The Bedside Baccalaureate: A Handy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your...

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	The Bedside Baccalaureate: A Handy Daily Cerebral Primer to Fill in the Gaps, Refresh Your Knowledge & ... Sterling, 2008 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Many adults long to make up for an education they either never had or that seemed somehow lacking. Now they can fill in the gaps right at home with The Bedside Baccalaureate series, which speaks directly to this grown-up thirst for knowledge. Filled with color images, extremely readable, and with an appealing presentation, it provides a fun, no-pressure experience that everyone will enjoy.
The goal of The Bedside Baccalaureate is not the simple accumulation of trivia, but the placement of facts within the framework of knowledge. The 20 courses?focused overviews of subjects with which any well-educated person would want to be familiar?are created by experts in their fields with the intention of making the topics accessible and entertaining. Each course consists of 18 one-page lectures that maximize clarity without compromising the integrity of the ideas. The lectures are rotated, rather than clumped together, to add variety to the reading experience and to mimic the heady mix of subjects one encounters in the world of the intellect. You can dip into an assortment of areas by reading a page at a time; or, if a course really grabs you, you can skip ahead. Learning is contagious?once you get started, it?s difficult to stop.
The courses are associated with one of 12 departmental ?strands? as follows: Two courses each per volume ?American History
?Philosophy
?World History
?Economics
?English and Comparative Literature
?Classics
?Art History
?Environmental Science
?Mathematics and Engineering
?Physical Sciences
?Social Science

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typos, shmypos... it's a great way to integrate knowledge and information

I'm sending this to my grandchildren who are thinking about college, because the way the information is presented (in chopped up lectures across a broad range of ideas and study) is the way they will learn if they choose a liberal arts foundation. I can't wait for the next volume. My field of study is anthropology so I think I'm in a position to make an evaluation of this book. The best thing about the book is the way it makes me want to know more (read more in the area of the lectures) and the way it's "available" to average readers. Face it, academic reading is not fun for the non expert... this book makes the reading easy. Frankly, it reminds me of a blog... young people should be able to relate!

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Good in theory, not reality

Sorry folks, I was so excited about this book, however I found three typos within the first five minutes of reading it. I'm returning it tomorrow. By my standards typos are unacceptable, especially for this type of book... Inappropriate use of an apostrophe, Yikes! If that is not correct, how do we know that the contents of the book are? Already I know I'd be doing more proof-reading than learning.

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