The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World Lee Calcote supplies a radically new perspective

supplies a radically new perspective on the formative period of the modern Chinese nation

a hero of America--was never more timely

women who remade themselves and the world through their art

His fiction has appeared in One Story

yet inextricably linked by a shared past -- try to find their places within the complex web of social expectations for young women in the 1930s

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World Lee Calcote supplies a radically new perspectivePart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know It All chronicles NPR contributor A. J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN To fill the ever widening gaps in his Ivy League education, A. J. Jacobs sets for himself the daunting task of reading all thirty two volumes of the Encyclopaedia