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SYMBOLS OF ETERNITY - THE ART OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN CHINA GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE & SCHOLASTICISM -- OUT OF PRINT
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SYMBOLS OF ETERNITY - THE ART OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN CHINA
AUTHOR: SULLIVAN
ISBN: 9780804710251
This product is not a traditionally bound book. Many ProQuest UMI products are black-and-white reproductions of original publications produced through the Books On Demand ® program. Alternately, this product may be a photocopy of a dissertation or it may be a collection reproduced on microfiche or microfilm if it is intended for library purchase.
COURSES: HA-510-01,02
INSTRUCTOR: WANG
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AUTHOR:PANOFSKY
ISBN: 9780970821652
Erwin Panofsky taught art history at the University of Hamburg until he and his family had to flee the Nazi regime. In time he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and in 1948 he delivered Saint Vincent College's second annual Wimmer Lecture.
INSTRUCTOR: GISOLFI
COURSES: HA-402-01, HA-602-01
Hawthorne on Painting Henry IV
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Author: Hawthorne
ISBN: 048620653

Collected from notes taken by students at famous Cape Cod School; hundreds of direct, personal aperçus, ideas, suggestions. 		Henry IV
Author: Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780451527110
Course: HMS-308-A
Instructor: Doloff

Shakespearean history play in 5 acts
Twelfth Night Hamlet
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Twelfth Night
Author: Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780451526762
Course: HMS-308A
Instructor: Doloff

Shakespearean Comedy in 5 acts 		Hamlet
Author: Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780451526922
Course: HMS-308A
Instructor: Doloff

Shakespearean tragedy in 5 acts
A Midsummer Night's Dream King Lear
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: Shakespeare
ISBN:9780451526960
Course: HMS-308A
Instructor: Doloff

Shakespearean comedy in 5 acts 		King Lear
Author: Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780451526939
Course:HMS-308A
Instructor: Doloff

Shakespearean tragedy in 5 acts
Billy Budd and Other Tales TENDER BUTTONS
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Billy Budd and Other Tales
Author: Melville
ISBN: 9780451526878
Course: HMS-404A-01  
Instructor: Doloff

Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby Dick". Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. 		TENDER BUTTONS
AUTHOR:STEIN
ISBN: 978048629879
Interactions/Mosaic Silver Edition is a fully-integrated, 18-book academic series..
   * . Language proficiencies are articulated across five ability levels (beginning through advanced) within each of the four language skill strands.
   * . Chapter themes articulate across the four skill strands to systematically recycle content, vocabulary, and grammar.
COURSES: ENGL-101-07
INSTRUCTOR: BEALL
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU Richard III
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THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU
AUTHOR: WELLS
ISBN: 9780451529893
Dr. Moreau, a scientist expelled from his homeland for cruel experiments, finds a deserted island where he can create hideous creatures with manlike intelligence. But as the rigid order on Moreau's island dissolves, the consequences of his experiments emerge-and his creations revert to beasts more shocking than nature could devise.
COURSE: HUM-412-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER 		Richard III
Author: Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780451526953
Course: HMS-308A
Instructor: Doloff

Shakespearean tragedy in 5 acts
The Celestial Railroad & Other Stories THE MAJOR PLAYS
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The Celestial Railroad & Other Stories
Author: Hawthorne
ISBN: 9780451522139
Course: HMS-404A-01
Instructor: Doloff

Famous for his novels, Hawthorne was first a short story writer. This collection includes his most powerful and penetrating stories, including Young Goodman Brown and The Minister's Black Veil. 		THE MAJOR PLAYS
AUTHOR: CHEKHOV
ISBN: 9780451522702
Newly repackaged, here are the five masterpieces by one of the world's greatest playwrights, in translation by Ann Dunnigan. As Robert Brustein declares in the foreword to this edition: "in the modern theater...there are none who bring the drama to a higher realization of its human role." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
COURSE: ENGL-462-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
FOUR MAJOR PLAYS: VOLUME II THE ANTICHRIST
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FOUR MAJOR PLAYS: VOLUME II
AUTHOR: IBSEN
ISBN: 9780451525154
The foremost dramatist of his age, Ibsen changed theatre forever with his realistic dialogue and depiction of contemporary social problems. Here are four of his greatest works: Ghosts, An Enemy of the People, The Lady From the Sea, and John Gabriel Borkman.
COURSE: ENGL-462-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF 		THE ANTICHRIST
AUTHOR:NIETZSCHE
ISBN: 9781451591002
A refute of dogmatic Christianity, said best in his own words: "An action demanded by the instinct of life is proven correct by the pleasure that accompanies it; yet Christian dogma considers pleasure an objection. What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure as an automaton of duty?" Nietzsche challenges the ethical-moral value system that the West has so deeply inherited from the belief and practice of Christianity, maintaining that the Christian emphasis on sympathy and pity multiplies the experience of suffering, which has weakened, rather than strengthened its followers. Readers are invited to embrace questions and topics, otherwise off-limits in mainstream society.
COURSES: ENGL-101-14
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER
THE REPUBLIC THE TROPIC OF CANCER
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THE REPUBLIC
AUTHOR:PLATO
ISBN:9781593080976
One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato’s Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years, and remains as relevant today as when it was written during the fourth century B.C.
Republic begins by posing a central question: "What is justice, and why should we be just, especially when the wicked often seem happier and more successful?" For Plato, the answer lies with the ways people, groups, and institutions organize and behave. A brilliant inquiry into the problems of constructing the perfect state, and the roles education, the arts, family, and religion should play in our lives, Republic employs picturesque settings, sharply outlined characters, and conversational dialogue to drive home the philosopher’s often provocative arguments.
It has been said that the entire history of Western philosophy consists of nothing more than "a series of footnotes to Plato." Vastly entertaining, occasionally shocking, and always stimulating, Republic continues to enrich and expand the outlook of all who read it.
COURSE: PHIL-200-01
INSTRUCTOR: MOSER 		THE TROPIC OF CANCER
AUTHOR: MILLER
ISBN: 9780802131782
The first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, “one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century.”
COURSE: ENGL-457-01-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author: Twain
ISBN: 9780486475844
Course: HMS-304B-01
Instructor:: Jeffries/Verdeber

Includes the unabridged text of Twain's classic novel plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes chapter-by-chapter summaries, explanations and discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters, bibliography, and more. 		ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT
AUTHOR: REMARQUE
ISBN: 9780449213940
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.
COURSE: SS-302P-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DURING, HOLDER
Daisy Miller A RAISIN IN THE SUN
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Daisy Miller
Author: James
ISBN: 9781434408846
Course: HMS-304B-01
Instructor: Jeffries/Verdeber

Daisy Miller (1878) by Henry James is the story of the exuberant and naive Daisy Miller, a young American girl who flirts and partakes of young life to its fullest while visiting Europe. Daisy meets the more subtle and self-aware Winterbourne and their romance ends in misfortune.
The portrait of Daisy is a quintessential exploration of the social mores of her era. And her flirtatious disregard of them is simultaneously a breath of fresh air and the heart of tragedy 		A RAISIN IN THE SUN
AUTHOR: HANSBERRY
ISBN: 978067975533
The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations.
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD
THE WASTELAND AND OTHER WRITINGS THE IRON HEEL
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THE WASTELAND AND OTHER WRITINGS
AUTHOR: ELIOT
ISBN: 9780375759345
This Halcyon Classics eBook contains 27 poems and other works by T.S. Eliot, including 'The Waste Land' and 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.' Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

Contents:

The Waste Land
Gerontion
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar
Sweeney Erect
A Cooking Egg
Le Directeur
Mélange adultère de tout
Lune de Miel
The Hippopotamus
Dans le Restaurant
Whispers of Immortality
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rhapsody on a Windy Night
Morning at the Window
The Boston Evening Transcript
Aunt Helen
Cousin Nancy
Mr. Apollinax
Hysteria
Conversation Galante
La Figlia Che Piange

Eeldrop and Appleplex
Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
COURSES: HUM-490-05
INSTRUCTOR: LEVY 		THE IRON HEEL
AUTHOR:WEISMAN
ISBN: 9780468473659
In a harrowing tale of class warfare that merges science fiction and fantasy, the powerful state organization known as the "Iron Heel" is determined to crush the working class — at any cost. Praised by such luminaries as George Orwell, London's prophetic political adventure continues to resonate with today's readers.
COURSES: ENGL-101-14
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER
THE WASTELAND AND OTHER WRITINGS GALILEO
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THE WASTELAND AND OTHER WRITINGS
AUTHOR:ELIOT
ISBN: 978037579345
First published in 1922, "The Waste Land" is T.S. Eliot's masterpiece, and is not only one of the key works of modernism but also one of the greatest poetic achievements of the twentieth century. A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. He articulated the mind of an epoch in words that seemed its most natural expression."
COURSES: ENGL-101-14
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER 		GALILEO
AUTHOR: BRECHT
ISBN: 9780802130594
Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the demands of the Inquisition.
COURSE: ENGL-462-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
FRANKENSTEIN THE ORIGINAL 1818 TEXT Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays
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FRANKENSTEIN THE ORIGINAL 1818 TEXT
AUTHOR: MACDONALDS
ISBN: 9781551113081
Frankenstein, loved by many decades of readers and praised by such eminent literary critics as Harold Bloom, seems hardly to need a recommendation. If you haven't read it recently, though, you may not remember the sweeping force of the prose, the grotesque, surreal imagery, and the multilayered doppelgänger themes of Mary Shelley's masterpiece. As fantasy writer Jane Yolen writes of this (the reviewer's favorite) edition, "The strong black and whites of the main text [illustrations] are dark and brooding, with unremitting shadows and stark contrasts. But the central conversation with the monster--who owes nothing to the overused movie image … but is rather the novel's charnel-house composite--is where [Barry] Moser's illustrations show their greatest power ... The viewer can all but smell the powerful stench of the monster's breath as its words spill out across the page. Strong book-making for one of the world's strongest and most remarkable books." Includes an illuminating afterword by Joyce Carol Oates.
COURSE: ENGL-103-23
INSTRUCTOR: POUEYMIROU 		Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays
Author: Emerson
ISBN: 9780553213881
Course: HMS-404A-01  
Instructor: Doloff

A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.
Skeleton Crew The Flame and the Flower
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Skeleton Crew
Author: King
ISBN:9780451168610
Course: HMS(300B)-01
Instructor: Doloff

This hefty sampler of King's shorter works, from all stages of the horror master's career, demonstrates the range of his abilities. Some of the stories here rank among his best, and "even the less successful ones are fun," PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY observed. 		The Flame and the Flower
Author: Woodiwiss
ISBN: 9780380005253
Course: HMS(300B)-01
Instructor: Doloff

The Flower-
Doomed to a life of unending toil, Heather Simmons fears for her innocence--until a shocking, desperate act forces her to flee. . . and to seek refuge in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger.
The Flame-
A lusty adventurer married to the sea, Captain Brandon Birmingham courts scorn and peril when he abducts the beautiful fugitive from the tumultuous London dockside. But no power on Earth can compel him to relinquish his exquisite prize. For he is determined to make the sapphire-eyed prize. For he is determined to make the sapphire-eyed lovely his woman. . .and to carry her off to far, uncharted realms of sensuous, passionate love.
L'Amour: The Golden West MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS
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L'Amour: The Golden West
Author: Brand, Editor: Tuska
ISBN: 9780843951615
Course: HMS(300B)-01
Instructor: Doloff

Paperback fiction novel by Max Brand, edited by John Tuska 		MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS
AUTHOR: JUNG
ISBN: 9780440351832
Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the first and only work in which the world-famous Swiss psychologist explains to the layperson his enormously influential theory of symbolism as revealed in dreams.
COURSES: DES-625-01,DES-625-02,DES-625-03
INSTRUCTOR: LANGE
The Road MYTHOLOGY
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The Road
Author: McCarthy
ISBN: 9780307476319
Courses: ENGL-101-14; HMS-101A
Instructor: Verderber

Best known for his Border Trilogy, hailed in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century," Cormac McCarthy has written ten rich and often brutal novels, including the bestselling No Country for Old Men, and The Road. Profoundly dark, told in spare, searing prose, The Road  is a post-apocalyptic masterpiece, one of the best books we've read this year, but in case you need a second (and expert) opinion, we asked Dennis Lehane, author of equally rich, occasionally bleak and brutal novels, to read it and give us his take. 		MYTHOLOGY: TIMELESS TALES OF GODS AND HEROES
AUTHOR: HAMILTON
ISBN: 9780446607254
MONSTERS, MORTALS, GODS, AND WARRIORS
For over fifty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells these stories with brilliant clarity but shows us how the ancients saw their own place in the world and how their themes echo in our consciousness today. An essential part of every home library, MYTHOLOGY is the definitive volume for anyone who wants to know the key dramas, the primary characters, the triumphs, failures, fears, and hopes first narrated thousands of years ago -- and still spellbinding to this day.  
COURSE: HUM-440B-01
INSTRUCTOR: ROSENTHAL
The Craftsman's Handbook SAINT JOAN
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THE CRAFTSMAN'S HANDBOOK
Author: Cennino A. Cennini
ISBN: 978046200545
Fifteenth-century handbook, written by a working artist of the day, reveals secrets and techniques of the masters in drawing, oil painting, frescoes, panel painting, gilding, casting, more. Direct link to artists of the Middle Ages. Translation, introduction by D. V. Thompson.
Courses: HA-650-01
Instructor: Gisolfi 		SAINT JOAN
AUTHOR: SHAW
ISBN: 9780140450231
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Published not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatizes what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. Shaw studied the transcripts and decided that the concerned people acted in good faith according to their beliefs.
COURSE: ENGL-462-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
THE SOUL OF BLACK FOLK The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
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THE SOUL OF BLACK FOLK
AUTHOR: DU BOIS
ISBN: 9781605451459
"The Souls of Black Folk" is the most well-known work of African-American W.E.B. Du Bois, a writer, leader, and civil rights activist. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society. Outside of its notable place in African-American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the first works to deal with sociology. In Living Black History, (p. 96) esteemed scholar and Du Bois biographer Manning Marable makes the following observation about the book: "Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position. It helped to create the intellectual argument for the black freedom struggle in the twentieth century. Souls justified the pursuit of higher education for Negroes and thus contributed to the rise of the black middle class. By describing a global color-line, Du Bois anticipated pan-Africanism and colonial revolutions in the Third World. Moreover, this stunning critique of how 'race' is lived through the normal aspects of daily life is central to what would become known as 'whiteness studies' a century later."
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD 		The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure
Author: Goldman
ISBN: 9780156035217
Course: HMS-448-01
Instructor: Obadike

The Princess Bride is a true fantasy classic. William Goldman describes it as a "good parts version" of "S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure." Morgenstern's original was filled with details of Florinese history, court etiquette, and Mrs. Morgenstern's mostly complimentary views of the text. Much admired by academics, the "Classic Tale" nonetheless obscured what Mr. Goldman feels is a story that has everything: "Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
Goldman frames the fairy tale with an "autobiographical" story: his father, who came from Florin, abridged the book as he read it to his son. Now, Goldman is publishing an abridged version, interspersed with comments on the parts he cut out.
Is The Princess Bride a critique of classics like Ivanhoe and The Three Musketeers, that smother a ripping yarn under elaborate prose? A wry look at the differences between fairy tales and real life? Simply a funny, frenetic adventure? No matter how you read it, you'll put it on your "keeper" shelf.
Heart of Darkness AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN
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Heart of Darkness
Author: Conrad
ISBN: 9780199536016
Course: HMS-101A
Instructor: Verderber

The finest of all Conrad's tales, Heart of Darkness is set in an atmosphere of mystery and menace, and tells of Marlow's perilous journey up the Congo River to relieve his employer's agent, the renowned and formidable Mr. Kurtz. What he sees on his journey, and his eventual encounter with Kurtz, horrify and perplex him, and call into question the very bases of civilization and human nature. Endlessly reinterpreted by critics and adapted for film, radio, and television, the story shows Conrad at his most intense and sophisticated. The other three tales in this volume depict corruption and obsession, and question racial assumptions. Set in the exotic surroundings of Africa, Malaysia, and the east, they variously appraise the glamor, folly, and rapacity of imperial adventure. This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new chronology and bibliography. 		AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN
AUTHOR: JOHNSON
ISBN: 9781456314880
James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man takes place in post Reconstruction era America and follows the story of a young biracial male. Johnson poses a complex dilemma: because the "Ex-Colored Man," which is the only name by which the protagonist is referred, represents what, at the time was, a social contradiction of race and culture, he is forced to choose which aspect of his heritage to publicly express. His options are to embrace his black heritage and culture, or to pass as a white man cloaked in middle-class, mediocre obscurity. Johnson's novel explores racial tensions in late nineteenth and early twentieth century culture through this poignant coming of age story.
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD
UP FROM SLAVERY THE ICEMAN COMETH
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UP FROM SLAVERY
AUTHOR: WASHINGTON
ISBN: 9781589807891
Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society.
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD 		THE ICEMAN COMETH
AUTHOR: O'NEILL
ISBN: 9780394700182
The Place: Harry Hope's bar, a cheap gin-mill of the five-cent whiskey, last-resort variety situated downtown on the West Side of New York.
The Time: Salesman Hickey's birthday celebration, two days during the summer of 1912 -- a time when all tomorrows are forced abruptly to become today; when the delineation between hopes, dreams, and pipe dreams disintegrates; when "self-knowledge" destroys self-respect, compassion -- and life.
One of the last of Eugene O'Neill's plays, The Iceman Cometh stands today with Long Day's Journey into Night and A Moon for the Misbegotten as the supreme expression of his dramatic genius.
COURSE: ENGL-462-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
Essential Dickinson THE NEW YORK FOUR
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Essential Dickinson
Author: Dickinson
ISBN: 9780060887919
Course: HMS-404A-01  
Instructor: Doloff

Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely private; like Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she is the great poet of inwardness, of the indefinable region of the soul in which we are, in a sense, all alone. 		THE NEW YORK FOUR
AUTHOR:WOOD
ISBN: 9781401211547

Grade 10 Up–Riley enters into a standardized test beta with three NYU classmates in order to make some money to get an apartment together. A good student with limited social skills due to her controlling, academic parents, the teen relies heavily on online interactions. As she begins to get to know her classmates and to reconnect with her outcast older sister, a secret virtual relationship threatens to destabilize everything. Wood is known for incorporating a strong sense of place into his comic work, and, while this is a story about growing up and learning to communicate, the classic bohemian fixtures of clubs and brownstones, and the inclusion of New York City landmarks, help make the book feel grounded. Kelly's energetic artwork conveys a sense of activity and movement. His portrayal of one character, Merissa, tends toward caricature more than the others, and panels are occasionally too busy to find the focus of the scene easily, but the detailed settings are nicely evocative. Wood tries to do too much, resulting in a scattered set-up of Riley's classmates' individual stories–glimpses of what are surely the main focuses of future volumes–leaving readers with what is disappointingly not quite an entire story, but one that is superbly told.
COURSES: ENGL-087-02
INSTRUCTOR: GORDON
THE PRESENT AGE PASSING
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THE PRESENT AGE
AUTHOR:KIERKEGAARD
ISBN:9780061990038
In his seminal 1846 tract The Present Age, SØren Kierkegaard ("the father of existentialism"—New York Times) analyzes the philosophical implications of a society dominated by mass media—a society eerily similar to our own. A stunningly prescient essay on the rising influence of advertising, marketing, and publicity, The Present Age is essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand the modern world.
COURSE: PHIL-320-01
INSTRUCTOR: MCGUIRE 		PASSING
AUTHOR: LARSEN
ISBN: 9780142437278
Another trailblazer, Larsen wrote this novel in 1929. It follows Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield, two light-skinned black women who try to escape racism. Kendry chooses to sever all ties with her background and passes herself off as white, while Redfield simply denies that racism exists. Both, however, eventually are forced to face the awful truth. This edition contains a lengthy introduction and scholarly notes on the text. Essential for Black History Month.
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD
THE SONG OF ROLAND Walden & Other Stories
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THE SONG OF ROLAND
AUTHOR: BURGESS
ISBN: 9780140445329
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The "Song of Roland", written by an unknown poet, tells of Charlemagne's warrior nephew, Lord of the Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies in the massacre, defiant to the end. In majestic verses, the battle becomes a symbolic struggle between Christianity and paganism, while Roland's last stand is the ultimate expression of honour and feudal values of twelfth-century France.
COURSE: HUM-490-(37)
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER 		Walden & Other Stories
Author: Thoreau
ISBN: 9780679783343
Course: HMS-404A-01
Instructor: Doloff

In 1845, Thoreau began the living experiment for which he is most famous. During his two years and two months in the shack beside the New England pond, he wrote his first important work, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), was arrested for refusing to pay his poll tax to a government that supported slavery (recorded in "Civil Disobedience") and gathered the material for his masterpiece, Walden (1854). He spent the rest of his life writing and lecturing and died, relatively unappreciated, in 1862.
MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY MISS LONELYHEARTS & THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
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MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY
AUTHOR: DESCARTES
ISBN: 9780192806963
Here is a brilliant new translation of Descartes's Meditations, one of the most influential books in the history of Western philosophy, including the full texts of the Third and Fourth Objections and Replies, and a selection from the other exchanges. Discovering his own existence as a thinking entity in the very exercise of doubt--in the famous formulation cogito, ergo sum--Descartes goes on to develop new conceptions of body and mind, capable of serving as foundations for a new science of nature. Subsequent philosophy has grappled with Descartes's ideas, but his arguments set the agenda for many of the greatest philosophical thinkers, and their fascination endures. This new translation pays particular attention to Descartes's terminology and style, with its elaborate but beautifully lucid syntax, careful balancing, and rhetorical signposting. The wide-ranging introduction places the work in the intellectual context of the time and discusses the nature of the work, its structure, key issues, and its influence on later thinkers. The book also includes notes, an up-to-date bibliography, a chronology, and an index.
COURSE: PHIL-200-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: MOSER 		MISS LONELYHEARTS & THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
AUTHOR: WEST
ISBN: 9780811202152
Two short novels, one set in New York and the other in Hollywood, dramatically depict the extremes of the human condition and the destructive forces pervading modern American life.
COURSE: ENGL-457-01-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
THE CRYING OF LOT 49 THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A VERY STORT INTRODUCTION
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THE CRYING OF LOT 49
AUTHOR: PYNCHON
ISBN: 9780060931674
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self knowledge.
COURSE: ENGL-457-01-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF 		THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
AUTHOR: HOWARD
ISBN: 9780199205592
This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the Great War--from the state of Europe in 1914, to the role of the US, the collapse of Russia, and the eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Examining how and why the war was fought, as well as the historical controversies that still surround the war, Michael Howard also looks at how peace was ultimately made, and describes the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany.
COURSE: SS-302P-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DURING, HOLDER
Letters to a Young Poet The Stranger
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Letters to a Young Poet
Author: Rilke
ISBN: 9780393310399
Course: SS-369-02
Instructor: Grandy

Drawn by some sympathetic note in one of his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes.
From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young would-be poet, on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world.
Accompanying the letters is a chronicle of Rilke's life showing what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote these letters. 		The Stranger
Author: Camus
ISBN: 9780679720201
Courses: ENGL-101-32, ENGL-101-35
Instructors: Pequeur

The new translation of Camus's classic is a cultural event; the translation of Cocteau's diary is a literary event. Both translations are superb, but Ward's will affect a naturalized narrative, while Browner's will strengthen Cocteau's reemerging critical standing. Since 1946 untold thousands of American students have read a broadly interpretative, albeit beautifully crafted British Stranger . Such readers have closed Part I on "door of undoing" and Part II on "howls of execration." Now with the domestication pruned away from the text, students will be as close to the original as another language will allow: "door of unhappiness" and "cries of hate." Browner has no need to "write-over" another translation. With Cocteau's reputation chiefly as a cinematic until recently, he has been read in French or not at all. Further, the essay puts a translator under less pressure to normalize for readers' expectations. Both translations show the current trend to stay closer to the original. Marilyn Gaddis Rose, SUNY at Binghamton.
MADAME BOVARY TRANSLATIONS
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MADAME BOVARY
AUTHOR: FLAUBERT
ISBN: 9780140449129
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and arousing novel.
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER
COURSES: HUM-490-01 		TRANSLATIONS
AUTHOR:FREIL
ISBN: 9780571117420
The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.
COURSES: ENGL-130(AP)-03, ENGL-130(AP)-08, ENGL-103-(17,14)
INSTRUCTORS:  CULLEU-DUPONT
STATE AND COSMOS IN THE ART OF TENOCHTTLAN NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
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STATE AND COSMOS IN THE ART OF TENOCHTTLAN
AUTHOR: TOWNSEND
ISBN: 9780884020837
This concise, brilliant interpretation of the monumental art of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan provides an excellent introduction to the relation of political state and religious cosmos in Mesoamerican traditions. Focusing his art-historical methods on the formation of Tenochtitlan's monumental ensemble, Townsend expertly reveals the intimate connection between historical consciousness and commemoration and cosmological structure and dynamics in Aztec architecture and ritual. (Religious Studies Review )
COURSE: HA-551-06,07
INSTRUCTOR: ROBERTSON 		NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND
AUTHOR: DOSTOEVSKY
ISBN: 9780679734529
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
COURSE: ENGL-103-22
INSTRUCTOR: KIM
The Interpretation of Dreams WUTHERING HEIGHTS (NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS)
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Author: Freud
ISBN: 9780465019779
Course:HMS-330A-01
Instructor: Verderber/Canning

What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? What do dreams of swimming, failing, or flying symbolize?
First published by Sigmund Freud in 1899, The Interpretation of Dreams considers why we dream and what it means in the larger picture of our psychological lives. Delving into theories of manifest and latent dream content, the special language of dreams, dreams as wish fulfillment, the significance of childhood experiences, and much more, Freud, widely considered the “father of psychoanalysis,” thoroughly and thoughtfully examines dream psychology. Encompassing dozens of case histories and detailed analyses of actual dreams, this landmark text presents Freud’s legendary work as a tool for comprehending our sleeping experiences.

Renowned for translating Freud’s German writings into English, James Strachey—with the assistance of Anna Freud—first published this edition in 1953. Incorporating all textual alterations made by Freud over a period of thirty years, it remains the most complete translation of the work in print.

Completely redesigned and available for the first time in trade paperback 		WUTHERING HEIGHTS (NORTON CRITICAL EDITIONS)
AUTHOR:BRONTE
ISBN: 9780393978896
The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847. For the Fourth Edition, the editor collated the 1847 text with the two modern texts (Norton's William J. Sale collation and the Clarendon), and found a great number of variants, including accidentals. This discovery led to changes in the body of the Norton Critical Edition text that are explained in the preface. New to "Backgrounds and Contexts" are additional letters, a compositional chronology, related prose, and reviews of the 1847 text. "Criticism" collects five important assessments of Wuthering Heights, three of them new to the Fourth Edition, including Lin Haire-Sargeant's essay on film adaptations of the novel.
COURSE: ENGL-103-(17,14)
INSTRUCTOR: CULLEN-DUPONT
THE FOOD SNOB'S DICTIONARY: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME
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THE FOOD SNOB'S DICTIONARY: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge
AUTHOR:KAMP
Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects
From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock Snob’s Dictionary--a delectable compendium of food facts, terminology, and famous names that gives ordinary folk the wherewithal to take down the Food Snobs--or join their zealous ranks.
Open a menu and there they are, those confusing references to “grass-fed” beef, “farmstead” blue cheese, and “dry-farmed” fruits. It doesn’t help that your dinner companions have moved on to such heady topics as the future of the organic movement, or the seminal culinary contributions of Elizabeth Drew and Fernand Point. David Kamp, who demystified the worlds of rock and film for grateful readers, explains it all and more, in The Food Snobs Dictionary.
Both entertaining and authentically informative, The Food Snob’ s Dictionary travels through the alphabet explaining the buzz-terms that fuel the food-obsessed, from “Affinage” to “Zest,” with stops along the way for “Cardoons,” “Fennel Pollen,” and “Sous-Vide,” all served up with a huge and welcome dollop of wit.
COURSES: SS-490-09
INSTRUCTOR: KARANT 		THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME
AUTHOR:BARRY
ISBN: 9781570611056
Readers of alternative weeklies will be familiar with Lynda Barry's work from her long-running comic strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek. Similarly, The Good Times Are Killing Me  focuses on the surprisingly complex emotional world of children. It is the story of a neighborhood going through the throes of integration and white flight as seen through the eyes of young Edna Arkins. Edna forms an unlikely friendship with Bonna Willis, a girl with a talent for "ass beating." Edna is white and Bonna is black, and from the start there are pressures from both sides against their friendship. As always, Barry is an impeccable observer of the way kids think and talk--several passages are certain to bring memories of intense schoolyard negotiations rushing back. Barry's artwork comes into play as well--each chapter is punctuated with slightly more painterly versions of her characteristically raw drawing style. By turns funny and moving, The Good Times Are Killing Me is an immensely satisfying read.  
COURSES: ENGL-103-13
INSTRUCTOR: MUHLSTEIN
ON DEMOCRACY NIGHTWOOD
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ON DEMOCRACY
AUTHOR: DAHL
ISBN: 9780300084559
In this accessible and authoritative book, one of the most prominent political theorists of the time provides a primer on democracy that clarifies what democracy is, why it is valuable, how it works, and what challenges it confronts in the future
COURSES: SS-205-01
INSTRUCTOR: MCCOWN 		NIGHTWOOD
AUTHOR:BARNES
ISBN: 9780811216715
The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece--one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. "Nightwood," Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" ("TLS"). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction--there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, "A man is another person--a woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own") has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature. Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book "so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it." Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, "Nightwood" still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.
INSTRUCTOR: LEVITSKY
COURSES: HUM-490-14
MY PARIS TROJAN WOMEN
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MY PARIS
AUTHOR:SCOTT
ISBN: 9781564782977
A Canadian woman in Paris, not a typical touristprefers indoor spaces, seeing Paris go by on TV or,watching from the window the ever-changing,displays of men's designer clothing across the,boulevard. Either that or she roams the streetscaught between nostalgia for the Left Bank of the,1920s and a competing sense of the present day,commercialism and imperialism. Disillusioned by,her inability to reconcile these contradictionsshe assembles in her journal pieces of the,present, past, of art, philosophy, of herself, and,of the world outside her.
INSTRUCTOR: LEVITSKY
COURSES: HUM-490-14 		TROJAN WOMEN
AUTHOR:EUROPEDES
ISBN: 9780195179101
The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers. These new translations are more than faithful to the original text, going beyond the literal meaning in order to evoke the poetic intensity and rich metaphorical texture of the Greek language. The Trojan Women describes with unparalleled intensity the horrific brutality that both women and children undergo at the end of the Trojan War, but in the end it is a play that insists on the victory of spirit amid the horrors created by gods and men. Poet and English professor Alan Shapiro, together with noted Greek scholar, translator, and Classics professor Peter Burian, bring into their own words the Aeschylean vision of a world fraught with spiritual and political tensions,disordered by an irrational war.
COURSES: ENGL-130(AP)-03, ENGL-130(AP)-08, ENGL-103-(17,14)
INSTRUCTORS:  CULLEU-DUPONT
Death in Venice A Dog's Life
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Death in Venice
Author: Mann
ISBN: 9780060576172
Courses: HMS-448-01
Instructors: Obadike

Published on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice  tells the story of Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead leads to his erotic doom. 		By Peter Mayle with Illustration by Edward Koren
After so many books by our two-legged "best friends" that try to decipher our "secret lives", it's so nice to have someone of our kind tell it like it really is. A dog's life can be very a good one indeed, especially if you are as lucky as the hero of our story to find an aimable human companion like Mayle. In this charming, if at times too cutsey, memoir, Boy, a shaggy but highly intelligent canine of mysterious lineage (we never use the politically incorrect "mutt"), recounts his humble beginnings with his 12 siblings, his abandonment by his mother and later by his unpleasant owner, and his wanderings through the Provencal countryside until he is adopted by the Mayles. Judging from Edward Koren's drawings, what Boy lacks in devasting good looks is made up by his plucky personality.
Regarding the Pain of Others NADJA
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Regarding the Pain
Author: Sontag
ISBN: 9780312422196
Course: FA-688-01
Instructor: Goodman

Twenty-six years after the publication of her influential collection of essays On Photography (1977), Sontag (In America) reconsiders ideas that are "now fast approaching the status of platitudes," especially the view that our capacity to respond to images of war and atrocity is being dulled by "the relentless diffusion of vulgar and appalling images" in our rapaciously media-driven culture. Sontag opens by describing Virginia Woolf's essay on the roots of war, "Three Guineas," in which Woolf described a set of gruesome photographs of mutilated bodies and buildings destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. Woolf wondered if there truly can be a "we" between man and woman in matters of war. Sontag sets out to reopen and enlarge the question. "No `we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain," she writes. The "we" that Sontag has come to be much more aware of in the decades since On Photography is the world of the rich. She has come to doubt her youthful contention that repeated exposure to images of suffering necessarily shrivels sympathy, and she doubts even more the radical yet influential spin that others put on this critique-that reality itself has become a spectacle. "To speak of reality becoming a spectacle... universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world...." Sontag reminds us that sincerity can turn a mere spectator into a witness, and that it is the heart rather than fancy rhetoric that can lead the mind to understanding. 		NADJA
AUTHOR:BRENTON
ISBN: 9780802150264
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance ever written, a book which defined that movement's attitude toward everyday life.The principal narrative is an account of the author's relationship with a girl in the city of Paris, the story of an obsessional presence haunting his life. The first-person narrative is supplemented by forty-four photographs which form an integral part of the work--pictures of various 'surreal' people, places, and objects which the author visits or is haunted by in Nadja's presence and which inspire him to meditate on their reality or lack of it.
INSTRUCTOR: LEVITSKY
COURSES: HUM-490-14
A SMALL PLACE BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
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A SMALL PLACE
AUTHOR:KINCAID
ISBN: 9780374527075
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
COURSES: ENGL-103-07
INSTRUCTORS:  BEALL 		BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
AUTHOR: CAPOTE
ISBN: 9780679745655
“Truman Capote is the most perfect writer of my generation. He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm.”
—Norman Mailer
COURSES: ENGL-103-50, 103-53
INSTRUCTORS:  KUBACKI
WAITING FOR GODOT: A TRAGICOMEDY IN TWO ACTS The Gay Science - With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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WAITING FOR GODOT: A TRAGICOMEDY IN TWO ACTS
AUTHOR: BECKETT
ISBN: 9780802130341
A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."--The London Times.
COURSE: ENGL-462-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF 		The Gay Science- With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Author: Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780394719856
Course: PHIL-320-01
Instructor: McGuire

Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God -- to which a large part of the book is devoted -- and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.

Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of Nietzsche's most sustained discussions of art and morality, knowledge and truth, the intellectual conscience and the origin of logic.

Most of the book was written just before Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the last part five years later, after Beyond Good and Evil. We encounter Zarathustra in these pages as well as many of Nietzsche's most interesting philosophical ideas and the largest collection of his own poetry that he himself ever published.

Walter Kaufmann's English versions of Nietzsche represent one of the major translation enterprises of our time. He is the first philosopher to have translated Nietzsche's major works, and never before has a single translator given us so much of Nietzsche.
Rapid Italian for Students and Tourists EITHER/OR - USED
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This book has a double purpose: 1. to present, in a clear and concise manner, the outstanding sentence patterns of the Italian language, and 2. to enable those interested to acquire, through organized reading passages, the practical, environmental vocabulary of this language.  Thus, this book should appeal to anyone desirous of obtaining a workable knowledge of Italian in the shortest possible time.
 To the foregoing end, the subject matter has been presented as follows: 1. the basic rules of pronunciation, to enable the student to use the language orally form the start, 2. a list of common signs which the tourist encounters most frequently, 3. expressions useful to tourists, organized and grouped in natural sequence 4. the commonest sentence patterns, again emphasizing everyday speech, and finally 5. reading selections orchestrating in a sustained manner all the ground previously covered.
Author:  Michael Cagno and Ben D'arlon
ISBN:9780840000300
Courses: HA-5901-A1/-A2 - Art History of Venice - Instuctor: Gisolfi
             HA-6001-A1 -Materials/Techniques of Venice - Instructor: Gisolfi 		EITHER/OR - USED
AUTHOR: KIERKEGAARD
ISBN:9780140445770
In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.
COURSES: PHIL-230-01, PHIL-320-01
INSTRUCTOR: MCGUIRE
POEMS OF NEW YORK STORY OF MY LIFE
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POEMS OF NEW YORK
AUTHOR: SCHMIDT
ISBN: 9780375415043
From Walt Whitman's "Mannahatta" to Ted Berrigan's "Whitman in Black" and beyond to Hettie Jones's "Dust A Survival Kit, Fall 2001," Poems of New York collects poetic responses to Gotham's many facets. Selected and edited by Open City contributing editor and New York Times Book Review poetry reviewer Elizabeth Schmidt, the more than 125 poems here tend toward less familiar works from familiar names. Instead of Frank O'Hara's "A Step Away from Them" we get "Steps" ("all I want is a room up there/ and you in it") though Auden's "September 1, 1939" and Williams's famous "The Great Figure" the figure `5' glimpsed on a fire truck are here. As Schmidt notes in her introduction, "Poets who have written about New York are masters at preserving, and allowing us to cherish, moments of life in this theater of chance and change."
COURSES: ENGL-103-50, 103-53
INSTRUCTORS:  KUBACKI 		STORY OF MY LIFE
AUTHOR: MCINERNEY
ISBN: 9780679745655
In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. Alison Poole, twenty going on 40,000, is a budding actress already fatally well versed in hopping the clubs, shopping Chanel falling in and out of, lust, and abusing other people's credit cards. As Alison races toward emotional breakdown, McInerney gives us a hilarious yet oddly touching portrait of a postmodern Holly Golightly coming to terms with a world in which everything is permitted and nothing really matters.
COURSES: ENGL-103-50, 103-53
INSTRUCTORS:  KUBACKI
THE BOOK OF SALT UNDER THE VOLCANO
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THE BOOK OF SALT
AUTHOR: TRUONG
ISBN: 9780618446889
A mesmerizing narrative voice, an insider's view of a fabled literary household and the slow revelation of heartbreaking secrets contribute to the visceral impact of this first novel. From a few lines in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, Truong reimagines the Vietnamese cook who was hired by the famous residents at 27 rue de Fleurus. Bonh, as he calls himself, is an exile from his homeland, where he was denounced because of a homosexual relationship and banished by his brutal father. After three years at sea, Bonh ends up in Paris, where he answers Toklas's ad ("Two American ladies wish...") and enters the household of Gertrude Stein. The story begins in 1934 when the women he calls "my Mesdames" are about to tour America, and Bnh fears he'll be cast adrift once again. Flashbacks reveal his loneliness and guilt, his doomed love affairs (he enjoys a brief tryst with Ho Chi Minh, whom he knows only as "the man on the bridge") and his sadness at having abandoned his mother and his native land. The tone throughout is poignant, lightened by Bnh's subversive wit; for all his bitterness and resentment, he is a captivating narrator, as adept at describing Stein's literary salon as the contents of Toklas's kitchen. If Truong sometimes stretches the range of Bonh's understanding and powers of observation, interpreting even the thoughts of Stein herself, the narrative rings with emotional authenticity.
COURSE: WR-111-03
INSTRUCTOR: OBADIKE 		UNDER THE VOLCANO
AUTHOR: LOWRY
ISBN: 9780452255951
Under the Volcano remains one of the most powerful and lyrical statements on the human condition and one man's constant struggle against the elemental forces that threaten to destroy him.
COURSE: ENGL-457-01-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
THE PLAGUE MAD FOREST: A PLAY FROM ROMANIA
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THE PLAGUE
AUTHOR: CAMUS
ISBN: 9780679720218
The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it.
COURSE: ENGL-103-19
INSTRUCTOR: POUEYMIROU 		MAD FOREST: A PLAY FROM ROMANIA
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL
ISBN:  9781559361149
The greatest living English-language playwright and, in my opinion, the most important English-language playwright since Williams.--Tony Kushner
COURSE: ENGL-103-(24)
INSTRUCTOR: REHILL
NAUSEA Civilization and it's Discontents
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NAUSEA
AUTHOR: SARTRE
ISBN: 9780811217002
Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, La Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the twentieth century and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.
COURSE: HUM-412-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER 		Civilization and it's Discontents
Author: Freud
ISBN: 9780393304510
Course:HMS-330A-01
Instructor: Verderber/Canning

Freud’s seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.
Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and how did it come to be? What determines civilization’s trajectory? Freud’s theories on the effect of the knowledge of death on human existence and the birth of art are central to his work. Of the various English translations of Freud’s major works to appear in his lifetime, only Norton’s Standard Edition, under the general editorship of James Strachey, was authorized by Freud himself. This new edition includes both an introduction by the renowned cultural critic and writer Christopher Hitchens as well as Peter Gay’s classic biographical note on Freud.
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The Ego and the Id Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
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The Ego and the Id
Author: Freud
ISBN: 9780393001426
Course: HMS-330A-01
Instructor: Verderber/Canning

In 1923, in this volume, Freud worked out important implications of the structural theory of mind that he had first set forth three years earlier in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

The Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud's later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world.

Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey.

Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his supervision. The result was to place the Standard Edition in a position of unquestioned supremacy over all other existing versions. 		Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
Author: Freud
ISBN: 9780393007701
Course: HMS-330A-01
Instructor: Verderber/Canning

To Freud, individual and social psychology were virtually identical.

The question he addresses here is, What are the emotional bonds that hold collective entities, such as an army and a church, together? It is a fruitful question, and Freud offers some interesting answers. But Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego stands chiefly as an invitation to further psychoanalytic exploration.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood The Joke
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Author: Satrapi
ISBN: 9780375714573
Course: HMS-101A
Instructor: Kim

Adult/High School-Marji tells of her life in Iran from the age of 10, when the Islamic revolution of 1979 reintroduced a religious state, through the age of 14 when the Iran-Iraq war forced her parents to send her to Europe for safety. This story, told in graphic format with simple, but expressive, black-and-white illustrations, combines the normal rebelliousness of an intelligent adolescent with the horrors of war and totalitarianism. Marji's parents, especially her freethinking mother, modeled a strong belief in freedom and equality, while her French education gave her a strong faith in God. Her Marxist-inclined family initially favored the overthrow of the Shah, but soon realized that the new regime was more restrictive and unfair than the last. The girl's independence, which made her parents both proud and fearful, caused them to send her to Austria. With bold lines and deceptively uncomplicated scenes, Satrapi conveys her story. From it, teens will learn much of the history of this important area and will identify with young Marji and her friends. This is a graphic novel of immense power and importance for Westerners of all ages. It will speak to the same audience as Art Spiegelman's Maus (Pantheon, 1993).
Susan H. Woodcock, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA 		The Joke
Author: Kundera
ISBN: 9780060995058
Course: CH-300
Instructor: Dragomir

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such implications into perspective in favor of valuing the book (and all Kundera 's work) as what it truly is: great, stirring literature that sheds new light on the eternal themes of human existence.
The present edition provides English-language readers an important further means toward revaluation of The Joke. For reasons he describes in his Author's Note, Milan Kundera devoted much time to creating (with the assistance of his American publisher-editor) a completely revised translation that reflects his original as closely as any translation possibly can: reflects it in its fidelity not only to the words and syntax but also to the characteristic diction's and tonalities of the novel's narrators. The result is nothing less than the restoration of a classic.
Uncle Tom's Cabin The Maltese Falcon
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author: Wright
ISBN: 9780061450204
Course: HMS-304B-01
Instructor: Jeffries/Verder

Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children was the first book from Richard Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of numerous works, most notably the acclaimed novel Native Son and his autobiography, Black Boy. 		The Maltese Falcon
Author: Hammett
ISBN: 9780679722649
Course: HMS(300B)-01
Instructor: Doloff

Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett's archetypally tough San Francisco detective, is more noir than L.A. Confidential and more vulnerable than Raymond Chandler's Marlowe. In The Maltese Falcon, the best known of Hammett's Sam Spade novels (including The Dain Curse and The Glass Key), Spade is tough enough to bluff the toughest thugs and hold off the police, risking his reputation when a beautiful woman begs for his help, while knowing that betrayal may deal him a new hand in the next moment.
Trouble is my Business INVISIBLE CITIES
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Trouble is my Business
Author: Chandler
ISBN: 9780394757643
Course: HMS(300B)-01
Instructor: Doloff

Chandler is not only the best writer of hard boiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price. 		INVISIBLE CITIES
AUTHOR:CALVINO
ISBN: 9780156453806
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.  
COURSES: ENGL-103-13,33
INSTRUCTOR: MUHLSTEIN, FREY
Lives of the Artists ON PAINTING
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Lives of the Artists
Author: Vasari
ISBN: 9780140444605
Courses: HA-402-01, HA-602-01, HA-632-01
Instructor: Gisolfi

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. 		ON PAINTING
AUTHOR: ALBERTI
ISBN: 9780140433319
Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion; instructs the painter on how to use the rules of composition, representation, light and colour to create work that is graceful and pleasing to the eye; and stipulates the moral and artistic pre-requisites of the successful painter. On Painting had an immediate and profound influence on Italian Renaissance artists including Ghiberti, Fra Angelico and Veneziano and on later figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, and remains a compelling theory of art.
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER
COURSES: HUM-490-01
THE BRIEF AND WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS: A PLAY
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THE BRIEF AND WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
AUTHOR: DIAZ
ISBN: 9781594483295
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2007: It's been 11 years since Junot Díaz's critically acclaimed story collection, Drown, landed on bookshelves and from page one of his debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, any worries of a sophomore jinx disappear. The titular Oscar is a 300-pound-plus "lovesick ghetto nerd" with zero game (except for Dungeons & Dragons) who cranks out pages of fantasy fiction with the hopes of becoming a Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien. The book is also the story of a multi-generational family curse that courses through the book, leaving troubles and tragedy in its wake. This was the most dynamic, entertaining, and achingly heartfelt novel I've read in a long time. My head is still buzzing with the memory of dozens of killer passages that I dog-eared throughout the book. The rope-a-dope narrative is funny, hip, tragic, soulful, and bursting with desire. Make some room for Oscar Wao on your bookshelf--you won't be disappointed. --Brad Thomas Parsons --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
COURSE: WR-111-(03), HUM-412-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: OBADIKE 		GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS: A PLAY
AUTHOR: MAMET
ISBN: 9780802130914
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet’s scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action—where closing a sale can mean a brand new Cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all.
COURSE: ENGL-462-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
MYTHOLOGIES Times Arrow
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MYTHOLOGIES
AUTHOR: BARTHES
ISBN: 9780374521509
"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith always to appear natural to their consumer, as if what they say is eternal, true, necessary, instead of arbitrary, made, contingent. Mythologies finds Barthes revealing the fashioned systems of ideas that make it possible, for example, for 'Einstein's brain' to stand for, be the myth of, 'a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as a functional labor analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.' Each of the little essays in this book wrenches a definition out of a common but constructed object, making the object speak its hidden, but ever-so-present, reservoir of manufactured sense."--Edward W. Said
COURSE: HUM-440B-01
INSTRUCTOR: ROSENTHAL 		Times Arrow
Author: Amis
ISBN: 9780679735724
Course: HMS-101A (05)
Instructor: Fow

For decades, writers have been striving to comprehend the Holocaust, and while its horror remains indelible, readers may wonder if there is another way of going over this relentlessly examined ground. In this swift, incisive little book, Amis succeeds in rendering the shock of the Holocaust wholly new by traveling backward in time. At the end of his life, the German-born American doctor Tod T. Friendly suffers a paralysis from which emerges "the soul he should have had." This innocent soul follows "time's arrow" back through Tod's stay in America and his flight to Germany, finally arriving at the concentration camp where Friendly, as Odilo Unverdorben, served as a doctor of death. Trying to discover "when the world is going to make sense," the confused if patient soul watches as the doctor injures the healed, revives Jews who have been gassed, and grows closer to his estranged wife. It concludes, "We all know by now that violence creates, here on earth . . . it heals and mends." Amis's device, which at first seems merely a clever conceit, is handled so skillfully that living backwards becomes not only natural but a perfect metaphor for the Nazis' perverted logic. If he can't finally probe to the bottom of a mind that embraces atrocities, Amis has nevertheless written a thought-provoking, compelling book. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/91.
-Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE A GRAMMAR OF THE MULTITUDE
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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
AUTHOR: WOOLFE
ISBN: 9781442135031
'I am making up "To the Lighthouse" - the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers in Cornwall, Virginia Woolf produced one of the masterworks of English literature in To the Lighthouse. It concerns the Ramsay family and their summer guests on the Isle of Skye before and after the First World War. As children play and adults paint, talk, muse and explore, relationships shift and mutate. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, it is the most accomplished of all Woolf's novels. On completing it, she thought she had exorcised the ghosts of her imposing parents, but she had also brought form to a book every bit as vivid and intense as the work of Lily Briscoe, the indomitable artist at the centre of the novel.
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER
COURSES: HUM-490-01 		A GRAMMAR OF THE MULTITUDE
AUTHOR: VIRNO
ISBN: 9781584350217
Globalization is forcing us to rethink some of the categories--such as "the people"--that traditionally have been associated with the now eroding state. Italian political thinker Paolo Virno argues that the category of "multitude," elaborated by Spinoza and for the most part left fallow since the seventeenth century, is a far better tool to analyze contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept of "people," favored by classical political philosophy. Hobbes, who detested the notion of multitude, defined it as shunning political unity, resisting authority, and never entering into lasting agreements. "When they rebel against the state," Hobbes wrote, "the citizens are the multitude against the people." But the multitude isn't just a negative notion, it is a rich concept that allows us to examine anew plural experiences and forms of nonrepresentative democracy. Drawing from philosophy of language, political economics, and ethics, Virno shows that being foreign, "not-feeling-at-home-anywhere," is a condition that forces the multitude to place its trust in the intellect. In conclusion, Virno suggests that the metamorphosis of the social systems in the West during the last twenty years is leading to a paradoxical "Communism of the Capital."
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER
COURSES: HUM-490-01
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE TO ENGINEER IS HUMAN: THE ROLE OF FAILURE IN SUCCESSFUL DESIGN
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EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE
AUTHOR: SAFRAN FOER
ISBN: 9780618711659
Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden. Foer embellishes the narrative with evocative graphics, including photographs, colored highlights and passages of illegibly overwritten text, and takes his unique flair for the poetry of miscommunication to occasionally gimmicky lengths, like a two-page soliloquy written entirely in numerical code. Although not quite the comic tour de force that Illuminated was, the novel is replete with hilarious and appalling passages, as when, during show-and-tell, Oskar plays a harrowing recording by a Hiroshima survivor and then launches into a Poindexterish disquisition on the bomb's "charring effect." It's more of a challenge to play in the same way with the very recent collapse of the towers, but Foer gambles on the power of his protagonist's voice to transform the cataclysm from raw current event to a tragedy at once visceral and mythical. Unafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.
COURSES: ENG-103-50, 103-53
INSTRUCTORS:  KUBACKI 		TO ENGINEER IS HUMAN: THE ROLE OF FAILURE IN SUCCESSFUL DESIGN
AUTHOR: PETROSKI
ISBN: 9780679734161
How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s -- the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book. More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life.
COURSE: A-567P-(01), CM-352 (01)
INSTRUCTOR: DUNNE
DIEN CAI DAU ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS & ECCE HOMO
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DIEN CAI DAU
AUTHOR: KOMUNYAKAA
ISBN: 9780819511645
"So finely tuned are Komunyakaa's images, so faultless his vision, that the reader sees precisely what the poet recalls . . . A powerful must-read for those who have forgotten those days"--Booklist
"Komunyakaa makes a major contribution to the body of literature grappling with Vietnam --a poetry that pierces the artificial border between moral and aesthetic engagement."--Poetry  
COURSE: WR-111-03
INSTRUCTOR: OBADIKE 		ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALS & ECCE HOMO
AUTHOR:NIETZSCHE
ISBN:9780679724629
The great philosopher's major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzche's remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann.
COURSE: PHIL-310-01,02
INSTRUCTOR: MCGUIRE
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT DREAMS OF MY FATHER
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JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT
AUTHOR: CELINE
ISBN: 9780811208475
When it was published in 1932, this then-shocking and revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-Century writers.
COURSE: ENGL-457-01-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF 		DREAMS OF MY FATHER
AUTHOR:OBAMA
ISBN: 9781400082773
Elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama was offered a book contract, but the intellectual journey he planned to recount became instead this poignant, probing memoir of an unusual life. Born in 1961 to a white American woman and a black Kenyan student, Obama was reared in Hawaii by his mother and her parents, his father having left for further study and a return home to Africa. So Obama's not-unhappy youth is nevertheless a lonely voyage to racial identity, tensions in school, struggling with black literature?with one month-long visit when he was 10 from his commanding father. After college, Obama became a community organizer in Chicago. He slowly found place and purpose among folks of similar hue but different memory, winning enough small victories to commit himself to the work?he's now a civil rights lawyer there. Before going to law school, he finally visited Kenya; with his father dead, he still confronted obligation and loss, and found wellsprings of love and attachment. Obama leaves some lingering questions?his mother is virtually absent?but still has written a resonant book.
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD
The Namesake But is it Art? An Introduction to Art Theory
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The Namesake
Author: Lahiri
ISBN: 9780618485222
Course: HMS-448-01  
Instructor: Obadike

One of the most anticipated books of the year, Lahiri's first novel (after 1999's Pulitzer Prize-winning Interpreter of Maladies) amounts to less than the sum of its parts. Hopscotching across 25 years, it begins when newlyweds Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli emigrate to Cambridge, Mass., in 1968, where Ashima immediately gives birth to a son, Gogol-a pet name that becomes permanent when his formal name, traditionally bestowed by the maternal grandmother, is posted in a letter from India, but lost in transit. Ashoke becomes a professor of engineering, but Ashima has a harder time assimilating, unwilling to give up her ties to India. A leap ahead to the '80s finds the teenage Gogol ashamed of his Indian heritage and his unusual name, which he sheds as he moves on to college at Yale and graduate school at Columbia, legally changing it to Nikhil. In one of the most telling chapters, Gogol moves into the home of a family of wealthy Manhattan WASPs and is initiated into a lifestyle idealized in Ralph Lauren ads. Here, Lahiri demonstrates her considerable powers of perception and her ability to convey the discomfort of feeling "other" in a world many would aspire to inhabit. After the death of Gogol's father interrupts this interlude, Lahiri again jumps ahead a year, quickly moving Gogol into marriage, divorce and a role as a dutiful if a bit guilt-stricken son. This small summary demonstrates what is most flawed about the novel: jarring pacing that leaves too many emotional voids between chapters. Lahiri offers a number of beautiful and moving tableaus, but these fail to coalesce into something more than a modest family saga. By any other writer, this would be hailed as a promising debut, but it fails to clear the exceedingly high bar set by her previous work.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. 		But is it Art? An Introduction to Art Theory
Author: Freeland
ISBN: 9780192853677
Course: PHIL-265-02
Instructor: Godoy

A survey of everything from aesthetic theory to digital imaging, and of everyone from Goya to Damien Hirst, is packed into seven fast-break chapters here. Freeland (The Naked and the Undead), a philosophy professor at the University of Houston, is familiar enough with the impenetrable art-speak and rhetoric surrounding such issues as identity politics, censorship and public funding not to be intimidated by them; her cut-to-the-chase approach to such critical minefields as the use of bodily fluids in art produces clear and often pungent analysis. Chapters on gender, money and the marketplace, and on the uses and abuses of "primitive" motifs in contemporary art making are models of judicious clarity. And the chapters on the science of perception and the digital revolution display Freeland's equal ease with the vocabularies of scientific research. She can also be tart in her thumb-nail assessments of works (some shown in eight color and 24 b&w plates): '80s painter and filmmaker David Salle "relies on numbingly familiar imagery"; the sainted political artist Hans Haacke is "preachy and boring." But her interest is at all times on explicating issues rather than on rendering facile judgments. If the book suffers from trying to do too much in too small a space, its ambition and usefulness amply justify Freeland's project on its own terms.
Totem and Taboo BAUHAUS 1919-1933
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Totem and Taboo
Author: Freud
ISBN: 9780393001433
Course: HMS-330A-01
Instructor: Verderber/Canning

Totem and Taboo (1913), first published as a series of four articles between 1912 and 1913, is among Freud's most dazzling speculative texts.

Adducing evidence from "primitive" tribes, neurotic women, child patients traversing the oedipal phase, and speculations by Charles Darwin, James G. Frazer, and other modern scholars, Freud attempts to trap the moment that civilized life began. It stands as his most imaginative venture into the psychoanalysis of culture. 		BAUHAUS 1919-1933
AUTHOR: DROSTE
ISBN: 9783822850022
Best of Bauhaus: An in-depth study of the seminal movement in art and architecture...
The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans and models are all part of its comprehensive inventory. The Bauhaus Archiv is dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule für Gestaltung (Institute of Design) in Ulm. This book, drawn from the Archiv's extensive collection, traces this monumental movement in art and architecture via the work of its most important proponents, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee
COURSE: HD-551-03,04
INSTRUCTOR: SCHOENFELD
A HANDFUL OF DUST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED
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A HANDFUL OF DUST
AUTHOR: WAUGH
ISBN: 9780316926058
Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom, and becomes enamoured of a social parasite and professional luncheon-goer.
COURSE: ENGL-457-01-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF 		AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED
AUTHOR:CARSON
ISBN: 9780375701290
Is it poetry? Is it a novel in verse? A fable? A myth? However you define Carson's distinctive and wildly inventive new work, it is riveting reading. At the center of the narrative is a winged red monster named Geryon; throughout, we see him struggling with his family, falling for the indifferent Herakles, and discovering photography as a means of comfort and escape. Wistful yet whimsical, offhand yet intense, funky yet erudite (Carson, a classics professor at McGill, grounds this work in ancient Greek myth), this is a reading experience like no other.
COURSES: ENGL-103-13
INSTRUCTOR: MUHLSTEIN
IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
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IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS
AUTHOR:AUSTER
ISBN: 9780140097054
In a book-length letter home, Anna Blume reports that her search for a long-lost brother has brought her to a vast, unnamed city that is undergoing a catastrophic economic decline. Buildings collapse daily, driving huge numbers of citizens into the streets, where they starve or die of exposureif they aren't murdered by other vagrants first. Government forces haul away the bodies, and licensed scavengers collect trash and precious human waste. Weird cults form around the most popular methods of suicide. Anna tries to help, but the charity group she joins quickly runs out of supplies and has to close its doors. A number of post-apocalyptic novels have been published recently; Auster's, one of the best, is distinguished by an uncanny grasp of the day-to-day realities of homelessness. This is a scary but highly relevant book.
COURSES: ENGL-101-14
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER 		SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE
AUTHOR: DEBORD
ISBN: 9780946061129
The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This is the original translation by Fredy Perlman, kept in print continuously for the last 30 years, keeping the flame alive when no-one else cared.
INSTRUCTOR: MITCHELL
COURSES: FAU-334-01
ANOTHER COUNTRY SOUL ON ICE
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ANOTHER COUNTRY
AUTHOR:BALDWIN
ISBN: 9780679744719
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales,Another Countryis a novel of passions--sexual, racial, political, artistic--that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In a small set of friends, Baldwin imbues the best and worst intentions of liberal America in the early 1970s.
INSTRUCTOR: LEVITSKY
COURSES: HUM-490-14 		SOUL ON ICE
AUTHOR: CLEAVER
ISBN: 9780385333795
The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience.
By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a testament to his unique place in American history. Cleaver writes in Soul on Ice, "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation." What Cleaver shows us, on the pages of this now classic autobiography, is how much he was a man.
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD
CAT'S CRADLE: A NOVEL WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
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CAT'S CRADLE: A NOVEL
AUTHOR: VONNEGUT
ISBN: 9780385333481
One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
COURSE: ENGL-457-01-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF 		WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
AUTHOR: COETZEE
ISBN: 9780143116929
A modern classic, this early novel by Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee centers on the crisis of conscience and morality of the Magistrate-a loyal servant of the Empire working in a tiny frontier town, doing his best to ignore an inevitable war with the "barbarians."  
COURSE: CH-400-07,14
INSTRUCTOR: HOLDER
REGENERATION PALE FIRE
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REGENERATION
AUTHOR: BARKER
ISBN: 9780452270077
In a World War I British military hospital, a pacifist soldier and his doctor grapple with the outrage of war. By the author of Union Street. Reprint. NYT. K.
COURSE: SS-302P-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DURING, HOLDER 		PALE FIRE
AUTHOR: NABOKOV
ISBN: 9780679723424
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
COURSE: ENGL-103-(24)
INSTRUCTOR: REHILL
MUMBO JUMBO Beloved
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MUMBO JUMBO
AUTHOR: REED
ISBN: 9780684824772
A preeminent African-American novelist, essayist, and activist takes an unorthodox look at black and white relations throughout history. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.
COURSE: HUM-412-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER 		Beloved
Author: Morrison
ISBN: 9781400033416
Course: HMS-448-01
Instructor: Obadike

Mixed with the lyric beauty of the writing, the fury in Morrison's (Song of Solomonp latest book is almost palpable. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this haunting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath traces the life of a young woman, Sethe, who has kept a terrible memory at bay only by shutting down part of her mind. Juxtaposed with searing descriptions of brutality, gradually revealed in flashbacks, are equally harrowing scenes in which fantasy takes flesh, a device Morrison handles with consummate skill. The narrative concerns Sethe's former life as a slave on Sweet Home Farm, her escape with her children to what seems a safe haven and the tragic events that ensue. The death of Sethe's infant daughter Beloved is the incident on which the plot hinges, and it is obvious to the reader that the sensuous young woman who mysteriously appears one day is Beloved's spirit, come back to claim Sethe's love. Sethe's surviving daughter, Denver, immediately grasps the significance of Beloved's return and so does Paul Dno period after D, another escapee from Sweet Home; but Sethe herself resists comprehension, and, as a result, a certain loss of tension affects the latter part of the narrative. But this is a small flaw in a novel full of insights, both piercing and tender, with distinctive, memorable characters, flowing prose that conveys speech patterns with musical intensity and a brilliantly conceived story. As a record of white brutality mitigated by rare acts of decency and compassion, and as a testament to the courageous lives of a tormented people, this novel is a milestone in the chronicling of the black experience in America. It is Morrison writing at the height of her considerable powers, and it should not be missed. BOMC main selection. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc
The Vanishing Face of Gaia The Great Gatsby
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia
Author: Lovelock
ISBN: 9780465019076
Course: HMS-101A
Instructor: Verderber

In his sixth book on Gaia, the eminent 91-year-old British scientist who originated the Gaia Theory to explain the interconnectedness between our planet's climate and life takes an elegiac tone and cosmic perspective in predicting our near future. Challenging the scientific consensus of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he believes it is too late to reverse global warming. We must accept that Earth is moving inexorably into a long-term "hot state." Most humans will die off, and we must prepare havens like northern Canada, where some climate refugees can survive. Lovelock rejects the results of climate computer modeling when they clash with scientific observation. For example, he points out that sea levels are rising significantly faster than models predicted. Lovelock advocates solar thermal and nuclear power as the best substitutes for burning fossil fuels, and he suggests emergency global geoengineering projects that might cool the planet. But Lovelock also avows today's ecological efforts are futile. This is a somber prophecy written with an authority that cannot be dismissed. Recommended for all academic and public libraries.—David Conn, Surrey P.L., B.C. 		The Great Gatsby
Author: Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780743273565
Course: HAMS-304B-1
Instructor: Jeffries/Verdeber

The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the "first step" American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised "the charm and beauty of the writing," as well as Fitzgerald's sharp social sense; and Thomas Wolfe hailed it as Fitzgerald's "best work" thus far. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when, The New York Times remarked, "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s that resonates with the power of myth. A novel of lyrical beauty yet brutal realism, of magic, romance, and mysticism, The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of The Great Gatsby, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and authorized by the estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The first edition of The Great Gatsby contained many errors resulting from Fitzgerald's extensive revisions and a rushed production schedule, and subsequent editions introduced further departures from the author's intentions. This critical edition draws on the manuscript and surviving proofs of the novel, along with Fitzgerald's later revisions and corrections, to restore the text to its original form. It is The Great Gatsby as Fitzgerald intended it.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Kesey
ISBN: 9780141181226
Course: HMS-304B-01
Instructor: Jeffries/Verdeber

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned.

With a Preface and Illustrations by the author
Introduction by Robert Faggan 		Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Author: Paley
ISBN: 9780374515249
Course: HMS-304B-01
Instructor: Jeffries/ Verdeber

In this collection of short stories, originally published in 1974, Grace Paley "makes the novel as a form seem virtually redundant" (Angela Carter, London Review of Books). Her stories here capture "the itch of the city, love between parents and children" and "the cutting edge of combat" (Lis Harris, The New York Times Book Review). In this collection of seventeen stories, she creates a "solid and vital fictional world, cross-referenced and dense with life" (Walter Clemons, Newsweek).
Jarhead On Photography
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Jarhead
Author: Swofford
ISBN: 9780743287210
Course: HMS-304B-01
Instructor: Jeffies/Verdeber

In his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family.
When the U.S. Marines—or “jarheads”—were sent to Saudi Arabia in 1990 for the Gulf War, Anthony Swofford was there. He lived in sand for six months; he was punished by boredom and fear; he considered suicide, pulled a gun on a fellow marine, and was targeted by both enemy and friendly fire. As engagement with the Iraqis drew near, he was forced to consider what it means to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man. 		On Photography
Author: Sontag
ISBN: 9780312420093
Course: HA-337-01,02
Instructor: Kreinik

Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.

One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”
Slaughterhouse Five 1984
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Slaughterhouse Five
Author: Vonnegut Jr
ISBN: 9780385333849
Course: HMS-101A-(05)
Instructor: Fow

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. 		1984
Author: Orwell
ISBN: 9780452284234
Courses: HMS-101A
Instuctor: Verderber

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four  is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN BASIC WRITINGS
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HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
AUTHOR: ADICHIE
ISBN:9781400095209
Based loosely on political events in nineteen-sixties Nigeria, this novel focusses on two wealthy Igbo sisters, Olanna and Kainene, who drift apart as the newly independent nation struggles to remain unified. Olanna falls for an imperious academic whose political convictions mask his personal weaknesses; meanwhile, Kainene becomes involved with a shy, studious British expat. After a series of massacres targeting the Igbo people, the carefully genteel world of the two couples disintegrates. Adichie indicts the outside world for its indifference and probes the arrogance and ignorance that perpetuated the conflict. Yet this is no polemic. The characters and landscape are vividly painted, and details are often used to heartbreaking effect: soldiers, waiting to be armed, clutch sticks carved into the shape of rifles; an Igbo mother, in flight from a massacre, carries her daughter's severed head, the hair lovingly braided
COURSE: WR-111-03
INSTRUCTOR: OBADIKE 		BASIC WRITINGS
AUTHOR:HEIDEGGER
ISBN: 9780061627019
Basic Writings is the finest single-volume anthology of the work of Martin Heidegger, widely considered one of the most important modern philosophers. Its selections offer a full range of the influential author's writings—including "The Origin of the Work of Art," the introduction to Being and Time, "What Is Metaphysics?," "Letter on Humanism," "The Question Concerning Technology," "The Way to Language," and "The End of Philosophy." Featuring a foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman, this essential collection provides readers with a concise introduction to the groundbreaking philosophy of this brilliant and essential thinker.
COURSES: PHIL-230-01, PHIL-320-01
INSTRUCTOR: MCGUIRE
The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today THE NEW YORK TRILOGY
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The Human Story: Our History, from the Stone Age to Today
Author: Davis
ISBN: 9780060516208
Course: CH-400-(01,17)
Instructor: Nekola

In The Human Story, James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling how peoples of the world settled down and founded cities, conquered neighbors, and established religions, and continues over the course of history, when they fought two nearly global wars and journeyed into space.
Davis's account is swift and clear, never dull or dry. He lightens it with pungent anecdotes and witty quotes. Although this compact volume may not be hard to pick up, it's definitely hard to put down. 		THE NEW YORK TRILOGY
AUTHOR: AUSTER
ISBN:9780143039839
Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity. In each short novel, a detective figure haunts a man caught up in a web of strange events which he may or may not have orchestrated himself.
Courses: HMS-101A - 22  Instructor: Kubacki
Complete Poems COWS, PIGS, AND WITCHES: THE RIDDLES OF CULTURE
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Complete Poems
AUTHOR: MOORE
ISBN: 9780140188516
This definitive edition contains sixty years of Marianne Moore's poems, incorporating her text revisions and her own entertaining notes that reveal the inspiration for complete poems and individual lines
COURSES: HUM-490-05
INSTRUCTOR: LEVY 		COWS, PIGS, AND WITCHES: THE RIDDLES OF CULTURE
AUTHOR: HARRIS
ISBN:9780679724681
This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think. Harris shows that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from concrete social and economic conditions.
COURSES: SS-490-09
INSTRUCTOR: KARANT
Myths to Live By THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS
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Myths to Live By
Author: Cmpbell
ISBN: 9780140194616
Courses: ARCH-652-03; ARCH-753-03
Instructor: Lobell

The brilliant author of The Masks of God shares his ideas and speculations on our universal myths, in a fascinating, very personal work which explores the enduring power of the myths that influence our lives and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present. 		THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS
AUTHOR:BORGES
ISBN: 9780143039938
The master, writing with sometime collaborator Guerrero, compiled 82 one- and two-page descriptions of everything from "The Borametz" (a Chinese "plant shaped like a lamb, covered with golden fleece") to "The Simurgh" ("an immortal bird that makes its nest in the tree of science") and "The Zaratan" (a particularly cunning whale) in An Anthology of Fantastic Zoology  in 1954. He added 34 more (and illustrations) for a 1967 edition, giving it the present title, and it was published in English in 1969. This edition, with fresh translations from Borges's Collected Fictions  translator Hurley, and new illustrations from Caldecott-winner Sís, gives the beings new life. They prove the perfect foils for classic Borgesian musings on everything from biblical etymology to the underworld, giving the creatures particularly (and, via Sís, whimsically) vivid and perfectly scaled shape. "We do not know what the dragon means, just as we do not know the meaning of the universe," Borges (1899–1986) and Guerrero write in a preface, and the genius of this book is that it seems to easily contain the latter within it.
COURSES: ENGL-103-13
INSTRUCTOR: MUHLSTEIN
White Noise OSCAR WILDE: THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM & OTHER WRITINGS
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White Noise
Author: Delillo
ISBN: 9780143105985
Courses: ENGL-101-14; HMS-101A
Instructor: Verderber

Better than any book I can think of, White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. Naturally, it's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future. 		OSCAR WILDE: THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM & OTHER WRITINGS
AUTHOR:DOWLING
ISBN: 9780140433876
Oscar Wilde-witty raconteur, flamboyant hedonist, and self-destructive lover-is most familiar as the author of brilliant comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and the decadent novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This selection of critical writings reveals a different side of the great writer-the deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and the eloquent and original thinker about society and art. This illuminating collection includes "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," "In Defense of Dorian Gray," reviews, and the writings from Intentions (1891), including "The Decay of Lying," "Pen, Pencil, Poison," and "The Critic as Artist."
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dowling
COURSES: ENGL-101-17,ENGL-101-22
INSTRUCTORS:  POUEYMIROU
ILLUMINATIONS: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS DR. TATITANA'S SEX ADVICE TO ALL CREATION: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF SEX
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ILLUMINATIONS: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS
AUTHOR: BENJAMIN
ISBN: 9780805202410
Studies on contemporary art and culture by one of the most original, critical and analytical minds of this century.
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER
COURSES: HUM-490-01 		DR. TATITANA'S SEX ADVICE TO ALL CREATION: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF SEX
AUTHOR: JUDSON
ISBN:9780805063325
ose looking for prurient prose may be better off browsing their local adult bookstore, but readers intrigued by the bizarre facts surrounding animal whoopee (and really, who isn't?) should pay a visit to Dr. Tatiana, the alter ego of evolutionary biologist and journalist Judson. While her wryly salacious tone makes animal mating habits and evolutionary biology pretty racy, the book still reads more like a textbook than the Kama Sutra. Judson uses a tongue-in-cheek advice column format through much of the book, forging letters from dung flies, iguanas, sagebrush crickets and rodents ("Like, what's the deal? I'm a sleek young California mouse and am so in heat.") to explore reproductive biology. The device can be grating, and purists appalled by anthropomorphism may find themselves cringing as Judson chastises a male splendid fairy wren for philandering, while pronouncing his paddle crab counterpart a "gentleman." Still, Judson gets high marks for her copiously researched data. Perhaps most compelling is her chapter entitled "Aphrodisiacs, Love Potions, and Other Recipes From Cupid's Kitchen," in which the roots of animal homosexuality are examined. The reader will undoubtedly come away with reams of fascinating factoids, such as the nauseating dining habits of tropical cockroaches during copulation, and the pregnancies of the male seahorse and his cousin, the pipefish.
COURSE: SCI-490-04
INSTRUCTOR: JENSEN
THE NEW NEGRO CATCH-22
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THE NEW NEGRO
AUTHOR: LOCKE
ISBN: 9780684838311
This anthology contains works by many of the most important contributers to the Harlem Renaissance. The best parts of the volume are the poetry selections by poets such as Hughes, Cullen, and McKay as well as the essays by Alain Locke. The works by Hurston and Toomer are also quite good. The essays by Locke (especially the New Negro) feature insight into many of the ideas and developments that took place in order to bring about this important historical and cultural movement. This book is a definite must read.
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD 		CATCH-22
AUTHOR: HELLER
ISBN: 9780684833392
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.
COURSE: ENGL-457-01-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DOLOFF
EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM: A REPORT ON THE BANALITY OF EVIL CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES
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EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM: A REPORT ON THE BANALITY OF EVIL
AUTHOR: ARENDT
ISBN: 9780143039884Hannah Arendt’s authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.
COURSE: ENGL-103-19
INSTRUCTOR: POUEYMIROU 		CHRONICLES OF THE CRUSADES
AUTHOR: JOINVILLE, VILLEHARDOUIN
ISBN: 9780140449983
Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin's Conquest of Constantinople, distinguished by its simplicity and lucidity, recounts the controversial Fourth Crusade, which descended into an all-out attack on the E astern Christians of Byzantium. In Life of Saint Louis, Joinville draws on his close attachment to King Louis IX of France to recall his campaigning in the Holy Land. Together these narratives comprise a fascinating window on events that, for all their remoteness, offer startling similarities to our own age.
COURSE: HUM-490-(37)
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER
THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DR. HOFFMAN PETALS OF BLOOD
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THE INFERNAL DESIRE MACHINES OF DR. HOFFMAN
AUTHOR: CARTER
ISBN: 9780140235197
The story of a war fought against the diabolic Doctor Hoffman, who wanted to demolish the structures of reason and liberate man from the chains of the reality principle for ever. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
COURSE: ENGL-103-(01, 04)
INSTRUCTOR: PAPE 		PETALS OF BLOOD
AUTHOR: THIONG'O
ISBN: 9780143039174
The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this fervent, hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. A deceptively simple tale, Petals of Blood is on the surface a suspenseful investigation of a spectacular triple murder in upcountry Kenya.
COURSE: HUM-412-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER
The Broom of the System Vasari on Technique
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The Broom of the System
Author: Wallace
ISBN: 9780143116936
Course: HMS-101A
Instructor: Pecqueur

The year is 1990, and the place Cleveland. Lenore Beadsman works as a telephone operator for Frequent and Vigorous Publishers. Her roommate's name is Candy Mandible, their parrot is Vlad the Impaler, there is a Judith Prietht, and businesses have names like Hunt and Peck. Lenore's great-grandmother and several cronies disappear from their nursing home, and the search for them leads across the Great Ohio Desert (G.O.D.). The novel is largely dialogue, much of it quite funny and perceptive. Obviously not aimed at the Danielle Steel or Robert Ludlum crowds, Wallace's book will appeal to people his age (mid-20s) and to older readers who enjoy trying the unfamiliar. Libraries serving such patrons should consider it. Mary K. Prokop, CEL Regional Lib., Savannah, Ga.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. 		Vasari on Technique
Author: Giorgio Vasari
ISBN: 9780486207179
Courses: HA-402,602,632-(01)
Instructor: Gisolfi

Great craftsman and biographer's full, readable discussions of architecture — orders, pavements, planning and design, etc.; sculpture — modelling in wax and clay, tools and materials used in marble carving, reliefs, bronze figures, etc.; painting — foreshortening, coloring, fresco, tempera, gilding, stained glass windows, niello work, etc. 29 illustrations
LEO AFRICANUS Classic Essays on Photography
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LEO AFRICANUS
AUTHOR: MAALOUF
ISBN: 9781561310227
Written in the form of a memoir, this historical novel explores the meeting of two worldsIslam and Christendomthrough the adventures of real-life Arab traveler and geographer Hassan al-Wazzan. Born in Spain just as the Moors were expelled in 1492, Hassan grows up in North Africa and as a young man crosses the Sahara to Timbuctu, eventually reaching Cairo on the eve of its conquest by the Ottomans. In the last of his sojourns recounted by Maalouf, Hassan arrives in the Rome of Pope Leo X, who christens him Leo Africanus. Chronicling the loves and adventures of his wandering protagonist, the author deftly weaves into Hassan's account a score of the traveler's more famous contemporaries, including Columbus, the Medicis, Martin Luther, and Suleiman the Magnificent. Enjoyable reading for general readers. L.M. Lewis, Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
COURSE: CH-300, CH-400-(07,14)
INSTRUCTOR: HOLDER 		Classic Essays on Photography
Author: Trachtenberg
ISBN: 9780918172082
Course: FA-688-01
Instructor: Goodman

Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.
PICASSO ON ART: A SELECTION OF VIEWS WHY BUILDINGS FALL DOWN: WHY STRUCTURES FAIL
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PICASSO ON ART: A SELECTION OF VIEWS
AUTHOR: ASHTON
ISBN: 9780306803307
An engaging, if not wholly cohesive, account of Picasso's sayings and writings about art, but more. The strength of the book comes when he speaks on art. The ancilliary issues that come up serve to round out the figure of Picasso more, but may not quite be the art treatise you're looking for.
COURSES:HA-511-01, 511-02
INSTRUCTORS:  MORTON 		WHY BUILDINGS FALL DOWN: WHY STRUCTURES FAIL
AUTHORS: SALVADORI, LEVY
ISBN: 9780393311525
Although modern technologies and new materials have greatly decreased the number of structural failures in today's world, buildings still fall down. Two world-renowned structural engineers take us on an enlightening guided tour through the history of architectural and structural disasters, from ancient times to the present. B/W line drawings.
COURSE: A-567P-(01), CM-352P-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: DUNNE
THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES The Portable Arthur Miller
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THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES
AUTHOR: CAMPBELL
ISBN: 9780691017846
Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.
As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.
As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists—including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers—and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.
COURSE: HUM-440B-01
INSTRUCTOR: ROSENTHAL 		The Portable Arthur Miller
Author: Miller
ISBN: 9780140247091
Course: HMS-304B-01
Instructor: Jeffries/Verbeber

A rich cross section of 60 years of writing from one of this century's most influential playwrights, this classic collection contains in full the masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. It is now expanded to include his most recent play, Broken Glass, as well as previously unpublished early works and a radio play thought lost for years.
DON QUIXOTE The Shape of Time, 1962
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DON QUIXOTE
AUTHOR: CERANTES
ISBN: 9780393317756
There would seem to be little reason for yet another translation of Don Quixote. Translated into English some 20 times since the novel appeared in two parts in 1605 and 1615, and at least five times in the last half-century, it is currently available in multiple editions (the most recent is the 1999 Norton Critical Edition translated by Burton Raffel). Yet Grossman bravely attempts a fresh rendition of the adventures of the intrepid knight Don Quixote and his humble squire Sancho Panza. As the respected translator of many of Latin America's finest writers (among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa), she is well suited to the task, and her translation is admirably readable and consistent while managing to retain the vigor, sly humor and colloquial playfulness of the Spanish. Erring on the side of the literal, she isn't afraid to turn out clunky sentences; what she loses in smoothness and elegance she gains in vitality. The text is free of archaisms the contemporary reader will rarely stumble over a word and the footnotes (though rather erratically supplied) are generally helpful. Her version easily bests Raffel's ambitious but eccentric and uneven effort, and though it may not immediately supplant standard translations by J.M. Cohen, Samuel Putnam and Walter Starkie, it should give them a run for their money. Against the odds, Grossman has given us an honest, robust and freshly revelatory Quixote for our times.
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER
COURSES: HUM-490-01 		The Shape of Time, 1962
Author: Kubler
ISBN: 9780300100617
Course: HA-402,602,632-(01)
Instructor: Gisolfi

When it was first released in 1962, The Shape of Time  presented a radically new approach to the study of art history. Drawing upon new insights in fields such as anthropology and linguistics, George Kubler replaced the notion of style as the basis for histories of art with the concept of historical sequence and continuous change across time. Kubler’s classic work is now made available in a freshly designed edition.
THE CRAFT OF RESEARCH 3RD EDITION The Chicago Guide to Writing About Numbers
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THE CRAFT OF RESEARCH 3RD EDITION
AUTHOR: BOOTH
ISBN: 9780226065663
With more than 400,000 copies now in print, The Craft of Research is the unrivaled resource for researchers at every level, from first-year undergraduates to research reporters at corporations and government offices.
Seasoned researchers and educators Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams present an updated third edition of their classic handbook, whose first and second editions were written in collaboration with the late Wayne C. Booth. The Craft of Research explains how to build an argument that motivates readers to accept a claim; how to anticipate the reservations of readers and to respond to them appropriately; and how to create introductions and conclusions that answer that most demanding question, “So what?”
The third edition includes an expanded discussion of the essential early stages of a research task: planning and drafting a paper. The authors have revised and fully updated their section on electronic research, emphasizing the need to distinguish between trustworthy sources (such as those found in libraries) and less reliable sources found with a quick Web search. A chapter on warrants has also been thoroughly reviewed to make this difficult subject easier for researchers
Throughout, the authors have preserved the amiable tone, the reliable voice, and the sense of directness that have made this book indispensable for anyone undertaking a research project.
COURSE: ENGL-103-33
INSTRUCTOR: FREY 		The Chicago Guide to Writing About Numbers
Author: Miller
ISBN: 9780226526317
Course: PLAN-650-01, PLAN-650-02
Instructor: Martin

People who work well with numbers are often stymied by how to write about them. Those who don't often work with numbers have an even tougher time trying to put them into words. For instance, scientists and policy analysts learn to calculate and interpret numbers, but not how to explain them to a general audience. Students learn about gathering data and using statistical techniques, but not how to write about their results. And readers struggling to make sense of numerical information are often left confused by poor explanations. Many books elucidate the art of writing, but books on writing about numbers are nonexistent.
Until now. Here, Jane Miller, an experienced research methods and statistics teacher, gives writers the assistance they need. The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers helps bridge the gap between good quantitative analysis and good expository writing. Field-tested with students and professionals alike, this book shows writers how to think about numbers during the writing process.
Miller begins with twelve principles that lay the foundation for good writing about numbers. Conveyed with real-world examples, these principles help writers assess and evaluate the best strategy for representing numbers. She next discusses the fundamental tools for presenting numbers—tables, charts, examples, and analogies—and shows how to use these tools within the framework of the twelve principles to organize and write a complete paper.
By providing basic guidelines for successfully using numbers in prose, The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers will help writers of all kinds clearly and effectively tell a story with numbers as evidence. Readers and writers everywhere will be grateful for this much-needed mentor.
The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History As I Lay Dying
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The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History
Author:McNeill
ISBN: 9780393925685
Course:CH-300-03
Instructor: Brownell

The spread of agriculture, the growth of world religions and the rise of European civilization to world dominance are some of the themes explored in this engrossing addition to the distinctive McNeill brand of broad-brush macro-history. The motor of history this time is the growing "web" of interactions-weaving together hunter-gatherer bands, then civilizations and finally the whole world-by which people, goods, diseases and ideas spread. As it binds ever more people ever more tightly, the web both brings them into conflict and lets them share and build on each other's achievements; thus Columbus's extension of the web to the Americas led to conquest but also to the exchange of New World potatoes and maize for Old World horses and smallpox. The father-son historian duo also revisit ideas from William's previous books, discussing the co-evolution of humans and microbes, the uneasy symbiosis between warrior elites and the farmers they protect and exploit, and the social solidarity imparted by group singing and dancing. More ecological than humanistic, the McNeill outlook sees conflict and cooperation as twin outcomes of the struggle for survival that drives developments in technology, political organization, social habits and even religious beliefs. This approach can be reductionist (Europe's vibrant civil society is said to spring from its use of mold-board plows); and as impersonal historical meta-agents go, the trendy "web" conceit is less substantive and fertile than other McNeill brainstorms. Still, this concise and beautifully written synthesis brims with revealing insights that make history comprehensible and enthralling. 25 illus., maps.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc 		As I Lay Dying
Author: Faulkner
ISBN: 9780393931389
Course: HMS-304B-01
Instructor: Jeffries/Verderber

This best-selling text has guided tens of thousands of art students through the writing process.  Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and are prepared with the tools they need to present their ideas through effective writing.
The Will to Power Matisse & Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendship
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The Will to Power
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780394704371
Course: PHIL-320-01
Instructor: McGuire

Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others. 		Mattisse & Picasso: The Story of their Rivalry and Friendship
Author: Flam
ISBN: 9780813390468
Courses:HA-511-01, 511-02
Instructor: Morton

Timed to coincide roughly with the opening of the blockbuster Matisse-Picasso exhibition's third and final stop, at New York's MoMA QNS (February-May), this volume examines the enmity and amity between the 20th century's two greatest painters, mostly as evidenced by their art. Despite the subtitle, Flam, who brilliantly edited Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, is much less interested in the endlessly chronicled lives of his subjects than in the work; sentences like "When Matisse returned from Morocco that spring, he was full of turbulent emotions, and he created some of his most memorable and original works" simply serve as transitions to the next phase of work-on which Flam is terrific. In one passage, he finds the word "NON" ("a symmetrical word that asserts its negation in both directions") painted into the window grillwork between the husband-and-wife of Matisse's 1912 Conversation-a word that had been showing up in Picasso's work for the previous year. Flam locates similarly productive appropriations and reappropriations between the two painters over the years, so that anyone standing in line for the exhibition in Queens will profit from at least flipping through this direct, jargon-free study
Frank O'Hara: Selected Poems The Portable Nietzsche
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Selected Poems
Author:O'Hara
ISBN: 9780375711480
Courses: HMS-301S-01; ENGL-330-(01)
Instructor: Levy

The first new selection of O’Hara’s work to come along in several decades. In this “marvellous compilation” (The New Yorker), editor Mark Ford reacquaints us with one of the most joyous and innovative poets of the postwar period. 		The Portable Nietzsche
Author: Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780140150629
Course: PHIL-320-01
Instructor: McGuire

The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world’s leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, “Few writers in any age were so full of ideas,” and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted.

The Portable Nietzsche includes Kaufmann’s definitive translations of the complete and unabridged texts of Nietzsche’s four major works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, Nietzsche Contra Wagner and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In addition, Kaufmann brings together selections from his other books, notes, and letters, to give a full picture of Nietzsche’s development, versatility, and inexhaustibility.
Basic Writings of Nietzsche THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS
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The Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Author: Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780679783398
Course: PHIL-320-01
Instructor: McGuire

One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce Homo. Edited and translated by the great Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann, this volume provides a definitive guide to the full range of Nietzsche's thought.Included also are seventy-five aphorisms, selections from Nietzsche's correspondence, and variants from drafts for Ecce Homo. 		THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS
AUTHOR: STEVENS
ISBN: 9780679726692

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains:
- "Harmonium"
- "Ideas of Order"
- "The Man With the Blue Guitar"
- "Parts of the World"
- "Transport Summer"
- "The Auroras of Autumn"
- "The Rock"
COURSES: HUM-490-05
INSTRUCTOR: LEVY
Bright Earth: Art & the Invention of Color Either/Or
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Bright Earth: Art & the Invention of Color
Author: Ball
ISBN:9780226036281
Courses: MSCI-230P-01
Instructor: Kehlet

From Egyptian wall paintings to the Venetian Renaissance, impressionism to digital images, Phillip Ball tells the fascinating story of how art, chemistry, and technology have interacted throughout the ages to render the gorgeous hues we admire on our walls and in our museums. 		Either/Or
Author: Kierkegaard
ISBN:9780140445770
Courses: PHIL-320-01, 02
Instructor: McGuire

In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama, boredom, and, in the famous Seducer's Diary, the cynical seduction and ultimate rejection of a young, beautiful woman. A masterpiece of duality, Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical - both meditating ironically and seductively upon Epicurean pleasures, and eloquently expounding the noble virtues of a morally upstanding life.
A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS Nothing if Not Critical
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A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS
AUTHOR: BRAUDELL
ISBN: 9780140124897
Braudel was the most prominent member of the Annales school of history in post-World War II France. This history, originally published in 1963 as part of curriculum reform for French secondary students, was eventually judged by French school teachers as too hard for their students and was withdrawn. More than half the book is devoted to the development of Western civilization, and despite the judgment of French school teachers, it is suitable for serious high school students along with undergraduate and public libraries.
COURSES: CH-300-08, CH-300-09
ISNTRUCTOR: DRAGOMIR 		Nothing if Not Critical
Author:  Hughes
ISBN: 9780140165241
Course: FA-600-02
Instructor: Goodman

This collection of magazine reviews and essays, first published in 1990, serves as a short course in the development of American and European art over the last few centuries. The eye is keen, the mind is thoroughly grounded in art history and tradition, and the writing is lucid and provocative. Hughes wrote the magazine pieces while working as the art critic for Time Magazine.
TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHY JACOB'S ROOM
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TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
AUTHOR: FLUSSER
ISBN: 9781861890764
As both an art medium and a way to record events, photography has become ubiquitous in our increasingly image-driven culture since its invention in the early 1800s. These two interesting books take a serious academic look at how photography has influenced culture. Prague-born philosopher Flusser (1920-91) concerned himself with design, communication, and language. His illuminating essays, originally published in German in 1983, are offered in English for the first time. Flusser describes a world fundamentally changed by the invention of the "technical image" and the mechanisms that support and define industrialized modern culture. He argues that whereas ideas were previously interpreted by written account, the invention of photography allows the creation of images (ideas) taken at face value as truth, not interpretation that can be endlessly replicated and spread worldwide. His essays identify players in this model (his lexicon includes the Apparatus, the Functionary, and the Technical Image) and warn of rising illiteracy owing to an uncritical faith in photography's "reality." Flusser does not speak of specific photographs or images but of the larger forces at work in the increasingly technical and automated world. Unlike Flusser, Batchen (art and art history, Univ. of New Mexico) delves intricately into individual works to explicate his thoughts, digging into such topics as the invention of photography, the medium's impending demise, photography about photography, and "da(r)ta" digital art that comments on its own structure. Conveying a deep respect for the importance of photography, he laments the way images have become commodities in the digital age. Batchen also explores the history of photography and looks at larger cultural forces from within the framework of the medium. This collection of nine recent essays of various origins (with thorough notes and index) contains some repetition, but that small complaint is outweighed by Batchen's compelling arguments and analyses. Of interest to photographers, historians, and philosophers, both books will serve multiple audiences and are recommended for academic and large public libraries.
COURSE: HUM-412-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER 		JACOB'S ROOM
AUTHOR: WOOLF
ISBN: 9780393926323
"Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's experimental third novel, set in England as the country moves inex- orably toward the outbreak of World War I. The text reprinted in this Norton Critical Edition is the first British edition produced by the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press, with the original layout and paragraph spacing." "A generous Contexts section provides extracts from Woolf's diaries and letters as well as comments on the novel from her fellow writers and friends, among them E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot. Three of Woolf's short stories - "The Mark on the Wall," "Kew Gardens," and "An Unwritten Novel" - are included, allowing readers to trace Woolf's experimentation with the new narrative method she used in Jacob's Room. A fourth short story, "A Woman's College from Outside," was originally intended by Woolf to be Chapter 10 of Jacob's Room and is therefore also reprinted in this volume. Finally, Woolf's classic essay "Modern Novels" provides insight into her literary aesthetic and technique."
INSTRUCTOR: CULLEU-DUPONT
COURSE NUMBER:ENGL-103(AP)-03. ENGL-103-(AP)-08
IMAGINATIONS CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE
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IMAGINATIONS
AUTHOR: WILLIAMS
ISBN:9780811202299
William Carlos Williams' "Imaginations" collects five complete works of the great american poet. As excursions into experimental literature these five examples cannot be beat. The compelling and lucid examinations of the working imagination by one of the best acrobats of the imagination. All originally published in small editions and finally available again as they were before being hacked up into selected works and anthologies. "Spring and All" contains many of William's best-loved poems as they appeared with the original experimental prose that was in itself a manifesto of imagination. "The Descent of Winter" is poetry, fiction, criticism and personal journal all in one and is exquisitely beautiful and deeply insightful as a portrait of an unusually gifted artist and man.
COURSES: HUM-490-05
INSTRUCTOR: LEVY 		CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE
AUTHOR: SUMMERSON
ISBN: 9780262690126
In this book, the author's purpose is to set out as simply and vividly as possible the exact grammatical workings of this architectural language. He is less concerned with its development in Greece and Rome than with its expansion and use in the centuries since the Renaissance. He explains the vigorous discipline of 'the orders' and the scope of 'rustication'; the dramatic deviations of the Baroque and, in the last chapter, the relationship between the classical tradition and the 'modern' architecture of today. The book is intended for anybody who cares for architecture but more specifically for students beginning a course in the history of architecture, to whom a guide to the classical rules will be an essential companion.
Courses: HA-551-07/HA-551-10 Instructor: NAPOLI
HOW TO WRITE A BA THESIS CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE
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HOW TO WRITE A BA THESIS: A Practical Guide from Your First Ideas to Your Finished Paper (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
AUTHOR: LIPSON
ISBN: 9780226481265
The senior thesis is the capstone of a college education, but writing one can be a daunting prospect. Students need to choose their own topic and select the right adviser. Then they need to work steadily for several months as they research, write, and manage a major independent project. Now there's a mentor to help. How to Write a BA Thesis is a practical, friendly guide written by Charles Lipson, an experienced professor who has guided hundreds of students through the thesis-writing process.
This book offers step-by-step advice on how to turn a vague idea into a clearly defined proposal, then a draft paper, and, ultimately, a polished thesis. Lipson also tackles issues beyond the classroom-from good work habits to coping with personal problems that interfere with research and writing.
Filled with examples and easy-to-use highlighted tips, the book also includes handy time schedules that show when to begin various tasks and how much time to spend on each. Convenient checklists remind students which steps need special attention, and a detailed appendix, filled with examples, shows how to use the three main citation systems in the humanities and social sciences: MLA, APA, and Chicago.
How to Write a BA Thesis will help students work more comfortably and effectively-on their own and with their advisers. Its clear guidelines and sensible advice make it the perfect text for thesis workshops. Students and their advisers will refer again and again to this invaluable resource. From choosing a topic to preparing the final paper, How to Write a BA Thesis helps students turn a daunting prospect into a remarkable achievement.
COURSE: CST-300-01
INSTRUCTOR: HOLDER 		CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE
AUTHOR: SUMMERSON
ISBN: 9780262690126
Classical architecture is a visual 'language' and like any other language has its own grammatical rules. Classical buildings as widely spaced in time as a Roman temple, an Italian Renaissance palace and a Regency house all show an awareness of these rules even if they vary them, break them or poetically contradict them. Sir Christopher Wren described them as the 'Latin' of architecture and the analogy is almost exact. There is the difference, however, that whereas the learning of Latin is a slow and difficult business, the language of classical architecture is relatively simple. It is still, to a great extent, the mode of expression of our urban surroundings, since classical architecture was the common language of the western world till comparatively recent times. Anybody to whom architecture makes a strong appeal has probably already discovered something of its grammar for himself.
INSTRUCTOR: NAPOLI
COURSES: HA-551-07, HA-551-10
DIGITIZING RACE: VISUAL CULTURES OF THE INTERNET (ELECTRONIC MEDIATIONS) TACTIAL MEDIA
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DIGITIZING RACE: VISUAL CULTURES OF THE INTERNET (ELECTRONIC MEDIATIONS)
AUTHOR: NAKAMURA
ISBN: 9780816646135
In the nineties, neoliberalism simultaneously provided the context for the Internet’s rapid uptake in the United States and discouraged public conversations about racial politics. At the same time many scholars lauded the widespread use of text-driven interfaces as a solution to the problem of racial intolerance. Today’s online world is witnessing text-driven interfaces such as e-mail and instant messaging giving way to far more visually intensive and commercially driven media forms that not only reveal but showcase people’s racial, ethnic, and gender identity.
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER
COURSES: HUM-490-01 		TACTICAL MEDIA
AUTHOR: RALEY
ISBN: 9780816651511
Tactical media describes interventionist media art practices that engage and critique the dominant political and economic order. Rather than taking to the streets and staging spectacular protests, the practitioners of tactical media engage in an aesthetic politics of disruption, intervention, and education. In Tactical Media, Rita Raley provides a critical exploration of the new media art activism that has emerged out of, and in direct response to, postindustrialism and neoliberal globalization.
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER
COURSES: HUM-490-01
WAR AND CINEMA THE LOGISTICS OF PERCEPTION The Ice Palace that Melted Away
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WAR AND CINEMA THE LOGISTICS OF PERCEPTION
AUTHOR: VIRILIO
ISBN: 9781844673469
A rich and suggestive analysis of military "ways of seeing," revealing the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.
INSTRUCTOR: BELLER
COURSES: HUM-490-01 		The Ice Palace that Melted Away
Author: Stumpf
ISBN: 9780375402210
Course: IND-612A-01, IND-612A-02
Instructors: Yoo/Hannah

The ice palace of the title was an elaborate castle in St. Paul made up of 350-pound blocks of ice enclosing colored electric lights. The labor of architects, engineers and electricians was donated, and for Stumpf it symbolizes a sense of community and the love of play and pleasure that used to characterize America, in contrast to today's emphasis on speed, utility and function. In a sometimes rambling, occasionally crotchety, often nostalgic, but consistently engaging book, Stumpf exhorts us to recapture those qualities that he classifies as "civility." The term is stretched somewhat out of shape to include "grace, comfort, hidden goodness, social lubrication, personal worth, and helping others" as well as joy, compassion, trust and good will. Being a designer himself, Stumpf sees design as the means for transforming society to the ideal of civilityAhumane design of "things, places, and paths." This includes everything from 747s with domes to supermarket bags with handles, fresh baked bread at McDonald's to clear sight lines in cinemas, eating uninjected sweet corn to designing a way of growing old. Since Stimpf defines design as giving order to objects, community, environment and behavior, perhaps this breadth is justified. However, too much may be claimed for the power of good design to transform life, and the world of the past may not have been all that exemplary. Things aren't what they used to be, but then they never were.
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Recording Conceptual Art SELECTED WRITINGS OF GERTRUDE STEIN
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Author: Patricia Norvell
ISBN: 05202200110

Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals--eight artists and one art dealer--are now known as major contributors to Conceptual art. These fascinating dialogues, conducted by Patricia Norvell, provide tantalizing moments of spontaneous philosophizing and brilliant insights, as well as moments of unabashed self-importance, with highly imaginative and colorful individuals 		SELECTED WRITINGS OF GERTRUDE STEIN
AUTHOR: STEIN
ISBN: 9780679724643
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen.
COURSES: HUM-490-15-01
INSTRUCTOR:LEVY
The Sickness Unto Death A POCKET GUIDE TO WRITING IN HISTORY
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The Sickness Unto Death
Author: Kierkegaard
ISBN:9780691020280
Courses: PHIL-320-01,02
Instructor: McGuire

The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes. 		A POCKET GUIDE TO WRITING IN HISTORY
AUTHOR: RAMPOLLA
ISBN: 9780312535032
A portable and affordable reference tool, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History  provides reading, writing, and research advice useful to students in all history courses. Concise yet comprehensive advice on approaching typical history assignments, developing critical reading skills, writing effective history papers, conducting research, using and documenting sources, and avoiding plagiarism — enhanced with practical tips and examples throughout — have made this slim reference a best-seller. Now in its sixth edition, the book offers more coverage of working with sources than ever before.
COURSES: CH-300-07
INSTRUCTOR: CHENPITAYATON
BEAUTY Air Guitar
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BEAUTY
AUTHOR: SCRUTON
ISBN: 9780199559527
"Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane," writes Roger Scruton. "It can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend." In a book that is itself beautifully written, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful. This compact volume is filled with insight and Scruton has something interesting and original to say on almost every page. Can there be dangerous beauties, corrupting beauties, and immoral beauties? Perhaps so. The prose of Flaubert, the imagery of Baudelaire, the harmonies of Wagner, Scruton points out, have all been accused of immorality, by those who believe that they paint wickedness in alluring colors.
COURSES: PHIL-604-01
INSTRUCTOR: MCGUIRE 		Air Guitar
Author: Hickey
ISBN: 9780963726452
Course: FA-600-02
Instructor: Goodman

The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar  trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as the America they depict. Air Guitar pioneered a kind of plain-talking in cultural criticism, willingly subjective and always candid and direct. A valuable reading tool for art lovers, neophytes, students and teachers alike, Hickey's book--now in its third edition--has galvanized a generation of art lovers, with new takes on Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol and Perry Mason. In June 2009, Newsweek voted Air Guitar  one of the top 50 books that "open a window on the times we live in, whether they deal directly with the issues of today or simply help us see ourselves in new and surprising ways," and described the book as "a seamless blend of criticism, personal history, and a deep appreciation for the sheer nuttiness of American life."
Dave Hickey (born 1939) is one of today's most revered and widely read art writers. He has written for Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum and Vanity Fair among many others.
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SELECTED WRITINGS OF GERTRUDE STEIN A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD: FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM, NEW EDITION
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SELECTED WRITINGS OF GERTRUDE STEIN
AUTHOR: STEIN
ISBN: 9780679724643
"This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen.
INSTRUCTOR: LEVY
COURSES: HUM-490-05 		A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE WORLD: FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM, NEW EDIDTION
AUTHOR: HARMAN
ISBN: 9781844672387
Ambitious, provocative and invigorating, A People's History of the World delivers a vital corrective to traditional history, as well as a powerful sense of the deep currents of humanity which surge beneath the froth of government.
COURSE: CH-300-(01)
INSTRUCTOR: CLEGG
THE WHITE ROSE: MUNICH 1942-1943 The Photograph as Contemporary Art
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THE WHITE ROSE: MUNICH 1942-1943
AUTHOR: SCHOLL
ISBN: 9780819560865
"The existence of an organized resistance in Germany during the Third Reich has often been glossed over or ignored . . . Now for the first time this fascinating story, told by the surviving sister of two of the students, is available in accurate and readable English"--Library Journal
"A sad and beautiful book; timely and timeless"--Wall Street Journal
COURSE: ENGL-103-19
INSTRUCTOR: POUEYMIROU 		The Photograph as Contemporary Art
Author: Cohen
ISBN: 9780500204016
Course: FA-688
Instructor: Goodman

For this new edition, Charlotte Cotton brings the story of contemporary art photography up to date with a chapter on artists who emphasize the physical and material properties of photography, who use photography as just one component in their pan-media practice, or who choose to experiment with new modes of dissemination for their work.
The World From 1450 to 1700 Photography, Essays and Images: Illustrated Readings in the History of Photography
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The World From 1450 to 1700
Author: Wills
ISBN: 9780195337976
Course: SS-300-21
Instructor: Bradley

In The World from 1450 to 1700, historian John Wills takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating and tumultuous periods in world history. Assuming a global perspective, rather than the traditional Eurocentric view, Wills traces the interwoven changes that led from the world of Columbus, Luther, and the Mughal emperor Babur to the world of Locke, Louis XIV, and the Kangxi emperor. The book's multi-centered approach explores historical events not in isolation but rather in a dynamic nexus of connections ranging from the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation to the Sikh, Hindu, and Confucian revivals; from the transformation of Japan in 1600 to the forced migrations of millions of African slaves; from the English Civil War and expanding Qing and Muscovite empires in Asia to new forms of scientific knowledge and parliamentary democracy in Europe. It is an interlocking world of change and movement, innovation and conquest, and Wills marshals his extraordinary narrative skill and breadth of learning to bring this period vibrantly to life. 		Photography, Essays and Images: Illustrated Readings in the History of Photography
Author: Newhall
ISBN: 9780870703850
Course: HA-337-01,02
Instructor: Kreinik
ON LYNCHINGS The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
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ON LYNCHIING
AUTHOR: WELLS-BARNETT
ISBN: 9781591020080
Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to Blacks, their social oppression continued long afterward. The most virulent form of this ongoing persecution was the practice of lynching. During the 1880s and 1890s, more than one hundred African Americans per year were lynched, and in 1892 alone the toll of murdered men and women reached a peak of 161.
In that awful year, Ida B. Wells (1862-1931), the editor of a small newspaper for Blacks in Memphis, Tennessee, raised one lone voice of protest, charging that White businessmen had instigated three local lynchings against their Black competitors. In retaliation, her editorial office was ransacked and she was forced to flee the South and move to New York City.
So began a crusade against lynching that became the focus of Wells-Barnett's long, active, and very courageous life. In New York she published "Southern Horrors," her first pamphlet on the subject. Later, after moving to Chicago and marrying lawyer Ferdinand Barnett, she brought out the pamphlets "A Red Record" and "Mob Rule in New Orleans." Anticipating possible accusations of distortion, she was careful to present factually accurate evidence and she deliberately relied on Southern White sources as well as statistics gathered by the "Chicago Tribune."
All three of these documents are here collected. Wells-Barnett's work remains important to this day not only as a cry of protest against injustice but also as valuable historical documentation of terrible crimes that must never be forgotten.
COURSE: HUM-420-01
INSTRUCTOR: WOODARD 		The Science Fiction Hall of Fame
Author: Silverberg
ISBN: 9780765305374
Course: HMS(300B)-01
Instructor: Doloff

The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929-1964.
This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for The Science Fiction Hall Fame are the men and women who have shaped the body and heart of modern science fiction; their brilliantly imaginative creations continue to inspire and astound new generations of writers and fans.
THE FALL OF ROME: AND THE END OF CIVILIZATION Being and Time
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THE FALL OF ROME: AND THE END OF CIVILIZATION
AUTHOR:PERKINS
ISBN: 9780192807281
In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time of horror and dislocation that destroyed a great civilization, throwing the inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of prehistoric times. Attacking contemporary theories with relish and making use of modern archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans, who were caught in a world of marauding barbarians, and economic collapse. The book recaptures the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminds us of the very real terrors of barbarian occupation. Equally important, Ward-Perkins contends that a key problem with the new way of looking at the end of the ancient world is that all difficulty and awkwardness is smoothed out into a steady and positive transformation of society. Nothing ever goes badly wrong in this vision of the past. The evidence shows otherwise.
COURSES: ENGL-101-14
INSTRUCTOR: VERDERBER 		Being and Time
Author: Heidegger
ISBN:9780061575594
Course: SS490-07
Instructor: McGuire

"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought—Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account."
Being and Nothingness RSVP: The Directory of Illustration and Design 30th anniversary ed.
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Being and Nothingness
Author: Sartre
ISBN:978-0671867805
Course: SS-490
Instructor: McGuire

Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Though the book is thick, dense, and unfriendly to careless readers, it is indispensable to those interested in the philosophy of consciousness and free will. Some of his arguments are fallacious, others are unclear, but for the most part Sartre's thoughts penetrate deeply into fundamental philosophical territory. Basing his conception of self-consciousness loosely on Heidegger's "being," Sartre proceeds to sharply delineate between conscious actions ("for themselves") and unconscious ("in themselves"). It is a conscious choice, he claims, to live one's life "authentically" and in a unified fashion, or not--this is the fundamental freedom of our lives.COURSE: SS490-07 		Authors: Richard Lebenson, Kathleen Creighton
ISBN: 1878118145

The 30th and last edition of the annual classic