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English
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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein; features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay; and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number...
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
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English
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In this book, the author (a distinguished political philosopher) argues that the social/political crisis of 20th-century America is really an intellectual crisis marked by obvious declines in appreciation of humanities, a drop in the qualitative output of our university systems, and a disquieting disconnect between today's students and the spiritual and cultural traditions of their heritage.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Shares recommendations for providing a child with an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school, in a guide that incorporates resource listings, contact information, and Internet links
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? Susan Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise.
7) This is water: some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A guide to "classical learning" helps readers fill in the holes in their education as it looks at great works of fiction, autobiography, history, poetry, drama, and other genres and provides annotated listings of suggested readings.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This educational bestseller has dominated its field for the last decade, sparking a homeschooling movement that has only continued to grow. It will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education -- the trivium -- which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school - one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Veteran home educators Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer outline the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Humanism, in both its rhetoric and practice, attempted to transform the relationships between men that constituted the fabric of early modern society. So argues Alan Stewart in this ground-breaking investigation into the impact of humanism in sixteenth-century England. Here the author shows that by valorizing textual skills over martial prowess, humanism provided a new means of upward mobility for the lowborn but humanistically trained scholar: he...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In YOU CAN...