The Intellectual Devotional by Kidder, David S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction Week 1

The Alphabet Ulysses Lascaux Cave Paintings Cloning The Basics of Music Appearance and Reality Torah

Week 2

Hammurabi’s Code of Laws Ernest Hemingway Bust of Nefertiti Eratosthenes Melody Socrates Noah

Week 3

Sparta vs. Athens: The Battle for the Ancient World The Harlem Renaissance The Parthenon The Solar System Harmony Plato Cain and Abel

Week 4

Alexander the Great Paradise Lost Venus de Milo The Greenhouse Effect Medieval/Early Church Music Forms Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Week 5

Julius Caesar Homer Hagia Sophia Black Holes Instruments and Ensembles Plato’s Cave Allegory Sarah

Week 6

Rosetta Stone Heart of Darkness Byzantine Art Supernova Renaissance Music Aristotle Sodom and Gomorrah

Week 7

Emperor Constantine Modernism Gothic Art Nociception: The Perception of Pain Baroque Period Metaphysics Joseph

Week 8

The Spread of Islam Catch-22 The Cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris The Placebo Effect Form Matter/Form Theory Moses

Week 9

Charlemagne Gabriel García Márquez Renaissance Art Mendelian Genetics Antonio Vivaldi Logic King David

Week 10

Magna Carta “Ozymandias” The Birth of Venus Surface Tension and Hydrogen Bonding The Four Seasons Stoics King Solomon

Week 11

Genghis Khan William Faulkner Leonardo da Vinci Earthquakes Henry Purcell Epicureanism The Temple and the Holy Ark

Week 12

The Black Death The Great Gatsby The Last Supper Sunspots and Solar Flares Johann Sebastian Bach Medieval Philosophy Talmud

Week 13

Joan of Arc John Steinbeck Mona Lisa The Milgram Studies: Lessons in Obedience Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach Arguments for the Existence of God Kabbalah

Week 14

The Italian Renaissance Don Quixote Albrecht Dürer Galileo Galilei George Frideric Handel Skepticism Hasidism

Week 15

The Reconquista The Canterbury Tales Michelangelo Static Electricity Handel’s Messiah René Descartes Jesus Christ

Week 16

The Spanish Inquisition The Divine Comedy David The Ozone Layer Musical Genres Cogito, Ergo Sum Sermon on the Mount

Week 17

Martin Luther Beowulf The Sistine Chapel Radiocarbon Dating Classical Period The Mind/Body Problem The Good Samaritan

Week 18

Spain in the New World Salman Rushdie Raphael Albert Einstein Franz Joseph Haydn Baruch Spinoza Apostles

Week 19

British Settlement in North America Pride and Prejudice Baroque Art Charles Darwin and Natural Selection Haydn’s London Symphonies A Priori Knowledge Mary Magdalene

Week 20

The Peace of Westphalia Candide Rembrandt Gravity Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The Last Supper

Week 21

Louis XIV of France Postmodernism Girl with a Pearl Earring Vaccines Mozart’s Requiem Mass Time The Crucifixion of Jesus

Week 22

Peter the Great Brave New World The Taj Mahal Marie Curie Mozart’s Don Giovanni Epistemology The Resurrection of Jesus

Week 23

Benjamin Franklin Postcolonialism Hokusai Hypnosis Sonata Form John Locke The Gospels

Week 24

George Washington Anton Chekhov Romanticism Cognitive Dissonance Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 and Symphony No. 41 Personal Identity Catholicism

Week 25

Thomas Paine Virginia Woolf Francisco Goya Reproduction Ludwig van Beethoven Liberalism Eastern Orthodox

Week 26

The French Revolution Moby-Dick Joseph Mallord William Turner Stem Cells Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 Choral Social Contract Protestant Reformation

Week 27

Thomas Jefferson “The Road Not Taken” Impressionism Electromagnetic Spectrum Romantic Period George Berkeley Constantine I

Week 28

Napoleon Bonaparte The Scarlet Letter Whistler’s Mother Circadian Rhythms Franz Schubert Idealism Joseph Smith and Mormonism

Week 29

Irish Potato Famine Walt Whitman Edgar Degas Sleep Felix Mendelssohn David Hume Muhammad

Week 30

Colonialism Charles Dickens Paul Cézanne Blood Hector Berlioz Induction Quran

Week 31

Andrew Jackson Henry James Auguste Rodin Batteries Robert and Clara Schumann Causation The Five Pillars of Islam

Week 32

Commodore Matthew Perry and Japan The Waste Land The Thinker Friction Frédéric Chopin The Problem of Evil Sharia

Week 33

John Brown Marcel Proust Claude Monet The Sun and Nuclear Fusion Romantic-Era Virtuosos: Franz Liszt and Niccolò Paganini Freedom of the Will Shiites and Sunnis

Week 34

Abraham Lincoln Invisible Man Auguste Renoir Rainbows Johannes Brahms Immanuel Kant Sufism

Week 35

Appomattox Court House—Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee “Howl” Mary Cassatt Sound Waves Giuseppe Verdi Categorical Imperative The Four Righteously Guided Caliphs

Week 36

Transcontinental Railroad Tennessee Williams Postimpressionism X-Rays Verdi’s La Traviata and Aida Utilitarianism Muhammad’s Wives and Daughter

Week 37

Native Americans William Shakespeare Paul Gauguin The Atom Richard Wagner George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Muawiyah I

Week 38

Otto von Bismarck Fyodor Dostoyevsky Vincent van Gogh Elements: Metals, Nonmetals, and Metalloids Wagner’s Ring Cycle Karl Marx al-Ghazali

Week 39

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Suffrage Movement Lolita Starry Night Chemical Bonds Nineteenth-Century Nationalism Friedrich Nietzsche Mahdi

Week 40

Andrew Carnegie The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn La Grande Jatte The States of Matter Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Modality Jihad

Week 41

Vladimir Lenin Madame Bovary Expressionism Photochemistry Antonín Dvorák Pragmatism Gabriel

Week 42

Treaty of Versailles Waiting for Godot The Scream Sir Isaac Newton Gustav Mahler Phenomenology Buddha/Gautama

Week 43

Winston Churchill Oscar Wilde Henri Matisse The Real Numbers Impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel Martin Heidegger The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path

Week 44

The Spanish Civil War Metafiction Guggenheim Museum Prime Numbers Tonality and Atonality Aesthetics Zen

Week 45

Adolf Hitler “This Is My Letter to the World” Cubism Pi The Second Viennese School Existentialism Karma

Week 46

Holocaust Romanticism Pablo Picasso The Pythagorean Theorem Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire Analytic Philosophy Hindu Epics

Week 47

The Battle of Midway “Sonnet 18” Guernica The Golden Ratio Twelve-Tone Serialism Truth Caste System

Week 48

D-Day Leo Tolstoy Marc Chagall Fermat’s Last Theorem Igor Stravinsky Justice Taoism

Week 49

Manhattan Project “I, Too, Sing America” American Gothic The Prisoner’s Dilemma Aaron Copland Philosophy of Language Confucianism

Week 50

Chairman Mao “The Second Coming” Salvador Dalí Factorials! Copland’s Appalachian Spring Bertrand Russell Shinto

Week 51

Brown v. Board of Education Magic Realism Jackson Pollock The Normal Curve The Bridge between Classical and Pop: George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein Ludwig Wittgenstein Sikhism

Week 52

Nelson Mandela “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Pop Art Nuclear Fission Twentieth-Century Music Moral Relativism Zoroastrianism

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