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
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