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:
- Man, the worshipping animal
- The power of laws in ancient empires
- Men who steered the might of Rome
- The great South Land
- Rise of the nation-states
- The first breath
- The great drive to the west
- Keeping in step with time
- Albert Einstein and the speed of light
- The drifting continents
- The coming of the Messiah
- From Tsar to Stalin
- Teeth, beaks and tentacles
- In search of nationhood
- How the bees suck
- Life and death in Ur
- The Modern Movement II
- Painters of protest
- The sober strength of Rome
- Persia bursts into history
- Sensual and holy, the art of India
- The faith that says one man is God
- Angkor wakes from jungle sleep
- Life with the lords of the manor
- After the egg
- All creatures great and small
- Frozen frontier
- A guide for your career
- Queen Victoria’s bustling land
- Adornment for the house of God
- Grass beneath our feet
- Sculpture in the modern world 2
- Holy Wars of Islam
- In the shade of the tropical forests
- The Norsemen are coming
- ‘A verray parfit gentil knight’
- Man lays waste the Earth
- To India by way of America
- ‘Sound of Surprise’
- Music among friends
- Pond pygmis and sea giants
- Britain’s age of imperialism
- Steering by the stars
- The expansion of Nazi power
- Odd men out in the chemical plan
- Man against Nature
- The law of the land
- Man’s family groups
- The fall of Constantinople
- Political murder
- The highest invertebrates
- The end of the Aztecs
- In sheltered waters
- Making the deserts bloom
- ‘Workers of the world , unite
- Revolution!
- ‘The White man’s burden’
- The architect’s laboratory
- Religions of dissent
- ‘.. of clay and wattles made’
- Dead and dying species
- Adapting to adversity
- Awareness of the Unconscious
- Philosophers of our time
- Holding a mirror up to Nature
- China’s emperor from the steppes
- Food from the seas
- Born alive
- Hollywood’s first boom
- Queen without master
- Animal behaviour
- How millions are made
- The silent echo
- Making sense of sound
- Across the ether
- An audience of millions
- Inland waterways
- Pictures in stone and glass
- The British Isles: on the edge of Europe
- Scandinavia; a northern alliance
- The artists in business
- Bridging the world
- Why wear clothes
- The heart of Western Europe
- The white plague
- The organisation: servant or master ?
- By word of mouth
- In the footsteps of Homer
- ‘Pop’ poetry of the past
- Imagery and conceit
- Of kith and kin
- The Spanish tragedy
- Life in the desert
- Power within the pipes
- Atoms for peace
- Between the tides
- East Central Africa; on the great plateau
- Playing for laughs
- The frozen desert
- Asian oil producers
- ‘A world of profit and delight’
- Two sides of a nation
- 0n the roof of the world
- Changing pattern of life
- The point of death
- The politics of violence
- Breeding better harvests
- Dangers of domestication
- Man at play
- Workshop of Asia
- Quest for absolute zero
- The richest country in the world
- The United States: problems of affluence
- Defending the wicket
- The ancient game of football
- The cleaning revolution
- Models, games and simulations
- The Pacific states of South America
- A better life of utter chaos
These are in fairly good condition.
