Literature & Ideas is the fifth volume in The Human Record. It turns from the world we discover to the words and ideas we use to make sense of it: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from The Spoken and the Written through The Shapes of Story, How to Live How to Die, The Word and the World, and The Inner World, closing with How We Live Together. Each card is built around a single work or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for gu...

Culture Générale is the first volume in The Human Record, a series built to start real conversations. Inside are 260 discussion cards arranged in thirteen groups, moving from Wonder & Discovery and The Natural World through Words & Language, The Ancient World, Art & Beauty, Philosophy & Ideas, and Geography & Place. Each card opens onto something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, families, classrooms, and curious readers, the book treats general knowledge not as trivi...

Art & Music is the third volume in The Human Record. It moves the series from the world's past into the world we make: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from First Images & First Songs through The Sacred Arts, Masters, Makers & Patrons, The Performing World, and Breaking the Frame, closing with The Modern Eye & Ear. Each card is built around a single work, maker, or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, families, clas...

People & Society is the sixth and final volume in The Human Record. It turns from the words and ideas we think with to the lives we actually share: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from Kinship & Custom through Work & the Marketplace, Law & Judgment, Power & the State, and Movements & Change, closing with The City & the Commons. Each card is built around a single institution, struggle, or idea and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made fo...

Science & Wonder is the fourth volume in The Human Record. It turns the series from the world we make to the world we discover: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from The Sky Above Us through The Living Earth, The Invisible World, Pattern & Proof, and The Body & the Brain, closing with The Method & the Frontier. Each card is built around a single discovery, instrument, or question and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talking about. Made for guides, fami...

History & Place is the second volume in The Human Record. It carries the structure readers know from Culture Générale into new ground: 126 discussion cards arranged in six groups, from Origins & First Civilizations through Empires & Exchanges, Encounters & Upheavals, Revolutions & Industries, and Modern Crossroads, closing with an atlas of the places that made us. Each card is built around a single moment, figure, or place and the knowledge behind it, something worth knowing and worth talk...