Ariel Durant's Books
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The Lessons of HistoryAvailable for the first time in paperback, The Lessons of History is Will and Ariel Durant’s celebrated collection on the themes that define...Read More -
Rousseau and RevolutionThe Story of Civilization, Volume X: winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the rest...Read More
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The Age of Reason BeginsThe Story of Civilization, Volume VII: A history of European civilization in the period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and...Read More
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The Age of NapoleonThe Story of Civilization, Volume XI: A history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815. This is the eleventh and final volume of the classic,...Read More
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The Age of Louis XIVThe Story of Civilization, Volume VIII: A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton,...Read More
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The Age of VoltaireThe Story of Civilization, Volume IX: A history of civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with special emphasis on the conflict between...Read More
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Action News Jacksonville, May 10, 2013
...Latvian weightlifter (d. 1985)1897 ? Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, Prime minister of Norway (d. 1987)1898 ? Ariel Durant, American historian (d. 1981)1899 ? Fred Astaire, American dancer and actor (d. 1987)1900 ? Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin,...
Rafu Shimpo, May 7, 2013
...and a half years. Sherod, the fifth Little Tokyo librarian, previously managed five branches: Ascot, Vernon, Will & Ariel Durant, Mark Twain, and Baldwin Hills. He lived in Japan as a seminary professor and missionary (Ibaraki-ken from 1992-2003) and...
Minyanville, April 18, 2013
...for). This is a must-read for any investor, trader or businessperson. The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant Described by many as a "survey of the human experience," The Lessons of History frames our species history (in a very concise 102...
New York Review of Books, April 5, 2013
...genial, and tutelary tone of a person devising an ontology from scratch, with the help of Will and Ariel Durant and the entries for Newton, Buddha, and John Stuart Mill in an old edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica; he invents some new-age terms for...
Sierra Madre Patch, September 20, 2012
...and inscribed to the Sierra Madre Library Atlantic Monthly Press 2012 THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION by Will and Ariel Durant (11 volumes) Simon and Schuster 1954-1975 A MID-SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM calligraphy by Graily Hewitt, illustrated by Arthur...
Individual.com, June 27, 2012
...pleasure? I love science fiction, and I read history. I think I will always be reading Will and Ariel Durant's "The Story of Civilization." Hundreds of years ago, [French author] Cyrano de Bergerac wrote a sci-fi novel about going to the moon. I still...
Brisbane Times, May 30, 2013
...or the French Revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man," wrote Pulitzer Prize winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. I'm pretty sure nature's not seen a copy of Australia's Equal Opportunity Act, either. Frustratingly, nature makes some people...
Canberra Times, May 30, 2013
...or the French Revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man," wrote Pulitzer Prize winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. I'm pretty sure nature's not seen a copy of Australia's Equal Opportunity Act, either. Frustratingly, nature makes some people...
Sydney Morning Herald, May 30, 2013
...or the French Revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man," wrote Pulitzer Prize winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. I'm pretty sure nature's not seen a copy of Australia's Equal Opportunity Act, either. Frustratingly, nature makes some people...
Examiner.com, May 29, 2013
...the title of the new record come from? It is from “The Story of Civilization” by Will and Ariel Durant. I was reading it and that phrase just struck me as particularly poetic and evocative, so I wrote it down in a little list of titles and ideas I...
World News Network, May 27, 2013
...its own private Industry-run institution for child actors, the Hollywood Professional School (1935-1984). Public libraries[link] The Will and Ariel Durant Branch and the Frances Howard Goldwyn – Hollywood Regional Branch of the Los Angeles Public...
World News Network, May 24, 2013
...its own private Industry-run institution for child actors, the Hollywood Professional School (1935-1984). Public libraries[link] The Will and Ariel Durant Branch and the Frances Howard Goldwyn – Hollywood Regional Branch of the Los Angeles Public...
World News Network, May 24, 2013
...its own private Industry-run institution for child actors, the Hollywood Professional School (1935-1984). Public libraries[link] The Will and Ariel Durant Branch and the Frances Howard Goldwyn – Hollywood Regional Branch of the Los Angeles Public...
