书名:Books that Changed the World改变世界的书 作者:Robert B. Downs罗伯特·唐斯 出版社名称:Signet Classics 出版时间:2004 语种:英文 ISBN:9780451529282 商品尺寸:10.6 x 2.3 x 17.5 cm 包装:简装 页数:352 (以实物为准) 美国前全国图书馆协会主席、伊利诺大学图书馆馆长罗伯特·唐斯(Robert B. Downs)出版了Books that Changed the World《改变世界的书》,书中介绍了影响世界历史的多本经典著作,并对每一本书的作者的生平、内容概要、历史的影响等都作了评述,从《圣经》、《伊利亚特》、《公民不服从》到《资本论》、《寂静的春天》都有涉及。此书出版后重印多次,是国外读书界的畅销书之一。 From theBible, theIliad, and theRepublic to Civil Disobedience,DasKapital, andSilentSpring, this revised and greatly expanded edition is a monument to the power of the printed word—an informative discussion of many of the most important works ever created. Robert B. Downsis an author and librarian, born in North Carolina. Downs was a major advocate for total intellectual freedom and free speech. He spent the majority of his career working against the tyranny of literary censorship. His titles includeBooks that Changed the World,FamousBooksAncientandMedieval,Freedom of the Press: An Annotated Bibliography, and more. 1. The Book of Books The Bible 2. Epic Poet Homer, Iliad, Odyssey 3. Judge of Nature and Mankind Plato: Symposium, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Republic, Statesman, Laws, Timaeus 4. Universal Man Aristotle: Organon, History of Animals, Physics, On the Heavens, Meteorologic, Mechanics, Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric. Poetics 5. Masters of Dramatic Art The Greek Playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander 6. Sense of the Past Greek and Roman Historians: Herodotus, thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Sallust, Livy, Plutarch, Tacitus 7. Greek and Roman Scientists Hippocrates: Aphorisms Theophrastus: On the History of Plants, On the Causes of Plants Archimedes: On the Sphere and Cylinder Lucretius: De Rerum Natura Pliny the Elder: Natural History 8. Fathers of the Church St. Augustine: Confessions, City of God St, Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica 9. Celestial Revolution Nicolaus Copernicus: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium 10. Father of Scientific Anatomy Andreas Vesalius: De Humani Corporis Fabrica 11. Dawn of Scientific Medicine William Harvey: De Motu Cordis 12. Anatomy of Power Politics Niccola Machiavelli: The Prince 13. System of the World Sir Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica 14. American Firebrand Thomas Paine: Common Sense 15. Patron Salut of Free Enterprise Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations 16. First of a New Genus Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the rights of woman 17. Discovery of Vaccination Edward Jenner: An inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the variolae Vaccinae 18.Too Many Mouths Thomas Malthus: Essay on the Principle of population 19. Individual Versus State Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience 20. Crusader for the Lowly Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin 21. Survival of the Fittest Charles Darwin: Origin of Species 22. Prophet of the Proletariat Karl Marx: Das Kapital 23. Leviathan Against Elephant Alfred T. Mahan: The Influence of Sea Power 24. Psychologist of the Unconscious Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams 25. Heartland and World-Island Sir Halford J. Mackinder: The Geographical Pivot of History 26. Study in Megalomania Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf 27. Upsetting the Balance of Nature Rachel Carson: Silent Spring BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Index The thesis of the present work is that certain bonks have exerted a profound influence on history, culture, civilization, and scientific thought throughout recorded time. The principal aim, therefore, has been to discover and to analyze two categories of writings: fusty, those that were direct, immediate instilments in determining the course of events, and second, works that have molded the minds over centuries of time, slower in their effect than the first, but sometimes penetrating more deeply. in every historical era, we find overwhelming evidences of the power of the written word, without which a high state of civilization and culture is inconceivable in any time or place. The beginnings of history are lost in the mists of antiquity. Although in part the earliest stages can be painfully and laboriously reconstruct by the sciences of paleontology and archeology, much, in the nature of things, is irretrievably it Not until the evolution of writing—the pictograph, hieroglyph, ideogram, and, ultimately, the alphabet—did adequate records of the race begin to surge. Even these records, however, present serious dilemma, including the difficulty of deciphering ancient inscriptions and the partial or complete disappearance, by human design or natural attrition, of many chronicles of the past. For the first several millennia of recorded history, far more has vanished than has been preserved. 1234567'
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