TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Doren, Charles
TI  - A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future
SN  - 9780345373168
U1  - 001.209 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - .
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Ancient History
KW  - Historical
KW  - History
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Learning and scholarship
KW  - Non-fiction
KW  - World history
N2  - A one-volume 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
ER  -