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: AN INCOMPLETE EDUCATION




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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780044402961
Format: Import
ISBN: 0044402961
Label: HARPERCOLLINS
Manufacturer: HARPERCOLLINS
Number Of Pages: 696
Publication Date: 1988
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS
Sales Rank: 2338938
Studio: HARPERCOLLINS



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Received what promised.
An Incomplete Education is just as it was described both in content and condition. It came in a timely manner. I would not hesitate to order again through amazon.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Interesting concept, many inaccuracies
The concept and presentation of the book is great; however, (I believe in an attempt to be humorous), there are many inaccuracies and misrepresentations.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - For the Person who Knows Everything
I bought this book for my sister who is one of the smartest people I know. She loves trivia and little known facts. She loved it.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Excellent quality and service!
The book arrived in pristine condition and I was proud to give it as a Christmas present. Thank you for the speedy shipment and care in packaging.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - elitist snobbery wrapped in infanitle humor and factually plain wrong
a short skim reading of this interesting-looking book revealed several things.

First, they get their facts wrong. Small facts here and there for sure, but definetly just plain wrong. My field is religious studies, and they really do not know what they are talking about. They make silly, basic mistakes that my students would pick up.

Second, they are extremely left leaning and (to boot)intellectual snobs, which might be fine if you are as well, just do not go looking for a balanced view on anything like religion.

Their humor is childish because it makes fun of the material, reducing its importance (again depending on their enlightenment liberal sensibilities) and thus denegrates the cultural heritage. This shows that their ongoing humorous attempts to "popularize" include an agenda. They ridicule constantly those ideas and thinkers they do not seem to like. This betrays a lack of understanding of such thinkers as (for instance) Augustine, who managed to shape european culture for about 1500 years. Its weak humor at best. It is never witty, just cutting. That works for the Simpsons, but not for a book like this.

The slant is so ingrained in this book, it is hard to find something good to say about it. Christians , Muslims, Anyone who is proud to be an American, and many others would find this book very insulting.




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