A History of Knowledge: Past, Present and Future

Charles Van Doren. Ballantine Books, $16.95 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-345-37316-8

Van Doren's provocative, encyclopedic guide to great thinkers, concepts and philosophical trends was a BOMC and History Book Club selection in cloth. (Apr.)

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