Gateway To The Great Books Man And Society

Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gateway to the Great Books: Man and society written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works.

Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458758575
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Great Idea at the Time written by Alex Beam and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial ''dead white men,'' are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago, began as an educational movement, and evolved into a successful marketing idea. Why did a million American households buy books by Hippocrates and Nicomachus from door-to-door salesmen? And how and why did the great books fall out of fashion? In A Great Idea at the Time Alex Beam explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age. Populated with memorable characters, A Great Idea at the Time will leave readers asking themselves: Have I read Lucretius's De Rerum Natura lately? If not, why not?

Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1593392214
Total Pages : 5323 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gateway to the Great Books written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 5323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gateway to the Great Books are great writings which selections include short stories, plays, essays, scientific papers, speeches, and letters. Each selection represents a primary, original, and fundamental contribution to ones understanding of the universe and themselves. There are over 135 Authors, 225 Selections and 95 original illustrations. Selections include works from Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S Eliot, Mark Twain and more. This set will help introduce oneself to good literature and the Great Books of the Western World.

Author : Carroll L. Engelhardt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452912971
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gateway to the Northern Plains written by Carroll L. Engelhardt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian Carroll Engelhardt's Gateway to the Northern Plains chronicles the story of Fargo and Moorhead's growth. Once just specks on the vast landscape of the Northern Plains, these twin cities prospered, teeming with their own dynamic culture, economy, and politics. Moorhead developed first, boosted by railroad manager Thomas Hawley Canfield, who touted it as superior to Fargo. However, Northern Pacific Railway chose Fargo as its headquarters, and it became the "Gateway City" to North Dakota."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sharon Shinn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101148837
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gateway written by Sharon Shinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Chinese adoptee in St. Louis, teenage Daiyu often feels out of place. When an elderly Asian jewelry seller at a street fair shows her a black jade ring--and tells her that "black jade" translates to "Daiyu"--she buys it as a talisman of her heritage. But it's more than that; it's magic. It takes Daiyu through a gateway into a version of St. Louis much like 19th-century China. Almost immediately she is recruited as a spy, which means hours of training in manners and niceties and sleight of hand. It also means stealing time to be with handsome Kalen, who is in on the plan. There's only one problem. Once her task is done, she must go back to St. Louis and leave him behind forever. . . .

Author : John Plamenatz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man and society : a critical examination of some important social and political theories from Machiavelli to Marx. 2 written by John Plamenatz and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476790159
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Read a Book written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them.

Author : Tracy Campbell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300169493
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gateway Arch written by Tracy Campbell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe surprising history of the spectacular Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the competing agendas of its supporters, and the mixed results of their ambitious plan/div

Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9780684859217
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Ideas written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1992.

Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780852291504
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Ideas Today, 1970 written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: