with the accounts of the ancient world around the 4th millennium BC, and it ...