Humanities Resources
Spring 2019
Communication
Talking Across the Divide
by Justin Lee
Lee explains how to break through the five key barriers that make people resist differing opinions. He helps one understand people on the other side of the argument and provides tools to change their minds.
Mind Over Memes
by Diana Senechal
Senechal examines words, concepts, and phrases that demand reappraisal. Too often our use of language has become lazy, frivolous, and even counterproductive.
Say What You Mean
by Oren Jay Sofer
Written with great warmth and clarity, this book brings together well-researched principles, effective tools and suggestions, and powerful experiential practices.
Language
Babel
by Gaston Dorren
Dorren offers a whistle-stop tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages; exploring history, geography, linguistics, and culture. He shows how the language we speak reflects our view of the world.
Woe is I
by Patricia T. O’Conner
With fresh insights into the rights, wrongs, and maybes of English grammar and usage, O'Conner offers down-to-earth explanations and plain-English solutions to the language mysteries that bedevil all of us.
Integrated Korean
by Young-Mee Cho et al.
This new edition features a two-color design with all new photos and drawings. Lessons are now organized into two main sections, each containing a conversational text and a reading passage.
Philosophy & Religion
Moral Combat
by R. Marie Griffith
Sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago.
Islam: An American Religion
by Nadia Marzouki
A look at how Islam as formed in the US has become an American religion in a double sense: through the strategies of recognition adopted by Muslims and through Islam as a faith.
I am Dynamite!
by Sue Prideaux
Carefully examining both human drama and conceptual argument, Prideaux plumbs the turbulent depths of spirit hidden behind Nietzsche’s sunny affability.
Why Religion?
by Elaine Pagels
In the wake of great personal tragedy, distinguished historian of religion, Elaine Pagels, reflects on the persistence and nature of belief and why religion matters
God in the Qur'an
by Jack Miles
This is an erudite, hugely informative portrait of the God of Islam, the world's second largest, fastest-growing, and perhaps most tragically misunderstood religion.
Tao Te Ching
by Laozi
John Minford's translation has the mark of the craftsman; his choice of words is not just judicious but also poetic, refreshing the at once limpid and ambiguous original and making it new.
Music
Beyoncé in Formation
by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
A compelling and timely read about the many ways Beyoncé impacts not only American popular culture but the author's own particular life.
Debussy: A Painter in Sound
by Stephen Walsh
A beautifully written and original biography of one of the greatest and most popular of modern composers which also deeply investigates his much-loved music.
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks
by Judith Chernaik
A sturdy foundation of research and musical knowledge (and love) underlies this inspiring and wrenching account of a man who pursued, captured, and lost.
Beastie Boys Book
by Mike D and Adam Horovitz
Teeming with tour anecdotes, personal letters, playlists, comics, and photographs, the Beastie Boys Book unspools the crew's thirty-year run in the music industry and is appropriately massive.
Mad Scenes and Exit Arias
by Heidi Waleson
In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera was bankrupt. Waleson recounts the history of this scrappy company and reveals how it precariously balanced an ambitious artistic program on fragile financial supports.
How to Listen to Jazz
by Ted Gioia
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to the art of listening to jazz. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians
Arts & Film
Interpreting Anime
by Christopher Bolton
Bolton applies deep knowledge of Japanese aesthetic traditions, global media culture, and post humanist theory to close readings of some of the most artistically ambitious and culturally significant works of the art form.
Horror Film
by Murray Leeder
This critical introduction balances the discussions of horror's history, theory, and aesthetics. Featuring studies of films both obscure and famous, Horror Film is international in its scope and chronicles horror from its silent roots until today.
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
by Camille Laurens
A heartfelt work that uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas's now-iconic sculpture, and the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. Laurens draws on a wealth of historical material as well as her own love of ballet and personal experiences of loss
3D Thinking in Design and Architecture
by Roger Burrows
Burrows tells the story of the intimate relationship between geometry, mathematics and man-made design throughout human history, from the Neolithic period to the present and possible future.
A Short History of Film
by Wheeler W. Dixon and
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
The authors address new trends in international moviemaking, technologies, and critical theory as well as the emergence of new national and ethnic cinemas
Ninth Street Women
by Mary Gabriel
Gabriel writes a comprehensive, and impressively detailed history of abstract expressionism focused on the lives and works of Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler.
