Adventures of the mind
By: edited by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler
Edition: [1st ed.].
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 653
Subjects: Modern Civilization
Work titles: Saturday evening post
Table of contents: title: The challenge of being free  -- Henry M. Wriston; title: The connecting imagination  -- Stephen Spender; title: What you should know about physics  -- Sir George Thomson; title: The anguish of modern art  -- William Snaith; title: The meaning of mathematics  -- Morris Kline; title: Screwtape proposes a toast  -- C.S. Lewis; title: Why Marx failed here  -- Clinton Rossiter; title: The origin of the elements  -- William Alfred Fowler; title: The awesome decision  -- David L. Bazelon; title: The sense of truth  -- Alexander Eliot; title: Life's mysterious clocks  -- Frank A. Brown, Jr.; title: Men and capital  -- John Kenneth Galbraith; title: Science and sex ethics  -- George W. Corner; title: Listening to the universe  -- A.C.B. Lovell; title: The final answer  -- François Mauriac; title: The economic revolution  -- Barbara Ward; title: Natural history of a star  -- Jesse L. Greenstein; title: The U.S. presidency  -- Gerald W. Johnson; title: How life began  -- Earl A. Evans, Jr.; title: The rediscovery of meaning  -- Owen Barfield; title: The tragic vision  -- Stanley Hyman; title: The small world  -- J.D. Williams; title: The two-way imagination  -- Nancy Hale; title: Your brain and your behavior  -- R.W. Gerard; title: The two cities of law  -- Charles L. Black, Jr.; title: Cause, chance and creation  -- Philip Morrison; title: What is existentialism?  -- William Barrett; title: Words that divide the world  -- Stefan T. Possony; title: The making of a poem  -- C. Day Lewis; title: In praise of waste  -- Garrett Hardin; title: Can democracy survive?  -- C. Northcote Parkinson; title: The false images of science  -- Gerald Holton; title: Battle cry for book lovers  -- Robertson Davies; title: The universe revalued  -- D.E. Harding; title: The messages of life  -- James Bonner; title: The act of language  -- John Ciardi; title: New horizons in philosophy  -- Morton White; title: The elusive neutron  -- Donald J. Hughes; title: The dilemma of youth  -- John Wain; title: The conflict of cultures -- C.P. Snow.