Ideas : (Record no. 21)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MIUC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20180510141141.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 141124s2006 nyu||||| |||| 001 | eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780060935641 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MIUC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | MIUC |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 001.1 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 65 |
| Personal name | Watson, Peter, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1943- |
| 952 ## - Items | |
| Itemnumber | 21 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ideas : |
| Remainder of title | history of thought and invention, from fire to Freud / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Peter Watson. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harper Perennial, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xix, 822 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Pt. 1. Lucy to Gilgamesh. The evolution of imagination.<br/>Ch. 1. Ideas before language.<br/>Ch. 2. The emergence of language and the conquest of cold.<br/>Ch. 3. The birth of the Gods, the evolution of house and home --<br/>Pt. 2. Isaiah to Zhu Xi. The Romance of the soul.<br/>Ch. 5. Sacrifice, soul, saviour: 'the spiritual breakthrough’.<br/>Ch. 6. The origins of science, philosophy and the humanities.<br/>Ch. 7. The ideas of Israel, the idea of Jesus.<br/>Ch. 8. Alexandria, occident and orient in the year 0.<br/>Ch. 9. Law, Latin, literacy and the liberal arts.<br/>Ch. 10. Pagans and Christians, Mediterranean and Germanic traditions.<br/>Ch. 11. The near-death of the book, the birth of Christian art.<br/>Ch. 12. Falsafah and al-Jabr in Baghdad and Toledo.<br/>Ch. 13. Hindu numerals, Sanskrit, Vedanta.<br/>Ch. 14. China’s scholar-elite, Lixeu and the culture of the brush --<br/>Pt. 3. The great hinge of the history. European acceleration.<br/>Ch. 15. The idea of Europe --<br/>Pt. 4. Aquinas to Jefferson. The attack on authority, the idea of the secular and the birth of modern individualism.<br/>Ch. 16. 'Half-way between god and man’: the techniques of papal thought control.<br/>Ch. 17.The spread of learning and the rise of accuracy.<br/>Ch. 18. The arrival of the secular: capitalism, humanism, individualism.<br/>Ch. 19. The explosion of imagination.<br/>Ch. 20. The mental horizon of Christopher Columbus.<br/>Ch. 21. The 'Indian’ mind: ideas in the new world.<br/>Ch. 22. History heads north: The intellectual impact of Protestantism.<br/>Ch. 23. The genius of the experiment.<br/>Ch. 24. Liberty, property and community: origins of conservatism and liberalism.<br/>Ch. 25. The 'atheist scare' and the advent of doubt.<br/>Ch. 26. From soul to mind: the search for the laws of human nature.<br/>Ch. 27. The idea of the factory and its consequences.<br/>Ch. 28. The invention of America --<br/>Pt. 5. Vico to Freud. Parallel truths: the modern incoherence.<br/>Ch. 29. The oriental renaissance.<br/>Ch. 30. The great reversal of values.<br/>Ch. 31. The rise of history, pre-history and deep time.<br/>Ch. 32. New ideas about human order: the origins of the social science and statistics.<br/>Ch. 33. The use and abuse of nationalism and imperialism.<br/>Ch. 34. The American mind and the modern university.<br/>Ch. 35. Enemies of the cross and the Qur'an the end of the soul.<br/>Ch. 36. Modernism and the discovery of the unconscious.<br/>Conclusion: The electron, the elements and the elusive self. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 73 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Civilization |
| General subdivision | History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 66 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Intellectual life |
| General subdivision | History |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Marbella International University Centre | Marbella International University Centre | Library | 10/05/2018 | 001.1 WAT ide | 31/05/2021 | 10/05/2018 | Books |