The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

Hirsch Professor, E. D.; Kett Professor, Joseph F.; Trefil Physics Pr, James

ISBN 10: 0618226478 / ISBN 13: 9780618226474

Verlag: Collins Reference, 2002

Beschreibung

A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteedâ but the story's all there!

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PKV.0618226478.G

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
• Verlag: Collins Reference
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0618226478
• ISBN-13: 9780618226474
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 3. Auflage
• Zustand: good

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

An updated edition of the compendium defining the core of knowledge that all literate Americans should understand features hundreds of illustrations, maps, and photographs and encompasses a new multicultural focus and recent world events, technological advances, literature, and politics. 75,000 first printing.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

E.D. Hirsch, Jr. is the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the author of Cultural Literacy, The First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, and The Core Knowledge Series. Dr. Hirsch is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is president of the Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to educational reform.

James Trefil, the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University, is the author or coauthor of more than thirty books, including The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.