The Great Ideas Today 1993

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"The Great Ideas Today" series are annual supplements to the Great Books of the Western World set published by Encylopaedia Britannica. Volumes were issued for the years 1961 through 1998. Cover Title A NOTE ON REFERENCE STYLE Contents Preface PART I - CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES Space and Dimensionality Latin-American Literature Today, Part Two: Beyond the "Boom" Egonomics: The Economics of Personal Conflict PART II - RECONSIDERATIONS OF GREAT BOOKS AND IDEAS Infinity and Controversy "Notes from Yon Exaltations Caught" Church Singing and the Fathers PART III - SPECIAL FEATURES The Ambiguity of Nationalism An Introduction to North American Indian Thought The Jeffersonian City A Philosophical Problem to Be Solved PART IV - ADDITIONS TO THE GREAT BOOKS LIBRARY Bentham, John Stuart Mill Selected Essays,Ralph Waldo Emerson Architectural Papers, Louis H. Sullivan Selected Stories, Guy de Maupassant