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Author |
: Alex Beam |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2010-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781458758576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1458758575 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Great Idea at the Time by : Alex Beam
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial ''dead white men,'' are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago, began as an educational movement, and evolved into a successful marketing idea. Why did a million American households buy books by Hippocrates and Nicomachus from door-to-door salesmen? And how and why did the great books fall out of fashion? In A Great Idea at the Time Alex Beam explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age. Populated with memorable characters, A Great Idea at the Time will leave readers asking themselves: Have I read Lucretius's De Rerum Natura lately? If not, why not?
Author |
: Charles Thompson |
Publisher |
: Harper Perennial |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 1992-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076002587074 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis What a Great Idea by : Charles Thompson
What a Great Idea! instructs readers on how to challenge and defeat widely held notions that stifle creativity. Based on his hugely successful seminars, Chic Thompson, one of the country's leading students of the creative process, promotes aggressive and visionary thinking and unleashes readers' creative processes.
Author |
: Mortimer Adler |
Publisher |
: Open Court |
Total Pages |
: 596 |
Release |
: 2000-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812696936 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081269693X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Think About the Great Ideas by : Mortimer Adler
Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing to do?", and, "What does it mean to be good?" Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature, history, and philosophy, the author considers what is meant by democracy, law, emotion, language, truth, and other abstract concepts in light of more than two millennia of Western civilization and discourse. Adler's essays offer a remarkable and contemplative distillation of the Great Ideas of Western Thought.
Author |
: Henry Hazlitt |
Publisher |
: Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Total Pages |
: 388 |
Release |
: 1952 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610163187 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610163184 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Time Will Run Back by : Henry Hazlitt
Author |
: David Owen |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2005-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781841126142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1841126144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Big Idea Book by : David Owen
Ideas are like buses, you wait forever and then 500 come along atonce. The Big Idea Book is 500 novel, ingenious anddownright crazy ideas designed to inspire, amuse and divert.Developed by the team behind the innovative website, Idea-a-Day atwww.idea-a-day.com, itcovers everything from business to travel, politics to money andeverything in between. Idea-a-Day has a vast network of followers and contributors -some famous, some infamous, some revered, some reviled – whopost ideas to be read, enjoyed, used or abused. Seth Godin, MalcolmMaclaren and Wayne Hemmingway are just a few of its fans. In TheBig Idea Book all this creative energy is mixed together withunpublished ideas, quotes, cartoons, illustrations andthought-pieces to give creatives and cool office types a visual andintellectual treat guaranteed to kickstart the imagination andcreative flair!
Author |
: Balázs Trencsényi |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Total Pages |
: 502 |
Release |
: 2007-01-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9786155211249 |
ISBN-13 |
: 6155211248 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis National Romanticism by : Balázs Trencsényi
67 texts, including hymns, manifestos, articles or extracts from lengthy studies exemplify the relation between Romanticism and the national movements in the cultural space ranging from Poland to the Ottoman Empire. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author, and by an analysis of the context in which the respective work was born.The end of the 18th century and first decades of the 19th were in many respects a watershed period in European history. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the dramatic convulsions of the French Revolution had shattered the old bonds and cast doubt upon the established moral and social norms of the old corporate society. In culture a new trend, Romanticism, was successfully asserting itself against Classicism and provided a new key for a growing number of activists to 're-imagine' their national community, reaching beyond the traditional frameworks of identification (such as the 'political nation', regional patriotism, or Christian universalism). The collection focuses on the interplay of Romantic cultural discourses and the shaping of national ideology throughout the 19th century, tracing the patterns of cultural transfer with Western Europe as well as the mimetic competition of national ideologies within the region.
Author |
: Mortimer Jerome Adler |
Publisher |
: Scribner |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0684859211 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780684859217 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Ideas by : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1992.
Author |
: John Farndon |
Publisher |
: Icon Books Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2010-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848312487 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848312482 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World's Greatest Idea by : John Farndon
Where would humanity be now without fire, vaccinations, farming ... or wine? A great idea is one that has changed the path of human civilisation. But which is the greatest of them all? John Farndon, author of the bestselling Do You Think You’re Clever?, has set out to find the answer. A distinguished panel of experts agreed on a list of 50 ideas, and each chapter of The World’s Greatest Idea sees Farndon explore the argument for a different one. The candidates are intriguingly varied: Electricity grids enable us to power our cities, but then sewers allowed those cities to grow. Without the wheel, modern civilisation would be pretty much impossible, but take away Logic and we’d lose the essential structures for rational thought ... But then what would be the point of all of this without the idea of romance? The World’s Greatest Idea is an enthralling voyage of discovery through the most powerful intellectual, social, scientific and creative brainwaves humans have ever had. They are ranked in the book determined by a public vote on www.theworldsgreatestidea.com But will you agree with the verdict?
Author |
: Confucius |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 91 |
Release |
: 2005-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141967226 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141967226 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Ten Books by : Confucius
Perhaps the most widely read thinker of all time, Confucius transformed Chinese philosophy with his belief that the greatest goal in life was pursuit of 'The Way': a search for virtue not as a means to rewards in this world or the next, but as the pinnacle of human existence.
Author |
: Jon Gertner |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 2012-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101561089 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101561084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea Factory by : Jon Gertner
The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies “Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review “Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers fascinating evidence for those seeking to understand how a society should best invest its research resources.” —The Wall Street Journal From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs. In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story about the life and work of a small group of brilliant and eccentric men-Mervin Kelly, Bill Shockley, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bill Baker-who spent their careers at Bell Labs. Today, when the drive to invent has become a mantra, Bell Labs offers us a way to enrich our understanding of the challenges and solutions to technological innovation. Here, after all, was where the foundational ideas on the management of innovation were born.