A Classification

April 10, 2014

Generalities that Cross Subject Specialties:

Updated 4 October 2019.  33 volumes

The A classification contains the follow subsets:

AC     General Collections            AE     Encyclopedias   AG     Miscellanies         AP    Periodicals of Various Content AY     Yearbooks and Almanacs AZ     Knowledge and Information in General.  

AC1.G72 v.1 1988   Great books of the Western World. Robert Maynard Hutchins, Editor in Chief. Mortimer Adler, Associate Editor. Encyclopadia Britannica, Inc., 1988 c1952. v.1, The great conversation: the substance of a liberal education. xxx [xxxvi], 131p. #16190 1.00

AC5.A56 1960   The American Scholar reader.  Edited by Hiram Haydn and Betsey Saunders.  Atheneum Publishers, c1960; articles first published c1933-1960.  xx, 522p.   #13351 8.55

AC5.A74 1977   Atlantic (Periodical).  Highlights from 125 years of the Atlantic.  Edited by Louise Desaulniers.  Atlantic Subscriber Edition, 1977.  xii, 1982.  #9221  .50

AC5.C3 1970   Cambridge Review (Periodical).  Cambridge minde: ninety years of the Cambridge Review, 1879-1969.  Edited by Eric Hombeerger et. al. with illustrations.  Little, Brown, 1970.  315p., photos.  #5225  .55

AC5.S3   The Saturday book.  v.1-   1941-       Anchor Press, Ltd. and Little, Brown and Company.   v., illus. (part color).  Editors, 1941-1951, Leonard Russell.  1952-             John Hadfield.  have: v.25, 1965   #13116  .30

AC5.S67 1990   Speculations (Periodical).  The Reality Club.  John Brockman, Editor.  Prentice-Hall, 1990.  268p.  Contributors p.267-268.  #466  11.49 AC5.T74 1992   Treasury of the Encyclopaedia BritannicaMore than two centuries of facts, curiosities, and discoveries…  General Editor, Clifton Fadiman. Viking, 1992.  704p., index.  #1626  8.01

AC8.G762  Goodman, Ellen.  Close to home.  Fawcett Crest, 1980 c1979.  253p.  #1048  .16

AC8.G7623 1990   Goodman, Ellen.  Making sense.  Penguin Books, 1990 c1989.  396p.  #7306  .50

AC35.E526 1982   Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.  Ideas and opinions.  Based on Mein Weltbild; edited by Carl Seeling.  New translation & rev. by Sonja Bargman.  Crown Trade Paperback, 1982.  377p.  #1474  9.68

AE5.E53 1974   Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonnédes sciences, des arts et des metiers.  Encyclopédie extraits avec une notice biographique, une notice historique et ltteraire.  Ed. remise à jour.  Librarie Larousse, 1974.  109p.  #1036  2.69

AE5.E53 1985   Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnarie raisonne des science, des arts et des metiers.  Extraits avec une chronologie de l’Encyclopédie, une étude générale de l’oeuvre, une analyse méthodique des articles choisis, des notes, des questions, des thèmes de réflexion et un index général, par J. & M. Chapertier.  Berdos, 1985.  191p.  Bibliographical Notes.  Index.  #5191  2.10

AE25.E524 1967   Denis Diderot’s The encyclopedia: selections.  Edited and translated by Stephen J. Gendzier.  Harper & Row/Harper Torchbooks: The Academy Library, c1967.  xxxv, 246p., engravings.  Brief Chronology of the Encyclopedic Movement p.xxiii-xxvii.  Principal Collaborators on the Encyclopedia p.xxviii-xxix.  Friends Often Considered to be Encyclopedists p.xxx.  Selected Bibliography p.xxxi-xxxv.  #9675  2.65

AE25.E538 1983 Alembert, Jean le Rond d’, 1717-1783.  Preliminary discourse to the Encyclopédie of Diderot.  Translated by R. N. Schwab with W. E. Rex.  With introduction & notes.  Bobbs-Merrill: Library of Liberal Arts, 1983 c1963; 1st published 1751.  170p.  Selected Bibliography.  #1280  3.18

AG5.B6 1993   Bothamley, Jennifer.  Dictionary of theories.  Gale Research, 1993.  637p.  Bibliography p.565-571.  Index.  #5192  3.70

AG5.C737 1994   The concise Columbia encyclopedia.  3d ed.  Columbia University press; distributed by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994; 1st published 1983.  xiv, 973p., black & white photos, drawings, diagrams, maps, tables.  #10614  3.20

AG5.N76 1999   The Norton dictionary of modern thought.  2nd rev. ed.  Edited by Alan Bullock and Stephen Trombley.  Assistant Editor: Alf Lowrie.  W.W. Norton & Co., c1999; rev. ed. of The new Fontana dictionary of modern thought, c1998.  xxiv, 933p.  Includes Bibliographical Citations.  #9448  32.50

AG6.P37 1987   Panati, Charles, 1943-               Extraordinary origins of everyday things.  Harper & Row: Perennial Library, c1987.  xi, 463p., black & white drawings.  References p.422-442.  Index.  #11942  1.10

AG105.B82 1960   Bryson, Lynn, ed.  An outline of man’s knowledge of the modern world.  With an introduction and notes.  McGraw-Hill, 1960.  692p.  Author’s Suggestions for Further Reading, p.686-692.  #5177  .20

AG106.P45 1975   People’s almanac.  By David Wallechinsky and Irving Wallace.  Doubleday, 1975.  1478p.  #451  7.95

AG195.S87 1985   Suttin, Caroline.  How did they do it?  Wonders of the far and recent past explained.  Quill: A Hilltown Book, 1985 c1984.  332p., photos, drawings.  Bibliography p.301-323.  Index.  #12756  .15

AG243.F3 1988   Facts and Falicies.  Edited and designed by Dorling Kindersley Ltd.  The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., c1988.  448p., illus (part color): photos, engravings, drawings, facsimilis.  Picture Credits and Acknowledgements p.448.  Index.  At head of title: Reader’s Digest.  #13335  .55

AG250.C63 1986   Corbeil, Jean-Claude, 1932-                 The Facts on File visual dictionary.  Facts on File Press, c1986.  797p., drawings, diagrams.  General Index p.711-743.  Thematic Indexes p.745-780.  Specialized Indexes p.781-794.  Selective Bibliography p.795.  Contents p.797.   #13241  .25

AP2.R3   Rag mag. v.2 no2-          Fall 1983        Continues Underground rag mag.   v., photos, cartoons.  have: v.13 no. 1, 2 (Winter/Spring 1996); v.14 n.1 (Fall 1996); v.15 no.1 (Winter 1998); v.16 n.1 (Summer 1999) v.17 n.2 (Summer 2001).  #1641, 1642, 12592, 12681, 5058  19.30

AP2.S4   The slate.  v.1 no.1-            have: v.2 no.2 (Fall 1996).  #5092  Review

AY59.G7   The great ideas today.  1961-          Edited by Robert M. Hutchins & Mortimer J. Adler.  William Benton Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961-         Index, 1961-70 in 1970.

1964: I. The New Europe.  II. The Year’s Developments in the Arts and Sciences.  III. H. James, Daisy Miller; Tocqueville, Democracy in America [selections]; J.S. Mill, “A Review of Tocqueville” [excerpt]; W. James, Pragmatism.  #11287 1.40

1991: I. Current Developments in the Arts and Sciences.  II. Reconsiderations of Great Books and Ideas.  III. Special Features.  IV. Additions to the Great Books Library—The Making of the Bill of Rights, 1791 (Anastaplo); W. Whitewell, Concerning Liberal Education; A. Chekhov, Ward Number Six.   #12473  1.10

AY64.I55   Information please almanac, atlas and yearbook.  Planned and supervised by Dan Golenpaul Associates.  1st-      ed.; 1947-        v.  have: 1967, 1972, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997.  #1314, 1034, 1178, 1247, 5473, 9308.  17.95

AY64.W27 1999   Wallechinsky, David.  The people’s almanac presents the twentieth century: history with the boring parts left out.  Rev. & upd.  xxi, 921p., black & white photos, drawings, tables.  Perpetual Calendar p.918-921.  The Overlook Press, 1999.  #10233  12.65

AY67.N5N49   The New York Times almanac.  1st–         ed.; Penguin Reference.  have 1999 #9314  1.00

AZ101.F68 1972   Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.  Archaeology of knowledge and the discourse on language.  Translated from the French by A. M. Sheridan Smith.  Pantheon Books, 1972.  245p.  #1989  .90

AZ221.B3 1961   Barzun, Jacques, 1907-        .  The house of intellect.  Harper & Row: Harper Tarchbooks/The Academy Library, 1961 c1959.  viii, 274p.  Reference Notes p.271-274.  #7678  2.10

AZ221.V36 1992   Van Doren, Charles.   History of knowledge: past, present, and future.  Ballantine Books, 1992 c1991.  422p., index.  #1023r  11.50

AZ999.E52 1981   Encyclopedia of delusions: a critical scrutiny of current beliefs and conventions.  Compiled by Ronald Duncan and Miranda Weston-Smith.  Simon & Schuster: A Wallaby Book, 1979.  242p., references.  #487  3.69