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Mortimer Jerome Adler has written 65 work(s)
Hardcover:
9780025002432 | Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1994, cover price $15.00 | also contains Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas, Quebec City, 1765-1832: The Evolution of a Colonial Town | About this edition: Traces the historical permutations of such words as 'art,' 'idea,' and 'significance' in an examination of the arts as they relate to philosophy
Paperback:
9780684804200 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, July 1, 1995), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Continuing his exploration of the substance of a basic education, Mortimer J.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786107032, titled "Art, the Arts and the Great Ideas" | Blackstone Audio Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Does a piece of visual or musical art have any content?
Paperback:
9781560007722 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, December 1, 1994), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Psychology is a field of many paradoxes.
Paperback:
9780020300656 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, September 1, 1993), cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780823215348 | Reprint edition (Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $95.00
Paperback:
9780823215355 | Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $35.00
Hardcover:
9780025005747 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Examines the history, importance, and contributions of philosophy
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9780020301769 | Reprint edition (Collier Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This book is about philosophy's relationship to and difference from other disciplines, such as history, maths, physics, and even poetry.
A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large
The author describes his conversion at eighty-four to Christianity and his editorial oversight of the controversial second edition of 'Great Books of the Western World'
Hardcover:
9780020160304 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 1993, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: The author describes his conversion at eighty-four to Christianity and his editorial oversight of the controversial second edition of 'Great Books of the Western World'
9780025005716 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1992, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The author describes his conversion at eighty-four to Christianity and his editorial oversight of the controversial second edition of 'Great Books of the Western World'
Hardcover:
9780025002814 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1991, cover price $22.95
Paperback:
9781604190465 | Axios Pr, January 16, 2012, cover price $12.00
Paperback:
9780020160229 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, July 16, 1991), cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780025005617 | Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss Abraham Lincoln, Judge Bork, the decline of Communism, human nature, and the future of democracy
Hardcover:
9780025002258 | Macmillan Pub Co, November 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Draws on the principles of logic to locate a meeting ground for the world's organized religions, in an attempt to reconcile reason and faith in the tradition of the great religious thinkers
Paperback:
9780020641407 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $13.95
Miscellaneous:
9781593392215 | Encyclopedia Britannica, October 1, 1990, cover price $289.00
The author examines the nature of the human intellect, its link to artificial and alien intelligence, the role of language in terms of mind and meaning, and the uses and abuses of intellect
Hardcover:
9780025003507 | Collier Books, March 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The author examines the nature of the human intellect, its link to artificial and alien intelligence, the role of language in terms of mind and meaning, and the uses and abuses of intellect
Paperback:
9780020010159 | Collier Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $9.00
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9780684838236 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, June 1, 1997), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many
9780020641117 | Reissue edition (Collier Books, November 1, 1991), cover price $13.00 | also contains Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy, The Gothic Visionary Perspective | About this edition: Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many
9780553267761 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786104659 | Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 1997, cover price $32.95
Hardcover:
9780025005518 | Macmillan Pub Co, March 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A founder of the 'great books' movement addresses the controversy concerning what should be required study in schools and suggests a humanistic course of study that is accessible to all people
Paperback:
9780020301752 | Collier Books, April 1, 1990, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A founder of the 'great books' movement addresses the controversy concerning what should be required study in schools and suggests a humanistic course of study that is accessible to all
Paperback:
9780020130406 | Touchstone Books, November 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss seminars, tutoring, lectures, school structure, and the teaching of English, math, science, history, social studies, foreign languages, and art
Paperback:
9780020641308 | Reprint edition (Crowell-Collier Pr, March 1, 1988), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781470820954 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 20, 2012), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [Read by Jeff Riggenbach] Mortimer Adler has devoted a lifetime to studying the great ideas and explaining even the most difficult concepts to the average citizen, earning Time magazine's praise as ''a philosopher for everyman.
Paperback:
9789684195837 | Grijalbo Mondadori, June 1, 1986, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A rational approach to providing the existence of God in today's scientific age compares the formation of a notion of God to the formation of equally difficult notions in nuclear physics and modern cosmology
Paperback:
9789684195844 | Grijalbo Mondadori, June 1, 1986, cover price $7.25 | About this edition: Discusses complex philosophical problems in concrete language
Hardcover:
9780025003408 | Macmillan Pub Co, February 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A systematic approach to lifelong learning interconnects disciplines and ideas, explains the shortcomings of specialization, shows how to assimilate information and knowledge into understanding and wisdom, and offers a defense of the liberal arts.
Hardcover:
9780874621020 | Marquette Univ Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $15.00
Paperback:
9780684846477 | Touchstone Books, March 1, 1985, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Explains the fundamental principles of communicating through speech, with sections on sales talks, lectures, and question-and-answer sessions, and presents advice on effective listening and learning by discussion.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786108510 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 1, 1995), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.
9780886840150 | Listen USA, April 1, 1985, cover price $12.95
Hardcover:
9780025003309 | Macmillan Pub Co, March 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discusses modern misconceptions about consciousness, language, knowledge, moral values, happiness, freedom of choice, human nature, society, and human existence
Paperback:
9780684818689 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Discusses modern misconceptions about consciousness, language, knowledge, moral values, happiness, freedom of choice, human nature, society, and human existence
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780786107278 | Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 1994, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time).
Hardcover:
9780025002807 | Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The author elucidates the implications of twelve key ideas--work, wealth, virtue, leisure, property, happiness, state, government, democracy, society, constitution, and citizenship--whose influence will shape the future
Paperback:
9780020130505 | Macmillan Pub Co, September 1, 1983, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Explains the impact of the Paideia proposal on American education and discusses special education, vocational training, curricula, and other key topics
Hardcover:
9780025005600 | Macmillan Pub Co, August 1, 1982, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Discusses complex philosophical problems in concrete language to better understand the eternal concepts that shaped Western culture
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