Human Accomplishment by Murray, Charles -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Presentation Introduction PART ONEA Sense of Accomplishment

1. A Sense of Time 2. A Sense of Mystery 3. A Sense of Place 4. A Sense of Wonder

PART TWOIdentifying the People and Events That Matter

5. Excellence and Its Identification 6. The Lotka Curve 7. The People Who Matter I: Significant Figures 8. The People Who Matter II: The Giants 9. The Events That Matter I: Significant Events 10. The Events That Matter II: Meta-Inventions

PART THREEPatterns and Trajectories

PART FOUROn the Origins and Decline of Accomplishment

18. The Aristotelian Principle 19. Sources of Energy: Purpose and Autonomy 20. Sources of Content: The Organizing Structure and Transcendental Goods 21. Is Accomplishment Declining? 22. Summation

APPENDICES

1. Statistics for People Who Are Sure They Can’t Learn Statistics 2. Construction of the Inventories and the Eminence Index 3. Inventory Sources 4. Geographic and Population Data 5. The Roster of the Significant Figures

Notes Bibliography Searchable Terms About the Author Praise Other Books by Charles Murray Copyright About the Publisher