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How to Read a Book

The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren · 1972 · 426 pages

Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
Recommended by 1 elite

Recommended by 1 Elite

Jim Rohn

About This Book

A comprehensive guide to developing the skill of active reading. It outlines four levels of reading—elementary, inspectional, analytical, and syntopical—and provides specific techniques for different types of literature, from history and science to philosophy and poetry.

Genres

Psychology & BehaviorPhilosophySelf-Improvement

Topics

CommunicationCritical ThinkingDecision MakingHabitsStorytelling

Book Details

Published

1972

Pages

426

Language

en

ISBN

9780671212094

Audiobook Available

15h 24m
Narrated by Edward Holland

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