Classical Pursuits also recruits experts from (or familiar with) the Great Books Foundation, a Chicago nonprofit.
The Great Books, so called, though I had never heard of most of them.
It provides guests with everything from drug treatment to mental health services to classes in the great books to pre-school for young children.
The Great Books give us enormous amounts of insight about how to be a successful man, and about how to be a successful nation.
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I'm a bright enough guy, but all the great books I'll ever read I read in college and graduate school, and my musical tastes are straight down the middle: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Mostly Mozart, the Brandenburgs, a little cool jazz, a few show tunes.
The Scriptures speak to these questions, as do the other great books of Western Civilization.
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Two books have come out recently that are excellent complements to delving into the great series of books written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, beloved the world over as the creator of Middle-earth.
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"I think it's time they enter back into the great river of books, " he said.
The legalists were famous for laying the intellectual basis for the rule, through strict laws, of China's first emperor, Qinshi Huangdi he of the terracotta warriors, the Great Wall, the burning of books and the burial alive of Confucianists.
The show has so far strayed a great deal from the original books.
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As we'd expect, the phone is great for reading books, and it comes with the option to install applications (though it's possible most games wouldn't look that great).
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For Rap Genius, doing the same for the internet will mean pulling in large swaths of text from outside the music world, as the site has already started to do, hosting annotated versions of public domain books like The Great Gatsby and court cases like Plessy v.
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He had been able to design his own life and he built around it the ideal version of the university interesting people, great books, global travel and a devil-take-the-hindmost attitude.
The studios have discovered that great books can also be a source for great screenplays, churning out a regular diet of adaptations of 19th-century fiction.
What about repackaging the worlds great adventure and discovery books?
James Daunt, managing director of Waterstones, said the nominated books contained "great beauty, humour, intrigue, imagination and important things to say, but most crucially all are fantastically good reads".
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Bookish tourists should stop in Santa Cruz, CA and visit the marvelous Bookshop Santa Cruz and the great used bookstore, Logos Books.
He said that while most great books were not difficult or obscure, the prize "would not apologise for also getting excited about books that might first appear daunting".
In his spare time, he leads great books discussion groups around the world.
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If you want to help a friend manage his money better, The Washington Post identified six great personal finance books.
That same concept can be dropped into cataloging, where even in the old days, when librarians described books within the boundaries of a physical index card, great variation still occurred.
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Photos, videos and books all look great on the HD's glossy screen and very nice on the Kindle Fire's screen.
Now we had great books and a presence out in the open- what was wrong?
Garden centers, nurseries, local native plant societies, county extension service offices, books and the Internet can all be great resources for researching the best, most water-efficient plants.
It is for the books of early instruction, in a great degree, to lay the foundation on which the whole superstructure of individual and national greatness must be erected.
He would be away from his family for two or three days at a time he would stay on after his shift to watch a show, or he would go to the library and read books in the hall of culture, glancing admiringly now and then at the portraits of great writers and their various hangers-on.
They go through the whole family and create a great sense of community through books.
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She was not a great writer, yet her books sold in the hundreds of thousands and earned her finally millions of pounds.
Used to be (remember those days?) that the high quality of some self-published books (and even proposals pre-word-processing) was a great way to quickly determine the commitment of the author and often even was a harbinger of the quality of the prose itself.
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Paul Theroux may be America's most critically acclaimed travel writer, having published more than a dozen travel books since his genre-defining 1975 book The Great Railway Bazaar.
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