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Beauty Will Save the World
This penetrating and wide-ranging book makes a powerful case for the importance of beauty and imagination in cultural renewal. Gregory Wolfe begins by tracing his own journey from a young culture warrior bent on attacking the modern world to a career devoted to nurturing the creation of culture through contemporary literature and art that renews the Western tradition. Along the way, Wolfe finds in Renaissance Christian humanists like Erasmus and Thomas More a “distant mirror” in which to see our own times. At a time when our public discourse has come to be dominated by warring factions with little regard for truth, Wolfe’s affirmation of beauty as a redemptive force is both refreshing and encouraging.
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The Abolition of Man
In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society. Both astonishing and prophetic, this book is one of the most debated of Lewis's extraordinary works. National Review chose it as number seven on their "100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century."
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Norms and Nobility: A Treatise On Education
First published in 1981 when it won the American Library Association’s Outstanding Book Award, Norms & Nobility has become a classical text in the educational reform movement. Beginning with the premise that any vital system of education must maintain the link between thought and action, knowing and doing, David Hicks offers a compelling argument on behalf of the classical tradition and its ongoing relevance to contemporary pedagogy. The large and loyal following that this argument has attracted among administrators and teachers over the years bears witness to the practical wisdom of Hicks’ ideas.
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Rallying the Really Human Things
For Vigen Guroian, contemporary culture is distinguished by its relentless assault on the moral imagination. In the stories it tells us, in the way it has degraded courtship and sexualized our institutions of higher education, in the ever-more-radical doctrines of human rights it propounds, and in the way it threatens to remake human nature via biotechnology, contemporary culture conspires to deprive men and women of the kind of imagination that Edmund Burke claimed allowed us to raise our perception of our own human dignity, or to “cover the defects of our own naked shivering nature.”
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Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia For Greek & Latin
Tracy Lee Simmons is one of those fortunate people who actually received a classical education. Many books have been written on classical education over the years, but, in our minds, Climbing Parnassus is one of the best. Simmons discusses the history of classical education and then tells of its unfortunate fate in modern times. But, more importantly, he makes one of the most convincing cases ever made for the study of Greek and Latin authors in their own language.
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Redeeming the Time
“In prose of high seriousness, Kirk portrays an American culture in deep trouble. Nonetheless…he is guardedly hopeful, too.” — The Grand Rapids Press “All of these sound essays are thoughtful, well-crafted and soundly-based, superbly presented with historical and literary references and the educated wit and wisdom of a man who clearly stands out as an icon of conservative thought.” — Small Press Magazine
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10 Ways To Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child confronts contemporary trends in parenting and schooling by reclaiming lost traditions. This practical, insightful book is essential reading for any parent who cares about the paltry thing that childhood has become, and who wants to give a child something beyond the dull drone of today’s culture.
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Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America
Authors Gene E. Veith and Andrew Kern, both of whom have impressive credentials, point out in the Introduction to Classical Education that our deeply troubled American education system cannot improve until we have a new theory of education. “Fortunately,” they write, “one already exists.”
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Choosing the Right College 2012-13
“By far the best college guide in America.” —Thomas Sowell
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Choosing the Right College is the indispensable resource for students—and their parents—who want to know what really goes on at America’s top schools. Now the most in-depth, independently researched college guide on the market has been completely revised and updated, with a host of telling new statistics, incisive essays, revealing sidebars—and crucial information about how much value colleges deliver for your buck$28.00$21.00
The Essential Russell Kirk
As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk’s was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements of any ideological straitjacket
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