Brooklyn Institute 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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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society
Jurgen Habermas
Jürgen Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere | July BISR Online Courses | https://t.co/Ndt0dW4fpZ https://t.co/bKowMWFN3W
Hardcover, 1989
$69.95$44.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Phenomenology of Spirit
G. W. F. Hegel
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit | March BISR Online Courses | https://t.co/7Yp0WTLj2j https://t.co/1e9QnZgpst
Paperback, 1979
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life Is Everywhere
Lucy Ives
Podcast for Social Research, Episode 62: On Weak Writing—Lucy Ives's "Life Is Everywhere" | In which writer Lucy Ives sits down with BISR to talk the strengths of "weak" writing, the pleasures of “difficult” novels, unpromising premises, and much more! | https://t.co/3kS2RTKulS https://t.co/WP633H4LOr
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
News from Nowhere
Morris William
Faculty Writing: RH Lossin in @nybooks reads William Morris' upotian novel News from Nowhere as radically forward-looking | https://t.co/0nUpLmwOnx https://t.co/CuzoYHzplQ
Paperback, 2017
$10.43$5.22 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk and Beyond | October BISR Online Courses | https://t.co/BAVZwBrwwU https://t.co/J4jl8dNE66
Paperback, 2018
$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis
Faculty Writing: @xtinesmallwood in @nybooks on Bret Easton Ellis and being guilty of something | https://t.co/ytTppXdZtm https://t.co/nlYwclNz0J
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Villette
Charlotte Brontë
From the Gothic to the Postcolonial: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (In-Person) | October BISR Courses @astheicecreamc1 | https://t.co/2AQYG1FeeA https://t.co/HREFDrDBy8
Paperback, 2008
$11.95$5.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lucy
Jamaica Kincaid
From the Gothic to the Postcolonial: Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (In-Person) | October BISR Courses @astheicecreamc1 | https://t.co/2AQYG1FeeA https://t.co/HREFDrDBy8
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Fiction and Inner Life: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | July BISR Courses | https://t.co/NmefvuLq5l https://t.co/o7bh8bs33T
Paperback, 1990
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
Andrew Nagorski
Faculty Writing: @PatBlanchfield in @newrepublic reviews @AndrewNagorski 's "distressingly timely" new biography Saving Freud: how to explain even this arch-skeptic's inability to see the dangers of his own time clearly? | https://t.co/2GrI0khprJ https://t.co/hodJ6w1G4W
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book