Books

History

J. M. Roberts, A History of Europe. New York: Allen Lane, ©1996.
Oswald Spengler. The Decline of the West. An abridged edition by Helmut Werner. English abridged edition prepared by Arthur Helps from the translation by Charles Francis Atkinson. New York: Oxford University Press, ©1991 [1926, 1928, 1932]. xxxx,415, xvix
J. M. Roberts, A Short History of the World.  New York:  Oxford University Press, ©1993.  513p.

Arts and Culture

Matei Calinescu, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism. Durham: Duke University Press, ©1987.
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, ©1987. 382 p.
Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer. Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies. New York: Longman, ©1998.
Marilyn Stokstad.  Art History, Revised Edition.  New York:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc.  ©1999 1167 p.
  Stanley Aronowitz.   Roll over Beethoven : the Return of  Cultural Strife.  Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, c1993.
  Jacques Barzun.  From Dawn to Decadence, 1500 to the Present;  500 Years of Western Cultural Life.  New York:  HarperCollins, c2000.
  Robert Con Davis and Ronald Schleifer.  Literary Criticism; Literary and cultural Studies, fourth edition.  New York:  Longman, c1998.
  Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
  Edward W. Said. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, c 1978

Other Books

Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Message. New York: Bantan Books, ©1967. 160.
Robert M. Pirsig. Lila, An Inquiry into Morals. New York: Bantam Books, ©1991. 468 p.

Science and Mathematics

James Gleick, Chaos, Making a New Science. New York: Penguin Books, ©1987.
David Berlinski, A Tour of the Calculus. New York: Pantheon Books, ©1995, p. 305.
Changes in the role of mathematical thinking and our world view
Arts mirror mathematics
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