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First-Year Seminar Required Texts

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Required texts are available from the College Bookstore. 
Rely on the ISBN to be sure you are getting the correct edition. 
Students should purchase the paperback versions of the texts, not electronic ones.

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2022–23 Required Texts

Fall Semester

  • Marx, Karl, Selected Writing,  Hackett.  ISBN:  978-0872202184.
  • The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, 5th edition, ed. Michael D. Coogan, Oxford.  ISBN:  978-0190276089.
  • Poems of the First Buddhist Women:  A Translation of the Therigatha, trans. Charles Hallisey, Harvard University Press.  ISBN:  978-0674251359.
  • Robertson, Robin, Euripides, Bacchae:  A New Translation by Robin Robertson with a preface by Daniel Mendelsohn, Harper Collins.  ISBN: 9780062319678.
  • Fanon, Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox, 60th Anniversary Edition, Publisher's Group West.  ISBN: 978-0802158635.
  • Locke, John, Second Treatise on Government, Ed. C.B. Macpherson, Hackett.  ISBN:  978-0915144860.
* Every student will also receive a complimentary reader to accompany these texts.
* The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha will also be used in the spring also.
 

Reader Illustrations

Along the River During the Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan 12th Century ink and color on Silk, held in the Palace Museum, Forbidden City, Beijing, China.   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alongtheriver_QingMing.jpg
 
Hudson’s River Drawing from Adrian Block’s Charts, 1614-1616, taken from Indian Geographical Names by E.M. Ruttenber, published by the New York State Historical Association, 1906. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51217/51217-h/51217-h.htm 
 
Daguerreotype photograph of Chartist meeting on 10 April 1848 at Kennington Common, by William Edward Kilburn, restored version, held in the Royal Collection of the British royal family. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chartist_meeting_on_Kennington_Common_by_William_Edward_Kilburn_1848_-_restoration1.jpg
 
Clover Leaf World Map of 1581 by Heinrich Buenting, originally published in Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae (Travel Book of Holy Scripture), held in the Eran Laor collection in the National Library of Israel. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1581_Clover_Leaf_World_Map_by_Heinrich_Buenting.jpg
 
The Calling of Saint Matthew oil on canvas by Michelangelo Merisi da Carvaggio, circa 1599-1600, held in the Contarelli Chapel, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Calling_of_Saint_Matthew-Caravaggo_(1599-1600).jpg
 
Aerial photograph of the Theater of Dionysus, Athens, Greece, from the University of California, San Diego.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.13920909
 
Still from Dionysus in ’69, directed by Bryan de Palma, Robert Fiore, and Bruce Rubin, 1970, from the University of California, San Diego.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.13930346
           
Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu (Outline Map of All Countries of the Universe) map of 1710, composed by the Buddhist monk Rokashi Hotan as a woodblock print.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1710_First_Japanese_Buddhist_Map_of_the_World_Showing_Europe,_America,_and_Africa_-_Geographicus_-_NansenBushu-hotan-1710.jpg
 
Detail of Mahapajapati Gotami from a mural in Wat Pho Temple, Bankok, Thailand. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:034_Mahapajapati_Gotami_(detail)_(9166564054).jpg
 
Catalan Atlas of 1375 attributed to Abraham Cresques, held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1375_Atlas_Catalan_Abraham_Cresques.jpg
 
Murals of Diego Rivera at the Secretariat of Public Education Main Headquarters building in Mexico City, Mexico, completed between 1923 and 1928.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mural_de_Diego_Rivera_en_el_museo_de_la_SEP_33.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mural_de_Diego_Rivera_en_el_museo_de_la_SEP_51.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_Banquet_-_Diego_Rivera_Mural_-_Secretaria_de_Educacion_Publica_(SEP).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mural_de_Diego_Rivera_en_el_museo_de_la_SEP_37.jpg
 
Map of Tenochtitlan, printed 1524 in Nuremberg, Germany. Colorized woodcut.
By Friedrich Peypus, probably after drawing made by one of Hernán Cortéz' men.
Original is at the Newberry Library, Chicago, inventory number Ayer 655.51.C8 1524b (or 1524c or 1524d).  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Tenochtitlan,_1524.jpg

Rock art from Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Algeria. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tassili_- _whites_and_blacks_leaving_in_harmony%3F .jpg

Tracing of a 1747 Map of Barent Van Benthuysen’s Land, Stevenson Library Digital Collections, Bard College. https://omekalib.bard.edu/items/show/1332

 

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