| The following are recent books that I’ve recently received/bought & liked, am considering using for courses, or have been longtime favorites. | ||
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| Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell $10.08 Orwell's first-person account of the Spanish Civil War is first rate. Not only because it's so detailed, but also because it's... | Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Toler...
by Lynne Truss $8.64 Not just for grammar nerds. But it makes a strong case for the need for proper punctuation. Best example? The First Boer War m... | The Underdogs: Pictures and Scenes from the...
by Mariano Azuela $7.95 A classic short novel in its own right. I used it in my spring 2008 introduction to Latin American studies course as a "text" ... |
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| No One Writes to the Colonel: and Other Sto...
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez $10.13 Another classic novella. I used this in my spring 2008 introduction to Latin American studies class as we explored Colombia's ... | A Small Place
by Jamaica Kincaid $8.64 The book that inspired the documentary "Life & Debt" about the legacies of colonialism on Caribbean economic development. I us... | A History Of The World In Six Glasses
by Tom Standage $16.50 Not the most elegantly written book, but it's packed w/ interesting tidbits about different drinks and their impact on history... |
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| Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed t...
by Mark Kurlansky $9.75 Simple, yet fascinating history of the world, through the eyes of the cod fish. This would be great for a class on the environ... | Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein $7.99 Ignore the horrible film (and it's more horrible sequels). Not only do they not do justice to the book, they contradict its ce... | Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
by Mark Dunn $10.08 A progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable. What more can I say? Genius. |
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