Intercollegiate Studies Institute: 104 books
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs
Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing
Echoing philosophers such as Josef Pieper, Schall explains how the modern world has inverted the rational order of human affairs, devaluing the activities of leisure and placing an exaggerated emphasis on utilitarian...
by Ralph M McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A powerful essay on the pursuit of wisdom, with recommendations for further reading.
A Student’s Guide to Philosophy examines these questions: Who is a philosopher? Can philosophical thought be avoided? What have philosophers written over the ages? And why should we care? In this critical...
Beauty Will Save the World
Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Culture, Not Politics
We live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe,...
American Conservatism
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
**“A must-own title.” —National Review Online
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the past half century. More than fifteen years in the making—and more...
by John Lukacs
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
**A thoughtful look at the value of learning from the past: “**Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form” (Antony Beevor, Toronto Globe & Mail).
To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past—to...
by Robert Nisbet
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society.
Nearly a half century before...
History and the Human Condition
A Historian's Pursuit of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, John Lukacs has established himself as one of our most accomplished historians. Now, in the stimulating book History and the Human Condition, Lukacs offers his profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits...
Life Under Compulsion
Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
How do you raise a child who can sit with a good book and read? Who is moved by beauty? Who doesn’t have to buy the latest this or that vanity? Who is not bound to the instant urge, wherever it may be found?
As a parent, you’ve probably asked these questions. And now Anthony Esolen provides...
by Bruce S Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A concise introduction to the literature of Greece and Rome.
Bruce Thornton’s crisp and informative Student’s Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major...
by Paul Heyne
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
What makes economies work—or not work? This concise overview of the field’s great thinkers offers a wealth of information.
Paul Heyne, one of the nation’s best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete...
Choosing the Right College 2012–2013
The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Choosing the Right College is the most in-depth, independently researched college guide on the market, and the only source for students and parents who want the unvarnished truth about America’s top colleges and universities.
Updated and expanded, Choosing the Right College 2012-13 features...
by James V. Schall
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A Georgetown professor’s look at the subjects one needs to study for a truly well-rounded education.
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...
by Wilfred M McClay
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A lively, concise guide to the events and ideas that have shaped America over the centuries.
No nation in modern history has had a more powerful sense of its own distinctiveness than the United States. Yet few Americans understand the immensely varied sources of that sense and the fascinating...
The War for Righteousness
Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
*“They died to save their country and they only saved the world.” *
This line, the final one in G. K. Chesterton’s poem “The English Graves,” serves for Richard M. Gamble as an interpretive key to a peculiarly important moment in American history: the time of the First World War,...