«CENTENAS DE PÁGINAS REPLETAS DE ASSUNTOS RELEVANTES QUE NINGUÉM ATENTO À LEITURA E AO DESTINO DOS LIVROS SE PODE DAR AO LUXO DE NÃO CONHECER.» JACQUES BARZUN Incontornável para todos os que gostam de livros, esta aclamada obra de Mortimer J. Adler e Charles Van Doren, publicado originalmente em 1940, é um prodígio raro, um clássico vivo sobre os vários níveis de leitura e a forma de os alcançar – desde a leitura elementar, passando pela leitura sistemática, profunda e introspetiva, até à ...

關鍵特色★一部有關閱讀，永不褪色的經典。★將閱讀分成四個層次漸進式討論，讓讀者逐步學會閱讀的要領。★開拓閱讀技巧，協助讀者提升自己的理解力，進而增加人生智慧的實用性書籍。★不只教導初學者如何進行閱讀，更是學習知識的基本方法與態度。內容說明這本書在1940年出版，1972年大幅增訂改寫為新版。不論什麼時候讀，都不能不嘆服作者對閱讀用心之深、視野之廣。不懂閱讀的人，初探閱讀的人，讀這本書可以節省冤枉路。對閱讀有所體會的人，讀這本書可以有更深的印證與領悟。讀一本好書，會讓你的努力有所回報。而一本最好的書對你的回饋也最多。當然，這樣的回饋分成兩種：第一，當你成功地閱讀了一本難讀的好書之後，你的閱讀技巧必然增進了。第二，一本好書能教你了解這個世界以及你自己，你不只更懂得如何讀得更好，還更懂得生命；你變得更有智慧，而不只是更有知識。本書提到閱讀主要有四個階段：一是基礎閱讀，只要懂得看書、識字，就算是達到這層閱讀；...

From the author of the bestselling How to Read a Book comes a comprehensive and practical guide for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguish...

First published in 2000. This is Volume I of eight in the International Library of Philosophy looking at the area pf philosophy of Mind an Language. Written in 1927, Dialectic is a convenient technical name for the kind of thinking which takes place when human beings enter into dispute, or when they carry on in reflection the polemical consideration of some theory or idea. This text is an attempt to examine the circumstances and conditions of controversy in order to understand what are its...

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.A CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done.” –Farheed ZakariaOriginally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces...

"Wie man ein Buch liest" gilt noch immer als die beste und erfolgreichste Anleitung zur Verbesserung und Vertiefung des Lesens. Mit der detaillierten Systematik von Adler und Van Doren lernt der Leser, schneller und besser das geschriebene Wort zu verstehen. Dazu stellt das Buch die wichtigsten Lesetechniken zusammen – vom systematischen Querlesen und prüfenden Lesen bis hin zum Schnelllesen, ganz gleich, ob es sich um Sachbücher, Romane, Drama, Lyrik, historische, philosophische oder natu...

For decades, scholars have disagreed about what kinds of behavior count as crime. Is it simply a violation of the criminal law? Is it behavior that causes serious harm? Is the seriousness affected by how many people are harmed and does it make a difference who those people are? Are crimes less criminal if the victims are black, lower class, or foreigners? When corporations victimize workers is that a crime? What about when governments violate basic human rights of their citizens, and who t...

UMA OBRA BRILHANTE PARA DOMINAR A ARTE DE COMUNICAR Como Falar, Como Ouvir é um guia prático e intemporal que explora as duas competências mais importantes no mundo atual: falar de forma clara e ouvir de forma eficaz. Mortimer J. Adler revela os segredos para falar de forma organizada e cativante, ajudando-o a transformar simples conversas em oportunidades de inspiração e conexão. Adler destaca que falar bem não é apenas uma questão de fluência ou eloquência, mas sim de transmitir ideias d...

Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing to do?", and, "What does it mean to be good?" Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature, history, and philosophy, the author considers what is meant by democracy, law, emotion, language, truth, and other abstract concepts in lig...

One of the great tasks of Mortimer Adler’s illustrious life was his search for a watertight proof of the existence of God. Adler believed that his search had been successful.Adler spent years studying the classic proofs of God’s existence, especially Aquinas’s Five Ways, and found shortcomings in all of them, as conventionally understood. But he thought that some of them contained ideas which, if properly developed, could be improved, and he continued to search for a satisfying and ...

Ao ler este resumo, o senhor descobrirá como ler mais e ao mesmo tempo integrar o máximo de informações.O senhor também vai descobrir :os princípios da leitura básica e da leitura panorâmica ;como fazer uma leitura analítica eficaz ;os cinco passos de uma leitura sinóptica ;como fazer uma opinião correta sobre um livro ou sobre um corpus de livros;como modificar a maneira de ler, de acordo com o gênero de seu livro.A leitura é uma óti...

Psychology is a field of many paradoxes. Since its earliest beginnings as a natural science, psychologists have been in search of their proper subject matter. Today they are in less agreement than ever. In this classic text, originally published as What Man Has Made of Man, Mortimer J. Adler goes to the root of the problem. He shows that psychology is simultaneously a particular social science and a branch of philosophical knowledge.These two parts must be disting...