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1	How to Read a Book more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Patrick Cullen (Read by) "How to Read a Book," originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a "living" classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them -- from elementary reading, ... see all copies from £9.88! new only from £9.88! \| first editions
2	Ten Philosophical Mistakes more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time). see all copies from £2.07! new only from £5.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Great Ideas Today more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler (Editor), John Van Doren (Editor) see all copies from £5.64! new only from £74.81! \| first editions
4	How to Speak How to Listen more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler see all copies from £5.64! new only from £9.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Aristotle for Everybody more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since. Here, the 20th century's Mortimer J. Adler instructs the world in Aristotelian logic. By encouraging readers to think philosophically, Adler offers us a unique path to personal insights and understanding of ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £10.41!
6	Six Great Ideas: Truth, Goodness, Beauty, Liberty, Equality, Justice: Ideas We Judge By, Ideas We Act on more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler In SIX GREAT IDEAS Adler discusses the nature of what he considers to be the six ideas fundamental to the way that we judge and act: truth, beauty, goodness, liberty, equality, and justice. In doing so, he has created an accessible introduction to philosophical thinking. see all copies from £5.64! new only from £13.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	How to Think about God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler Dr. Adler extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas without relying on faith, mysticism, or science. Instead, he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent upon a suspension of disbelief. Lightning ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £10.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	We Hold These Truths: Understanding the Ideas and Ideals of the Constitution more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler Adler explores the significant passages of what he calls "the American Testament"--the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Gettysburg Address--and brings them alive, explaining what they mean to us now and what can be done in the future to improve the Constitution. see all copies from £5.64! new only from £15.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler Aims to communicate the "uncommon common sense" of Aristotelian logic, presenting his arguments in a contemporary style. The book thus encourages people to address such issues as the difference between wants and needs and the right way of living with new urgency, seriousness and insight. see all copies from £2.10! new only from £10.32! \| first editions
10	How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Van Doren Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren's classic guide to enlightened reading. On everything from poetry and plays to science and philosophy, Adler and Van Doren teach general readers how to analyze a text, to appreciate its method and bias, and to come away with a full understanding of the author's point. see all copies from £10.52! new only from £26.08!
11	The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Paideia Group see all copies from £5.64! new only from £6.35! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	How to Think about the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Max Weismann (Editor) Philosophy of everybody's business. As human beings, we all have the ability, and even the proclivity, to philosophize. We all engage in philosphical thought in the course of our daily live. What is philosophy? Why is it important? The importance of philosophy can be summed up in two words: Great Ideas. Great Ideas are the ideas that have been ... see all copies from £14.82! new only from £15.12! \| first editions
13 view cover	Angels and Us more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler Dr. Adler takes an engaging look at the various images and hierarchies of angels ( including guardian angels), speculating on the existence of these creatures and the ways in which they have been viewed as objects of religious belief and philosophical thought. Lightning Print On Demand Title see all copies from £5.64! new only from £10.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Six Great Ideas more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler In SIX GREAT IDEAS Adler discusses the nature of what he considers to be the six ideas fundamental to the way that we judge and act: truth, beauty, goodness, liberty, equality, and justice. In doing so, he has created an accessible introduction to philosophical thinking. see all copies from £6.18! new only from £9.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler Addler addresses the controversy of what should be taught in our schools. He suggests that is should serve and be made available to all. He begins with a stinging critique of Allan Bloom and offers his advice for the best education. see all copies from £5.64! new only from £20.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
16	How to Speak, How to Listen / Mortimer J more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler see all copies from £5.64! new only from £53.96! \| first editions
17	Gateway to the great books. more books like this by Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler see all copies from £5.64! first editions
18	Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiography more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler In this book, first published by Macmillan in 1977, Mortimer J. Adler, author of "Ten Philosophical Mistakes", "How to Read a Book" and "Aristotle for Everybody", provides a chronicle of more than 50 years of his achievement in the fields of education and publishing. He discusses the development of one of the great publishing ventures of the ... see all copies from £6.32! new only from £27.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	The Paideia Program: An Educational Syllabus more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler (Introduction by) see all copies from £5.64! new only from £9.87! \| first editions
20 view cover	A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler "Fifteen years ago, when I was only seventy-five years old, I wrote my autobiography prematurely. . . ". So begins the second autobiography of Mortimer Adler, the Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Among other things, he discusses the enormously controversial second edition of Great Books of the Western World and his ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £17.10! \| first editions
21 view cover	Desires, Right and Wrong: The Ethics of Enough more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler see all copies from £17.29! new only from £74.81! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Some Questions about Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler How do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? What is the meaning of words that do not have referential significance? Can ordinary language really do what it appears to do, or is this an illusion? In this work, Dr Adler argues that these fundamental questions are not satisfactorily handled in the two main ... see all copies from £7.20! new only from £8.96!
23 view cover	The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler In SIX GREAT IDEAS Adler discusses the nature of what he considers to be the six ideas fundamental to the way that we judge and act: truth, beauty, goodness, liberty, equality, and justice. In doing so, he has created an accessible introduction to philosophical thinking. see all copies from £10.59! new only from £47.11! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements and Comments on Man and His Institutions by Great Thinkers in Western History more books like this by Mortimer Jerome Adler, Charles Van Doren Passages from the West's great written works, ranging from the Odyssey and the Old Testament to the Interpretation of Dreams and Ulysses, comment on love, knowledge, ethics, war, art, and other abiding topics. see all copies from £21.53! new only from £31.06! \| first editions
25 view cover	Paideia Proposal more books like this by Adler see all copies from £7.41! new only from £7.41!

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