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Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel. The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and television producer Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite Ward, The Discovery Channel, and The Learning Channel. Premiering on September 8, 1993, to coincide with ...
greatbooks .org. The Great Books Foundation is an independent nonprofit educational organization in Chicago, Illinois that publishes collections of classic and modern literature as part of reading and discussion programs for children and adults. The foundation has two main programs: Junior Great Books, serving students in kindergarten through ...
The Great Books (second edition) Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be ...
Sean Pavone/shutterstock. Like Amazon, Barnes & Noble offers readers access to a huge selection of new books, music, and movies online. But B&N is best known for their 600-plus stores in all 50 ...
Gateway to the Great Books. Gateway to the Great Books is a 10-volume collection of classic fiction and nonfiction literature edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins, with Clifton Fadiman credited as associate editor, that was published by Encyclopædia Britannica in 1963. The set was designed to be an introduction to the Great ...
The University also runs an interdisciplinary Great Books program exclusively for first-year students called The Aquinas Program. Quebec. The Liberal Arts College at Concordia University in Montreal offers a 3-year bachelor's degree in the Great Books. Laval University in Quebec City offers, in French, a one-year program in Great Books.
The Shuyuan ( traditional Chinese: 書院; simplified Chinese: 书院; pinyin: shūyuàn ), usually known in English as Academies of Classical Learning or simply Academies, were a type of school in Imperial China. Unlike national academies and district schools, shuyuan were usually private establishments built away from cities or towns ...
The Great Tree of Avalon is a fantasy novel by T. A. Barron, published by Penguin Young Readers Group. The book is the ninth novel in the 12-book series known as Merlin Saga. It was originally published as The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy, the first novel in The Great Tree of Avalon trilogy, and is set in a world made up of ...