Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Martha C. Nussbaum · 184 pages

The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom · 400 pages

A discourse on late 20th century American students' mind and soul, and the damage done by the elite universities' turn from the eternal verities as outlined by Socrates-Plato-Aristotle, Shakespeare and Rousseau.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan · 457 pages

A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought.”—Los Angeles Times How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education

John Taylor Gatto · 104 pages

The Idea of a University

John Henry Newman · 527 pages

A series of lectures about the purpose of Universities in society.

The Fallacy Detective

Nathaniel Bluedorn, Hans Bluedorn · 233 pages

A fallacy is an error in logic -- a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking. This is a handy book for learning to spot common errors in reasoning.

Experience and Education

John Dewey · 96 pages

*Experience and Education* is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after *Democracy and Education* (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas as a resul

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf · 129 pages

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the m

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft · 207 pages

Political Ideologies: An Introduction

Andrew Heywood · 384 pages

"Peter Atkins presents a detailed investigation into the nature of Nebuchadnezzar's animalising affliction in Daniel 4 and the degree to which he is depicted as actually becoming an animal. Atkins examines typical explanations of this which seem to have followed two predominant lines of interpretation: either Nebuchadnezzar undergoes a physical metamorphosis of some kind into an animal form; or di

Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing

A.S. Neill · 392 pages

**Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing** is a book about the English boarding school Summerhill School by its headmaster A. S. Neill. It is known for introducing his ideas to the American public. It was published in America on November 7, 1960, by the Hart Publishing Company and later revised as **Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood** in 1993. Its contents are a repackaged collec

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom

bell hooks · 194 pages

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes controversial topics that teachers and students have urged her to address since the publication of the previ

Emile or On Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Allan Bloom, Michael Wu · 642 pages

Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

James K.A. Smith · 240 pages

Desiring the Kingdom focuses education around the themes of liturgy, formation, and desire. The author contends--as did Augustine--that human beings are "desiring agents"; in other words, we are what we love. Postmodern culture, far from being "secular," is saturated with liturgy, but in places such as malls, stadiums, and universities. While these structures influence us, they do not point us to

The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

Susan Wise Bauer · 510 pages

"The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition."--Amazon.com.

A Rulebook for Arguments

Anthony Weston · 88 pages

A Rulebook for Arguments is a succinct introduction to the art of writing and assessing arguments, organized around specific rules, each illustrated and explained soundly but briefly. This widely popular primer - translated into eight languages - remains the first choice in all disciplines for writers who seek straightforward guidance about how to assess arguments and how to cogently construct the

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking

M. Neil Browne, Stuart M. Keeley · 212 pages

Teaching as a Subversive Activity

Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner · 219 pages

A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods--with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class

David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim · 377 pages

Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection -- collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same -- a collection of 365 short lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year. Each daily digest of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: h

A Concise Introduction to Logic [with CD-ROM]

Patrick J. Hurley · 672 pages

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

Anthony M. Esolen · 256 pages

Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant supervision, endless distractions: these and other insidious trends in child rearing and education are now the hallmarks of childhood. As author Anthony Esolen demonstrates in this elegantly written, often wickedly funny book, almost everything we are doing to children now constr

Contemporary Political Philosophy

Will Kymlicka · 336 pages

"This new edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the new debates on political liberalism, deliberative democracy, civic republicanism, nationalism, and cultural pluralism." "The book now include

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Antonin Sertillanges · 266 pages

First published in 1920, The Intellectual Life has been repeatedly reprinted and continues to inspire and instruct young scholars.

Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes

Lev S. Vygotsky · 166 pages