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These are some of the series in our collection.
Note: The column on the right of each list gives the
call number
of the book to help you find it in the
stacks.
| The “for dummies” series |
“I'm a dummy, are you a dummy too?” |
| The Audubon Society Field Guides |
“The little pocket-sized wonders.” |
| The “What life was like” series |
“A series on world history that uses contemporary art, artifacts,
and personal accounts to create an intimate portrait of daily life in the past.” |
| The Harvard Classics |
“The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf,
was a fifty-volume anthology of works selected by Charles W. Eliot.
It was originally published in 1909. Dr. Eliot, then President of Harvard University,
had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be
obtained by spending fifteen minutes a day reading from a collection of books
that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf).
The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity, and challenged him make
good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works; the
Harvard Classics was the result.” |
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