Rich's bookshelf: all en-US Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:36:25 -0700 60 Rich's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day]]> 74145 174 E.A. Wallis Budge 0811807673 Rich 0 to-read, religion 4.14 -1500 The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
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]]> <![CDATA[The Forged Coupon (Hesperus Classics)]]> 125390 Inescapably in thrall to the power his crimes bring him, Stepan goes further and further down the path of evil, relentlessly seeking new opportunities to murder and maim. When, however, one of his victims refuses to surrender to him, instead dying with pity on her lips, he finds himself haunted by her image. Suddenly, he is faced with the choice of continuing a life of crime, or facing up to his actions and their certain consequences. Leo Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, is one of Russia’s greatest novelists.]]> 96 Leo Tolstoy 1843911353 Rich 3 literature, post-law-school 3.88 1911 The Forged Coupon (Hesperus Classics)
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]]> After the Ball 17934775 After supper I danced the promised quadrille with her, and though I had been infinitely happy before, I grew still happier every moment. We did not speak of love. I neither asked myself nor her whether she loved me. It was quite enough to know that I loved her. And I had only one fear - that something might come to interfere with my great joy.

After the Dance was written as a protest against human cruelty and tyranny. The short story was originally intended to be published in a book to help the Jews affected by the pogrom in Chisinau in 1903. But Tolstoy didn't finish it in time and so the story wasn't published until 1911, the year after his death.]]> 15 Leo Tolstoy Rich 4 post-law-school, literature 3.66 1911 After the Ball
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]]> Polikushka 2818247 80 Leo Tolstoy 1425478700 Rich 4 literature 3.46 1862 Polikushka
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]]> Three Deaths 9505913 21 Leo Tolstoy Rich 2 literature, post-law-school 3.33 1859 Three Deaths
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wood-Felling, The Raid, and Other Stories (Russian Edition)]]> 24958970 266 Leo Tolstoy Rich 3 literature, post-law-school 3.68 1855 The Wood-Felling, The Raid, and Other Stories (Russian Edition)
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]]> The Raid 125838 48 Leo Tolstoy 1425477593 Rich 3 literature, post-law-school 3.33 1853 The Raid
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]]> The Death of Ivan Ilych 18386
How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.]]> 86 Leo Tolstoy Rich 2 literature, post-law-school 4.12 1886 The Death of Ivan Ilych
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]]> <![CDATA[North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence]]> 1639877
The editors argue that a failure to acknowledge the roles of warfare and violence in the lives of indigenous North Americans is itself a vestige of colonial repression—depriving native warriors of their history of armed resistance. These essays document specific acts of Native American violence across the North American continent. Including contributions from anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and ethnographers, they argue not only that violence existed but also that it was an important and frequently celebrated component of Amerindian life.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza

1.Traditional Native Warfare in Western Alaska
Ernest S. Burch Jr.

2.Barbarism and Ardour of War from the Tenderest Years�: Cree-Inuit Warfare in the Hudson Bay Region
Charles A. Bishop and Victor P. Lytwyn

3.Aboriginal Warfare on the Northwest Did the Potlatch Replace Warfare?
Joan A. Lovisek

4.Ethnohistoric Descriptions of Chumash Warfare
John R. Johnson

5.Documenting Conflict in the Prehistoric Pueblo Southwest
Polly Schaafsma

6.Cahokia and the Evidence for Late Pre-Columbian War in the North American Midcontinent
Thomas E. Emerson

7.Iroquois-Huron Warfare
Dean R. Snow

8.Desecrating the Sacred Ancestor Chiefly Conflict and Violence in the American Southeast
David H. Dye and Adam King

9.Warfare, Population, and Food Production in Prehistoric Eastern North America
George R. Milner

10.The Osteological Evidence for Indigenous Warfare in North America
Patricia M. Lambert

11.Ethical Considerations and Conclusions Regarding Indigenous Warfare and Violence in North America
Richard J. Chacon and Rubén G. Mendoza

References
About the Contributors
Index]]> 294 Richard J. Chacon 0816525323 Rich 0 to-read 4.33 2007 North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence
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]]> <![CDATA[Delphi Complete Works of Caravaggio]]> 22692642 329 Rich 5 art, post-law-school 4.31 2014 Delphi Complete Works of Caravaggio
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]]> <![CDATA[Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco]]> 781182 592 Bryan Burrough 0060536357 Rich 4 4.26 1989 Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner]]> 5915235
The derrotero was subsequently translated, and one of the buccaneers, Basil Ringrose, added a text to the compilation and information to the Spanish charts. The resulting atlas, consisting of 106 pages of charts and 106 pages of text, is published in full for the first time in this volume. Covering the coast from California to Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos, and Juan Fernandes, Basil Ringrose's south sea waggoner is a rich source of geographical information, with observations on navigational, physical, biological, and cultural features as well as on ethnography, customs, and folklore.

After almost exactly three hundred years, this secret atlas is now made available to libraries and individuals. The editors have provided an extensive introduction on historical, geographical, and navigational aspects of the atlas, as well as annotations to the charts and text, and they have plotted the coverage of the charts on modern map bases.]]> 314 Derek Howse 0520054105 Rich 0 to-read 3.00 1992 A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner
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]]> <![CDATA[The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812]]> 20524533 370 Elmore Barce Rich 0 to-read 4.25 1922 The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast]]> 2668437 folklore claims a rich cultural heritage, yet few beyond the Carolina coast
know much about it. However, it is growing in both popularity and interest, as
attested by recent scholarly and entertaining examinations of the dialect and
stories.
The author, Ambrose E. Gonzales, realized Gullah's unique appeal some
seventy-odd years ago. This Gullah dialect is interesting, not merely for
its richness, which falls upon the ear as opulently as the Irish brogue,
he wrote, but also for the quaint and homely similes in which it abounds
and for the native wit and philosophy of its users.
Gonzales collected many Gullah stories with such captivating titles as
The 'Wiles That in the Women Are,' Mingo the Drill
Master, and Conductor Smith's Dilemma. A handy Gullah
glossary is included as well, to aid the reader in interpreting the dialect. Today, Gullah is alive and well. Virginia Mixson Geraty, the world's
foremost authority on Gullah and Gullah instructor at the College of
Charleston, is the author of Gullah Night Before Christmas and narrator of the companion audiocassette. Both are
published by Pelican.]]> 350 Ambrose E. Gonzales 1565544447 Rich 5 literature, history 4.17 1999 The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast
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rating is for the stories, not the author's commentary
]]> <![CDATA[Hanns Johst's nazi drama Schlageter]]> 3217040 197 Hanns Johst 3880990751 Rich 1 literature, post-law-school 2.67 1933 Hanns Johst's nazi drama Schlageter
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]]> <![CDATA[The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542]]> 66644905 456 1313850527 Rich 5 history, post-law-school 5.00 1896 The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542
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]]> <![CDATA["Völkisch" Writers and National Socialism: A Study of Right-Wing Political Culture in Germany, 1890�1960 (Cultural History and Literary Imagination)]]> 27819841 384 Guy Tourlamain 3039119583 Rich 5 history 4.67 2014 "Völkisch" Writers and National Socialism: A Study of Right-Wing Political Culture in Germany, 1890–1960 (Cultural History and Literary Imagination)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History]]> 229567 465 Ibn Khaldun 0691120544 Rich 0 to-read 4.08 1377 The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
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]]> The Complete Tales and Poems 132314 Collected here is the ultimate Kindle edition of the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe—all of his tales and poems in one convenient, easy-to-use volume at a fantastic price.

Included in Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems are:

The complete text of all of the tales and poems written by Edgar Allan Poe (over 125 works), each elegantly formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your Kindle reader.
Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the poems and tales in this collection.
An individual, active Table of Contents for each section accessible from the Kindle “go to� feature.
Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle’s Text-to-Speech features.
A low, can't-say-no price!
The Complete Tales and Poems
All of Poe's tales, poems, and essays are included—over 125 works. Some of the most notable are:

Tales:
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Premature Burial"
"The Purloined Letter"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Poems:
"Annabel Lee"
"The Bells"
"The City in the Sea"
"A Dream Within a Dream"
"To Helen"
"Lenore"
"The Raven"
"Ulalume"
Other Works:
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket—Poe's only complete novel
Collected Essays
Additional Fan Resources
Also included are special features for any Poe enthusiast, including:

A list of films and television series, both directly and indirectly inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
A Reading Guide to fictional works that feature the historical Edgar Allan Poe as a character.
Links to free, full-length audio recordings of the major poems and short stories in this collection.]]> 1040 Edgar Allan Poe 040405109X Rich 3 4.51 1849 The Complete Tales and Poems
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]]> <![CDATA[Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness]]> 1685398 Marshall Fine 0880642491 Rich 3 3.57 Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness
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]]> <![CDATA[The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures Book 25)]]> 18948565 The Greeks and the Irrational 437 E.R. Dodds 0520931270 Rich 0 to-read 4.42 1951 The Greeks and the Irrational (Sather Classical Lectures Book 25)
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]]> <![CDATA[Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography]]> 6612092 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

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]]> 368 John R. Beard 1602065772 Rich 0 to-read 3.44 1863 Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
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]]> <![CDATA[Narrative Of Riots At Alton: In Connection With The Death Of Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy (1838)]]> 4151753 164 Edward Beecher 143660401X Rich 3 history, post-law-school 3.00 1970 Narrative Of Riots At Alton: In Connection With The Death Of Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy (1838)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record]]> 2317265 176 Paul Alexander Bartlett 087081205X Rich 5 history, art, post-law-school 4.00 1990 The Haciendas of Mexico: An Artist's Record
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]]> <![CDATA[A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea]]> 40591955 A Death in the Rainforestis also an illuminating look at the impact of white society onthe farthestreaches of the globe—and the story of why this anthropologist realized finallythat he had to give up his study of this languageand this village.

An engaging, deeply perceptive, and brilliant interrogationof what it means to study a culture,A Death in theRainforesttakesreaders into a world that endures in the face of massive changes, one that ison the verge ofdisappearing forever.]]> 288 Don Kulick 1616209046 Rich 0 to-read 4.14 2019 A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
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]]> Electra and Other Plays 1472 Euripides, wrote Aristotle, ‘is the most intensely tragic of all the poets�. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters & acute insight into destructive passion, he's also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors. Written in the period of 426-415, during the fierce struggle for supremacy between Athens & Sparta, these five plays are haunted by the horrors of war & its particular impact on women. Only the Suppliants, with its extended debate on democracy & monarchy, can be seen as a patriotic piece. The Trojan Women is perhaps the greatest of all anti-war dramas; Andromache shows the ferocious clash between the wife & concubine of Achilles� son Neoptolemos; while Hecabe reveals how hatred can drive a victim to an appalling act of cruelty. Electra develops & parodies Aeschylus� treatment of the same story, in which the heroine & her brother Orestes commit matricide to avenge their father Agamemnon. As always, Euripides presents the heroic figures of mythology as recognizable, often very fallible, humans.]]> 224 Euripides Rich 4 literature, post-law-school 4.05 -413 Electra and Other Plays
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]]> The Trojan Women 3254
The theme is really a double one: the suffering of the victims of war, exemplified by the woman who survive the fall of Troy, and the degradation of the victors, shown by the Greeks' reckless and ultimately self-destructive behavior. It offers an enduring picture of human fortitude in the midst of despair. Trojan Women gains special relevance, of course, in times of war.

It presents a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty, but one that is also rooted in considerations of power and policy, morality and expedience. Furthermore, the seductions of power and the dangers both of its exercise and of resistance to it as portrayed in Trojan Women are not simply philosophical or rhetorical gambits but part of the lived experience of Euripides' day.]]> 80 Euripides 1420927329 Rich 4 post-law-school, literature 3.89 -415 The Trojan Women
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]]> Electra 1171954 This vital translation of Euripides' Electra recreates the prize-winning excitement of the original play. Electra, obsessed by dreams of avenging her father's murder, impatiently awaits the return of her exiled brother Orestes. When he arrives, the play mounts toward its first climax, a tender recognition scene. From that moment on, Electra uses Orestes as her instrument of vengeance. They kill their mother's husband, then their mother herself--and only afterward see the evil inherent in these seemingly just acts. But in his usual fashion, Euripides has imbued myth with the reality of human experience, counterposing suspense and horror with comic realism and down-to-earth comments on life.]]> 112 Euripides 0195085760 Rich 4 literature, post-law-school 3.98 -420 Electra
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]]> <![CDATA[Euripides: Suppliant Women (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)]]> 2868286 162 Ian C. Storey 071563626X Rich 4 literature, post-law-school 4.07 2008 Euripides: Suppliant Women (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)
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]]> Hecabe 57557799
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.

As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.]]> Euripides Rich 4 post-law-school, literature 3.77 -424 Hecabe
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]]> <![CDATA[Euripides: Andromache (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)]]> 675214 204 Michael Lloyd 0856687707 Rich 4 literature, post-law-school 3.95 1994 Euripides: Andromache (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
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]]> The Civil Wars 167816 480 Appian 0140445099 Rich 5 to-read 4.02 165 The Civil Wars
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2nd Triumvirate vendetta agreements and immediate infighting is amazing history
]]> <![CDATA[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories]]> 721012 Sketch Book first appeared in 1819, readers in America and abroad greeted it with enthusiasm, and Irving emerged as America's first successful professional author. The pieces about life in England are gently ironic, reflecting the author's interest in the traditions of the Old World and his longings for his home in the New. But it is in "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" that Irving exhibits his true strength—the ability to depict American landscapes and culture so vividly that readers feel themselves a part of them. And it is on the basis of these two classic tales that Irving is generally credited with inventing the short story as a distinct literary genre.

Originally published as The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.]]> 368 Washington Irving 014043769X Rich 4 elementry, literature 3.96 1820 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
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]]> Lysistrata and Other Plays 1567 Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged.

For this edition Alan Sommerstein has completely revised his translation of these three plays, bringing out the full nuances of Aristophanes� ribald humour and intricate word play, with a new introduction explaining the historical and cultural background to the plays.]]> 241 Aristophanes Rich 0 to-read, literature 3.94 -423 Lysistrata and Other Plays
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic]]> 129876 157 R.K. Narayan 0143039679 Rich 0 to-read 3.92 1957 The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
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]]> <![CDATA[Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition]]> 765418
A Penguin Classic

When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature, it redefined the rules of poetry while describing the soul of the American character.Throughout his great career, Whitman continuously revised, expanded, and republished Leaves of Grass , but many critics believe that the book that matters most is the 1855 original. Penguin Classics proudly presents that text in its original and complete form, with an introductory essay by the writer and poet Malcolm Cowley.

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.�

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.]]> 145 Walt Whitman 0140421998 Rich 5 law-school, poetry 4.09 1855 Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition
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]]> <![CDATA[The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War]]> 27222 You can find an alternative cover for this ISBN here.

Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "possession for all time, " and indeed it is the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical wisdom.

However, this classic book has long presented obstacles to the uninitiated reader. Written centuries before the rise of modern historiography, Thucydides' narrative is not continuous or linear. His authoritative chronicle of what he considered the greatest war of all time is rigorous and meticulous, yet omits the many aids to comprehension modern readers take for granted—such as brief biographies of the story's main characters, maps and other visual enhancements, and background on the military, cultural, and political traditions of ancient Greece.

Robert Strassler's new edition amends these omissions, and not only provides a new coherence to the narrative overall but effectively reconstructs the lost cultural context that Thucydides shared with his original audience. Based on the venerable Richard Crawley translation, updated and revised for modern readers, The Landmark Thucydides includes a vast array of superbly designed and presented maps, brief informative appendices by outstanding classical scholars on subjects of special relevance to the text, explanatory marginal notes on each page, an index of unprecedented subtlety and depth, and numerous other useful features. Readers will find that with this edition they can dip into the text at any point and be immediately oriented with regard to the geography, season, date, and stage of the conflict.

In any list of the Great Books of Western Civilization, The Peloponnesian War stands near the top. This handsome, elegant, and authoritative new edition will ensure that its greatness is appreciated by future generations.]]> 713 Thucydides 0684827905 Rich 5 law-school, history 4.25 -411 The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
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]]> The Persians 237794 48 Aeschylus 1419177060 Rich 4 poetry, post-law-school 3.64 -472 The Persians
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]]> The Minority Report 581125 112 Philip K. Dick 0375421874 Rich 3 post-law-school, literature 3.85 1956 The Minority Report
author: Philip K. Dick
name: Rich
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1956
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement]]> 101603

Princeton published a follow-up companion volume, The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (1954), and later a one-volume abridgment of the two, The Ancient Near An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (1958). The continued popularity of this work in its various forms demonstrates that anthologies have a very important role to play in education--and in the mission of a university press.]]> 735 James B. Pritchard 0691035032 Rich 0 to-read 4.49 1955 Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement
author: James B. Pritchard
name: Rich
average rating: 4.49
book published: 1955
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]]> <![CDATA[One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]]> 17125 The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy"--Harrison Salisbury

This unexpurgated 1991 translation by H. T. Willetts is the only authorized edition available, and fully captures the power and beauty of the original Russian.]]> 182 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Rich 0 to-read 3.98 1962 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> <![CDATA[The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro]]> 264885
Today, Casolaro’s “Octopus� � a transnational power bloc pursuing its own interests through subversion and overthrow of governments, dirty money and extra-electoral manipulation � has risen again. The players Casolaro identified in his research, including Iran-Contra spooks, Middle Eastern weapons merchants, double-dealing politicos, and terrorists, have reappeared.

The story begins with October Surprise, a trading-with-the-enemy scheme that set the stage for America’s quagmire in the Middle East. The tentacles of The Octopus attach themselves to the Inslaw affair, the theft of super-surveillance software used to spy on criminals and police alike. The grisly saga continues with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, both believed to be evading capture through the use of Inslaw’s PROMIS software.

What survived of Casolaro’s research fell into the hands of two writers, Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith. In 1996 the hardcover edition of The Octopus was released. In 1999, co-author Keith died, like Casolaro, under mysterious circumstances. This revised and updated edition, which continues Casolaro’s (and Keith’s) research with new chapters on Octopus involvements with the events of 9/11, may be the most comprehensive investigation into the tangle of international conspiracy.

“This book is the key for uncovering probably the greatest threat to freedom for the 21st Century.�
� Vince LoDato

“Compelling and believable� an immediate conspiracy classic.�
� John Strausbaugh, New York Press]]> 237 Kenn Thomas 0922915911 Rich 0 to-read 3.72 1996 The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro
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name: Rich
average rating: 3.72
book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley]]> 31384606 350 Ephraim G. Squier 3736405669 Rich 5 post-law-school, history 4.40 1848 Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
author: Ephraim G. Squier
name: Rich
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1848
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy, 1912-1913]]> 1831323 371 Robert Cushman Murphy 0809438321 Rich 0 to-read 4.10 1947 Logbook for Grace: Whaling Brig Daisy, 1912-1913
author: Robert Cushman Murphy
name: Rich
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1947
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]]> The Tartar Steppe 83017 198 Dino Buzzati 1567923046 Rich 0 to-read 4.25 1940 The Tartar Steppe
author: Dino Buzzati
name: Rich
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1940
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]]> <![CDATA[The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception]]> 107971 Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.

In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes � in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death.]]> 240 Michel Foucault 0679753346 Rich 2 history, post-law-school 3.97 1963 The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
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name: Rich
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1963
rating: 2
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The birth of the patient must come at the expense of the death of the clinic XD
]]> <![CDATA[Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues]]> 61327450 An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs

According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead, it is the humble microbe that wins wars and topples empires.

Drawing on the latest research in fields ranging from genetics and anthropology to archaeology and economics, Pathogenesis takes us through sixty thousand years of history, exploring eight major outbreaks of infectious disease that have made the modern world. Bacteria and viruses were protagonists in the demise of the Neanderthals, the growth of Islam, the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the devastation wrought by European colonialism, and the evolution of the United States from an imperial backwater to a global superpower. Even Christianity rose to prominence in the wake of a series of deadly pandemics that swept through the Roman Empire in the second and third centuries: Caring for the sick turned what was a tiny sect into one of the world’s major religions.

By placing disease at the center of his wide-ranging history of humankind, Kennedy challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions about our collective past—and urges us to view this moment as another disease-driven inflection point that will change the course of history. Provocative and brimming with insight, Pathogenesis transforms our understanding of the human story.]]> 304 Jonathan Kennedy 0593240472 Rich 1 history, post-law-school Constant, pointless, pandering, annoying, anti-thinking sugar pill references to pop culture and lame contemporary political views.
Dr. Kennedy, why did you join the ranks of academics who crank out this type of light reading?

Look at this quotation from the book:
"Nine-thousand-year-old "Cheddar Man" was one of the first permanent inhabitants of the British Isles. His hunter-gathering ancestors were almost completely wiped out about six thousands years ago by farmers who migrated from the Eastern Mediterranean region."]]> 3.92 2023 Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
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average rating: 3.92
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Reading 30 or so wikipedia pages would be a better idea.
Constant, pointless, pandering, annoying, anti-thinking sugar pill references to pop culture and lame contemporary political views.
Dr. Kennedy, why did you join the ranks of academics who crank out this type of light reading?

Look at this quotation from the book:
"Nine-thousand-year-old "Cheddar Man" was one of the first permanent inhabitants of the British Isles. His hunter-gathering ancestors were almost completely wiped out about six thousands years ago by farmers who migrated from the Eastern Mediterranean region."
]]> <![CDATA[The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization]]> 7378237 360 Jeffrey Kaplan 075910204X Rich 5 3.79 2002 The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization
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name: Rich
average rating: 3.79
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]]> Writings from Prison 406658 240 Bobby Sands 185635220X Rich 5 4.43 1981 Writings from Prison
author: Bobby Sands
name: Rich
average rating: 4.43
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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]]> One Day In My Life 406660 118 Bobby Sands Trust 1856353494 Rich 5 4.41 1983 One Day In My Life
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Native American Art: MFA Highlights]]> 10601479 192 Gerald Ward 0878467513 Rich 5 art, history 4.50 2010 Native American Art: MFA Highlights
author: Gerald Ward
name: Rich
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Popol Vuh: Las antiguas historias del Quiche (Clásicos Centroamericanos)]]> 37713186 143 Adrián Recinos 9992210028 Rich 0 to-read 3.76 1550 Popol Vuh: Las antiguas historias del Quiche (Clásicos Centroamericanos)
author: Adrián Recinos
name: Rich
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1550
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man]]> 2800 160 Marshall McLuhan 1584230509 Rich 5 philosophy, post-law-school 4.05 1951 The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1951
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism]]> 1237300 The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.]]> 558 Naomi Klein 0805079831 Rich 0 to-read 4.27 2007 The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media]]> 12617
Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy� versus “unworthy� victims, “legitimizing� and “meaningless� Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.]]> 412 Edward S. Herman 0375714499 Rich 0 to-read 4.25 1988 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.25
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]]> <![CDATA[Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky]]> 194805 The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power offers a sweeping critique of the world around us and is definitive Chomsky. Characterized by Chomsky's accessible and informative style, this is the ideal book for those new to his work as well as for those who have been listening for years.]]> 416 Noam Chomsky 1565847032 Rich 0 to-read 4.42 2002 Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.42
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]]> The Lion and the Jewel 2570 65 Wole Soyinka 0199110832 Rich 0 to-read 3.77 1959 The Lion and the Jewel
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name: Rich
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1959
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]]> <![CDATA[Illustrated English Social History: 1]]> 2515834 1326 George Macaulay Trevelyan 0140206728 Rich 0 to-read 4.00 Illustrated English Social History: 1
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name: Rich
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]]> <![CDATA[Neue Sachlichkeit and German Realism of the Twenties]]> 27188373 0 Various 0728701847 Rich 5 art, post-law-school 4.60 Neue Sachlichkeit and German Realism of the Twenties
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]]> Good Fortune 63017304
When Elizabeth Chen’s ever-hustling realtor mother finally sells the beloved if derelict community center down the block, the new owners don’t look like typical New York City buyers. Brendan Lee and Darcy Wong are good Chinese boys with Hong Kong money. Clean-cut and charismatic, they say they are committed to cleaning up the neighborhood.

To Elizabeth, that only means one thing Darcy is looking to give the center an uptown makeover. Elizabeth is determined to fight for community over profit, even if it means confronting the arrogant, uptight man every chance she gets.

But where clever, cynical Elizabeth sees lemons, her mother sees lemonade. Eager to get Elizabeth and her other four daughters ahead in the world (and out of their crammed family apartment), Mrs. Chen takes every opportunity to keep her investors close. Closer than Elizabeth likes.

The more time they spend together, the more conflicted Elizabeth feels…until a shocking betrayal forces her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about love, trust, and the kind of person Darcy Wong really is.]]> 416 C.K. Chau 0063293765 Rich 1 literature, post-law-school
People do not care about learning. They just want to be entertained. We're scolded for not being inclusive enough and sold another brainwashing product as an antidote. Yet another short-sighted and commercialized Jane Austen remake focused on wht metropolitan sheep in the USA are obsessed with and lap up: objectification, sexist courtship, money worship, cosmetics, rat race.

There are cultures and there are the caricatures of cultures. It is distressing to see how much selling out is being done. For popular culture in the USA to digest other cultures, commercial media omits that which will be unpopular and emphasizes that which will be purchased, not to mention making fun of how people speak ("whiney" "yowling" "wailing" "jagged" "thorny" is how author describes Cantonese), making fun of how they think. We are not considering the long-terms effect of such a cynical approach.]]> 3.38 2023 Good Fortune
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name: Rich
average rating: 3.38
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Scolds people for not representing Cantonese, writes a book in English, based on a story by an English author from 1813, and, when characters are speaking Cantonese, doesn't use written Chinese, doesn't even use jyutping or cangjie.

People do not care about learning. They just want to be entertained. We're scolded for not being inclusive enough and sold another brainwashing product as an antidote. Yet another short-sighted and commercialized Jane Austen remake focused on wht metropolitan sheep in the USA are obsessed with and lap up: objectification, sexist courtship, money worship, cosmetics, rat race.

There are cultures and there are the caricatures of cultures. It is distressing to see how much selling out is being done. For popular culture in the USA to digest other cultures, commercial media omits that which will be unpopular and emphasizes that which will be purchased, not to mention making fun of how people speak ("whiney" "yowling" "wailing" "jagged" "thorny" is how author describes Cantonese), making fun of how they think. We are not considering the long-terms effect of such a cynical approach.
]]> Oblomov 254308 586 Ivan Goncharov 1933480092 Rich 0 to-read 4.09 1859 Oblomov
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.09
book published: 1859
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]]> Ledger Art 1291772 George Flett 0923910255 Rich 5 art, post-law-school 5.00 2008 Ledger Art
author: George Flett
name: Rich
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life]]> 85826
In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucault’s fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotle’s notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over “life� is implicit.

The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl Schmitt’s idea of the sovereign’s status as the exception to the rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not sacrificed—a paradox he sees as operative in the status of the modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the collective “naked life� of all individuals.]]> 208 Giorgio Agamben 0804732183 Rich 0 to-read 4.05 1994 Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1994
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]]> <![CDATA[In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology]]> 7016278

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922�1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a generous selection of his poetry. Against the backdrop of post-war Italy, and through the mid-'70s, Pasolini's writings provide a fascinating portrait of a Europe in which fascists and communists violently clashed for power and where journalists ran great risks. The controversial and openly gay Pasolini was murdered at the age of fifty-three; In Danger includes his final interview, conducted hours before his death.

]]> 250 Pier Paolo Pasolini 087286507X Rich 5 4.16 2010 In Danger: A Pasolini Anthology
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2010
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]]> The Red Record 25896953 A shocking and powerful account of lynching written by activist, journalist, and former slave Ida B. Wells

In the postbellum American South, lynching was a frightfully common occurrence, perpetrated so frequently that most Southern politicians and leaders turned a blind eye to the practice. This vicious form of vigilante “justice� was in truth a thinly veiled racist justification for murderous violence. In 1892 alone, more than two hundred African Americans were lynched, with alleged offenses ranging from “attempted stock poisoning� to “insulting whites.�

The Red Record tabulates these scenes of brutality in clear, objective statistics, allowing the horrifying facts to speak for themselves. Alongside the tally, author Ida B. Wells describes actual occurrences of lynching, and enumerates the standard rationalizations for these extrajudicial killings, her original intent for the pamphlet to shame and shock the apathetic public—and spark change.

This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
]]> 78 Ida B. Wells-Barnett Rich 5 history, post-law-school 4.51 1895 The Red Record
author: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
name: Rich
average rating: 4.51
book published: 1895
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin]]> 356753 I Tell My Heart features over 110 Pippin paintings including many never before reproduced nor shown in public since the artist's lifetime, as well as many black and white archival photographs of Pippin and his contemporaries.
Pippin provides a first-hand view of several little-celebrated aspects of African-American documentation of the bravery of black soldiers in combat; the dignity, beauty, and hardships of everyday life among rural people circa 1900; and the strength and warmth of intergenerational familial relationships.
The book is divided into five thematic areas - war, genre, academic, biblical, and historical subjects - giving readers the opportunity to discover the breadth of Pippin's visual imagination. A chronology of his life, an exhibition history, a list of all known works, along with a selected bibliography provide the most complete and thorough information about Horace Pippin that has ever been collected.
A diverse group of distinguished scholars have freshly considered all aspects of Pippin's life and work. Judith E. Stein constructs a fuller picture of Pippin as an artist and as a man by using his letters and by culling his quoted remarks from period publications. Cornel West explores Pippin's significance vis a vis American and African-American cultural history. Authors Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Richard J. Powell, and Judith Wilson shed new light on Pippin's iconography - from his images of war to his biblical inspirations. And conservators Mark F. Bockrath and Barbara A. Buckley discuss Pippin's process and technique, a subject never addressed before.
I Tell My Heart restores Horace Pippin to his full status as an exemplar of the American spirit. As an early-recognized and nationally celebrated African-American artist, Pippin is an example and an inspiration to all.]]> 210 Judith E. Stein 0876637853 Rich 5 post-law-school, art 4.33 1993 I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1993
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]]> <![CDATA[Beowulf: With the Finnesburg Fragment]]> 20706022 Beowulf by the author of The Mere Wife.

Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf � and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world � there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements never before translated into English.

A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. These familiar components of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history. Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment � of powerful men seeking to become more powerful and one woman seeking justice for her child � but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation; her Beowulf is one for the twenty-first century.]]> C. L. Wrenn Rich 4 post-law-school, poetry 3.82 1000 Beowulf: With the Finnesburg Fragment
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Only for the Finnesburg Fragment.
]]> <![CDATA[How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America]]> 17290919 How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of his essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in Mississippi. In this collection, Laymon deals in depth with his own personal story, which is filled with trials and reflections that illuminate under-appreciated aspects of contemporary American life. New and unexpected in contemporary American writing, Laymon’s voice mixes the colloquial with the acerbic, while sharp insights and blast-furnace heat calls to mind a black 21st-century Mark Twain. Much like Twain, Laymon's writing is steeped in controversial issues both private and public. This collection introduces Laymon as a writer who balances volatile concepts on a razor's edge and chops up much-discussed and often-misunderstood topics with his scathing humor and fresh, unexpected takes on the ongoing absurdities, frivolities, and calamities of American life.]]> 146 Kiese Laymon 1932841776 Rich 1 4.30 2013 How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
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name: Rich
average rating: 4.30
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]]> Glengarry Glen Ross 251446
2 interior sets

This scalding comedy took Broadway and London by storm and won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing 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 share of the American dream. Revived on Broadway in 2006 this masterpiece of American drama became a celebrated film which starred Al Pacino, Jac]]> 112 David Mamet Rich 3 post-law-school, literature 3.88 1983 Glengarry Glen Ross
author: David Mamet
name: Rich
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1983
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Red Paint People of Maine: Bulletin II]]> 160141654 0 Walter Brown Smith Rich 5 by Walter Brown Smith
1930]]> 5.00 The Lost Red Paint People of Maine: Bulletin II
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The Lost Red Paint People of Maine
by Walter Brown Smith
1930
]]> <![CDATA[Don Juan de Onate: Colonizer of New Mexico, 1595-1628 (Volumes V and VI, Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications)]]> 86180412 0 Rich 0 to-read 0.0 Don Juan de Onate: Colonizer of New Mexico, 1595-1628 (Volumes V and VI, Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications)
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]]> <![CDATA[DON JUAN DE OÑATE (ONATE). Colonizer of New Mexico 1595-1628. Part 1. Coronado Historical Series. Vol. V.]]> 132943796 0 Rich 0 to-read 0.0 DON JUAN DE OÑATE (ONATE). Colonizer of New Mexico 1595-1628. Part 1. Coronado Historical Series. Vol. V.
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]]> <![CDATA[Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539�1542: “They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects� (English, English and Spanish Edition)]]> 13799159 760 Richard Flint 0826351344 Rich 0 to-read 0.0 2005 Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539–1542: “They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects” (English, English and Spanish Edition)
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]]> Macroeconomics 1308531 640 Olivier J. Blanchard 0130671002 Rich 0 to-read 3.98 1991 Macroeconomics
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book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[The Weimar Republic Sourcebook]]> 703886
Drawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in English), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social life. Its thirty chapters explore Germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "New Woman," Bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of Jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascism.

While devoting much attention to the Republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the Frankfurt School, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographies. This will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, German, and women's studies.]]> 830 Anton Kaes 0520067754 Rich 0 to-read 4.36 1994 The Weimar Republic Sourcebook
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]]> <![CDATA[Tuscans and their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)]]> 752216 English, French (translation) 404 David Herlihy 0300046111 Rich 0 to-read 4.00 1985 Tuscans and their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 (Yale Series in Economic and Financial History)
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book published: 1985
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]]> <![CDATA[Romanization in the Time of Augustus]]> 287525 240 Ramsay MacMullen 0300082541 Rich 5 3.47 2000 Romanization in the Time of Augustus
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]]> <![CDATA[The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa: A Study of Socio-political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy (New Studies in Archaeology)]]> 12894429 284 Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri 0521103592 Rich 5 history 4.00 1993 The Iron Age Community of Osteria dell'Osa: A Study of Socio-political Development in Central Tyrrhenian Italy (New Studies in Archaeology)
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book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily in the J. Paul Getty Museum]]> 29547258 553 Maria Lucia Ferruzza 1606064851 Rich 5 post-law-school, history 4.56 Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily in the J. Paul Getty Museum
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]]> Lovelock Cave 112348970 0 Llewellyn L. Loud 1555670261 Rich 4 post-law-school, history 4.00 Lovelock Cave
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]]> <![CDATA[IN SEARCH OF MAINE'S RED PAINT PEOPLE]]> 48561953 0 Emeric Spooner Rich 0 to-read 0.0 IN SEARCH OF MAINE'S RED PAINT PEOPLE
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]]> <![CDATA[The Swordfish Hunters: The History and Ecology of an Ancient American Sea People]]> 1094681
Local naturalists brought these finds to the attention of a new breed of scientist—archaeologists who were busy developing their new science at the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnography at Harvard University. They began to visit and to excavate these sites and introduced them to the world in 1893 at Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition. Between then and 1920, other archaeologists became involved, searching for and discovering more than a dozen new cemeteries. Museum collections grew quickly, but so did confusion about what kind of culture could have produced these wonderful objects. Then interest in the so-called Red Paint cemeteries waned as American archaeologists began to broaden their horizons to other continents. The mystery of the Red Paint People was left hanging. A half century later, as Maine archaeology was undergoing a revival, a new generation of archaeologists, armed with the analytical tools of modern science, once again turned their attention to the Red Paint People and reached some surprising conclusions.

This book tells the story of the Red Paint People and the archaeologists who have tried to understand them for over a century. Interwoven with that story is one of scientific growth and evolution, as archaeologists have adopted new research models in collaboration with a broad range of natural scientists to flesh out the life story of a remarkable prehistoric culture: the swordfish hunters.]]> Bruce Bourque 1593730381 Rich 0 to-read 3.89 2012 The Swordfish Hunters: The History and Ecology of an Ancient American Sea People
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]]> The Diary of Samuel Pepys 420481
Previously published as The Shorter Pepys, this edition is edited and abridged by Robert Latham, Fellow and Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College, Cambridge.]]> 1096 Samuel Pepys 0141439939 Rich 0 to-read 3.95 1669 The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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]]> <![CDATA[The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name]]> 51174256 A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and the answer to a 2,000 year old mystery that could shake the Church to its foundations.

The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity—exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the tradition of unsolved historical mysteries like David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon and Douglas Preston's The Lost City of the Monkey God, Brian Muraresku’s 10-year investigation takes the reader through Greece, Germany, Spain, France and Italy, offering unprecedented access to the hidden archives of the Louvre and the Vatican along the way.

In The Immortality Key, Muraresku explores a little-known connection between the best-kept secret in Ancient Greece and Christianity. This is the real story of the most famous human being who ever lived (Jesus) and the biggest religion the world has ever known. Today, 2.4 billion people are Christian. That's one third of the planet. But do any of them really know how it all started?

Before Jerusalem, before Rome, before Mecca—there was Eleusis: the spiritual capital of the ancient world. It promised immortality to Plato and the rest of Athens's greatest minds with a very simple formula: drink this potion, see God. Shrouded in secrecy for millennia, the Ancient Greek sacrament was buried when the newly Christianized Roman Empire obliterated Eleusis in the fourth century AD.

Renegade scholars in the 1970s claimed the Greek potion was psychedelic, just like the original Christian Eucharist that replaced it. In recent years, vindication for the disgraced theory has been quietly mounting in the laboratory. The rapidly growing field of archaeological chemistry has proven the ancient use of visionary drugs. And with a single dose of psilocybin, the psycho-pharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are now turning self-proclaimed atheists into instant believers. No one has ever found hard, scientific evidence of drugs connected to Eleusis, let alone early Christianity. Until now.

Armed with key documents never before translated into English, convincing analysis, and a captivating spirit of quest, Muraresku mines science, classical literature, biblical scholarship and art to deliver the hidden key to eternal life, bringing us to what clinical psychologist William Richards calls "the edge of an awesomely vast frontier."

Featuring a Foreword by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.]]> 352 Brian C. Muraresku 1250207142 Rich 0 to-read 4.25 2020 The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
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]]> <![CDATA[Coryat's Crudities, Vol. 1: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia Commonly Called the Grisons Country, Helvetia Alias Switzerland, Some Parts of High Germany and t]]> 39998759
Observations of Lyons, Observations of Savoy, Observations of Italy, Observations of Turin, Observations of Milan, Observations of Cremona, Observations of Mantua.

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]]> Be Reasonable 3001668

- civil liberties
- fanatics and true believers

- intolerance
- individual liberties and personal freedom

- mysticism and religion
- public opinion and mass media

- rationalism
- skepticism

- state power
- utopianism, idealism and reformist zeal

Included are selections from classic and modern authors in all literary genres, both prose and poetry, including Brooks Adams, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, William F. Buckley, Jr., G.K. Chesterton, Clarence Darrow, Henry Fielding, Thomas Jefferson, Baron de Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bertrand Russell, Seneca, William Shakespeare, G.B. Shaw, Jonathan Swift, Margaret Thatcher, Voltaire, W.B. Yeats, and hundreds of others.

Quotations in all categories are listed alphabetically by author and indexed for ease of reference. This will prove a standard reference work for writers, educators, students, and all those committed to intellectual freedom and individual liberties.]]> 361 Laird M. Wilcox 0879758678 Rich 0 to-read 4.50 1994 Be Reasonable
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]]> <![CDATA[Spectrum: A Guide to the Independent Press and Informative Organizations 1997 (SPECTRUM (LAIRD WILCOX EDITORIAL RES SERV))]]> 78801375 0 Laird Wilcox 093359285X Rich 0 to-read 0.0 Spectrum: A Guide to the Independent Press and Informative Organizations 1997 (SPECTRUM (LAIRD WILCOX EDITORIAL RES SERV))
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]]> <![CDATA[The Occult Book: A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca (Union Square & Co. Chronologies)]]> 34525406 Take an enlightening journey through occult history, exploring 100 dramatic incidents, arcane knowledge, and key historical figures from around the world. John Michael Greer delves into two millennia of tradition, from the earliest alchemists to pagan rituals; from the Philosopher’s Stone to Cabala, the first tarot, and the Knights Templar; and from the first horoscopes to fortune-telling trials and the birth of modern witchcraft, or Wicca. Each entry features a stunning image or intriguing item of ephemera.]]> 212 John Michael Greer 1454925779 Rich 4 3.77 2017 The Occult Book: A Chronological Journey from Alchemy to Wicca (Union Square & Co. Chronologies)
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]]> <![CDATA[Why Not? A Book for Every Woman (Classic Reprint)]]> 26930626
The writer, knowing nothing of the project to elicit a direct and effective appeal to women upon the subject of criminal abortion, until after it had been decided at the New York meeting,' has long been a member of the Association. He is aware, from personal observation, that induced miscarriage is of very frequent occurrence, and that its effects are to the last degree disastrous to the country at large. He has seen the change that has been effected in professional feeling upon the subject as to the need that this depopulation, or rather prevention of repopulation of the coun try, should be arrested, since the publication of the Report of the Association's Special Commit tee, which was appointed at Nashville in 1857.]]> 100 Horatio Robinson Storer 1330396707 Rich 1 1.00 2008 Why Not? A Book for Every Woman (Classic Reprint)
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]]> New England's Prospect 1325310 144 William Wood 0870238906 Rich 5 history Lions on Cape Ann... 3.75 1634 New England's Prospect
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]]> <![CDATA[Inside Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)]]> 22891
Closer to home, Hoffman reconsiders the Timothy McVeigh case and the threats posed by American Christian white supremacists and abortion opponents as well as those posed by militant environmentalists and animal rights activists. He argues that the attacks on the World Trade Center fundamentally transformed the West's view of the terrorist threat. More relevant and necessary than ever, Inside Terrorism continues to be the definitive work on the history and future of global terrorism.]]> 456 Bruce Hoffman 0231126999 Rich 0 to-read 3.98 1998 Inside Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
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]]> <![CDATA[P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia]]> 2710749
In the twilight of Nicholas II’s reign he was virtually the only man who seemed to have a clear notion of how to reform the socioeconomic and political system of the empire. His efforts in that direction—in agriculture, local administration, religious freedom, social legislation, the legal system—were radically new departures for the Russian state. His detractors disdained him as a power-hungry, coldhearted politician who was unscrupulous in pursuing his own career and would use any means to restore the tsarist autocracy following the frightening turbulence of 1905. Stolypin’s admirers, however, argued that he was a man of vision who pursued policies that would have transformed the country into a modern state with social and political institutions comparable to those of the West.

Lenin’s celebrated denunciation of Stolypin as “hangman-in-chief� set the tone for official Soviet work on his career. In the West, some historians and émigré writers, most notably Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, erred in the opposite direction. By contrast, this book—on the basis of extensive Russian archival documentation only recently available to historians—seeks to provide a balanced portrait of Stolypin that encompasses the complex, even divergent, impulses that motivated him.

Although Stolypin did not shrink from the use of force to stamp out unrest, he lamented the shedding of blood and much preferred nonviolent means to curb the opposition. In foreign affairs, he was uncompromising in his insistence that Russia should avoid entanglements that could lead to military conflict. To be sure, he was deeply committed to monarchical rule, but he did not consider it advisable to abolish the elected legislature or to deprive it of its authority. Stolypin’s program, a blend of reformism, authoritarianism, and nationalism, was more likely than any other to lead Russia toward social and political stability. But Tsar Nicholas II, his entourage, and ultra-conservatives could not bring themselves to yield a portion of their privileges and prerogatives in return for a reduced, though still significant, role in a changed Russia. They succeeded in undermining the Prime Minister’s attempts at fundamental reform and thus scuttled Imperial Russia’s last such attempt before its demise.

]]> 497 Abraham Ascher 0804745471 Rich 0 to-read 4.33 2000 P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia
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]]> <![CDATA[The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization]]> 58782897 2019 was the last great year for the world economy.

For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.

America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.

Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Navy. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.

All of this was artificial. All this was temporary. All this is ending.

In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.

The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change.

A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence.]]> 512 Peter Zeihan 006323047X Rich 2 to-read, post-law-school 4.13 2022 The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
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]]> <![CDATA[The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System]]> 11278124 Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problem of capitalism.

Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system: “What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010.� Capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic growth, is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources. Climate change, together with global food, water, and resource shortages, are only the start.

Mander draws attention to capitalism’s obsessive need to dominate and undermine democracy, as well as to diminish social and economic equity. Designed to operate free of “morality,� the system promotes “permanent war� as a key economic strategy. Worst of all, the problems of capitalism are intrinsic to the form. Many organizations are already anticipating the breakdown of the system and are working to define new hierarchies of democratic values that respect the carrying capacities of the planet.]]> 256 Jerry Mander 1582437173 Rich 0 to-read 4.05 2011 The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System
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]]> <![CDATA[Det Forste Forsorg Paa Norges Naturlige Historie]]> 27498590 402 Erik Pontoppidan 1342949706 Rich 0 to-read 0.0 Det Forste Forsorg Paa Norges Naturlige Historie
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]]> The Man of Genius 4115002 400 Cesare Lombroso 1428648143 Rich 2 philosophy, post-law-school 3.46 1889 The Man of Genius
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book published: 1889
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]]> <![CDATA[Antisemitism, Misogyny, and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao (Texts and Contexts)]]> 2325831 180 Nancy A. Harrowitz 0803223749 Rich 0 to-read 0.0 1994 Antisemitism, Misogyny, and the Logic of Cultural Difference: Cesare Lombroso and Matilde Serao (Texts and Contexts)
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book published: 1994
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]]> <![CDATA[The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos]]> 29654542 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award, 2019 The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that spans some twenty-six feet in length and thirteen feet in height on the wall of a shallow cave overlooking the Pecos River. In The White Shaman Mural , Carolyn E. Boyd takes us on a journey of discovery as she builds a convincing case that the mural tells a story of the birth of the sun and the beginning of time—making it possibly the oldest pictorial creation narrative in North America. Unlike previous scholars who have viewed Pecos rock art as random and indecipherable, Boyd demonstrates that the White Shaman mural was intentionally composed as a visual narrative, using a graphic vocabulary of images to communicate multiple levels of meaning and function. Drawing on twenty-five years of archaeological research and analysis, as well as insights from ethnohistory and art history, Boyd identifies patterns in the imagery that equate, in stunning detail, to the mythologies of Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples, including the ancient Aztec and the present-day Huichol. This paradigm-shifting identification of core Mesoamerican beliefs in the Pecos rock art reveals that a shared ideological universe was already firmly established among foragers living in the Lower Pecos region as long as four thousand years ago.]]> 219 Carolyn E. Boyd 1477310304 Rich 0 to-read 4.41 The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
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]]> Symbols of Africa 1108368 320 Heike Owusu 0806928719 Rich 0 to-read 3.75 2000 Symbols of Africa
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]]> <![CDATA[Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans]]> 202863
In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content. Reading American Photographs is lavishly illustrated with the work of such luminaries as Mathew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, and Walker Evans--pictures that document the American experience from 1839 to 1938. In an outstanding analysis, Trachtenberg eloquently articulates how the art of photography has both followed and shaped the course of American history, and how images captured decades ago provocatively illuminate the present.]]> 352 Alan Trachtenberg 0374522499 Rich 0 to-read 3.92 1989 Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
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book published: 1989
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