Since the first edition appeared in 1999, the ISI college guide, Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools, has served as an essential reference resource for prospective students and their parents. Unlike other college guides, which too often read like paraphrases of university public-relations brochures, Choosing the Right College is an independently researched and written volume that covers the things that matter most, such as core curricula, campus crime, student living arrangements, the quality of teaching and student advising, freshman orientation, good professors to seek out, and courses and departments to avoid. 
This, the 2004 edition, has been thoroughly revised and rewritten. It has also been expanded to include 120 of the nation's top private and public colleges and universities. As with previous editions, the editors provide candid assessments of the state of each school's academic curriculum, political atmosphere, and campus life. In this edition, students are also told which courses they can take at each school in order to provide themselves with a true core curriculum-a course of study that used to be required almost everywhere but now almost never is. This build-your-own-core feature helps make the 2004 edition more indispensable than ever for the student and parent seeking a genuine liberal arts education.

Choosing the Right College 2004 : The Whole Truth About America's Top Schools (Choosing the Right College)

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This sequel to Rodden's study of Orwell's legacy, The Politics of Literary Reputation, considers Orwell's influence since 1984, the totemic year for Orwell scholars and admirers. Rodden examines the changing perceptions of Orwell during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union; the appropriation of Orwell's rhetoric by the Right and Left; and the controversies among Orwell biographers. In his chapter, "W.W.G.O.D.," Rodden considers Orwell's persistence as an intellectual and political emblem. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell

Literature & Fiction

Rodden, Adjunct Professor in Speech Communication John

Humor & Satire

The Literary Book of Economics is one of the most innovative approaches to economic education and literacy ever published. As empirical research has demonstrated, economics is taught more effectively when integrated into other fields, and is perhaps particularly effective when coupled with the classic literary works of Western culture, which allows great authors to use their erudition to convey economic concepts and topics too often treated only theoretically. Teachers and students of literature and economics have much to gain by studying economic topics and concepts in this way. Including helpful commentary from Professor Watts, The Literary Book of Economics is a refreshing treatment of the "dismal science," presenting a cogent explication of free-market theory.

The Literary Book of Economics: Including Readings from Literature and Drama on Economic Concepts, Issues, and Themes

History & Criticism

Examines how Shakespeare drew from the doctrines of Christian theology to create trial scenes that subjected his characters to judgment, illuminating his works in the context of the religious and legal atmosphere in which he wrote.

Trial Of Man: Christianity & Judgement In The World Of Shakespeare

Bernthal, Craig A.

Creed & Culture: A Touchstone Reader

In Creed &amp; Culture, James M. Kushiner brings together twenty-one essays that originally appeared in the magazine. These thoughtful articles by an impressive roster of contributors not only make for absorbing reading, but also constitute a valuable compendium of the best contemporary Christian thinking on literature, culture, and theology. Here the reader will encounter Huston Smith on scientism; Patrick Henry Reardon and Leon J. Podles on public education and its alternatives; Russell Kirk on T. S. Eliot's critique of literary decadence; Philip G. Davis on the problematic legacy of Carl Jung; Thomas Howard on Brideshead Revisited; James L. Sauer on Bambi; James R. Edwards on the Jesus Seminar; and a number of others on the various battles being waged against historic Christianity from within and without the church.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Gregory Wolfe's acclaimed biography draws on unpublished diaries, correspondence, interviews, and Muggeridge's prolific writings to chronicle the long and turbulent life of one of the most brilliant controversialists and media personalities of his generation. Advertising.

Malcolm Muggeridge: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Wolfe, Gregory

Professionals & Academics

What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called "a tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For an understanding of the significance of America at the dawn of a new century, Russell Kirk's masterpiece on the history of American civilization is unsurpassable. This edition includes a new foreword by the distinguished historian Forrest McDonald.

Roots Of American Order

History

Russell, Kirk

Americas

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