What?: Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History--Or is This a Game of 20 Questions?
by Mark Kurlansky
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This book by noted author Mark Kurlansky draws on philosophy, religion, literature, politics to ask what may well be the 20 most-important questions in human history.Tags
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I like Kurlansky, but this might have better made a wanly amusing blog entry.
An occasionally amusing little book that has an intriguing underlying concept but relies too much upon gimmickry which qickly wears thin.
Takes questions bot serious but with tongue in cheek
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Mark Kurlansky is the author of The Basque History of the World, the New York Times bestseller Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (among the New York Public Library's Best Books of the Year in 1998), as well as A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry; A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny, and show more several acclaimed works of short fiction and journalism about the Caribbean. He spent seven years as the Caribbean correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2011
- Epigraph
- Sie sind so jung, so vor allem Anfang, und ich mochte Sie, so gut es ich kann, bitten, lieber Herr, Geduld zu habeb gegen alles Ungeloste in Ihrem Herzen und zu versuchen, die Fragen selbst liebzuhaben wie verschlossene Stube... (show all)n und wie Bucher, die in einer sehr fremden Sprache geschrieben sind. Forschen Sie jetzt nicht nach den Antworten, die Ihnen nicht gwegeben werden konnen, weil Sie sie nicht leben konnten. Und es handelt sich darum, alles zu leben. Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmahlich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein.
--Rainer Maria Rilke, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter - Dedication
- To what's her name? Or was it what's his name?
- First words
- Did you ever thumb through a stack of the great books and look to see how many begin with a question?
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Yes.
Classifications
- Genres
- Philosophy, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 100 — Philosophy & psychology Philosophy Philosophy, parapsychology and occultism, psychology
- LCC
- BD31 .K87 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Speculative philosophy Speculative philosophy General philosophical works
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- Reviews
- 3
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- (3.33)
- Languages
- English, German, Korean
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 3
