December 8, 2003
poseur library
Every week, my employer receives dozens of scholarly books for review purposes. Once they’ve been reviewed or listed, they go up for grabs. Many of them sound like they would be quite interesting. Usually they are not.
I’m in the process of packing up for a move to a new office, so I thought I’d share some of the riveting titles I’ve grabbed over the years. They tend to use a lot of colons. If anything strikes your fancy, let me know and I’ll pass it along for your library-padding pleasure.
Napoleon on the Art of War; selected, edited, and translated by Jay Luvaas
Hemingway, the Final Years
Out of the Garden: Toys and Children’s Culture in the Age of TV Marketing
Ariadne’s Clue: A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind
Cajun Country Guide
The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works
The Road to Middle Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA
The Mystical Arts of Tibet, Featuring Personal Sacred Objects of the Dalai Lama
Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deutorocanonical Books, and the New Testament
Einstein and Religion
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity, and Identity in London and New York
On Jesus
The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science
The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms
Excavation (from the Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)
Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture
Gender and Boyle’s Law of Gases
The People’s Forests
The Puzzle Instinct: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life
Inventing the 20th Century: 100 Inventions that Shaped the World; From the Airplane to the Zipper
Numerical Discourse of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya
The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China
The Wonderful Wizard in You!