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Great books of the Western World volume 35
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Language
English
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and streets names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the significance of King's writings and political thought remains underappreciated. In To Shape a New World, Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry write that the...
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Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon inspired the taxonomic structure of the highly influential Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot, and is credited by Bacon's biographer-essayist Catherine Drinker Bowen with being a pioneeri