
The Know-It-All
One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
A. J. Jacobs(Author)
Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
Published on 10. October 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-7432-5062-7 (ISBN)
Description
New from AMP In his self-professed quest to "become the smartest person in the world," A.J. Jacobs undertook the daunting task of reading all 44 million words of the Encyclopedia Britannica. His dutiful notes scribbled along the way to this self-appointed title became an impressive treasury of little-known facts, a memoir of the year he spent on the journey, and finally a New York Times best-seller, selling almost 40,000 copies its first month of publication. It's part trivia book, part journal in which he humorously details, among other things, the annoyance displayed by friends and even his own pregnant wife at his newfound and seemingly limitless supply of knowledge. All of this is captured on the daily pages of this calendar, which, like the book, not only has the potential to make readers smarter, but also touches the funny bone as well as the heart.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7432-5062-7 (9780743250627)
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10/2004
Simon + Schuster LLC
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A.J. Jacobs is the author of Thanks a Thousand, It’s All Relative, Drop Dead Healthy, and the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, and My Life as an Experiment. He is a contributor to NPR, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly. He lives in New York City with his wife and kids. Visit him at AJJacobs.com and follow him on Twitter @ajjacobs.