The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with...

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	The Intellectual Devotional: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the ... David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim Rodale Books, 2006 - 375 pages average customer review:based on 132 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

This daily digest of intellectual challenge and learning will arouse curiosity, refresh knowledge, expand horizons, and keep the class="textlinks">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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Wonderful!

Bought this as retirement gift for a friend. Absolutely would recommend to anyone who wants a different morning meditation. Great book.

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A great book to have around. Learned a lot of things I never knew, while aloso expanding my knowledge of things I had some knowledge of. Enjoyed it very much.

Invest 3 minutes a day in this book

What a nice treat this book is. You only need 2-3 minutes to work through each daily reading. The topics are varied. It is well-written. The authors approach the topics from a "101 level". The additional facts content (bottom of most entries) are often filled with unique nuggets. It's a nice refresher or primer for those interested in expanding their understanding of the fields of music, art, philosophy, religion, science, etc. Makes a great gift too.

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Each Day A New Topic Weekly.

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.

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