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Mind Alive complete bound set

Mind Alive complete bound set

Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia from the 1970s.

$400.00

A full-size information tour de force this one. Packed with stimulating ideas and a wealth of knowledge.  This is a full bound set including Index.

The parts are:

  1. Man, the worshipping animal
  2. The power of laws in ancient empires
  3. Men who steered the might of Rome
  4. The great South Land
  5. Rise of the nation-states
  6. The first breath
  7. The great drive to the west
  8. Keeping in step with time
  9. Albert Einstein and the speed of light
  10. The drifting continents
  11. The coming of the Messiah
  12. From Tsar to Stalin
  13. Teeth, beaks and tentacles
  14. In search of nationhood
  15. How the bees suck
  16. Life and death in Ur
  17. The Modern Movement II
  18. Painters of protest
  19. The sober strength of Rome
  20. Persia bursts into history
  21. Sensual and holy, the art of India
  22. The faith that says one man is God
  23. Angkor wakes from jungle sleep
  24. Life with the lords of the manor
  25. After the egg
  26. All creatures great and small
  27. Frozen frontier
  28. A guide for your career
  29. Queen Victoria’s bustling land
  30. Adornment for the house of God
  31. Grass beneath our feet
  32. Sculpture in the modern world 2
  33. Holy Wars of Islam
  34. In the shade of the tropical forests
  35. The Norsemen are coming
  36. ‘A verray parfit gentil knight’
  37. Man lays waste the Earth
  38. To India by way of America
  39. ‘Sound of Surprise’
  40. Music among friends
  41. Pond pygmis and sea giants
  42. Britain’s age of imperialism
  43. Steering by the stars
  44. The expansion of Nazi power
  45. Odd men out in the chemical plan
  46. Man against Nature
  47. The law of the land
  48. Man’s family groups
  49. The fall of Constantinople
  50. Political murder
  51. The highest invertebrates
  52. The end of the Aztecs
  53. In sheltered waters
  54. Making the deserts bloom
  55. ‘Workers of the world , unite
  56. Revolution!
  57. ‘The White man’s burden’
  58. The architect’s laboratory
  59. Religions of dissent
  60. ‘.. of clay and wattles made’
  61. Dead and dying species
  62. Adapting to adversity
  63. Awareness of the Unconscious
  64. Philosophers of our time
  65. Holding a mirror up to Nature
  66. China’s emperor from the steppes
  67. Food from the seas
  68. Born alive
  69. Hollywood’s first boom
  70. Queen without master
  71. Animal behaviour
  72. How millions are made
  73. The silent echo
  74. Making sense of sound
  75. Across the ether
  76. An audience of millions
  77. Inland waterways
  78. Pictures in stone and glass
  79. The British Isles: on the edge of Europe
  80. Scandinavia; a northern alliance
  81. The artists in business
  82. Bridging the world
  83. Why wear clothes
  84. The heart of Western Europe
  85. The white plague
  86. The organisation: servant or master ?
  87. By word of mouth
  88. In the footsteps of Homer
  89. ‘Pop’ poetry of the past
  90. Imagery and conceit
  91. Of kith and kin
  92. The Spanish tragedy
  93. Life in the desert
  94. Power within the pipes
  95. Atoms for peace
  96. Between the tides
  97. East Central Africa; on the great plateau
  98. Playing for laughs
  99. The frozen desert
  100. Asian oil producers
  101. ‘A world of profit and delight’
  102. Two sides of a nation
  103. 0n the roof of the world
  104. Changing pattern of life
  105. The point of death
  106. The politics of violence
  107. Breeding better harvests
  108. Dangers of domestication
  109. Man at play
  110. Workshop of Asia
  111. Quest for absolute zero
  112. The richest country in the world
  113. The United States: problems of affluence
  114. Defending the wicket
  115. The ancient game of football
  116. The cleaning revolution
  117. Models, games and simulations
  118. The Pacific states of South America
  119. A better life of utter chaos

These are in fairly good condition.

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