New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy, The - Hardcover

Trefil, James

 
9780618226474: New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy, The

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An updated edition of the compendium defining the core of knowledge that all literate Americans should understand features hundreds of illustrations, maps, and photographs and encompasses a new multicultural focus and recent world events, technological advances, literature, and politics. 75,000 first printing.

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E.D. Hirsch, Jr. is the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the author of Cultural Literacy, The First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, and The Core Knowledge Series. Dr. Hirsch is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is president of the Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to educational reform.



James Trefil, the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University, is the author or coauthor of more than thirty books, including The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.

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ISBN 10:  0965766438 ISBN 13:  9780965766432
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 2002
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