false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg 245831 8 <div>One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century<br><br>In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its Gothic transformations in the Middle Ages, to the occult forms it took in the Renaissance, and finally to its use in the seventeenth century. This book, the first to relate the art of memory to the history of culture as a whole, was revolutionary when it first appeared and continues to mesmerize readers with its lucid and revelatory insights.<br><br></div> 2664243 1966 The Art of Memory total:87|5:39|4:38|3:6|2:4|1:0| 87 373 227 14 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 5 0 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 24 17:06:09 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 17:13:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 3 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 19 13:20:07 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 06 07:28:45 -0700 2008 The New Media Reader piqued my interest. It's a scholarly investigation of the "art of memory," a technique dating from ancient times in which one memorizes a speech or a series of facts by "pl...more...]]> 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 4 0 false Mon Aug 03 12:07:34 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 12:09:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 4 0 false Thu Jan 15 11:37:55 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 11:39:02 -0800 2009 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 5 0 false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 25 16:08:35 -0800 2008 Sun Aug 30 13:20:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 5 0 false Mon Jun 02 18:20:33 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 18:22:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 5 0 false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 02 19:35:02 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 22:36:31 -0800 2008 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 4 0 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Jun 30 07:34:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 30 07:35:32 -0700 2007 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 5 0 false Sun Dec 30 23:11:47 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 23:11:47 -0800 2007 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 0 0 false Mon Jan 14 14:01:31 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 14 10:50:10 -0700 2009 modern library top 100 nonfiction list. Guess I should read the other 64 first?]]> 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 11:38:57 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 13 10:09:54 -0800 2007 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 0 0 false Fri Oct 24 08:17:56 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 08:18:28 -0700 2008 245831 0226950018 9780226950013 84 14 4.29 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173101232m/245831.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245831.The_Art_of_Memory 5 0 false Fri May 22 11:28:02 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 06:21:07 -0700 2009
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