The Bedside Baccalaureate: A Handy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your Knowledge & Impress Yourself & Other Intellectuals - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402756321 ISBN 13: 9781402756320

Publisher: Sterling, 2008

Synopsis

Many adults long to make up for an education they either never had or that seemed somehow lacking. Now they can fill in the gaps right at home with The Bedside Baccalaureate series, which speaks directly to this grown-up thirst for knowledge. Filled with color images, extremely readable, and with an appealing presentation, it provides a fun, no-pressure experience that everyone will enjoy.
The goal of The Bedside Baccalaureate is not the simple accumulation of trivia, but the placement of facts within the framework of knowledge. The 20 courses focused overviews of subjects with which any well-educated person would want to be familiar are created by experts in their fields with the intention of making the topics accessible and entertaining. Each course consists of 18 one-page lectures that maximize clarity without compromising the integrity of the ideas. The lectures are rotated, rather than clumped together, to add variety to the reading experience and to mimic the heady mix of subjects one encounters in the world of the intellect. You can dip into an assortment of areas by reading a page at a time; or, if a course really grabs you, you can skip ahead. Learning is contagious once you get started, it’s difficult to stop.
The courses are associated with one of 12 departmental strands” as follows: Two courses each per volume    American History
Philosophy
World History
Economics
English and Comparative Literature
Classics
Art History
Environmental Science
Mathematics and Engineering
Physical Sciences
Social Science

                     

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1402756321
• ISBN 13: 9781402756320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Rubel David