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Adventures of Ideas; A Brilliant History of Mankind's Great Thoughts by Whitehead, Alfred North - 1959

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Adventures of Ideas; A Brilliant History of Mankind's Great Thoughts

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New York.: Mentor / New American Library by arr. w/ Macmillan., 1959. Third printing.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Signed by previous owner. Near fine; Interior top front light damp staining, first several pages, half-inch down.. Jonas (Cover illustration by).. 1 304 p. Color illustrated mass-market paperback. Red page blocks. Gold spine, borders. Discussion of how changing ideas propelled mankind's cultural and social development, with ideas on cosmology, philosophy. Author was a philosopher, mathematician, and educator, d. 1947, and was a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, when he wrote his Preface in 1932. He also authored "Science and the Modern World" and "The Aims of Education".
  • Bookseller Hedgehog's Whimsey Books US (US)
  • Illustrator Jonas (Cover illustration by).
  • Format/Binding Mass-market paperback
  • Book Condition Used - Good. Signed by previous owner. Near fine; Interior top front light damp staining, first several pages, half-inch down.
  • Edition Third printing.
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Mentor / New American Library by arr. w/ Macmillan.
  • Place of Publication New York.
  • Date Published 1959
  • Keywords Jonas, artist; Author: "Science and the Modern World" and "The Aims of Education"; Cosmology, philosophy, sociology;

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The Free Press, 1967. Pbk 307pp very faint rubbing to extremities otherwise an unread copy, excellent clean tight unmarked as new
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Cambridge University Press, 1964. Paperback. Good. 1964. Reprinted. 302 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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