Know It All: The Little Book of Essential Knowledge

by Elizabeth King Humphrey, Susan Aldridge, Elizabeth King Humphrey

Refresh your memory, make new discoveries, and quiz yourself on facts you once learned and may have long forgotten?just pick up this handy reference to have all the answers at your fingertips. Wish you were that person who could answer any question? Can?t find just the right thing to say to start a conversation at a cocktail party? This book offers hours of fact-finding pleasure with a huge collection of intriguing and useful facts, plus quizzes to improve your knowledge. You can gain valuable information about a myriad of subjects?with just a page or two devoted to each topic?presented in clear, easy-to-understand language. And, best of all, you will be on your way to becoming a Know It All! There are 10 sections?Understanding the Universe, The Story of the Earth, The Story of Life, Exploring the World, Invention and Discovery, Conflicts of the Modern Age, Structure of Society, Religion and Philosophy, Artistic Endeavors, and Quizzes. Sidebars such as ?Conv

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Education, Trivia

288 pages, Hardcover

First published September 22, 2008

Reviews

[Karim E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

'The genius of man...the unique and extraordinary ability of the human mind' -Giannozzo Manetti

This book is exactly what it claims to be, not a detailed account of all interesting things in the world, but rather a brief 225 page (without the quizzes) book with 2-page sub-chapters for each topic.
The purpose is to deliver brief information allowing the reader to pursue a more detailed study in his/her spare time on the topics that interested him/her most. Sometimes less is more, especially with topical books like these. Perfect for children (+12yrs) as well.

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a good quick reference book covering many topics. I like the layout and the understandable scientific and cultural facts. It's a good book to have handy for a brief refresher of things most of us learned at some time or another.

[Marcel · Rating 2 out of 5]

The concept is good. The execution could have been better. Somehow I didn't find their summaries of each topic very engaging.

[Drew]

Know It All: The Little Book of Essential Knowledge by Elizabeth King Humphrey (2008)

[Lyle Moran]

Know It all by Elizabeth King

Elizabeth King’s Know It All is and incredible book and highly recommend it to read.
This book had a lot of facts in it that I didn’t know at first but know I know a lot about a lot of subjects and I think it is awesome. The best fact I learned would have to be the death of the sun and it happened about 4.57 billion years ago. I cant even wrap my head on how many thing have happened in that period of time. The setting would have to be all over the place because it is a little about everything and how things work and why they work that way. I would totally recommend you and your friends to read this book it will help you out a lot.