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The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class | 
 enlarge | Authors: David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  129 reviews
Sales Rank: 5037
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Rough cut
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 375
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 1.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1594865132
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9781594865138
ASIN: 1594865132
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
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Product Description
This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the mind sharp
Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection—collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same—a collection of 365 short lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader every day of the year. Each daily digest of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: history, literature, philosophy, mathematics and science, religion, fine arts, and music.
Impress your friends by explaining Plato’s Cave Allegory, pepper your cocktail party conversation with opera terms, and unlock the mystery of how batteries work. Daily readings range from important passages in literature to basic principles of physics, from pivotal events in history to images of famous paintings with accompanying analysis. The book’s goal is to refresh knowledge we’ve forgotten, make new discoveries, and exercise modes of thinking that are ordinarily neglected once our school days are behind us. Offering an escape from the daily grind to contemplate higher things, The Intellectual Devotional is a great way to awaken in the morning or to revitalize one’s mind before retiring in the evening.
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 Not what I intended to order. August 18, 2008
The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's Past THIS IS WHAT I THOUGHT I ORDERED (RED BINDING)
I don't know how it happened, but I received the wrong Intellectual Devotional (The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class) I didn't realize it until looking more closely it had a green binding.
I RETURNED THE 4 COPIES OF THE I D: REVIVE YOUR MIND AND ASKED FOR AN EXCHANGE OF 4 I D; AMERICAN HISTORY.
I HAVE BOUGHT SEVERAL THINGS ON AMAZON AND THIS IS THE ONLY TIME I'VE RECEIVED THE WRONG ITEM. I HOPE I WILL RECEIVE THE ONES I WANTED OR MY MONEY RETURNED.
 Each Day A New Topic Weekly. August 5, 2008
When Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus Christ to death by crucifixion, he let the crowd choose Barabbas go free. The chalice which Jesus used at the Last Supper with his disciples is believed to be the Holy Grail.
David was a heroic warrior who defeated the giant Goliah. The fictional Mark looks a lot like the statue of David and also Rodin's the Thinker.
Melody in music is called the tune; it can be played on one instrument or many, along with harmony and rhythm. Music may start with a melody, but harmony is what gives it color. First there was chamber music, church music, and theater music. Then we had opera, ballet, and symphony. Mark is determined to play with a band, God be with him. The classical period followed the baroque, which preceded the romantic and lasted from 1750 (the death of Johann Sebastian Bach) to about 1827 (Ludwig van Beethoven's death). Beethoven was considered to be the greatest composer of all and a musical genius. He was Western music's first great musical personality. At his funeral in 1827, Franz Schubert carried a torch in mourning. He died a year later.
Sleep is as crucial to our survival as food, water, and shelter. We spend one-third of our lives unconscious in sleep. A healthy human can survive without eating for more than a month. They die without sleep in less than two weeks. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge. Plato tried to define just what knowledge is. It has been defined as true, justified belief.
If you forgot everything you learned in college, you'll forget thi accumulation of of glib answers even faster. June 20, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
First of all this is a b-o-r i-n-g book. It's a drag to read. The superficial information provided in the book will provide you with a wealth of facts to fool people into thiking that you are extremely knowledgeabe when you are not. If you hang out at cocktail parties this will help your image with the wealthy inebriated. You might even get someone to start an affair with you. In the end though they'd find out that you know next to nothing about everything. That may not bother the "cultured" members of the social elite if you are able to be sufficiently glib and keep moving the conversation to various subjects quickly. Cultured people read and think deeply and savour the beauty of music, the natural world, art and literature. They enjoy discovering new writers or ones that may be largely forgotten. They may prefer to sit under a tree in a park or in their backyard and think and watch the world around them. They often enjoy meandering through the world of ideas and reading and thinking about new ideas or experiences, but if you're determined to impress others with shallow knowledge to score points with your friends and weazle yourself into the "cultured class," this is the book for you. Be prepared though for a boring and tedious read that won't leave you any wiser.
 But Is It Accurate? May 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am enjoying the Intellectual Devotional, though I am troubled when I come across screaming errors like "Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake.'" I can't imagine any serious historian would miss this error, so how qualified were the editors? And if the information is wrong, what is the point of the book?
Interesting Book April 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoy this book very much. Yes, there are some factual errors, but I haven't read a non-fiction book yet that hasn't had errors. I think that despite some of the typographical errors, and some facts that are a bit questionable, I'm better of reading it and having exposure to a vast array of subjects, than not, and it has certainly been enjoyable.
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