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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

A History of Knowledge

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  • Author : Charles Van Doren
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Genre : History
  • Total Pages : 450 pages
  • ISBN : 0345373162
  • PDF File Size : 17,8 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4.5/5 from 5 reviews

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A History of Knowledge

A History of Knowledge
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • File Size : 26,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 17 March 1992
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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

A History of Knowledge

A History of Knowledge
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • File Size : 52,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 17 March 1992
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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

Burning the Books

Burning the Books
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • File Size : 42,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 13 October 2020
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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and

What is the History of Knowledge?

What is the History of Knowledge?
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • File Size : 48,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 December 2015
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What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges

Knowing History in Schools

Knowing History in Schools
  • Publisher : UCL Press
  • File Size : 27,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 07 January 2021
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The ‘knowledge turn’ in curriculum studies has drawn attention to the central role that knowledge of the disciplines plays in education, and to the need for new thinking about how

The Map of Knowledge

The Map of Knowledge
  • Publisher : Picador
  • File Size : 52,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 25 June 2024
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"The foundations of modern knowledge--philosophy, math, astronomy, geography--were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the

A History of the Modern Fact

A History of the Modern Fact
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • File Size : 21,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 30 November 2009
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How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary

Social History of Knowledge

Social History of Knowledge
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • File Size : 33,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 06 June 2013
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In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach toexamine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe fromthe invention of printing to the publication of the FrenchEncyclopédie.

A History of Knowledge

A History of Knowledge
  • Publisher : Birch Lane Press
  • File Size : 28,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 January 1991
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Covers every aspect of knowledge--scientific, intellectual, and historical--from the beginning of the human experience into the twenty-first century and beyond

The History of Knowledge

The History of Knowledge
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 42,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 31 January 2024
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This Element provides a pedagogical overview of the history of knowledge, including its main currents, distinguishing ideas, and key concepts. However, it is not primarily a state-of-the-art overview but rather