Home-made Encyclopaedia

Mil preguntas, mil respuestas is the title of the first Cuban encyclopaedia which is gradually becoming available to the public

When the 18th century saw the advent of that phenomenon called encyclopaedism, the scope of that phenomenon was far from being imagined.

Those first volumes offered a new road to knowledge and defined the beginning of a material capable of surpassing illustration to reach the contemporary age.

Today the encyclopaedia is for us more than a mere proposal of foreign publishing companies. Cuba now boasts a project of this type produced by domestic specialists.

Mil preguntas, mil respuestas is the title of the first Cuban encyclopaedia which saw the light in April and is gradually becoming available to the public.

With four volumes: Universe, Life, Inventions and Society it encompasses a great deal of topics. The reader can get access to a comprehensive tour around the natural processes which make human life possible and explanations related to natural sciences.

The Félix Varela faculty at the University of Havana was in charge of fleshing out the initiative with the support of students from the Higher Institute of Industrial Design. In a cooperative style Félix Varela University Publishing House and Pueblo y Educación, have jointly released three thousand initial copies.

Connoisseurs of different topics undertook the process of selection and content indexing to achieve these volumes in the most complete possible way.

There’s also space for topics linked to social sciences and the approach to men as thought generators. Aspects related to the political and intellectual development of the individual make up the pages resulting from broad research.

Soon the libraries of the capital will have in their shelves this option which contributes to the pleasure of learning. Usefulness and entertainment combine to make hours of reading from those who want to master topics of history, medicine, geography or literature.

They say knowledge does not take up any space; it is an invitation for searching for all the possible answers.

Impactos: 0