Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Rescuing Socrates
Author: Roosevelt MontasPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691224390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
The Open Curriculum in Nursing Education
Author: Lucille Elizabeth NotterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Catalogue and Register
Author: University of MichiganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
Health planning reports subject index
Author: United States. Health Resources AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health planning
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Calendar
Author: Wellesley CollegeFlora Stone Mather College Requirements and Courses for the Sessions of ...
Author: Western Reserve University. Flora Stone Mather CollegePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women's colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Catalogue of the University of Michigan
Author: University of MichiganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Announcements for the following year included in some vols.