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10 best books like Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance (Richard Powers): Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984, Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830, Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment, 5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel, Tristram Shandy; and A Sentimental Journey, Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern, The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy, Langford's Basic Photography: The Guide for Serious Photographers, John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand

Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984
AuthorVan Burnham
ISBN0262024926
Washington City Paper
Arts & Entertainment : Book Review

No Quarter
By Glenn Dixon • December 7, 2001

If you think videogame history is in its infancy, just get a load of videogame historiography. Stick to the stuff in English and it makes for a mighty short bookshelf:...
Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
AuthorCharles Brockden Brown
ISBN0140390790
I read WIELAND: OR THE TRANSFORMATION for different reasons than I think the majority will read it. I'll bet a lot of people read it because it's a very early example of the "American Novel". Most are probably assigned it for a class. Perhaps some read it because of interest in a particular aspect (religious...
The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830
AuthorPaul Johnson
ISBN0060922826
This extraordinary chronicle of fifteen years that laid the foundations of the modern world is the history of people, ideas, politics, manners and morals, economics, art, science and technology, diplomacy, business and commerce, literature and revolution. From Wellington at Waterloo and Jackson...
Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
AuthorDavid Edmonds
In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language—was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency....
5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel
AuthorDaniel Pinkwater
ISBN0374423296
5 Novels contains five classic novels by Daniel Pinkwater, who has been quietly, subversively producing books for the most intelligent and creative children and young people in America for more than twenty-five years. (Adults may know him as a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, essayist,...
Tristram Shandy; and A Sentimental Journey
AuthorLaurence Sterne
ISBN0679600914
Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal...
Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern
AuthorJohn N. Gray
ISBN1565849876
While many Americans view the September 11th terrorist attack as the act of an anachronistic and dangerous sect, one that champions medieval and outmoded ideals, John Gray here argues that in fact the ideology of Al Qaeda is both Western and modern, a by-product of globalization’s transnational...
The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy
AuthorRobert B. Reich
ISBN0375725121
If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.

With...
Langford's Basic Photography: The Guide for Serious Photographers
AuthorMichael Langford
ISBN0240520351
Langford's Basic Photography has informed the work and career of many of the world's leading photographers. It is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of photography, from pre-capture to output, written for photographers who want to understand the principles behind photography and how to create...
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
AuthorRichard V. Reeves
ISBN1843546434
The definitive life of John Stuart Mill, one of the heroic giants of Victorian England
 
Richard Reeves' sparkling new biography can be read as an attempt to do justice to this eminent thinker, and it succeeds triumphantly. He reveals Mill as a man of action—a philosopher and radical MP...
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World
AuthorPaul Collins
ISBN0312300336
The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's...
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
AuthorRobert D. Richardson Jr.
ISBN0618433252
The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion -- on modernism itself

Pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, eldest sibling...
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
AuthorJoseph Frank
ISBN0691015872
This long-awaited volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, does cover a truly miraculous period of his life-the six most remarkably productive years in the great novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced...
Megatrends 2000
AuthorJohn Naisbitt
ISBN0380704374
Need a hobby? Take up trend-predicting. It's fun, it's easy, and you never loose.* It's like being psychic, only classier. And, if you want to avoid any culpability in stating something really stupid, you can always couch your inferences as questions, such as "Is YA too dark?".

I predict that...
Stone Virgin
AuthorBarry Unsworth
ISBN0393313093
A mysterious sculpture of a beautiful and erotic Madonna holds the key to the Fornarini family's secrets. When Raikes, a conservation expert, tries to restore her, he is swept under the statue's spell and swept under the spell of the seductive Chiara Litsov, a member of the Fornarini family now married...
Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism
AuthorMichael Ignatieff
ISBN0374524483
Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe and the loosening pf the Cold War'd clamp on East-West relations, a surge of nationalism...
Harry S. Truman
AuthorMargaret Truman
ISBN0380721120
It was refreshing to read about a President, from the perspective of a Daughter, you can tell that she adores her father. the book is filled with letters and document backing up her theories and conclusions. She is very biased about her fathers history and record, but the facts are well researched and...
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
AuthorRobert W. McChesney
ISBN1565846346
Winner of Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize as well as the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, Rich Media, Poor Democracy destroys the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information "choices" is a democratic one. Robert McChesney, whom Marc Crispin Miller calls "the greatest of our media...
Why Globalization Works
AuthorMartin Wolf
ISBN0300107773
A distinguished international economist here offers a powerful defense of the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of the market but of governments,...
To the Finland Station
AuthorEdmund Wilson
ISBN1590170334
Edmund Wilson's magnum opus, To the Finland Station, is a stirring account of revolutionary politics, people, and ideas from the French Revolution through the Paris Commune to the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. It is a work of history on a grand scale, at once sweeping and detailed, closely reasoned...
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