From the Bible, the Iliad, and the Republic to Civil Disobedience, Das Kapital, and Silent Spring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word-an informative discussion of many of the most important works ever created.
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I bought this book used from a library, along with a dozen others, a decade ago without much thought of what I was buying. Wow! I ended up with a lifetime of excellent reading. I've since had this book at my bedside, off and on, for the last ten years. So much excellent information is packed into this book that you can keep coming back to it and learning the most important writings of civilization.This book summarizes the works for you. With just a little reading you can say something like, "What Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity did was radically change our perspective of time and space, and matter and energy. He showed that all motion is relative, and that the velocity of light is independent of the motion of its source. The implications are profound. To illustrate..." Or, "What Socrates means by his definition of love, as written in Plato's Symposium, is that love is the pursuit of the beautiful; a desire for the immortal though reproduction. This, at its highest state, is manifested in a generalized love of universal beauty - beautiful souls, thoughts, laws, institutions and the immortal afterlife." Everyone needs to read these works, and here is a condensed way to do it. It's a small investment in your education.
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I have been reading an average of 2 books a month. Yet I throw most of them away after reading. This is one of a few books I keep in my library. And it is the third time I bought it because every time someone borrow the book, I never got it back. Books That Changed The World summarizes the influences of the great books to the way we believe in things, some of which we take it for granted now. Things like the solar system, gravitational force. I hardly give a five-star to any book reviews, but this one well deserves it.
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A classic that discusses 16 books that have changed the world. But it is also much more. It delves into the times that the books were published and shows how society was affected by the book. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and strongly recommend it to everyone interested in history and or historical people. How many people can honestly say that they know that Uncle Tom's Cabin is about? Sure the expression Uncle Tom is bandied about in the course of our society but what do you know about the person or the book where this and many more expression that live today arised. You will not waste money or time on this read. Enjoy!
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The first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) are known collectively as the Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, United States, Mein Kampf, Adam Smith, Old Testament, Peloponnesian War, Wealth of Nations, Mary Wollstonecraft, Silent Spring, World War, Edith Hamilton, Karl Marx, Middle Ages, World Island, George Sarton, New Testament, Rachel Carson, Thomas Paine, Great Britain, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nicomachean Ethics, Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Church New!
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The first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) are known collectively as the Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, United States, Mein Kampf, Adam Smith, Old Testament, Peloponnesian War, Wealth of Nations, Mary Wollstonecraft, Silent Spring, World War, Edith Hamilton, Karl Marx, Middle Ages, World Island, George Sarton, New Testament, Rachel Carson, Thomas Paine, Great Britain, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nicomachean Ethics, Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Church New!
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- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on 13 pages
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on 12 pages
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler on 11 pages
- Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau on 7 pages
- Das Kapital, Gateway Edition (Skeptical Reader) by Karl Marx on 7 pages
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- Hope for a Better World!: The Cooperative Community Way by J. Donald Walters on page 20, and page 46
- Blacks in Eden: The African American Novel's First Century by J. Lee Greene in Back Matter
- C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature (Masters of Chinese Studies, V. 1) by C. T. Hsia on page 415
- What A Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book) by Priscilla Coit Murphy in Back Matter
- You Can Do It!: The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls by Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas on page 223
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