A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything
that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from t
he beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope
, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the gre
at theories and discoveries of the human race, but also explores the social cond
itions, political climates, and individual men and women of genius that brought
ideas to fruition throughout history.
