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_aGreat books of the western world / _c(editor in chief) Mortimer J. Adler; (associate editors) Mortimer J. Adler, Clifton Fadiman, Philip W. Goetz. |
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_aLondon : _bEncyclopedia Britannica, Incorporated, _c2007. |
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_a37000 p. ; _c32 cm. |
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| 500 | _aV.1. The syntopicon: an index to the great ideas. -- V.2. The syntopicon: an index to the great ideas. -- V.3. Homer. -- V.4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, |Aristophanes. -- V.5. Herodotus, Thucydides. -- V.6. Plato. -- V.7. Aristotle. -- V.8. Aristotle. -- V.9. Hippocrates, Galen. -- V.10. Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus. -- V.11. Lucretius, epictetus, Marcus, Aurelius, Plotinus. -- V.12. Virgil. -- V.13. Plutarch. -- V.14. Tacitus. -- V.15. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler. -- V.16 Augustine. -- V.17. Aquinas. -- V.18. Aquinas. -- V.19 Dante, Chaucer. -- V.20. Calvin. -- V.21. Machiavelli, Hobbes. -- V.22. Rabelais. -- V.23. Erasmus, Montaigne. -- V.24. Shakespeare. -- V.25. Shakespeare. -- V.26. Gilbert, Galileo, Harvery. -- V.27. Cervantes. -- V.28. Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza. -- V.29. Milton. -- V.30. Pascal. -- v.31. Moliere, Racine. -- V.32. newton, Huygens. -- V.33. Locke, Berkeley, Diderot. -- V.34. Swift, Voltaire, Diderot. -- V.35. Montesquieu, Rousseau. -- V.36. Adam smith. -- V.37. Gibbon. -- V.38 Gibbon. -- V.39. Kant. -- V.40. American state papers, Federalist, J.S.Mill. -- V.41. Boswell. -- V.42. Lavoisier, Faraday. -- V.43. Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche. -- V.44. Tocqueville. -- V.45. Goethe, Balzac. -- V.46. Austen, George Eliot. -- V.47. Dickens. -- V.48.Melville, Twain. -- V.49. Darwin. -- V.50. Marx. -- V.51. Tolstory. -- V.52. Dostocvsky, Ibsen. -- V.53. William James. -- V.54. Freud. -- V.55. 20th century philosophy and religion. -- V.56. 20th century natural science. -- V.57. 20th century social science. -- V.58. 20th century social science. -- V.59. 20th century imaginative literature. -- V.60. 20th century imaginative literature.. | ||
| 520 | _aThere is no better way to own and appreciate the world's greatest written works. Great Books of the Western World is one of the most acclaimed publishing feats of our time. Authoritative, accurate, and complete, this collection represents the essential core of the Western literary canon, compiling 517 of the most significant achievements in literature, history, philosophy, and science into a color-coded set as handsome as it is affordable. From the ancient classics to the newest masterpieces of the 20th century, Great Books traces the ideas, stories, and discoveries that have shaped modern civilization. Volumes 1 and 2 of this collection is the Syntopicon, a unique two-volume guide (not sold separately) that enables you to investigate a particular idea and compare what different authors have to say about it. The Syntopicon comprises a new kind of reference work -- accomplishing for ideas what the dictionary accomplishes for words and the encyclopaedia accomplishes for facts. Also included is the Great Conversation, featuring fascinating background information, extensive timelines, photos, and quotes from the classic works and their authors. 60 volumes Individual Volume Size: 9 1/2" H x 1"-2" W (Across Spine) x 6 1/2" D Overall Width of Set: 65"(5'5") Special colors on the Great Books' spines guide you quickly to the four subject areas - | ||
| 700 | 1 | _aAdler, Mortimer J. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aFadiman, Clifton. | |
| 700 | 1 | _aGoetz, Philip W. | |
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