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Loading... A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Futureby Charles Van Doren
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Visionary text combining the literature and history of all ages to propose what we should do in the future. (  ) drj | Jul 11, 2008 |  While slightly fusty by modern 'literary non-fiction' standards, this book has been a beginner history/philosophy student stand-by for a long time. Not the type of book you read from cover to cover in one sitting, but worth having on the shelf for reference value (  ) ForrestFamily | Mar 29, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345373162, Paperback)A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social conditions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought ideas to fruition throughout history."Crystal clear and concise...Explains how humankind got to know what it knows." Clifton Fadiman Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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