Day: February 4, 2011

Kicking off a new year and getting back in the groove of another semester is the name of the game come January. When we opened the doors after our annual holiday closure what do you think we found? Books and more books. Books from UC Berkeley professors Joel Altman, John Searle, Donna V. Jones, and Michael Rubinstein (whose book Public Works I can’t wait to read), as well as books by Modern Author members Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, James Kelman, David Rabe, and Louis MacNeice. They all graced the shelves of Graduate Services this first month of 2011. Hannah Arendt, Chantal Mouffe, Elizabeth Bronfen, Zygmunt Bauman, and David Harvey also threw their hats into the ring this month for you to try on–but beware, these are big hats. (And speaking of hats, or to be more specific, helmets, UC Berkeley graduate Aaron Rodgers will quarterback the Green Bay Packers in this year’s Super Bowl. We’ll all be cheese heads come February 6th.) Yes, January brought us some great books to kick off 2011, so get your read on. And Enjoy.

 

The Improbability of Othello by Joel Altman

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess by Hannah Arendt

Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality by Zygmunt Bauman

All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen by Samuel Beckett

Over Her Dead Body: Death. Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen

Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts by WIlliam Burroughs

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Third Edition edited by Edward J. Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman

The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey

The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Negritude, Vitalism, and Modernity by Donna V. Jones

The Good Times by James Kelman

Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison

Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages by A.J. Minnis

The Return of the Political by Chantal Mouffe

Debating World Literature edited by Christopher Prendergast

Dinosaurs on the Roof by David Rabe

Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial by Michael Rubenstein

Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language by John R. Searle

Not many new books hitting the shelves in December. But like I’ve said in the past, its about quality, not quanity. And I’m not trying to wind you up as the semester is winding down, but take a look at the books below. One book takes a broad look at the last century (was it really just 100 years 10 years ago you might ask yourself), while another puts the 1970’s in perspective. Break out the head bands and platform shoes, by which I mean head on over to American Apparel, and think about cranking Zeppelin while you wait in long lines to get gas. Pretend that cozy chair in Graduate Services is your Trans Am and kill the time waiting by reading some stories from James Kelman’s Busted Scotch, or the correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac–who I am sure loved them some scotch and probably have something to say about being busted. The Holidays are here again. The semester is ending. Time to enjoy some outside reading…that takes place inside Graduate Services during our abbreviated holiday hours. Enjoy.

 

The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni Arrighi

The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel J. Sargent

Busted Scotch: Selected Stories by James Kelman

Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters edited by Bill Morgan and David Stanford