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The University in Ruins
Bill Readings
Harvard University Press, 1997
The Canon Debate
+ Still stage two
+ how it really is for us in the ruined university
+ So what?
+ Faculty will read this book and say, "Ah, yes!"
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The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics)
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Signet Classics, 1998
Please actually read Marx...
+ A Utopian society gone south in practice
...and PLEASE read beyond the Manifesto! Ignore the anti-Marx ideologues who do not actually read him, and give him a shot. Forget, for a minute, all preconceived notions of communism, and take his writings as though they are fresh and brand new. Only then should you proceed on to reading criticism ...
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Coercion: Why We Listen to What "They" Say
Douglas Rushkoff
Riverhead Trade, 2000
as enjoyable and scary as a thriller
+ Disturbing
+ A sobering look into our collective mind
+ Good, but not solid enough
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The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
Homer
Penguin Classics, 2003
A great translation.
+ Stick with Rieu's original...
+ =
+ Older and Wiser
+ Definitive translation of Homer for 'the rest of us'
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Silent Depression: The Fate of the American Dream
Wallace C. Peterson
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
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The Interpretation of Dreams (Oxford World's Classics)
Sigmund Freud
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
Plenty of facts and a wrong theory
+ nice
Freud's book must be read by anyone who studies dreams, because it contains about 220 dreams and valuable information about the dreamers' life experiences related to their dreams. But, his wish fulfillment theory of dreams is definitely wrong both concerning its origin and its consequences, as ...
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Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
Thomas Paine
Oxford University Press, USA, 1998
Good collection but the texts are rambly.
This volume contains all of the principal works of the great mind of Thomas Paine. Although technically not one of the Founding Fathers of the US, his thoughts on liberty and the purpose of government have influenced the world. He lived in a time when democracy was in its infancy and so much of his ...
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Walden and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics)
Henry David Thoreau, Peter Matthiessen
Modern Library, 2000
FIVE STARS FOR THE GIRL IN WYOMING!
+ I'd buy it just for the introduction
+ Different, especially nowadays
I have no intention of reviewing the writings of Thoreau. The way I figure it is this : if you don't "get it" (and the world around us clearly testifies that few do), I'm not about to explain it. Besides, several other reviewers here have already done a very admirable job of excavating and ...
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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
Cleanth Brooks
Harvest Books, 1956
A Book that Shows Us How to Read a Poem
+ Literary Criticism as if Literature Mattered
+ An English Suite
+ "Urn" is the antidote for the poison of postmodernism.
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The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition
William Shakespeare
Heinle, 1996
great as a textbook, wonderful for personal use
+ Complete collection
+ The Riverside Shakespeare
+ Pleasantly Pleased
+ Great purchase!
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Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Milton Friedman
University Of Chicago Press, 2002
Great book, life changing reading!
+ Capitalism and Freedom
+ Great book on economic theory
+ A fantastic book!
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The New Oxford American Dictionary
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
Exceptional Tool for Student or Adult
+ This is a dictionary I'd take with me to a desert island:)
+ Very Handy
+ An Excellent Reference Book - One Minor Flaw
+ NOAD vs. NODE
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Great Expectations (Modern Library Classics)
Charles Dickens
Modern Library, 2001
Just not for High School Students
+ Fulfilled expectations
+ A "Regular People" Review
+ Required Reading that's Quite Enjoyable
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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)
Herman Melville
Modern Library, 2000
Confusing, sometimes pedantic, always wonderful
+ Melville goes to the depths
+ This is not the book for you if you're looking for a thriller.
+ One for the Desert Island
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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
Howard Zinn
Seven Stories Press, 2003
A wonderful anthology of our greatest historian.
+ Wake up and smell the truth.
+ And It Makes Me Wonder...
+ wonderful, and moving
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