An Incomplete Education

There’s an interesting book that first appeared in 1987 that became a bestseller. It was updated in 1995 and it contains a full gamut of information that will keep you interested in reading more no matter what your interests might be.  An Incomplete Education,by Judy Jones and William Wilson, covers a variety of subjects in a succinct CliffsNotes way that can save you a lot of study time while keeping you entertained.

For example, their chapter called Opera for Philistines describes the ‘most bankable composer ever’ (Puccini) as “The Steven Spielberg of opera.” Their chapter on Shakespeare, Bellying up to the Bard, gives nutshell synopses, and Philosophy Made Simplistic covers an enormous span of time in thirty three pages. All those -ologies and -isms are explained with a warning that ontology (the study of being) is a word for intellectual big-spenders, and even if you aren’t a philosophy buff (or a big-spender in this realm) this provides some fascinating reading. You can even find out in two short pages how to tell the difference between the Iliad and the Odyssey in the chapter on literature.

Political Science or What You Need to Know Before Answering a Personals Ad in the International Herald-Tribune, is covered, as are Economics (Now What Exactly is Economics, and What do Economists Do, Again?) and Science (Out of the Cyclotron, Into the Streets) with due respect given to World History, Religion, Psychology, American Studies, Art History, Film and more. Whenever you have a spare moment or two, this book can provide you with information that will make those spare moments count. It’s the kind of book you can open anywhere and very likely find something you didn’t know before.

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