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In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes, Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America", an exhaustive analysis of the successes...
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Great books of the Western world volume 6
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The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education....
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The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a 'revolution, which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth'.
This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as 'a bridge that carries one from the ancient world to the...
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Great books of the Western world volume 3
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
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c1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 22
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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein; features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay; and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number...
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Great books of the Western world volume 21
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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c1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 50
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
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1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 7
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc
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c1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 39
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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c1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 4
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Encyclopædia Britannica, c1990
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1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 32
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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c1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 33
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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c1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 24
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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c1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 52
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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c1990
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Great books of the Western world volume 25
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Encyclopædia Britannica
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c1990
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