A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers -- Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James and Dewey -- "The Story of...

Mit Die Lehren der Geschichte haben die Historiker und Pulitzer-Preisträger Will und Ariel Durant eine kompakte und meisterhafte Bestandsaufnahme der Kultur und Zivilisation der Menschheit geschaffen. In ihrem anschaulichen Kompendium...

"Dr. Durant's outline includes not only lucid explanations of the great philosophies, but the careers of the philosophers and interpretations based upon the two-fold view, together with a host of good tales and merry quips by and about...

A compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books--listed in accessible and concise form--from one of the world's greatest scholars. von Durant, Will

The Age of Napoleon: A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815 (His the Story of Civilization ; Pt. 11)