The bedside baccalaureate
Subtitle: a daily primer to refresh your knowledge
By: edited by David Rubel
Publisher: Fall River Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781435162990
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Handbooks, vade-mecums
Description: Containing colour images and a presentation, this title offers a different learning experience. It intends to place facts within the framework of knowledge. It contains 20 courses created by experts in their fields with the intention of making the topics accessible and entertaining.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-384) and index.
Table of contents: title: General Grant's Civil War; title: Globalization; title: The Hudson River School; title: The Astronomical Universe; title: Myths of Ancient Greece and Rome; title: Emerson and Transcendentalism; title: The History of the Earth; title: Revolutionary France; title: The Search for Alternative Energies; title: Schools of Buddhist Thought; title: Rocket Science; title: The Worldview of Karl Marx; title: The Impressionists; title: Human Origins; title: The Holocaust in Europe; title: The Civil Rights Movement; title: Empiricism; title: Einstein and Relativity; title: The Sects of Islam; title: Masterworks of Imperial Russia.