This book probably differs from most you have encountered, at least those that you have encountered in school. Generally, The books taught in school tell students how to think, but ours has a different purpose. We wanted to put in your hands a book that would require you to make connections for yourself as you think, read, and write about the events that are likely to shape your future life.
- David Abram, The Ecology Magic
- Lila Abu-Lughod, Honor and Shame
- Karen Armstrong, Dod Have a Future?
- Jonathan Boyarin, Waiting for a Jew: Marginal Redempton at the Eighih Street Shul
- Amy Chua, A World on the Edge
- Annie Dillard, The Wreck of Time: Taking Our Century's Measure
- Susan Faludi, The Naked Citadel
- Jon Gertner, The Futile Pursuit of Happiness
- Malcolm Gladwell, The Power of Context: Bernie Goetz and the Rise and Fall of New York City Crime
- Stephen Jay Gould, What Does the Dreaded "E" Word Mean, Anyway? A Reverie for the Opening of the New Hayden Planetarium
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