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Ariel Durant

Ariel Durant
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Ariel Durant

Will and Ariel Durant, after spending over fifty years completing the critically acclaimed series The Story of Civilization, were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968. In 1977, the Durants were presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Champions of human rights and social reform, the Durants continue to educate and entertain readers the world over. For more information on their work, visit www.willdurant.com.

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The Lessons of History will be released on August 21, 2012 in eBook
Aug 21, 2012
The Lessons of History is now available in eBook
Aug 21, 2012
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Lessons of History
Jul 20, 2012
The Age of Reason Begins will be released on June 07, 2011 in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
The Age of Voltaire is now available in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
The Age of Voltaire will be released on June 07, 2011 in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
The Age of Napoleon is now available in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
The Age of Napoleon will be released on June 07, 2011 in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
The Age of Reason Begins is now available in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
Rousseau and Revolution will be released on June 07, 2011 in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
Rousseau and Revolution is now available in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
The Age of Louis XIV will be released on June 07, 2011 in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
The Age of Louis XIV is now available in eBook
Jun 07, 2011
The Lessons of History will be released on February 16, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Feb 16, 2010
The Lessons of History is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 16, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Lessons of History
Oct 31, 2009

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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...