Trey Strecker 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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Aspiring polymath. Fiction, film, phenomenology, complexity. Here for book recs & dog pics. Senior Instructor of English. Opinions are my own.
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power
Elizabeth GroszTrey Strecker@hyoyoonkang A few I haven't seen mentioned: Elizabeth Grosz, Time Travels, The Nick of Time Mark Wittmann, Felt Time Joel Burges and Amy Elias, Time: A Vocabulary of the Present
Paperback, 2005
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Prisoner's Dilemma
Richard PowersTrey StreckerThanks to Richard Powers's Prisoner's Dilemma, I'm stuck on how It's a Wonderful Life is a perfect representation of chaos theory's sensitive dependence on initial conditions (the butterfly effect).
Paperback, 2021
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The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely
Elizabeth GroszTrey Strecker@hyoyoonkang A few I haven't seen mentioned: Elizabeth Grosz, Time Travels, The Nick of Time Mark Wittmann, Felt Time Joel Burges and Amy Elias, Time: A Vocabulary of the Present
Paperback, 2004
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Running Dog
Don DelilloTrey Strecker@MinxMarple I'm not sure whether I still have the list, but a few years ago McElroy's Lookout Cartridge and DeLillo's Running Dog sent me down the rabbit hole of imaginary films.
Paperback, 1989
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Rebecca SolnitTrey Strecker@joiedevivre9 @bibliopaul The actual title is River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. Highly recommended.
Paperback, 2004
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Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Gilles DeleuzeTrey Strecker"It is said that Spinoza kept his coat with a hole pierced by a knife thrust as a reminder that thought is not always loved by men." Gilles Deleuze
Paperback, 1988
$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Blazing World
Siri HustvedtTrey Strecker@WMM_Series Siri Hustvedt's THE BLAZING WORLD
Paperback, 2014
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ava
Carole MasoTrey Strecker@terrygtnguyen If you like Markson's novel, track down Carole Maso's AVA.
Out of stock
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Maryanne WolfTrey Strecker@MinxMarple Maryanne Wolf's Reader, Come Home is interesting.
Paperback, 2019
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Descartes
Desmond ClarkeTrey StreckerI finished reading Desmond M. Clarke's Descartes biography this morning. Imagine my surprise to learn Rene Descartes was not a drunken fart. Has Monty Python led me astray?
Paperback, 2012
$42.00Member price:$21.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book