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 Fadiman
Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club
Author: Charles Van Doren
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 03/17/1992
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.13w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780345373168
ISBN10: 0345373162
BISAC Categories:
- History | World | General
- History | Civilization
- History | Reference
"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
Author: Charles Van Doren
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 03/17/1992
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.13w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780345373168
ISBN10: 0345373162
BISAC Categories:
- History | World | General
- History | Civilization
- History | Reference
About the Author
Charles Van Doren has advanced degrees in both literature and mathematics and has written and edited more than a score of books, many of them in the field of history. He is the author of The Joy of Reading and A History of Knowledge.