Alexi Sargeant🌻 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Director, culture critic, lover of puns, game designer. Bylines at @firstthingsmag, @newcriterion, @tnajournal, etc. Married to @LeahLibresco.🌻
The Elusive Shift: How Role-Playing Games Forged Their Identity
Jon PetersonAlexi Sargeant🌻Another book read from my 2022 to-read list! A fantastic novel about magic and Englishness. Well worth the hefty pagecount. ✅All of The Marvels 🎡The Viennese 👑The Perilous Gard 🎲The Elusive Shift ✅Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Paperback, 2022
$32.00Member price:$32.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Apology
PlatoAlexi Sargeant🌻Socrates, in Plato's Apology, spitting hot fire: "If you expect to stop denunciation of your wrong way of life by putting people to death, there is something amiss with your reasoning."
Paperback, 2011
$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All Clear
Connie WillisAlexi Sargeant🌻@theologyreality Connie Willis's time travel novels, especially Blackout and All-Clear.
Paperback, 2011
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages
Dominic AlexanderAlexi Sargeant🌻A long shot, but maybe not so long a shot given my Twitter circles: Does anyone happen to have a copy of this book that they would be willing to lend me? The book is Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages, by Dominic Alexander. https://smile.amazon.com/Saints-Animals-Middle-Dominic-Alexander/dp/1843833948?sa-no-redirect=1
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What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
O. Carter SneadAlexi Sargeant🌻@spaceyjdjames @TravelingNun (And there is a corresponding requirement that society give us the support we need to fulfill those obligations, as O. Carter Snead discussed eloquently in "What It Means to be Human.")
Paperback, 2022
$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Mary ShelleyAlexi Sargeant🌻@jeff_bilbro My students are reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein right now. I feel like they need to read this essay as a complement to it...
Paperback, 2003
$10.00Member price:$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Mary ShelleyAlexi Sargeant🌻@jeff_bilbro My students are reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein right now. I feel like they need to read this essay as a complement to it...
Hardcover, 2023
$46.00Member price:$23.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Light Princess
George MacDonaldAlexi Sargeant🌻Live on Kickstarter—A graphic novel adaptation of Phantastes, by George MacDonald. @cavepublishing has put out MacDonald's The Light Princess in comics form. Now they're adapting Phantastes, an allegorical fairy tale that baptized C.S. Lewis's imagination. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/phantastes/phantastes-a-graphic-novel
Leather / Fine Binding, 2019
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Marvels
Brian SelznickAlexi Sargeant🌻Another book read from my 2022 to-read list! A fantastic novel about magic and Englishness. Well worth the hefty pagecount. ✅All of The Marvels 🎡The Viennese 👑The Perilous Gard 🎲The Elusive Shift ✅Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Hardcover, 2015
$32.99Member price:$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Thomas S. KuhnAlexi Sargeant🌻@SMatthewStolte @JoshHochschild Thomas Kuhn's monograph version of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a good start at a corrective.
Paperback, 2012
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book