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Vineland (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
Thomas Pynchon
Tristes Tropiques
John Weightman, Doreen Weightman, Patrick Wilcken, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Richard III
William Shakespeare
The Dwarf
Alexandra Dick, Pär Lagerkvist
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen, Cecil Day-Lewis
Labyrinths
Richard Wolin
Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, Nicholas Penny
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow
Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
Steven Weisenburger
Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition - Merlin Donald I'll give this four-stars, though I'm really not competent to rate this. I read substantial portions of it, but much of it is -- if not over my head -- at least too dry and scientific for my tastes and attention deficits. I'm a scientific illiterate, unfortunately -- and even in philosophy, epistemology was my weakest area. So this speculative, synthesizing approach to some highly technical aspects of cognitive evolution, memory storage, evolutionary biology -- what is the mode of awareness of fish, as opposed (say) to homuncular models of human consciousness... was both fascinating but, ultimately, more than I can handle. Those with a background or aptitude for this sort of thing might want to look at this book. The author seems to be quite brilliant, so far as I can tell -- and he is clearly dealing with some very key issues.