Friday, March 22, 2013

Book Haul #7



[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.]

I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.

Books discussed include (not including the ones I forgot from the last book haul):

Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould
Russian Thinkers, Isaiah Berlin
Babel Tower, A. S. Byatt
The Devil Tree, Jerzy Kosinski
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, Richard Posner
The Nightmare Years: 1930-1940, William L. Shirer
Anthropology as Cultural Critique, George Marcus & Michael Fischer
The Song of the Dodo, David Quammen
Spheres of Liberty, Michael Kammen

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