An Incomplete Education - Illustrated - From Freud to Floating Currencies + How to Tell Keats from Shelley

Large Ballantine Hardcover (approx. size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2") with 656 pages + - From Freud to Floating Currencies..Job to Jasper Johns...Opera Etiquette to Party Politics....Plato's Cave to Planck's constant..Einstein to Gertrude Stein...Twelft Night to Twelve-Tone Theory...Nicaragua to Nanook of the North...Half-Life to the Afterlife PLUS How to Tell Keats from Shelley - Who were Malthus and Ricardo? What's the difference between a grip and a gaffer? How do you film noir from cinema verite, Rubens from Titian? Discover answers to these and thousands of other questins in this entertaining and enlightening book. Takes the apple of knowledge, peels it, cores it, slices it, and serves it up with dazzling style. - Each chapter is devoted to a major discipline - American Studies, Art History, Economics, Film, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Science, and World History - and each section will instruct and delight. It's all here, the fascinating facts and superfluous knowledge you once learned and promptly forgot.