Alex Beam explores the 1950s and 1960s Great Books mania in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age.
This fourth installment in the Great Conversations series includes fifteen eminently discussible selections by Plato, Thoreau, Matthew Arnold, Shaw, Chekhov and ten other great classic and modern authors plus discussion guides for Jane Austen’s Emma and Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way.
Pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. Fourteen short story masterpieces selected for discussion and reflection. Authors include Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Edith Wharton, and Tobias Wolff.
An exciting anthology of 31 selections by the pioneers of physics, including Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Feynman, Heisenberg, Weinberg, and Hawking. Available July 2007.
