title: A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning (Isi Guides to the Major Disciplines)
author: James Schall
description: "Perhaps these guides should be required reading for professors to rescue them from the narrowing clutches of research agendas, professional development, and what goes by the name of scholarship."
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  I S I G u i d e s t o t h e M a j o r D i s c i p l i n e s GENERAL EDITOR
  
  
  EDITOR
  
  
  Jeffrey O. Nelson Winfield J. C. Myers A Student’s Guide to Philosophy
  
  
  by Ralph M. McInerny
  
  
  A Student’s Guide to Literature
  
  
  by R. V. Young
  
  
  A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning by James V. Schall, S.J.
  
  
  A Student’s Guide to the Study of History by John Lukacs
  
  
  A Student’s Guide to the Core Curriculum by Mark C. Henrie
  
  
  A Student’s Guide to U.S. History
  
  
  by Wilfred M. McClay
  
  
  A Student’s Guide to Economics
  
  
  by Paul Heyne
  
  
  A Student’s Guide to Political Theory by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.
  
  
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  Wilfred M. McClay
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## I S I B O O K S
  
  
  W I L M I N G T O N , D E L A W A R E
  
  
  The Student Self-Reliance Project and the ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines
  are made possible by grants from the Philip M. McKenna Foundation, the Wilbur
  Foundation, F. M. Kirby Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation, the William H.
  Donner Foun