by M J Adler and C Van Doren $28

Originally published in 1940, this book has become a rare phenomenon, a “living” classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated.

You are told about the various levels of reading and how to achieve them — from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading, you learn how to pigeonhole a book, X-ray it, extract the author’s message, criticize. You are taught the different reading techniques for reading practical books, imaginative literature, plays, poetry, history, science and mathematics, philosophy and social science.

Finally, the authors offer a recommended reading list and supply reading tests whereby you can measure your own progress in reading skills, comprehension and speed.

If you desire education to be at your fingertips, then you will want this book.  An essential asset to the self learner’s library.

by Anna Sophia Botkin and Elizabeth Botkin This product is now available from Chariot Press.

For the first time in America’s history, young ladies can expect to encounter a large gap between their years of basic training and the time when they marry… if they marry. Now Christian girls all throughout our country are seriously asking: What’s a girl to do with her single years?

Two years after the publication of their best-selling book, So Much More, Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin are taking the message of visionary daughterhood to a new level and into a new medium. This highly-controversial documentary will take viewers into the homes of several young women who have dared to defy today’s anti-family culture in pursuit of a biblical approach to daughterhood, using their in-between years to pioneer a new culture of strength and dignity, and to rebuild Western Civilization, starting with the culture of the home.

“After twenty-five years of speaking to the home-school movement, I have never seen a more effective tool to reach the hearts of fathers who love their daughters but don’t know how to lead them, than this powerful DVD by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin.”
—Dr. Marshall Foster

As the home goes, so often goes the church, and society at large. Learn along with Anna Sofia and Elizabeth, the fulfilling, exciting life of impact and accomplishment that young women can and should have. Discover the power of the family unit and a picture of the biblical home as the center of dominion work — a vibrant centre of education, ministry, evangelism, culture, entrepreneurialism and hospitality.

This DVD is not just for those of us with daughters.  Everyone will benefit from the truths communicated therein.  Do you want your sons to be knowledgable about what to look for in a wife?  What if God blesses them with daughters?  This is a great tool offering insight for our future’s men and fathers. And, not to mention heaps of encouragement for mums, too.

Read a review here.

58 minutes in length
Widescreen NTSC, all regions
50 minutes of extra materials

See also Anna Sophia and Elizabeth’s book So Much More