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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.