Books that changed the world.

Downs, Robert B. 1903-1991.

Books that changed the world. - Chicago, American Library Association, 1956. - 200 p. 23 cm.

Includes index.

"Bibliographical notes": p. 194-195.

The prince / Common sense / Wealth of nations / Essay on the principle of population / Civil disobedience / Uncle Tom's cabin / Das Kapital / The influence of sea power upon history / The geographical pivot of history / Mein Kampf / De revolutionibus orbium coelestium / De motu cordis / Principia mathematica / Origin of species / The interpretation of dreams / Relativity, the special and general theories / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Thomas Paine -- Adam Smith -- Thomas Malthus -- Henry David Thoreau -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Karl Marx -- Alfred T. Mahan -- Sir Halford J. Mackinder -- Adolf Hitler -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- William Harvey -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Charles Darwin -- Sigmund Freud -- Albert Einstein.

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Civilization.
Books and reading.
Literature--History and criticism.

CB151 / .D62 1956a

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