Steve
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 Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 12:54 am Post subject: An invitation to learn |
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Hello,
For anyone interested in reading along with Will and Ariel Durant's "The
Story of Civilization" I would invite you to join a forum that has begun a
study of this eleven volume historical series that was fifty years in the
making and among other awards received a Pulitzer Prize. I am posting to
this group in hopes of attracting a range of people who will read and
comment on the authors' views as they unfold the societies of the last one
hundred and ten centuries. History's magic is to free us from needless mores
while at the same time providing keys for a stable and enriched life, so
this is a challenge worth the effort.
During December we are reading "The Lessons of History" (ISBN 1567310249),
the authors' distillation of what they learned from history in writing "The
Story of Civilization", and "A Dual Autobiography" (ISBN 0671229257), the
Durant's last work that provides important background to the process and
effort that went into writing "The Story of Civilization". At the start of
the New Year we will then begin the first volume in the series, "Our
Oriental Heritage" (ISBN 1567310125).
The forum is located at: (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StoryofCivilization)
To join click the "Join this Group!" button at the top of the page and then
respond to the simple questionnaire that will be automatically emailed to
you. This extra step helps ward off computer marketers as well as providing
input to the moderators for improving the site.
Thanks, Steve (group moderator). |
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