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Yearbook. 1961. Part I. Is democracy the best form of government for the newly formed nations?. The case for democracy / William O. Douglas; The case against democracy / Peregrine Worsthorne

Part II. An analysis of three developments in world affairs

Part III. The year's developments in the arts and sciences. Literature / Mark Van Doren ; Physical sciences and technology / Walter Sullivan ; Social sciences and law / Edward A. Shils ; Biological sciences and medicine / Gilbert Cant ; Philosophy and religion / George P. Grant

Parts IV. Additions to the Great Books library: Experience and education / John Dewey; Relativity: the special and general theory / Albert Einstein; The school for wives / Moliere ; Three essays / Arnold J. Toynbee. Yearbook. 1962. 1962. Part 1. The great debate of the year. Does America's best hope for the future lie in political conservatism? Affirmative / Barry Goldwater

Negative / Jacob K. Javits. Part 2. The editors review the year. An analysis of three developments in world affairs. Part 3. Literature / Alfred Kazin

Physical sciences and technology / George Gamow

Social sciences and law / Irving Kristol

Biological sciences and medicine / Earl Ubell

Philosophy and religion / James Collins. Yearbook. 1963. Part 1. A symposium on space. Has man's conquest of space increased or diminished his stature? / Herbert J. Muller, et al. Part 2. An essay on time. The tempo of history: an analysis by the editors. Part 3. The year's development in the arts and sciences. Literature / Saul Bellow

Biological sciences and medicine / Leonard Engel

Philosophy and religion / John Herman Randall, Jr

Physical sciences and technology / Edward U. Condon

Social sciences and law / Reuel Denney. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. Death in Venice /Thomas Mann

Existentialism / Jean-Paul Sartre

Essay on Population / Robert Malthus

Part 5. Additions to the Syntopicon. Yearbook. 1964. Part 1. Part 1. New Europe and the U.S.A. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R / William Benton

America from Far and Near / Alexei Adzhubei

A German Historian Looks at America / Golo Mann

An Italian Novelist Look at America / Guido Piovene

A European View of American Science / Ritchie Calder

Future Relations Between Europe and the United States / Raymond Aron. Part 2. The Americanization of Europe / Milton Mayer

The Americanization of Europe: A Review in Pictures. Part 3: The Year's Developments in the Arts and Sciences. Literature / Stanley Kauffman

Biological Sciences and Medicine / Rene Dubos

Physical Sciences and Technology / Melba Phillips

Social Sciences and Law / Daniel Bell. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books Library. Daisy Miller / Henry James

Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville

A Review of Tocqueville / John Stuart Mill

Pragmatism / William James. Yearbook. 1965. Part 1. Work, Wealth, and Leisure. Introduction

Automation and Jobs / Yale Brozen

Jobs for the Displaced: A Public Responsibility / Adolf A. Berle, Jr

Cybernation, unemployment and Freedom / Robert Theobald

Progress Sharing: Key to a private property Economy / Arthur Larson

Wealth and Happiness Work and Leisure (in Great Books of the Western World). Part 2. Contemporary Aspects of a Great idea. On Death / Milton Mayer

On Death: A Review in Pictures. Part 3: The Year's Developments in the Arts and Sciences. Literature /Stephen Spender

Philosophy and Religion / Joh E. Smith

Social Sciences / Kenneth E. Boulding

Biological Sciences / George Gaylord Simpson

Physical Sciences and Technology / Jeremy Bernstein. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books Library. Utopia (abridged) / Sir Thomas More

Walden (selections / Henry David Thoreau

The Challenge of Democracy / John Strachey. Yearbook. 1966. . Part 1. The Difference of Woman and the Difference it Makes

A Symposium. Introduction

How Woman Differs from Man: The Facts

Woman: Nurture Makes the Difference / Elisabeth Mann Borgese

The Changing Role of Woman: A Biosocial Interpretation / Lucius F. Cervantes

A New Look at Woman's Work / Anna Roseberg Hoffman

The Church and Women / James A. Pike

Woman in Great book of the Western World

Woman: the Image of the Difference: A pictorial Essay. Part 2. Contemporary Aspects of Great idea. The New Man / Milton Myer. Part 3. The Year's Developments in the Arts and Sciences. Literature / Susan Sontag

The Social Sciences and History / Asa Briggs

Astronomy and the Physical Sciences / Hermann Bondi

The Biological Sciences / Warren S. McCulloch and Warren M. Brodey. Part 4. Additions the Great Book Library. The Metamorphoses (selections): Ovid

"On the Development of Ideas" From the Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine / John Henry Newman

The subjection of Woman / John Stuart Mill. Part 5. Additions of the Syntopicon. New Words in the Great ideas. Yearbook. 1967. Part 1. Should Christianity be Secularized? : A Symposium: Why Christianity Must be Secularized / Harvey Cox

Why Christianity Should not be Secularized / E.L. Mascall

Does Secular Theology have a Future? / Martin E. Marty

The Need for a Theology of the World / M.D. Chenu

The Idea of Religion in Great Books of the Western World. Part 2. The year's developments in the arts and sciences. Music, Painting, and Sculpture / Roy McMullen

The Physical Sciences / Stephen Toulmin

The Biological Sciences / Theodore Puck

Theology / Langdon B. Gilkey. Part 3. The Contemporary Status of a Great Idea. The Idea of Happiness / V.J. McGill. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books Library: Eclipse of God / Martin Buber

What is Life? / Erwin Schrödinger

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / [John Gardner, tr.]. Yearbook. 1968. Part 1. Ideas and Politics: A Symposium. Introduction

Reassessment / Eugene J. McCarthy

Politics and Dissent / Theodore C. Sorenson

Political ideas in the united States / Richard Hovere

Intellectual in American Politics / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Part 2. The year's Developments in the Arts and Sciences. A Symposium in Contemporary Poetry. The New American Poetry / Louis Simpson

The Self as agent

The Vital Self and Secondary Means / Stephen Spender

A Little Anthology of Contemporary Poetry

The New Biology and the Shaping of the Gutu8re / John R. Platt

Archaeology / Leonard Cottrell

Some American Images of Democracy / John Plamentaz. Part 3. The Contemporary Status of a Great idea. The Idea of Quality / Editors. Part 4. Additions the Great Books Library. Selected Prose and Poetry / William Wordsworth

Physics and Politics / Walter Bagehot

The Abolition of Man / C.S. Lewis. Yearbook. 1969. Part 1. The University Today. The Pluralistic university in the Pluralistic Society / Clark Kerr

The University as Custodian of Reason / Edward H. Levi

The Function of the University in a Time of Crisis / Noam Chomsky

The University as Slaughterhouse / John R. Seeley

A Catechism for our Times / Mortimer J. Adler. Part 2. The year's Development in the Arts and Sciences. Schooling and Education / John I. Goodlad

The Philosophy of Science / Herbert Feigl

Technology and Values / John G. Burke. Part 3. The Contemporary Status of A Great idea. The idea of God and the Difficulties Atheism / Etienne Gilson. Part 4. The Great Books of the Library. Special Feature: Great books of the Twentieth Century in literature / mark Van Doren. Additions to the Great Books Library. Proslogion, Gaunilo's Criticism, and Anselm's Reply / Anselm of Canterbury. The idea of the University in the Nineteenth Century. On the organization of Institutions of Higher Learning / Humboldt

The idea of a University / Newman

Inaugural Address at St. Andres / Mill

Wallenstein

Part One: The Piccolomini, translated by Coleridge / Schiller. Yearbook. 1970. Part 1. The Idea of Revolution: A Symposium. Revolutionary Change / Arnold J. Toynbee

The Need for Cultural Revolution / Ivan Illich

Anarchism and Revolution / Paul Goodman

The Sorry Condition of Counterrevolutionary Doctrine / William F. Buckley Jr

The Idea of Revolution in Great Books of the Western World. Part 3. The Contemporary Status of a Great Idea

The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning / Ch. Perelman

Part 4. Additions to the Great Books Library

The Praise of Folly / Erasmus

State and revolution / Lenin

The Death of Wallenstein / Schiller; translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Yearbook. 1971. Part 1. The World Community: A Symposium. Introduction. Human Rights Since 1945: An Appraisal / Rene Cassin

Ecology: A World Concern/ Henry J. Kellermann

Toward a World University / Arthur Lall

Economic Growth: Some Pessimistic Reflections / E.J. Mishan

The Prospects for World Government / Joseph S. Clark

The idea of World Community in Great Books of the Western World. Part 2. The Year's Developments in the Arts and Sciences. New Developments in Classical Studies M.I. Finley

Revolution in the Earth Sciences /Peter J. Wyllie

Civil Disobedience / Marshall Cohen. Part 3. The Contemporary Status of Great idea. Sources of our Common Thought: Homer and Plato / I.A. Richards. Part 4. Additions of the Great Books Library. Preliminary Draft of a World Constitution

The Problem of World Government / Jacques Maritain

On the Formation of Coral-Reefs

The Battle of the Books / Jonathan Swift

On Translating Homer / Matthew Arnold

The Time Machine / H.G. Wells. Yearbook. 1972. Part 1. The Civil Police: A Symposium. Introduction

Police that Serve Society / Ramsey Clark

The Proper Role of the Criminal Law / Norval Morris

changing Conception of the Police / Jerome H. Skolnick

Democratic Control and Professional Restraint / James F. Ahern

The Problem of Power / Casamayor

Law, Authority, and the Limits of Law Enforcement in Great Books of the Western World. Part 2. The Contemporary Status of Three Great ideas. Modern Philosophies of Law / Shirley Robin Letwin

The Great Anti-School Campaign / Robert M. Hutchins

The Discipline of History / Henry Steele Commager. Part 3. A Special Feature. The idea of Freedom

Part One/ Charles Van Doren. Part 4. Additions of the Great Books Library. The Duration of Life / August Weismann

Benito Cereno / Herman Melville. Yearbook. 1973. Part 1. The Hero and the Heroic Idea: A Symposium. Introduction

The Hero and the Heroic Idea in Great Books of the Western World

We Must Have Heroes / S.L.A. Marshall

No More Heroes / Ron Dorfman

Heroism and Fortitude / Josef Pieper

Heroes in Black and White / Joy Gould Boyum

The Hero as a World Figure / Sidney Hook

Heroes for an Ordinary World / Chaim Potok. Part 2. Review of the Arts and Sciences. The Widening Gyre: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century / W.T. Jones

The Anatomy of Justice in Taxation / Walter J. Blum and Harry Kalven, Jr

A Fresh Look at Copernicus / Owen Gingerich . Part 3. The Review of a Great Book. The Canterbury Tales / Mark Van Doren. Part 4. A Special Feature. The Idea of Freedom

Part Two / Charles Van Doren. Part 5. Additions of the Great Books Library. In Defense of Socrates / Xenophon

The Song of Roland

Religio Medici / Sir Thomas Browne

She Stoops to Conquer / Oliver Goldsmith. Yearbook. 1974. Part 1. A Symposium on Tradition. Introduction

Tradition in theology / Yves Congar

Tradition in Law / Harry Kalven, Jr

Tradition in the Arts / Frank Kermode

Advancement and Obsolescence in Science / Theodosius Dobzhansky

History and Tradition / J.H. Plumb

The idea of Tradition in Great books of the Western world. Part 2. Review of the Arts and Sciences. Impasse for the Elementary -Particle Concept / Geoffrey Chew

The Planning of the Future / Bertrand de Jouvenel. Part 3. Contemporary Status of a Great idea. The idea of Justice / Otto Bird. Part 4. The Review of a Great Book. Three Classics of Science / William A. Wallace. Part 5. Additions to the Great Book Library. St. Thomas Aquinas / G.K. Chesterton

On Crimes and Punishments / Cesare Beccaria

Poetry and Mathematics / Scott Buchanan. Yearbook. 1975. Part 1. A Symposium on Language and communication. Introduction

The Development of Human Linguistic Behaviors in Chimpanzees / Roger S. Fouts

Aspects of Induced Language in Chimpanzees / David McNeill

Speech Communication: The Sign of Mankind

Frank E.X. Dance

Language / Sydney M. Lamb

The Confusion of the Animalists / Mortimer J. Adler

Additional Comments / Roger S. Fouts, Sydney M. Lamb, Frank E.X. Dance. Part 2. Review of the Arts and Sciences. Political Philosophy in Our Time /Maurice Cranston

The Planets Today: The new View from Space / Nicholas M. Short

The Poetry of Self-Creation / John Bayley. Part 3. The Reconsideration of a Great Book. The Federalist / Rexford G. Tugwell. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books Library. Persuasion / Jane Austen

The Constitution Revisited / Scott Buchanan

The Essence of Mathematics / Charles Sanders Peirce. Yearbook. 1976. Part 1. A Symposium on the World Economy. Trade in the World Economy / Herbert Giersch

International Corporations and the World Economy / Grant L. Reuber

Economic Stabilization Policies in the United States / James Tobin

The Developing Countries / Jagdish Bhagwati

The Welfare State in the World Economy / Martin Bronfenbrenner

Inflation / Arnold C. Harberger. Part 2. Current Developments in the Arts and Sciences. Discontinuities and Discoveries : innovation in Recent American Fiction / Albert J. Guerard

The New Biology : Decline of the Baconian Creed / Gunther S. Stent

Old Problems and New in International Relations / David E. Kaiser and Philip M. Kaiser. Part 3. The Contemporary Status of Two Great Ideas

Education and the State: Learning Community / Joseph J. Schwab. Part 4. The Reconsideration of a Great Book

Adam Smith and the Spirit of Capitalism / Irving Kristol. Part 5. Additions to the Great Books Library. Common Sense / Thomas Paine

Discourses on Art (selections) / Sir Joshua Reynolds

Don Quixote's Profession / Mark Van Doren. Yearbook. 1977. Part 1. A Symposium on Culture and Society. The Growth of Public Patronage / Waldemar A. Nielsen

The Need for a Comprehensive Cultural Policy / Jacques Rigaud

State Subsidy and Artistic Freedom / Arnold Goodman

Public Funding of the Arts in America / Michael Straight

Patronage Through the Ages / Philipp Fehl. Part 2. Current Developments in the Arts and Sciences. Human Fossils : The New Revolution / Charles E. Oxnard

The Idea of a Modern Museum / Roy McMullen. Part 3. The Contemporary Status of a Great Idea. The Idea of Religion, Part One / John Edward Sullivan. Part 4. Reflections on a Great Books Author. The Philosophy of Kant / Anthony Quinton. Part 5. Additions to the Great Books Library. The Comparison of Related Forms / D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone / Immanuel Kant

The Utility of Religion / John Stuart Mill

The Golden Flower Pot / E.T.A. Hoffmann. Yearbook. 1978. Part 1.A Disputation on the Future of Democracy / Participants: Mortimer J. Adler, Maurice Cranston, Anthony Quinton ; moderator: Bill Moyers. Part 2. Current Developments in the Arts and Science. Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of Health / Leon R. Kass

Management Medicine : The Doctor's Job Today / Franz J. Ingelfinger

Beyond Narrative : The Future of the Feature Film / Roger Ebert. Part 3. The Contemporary Status of a Great Idea

The Idea of Religion, Part 2 / John Edward Sullivan. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books Library

The Physician in Spite of Himself / Moliere

An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine / Claude Bernard. Yearbook. 1979. Part 1. A Symposium on Modern Cosmology

Observations in Cosmology : The Shape of Space and the Totality of Time / James E. Gunn

The Limits of Space and Time / Stephen W. Hawking

Order and Disorder in the Universe / P.C.W. Davies

Mach's Principle, 1879-1979 / Dennis W. Sciama

The Aethereal Sky : Man's Search for a Plenum Universe / Owen Gingerich. Part 2. Current Developments in the Arts and Sciences. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology / S. Chandrasekhar

The social sciences since the Second World War, part one / Daniel Bell

Part 3. The contemporary status of a great idea

On the idea of beauty / Donald Merriell

Part 4. A special feature

Great books of science in the twentieth century: physics / Gerald Holton and Katherine Sopka

Part 5. Reviews of recent books

The life of the mind / Hannah Arendt

On human nature / Edward O. Wilson

Part 6. Additions to the great books library

Thucydides / J.B. Bury

Lives of the poets, selections / Samuel Johnson

From the life of Cowley

From the life of Milton

From the life of Dryden

From the life of Pope

From the life of Gray

Popular scientific lectures, selections / Ernst Mach

Why has man two eyes?

On symmetry

The economic nature of physical inquiry

On transformation and adaptation in scientific thought

On the principle of comparison in physics

The part played by accident in invention and discovery

Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Two old men / Leo Tolstoy. Yearbook. 1980. Part 1. A symposium on world energy prospects. Toward a sustainable energy future / David J. Rose

Soft energy paths: how to enjoy the inevitable / Amory B. Lovins

The energy crisis and foreign policy: the diplomacy of transition / Franklin Tugwell

Energy: the international economic implications / Ragaei El Mallakh

World energy and the challenge to industrial civilization / Willis W. Harman. Part 2. Current developments in the arts and sciences. On Greek tragedy / Seth Benardete

The explosion of biological information / F.H.C. Crick

The social sciences since the Second World War, part two / Daniel Bell. Part 3. The contemporary status of a great idea

The idea of nature, East and West / Hajime Nakamura. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. Selected essays / Arthur Schopenhauer

A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen

The dynamo and the virgin / Henry Adams. Index. The great ideas today, 1961-1980. Yearbook. 1981. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Theatre in the twentieth century / Norris Houghton

The emergence of post-modern science / Stephen Toulmin. Part 2. The reconsideration of a great book. Edward Gibbon's decline and fall of the Roman Empire / Hugh Trevor-Roper. Part 3. The contemporary status of a great idea. Ethics in a permissive society: the controversy regarding the objectivity of moral values / Otto Bird. Part 4. Reviews of recent books. Hans Küng : Does God exist? / Mortimer J. Adler and Wayne F. Moquin

Morris Kline: Mathematics

the loss of certainty / Charles Van Doren

Ashley Montagu (ed.): Sociobiology examined / John Van Doren. Part 5. Additions to the great books library. The true history / Lucian

An essay in criticism / Alexander Pope

The autobiography of Edward Gibbon / Edward Gibbon

Candide / Voltaire

"The great instauration" / Francis Bacon

"On the aims and instruments of scientific thought" / William Kingdon Clifford. Yearbook. 1982. Part 1. Current topics

Minds and brains: angels, humans and brutes / Mortimer J. Adler. Part 2. Current developments in the arts and sciences

Electing the U.S. President / Douglass Cater

Climate: yesterday, today and tomorrow / F. Kenneth Hare

Recent contributions to our knowledge of the Bible / Raymond E. Brown

Theories of literature in the twentieth century / Harvey Goldstein. Part 3. The reconsideration of a great book. Rethinking the pensees of Pascal / Otto Bird. Part 4. Reviews of recent books. Philosophy in our time / Mortimer J. Adler

Machine thinking and thinking machines / Charles Van Doren

Synchophantasy in economics : a review of George Gilder's Wealth and poverty / Louis O. Kelso and Patricia Hetter Kelso. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. The consolation of philosophy / Boethius

Man a machine / Julien de La Mettrie

"The function of criticism at the present time" / Matthew Arnold

"The real thing" / Henry James

"The president of the United States" / Woodrow Wilson. Yearbook. 1983. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Evolution of life: Evidence for a new pattern / Steven M. Stanley

Mathematics in our time / Felix E. Browder. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books. Reflections on Galen / Douglas Buchanan

Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Kepler / Owen Gingerich. Part 3. Editorial essay

The idea of civil police. Part 4. Special features

Dante the thinker: poetry and philosophy / Otto Bird

The child as reader / Clifton Fadiman. Part 5. Reviews of recent books

Braudel's mediterranean / Charles Van Doren

Scott Buchanan's So reason can rule / Ramsey Clark

Note to the reader. Part 6. Additions to the great books library

Astronomia nova. Selections / Johannes Kepler

Phaedra / Jean Racine

The birth of tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche. Yearbook. 1984. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. The unification of physics / Stephen Hawking

The state of fiction today / Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Phases of matter / Scott Desjardins. Part 2. Reconsiderations of a great book. The ambiguities of Don Quixote / Otto Bird. Part 3. Special features

An introduction to Confucian thought / George Anastaplo

Odyssey variations / Mark Perlberg

Technology and beauty / Mario Salvadori

Note to the Reader. Part 4. Additions to the great books library

The analects / Confucius

Art and utility / Horatio Greenough

On instinct / Charles Darwin

Tokens of ourselves (animal poems selected by W.A. Darkey.)

Democratic vistas / Walt Whitman. Yearbook. 1985. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Post-political and elegiac poetry / Stephen Spender

The new biology and its human implications / Theodore T. Puck. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books. The social contracts of Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Maurice Cranston

The Christian skepticism of Montaigne / Otto Bird

The inefficacy of the good: on reading Thucydides / Douglas Allanbrook. Part 3. Special features

Newton's path to the Principia / Curtis Wilson

Why the computer is only as good as it is / Charles Van Doren

An introduction to Hindu thought: The Bhagavad Gita / George Anastaplo

Note to the reader. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. The Bhagavad Gita

Three essays / Josiah Royce

Laocoon / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Yearbook. 1986. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. American art since mid-century / Donald B. Kuspit

Chaos: a view of complexity in the physical sciences / Leo P. Kadanoff. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Animals and men / Anthony Quinton

The idea of dialectic / Mortimer J. Adler

Two approaches to the authors of the great books / Mortimer J. Adler

On reading Euclid / Otto Bird. Part 3. Special features. Maxwell's Treatise and the restoration of the cosmos / Thomas K. Simpson

A revolution in music: Rousseau, Rameau, and the war of the opera houses in Paris in 1752 / Maurice Cranston

An introduction to Mesopotamian thought: the Gilgamesh epic / George Anastaplo. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books library. The epic of Gilgamesh

Matter and motion / James Clerk Maxwell

Three papers: "Are there real analogies in nature?"; "On action at a distance"; "Ether" / James Clerk Maxwell

"The Madonna of the future" / Henry James. Yearbook. 1987. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. The American economy / Lester C. Thurow

We the people: the rulers and the ruled / George Anastaplo. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Toward a reading of 'Capital' / Thomas K. Simpson

On reading the 'Summa': an introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas / Otto Bird. Part 3. Special features

The invention of the presidency / Marcus Cunliffe

The great books of the East / William Theodore de Bary

Kālidāsa's 'Śakuntalā' / Barbara Stoler Miller

'The teaching of Vimalakīrti' / Robert A.F. Thurman

A note on the 'Mencius' / Irene Bloom

T'ang poetry: a return to basics / Burton Watson

'A dream of red mansions' / C.T. Hsia

'The tale of Genji' / Edward Seidensticker

'Tsurezure-gusa' / Donald Keene. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. The rights of man / Thomas Paine

Śakuntalā and the ring of recollection / Kālidāsa. Yearbook. 1988. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the quantum theory / N. David Mermin

Changing views of natural catastrophe / David M. Raup

Twentieth-century music / Douglas Allanbrook. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Saint Augustine on reading / Otto Bird

The new Pythagoreans: reflections on the idea of science in our time / Thomas K. Simpson. Part 3. Special features. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob / Joe Sachs

In re Allan Bloom: a respectful dissent / George Anastaplo

Ethics: fourth century B.C. and twentieth century A.D. / Mortimer J. Adler. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books library. "A commentary on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics" / Mortimer J. Adler

From 'The great didactic' / John Amos Comenius

"Introduction to the study of practical wisdom" / Yves R. Simon

Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton. Yearbook. 1989. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. The novel in Europe today: experiment and regression / John Bayley

On legal practice and education at the present time / William T. Braithwaite. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Virgil and Hippocrates: a reading of the 'Georgics' / Otto Bird

Essay on Locke's 'Two treaties of government' / Richard Ashcraft

The new Pythagoreans II: the scientists of life and the world food problem / Thomas K. Simpson. Part 3. Special features. An introduction to Islamic thought: the Koran / George Anastaplo. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books library. From 'Commentaries on the laws of England' / Sir William Blackstone

'Songs of innocence' and 'Songs of experience' / William Blake

"The last days of Immanuel Kant" / Thomas De Quincey

Early writings on labour, property and communism / Karl Marx

The settlement house [two lectures] / Jane Addams

The school and society / John Dewey. Yearbook. 1990. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Developments in contemporary architecture 1945-1990 / Kenneth Frampton

Gender and science: 1990 / Evelyn Fox Keller

Mental images in cognitive psychology / Eva T.H. Brann. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Tragedy and comedy / Harvey D. Goldstein

The new pythagoreans III: the scientists of the mind (part one) / Thomas K. Simpson. Part 3. Special features. The end of the conflict between capitalism and communism / Mortimer J. Adler

Determinism and reality / Stanley L. Jaki. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. How things seem and what they are: a philosophical-scientific discussion

The nature of the physical world (introduction) / Sir Arthur S. Eddington

Eddington's two tables / A. Brian Pippard

"Reality and appearances" / Mortimer J. Adler

"The invincible ignorance of science" / A. Brian Pippard

The stones of Venice (selections) / John Ruskin

"A simple heart" / Gustave Flaubert. Yearbook. 1991. Preface. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. The biology of immune responses / Michael Edidin

Twentieth-century dance / Sally Banes. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. The new Pythagoreans III: The scientists of the mind (part two) / Thomas K. Simpson

Great books and liberal arts / Otto Bird

The transcultural and the multicultural / Mortimer J. Adler. Part 3. Special features. The state of Christian theology in North America / William J. Abraham

Music as a liberal art / Bruce Venable. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. The making of the Bill of Rights, 1791 / arranged by George Anastaplo

Concerning liberal education / William Whewell

Ward Number Six / Anton Chekhov. Yearbook. 1992. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Latin-American literature today, part one: background to the "boom" / René de Costa

The evolution of the Homo sapiens / Christopher B. Stringer. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Science as mystery: a speculative reading of Newton's Principia / Thomas K. Simpson

Contemporary views of happiness / Deal W. Hudson. Part 3. Special features. An introduction to Buddhist thought / George Anastaplo

The Romantic imagination / Maurice Cranston

Kepler's anguish and Hawking's queries: reflections on natural theology / Owen Gingerich

Natural theology, chance, and God / Mortimer J. Adler

Response to Mortimer J. Adler / Owen Gingerich. Part 4. Additions to the great books library

Monkey: folk novel of China (in part) / Wu Ch'êng-ên

The awakening / Kate Chopin

Rediscovering natural law / Scott Buchanan. Yearbook. 1993. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Space and dimensionality / Thomas K. Simpson

Latin-American literature today, part two: beyond the "boom" / René de Costa

Egonomics: the economics of personal conflict / Jon Elster. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Infinity and controversy / Otto Bird

"Notes for yon exaltations caught" / Bruce Venable

Church singing and the fathers / Bruce Venable. Part 3. Special features

The ambiguity of nationalism / Maurice Cranston

An introduction to North American Indian thought / George Anastaplo

The Jeffersonian city / Peter D. Paul

A philosophical problem to be solved / Mortimer J. Adler. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books library

Bentham / John Stuart Mill

Selected essays / Ralph Waldo Emerson

Architectural papers / Louis H. Sullivan

Selected stories: Ball-of-fat, Mademoiselle Fifi, Toine / Guy de Maupassant. Yearbook. 1994. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Language and science: genetics, embryology and the discourse of gene action / Evelyn Fox Keller

On the use, neglect and the abuse of veils: the parliaments of the world's religions, 1893, 1993 / George Anastaplo. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Science and religion in the work of Lucretius / Otto Bird

The psychology of Tocqueville's Democracy in America / Jon Elster

Human nature, gender and ethnicity (part one) / Deal W. Hudson. Part 3. Special features. Trotsky's The history of the Russian Revolution / Thomas K. Simpson

Why lawyers lie / William T. Braithwaite

Mind and brain: the genius of fortune / Robert H. Kohn. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books library. English traits / Ralph Waldo Emerson

From The history of the Russian Revolution / Leon Trotsky

The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan. Yearbook. 1995. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Contemporary poetry's mother tongues / Alfred Corn

The modern interaction of science and technology / John Polkinghorne. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. The spaces of democracy / Stephen Kern

Goods in common: efficiency and community / James O'Toole

Human nature, gender and ethnicity (part two) / Deal W. Hudson. Part 3. Special features. An introduction to "ancient" African thought / George Anastaplo

The voice of silence: Charlie Chaplin / Thomas K. Simpson. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan

The souls of Black folks / W.E.B. Du Bois. Yearbook. 1996. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Film, attention, and communication / Noel Carroll

Rethinking the art of medicine / Mark Swaim and Galen Wagner. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Shakespeare's fairy tales: Cordelia as Cinderella / Cynthia L. Rutz

Montaigne's psychology / Jon Elster

The condition of knowledge / Charles Van Doren. Part 3. Special features. Virtuality / Thomas K. Simpson

On Robert's rules of order / George Anastaplo

Poetic justice / John Van Doren. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books library. Selections from Science and culture: On Goethe's scientific researches ; On thought in medicine / Hermann von Helmholtz

Selected stories: Mr. Harrison's confessions ; Crowley castle ; The Manchester marriage / Elizabeth Gaskell. Part 5. Comments on recent books. The varieties of metaphysical poetry [by T.S. Eliot] / reviewed by John Bayley

The morality of happiness [by Julia Annas] / reviewed by Deal W. Hudson

The age of extremes: a history of the world 1914-1991 [by Eric Hobsbawm] / reviewed by Thomas K. Simpson

The origin of Satan [by Elaine Pagels] / reviewed by John Polkinghorne

Mozart: a life [by Maynard Solomon] / reviewed by Douglas Allanbrook

From the heat of the day and The murderer [by Roy Heath] / reviewed by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

Integrity [by Stephen L. Carter] / reviewed by George Anastaplo

The language instinct [by Stephen Pinker] / reviewed by Otto Bird. Yearbook. 1997. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Teaching, nature, and the moral virtues / George Anastaplo

The liberal arts of words and numbers / Otto Bird. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. Our political situation: good government, self-government, and American democracy / Laurence Berns

Good housekeeping: the real economics of the Caribbean / Thomas K. Simpson. Part 3. Special features. Shakespeare's fairy tales: the origin of The merchant of Venice / Cynthia L. Rutz

Postmodernism: a critical diagnosis / Alex Callinicos. Part 4. Additions to the Great Books library. The teacher / Saint Augustine

Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller

A plea for John Brown / Henry David Thoreau

My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Part 5. Comments on recent books

Good natured: the origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals [by Frans de Waal] / reviewed by Anthony Quinton

Newton's Principia for the common reader [by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar] / reviewed by George Anastaplo

Nietzsche [by Michael Tanner] / reviewed by Seth Benardete

Untitled [by Diane Arbus] / reviewed by Paulette Roeske

Great books [by David Denby] / reviewed by Keith S. Cleveland

The astonishing hypothesis [by Francis Crick] / reviewed by Thomas K. Simpson. Yearbook. 1998. Part 1. Current developments in the arts and sciences. Abode of the modern muse: the science museum / Thomas K. Simpson

Fellowship of reason: the American Association for the Advancement of Science at 150 / Thomas K. Simpson

The meaning of quantum theory / Richard Healey

What kinds of science are worth supporting? A new look, and a new mode / Gerald Holton. Part 2. Reconsiderations of great books and ideas. On beginnings / George Anastaplo

Natural rights / James O'Toole. Part 3. Special features. Shakespeare's fairy tales: is all well that ends well in Shakespeare's comedies? / Cynthia L. Rutz

Aristotle on the emotions / Jon Elster

On discovery, the value of poetry, and the healing power of nature / Diane Ackerman. Part 4. Additions to the great books library. The theogony or the birth of the gods / Hesiod

Selections from Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Address and Declaration at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 ; The solitude of self

Enfranchisement of women / Harriet Taylor Mill

Evolution and permanence of type / Louis Agassiz

Applied anthropology: the state of the art / Margaret Mead. Part 5. Comments on recent books. In the absence of heroines: a response to Gerda Lerner's Why history matters / Paulette Roeske

A need perceived but not met / Krishnan Venkatesh [on The dictionary of global culture / ed. Appiah and Gates]

A clear and elegant account of a complex man / Anthony Quinton [on Cranston's The solitary self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau]

The biological basis of society / Deal Hudson [on Ridley's The origins of virtue]

On reading / Otto Bird

Leo Strauss and Judaism / George Anastaplo

Maxwell for all / Daniel Siegel

Future more vivid: a review of Freeman Dyson's Imagined worlds / Thomas K. Simpson

Index. The great ideas today, 1961-1998