Never before has one book attempted to identify and analyze the one hundred works that have most influenced human history. For each one (listed in chronological order), author Martin Seymour-Smith provides:
-- Historical background and overview, setting each text in its time
-- Little-known facts about the author and the creation of the work
-- A lively and stimulating discussion of the factors that warrant the book's inclusion among the one hundred
-- Detailed analysis of the effects of the work on our lives today
Among the works profiled
-- Locke's Essay on Human Understanding
-- Orwell's 1984
-- Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress
-- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
-- Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
-- Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
-- Paine's Rights of Man
-- Hobbes's Leviathan
-- Buber's I and Thou
-- Newton's Principia
-- Friedan's Feminine Mystique.
Here is a book that every literate person should read, one that entertains as itenlightens and puts into fresh perspective the development of knowledge over several thousand years.
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Never before has one book attempted to identify and analyze the one hundred works that have most influenced human history. For each one (listed in chronological order), author Martin Seymour-Smith provides:
-- Historical background and overview, setting each text in its time
-- Little-known facts about the author and the creation of the work
-- A lively and stimulating discussion of the factors that warrant the book's inclusion among the one hundred
-- Detailed analysis of the effects of the work on our lives today
Among the works profiled
-- Locke's Essay on Human Understanding
-- Orwell's 1984
-- Bunyon's Pilgrim's Progress
-- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
-- Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
-- Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
-- Paine's Rights of Man
-- Hobbes's Leviathan
-- Buber's I and Thou
-- Newton's Principia
-- Friedan's Feminine Mystique.
Here is a book that every literate person should read, one that entertains as itenlightens and puts into fresh perspective the development of knowledge over several thousand years.
Imprint | Citadel Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | 1998 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
Authors | Martin Seymour-Smith |
Dimensions | 262 x 186 x 46mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket |
Pages | 504 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8065-2000-1 |
Barcode | 9780806520001 |
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LSN | 0-8065-2000-0 |