James Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social 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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On Liberty: Illustrated Edition
John Stuart MillJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social“..John Stuart Mill [who careered the struggle between Liberty and Authority] argued in his essay On Liberty that ‘the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others’.” - S. Rippon https://t.co/McXrgmFzai
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The North American Indian
Edward S. CurtisJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social1/ his brief 1952 obituary in The New York Times: “Edward S. Curtis, internationally known authority on the history of the North American Indian, died today at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Beth Magnuson. His age was 84. Mr. Curtis devoted his life to compiling Indian history. https://t.co/GnkprBnhE5
Paperback, 2022
$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Voices of Women
Sheila N. BrathwaiteJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.sociallistening to Yehudi Wyner, 'The Second Madrigal: Voices Of Women', on Counterstream Radio @NewMusicUSA, using texts in 'A Book of Luminous Things', an anthology of poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz https://t.co/ImU07bZWJ9 lovely. Mr. Wyner is a Canadian composer born in 1929
Paperback, 2011
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rocko Wrestling: #2: Johnny Brasso
David HudsonJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social3 cheeses (2 goat, 1 buffalo), Hudson Valley duck rillettes, marinated artichokes, pickled habanada peppers, baby greens dressed w/Portuguese olive oil, white balsamic; David Akiyoshi Chardonnay Lodi Sur Lie 2016; Bruckner No. 5 Philippe Herreweghe, Orchestre des Champs-Elysées https://t.co/sKGeqPFBS1
Paperback, 2020
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Beggar's Opera
John GayJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.socialThe Beggar’s Opera (1728): a Downtown William Christie, Robert Carsen, and an amazing cast revisit of John Gay’s 300-year-old musical, and it’s available on DVD (Benjamin Purkiss @BenjaminPurkiss as Macheath is a charmer) https://t.co/NANbPFnUX7
Paperback, 2015
$14.90$7.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
James DavidsonJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social@musichistorylaw 'Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens', by James Davidson full disclosure: haven't yet read it all, but with subject(s) that consume several enthusiasms, it feels written for me; also, my partner is describing sections to me as he reads it now
Paperback, 1998
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Decorative Art in America: A Lecture
Oscar WildeJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.socialJapan was suddenly big in North America in the 1880’s: “..the influence which Eastern art is having on us in Europe, and the fascination of all Japanese work…” - Oscar Wilde, from a lecture he gave on a tour in the US, 1882 https://t.co/Xwlvx0PJgw https://t.co/kHCefmAd4f
Paperback, 2022
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Henry V
William ShakespeareJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.socialwas going to say edward, 2nd duke of york, seema to have had a lot of free time, but have since learned he was actually very busy, hunting (with dogs), and warring: “[He’s a] major character in William Shakespeare's Richard II. [Also, his] death at Agincourt [is in] Henry V.” https://t.co/pG29VJB5Oj
Paperback, 2020
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Liberia: Its Origin, Rise, Progress and Results: An Address Delivered Before the American Colonization Society, January 20th, 1880...
American Colonization SocietyJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.socialbut “brown people” have always been in what is today’s Tory world; are we now to expect a UK version of the 19th-c American Colonization Society, which dealt “..with the ‘problem’ of the growing number of free blacks in the United States by resettling them in Africa [Liberia].”? https://t.co/129yFJJJwc
Paperback, 2011
$14.75$7.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Theophilus North
Thornton WilderJames Wagner @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social@fugitiveink @TWalden83466401 it was still pretty much the pre-war world of Thornton Wilder’s Theophilus North, and I later came to adore that “memoir”, published, ironically, a few years after we left for Providence [see “Product Description” here: https://t.co/ds0yg9bqsA]
Paperback, 2019
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