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A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning
Liberal Learning Guide
Price: $8.00
A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition...
A Student's Guide to American Political Thought
Price: $12.99
Who are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations...
A Student's Guide to International Relations
Price: $12.99
A Student’s Guide to International Relations provides a vital introduction to the geography, culture, and politics that make up the global environment. Angelo Codevilla, who taught international relations...
A Student's Guide to Music History
Price: $8.00
R. J. Stove's A Student's Guide to Music History is a concise account, written for the intelligent lay reader, of classical music's development from the early Middle Ages onwards.Beginning with a discussion...
A Student's Guide to Natural Science
Price: $12.99
Physicist Stephen M. Barr’s lucid Student’s Guide to Natural Science gives students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times...
A Student's Guide to the Study of Law
Price: $8.00
If you really want to understand the law, you can’t just learn laws.Unfortunately, most law schools ignore—or teach badly—what matters most. Enter this clear, concise guide. The noted law professor...
A Student's Guide to Religious Studies
Price: $12.99
The study of religion is fraught with difficulties that raise important questions about the nature of faith and the purpose of advanced learning. Although religion has been foundational to some of the...
A Student's Guide to Classics
Price: $8.00
To even the most highly educated among us, the names of classical authors are often just that—names. If you want a better acquaintance with the Greek and Latin thinkers whose work served for millennia...
A Student's Guide to Psychology
Price: $8.00
A concise overview of the field of psychology—its historical roots, its most influential thinkers, and its role in the modern world. Psychology is frequently the most popular major on campus, but...
A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy
Political Theory Guide
Price: $8.00
Hidden within every political debate—in legislatures, on radio talk shows, and even in coffee shops—is an implicit philosophy of the polity, or a particular understanding of the limits and possibilities...
A Student's Guide to Economics
Economics Guide
Price: $8.00
What is economics and what can you expect to learn from studying it? In this guide, Paul Heyne, for many years one of America’s most respected free-market economists, takes this question as his guiding...
A Student's Guide to U.S. History
U.S. History Guide
Price: $8.00
Get an Indispensable Education in American History in One Sitting!How do you even begin to study U.S. history today? Historians now present a fractured view of American society. If any guiding national...
A Student's Guide to the Study of History
History Guide
Price: $12.99
To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past—to remain ignorant of the deeds and writings of previous generations—is to bind oneself by the passions...
A Student's Guide to Core Curriculum
Core Curriculum Guide
Price: $12.99
"This slender volume explains the merits of getting an old-fashioned liberal arts education." -The American SpectatorCollege students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take....
A Student's Guide to Literature
Literature Guide
Price: $12.99
In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read?Literary critic R. V. Young addresses these...
A Student's Guide to Philosophy
Philosophy
Price: $8.00
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom. It concerns (or should concern) the big questions of life. To answer such questions, it helps to understand what the great thinkers of history have had to say.You’ll...
A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning
Liberal Learning Guide
Price: $8.00
A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition...
A Student's Guide to American Political Thought
Price: $12.99
Who are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations...
A Student's Guide to International Relations
Price: $12.99
A Student’s Guide to International Relations provides a vital introduction to the geography, culture, and politics that make up the global environment. Angelo Codevilla, who taught international relations...
A Student's Guide to Music History
Price: $8.00
R. J. Stove's A Student's Guide to Music History is a concise account, written for the intelligent lay reader, of classical music's development from the early Middle Ages onwards.Beginning with a discussion...
A Student's Guide to Natural Science
Price: $12.99
Physicist Stephen M. Barr’s lucid Student’s Guide to Natural Science gives students an understanding, in broad outline, of the nature, history, and great ideas of natural science from ancient times...
A Student's Guide to the Study of Law
Price: $8.00
If you really want to understand the law, you can’t just learn laws.Unfortunately, most law schools ignore—or teach badly—what matters most. Enter this clear, concise guide. The noted law professor...
A Student's Guide to Religious Studies
Price: $12.99
The study of religion is fraught with difficulties that raise important questions about the nature of faith and the purpose of advanced learning. Although religion has been foundational to some of the...
A Student's Guide to Classics
Price: $8.00
To even the most highly educated among us, the names of classical authors are often just that—names. If you want a better acquaintance with the Greek and Latin thinkers whose work served for millennia...
A Student's Guide to Psychology
Price: $8.00
A concise overview of the field of psychology—its historical roots, its most influential thinkers, and its role in the modern world. Psychology is frequently the most popular major on campus, but...
A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy
Political Theory Guide
Price: $8.00
Hidden within every political debate—in legislatures, on radio talk shows, and even in coffee shops—is an implicit philosophy of the polity, or a particular understanding of the limits and possibilities...
A Student's Guide to Economics
Economics Guide
Price: $8.00
What is economics and what can you expect to learn from studying it? In this guide, Paul Heyne, for many years one of America’s most respected free-market economists, takes this question as his guiding...
A Student's Guide to U.S. History
U.S. History Guide
Price: $8.00
Get an Indispensable Education in American History in One Sitting!How do you even begin to study U.S. history today? Historians now present a fractured view of American society. If any guiding national...
A Student's Guide to the Study of History
History Guide
Price: $12.99
To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past—to remain ignorant of the deeds and writings of previous generations—is to bind oneself by the passions...
A Student's Guide to Core Curriculum
Core Curriculum Guide
Price: $12.99
"This slender volume explains the merits of getting an old-fashioned liberal arts education." -The American SpectatorCollege students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take....
A Student's Guide to Literature
Literature Guide
Price: $12.99
In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read?Literary critic R. V. Young addresses these...
A Student's Guide to Philosophy
Philosophy
Price: $8.00
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom. It concerns (or should concern) the big questions of life. To answer such questions, it helps to understand what the great thinkers of history have had to say.You’ll...