Books with title The New Book Of Knowledge

The New Book of Knowledge is uniquely related to the needs of modern children, both in school and at home. It is written for the children of today, who are standing on the threshold of a new world. Knowledge in every field is bursting its bonds. Old "truth" are becoming invalid; new "truths" are opening vistas never before imagined. The encyclopedia is addressed to the children of this new world. Today 's children need an encyclopedia as different from those that have gone before as today's world is different from that of yesterday. Over one thousand advisers and contributors, together with a staff of two hundred editors, artists, and related personnel, worked for six years to complete an alphabetically arranged, curriculum-oriented encyclopedia, a reference set designed for today's world...The New Book of Knowledge

1000 years ago after the fourth world war, the entire social world landscape had changed. That's when the Uplifted Ones appeared. They were worshiped as the new version of humans; a new evolution. That was until something odd happened. An Uplifted One had become dark from within their being along with a few other Uplifted Ones. They covered themselves in hard organic armor and began to "drink" people. After a long battle, only a few were left. They agreed, at least for the moment, they would only take from the land they owned. Luxuria, Acedia, and Nigrum had played a cruel joke on the first Uplifted One. Altus was the first U.O.in existence. He kept secrets from the others for over a millennium until a headstrong girl began to unravel those secrets in a world that had fallen back into an archaic system of old gods and sacrificial lambs. Knowledge is power in this universe. Those with the most, become living gods.