Pomona College Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement
Char Miller
Listen to the @NewBooksNetwork podcast in which Prof. Char Miller @charmillerfour talks about his book "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement." https://t.co/viVihfR2yx
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Life: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered At Williamstown, Mass., June 26, 1870
Mark Hopkins
TONIGHT: Join Myrlie Evers-Williams '68 and family, along with Pomona College, in a tribute to her life and leadership at this special event in celebration of her 90th birthday. Bridges Auditorium from 5 – 7pm More: https://t.co/kktm6JwEwy https://t.co/PhyQZONMoF
Paperback, 2018
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science
Gary Smith
@Nature reviews Prof. Gary Smith's @StandardDevs new book: "Distrust is a veritable page-turner, and I finished it in a few sittings. On a higher level, it is a call for common sense, for scepticism, for methodological rigour and for epistemic modesty." https://t.co/Fs9QweW44b
Hardcover, 2023
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The New Princeton Review...
Anonymous
Pomona College is No.3 on The Princeton Review’s “Best Financial Aid” list for private colleges featured in their new book, “Best Value Colleges 2022: 387 Schools.” https://t.co/UToKKdG3Pl
Paperback, 2012
$37.75$18.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wild Grass
Xun Lu
Prof. Eileen J. Cheng has translated Lu Xun’s "Wild Grass" and "Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk," published by Harvard University Press. https://t.co/jtWKxCEmsj https://t.co/9K4QZkqICM
Paperback, 2003
$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Alumna Lynda Obst '72 will produce a movie that will examine the relationship between “Cosmos” author Carl Sagan and his wife and collaborator Ann Druyan https://t.co/UXpGLbXQnY
Paperback, 2013
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk
Xun Lu
Prof. Eileen J. Cheng has translated Lu Xun’s "Wild Grass" and "Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk," published by Harvard University Press. https://t.co/jtWKxCEmsj https://t.co/9K4QZkqICM
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
San Antonio: A Tricentennial History
Char Miller
Listen to the @NewBooksNetwork podcast in which Prof. Char Miller @charmillerfour talks about his book "West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement." https://t.co/viVihfR2yx
Paperback, 2018
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo
Garrett Hongo
Lines of poetry by Garrett Hongo ’73 grace the fountain at Smith Campus Center, and his full poem “Under the Oaks at Holmes Hall, Overtaken by Rain,” is on a nearby plaque. But did you know he recently wrote a book The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo? https://t.co/18oIbZYK7l
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era
Alison Rose Jefferson
Alison Rose Jefferson '80, a historian who wrote "Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era," is quoted in @latimes story on Bruce's Beach in Manhattan Beach. https://t.co/d6wgcAoLzs
Hardcover, 2020
$55.00$30.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)