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Tag Archives: humanities
Who Killed Homer?
Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom© 1998 Victor Davis Hanson290 pages For hundreds of years, the study of the classics was at the heart of a liberal education, thought essential to the … Continue reading
Home from Nowhere
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century© 1998 James Howard Kunstler320 pages “History doesn’t believe anybody’s advertising.” (p.1) James Howard Kunstler penned The Geography of Nowhere in an attempt to answer the question: why is America … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, cities, civic awareness, humanities, James Kunstler, Politics-CivicInterest, urbanism
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The Great Good Place
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and the Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community© 1989 Ray Oldenburg336 pages In Our Oriental Heritage, Will Durant wrote that man is not willingly a political animal, … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food and drink, goods/services, humanities, personal favorite, social criticism, Society and Culture, sociology, urbanism
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Suburban Nation
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream© 2000, 2010 Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck294 pages Compare a modern American city to its European counterparts, or even an older American city, and the … Continue reading
Traffic
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)© 2008 Tom Vanderbilt402 pages Take a brain adapted to move a bit over a hundred pounds of flesh at speeds under 20 miles per hour, and … Continue reading
The City in Mind
The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition© 2001 James Howard Kunstler272 pages The study of civilization is nothing less than the study of the culture of cities. Humanity has survived on the Earth for hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, humanities, James Kunstler, social criticism, Society and Culture, urbanism
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The Illiad
The Illiad© 1960 Barbara Leonie Picard208 pagesIllustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe The Illiad is one of the oldest and most celebrated works of literature of western civilization: a classic among classics, no world literature class would be complete without it. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", classical world, Classics and Literary, Greece, humanities, world-turner
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The Tragedy of the Moon
The Tragedy of the Moon© Isaac Asimov 1978224 pages The Tragedy of the Moon collects seventeen sundry Asimovian essays which will prove a delight to most Asimov fans. The essays were originally published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, but have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, biochemistry, BnB 2011 Nonfiction Reading Challenge, essays, history of science, humanities, Isaac Asimov, science
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The Mother Tongue
The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way© 1990 Bill Bryson270 pages “More than 350 million people around the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seem, try to.” While I’m reading this as part of a … Continue reading
The Roman Way
The Roman Way© 1932 Edith Hamilton281 pages Slave: He saw the girl. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cicero, classical world, Edith Hamilton, humanities, Rome, Stoicism
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