Will Durant: 21 books
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Will Durant and Ariel Durant, in full, respectively, William James Durant and Ariel Durant, née Ada Kaufman, or Ida Kaufman, (respectively, born Nov. 5, 1885, North Adams, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 7, 1981, Los Angeles, Calif.; born May 10, 1898, Prosurov, Russia—died Oct. 25, 1981, Los Angeles),...
by Mustafa Kayyali, WILL DURANT
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2019
Will Durant (1885–1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1968) and the Presidential Medal of
Freedom (1977). He spent more than fifty years writing his critically acclaimed eleven-volume
series, The Story of Civilization (the later volumes written in conjunction with his wife, Ariel). A
champion...
Fallen Leaves
Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Praised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.
The culmination of Will Durant’s sixty-plus years spent researching the philosophies,...
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2002
A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time -- listed in accessible and succinct form -- by one of the world's greatest scholars.
From the "Hundred Best Books" to the "Ten Greatest Thinkers" to the "Ten Greatest Poets,"...
Heroes of History
A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world.
Heroes of...
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for...
by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant.
With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through...
by Will Durant
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Will Durant was an influential American philosopher who sought to offer a unified perspective of the whole of Western thought, as well as to present philosophical issues and problems in accessible language that could appeal to a broad audience. In Philosophy and the Social Problem, Durant tackles his greatest concern: that of reducing human misery by changing our social and political institutions.
The Complete Story of Civilization
Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The Complete Story of Civilization by Will Durant represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man’s history and culture. This eleven volume set includes: Volume One: Our Oriental Heritage; Volume Two: The Life of Greece; Volume Three: Caesar and Christ;...
The Age of Napoleon
The Story of Civilization, Volume XI
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume XI: A history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815. This is the eleventh and final volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
Rousseau and Revolution
The Story of Civilization, Volume X
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The 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 of Europe from 1715 to 1789.
The Age of Reason Begins
The Story of Civilization, Volume VII
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume VII: A history of European civilization in the period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648. This is the seventh volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
The Age of Voltaire
The Story of Civilization, Volume IX
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: A history of civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with special emphasis on the conflict between religion and philosophy. This is the ninth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
The Age of Louis XIV
The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII: A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715. This is the eighth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
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