About this title: Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren's classic guide to enlightened reading. On everything from poetry and plays to science and philosophy, Adler and Van Doren teach general readers how to analyze a text, to appreciate its method and bias, and to come away with a full understanding of the author's point.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone Books, New York, NY, USA
Date Published: REVISED edition, 1972
ISBN-13:9780671212094ISBN:0671212095
Description: VERY GOOD. REVISED and UPDATED edition. Clean, UNMARKED pages have 1-2 previously folded corners and light age discoloration. Uncreased, straight spine. Cover has tiny bumps to the corners and light scuffing; no tears or creases. No gift inscriptions or previous owner names. 110109gs. read more
Description: Very good. 1972 Touchstone Press Reprint Revised Softcover(Trade PB) Edition. Some wear/creasing/curling to cover, text clean with strong binding. Ships Fast! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Touchstone
Date Published: 1972-08-15
ISBN-13:9780671212094ISBN:0671212095
Description: Like New. Revised and Updated Edition. 100% Guarantee. Looks new, like it was just taken off a retail store's shelf except for barely discernible shelf wear. No "remainder mark". [If any supplemental media, CDs, or codes are included, they've been specified in this description. ] Shipped daily in cardboard & bubble wrap. Honest, professional descriptions. Five stars equals top customer satisfaction. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Touchstone by Simon & Schuster
Date Published: later printing, revised &
ISBN-13:9780671212094ISBN:0671212095
Description: Good soft cover. 12mo, soft covers, 426pp. rubbing, edgewear, spine creases, scrapes, cover. stamps footedges, tanning, clean, tight, text. very stiff at gutters so must be opened gently so as not to break its back. ref. read more
Description: Good. Condition: Used-good. Crease on cover. pages tight and tanned with age. The are of getting a liberal education1960 Simon & Schuster, New York Paperback 398 pages. read more
Edition: Fourteenth Printing, 1967
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1940
Description: Good Plus in Better Than Good No Price jacket. 8 X 5 1/4. Pages are tight, bright & clean, faint edge foxing. Binding firm and straight. Covers, spine, edges and corners good+. No conspicuous wear for age. If needed for reference, research, analysis, application, lucubrations or just enjoyment, this is the one. 398 pages with appendix & indexed. read more
Edition: Rev and Updated ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Holiday House
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780671212803ISBN:067121280X
Description: Very Good / Near Fine book. Pages are strong and clean with no writings or marks, no book jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. Dimensions, analytical reading, approaches to different kinds of reading matter and the ultimate goals of reading. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Date Published: 1972-09-01
ISBN-13:9780671212094ISBN:0671212095
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780671212094. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: SIMON AND SCHUSTER
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good in Good jacket. Text is clean and free of markings. Boards show some rubbing and wear along edges and at spine ends. Dustjacket shows rubbing and wear along edges with a few small tears and nicks. New mylar Brodart cover on dustjacket for protection. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Date Published: 1940
Description: Very Good to Fine. No Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 12th printing. Wrap has light edge and corner wear wth rubbing and a light crease on front corner. Pages arnd text are very clean and bright. A very gently used copy. A nice library or gift copy! read more
"Few books have actually prompted change in my habits or behaviour, but this one has. No longer do I read without a pencil in hand or with Adlers 4 big questions in mind. I don't always read with the intensity that Adler recomends, but the questions that he asks while reading a book would help anyone to learn.
Why is this book not mandatory by every 9th grade English classroom ? Moreover, why has anyone made this even more accessible to children. Some of the disciplines he advocates could be started by 4th or 5th grade.
If you liked this, you'd love "How to Speak, How to Listen"."
"What Adler gets right: he emphasizes, over and over, that you have no place judging someone's argument until you have understood it.
What Adler gets wrong: 1) the argument is not the whole of the book. Style matters just as well. 2) If you read every book the way he says to read, you'd never even get through a quarter of the greatest books written. Sometimes you need to read quickly to get a general view of what is out there.
But his rules are still the ones you need to know before you break them."
"I really got a lot out of this book. This teaches you how to to get more out of your reading, to get past the superficial glance and delve deeply, take notes, and put the material into your own words. It has a comprehensive recommended reading list, and is tied in to The Great Books of the Western World by Encyclopedia Britannica and Gateway to the Great Books-- both sets of encyclopedias are well worth investing in, especially if you homeschool or just want to further your own education independently."
"This book gives reading a new angle. Adler argues, and after contemplating I totally agree, that there are primary and secondary teachers and that reading originals is easier to follow and provides the full knowledge. Primary are the ones who find/discover/create something new. When primary teachers publish their ideas and findings they explain how they arrived at their conclusions; ergo they explain the complete rationale. Secondary on the other hand use the knowledge of many primary teachers and teach using this. Relying only on secondary input is not sufficient, according to Adler, and readers should always go back and read the primary sources.
Adler also gives advise on how to approach reading books. He thinks that a book should be read multiple times to fully understand its contents."
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