The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education (Great Books Of The Western World, #1)
8 best books like The Great Conversation: The Substance Of A Liberal Education (Great Books Of The Western World, #1) (Robert Maynard Hutchins): The Road to Serfdom, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, History of the Peloponnesian War, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto, Poverty, Riches and Wealth: Moving from a Life of Lack into True Kingdom Abundance, Clouds
| Author | Friedrich A. Hayek |
| ISBN | 0226320618 |
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in England in the spring of 1944—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the...
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
| Author | Robert C. O'Brien |
| ISBN | 0689862202 |
Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse with four small children, must move her family to their summer quarters immediately, or face almost certain death. But her youngest son, Timothy, lies ill with pneumonia and must not be moved. Fortunately, she encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary breed of highly...
History of the Peloponnesian War
| Author | Thucydides |
| ISBN | 0140440399 |
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve...
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| ISBN | 0192839136 |
Written in one week to defray the cost of his mother's funeral, Johnson's moral tale is a superior example of the prose of its era, and its era—the Age of Enlightenment—is renowned for the quality of its prose. It is true that Candide—written in 1759, the same year as Rasselas--excels Johnson's...
| Author | Mortimer J. Adler |
| ISBN | 0684841886 |
"Our country faces many insistently urgent problems, on the solution of which its prosperity and even its survival depend--the threat of nuclear war, the shrinking of essential resources and supplies of energy, the pollution or spoliation of the environment, the spiraling of inflation accompanied...
Poverty, Riches and Wealth: Moving from a Life of Lack into True Kingdom Abundance
Overcoming the Never-Enough Mentality to Experience True Kingdom Abundance
Prosperity. It's one of the most dividing words in the church. Some pastors use it to tell their congregations that God will make them all rich, rich, rich! Others spurn the word and insist that true Christlikeness...
| Author | Aristophanes |
| ISBN | 0198143958 |
This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and extensive notes and commentary. Dover examines the two versions of the play, recounts the history of the text, and analyzes a number of problems surrounding the play's overall interpretation, including...
