Thursday, November 18, 2004

Books I would read if I had nine lives:

• The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer

• History of Reading in the West by Chartier and Cavallo

• Conspicuous criticism : tradition, the individual, and culture in American social thought, from Veblen to Mills by Christopher Shannon (more)

• Time in History: Views of Time from Prehistory to the Present Dayby G.J. Whitrow

• Rome Is Love Spelled Backward: Enjoying Art and Architecture in the Eternal Cityby Judith Anne Testa

• Public Life in Renaissance Florence

• Taboo, Truth, and Religion: Selected Writings (Methodology and History in Anthropology , Vol 2) by Steiner et al.

• Medieval Civilization, 400-1500 by Jacques Le Goff

• Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences (Wildavsky Forum , No 1)
by Mary Douglas

• Is the Market Moral?: A Dialogue on Religion, Economics, and Justice (The Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion and Public Life) by Rebecca M. Blank and William McGurn (
also: The Mind and the Market)

• Anthropology of Media (Blackwell reader) by Askew et al.

• The National Gallery of Canada: Ideas, Art, Architecture by Douglas Ord

• Source Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to Present by G.E. Kidder Smith

• You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. Moore

• Utopia and Reality: Modernity in Sweden 1900-1960 by Windenheim and Rudberg

• Amazon list: Reformation Theology

• The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer

• Amazon list: books on Indiana

Added:
• History of Listening
• Intro to Italian Poetry
• Literary Book of Economics
• Simpsons and Society
• Writing Material : Readings from Plato to the Digital Age

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