Saturday, February 9, 2013

Book Haul #5



[The above video is mostly a reading of the text below, with an occasional aside thrown in for good measure as they strike me as relevant.  I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.]

Books discussed include:

The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, H. W. Brands

The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Paul Guyer

The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Jonathan Barnes

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination In Nineteenth-Century Europe, Hayden White

Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred, Bateson & Bateson

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities, Richard Sennett

The Successor, Ismail Kadare

Libra, Don DeLillo

Renaissance Diplomacy, Garrett Mattingly

The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides

Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir

The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, Todd Gitlin

Habits of the Heart, Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, & Tipton

Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth, Matthew Cobb

Faustus: The Life and Times of A Renaissance Magician, Leo Ruickbie

God's Chinese Children: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xuiquan, Jonathan D. Spence

A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Anderson & Zinsser

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