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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9781594867446 Edition: 1st ISBN: 1594867445 Label: Modern Times Manufacturer: Modern Times Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: October 16, 2007 Publisher: Modern Times Release Date: October 16, 2007 Studio: Modern Times Related Items:
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 Rating:  - History LiteThe Intellectual Devotional: American History, is history lite. Divided into seven fields of knowledge, (Politics & Leadership, War & Peace, Rights & Reform, Business, Building America, Literature, and Arts), the idea behind the devotional is to read one page per day, but I found myself so absorbed that I read half the book in one sitting. This book is more about the tip of the iceberg rather than an in-depth look at American history, but it is fascinating nonetheless. ... Read More Rating:  - Even better than the 1st editionThe only thing I can say is that if you liked the 1st edition, you will also enjoy this one. Rating:  - Remembering Important Events of the Past.Aristotle's theory of matter and form is one of the most important and influential aspects of his philosophy. He saw the world was populated by substances -- concrete individual things, like plants and animals. He attempts to explain the natural world before the advances of modern science. Although many people, believers and atheists alike, argue the existence of God. Philosophers since Aristotle have tried to prove it. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species which proposed the theory that ... Read More Rating:  - Very SloppyThis is the most sloppily edited book I've ever read. Did it even have a proofreader? Page after page suffers errors in dates and basic facts. Here is a very typical error in the discussion of the Battle of Antietam in 1862. "Nearly 100,000 soldiers participated in the battle--a force of greater size than the entire army that had fought the American Revolution seventy years earlier." So the Revolutionary War was being fought in 1798? Seriously, this kind of simple error is ... Read More Rating: - Please Don't Notify the AuthoritiesI didn't use The Intellectual Devotional in the way it was intended. (That is, reading one entry each day for a year.) Forget that! There was no way that I was going to wait 24 hours between its excellent and varied entries. Regarding the few less-than-favorable reader reviews this book has garnered, some do criticize the smallish fonts the authors employ... to these readers, I say muscle up and break out the bi-focals. Each page in this book is devoted to one particular aspect ... Read More 
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