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Boeing versus Airbus : the inside story of the greatest international competition in business
By: John Newhouse

John Newhouse’s Boeing Versus Airbus introduced me to the fascinating and dangerous world of air industry: the inside story of the greatest international competition in business. As America’s most succesful and admired corporation from inception, Boeing aircrafts dominated the commercial airplane market until the European startup Airbus entered the game in 1980s. Since then, it …

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After Dark
By: Haruki Murakami

Though lesser-known than his masterpieces The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore, After Dark is another of Murakami’s brilliant novels with imaginative and thought-provoking prose and an unpredictable plot line. The story begins near midnight at a Denny’s in Tokyo with Mari, a quiet student who feels overshadowed by her attractive, popular sister. …

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The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
By: Bryan Magee

More than any other of the great opera composers, Wagner studied philosophy, and he was greatly influenced by the main philosophical currents of mid-19th century Germany. Three philosophers in particular had an effect on his thinking and his work: Feuerbach, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, although the latter was perhaps more the influenced than the influencer. But …

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Goodbye, Columbus
By: Philip Roth

Published in 1959, Goodbye, Columbus won the 1960 National Book Award and began the career of Philip Roth, one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Goodbye, Columbus is a collection of six short stories, each of which concentrates on an unusual, although not unfamiliar, scenario surrounding the Jewish-American experience. Its …

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Diaz

I read the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for my Caribbean Literature class with Professor Nadia Celis. Written in a colloquial, street-smart Spanglish, the book introduces us to Oscar, an overweight Dominican teenager living in New Jersey. A nerd who loves reading science fiction, fantasy and comics and enjoys writing, Oscar is desperately trying …

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Greek gods, human lives : what we can learn from myths
By: Mary Lefkowitz

The past is a foreign country. One side of the culture wars sees “otherness” almost exclusively in terms of contemporary ideas and/or patterns regarding race, gender, class, and sexual preference, but as Mary Lefkowitz demonstrates, Greek myths dating back to Homer and beyond in many ways comprise a more complex and nuanced view of human …

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Indian Country Today
By: Four Directions Media

Indian Country is one of the publications that was requested through myself and the Native American Student Association (NASA) for public review here at the college. Indian Country contains information from all over North, Central and South America pertaining to all aspects of our lives as native peoples. The publication is a Native organized reference …