Charles Van Doren, “A Background of Information: Prior, Present, and Foreseeable future”

B,,.ntine B..ks | 1992 | ISBN: 0345373162, 1559720379 | 448 pages | PDF | 4,6 MB

A a single-voume reference to the background of ideas that is a compendium of every little thing that humankind has assumed, invented, produced, regarded, and perfected from the commencing of civilization into the twenty-first century. Enormous in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A Heritage OF Expertise addresses not only all the wonderful theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social situations, political climates, and person guys and girls of genius that introduced tips to fruition all through history.

“Crystal obvious and concise…Explains how humankind acquired to know what it understands.”

Clifton Fadiman