The Modern Scholar

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The Modern Scholar

The Modern Scholar series offers listeners the chance to experience the atmosphere of the lecture hall in their own home or car. Delivered in easy-to-absorb thirty minute segments, The Modern Scholar educates, entertains and informs with a diverse range of subjects from history, science, philosophy, literature, music, and much more.

For libraries, Modern Scholar presents a unique opportunity to offer borrowers something new. A challenging yet accessible product which will issue to a wide user group for many years.


  • Unique product.
  • Fifty-seven absorbing titles.
  • Accompanying booklet, with suggestions for further study.
  • Fully covered by our three-year free replacement guarantee.
  • Backed with full publicity materials.
  • Free display stand with complete collections.

History

Title Ref. ISBN Price
Archaeology and The Iliad UC077 978 1 41938 700 5 £48.95
Classical Mythology: The Greeks UC058 978 1 41932 983 8 £48.95
Classical Mythology: The Romans UC066 978 1 41934 991 1 £48.95
Cold War UC071 978 1 41935 880 7 £48.95
Empire of Gold UC094 978 1 42813 267 2 £48.95
European Civilisation: Antiquity to Renaissance UC047 978 1 4025 8359 9 £48.95
European Civilisation: Reformation to the Twenty-First Century UC060 978 1 41933 416 0 £48.95
Heaven or Heresy UC101 978 1 42814 375 3 £48.95
Hebrews, Greeks and Romans: The Foundations of Western Civilisation UC007 978 1 4025 4484 2 £48.95
The History of Ancient Greece UC089 978 1 42812 739 5 £48.95
A History of Ancient Israel UC078 978 1 41938 871 2 £49.95
The Incas: Inside a Lost Civilization UC049 978 1 41930 945 8 £48.95
Jerusalem: The Contested City UC004 978 1 4025 3908 4 £48.95
Journeys of the Great Explorers UC043 978 1 4025 8199 1 £48.95
The Life and Times of Winston Churchill UC042 978 1 4025 8196 0 £48.95
Six Months that Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference UC015 978 1 4025 4764 5 £48.95
Understanding the Holocaust UC087 978 1 42811 724 2 £48.95
Upon This Rock: A History of the Papacy UC083 978 1 42810 838 7 £48.95
Wars That Made The Western World UC051 978 1 41931 380 6 £43.00
World War I UC050 978 1 41931 360 8 £43.00
World's First Superpower: From Empire To Commonwealth UC057 978 1 41931 398 1 £48.95
World's First Superpower: The Rise of The British Empire UC048 978 1 40259 588 2 £48.95

Literature

Title Ref. ISBN Price
Bible and The Roots of Western Literature UC005 978 1 4025 3911 4 £48.95
A Classic Education Through The Great Books UC090 978 1 42812 744 9 £48.95
Dante and His Divine Comedy UC068 978 1 41935 865 4 £48.95
Eternal Chalice UC085 978 1 42811 676 4 £49.95
From Here To Infinity UC079 978 1 41938 876 7 £48.95
Giants of Irish Literature UC080 978 1 41938 881 1 £48.95
Giants of Russian Literature UC084 978 1 42811 293 3 £48.95
Greek Drama: Tradgedy and Comedy UC072 978 1 41936 365 8 £48.95
The Literature of C S Lewis UC039 978 1 4025 8166 3 £48.95
Masterpieces of Medieval Literature UC073 978 1 41937 789 1 £48.95
Monsters, Gods and Heroes UC038 978 1 4025 8163 2 £48.95
Rings, Swords and Monsters UC076 978 1 41938 695 4 £48.95
Shakespeare: The Seven Major Tragedies UC067 978 1 41935 860 9 £48.95
Walt Whitman and The Birth of Modern American Poetry UC054 978 1 41931 389 9 £48.95
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer UC059 978 1 41933 014 8 £48.95

Music

Title Ref. ISBN Price
How To Listen to and Appreciate Jazz UC096 978 1 42813 781 3 £48.95
Masterpieces of Western Music UC053 978 1 41931 386 8 £48.95
Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music UC028 978 1 4025 5879 5 £48.95

Philosophy

Title Ref. ISBN Price
The Big Questions in Philosophy UC021 978 1 4025 5492 6 £48.95
Creating Humans UC037 978 1 4025 8596 8 £48.95
Ethics: A History of Moral Thought UC017 978 1 4025 4770 6 £48.95
Ideas That Shaped Mankind UC045 978 1 4025 8205 9 £48.95
Plato and Aristotle: The Genesis of Western Thought UC009 978 1 4025 4746 1 £48.95

Religion

Title Ref. ISBN Price
Christianity at the Crossroads UC099 978 1 42813 912 1 £48.95
Faith and Reason UC064 978 1 41934 764 1 £48.95
From Jesus To Christianity UC065 978 1 41934 769 6 £48.95
History Of The Church In The Middle Ages UC095 978 1 42813 776 9 £48.95
Islam and the West UC044 978 1 40258 202 8 £48.95
Judaism, Christianity and Islam UC001 978 1 4025 3899 5 £48.95
Religions of the East UC069 978 1 41935 870 8 £48.95

Science

Title Ref. ISBN Price
Astronomy: Earth Sky and Planets UC024 978 1 4025 5781 1 £48.95
Astronomy: Stars, Galaxies and The Universe UC025 978 1 4025 5784 2 £48.95
Global Warming: Global Threat UC006 978 1 4025 3914 5 £48.95

Society

Title Ref. ISBN Price
Communication Matters II UC018 978 1 40254 773 7 £48.95
Darwinism and the Modern World UC040 978 1 4025 8190 8 £48.95
Feminism and the Future of Women UC031 978 1 4025 5888 7 £48.95
History of the English Language UC088 978 1 42811 729 7 £48.95
Political Theory UC075 978 1 41938 148 5 £48.95
Writing, Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion UC109 978 1 42817 394 1 £48.95

All prices shown exclude VAT, Processing Fees and Postage & Packaging costs.

All Modern Scholar titles are priced at £48.95 each
and qualify for a standard library discount of 10%.

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