The Roads to Modernity
The British, French, and American Enlightenments
Written by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history.
The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given...
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Crisis on Campus
A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities
Written by Mark C. Taylor
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2010
Price: $14.99
A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.
In
Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his...
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