Full name: A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future

Author: Charles Van Doren Year: 1991 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Science, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon OpenLibrary Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780345373168 0345373162

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 Similar books: The Lessons of History by Will Durant The Seekers by Daniel J. Boorstin Reflections on History by Jacob Burckhardt Civilization by Roger Osborne Catastrophe by David Keys A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Asimov's Chronology of the World by Isaac Asimov Millennium by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto World History For Dummies by Peter Haugen Eyewitness to History by John Carey A Short History of the World by J. M. Roberts History by Adam Hart-Davis The Human Web by J. R. McNeill The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates The Beginnings of Western Science by David C. Lindberg The Invention of Science by David Wootton To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg