Our Spring 2010 Brilliant Minds book list is now available for download in printable PDF format:
For Aristotle, we will concentrate our reading on selections from the Ethics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Poetics.
Aristotle: The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)
Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Oxford World's Classics)
Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Writings (Hildegard of Bingen) (Penguin Classics)
William Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew (The Pelican Shakespeare)
Anne Bronte: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World's Classics)
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James Wood (Author): How Fiction Works (Paperback)
Conversational approach makes more sophisticated analysis accessible. (****)
The Honorable Richard A. Posner: A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression
As a Federal Judge, economist, and literate writer, Posner's view is always worth considering. (*****)
Mahmoud Darwish: A River Dies of Thirst: journals
Profoundly poetic, challenging personally and politically. (*****)
Eduardo Galeano: Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
The titles of these re-tellings are much of the fun & wit, as are at least one observation or turn of phrase per story. (*****)
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