On 24 November I talked with Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam about his book A Great Idea at the Time, a lively history of the Great Books program which has just been published by PublicAffairs. Alex and I have been discussing the progress of the book since he first started working on it in late 2006. Our first conversation broadcast on 2 October 2006, our second on 5 March 2007, our third on 23 July 2007 and our fourth on 3 March 2008.
I then talked with journalist Leslie T Chang about her recently published book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Spiegel & Grau). I interviewed Ms Chang's husband Peter Hessler about his book Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (HarperCollins) on 19 June 2006
To hear this program, click here.
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We have recently made an exciting discovery--three years after writing the wonderfully expanded third edition of How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren made a series of thirteen 14-minute videos on the art of reading. The videos were produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica. For reasons unknown, sometime after their original publication, these videos were lost.
When we discovered them and how intrinsically edifying they are, we negotiated an agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica to be the exclusive worldwide agent to make them available.
For those of you who teach, this is great for the classroom.
I cannot over exaggerate how instructive these programs are--we are so sure that you will agree, if you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your donation.
Please go here to see a clip and learn more:
http://www.thegreatideas.org/HowToReadABook.htm
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When we discovered them and how intrinsically edifying they are, we negotiated an agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica to be the exclusive worldwide agent to make them available.
For those of you who teach, this is great for the classroom.
I cannot over exaggerate how instructive these programs are--we are so sure that you will agree, if you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your donation.
Please go here to see a clip and learn more:
http://www.thegreatideas.org/HowToReadABook.htm
