Robert B Downs
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English
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Description
Books Are Weapons Books have wielded an immense power for good and evil throughout the history of the human race. Here is a thoughtful and probing discussion of sixteen of the most important works of all time which influenced history, economics, culture, civilization, and scientific thought from the Renaissance to the present day. Such widely different, but immensely powerful books as Hitler's Mein Kampf, which foreshadowed the death and destruction...
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Twayne's great educators volume 1
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Biography of one of America's great educators and an early and effective champion of public schools. In addition to serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1827 to 1833) and the Massachusetts Senate (1834 to 1837). Acknowledged by educational historians as the Father of the Common School movement, Mann argued that universal public education was the most efficient...
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Series
Twayne's world leaders volume TWLS 74
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
©1978
Language
English
Author
Series
Chun wen xue cong shu volume 9
Publisher
Chun wen xue
Pub. Date
Minguo 59 [1970]
Language
中文
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Series
Twayne's world leaders volume TWLS 59
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
©1977
Language
English
Publisher
American Library Association
Pub. Date
1960
Language
English
Description
Writings about book censorship and intellectual freedom by William O. Douglas, Elmer Rice, Havelock Ellis, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Blanshard, Bernard De Voto, Aldous Huxley, Henry Steele Commager, George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, Osbert Sitwell, Heywood Broun, H.L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck, A.B. Guthrie, James T. Farrell, Archibald MacLeish, Dwight Eisenhower, Mark Van Doren, William Butler Yeats, Carl Sandburg,...
