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Customer Reviews:Average Customer Rating: kindle version formatted funny - right edge cut off 4.5-stars for the book. 2-stars for the kindle version. i had purchased the first version in hardback & loved it. a fun way to review &/or fill in gaps in a basic set of knowledge with lots of imbedded pictures. the fairly consistent pro/con or HS-vs-college expectations per listing can get a little tired. An Incomplete Education Don't buy for Kindle. Probably a great read or reference in hard copy, but the chart format for some topics are not fully displayed on the Kindle screen. You cannot see the entire entry for some subjects in a section. Table of Contents is not searchable; you cannot navigate to a specific chapter heading - in a reference book? Previous favorable reviews were obviously referring to the hardcopy versions. I would recommend it for print-on-paper reference reading, but not for Kindle users. How do I get a refund? Education for Dummies Once in a while we get a little smug. We think we know all there is to know about all there is to know.My Daughter bought a copy of AN INCOMPLETE EDUCATION about 20 Years ago and I never have read it "page to page"...But anytime I open the cover I learn something in spite of my Dummy mentality. For example in my edition I just randomly flipped open to page 251 to find a Greek Literature Discussion of the The Iliad and the Odyssey,on page 318 a synopsis of Schopenhauer's take on Philosophy,on page 560 the life and loves of Louis XIV, and on and on. These random examples in and of themselves may not be your idea of an "Education" but it showed me how much I had either "forgotten" or just never knew. An Incomplete Education? There are 678 pages of subjects. Jones and Wilson cover almost every possible subject. The book appears intimidating in size and scope. However, it is an easy read because subjects can be covered in one page. Just open to any page and read for 15 minutes and put it down if you desire. Aptly titled in the wrong way... I was highly disappointed with the first edition - glaring omissions and inaccuracies abound. For example: Gerard Manley Hopkins is not even mentioned in the section concerning the British poets and in the chapter on religion, the authors make the boorish mistake of confusing the doctrine of the "Immaculate Conception" with that of the doctrine of the virgin birth of Christ. It might seem trivial to some, but if you want to write a book purporting to illuminate such topics, you better be up to the task, especially when your style is on the snide and cynical side. Maybe corrections were made in later editions, but I wouldn't count on it. Certainly a better read for this purpose is "A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future" by Charles Van Doren, which Amazon also stocks. | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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