A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0345373162
ISBN 13
9780345373168
Category
NonFiction
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Publication Year
1992
Publisher
Pages
448
Subject
Learning and scholarship -- History. Intellectual life -- History. Intellectual life.
Description
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 FadimanSelected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
