Books that changed the world.
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Civilization.; Books and reading.; Literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: "Bibliographical notes": p. 194-195.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The prince -- Niccolò Machiavelli; title: Common sense -- Thomas Paine; title: Wealth of nations -- Adam Smith; title: Essay on the principle of population -- Thomas Malthus; title: Civil disobedience -- Henry David Thoreau; title: Uncle Tom's cabin -- Harriet Beecher Stowe; title: Das Kapital -- Karl Marx; title: The influence of sea power upon history -- Alfred T. Mahan; title: The geographical pivot of history -- Sir Halford J. Mackinder; title: Mein Kampf -- Adolf Hitler; title: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium -- Nicolaus Copernicus; title: De motu cordis -- William Harvey; title: Principia mathematica -- Sir Isaac Newton; title: Origin of species -- Charles Darwin; title: The interpretation of dreams -- Sigmund Freud; title: Relativity, the special and general theories -- Albert Einstein.