Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud With a Curriculum for Today's Students
by Robert E. Proctor
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Association copy (Christopher Lasch); signed by author; 1st printing. Maroon cloth over boards, gilt letters. Bright, clean covers and spine are As New; light dust spotting on text block edges; tightly bound; inscribed on front free end paper 'For Christopher Lasch, | with esteem and gratitude, | Robert Proctor | New London | 10 March 1989'; crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; faintly scuffed on back cover. From collection of Chrisopher Lasch - noted author, respected book reviewer, and social historian (Univ Iowa, Northwestern Univ & Univ Rochester). 8vo, 231 pp; index, biblio.
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- Bookseller
- Madden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15133
- Title
- Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud With a Curriculum for Today's Students
- Author
- Robert E. Proctor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ Press
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- EDUCATION, PEDAGOGY, SOCIETY, STUDY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Education, Sociology;
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About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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