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Core Reading List AY 2009-10

"I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage."
~Montesquieu, Pensées Diverses

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CC101 Gilgamesh translated by David Ferry 9780374523831
  Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
 published by the Jewish Publication Society of America 9780827603660
  Odysseus at Troy: Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women edited by Stephen Esposito
 9781585103607
 

The Odyssey

 by Homer 9780374525743
  The Republic
by Plato 9780465069347
  Wadsworth Handbook by Kirszner and Mandell
 9781439081839
CC105 Physical Science 8th Edition by Bill Tillery 9780073404523
CC201 The Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarch 9780199540693
  Discourse on Method by René Descartes 9780023672606
  Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 9780142437230
  Hamlet by William Shakespeare 9780451526922
  Paradise Lost by John Milton 9780451527929
  Selections from the Essays by Michel de Montaigne 9780882951058
  The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli 9780872203167
CC203 Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
 9780915144860
  Basic Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 9780872200470
  The Marx-Engels Reader by Karl Marx
 9780393090406
  Protestant Ethic & Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
 9780195332537
  The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780385092609
  Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 9780451528124
  On Suicide by Emile Durkheim
 9780140449679
  The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun 9780691120546
  Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski
 9780881330847
CC102 To be determined.    
CC106 To be determined.    
CC202 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 9780141439495
  Candide by Voltaire 9780140440041
  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 9780141439518
  Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780393956238
  Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 9780140421996
  Faust: Part 1 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780199536214
  Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant 9780521626958
CC204 To be determined.    
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