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Title: The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant, John Little ISBN: 1-57270-348-2 Publisher: The Audio Partners Pub. Date: 10 August, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: pure pleasure
Comment: this book, a collection of short essays, sums up the life of a historian who would love to be a poet. What other book includes the ten greatest thinkers and the ten greatest poets? Durant's style and content cannot be beat.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I've been working my way through The Story of Civilization, and loving it. Fast, fun, educational, and entertaining. So when I found this audiobook before a long car trip, I thought I would enjoy it.
I was wrong. Okay, from time to time it provides some interesting insights. But it is full of "insights" that are obvious (Plato was one of the greatest philosophers), and odd (Whistler's paintings are faddish), with lots of fluff in between (long paragraphs about why people might object to Aquinas being called one of the world's greatest philosophers, with very little time left to explain what Aquinas' contribution was).
Skip it unless someone gives you a copy for free.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Introduction To The Wisdom Of Will Durant
Comment: It's said that good things come in small packages. Sometimes great things do, too. This book may be only 118 pages long, but between these covers you will find reasoned and inspired discussion of some of the people and works who have truly ennobled mankind.
Will Durant, in partnership with his wife Ariel, spent his lifetime celebrating our highest and best achievements as a people. His essays on the greatest thinkers, greatest poets, best books, peaks of human progress and vital dates in world history should not only serve as a compact education, it should also fill you with a sense that for all of humanity's folly and waste, we have actually accomplished much that is worthwhile these past few thousand years. It's also very likely this book will spark within you a desire to know and to learn more about our rich heritage.
My only wish for this book is that compiler John Little had included the dates these works were originally written. The chapter on the best books for an education, for example, while including many timeless classics, also includes some volumes which have been surpassed by later works--including the Durant's own magisterial lifework, the "Story of Civilization." But this a minor quibble over what is on the whole an exceptional work.
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Title: Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant ISBN: 0671739166 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age by Will Durant ISBN: 0743226127 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 13 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Lessons of History by William James Durant, Will Durant, Ariel Durant ISBN: 0671413333 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: August, 1968 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Basic Teachings of the Great Philosophers by S.E. Frost ISBN: 038503007X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1962 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age (Audio Editions) by Will Durant, Grover Gardner, John Little ISBN: 157270344X Publisher: The Audio Partners Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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