The Resource Curiosity, Alberto Manguel
Curiosity, Alberto Manguel
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Resource Information
The item Curiosity, Alberto Manguel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, Alberto Manguel's most personal work to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the books that have mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination in new directions. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
-
- 1. What Is Curiosity?
- 2. What Do We Want to Know?
- 3. How Do We Reason?
- 4. How Can We See What We Think?
- 5. How Do We Question?
- 6. What Is Language?
- 7. Who Am I?
- 8. What Are We Doing Here?
- 9. Where Is Our Place?
- 10. How Are We Different?
- 11. What Is an Animal?
- 12. What Are the Consequences of Our Actions?
- 13. What Can We Possess?
- 14. How Can We Put Things in Order?
- 15. What Comes Next?
- 16. Why Do Things Happen?
- 17. What Is True?
- Isbn
- 9781336030848
- Label
- Curiosity
- Title
- Curiosity
- Statement of responsibility
- Alberto Manguel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In this book, Alberto Manguel's most personal work to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the books that have mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination in new directions. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Manguel, Alberto
- Dewey number
- 814/.54
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR9199.3.M34845
- LC item number
- C87 2015eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Manguel, Alberto
- Literature
- Manguel, Alberto
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- Books and reading
- Literature
- Label
- Curiosity, Alberto Manguel
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. What Is Curiosity? -- 2. What Do We Want to Know? -- 3. How Do We Reason? -- 4. How Can We See What We Think? -- 5. How Do We Question? -- 6. What Is Language? -- 7. Who Am I? -- 8. What Are We Doing Here? -- 9. Where Is Our Place? -- 10. How Are We Different? -- 11. What Is an Animal? -- 12. What Are the Consequences of Our Actions? -- 13. What Can We Possess? -- 14. How Can We Put Things in Order? -- 15. What Comes Next? -- 16. Why Do Things Happen? -- 17. What Is True?
- Control code
- 904281148
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781336030848
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 66462637-3e40-4b76-857b-1792554b56c6
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904281148
- Label
- Curiosity, Alberto Manguel
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. What Is Curiosity? -- 2. What Do We Want to Know? -- 3. How Do We Reason? -- 4. How Can We See What We Think? -- 5. How Do We Question? -- 6. What Is Language? -- 7. Who Am I? -- 8. What Are We Doing Here? -- 9. Where Is Our Place? -- 10. How Are We Different? -- 11. What Is an Animal? -- 12. What Are the Consequences of Our Actions? -- 13. What Can We Possess? -- 14. How Can We Put Things in Order? -- 15. What Comes Next? -- 16. Why Do Things Happen? -- 17. What Is True?
- Control code
- 904281148
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781336030848
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 66462637-3e40-4b76-857b-1792554b56c6
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)904281148
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