Synopses & Reviews
In the dark about black holes? Need to brush up on your Impressionists? Skip the line at the registrar and curl up with
The Bedside Baccalaureate. Each volume contains classes that rotate in groups of five, just as a typical college semester's schedule would. There are four rotations, or 20 courses, and every course consists of 18 single-page, entertaining entries--easy-to-digest short bites of core information that help you build a solid intellectual base in history, philosophy, economics, English and comparative literature, classics, art history, environmental science, mathematics and engineering, physical sciences, and social science.
About the Author
Series editor David Rubel is the author of more than a dozen books of American history, including
The Coming Free: The Struggle for African-American Equality and
The Story of America: Freedom and Crisis from Settlement to Superpower (coauthored with Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein). More information about David can be found at davidrubel.net.