An important and grounded perspective on essential questions of human history as natural history. Diamond's work here is as important to Cultural Studies as it is to Anthropology, Political Science, Art, Law, Religion, and Biology.
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Chaucer, Melville, Nathanael West, Wiliam Vollmann
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resipiscent rated Reading Lolita in Tehran: 4 stars
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to …
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5 stars
resipiscent rated The Power and the Glory: 5 stars
resipiscent rated The Quiet American: 3 stars
resipiscent rated Ethics: 5 stars
Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Latin: Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata), usually known as the Ethics, is a philosophical treatise written …
resipiscent rated Inventing kindergarten: 4 stars
Inventing kindergarten by Norman Brosterman
This is the first comprehensive book about the original kindergarten, a revolutionary educational program for children that was invented in …
resipiscent rated Tinkering toward utopia: 4 stars
Tinkering toward utopia by David B. Tyack
"In this book, David Tyack and Larry Cuban explore some basic questions about the nature of educational reform. Why have …
resipiscent rated Sister Carrie: 4 stars
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (A Norton critical edition)
Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence …
resipiscent rated On Time and Being: 5 stars
On Time and Being by Martin Heidegger
What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the …
resipiscent rated In the American grain: 5 stars
