The Idea of a University

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  The Nicomachean Ethics

  ‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
  
  In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examin…

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  Four Quartets

  Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt …

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  The Abolition of Man

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  The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, delightful humor, and keen understanding of the human mind to challenge our notions about how to best tea…

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  Confessions

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  The Consolation of Philosophy

  Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek phi…

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  Experience and Education

  Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more…

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  On the Incarnation

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  Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished …

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  Orthodoxy

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  The Rule of Saint Benedict

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  Education at the Crossroads

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  On Loving God (Volume 13)

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  That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy, #3)

  The third novel in the science-fiction trilogy by C.S. Lewis. This final story is set on Earth, and tells of a terrifying conspiracy against humanity.
  
  The story surrounds Mark and Jane Studdock, a newl…

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  The Princess and the Goblin

  A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle

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  The Weight of Glory

  The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century, contains nine sermons delivered by Lewis during World War Two. The nine addresses in Weight of Glory…

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  The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto

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  Meditations on First Philosophy

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  Phaedrus (Hackett Classics)

  "A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . .…

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  Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?

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  Jesus of Nazareth, Part Two: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection

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