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Brooklyn Institute Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research extends liberal arts education and research far beyond the boundaries of the traditional university.

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Book Cover for: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Jurgen Habermas

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society

Jurgen Habermas
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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)
Book Cover for: Phenomenology of Spirit, G. W. F. Hegel

Phenomenology of Spirit

G. W. F. Hegel
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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
Book Cover for: Life Is Everywhere, Lucy Ives

Life Is Everywhere

Lucy Ives
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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
Book Cover for: News from Nowhere, Morris William

News from Nowhere

Morris William
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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
Book Cover for: The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois
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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
Book Cover for: The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis

The Shards

Bret Easton Ellis
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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
Book Cover for: Villette, Charlotte Brontë

Villette

Charlotte Brontë
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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
Book Cover for: Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid

Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid
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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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Book Cover for: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf
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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
Book Cover for: Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom, Andrew Nagorski

Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

Andrew Nagorski
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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