A History of Knowledge (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A History of Knowledge 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 cond...
Full description- Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
- Published: 01 April 1993
- Format: Paperback 447 pages
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- Categories: History Of Ideas | General & World History | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780345373168 ISBN 10: 0345373162
- Sales rank: 109,613
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Full description for A History of Knowledge
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
