Exploring ideas found in fiction and nonfiction in the essays, chronicles, and speeches, of thinkers, statesmen, and scientists, Perspectives from History takes the reader on a journey through Western Civilization. From Plato in the fourth century BC, to Galileo in the Renaissance, to Einstein in the modern age, Perspectives attempts to elicit from the reader enlightened responses to its selections from the classics, which, in the most demanding English, express the best that was thought and said throughout the ages.
Perspectives as an anthology -- logia in ancient Greek meaning collection and anthos meaning flowers -- introduces a variety of points of view that engage, enlighten, and instruct. Questions that follow each selection test the comprehension skills of the reader, challenging him the way questions would from passages on the SAT, ACT, and SSAT, whose demanding texts the test taker must grasp without impediment. Agreeable as a pastime to the armchair discoverer of a wider world, or useful as a systematic discipline for a student preparing to take a standardized test, Perspectives is designed to make the reader stronger.
Details
- Publication Date
- Nov 12, 2018
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781732748910
- Category
- Education & Language
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Peter Beaven
Specifications
- Pages
- 140
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm)