The Britannica Guide to World Literature


Book Description

Details the evolution of literature and explores the writers, works, and events that have shaped literature.




English Literature from the Restoration Through the Romantic Period


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Introduces the elements considered essential to English literature, in which writing became more personal and had a new sense of humanity.




English Literature from the 19th Century Through Today


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Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the British literary canon from the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century.




Christianity


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Describes the basic doctrines, history, and religious practices of Christianity, including Christian concepts of human nature, and profiles famous Christian figures throughout history.




A Great Idea at the Time


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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?




The World Book Encyclopedia


Book Description

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.




Encyclopaedia Britannica


Book Description

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.




The Britannica Guide to Theories and Ideas That Changed the Modern World


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There was a time when people assumed that the world was flat. Once an alternate theory was proposed, however, that conceit was challenged and, eventually, disproved. In short, theories and ideas can be potent agents of change—none more so than those that are extensively detailed in this book.




American Literature from 1600 Through the 1850s


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Traces the progress of the written word as America was evolving as a nation.




The Britannica Guide to Baseball


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Presents the history of baseball, describes the rules of the game and its importance in American sports history, and profiles notable players throughout history.