The Great Ideas Today 1989

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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 The Novel in Europe Today: Experiment and Regression On Legal Practice and Education at the Present Time PART II - RECONSIDERATIONS OF GREAT BOOKS AND IDEAS Virgil and Hippocrates: A Reading of the 'Georgics' Essay on Locke's 'Two Treatises of Government' The New Pythagoreans II: The Scientists of Life and the World Food Problem PART III - SPECIAL FEATURES An Introduction to Islamic Thought: The Koran NOTE TO THE READER PART IV - ADDITIONS TO THE GREAT BOOKS LIBRARY From Commentaries on the Laws of England, Sir William Blackstone Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, William Blake The Last Days of Immanuel Kant, Thomas De Quincey Early Writings on Labour, Property, and Communism, Karl Marx The Settlement House, Jane Addams The School and Society, John Dewey