The Knowledge Book: Essential Skills for Thriving in the 21st Century

AL: Lots to learn here. Well organized. Keep in mind when you purchase that it lacks the past 20 years so its original price would be too much. Enjoy!

United States on Sep 14, 2023

KingFisher: Awesome

Canada on Mar 30, 2022

Psychology & Defense: This is as close as one can get to a comprehensive book of knowledge for a given era

United States on Jun 04, 2021

Karen: As described by seller. Arrived in the time expected. Very good used book seller. Thank you.

United Kingdom on Aug 17, 2020

Amazon Customer: This book is a decade old now. I'd love to see a new edition come out. But regardless, I like this book enough that I just bought a replacement after losing it in a flood.
Here's the subjects: The Universe, The Earth, Biology, Chemistry, Physics & Technology, Mathematics, Politics/Law/Economy, Religion, Philosophy, Psychology, Visual Arts, Architecture, Literature, Music, Film.
All in bite-sized chunks of information with lots of illustrations. Easy to read but not juvenile. (There's no separate history section. It's covered under other topics.)

United States on Jul 27, 2019

Shambhu y.: Good book with every knowledge . The topics are the universe , earth, etc. Nice ☺

India on Feb 14, 2018

anusha: Excellent book and nice paper quality

India on Sep 30, 2015

Chicago Joe: What can I say? This book has everything that you could possibly need. I bought this for my girlfriend, and she absolutely loves it! It is a high quality manufactured book with great pictures, and captions too. You can study the details of literally everything. I can't say enough great things about this all being in one book. National Geographic hit a home run. This is great for people who unfortunately didn't get a chance to learn all of this in school.

United States on Jan 28, 2015

Fr. Charles Erlandson: It's a little presumptuous to title a book, "The Knowledge Book," don't you think? It's even more presumptuous to subtitle a book "Everything you need to know to get by in the 21st century." However, in spite of the self-hype, I have to admit this is a very appealing book. While it would be ridiculous to think that a single book (short of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy itself) could contain all one would need to know about a century that has barely even begun, "The Knowledge Book" certainly covers the bases. It has sections on the universe and the earth, discoveries and inventions (covering all the major sciences), social life (including politics and economics), religion, philosophy, psychology, and, of course, the arts.

It's actually amazing how much information is packed into this attractive book. There are about 500 glossy pages with small font, and each page is devoted to more than one topic. The range of topics covered, therefore, is phenomenal, but, as might be expected, there isn't time to say much about each topic.

But the real appeal of the book is that it's what I call a "curiosity factory." That is, it presents a smorgasbord of different topics with...

United States on Apr 01, 2011

K. Cunztadt: 1st of all this book is huge : slightly wider than an A4 size. Around 500 pages, hardcover and fully and colourly illustrated. National Geographic doesn't do things lightly - the colour schemes, glossy pages, and broad academical information will certainly appeal any connoisseur or anyone remotely interested in such fields as astronomy, physical sciences, inventions, technology, mathematics, social sciences, economics, philosophy, religions, arts, architecture, films and litterature among other things! Anybody with an interest in General & Scientific knowledge, as well as anyone involved in anthropology, cultural studies and especially sociology will find the book very interesting (believe me) at a very worthy price (of £11.81 when I bought it) on amazon! You might perhaps personally find that it doesn't go far enough in your topics of expertise but at the same time you'll look and learn about other topics with such renewed interests! Totally recommended!

United Kingdom on Sep 09, 2010