The seekers: the story of man's continuing quest to understand his world

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Random House
Publication Date
1998.
Language
English

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The former Librarian of Congress and the author of the best-selling The Discoverers chronicles the human search for meaning and purpose as revealed through the lives and words of Moses, Plato, Machiavelli, Voltaire, Marx, Emerson, Einstein, and other great thinkers. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

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9780375704758
9780679434450

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