The Risk of Education: Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny
By: Luigi Giussani
4.41
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an English translation of an Italian work first published in 1995. Based in Milan, Italy, G…
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1. Education at the Crossroads (The Terry Lectures Series)
By: Jacques Maritain
4.01
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"A document of first-rate importance. . . . Sheer informed common sense. . . . This volume should b… read more
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2. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
By: Neil Postman , Andrew Postman
4.15
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls … read more
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"The written word endures, the spoken word disappears"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television"-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"Writing is defined as "a conversation with no one and yet with everyone."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
"With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present."-Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
3. Ideas Have Consequences
By: Richard M. Weaver
4.13
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and … read more
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"The typical modern has the look of the hunted."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
"The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason."-Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences
4. The Roots of American Order
By: Russell Kirk
4.27
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
In this now classic work, Russell Kirk describes the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured th… read more
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"The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution."-Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order
"Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law."-Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order
"Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strang…"-Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order
5. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
By: Daniel T. Willingham
4.04
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. W… read more
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- teaching
- education
6. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
4.09
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, cat… read more
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7. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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8. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke
4.42
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more
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"Love lives only by sacrifice"-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
"and I realized that real nobility is in the soul, not in a name."-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux
9. On Christian Doctrine
By: Augustine of Hippo , D.W. Robertson Jr.
3.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
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10. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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11. Joan of Arc
By: Mark Twain
3.81
Format: 263 pages,
"I like Joan of Arcbest of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… read more
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12. The Abolition of Man
By: C.S. Lewis
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more
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13. Silence
By: Shūsaku Endō , William Johnston
3.84
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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14. He Leadeth Me
By: Walter J. Ciszek , Daniel L. Flaherty , Walter Ciszek
4.63
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging… read more
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"Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasi…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de qu…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"Durante esos largos de años de soledad y sufrimiento, Dios me condujo a una comprensión de la vida y de su amor que solo quienes la han experimentado son capaces de entender. Me despojó de muchos de …"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
"Quizá Dios tenga que recordarnos con tremenda claridad que eso es exactamente lo que quería decirnos con esas palabras aparentemente tan simples del Sermón de la Montaña: «No estéis preocupados por v…"-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me
15. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
16. Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
By: Claudia Gray
4.17
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
An unexpected offer threatens the bond between Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi as the two Jedi navi… read more
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"Many paths can lead to the dark side."-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
"There was no Jedi so wise that he could not be undone by his own assumptions."-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
"What action could not do, diplomacy might accomplish. Or, failing that, money."-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
"His shifted his voice into an imitation of Yoda's. 'Up the hell he should shut."-Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)
17. The Word on Fire Bible (Volume II): Acts, Letters and Revelation (Leather)
By: Robert Barron
4.94
Format: 841 pages, Leather Bound
The Word on Fire Bible is a groundbreaking new series introducing readers to the strange, colorful … read more
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18. The Art of Living
By: Dietrich von Hildebrand
4.44
Format: 139 pages, Hardcover
Everybody's heard of the seven deadly sins, but few have discovered the seven soul-saving virtues t… read more
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"Love is not concerned with a person’s accomplishments, it is a response to a person’s being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are."-Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Art of Living
19. "In the Beginning..." - A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall
By: Joseph Ratzinger
4.51
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Evangelii Nuntiandi: On Evangelization in the Modern World
By: Pope Paul VI
4.45
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Evangelii nuntiandi (Evangelization in the Modern World) is an apostolic exhortation issued on 8 De… read more
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21. The Risk of Education: Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny
By: Luigi Giussani
4.41
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
This is an English translation of an Italian work first published in 1995. Based in Milan, Italy, G… read more
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