Great Ideas: Conversations Between Past and Present
- ISBN-10
- 0030305144
- ISBN-13
- 9780030305146
- Category
- College readers
- Pages
- 769
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Fort Worth : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Authors
- Thomas D. Klein, Bruce H. Edwards, Thomas L. Wymer
Description
... an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface , by Reference to Causes Now in Operation , 295 “ Lyric Poem , The ” ( Sappho ) , 191 Macaulay , Thomas Babington , 412 Madison , James , 360–361 “ Federalist Paper No.
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