Free Thinking

Whether you skipped college or need a refresher or supplementto what you learned, humanities professor Joseph Manca shows how acollege-level liberal arts education can be essentially free and accessible in'Free Thinking: How to Educate Yourself in the Liberal Arts'. Professor Manca provides listings and commentaries to help you study and enjoyhigh-quality texts, works of art, films, and classical music. Thebook lays out a curriculum that, like college, one can follow over four years,or at your own pace. The chapters are arranged-not along the lines oftraditional academic departments-but more like life itself, with categoriessuch as love and desire, utopia and dystopia, and our relationship to thenatural world. This is not a traditional Canon, but is instead a lively listingof stimulating fiction, nonfiction, and important artworks and music.