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Winter Quarter

Continuing books: Buber, Meetings, Cayley/Illich, Rivers North of the Future, Hoinacki, Dying is Not Death, Tufte, Artful Sentences, Williams, Style, and Lasater, 30 Essential Yoga Poses. See Fall Quarter booklist, below. NB: Cayley/Illich is not out of print. You should have a copy of this book for winter. See note on Duncan, which you should order.

Bennett, Alan, Uncommon Reader: A Novella, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, ISBN-10: 0374280967 ISBN-13: 978-0374280963

Doctorow, E. L., Billy Bathgate, Plume, 1998, ISBN-10: 0452280028 ISBN-13: 978-0452280021

Duncan, David James, God Laughs and Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right, Triad Books, 2007, ISBN-10: 0977717011 ISBN-13: 978-0977717019 (The Evergreen Bookstore cannot order this book. Please order your own copy.)

Goebel, Joey, Torture the Artist, MacAdam/Cage Publishing, 2005, ISBN-10: 159692148X ISBN-13: 978-1596921481

Iyengar, B. K. S., Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom,Rodale Books, 2006, ISBN-10: 1594865248 ISBN-13: 978-1594865244

McCarthy, Cormack McCarthy, The Road, Vintage Books, 2007, ISBN-10: 0307387895 ISBN-13: 978-0307387899.

Articles (available online or as handouts)

Hall, Stephen S., "Small and thin: The controversy over the fetal origins of adult health," The New Yorker, Nov. 19, 2007, pp. 52-57 (handout).

Harmon, Amy, "Cancer free at 33, but weighing a mastectomy," New York Times, September 16, 2007.

Rosen, Christine (all available in The New Atlantis)
"Virtual friendship and the new narcissism," http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/17/rosen.htm
"Are we worthy of our kitchens?," http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/11/rosen.htm
"Romance in the information age," http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/4/rosen.htm
"The age of ego-casting," http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/7/rosen.htm

Taubes, Gary, "Do we really know what makes us healthy?," New York Times, September 16, 2007.

Fall Quarter
Buber, Martin, Meetings: Autobiographical Fragments, Routledge, 2002, ISBN: 978-0415282673.

Cayley, David, Rivers North of the Future: The Testament of Ivan Illich, House of Anansi Press, 2005, ISBN-13: 978-0887847141.

Hoinacki, Lee, Dying is Not Death, Resource Publications (OR), 2007, ISBN-13: 978-1597528795.

Lasater, Judith Hanson, 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers, Rodmell Press, 2003, ISBN-13: 978-1930485044.

Lasater, Judith Hanson, Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life, Rodmell Press, 1999, ISBN-13: 978-0962713880.

Pollan, Michael, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Penguin Press HC, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0143038580 (now available in paperback; at TESC bookstore 9/18/2007)).
OR
Kingsolver, Barbara, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, HarperCollins, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0060852559.
Attend class before purchasing either Pollan or Kingsolver.

Tufte, Virginia, Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Graphics Press, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0961392185. Order from:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vt

Williams, Joseph, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 9th ed., Longman, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0321479358. (Note: If you shop for used copies, any version from the 6th edition on is acceptable.)

Wolff, Tobias, Old School, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2005, ISBN-13: 978-0747574651.

Articles (available through the Evergreen Library, online, or as handouts)

Greenberg, Gary, “Manufacturing Depression: Journey into the Economy of Melancholy,” Harper’s, May, 2007 314 (1884): 35-45.

Illich, Ivan “Philosophy … Artifacts … Friendship—and the History of the Gaze,” pp 59-77 in Thérèse-Anne Druart, ed., Philosophy of Technology, American Catholic Philosophical Association Proceedings, v. 70, Catholic University of America, 1996. (handout)

Lapham, Lewis H., “Notebook,” Harper's Magazine, May, 2006, 312 (1872): 15-17.

Lethem, Jonathan, “The Ecstasy of Influence,” Harper’s Magazine, February, 2007, 314 (1881): 59-71, and follow up letters in April, 2007.

Lewis-Kraus, Gideon, “The World in Three Aisles: Browsing the post-digital library,” Harper’s, May, 2007, 314 (1884): 47-56.

Manning, Richard, “The Oil We Eat,” Harper’s, February, 2004, 308 (1845): 37-45

Metcalf, Ben, “On Simple Human Decency,” Harper's Magazine, June, 2006, 312 (1873): 9-11
http://radicalhead.com/2006/06/Harpers-notebook.htm

Orwell, George, “Politics and the English Language,” available at: http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

Riding, Alan, "Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It," New York Times, February 24, 2007.

Solnit, Rebecca, “The Uses of Disaster,” Harper's Magazine, October, 2005, 311 (1865): 31-37.

Solnit, Rebecca, "Finding Time: The fast, the bad, the ugly, the alternatives," Orion Magazine, Sept./Oct., 2007, available at:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/346

Sontag, Susan, “Against Interpretation,” available at: http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/sontag-againstinterpretation.html

White, Curtis, “The Idols of Environmentalism,” Orion, March/April, 2007, and “The Ecology of Work,” Orion, May/June, 2007.
available:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/issue/42/
and
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/issue/266