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Test Bank For Media & Culture Twelfth Edition Richard Campbell

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1 Mass Communication: A Critical Approach Culture and the Evolution of Mass Communication Oral and Written Eras in Communication The Print Revolution The Electronic Era The Digital Era The Linear Model of Mass Communication A Cultural Model for Understanding Mass Communication The Development of Media and Their Role in Our Society The Evolution of Media: From Emergence to Convergence Media Convergence Stories: The Foundation of Media Media Stories in Everyday Life Agenda Setting and Gatekeeping Surveying the Cultural Landscape EXAMINING ETHICS Covering War and Displaying Images Culture as a Skyscraper Culture as a Map Cultural Values of the Modern Period Shifting Values in Postmodern Culture Critiquing Media and Culture Media Literacy and the Critical Process MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS Benefits of a Critical Perspective CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad For videos, review quizzing, and more, visit LaunchPad for Media & Culture at launchpadworks.com PART 1: DIGITAL MEDIA AND CONVERGENCE 2 The Internet, Digital Media, and Media Convergence The Development of the Internet and the Web The Birth of the Internet The Net Widens The Commercialization of the Internet Social Media and Democracy EXAMINING ETHICS Social Media Fraud and Elections Convergence and Mobile Media Media Converges on Our PCs and TVs Mobile Devices Propel Convergence The Impact of Media Convergence and Mobile Media The Next Era: The Semantic Web The Economics and Issues of the Internet Ownership: Controlling the Internet Targeted Advertising and Data Mining GLOBAL VILLAGE Designed in California, Assembled in China Security: The Challenge to Keep Personal Information Private MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS Note to Self for Healthy Digital Consumption Appropriateness: What Should Be Online? Access: The Fight to Prevent a Digital Divide Net Neutrality: Maintaining an Open Internet Net Neutrality Alternative Voices The Internet and Democracy CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad 3 Digital Gaming and the Media Playground The Development of Digital Gaming Mechanical Gaming The First Video Games Arcades and Classic Games Consoles and Advancing Graphics Gaming on PCs Portable Players The Internet Transforms Gaming MMORPGs, MOBAs, Virtual Worlds, and Social Gaming Gaming Apps The Media Playground Video Game Genres Communities of Play: Inside the Game Communities of Play: Outside the Game GLOBAL VILLAGE Phones in Hand, the World Finds Pokémon (and Wizards) Trends and Issues in Digital Gaming Electronic Gaming and Media Culture Video Games at the Movies Electronic Gaming and Advertising Addiction and Other Concerns Examining Ethics The Gender Problem in Digital Games Regulating Gaming MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS First-Person Shooter Games: Misogyny as Entertainment? The Future of Gaming and Interactive Environments The Business of Digital Gaming The Ownership and Organization of Digital Gaming The Structure of Digital Game Publishing Selling Digital Games Alternative Voices Digital Gaming, Free Speech, and Democracy CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad PART 2: Sounds and Images 4 Sound Recording and Popular Music The Development of Sound Recording From Cylinders to Disks: Sound Recording Becomes a Mass Medium From Phonographs to CDs: Analog Goes Digital Convergence: Sound Recording in the Internet Age Recording Music Today The Rocky Relationship between Records and Radio U.S. Popular Music and the Formation of Rock The Rise of Pop Music Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay Rock Muddies the Waters Battles in Rock and Roll A Changing Industry: Reformations in Popular Music The British Are Coming! Motor City Music: Detroit Gives America Soul Folk and Psychedelic Music Reflect the Times MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS Music Preferences across Generations Punk and Indie Respond to Mainstream Rock Hip-Hop Redraws Musical Lines The Reemergence of Pop The Business of Sound Recording Music Labels Influence the Industry Making, Selling, and Profiting from Music GLOBAL VILLAGE Latin Pop Goes Mainstream Alternative Strategies for Music Marketing Examining Ethics The Music Industry’s Day of Reckoning Alternative Voices Streaming Music Videos Sound Recording, Free Expression, and Democracy CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad 5 Popular Radio and the Origins of Broadcasting Early Technology and the Development of Radio Maxwell and Hertz Discover Radio Waves Marconi and the Inventors of Wireless Telegraphy Wireless Telephony: De Forest and Fessenden Regulating a New Medium The Evolution of Radio Building the First Networks Sarnoff and NBC: Building the "Blue" and "Red" Networks Government Scrutiny Ends RCA-NBC Monopoly CBS and Paley: Challenging NBC Bringing Order to Chaos with the Radio Act of 1927 The Golden Age of Radio Radio Reinvents Itself Transistors Make Radio Portable The FM Revolution and Edwin Armstrong The Rise of Format and Top 4 Radio Resisting the Top 4 The Sounds of Commercial Radio Format Specialization Examining Ethics How Did Talk Radio Become So One Sided? Nonprofit Radio and NPR MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS Comparing Commercial and Noncommercial Radio New Radio Technologies Offer More Stations Going Visual: Video, Radio, and the Web Radio and Convergence GLOBAL VILLAGE Radio Stories from Around the World Radio: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow The Economics of Broadcast Radio Local and National Advertising Manipulating Playlists with Payola Radio Ownership: From Diversity to Consolidation Alternative Voices Radio and the Democracy of the Airwaves CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad 6 Television and Cable: The Power of Visual Culture The Origins and Development of Television Early Innovations in TV Technology Electronic Technology: Zworykin and Farnsworth Controlling Content—TV Grows Up The Development of Cable CATV—Community Antenna Television The Wires and Satellites behind Cable Television Cable Threatens Broadcasting Cable Services DBS: Cable without Wires GLOBAL VILLAGE Telling and Selling Stories around the World Technology and Convergence Change Viewing Habits Television Networks Evolve Home Video The Third Screen: TV Converges with the Internet Fourth Screens: Smartphones and Mobile Video EXAMINING ETHICS #MeToo and TV Station Policy Major Programming Trends TV Entertainment: Our Comic Culture TV Entertainment: Our Dramatic Culture Television Drama: Then and Now TV Information: Our Daily News Culture Reality TV and Other Enduring Genres Public Television Struggles to Find Its Place MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS TV and the State of Storytelling Regulatory Challenges to Television and Cable What Makes Public Television Public? Government Regulations Temporarily Restrict Network Control Balancing Cable’s Growth against Broadcasters’ Interests Franchising Frenzy The Telecommunications Act of 1996 The Economics and Ownership of Television and Cable Production Distribution Syndication Keeps Shows Going and Going . . . Measuring Television Viewing The Major Programming Corporations Alternative Voices Television, Cable, and Democracy CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad 7 Movies and the Impact of Images Early Technology and the Evolution of Movies The Development of Film The Introduction of Narrative The Arrival of Nickelodeons The Rise of the Hollywood Studio System Production Distribution Exhibition The Studio System’s Golden Age Hollywood Narrative and the Silent Era The Introduction of Sound The Development of the Hollywood Style Breaking Barriers with 12 Years a Slave Outside the Hollywood System Examining Ethics Breaking through Hollywood’s Race Barrier GLOBAL VILLAGE Beyond Hollywood: Asian Cinema The Transformation of the Studio System The Hollywood Ten The Paramount Decision Moving to the Suburbs Television Changes Hollywood Hollywood Adapts to Home Entertainment The Economics of the Movie Business Production, Distribution, and Exhibition Today The Major Studio Players MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS The Blockbuster Mentality Convergence: Movies Adjust to the Digital Turn Alternative Voices Popular Movies and Democracy More Than a Movie: Social Issues and Film CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad PART 3: Words and Pictures 8 Newspapers: The Rise and Decline of Modern Journalism The Evolution of American Newspapers Colonial Newspapers and the Partisan Press The Penny Press Era: Newspapers Become Mass Media The Age of Yellow Journalism: Sensationalism and Investigation Competing Models of Modern Print Journalism "Objectivity" in Modern Journalism Interpretive Journalism Literary Forms of Journalism Contemporary Journalism in the TV and Internet Age Newspapers and the Internet: Convergence The Business and Ownership of Newspapers Consensus versus Conflict: Newspapers Play Different Roles MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS Covering the News Media Business Newspapers Target Specific Readers Newspaper Operations Examining Ethics Alternative Journalism: The Activism of Dorothy Day and I. 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Stone Newspaper Ownership: Chains Lose Their Grip Joint Operating Agreements Combat Declining Competition Challenges Facing Newspapers Today Readership Declines in the United States GLOBAL VILLAGE Newspaper Readership across the Globe Going Local: How Small and Campus Papers Retain Readers Community Voices: Weekly Newspapers Convergence: Newspapers Struggle in the Move to Digital New Models for Journalism Alternative Voices Newspapers and Democracy CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad 9 Magazines in the Age of Specialization The Early History of Magazines The First Magazines Magazines in Colonial America U.S. Magazines in the Nineteenth Century National, Women’s, and Illustrated Magazines The Development of Modern American Magazines Social Reform and the Muckrakers The Rise of General-Interest Magazines Examining Ethics The Evolution of Photojournalism The Fall of General-Interest Magazines Convergence: Magazines Confront the Digital Age The Domination of Specialization Magazine Specialization Today Men’s and Women’s Magazines GLOBAL VILLAGE Cosmopolitan Style Travels the World Sports, Entertainment, and Leisure Magazines Magazines for the Ages Elite Magazines Media Literacy and the Critical Process Uncovering American Beauty Minority-Targeted Magazines Supermarket Tabloids The Organization and Economics of Magazines Magazine Departments and Duties Narrowcasting in Magazines Major Magazine Chains Alternative Voices Magazines in a Democratic Society CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad 1 Books and the Power of Print The History of Books, from Papyrus to Paperbacks The Development of Manuscript Culture The Innovations of Block Printing and Movable Type The Gutenberg Revolution: The Invention of the Printing Press The Birth of Publishing in the United States Modern Publishing and the Book Industry The Formation of Publishing Houses Types of Books EXAMINING ETHICS Contemporary Politics Revives Interest in Classic Novels Trends and Issues in Book Publishing Based On: Making Books into Movies Influences of Television and Film Audio Books Convergence: Books in the Digital Age Preserving and Digitizing Books Censorship and Banned Books GLOBAL VILLAGE Buenos Aires, the World’s Bookstore Capital MEDIA LITERACY AND THE CRITICAL PROCESS Banned Books and "Family Values" The Organization and Ownership of the Book Industry Ownership Patterns The Structure of Book Publishing Selling Books: Book Superstores and Independent Booksellers Selling Books Online Alternative Voices Books and the Future of Democracy CHAPTER REVIEW LaunchPad PART 4: The Business of Mass Media 11 Advertising and Commercial Culture Early Developments in American Advertising The First Advertising Agencies Advertising in the 18 s Promoting Social Change and Dictating Values Early Ad Regulation The Shape of U.S. Read the full article

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garudabluffs · 2 years ago

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“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” Paine wrote

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered,” Paine wrote, “yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dear-ness only that gives every thing its value.”

“Historians credit the Battles of Trenton and Princeton with saving the Revolutionary cause.”

READ MORE https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-25-2022

Notes: https://allthingsliberty.com/2016/01/a-brief-publication-history-of-the-times-that-try-mens-souls/

https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/buildings/section4

424 Comments “This is no time for laxity. This is the time to be the best Americans we can be.’The preceding were excerpts from 'Putting the Jan. 6th Committee Report in the Context of America’s Democratic Story' in Bulwark by Gary Hart is a former United States senator from Colorado and the author of, most recently, The Republic of Conscience (2015). See link https://www.thebulwark.com/putting-the-jan-6th-committee-report-in-the-context-of-americas-democratic-story/ “

Dec 26 “To me, this Letter is *history*, not "military history." Military history tends to edit out who's doing the fighting and what they were fighting for. It gets bogged down in tactics and strategy, terrain and weaponry. In the service of history, in modest doses, it's important, but on its own? On the whole I think that military history is to history as the military is to the civilian government.”

Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America Author(s): Robert D. Putnam Source: PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 664-683 Published by: American Political Science Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/420517

https://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS293/articles/putnam1.pdf

“...Coursera offers an online class on beginners civics called Civic Engagement in American Democracy”. It is taught through Duke University, and if memory serves me, the course is free, unless you want a certificate. I believe it starts today

At least two of these are available

FREE online

... thanks to that horrible techie thing (shrub) called the interwebs... that manages to connect all of us and Heather. :-)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/civic-engagement-american-democracy

https://www.thecivicseason.com/events/civic-engagement-in-our-democracy-online-course/

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“Read David Fischer's "Washington's Crossing," a definitive work on this subject. The common belief is that the ragged remnant of an army snuck up on the garrison at Trenton and defeated the Christmas-loving Germans who were hung over from celebrations of the preceding two days. In truth, the tide was already turning, and the Hessians were tired and stressed not from drink but from the ceaseless vigilance required to protect themselves from aroused local partisans who resented their presence and their habits of stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. The attack, carried out in the teeth of a bitter Nor'easter, convinced the Continentals, ragged as they might have been, of what many of them already believed, that they were hardened soldiers capable of victory.”

Let's hope enough of us still carry the resolve to fight to the last measure against oppression and tyranny.”

“Our soldiers during that winter long ago were so poorly equipped that many suffered and died from exposure... yet they persevered and fought battles against much better trained and equipped foes. Afterwards, they retreated to Valley Forge and in winters afterward to Morristown. Like right now, the cold was penetrating and constant but accompanied by deep snow. They endured it and went on to fight and win more battles until with the help of the French the tide turned decisively against the British years later at Saratoga. It took a long time with constant effort and sacrifice. This is how it was and still is...”

“General Howe, shacked up with a lovely lady in NYC, called off the British assault and engaged in the Christmas party scene. By contrast, General Washington, with the remnants of his army—cold and underfed—faced the certainty that his remaining soldiers would go home on January 1st when their enlistments expired.He decided on an incredible Hail Mary. His troops would cross the Delaware on Christmas Eve and attack the fearsome Hessian mercenaries in Trenton. Thanks to Marbleheader Glover they got the boats and arrived in Jersey territory later than anticipated. Surprise was their best hope. [Colonel Rahle, the Hessian commander, had been handed a spy’s report of Washington’s attack, but, during the drunken festivities, failed to glance at it.]The ragged American soldiers attacked, the Hessians were defeated—with 900 prisoners—and, astonishingly, not a single American soldier was killed.If Washington hadn’t succeeded in his astonishing Hail Mary, the American revolution may have ended on January 1st. [Thomas Paine’s wrote The Crisis, which was a rousing carrion call that was read to the troops before their extraordinary victory.]“

“On the wall of 10, rue de l'Odéon, Paris, there's a big plaque to say that that's where he lived and wrote. Here's a translation:

"Thomas Paine 1737-1809: English born, American by adoption, French by decree, lived in this building from 1797 to 1802. He placed his passion for freedom at the service of the French Revolution, was a member of the Convention and wrote the Bill of Human Rights. When opinions are free, the strength of truth always prevails.”

READ MORE https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/americon-lp-thomas-paine/thomas-paine/

“David McCullough’s “1776”; is a chronicle of just that one critical year in our history. There were several times Washington’s army was near defeat and collapse. Had the British been just a little more aggressive, a little more assertive, all would have been lost.

The other book is Howard Fast’s “Citizen Tom Paine,” about the eloquent, literary firebrand who expressed the consciousness of the American Revolution in his pamphlets.”

“ And let’s remember this: There was a small pox epidemic at the time. British troops were vaccinated. George Washington, who had survived the disease in his early years, KNEW the importance of vaccination. His “regulars” were required to be vaccinated from small pox, but the independent militias (like ones from Tennessee) refused vaccination. The disease devastated those ranks. . . Some things never change.”

“The flag you are referring to Mark is the Gadsden Flag. It’s a great flag adopted in 1775 and used by the Continental Marines, who did indeed find it honourable. The timber rattlesnake is unique to the US, a symbol that helped distinguish the colonists from Europe. Ben Franklin, a founding father of legendary honor used the rattler symbol in the first political cartoon in an American newspaper!Here Franklin describes the symbolism:There was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, "Don't tread on me." She has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders... The Rattle-Snake is solitary, and associates with her kind only when it is necessary for their preservation ‘Tis curious and amazing to observe how distinct and independent of each other the rattles of this animal are, and yet how firmly they are united together, so as never to be separated but by breaking them to pieces.”

“_ _A storm not unlike what began this past Friday began as the Continental Army, which included a couple of my ancestors, formed to board the boats and ferries. We have to assume that fortunate for the future of the World that storm was not as severe. But, enough rain to render some of the gunpowder too wet to fire.Following the victory the captured Hessian POWs were marched off to Lancaster, home to a lot of German-speakers already, then later to Virginia to while away the war. These Hessian troops were rent-a-soldiers. Highly regarded as well-disciplined, effective fighters in Europe, King George III rented them from his cousin Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel to assist in the ongoing troubles with his own subjects in the Colonies. When Washington captured Trenton and its "airfields", a bolt of lightning struck in Europe similarly to Ukraine's standoff of the Russian Army attack on Kyiv back in February-March.Suddenly, the Colonies were to be reckoned with. The 19 year old Marquis de LaFayette (both recently orphaned and married), middle-aged Prussian Army officer Baron Frederich von Stuben, ex-pat Moses Hazen, previously a member of Roger's Rangers in the French & Indian War returned from Canada to lead "Congress' Own" 2nd Canadian regiment, Lithuanian Tadeusz Kościuszko (Ko-CHEWz-ko) joined in as a Colonel to Combat Engineer (leading to the Army Corp), and Tuffin Armand, Marquis de la Rouerie to forge our Cavalry and Francois Teissedre de Fleury from the French Army. Benjamin Franklin, of course, had a hand is 'encouraging' 3 or 4 of these volunteers. Within months of Trenton and Princeton, Washington had a few more experts to help train and focus the brave volunteers from the Colonies. Personal Note: What a difference 60 years can make. I have to presume the Hessian POWs were treated well enough and were pleased enough our Eastern lands to return home as the vanguard of the 'time-share' salesmen, who fledgling Midwest States would dispatch to Europe in the 1800s to recruit "hard-working German" laborers and farmers to populate their new States.”

#Ame4rican revolution battles of #Trenton & Princeton HCR

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randyastle · 6 years ago

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Historical reading list

Hello, world. A while ago I made a list of history books to read that would take me chronologically from the Big Bang up to the present. I did it on a Word document and haven’t had time to compile the list on Goodreads, but I wanted to post it here as a stopgap for anyone interested. There’s a penchant towards my own heritage, which comes through the United States and Mormonism, with, for instance, at least one biography on every American President (through Obama). But I tried to be broad because as I read these I want to gain a broad understanding not just of history but of different global cultures today; hence so many titles dealing with religion or mythology in general. There’s a smattering of fiction thrown in there where it fits historically, like The Iliad, Divine Comedy, or Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and I have other reading lists dealing with topics like art, music, religion (outside of history, like books about Buddhism or Joseph Campbell essays), and contemporary work in natural sciences/conservation/mass extinction, so by and large books relating to those things don’t appear here, but I still hope it’s useful. 1. A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

2. The First Three Minutes, Steven Weinberg

3. Lives of the Planets: A Natural History of the Solar System, Richard Corfield

4. From Dust to Life: The Origin and Evolution of Our Solar System, John Chambers & Jacqueline Mitton

5. Plate Tectonics, Stephen M. Tomecek

6. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (1859)

7. The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins

8. Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth, Dorling-Kindersley

9. Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record, Lieberman and Kaesler

10. Life: An Unauthorized Biography (newest edition), Richard Fortey

11. The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions, Peter Brannen

12. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time, Michael Benton

13. Trilobite!, Richard Fortey

14. Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, Danna Staaf

15. Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy, Mark Witton

16. Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History, David E. Fastovsky & David B. Weishampel

17. The Complete Dinosaur (second edition), M.K. Brett-Surman

18. Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Tyrant King, ed. Peter Larson and Kenneth Carpenter

19. Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea, Michael J. Everhart

20. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, Steve Brusatte

21. All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, John Conway

22. Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds, John Pickrell

23. Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds, John Long and Peter Schouten

24. The Origin and Evolution of Mammals, T.S. Kemp

25. Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution, David Rains Wallace

26. After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals, Donald R. Prothero

27. Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari, Tim Haines

28. Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, Lars Werdelin and William Joseph Sanders

29. The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction, Jamie Woodward

30. Prehistoric America: A Journey through the Ice Age and Beyond, Miles Barton

31. Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, Paul S. Martin and Harry W. Greene

32. The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin (1871)

33. Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Ian Tattersall

34. Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth, Chris Stringer

35. How to Think Like a Neanderthal, Thomas Wynn & Frederick Coolidge

36. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, Terrence W. Deacon

37. The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age, Richard Rudgley

38. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

39. The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang, Marcelo Gleiser

40. Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World, Barbara Sproul

41. A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis, Marcel Mazoyer

42. Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture, Dennis Stanford & Bruce Bradley

43. Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction, Amanda H. Podany

44. The Epic of Gilgamesh (2100 BC)

45. Abraham: The First Historical Biography, David Rosenberg

46. A History of Ancient Egypt, Marc Van De Mieroop

47. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Erik Hornung

48. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt, Jan Assmann

49. The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day, tr. Raymond Faulkner

50. The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs, Jan Assmann

51. The Family Haggadah

52. The Iliad, Homer (ca. 1180 BC)

53. The Odyssey, Homer (Fagle translation)

54. 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric Cline

55. Transformations of Myth through Time, Joseph Campbell

56. The Spirit of Zoroastrianism, Prods Oktor Skjaervo

57. In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World’s First Prophet, Paul Kriwaczek

58. Isaiah: Prophet, Seer, and Poet, Victor Ludlow (700 BC)

59. Rereading Job, Michael Austin (600 BC)

60. How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now, James L. Kugel

61. The Cambridge Companion to the Bible

62. Illuminating Humor of the Bible, Steve Walker

63. The Mother of the Lord, vol. 1: The Lady in the Temple, Margaret Barker

64. The Holy Bible, New International Version

65. The Art of War, Sun Tzu (500 BC)

66. The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, Susan Wise Bauer

67. The Maya, Michael Coe & Stephen Houston (newest edition)

68. Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain, Ronald Hutton

69. Celtic Myths and Legends, Peter Berresford Ellis

70. Celtic Gods and Heroes, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

71. Did God Have a Wife?: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel, William Dever

72. The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, John Boardman

73. D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths

74. Mythology, Edith Hamilton

75. Bulfinch’s Mythology

76. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso

77. Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions, H.R. Ellis Davidson

78. Early Irish Myths and Sagas, Jeffrey Gantz

79. From Sphinx to Christ: An Occult History, Edouard Schure

80. Buddha (Penguin Lives Biographies), Karen Armstrong

81. Buddhacarita, Asvaghosa (ca. 500 BC)

82. Buddhist Scriptures (ca. 500 BC)

83. Ramayana (ca. 500 BC)

84. Mahabharata (ca 400 BC)

85. Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India, Roberto Calasso

86. Tao Te Ching (ca 400 BC)

87. The Zhuangzi (446-221 BC)

88. Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia, Alexandra Haendel

89. The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization, Anthony Everitt

90. Democracy: A Life, Paul Cartledge (ca. 450 BC)

91. Histories, Herodotus (440 BC)

92. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (410 BC)

93. Meno, Plato (380 BC)94. The Republic, Plato (380 BC)

95. The Symposium, Plato (370 BC)

96. The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (350 BC)

97. On the Soul (De Anima), Aristotle (350 BC)

98. Poetics, Aristotle (335 BC)

99. Alexander the Great, Philip Freeman (ca 330 BC)

100. Letters (to Herodotus, Pythocles, & Menoeceus), Epicurus (ca. 200 BC)

101. Analects of Confucius (ca 200 BC)

102. Dhammapada (a Buddhist text) (200 BC)

103. The Lotus Sutra (ca 100 BC)

104. Why Buddhism is True, Robert Wright

105. Cicero: Selected Works (Penguin Classics), Marcus Tullius Cicero (ca 63 BC)

106. Caesar: Life of a Colossus, Adrian Goldsworthy

107. The Conquest of Gaul, Julius Caesar (ca 50 BC)

108. The Aeneid, Virgil (19 BC)

109. Search, Ponder, and Pray: A Guide to the Gospels, Julie M. Smith

110. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan

111. How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman

112. A History of the Devil, Gerald Messadie

113. Metamorphoses, Ovid (8 AD)

114. The New Complete Works of Josephus, Josephus

115. A New History of Early Christianity, Charles Freeman

116. The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

117. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume, ed. Marvin Meyer

118. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Karen Armstrong

119. Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, William Goetzmann

120. The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius (Penguin Classics tr. James Rives) (ca 140 AD)

121. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (180 AD)

122. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Peter Heather

123. Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, Peter Brown

124. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World, Bart Ehrman

125. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, Catherine Nixey

126. A History of Christianity, Diarmaid MacCulloch

127. Everyman’s Talmud (ca. 200)

128. Confessions, St. Augustine (397)

129. The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Saints

130. The Silk Road in World History, Xinru Liu

131. Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome, John Man (400s)

132. The Consolation of Philosophy, Ancius Boethius (524)

133. One Thousand and One Nights (ca 600)

134. The Civilization of the Middle Ages: A Completely Revised and Expanded Edition of Medieval History, Norman F. Cantor

135. Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth, Joseph Campbell ed. Evans Lansing Smith

136. Le Morte d’Arthur, Thomas Malory (1485)

137. The Making of the Middle Ages, R.W. Southern

138. Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Jack Hartnell

139. The Age of the Vikings, Anders Winroth

140. The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings, Lars Brownworth

141. The Viking Spirit: An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion, Daniel McCoy

142. Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, H.R. Elllis Davidson

143. Norwegian Folklore, Zinken Hopp

144. Holy Misogyny: Why Sex and Gender Conflicts in the Early Church Still Matter, April DeConick

145. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes, Tamim Ansary (610…)

146. Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong

147. The Holy Qur’an

148. Mohammed and Charlemagne, Henri Pirenne (700s)

149. Beowulf (Heaney translation) (by 900s)

150. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 1: The Birth of Britain, Winston Churchill

151. The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki Shikibu (1000s)

152. The Sagas of Icelanders (1000)

153. Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England, Alison Weir (1100s)

154. Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales, ed. Stephen Knight & Thomas Ohlgren

155. Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography, Stephen Thomas Knight

156. Book of Divine Works, Hildegard von Bingen (1163)

157. The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition, C.S. Lewis

158. Money: The Unauthorized Biography: From Coinage to Cryptocurrencies, Felix Martin

159.Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection, John Man (ca. 1200)

160. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford

161. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford

162. Kublai Khan: The Mongol King Who Remade China, John Man

163. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi, ed. G.K. Chesterton (1200s)

164. St. Francis of Assisi, Omer Englebert

165. The Poetic Edda (1200s)

166. The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson (1200s)

167. The Saga of the Volsungs, Jesse L. Byock (late 1200s)

168. The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo (1200s)

169. Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich (1300s)

170. Outlaws of the Marsh, Shi Nai’an (1300s)

171. Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong (1300s)

172. Robert the Bruce: King of Scots, Ronald McNair Scott (early 1300s)

173. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1320)

174. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, Barbara Tuchman

175. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared M. Diamond

176. Marriage: A History, Stephanie Coontz

177. The Future of Marriage, David Blankenhorn

178. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)

179. The Civilizing Process, Norbert Elias

180. The Samurai: A Military History, Stephen Turnbull

181. 1421: The Year China Discovered America, Gavin Menzies

182. The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453, Desmond Seward

183. Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words (early 1400s)

184. History of Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Technology: Pre-1500, Brent Strong

185. The Illustrated History of the Sikhs, Khushwant Singh (late 1400s)

186. The Aztec, Man and Tribe (1400s-1521)

187. The Aztecs, Michael E. Smith

188. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles Mann

189. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, Charles Mann

190. Conquistador Voices, Volume 1, Kevin H. Siepel

191. Conquistador Voices, Volume 2, Kevin H. Siepel

192. In the Hands of the Great Spirit, John Page

193. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, Lisa Jardine

194. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt

195. The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall, Christopher Hibbert

196. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli (1513)

197. Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson

198. Utopia, Thomas More (1516)

199. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth, Helen Castor

200. The Reformation: A History, Diarmaid MacCulloch

201. Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World, Eric Metaxas

202. The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself, Daniel J. Boorstin

203. Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics), ed. M.A. Screech

204. Spice: The History of a Temptation, Jack Turner

205. The Age of Exploration: From Christopher Columbus to Ferdinand Magellan, Kenneth Pletcher

206. Journey to the West, Wu Cheng’en (1500s)

207. How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City, Joan DeJean

208. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 2: The New World, Winston Churchill

209. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870, Hugh Thomas

210. The Life of Elizabeth I, Alison Weir

211. The Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser (1590)

212. The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl

213. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, James Shapiro

214. London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd

215. Galileo: Watcher of the Skies, David Wootton

216. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War, Nathaniel Philbrick (1620)

217. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer

218. Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age, Michael North

219. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace

220. The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy, Peter H. Wilson

221. Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris

222. The Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes (1651)

223. Ethics, Benedict de Spinoza (1665)

224. The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a 17th-century Italian Convent, Jeffrey Watt

225. The Great Fire of London, Neil Hanson (1666)

226. Paradise Lost (1667)

227. The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)

228. The Diary of Samuel Pepys (Modern Library Classics), Samuel Pepys ed. Richard Le Gallienne (late 1600s)

229. The Scientific Revolution, Stephen Shapin

230. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton

231. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton, Richard Westfall (1642-1726)

232. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

233. Ways of Knowing: A New History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, John Pickstone

234. Two Treatises on Government, John Locke (1689)

235. The Penguin Book of Witches (1692)

236. In the Devil’s Snare, Mary Beth Norton (1692)

237. Memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, 1691-1709: Presented to the King, Duc de Saint-Simon

238. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift (1726) (and A Modest Proposal)

239. The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics), Alexander Pope (early 1700s)

240. China: A History, John Keay

241. The Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin (1700s)

242. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 1 (1740)

243. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 2

244. Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio vol. 3

245. The Story of Music: From Babylon to the Beatles, Howard Goodall

246. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff (early 1700s)

247. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 3: The Age of Revolution, Winston Churchill

248. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Lawrence James

249. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith (1759)

250. Candide, Voltaire (1759)

251. Treasury of North American Folk Tales, Catherine Peck

252. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Fred Anderson

253. Benjamin Franklin, Edmund S. Morgan

254. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

255. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, Robert Massie

256. A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn

257. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1776)

258. Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius, Sylvia Nasar

259. Common Sense, Thomas Paine (1776)

260. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn

261. The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood

262. 1776, David McCullough

263. The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson

264. History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren

265. Washington’s Crossing, David Hackett Fischer

266. George Washington, A Life, Willard Sterne Randall

267. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, Gordon S. Wood

268. Washington: A Life, Ron Chernow

269. The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West, Joel Achenbach

270. His Excellency: George Washington, Joseph J. Ellis

271. James Wilson: Founding Father, 1742-1798, Charles Page Smith

272. The Constitution and Bill of Rights, James Madison

273. The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1788)

274. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government, Fergus Bordewich

275. Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, Jack Rakove

276. Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies, Erwin Chemerinsky

277. That’s Not What They Meant, Michael Austin

278. The Second Amendment: A Biography, Michael Waldman

279. That’s Not What They Meant About Guns, Michael Austin

280. Taming the Electoral College, Robert Bennett

281. Why the Electoral College is Bad for America, George C. Edwards

282. Faust, Goethe (1790)

283. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville

284. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama

285. The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (1791)

286. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

287. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

288. A History of Japan: Revised Edition, R.H.P. Mason

289. John Adams, David McCullough

290. Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams, Joseph J. Ellis

291. The Scramble for Africa, Thomas Pakenham

292. Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow

293. Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years, Michael Newton

294. Alexander Hamilton: Writings (plus Farmer Refuted, Washington’s farewell address, & the Reynolds Pamphlet)

295. The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine (1804)

296. Jefferson and His Time, Dumas Malone

297. Thomas Jefferson, Willard Sterne Randall

298. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Jon Meacham

299. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Joseph J. Ellis

300. Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf

301. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, Paul Finkelman

302. The Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine, Dave DeWitt

303. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, Lewis and Clark (1806)

304. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea Wulf

305. A History of the English Speaking Peoples, vol. 4: The Great Democracies, Winston Churchill

306. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France, Colin Jones

307. France, a History: From Gaul to De Gaulle, John Julius Norwich

308. Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts

309. The Brothers Grimm (1812)

310. James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic, Jack Rakove

311. James Madison: A Biography, Ralph Ketchem

312. The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, Alan Taylor

313. The Naval War of 1812, Theodore Roosevelt

314. Bolivar: American Liberator, Marie Arana (ca. 1810s)

315. The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, Harlow Giles Unger

316. The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America, Jay Sexton

317. The English and their History, Robert Tombs

318. An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins, Grant Palmer

319. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, D. Michael Quinn

320. Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy, Miranda Wilcox & John Young

321. Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic, Charles Edel

322. John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, Fred Kaplan

323. John Quincy Adams, Robert V. Remini

324. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Richard Bushman

325. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery

326. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion, Terryl Givens

327. Understanding the Book of Mormon, Grant Hardy

328. The Book of Mormon: Revised Authorized Version

329. The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, D. Michael Quinn

330. Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo, Michael G. Reed

331. This Is My Doctrine: The Development of Mormon Theology, Charles Harrell

332. The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, John L. Brooke

333. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 1, B.H. Roberts

334. Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero, Lucy Riall (1834 revolt)

335. Road to the Sea, Florence Dorsey

336. Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, H.W. Brands

337. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Jon Meacham

338. Jacksonland, Steve Inskeep

339. Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)

340. Martin Van Buren: The Romantic Age of American Politics, John Niven

341. The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin (1839)

342. Incarnations: A History of India in Fifty Lives, Sunil Khilnani

343. Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Times, Freeman Cleaves

344. John Tyler: Champion of the Old South, Oliver P. Chitwood

345. Self-Reliance and Other Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

346. Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard (1843)

347. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

348. Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Margaret Fuller (1845)

349. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, Daniel Walker Howe

350. Nightfall at Nauvoo, Samuel W. Taylor

351. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 2, B.H. Roberts

352. Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail, Carol Cornwall Madsen

353. 111 Days to Zion, Hal Knight

354. The Gathering of Zion, Wallace Stegner

355. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 3, B.H. Roberts

356. The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants on the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60, John D. Unruh

357. So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848, John S. D. Eisenhower

358. The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman (1849)

359. The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream, H.W. Brands

360. Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau (1849)

361. The American Transcendentalists

362. The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America (James Polk), Walter Borneman

363. Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico, T.R. Fehrenbach

364. Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest, K. Jack Bauer

365. The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War, Andrew Delbanco

366. Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President, Robert J. Rayback

367. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

368. Walden, Henry David Thoreau (1854)

369. Franklin Pierce, Michael Holt

370. President James Buchanan: A Biography, Philip S. Klein

371. Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism, Terryl Givens

372. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 4, B.H. Roberts

373. American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857, Sally Denton

374. America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink, Kenneth Stampp

375. The West Indies and the Spanish Main, Anthony Trollope (1860)

376. Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Janet Browne

377. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson

378. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 1: The Coming Fury, Bruce Catton

379. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 2: Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton

380. Centennial History of the Civil War, vol. 3: Never Call Retreat, Bruce Catton

381. Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Fred Kaplan

382. The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through his Words, Ronald White

383. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln

384. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin

385. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South, Stephanie McCurry

386. The South vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War, William Freehling

387. Andersen’s Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

388. Matthew Brady’s Illustrated History of the Civil War

389. With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Oates

390. A Short History of Canada (6th ed), Desmond Morton

391. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Carl Sandburg

392. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Drew Gilpin Faust

393. Abraham Lincoln, Lord Charnwood

394. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, Jung Chang

395. Andrew Johnson, Annette Gordon-Reed

396. Biographical Supplement and Index, Harriet Sigerman

397. Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah, Claudia Bushman

398. Development of LDS Temple Worship, Devery Anderson

399. The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

400. Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, John C. Turner

401. Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900, Leonard Arrington

402. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 5, B.H. Roberts

403. Grant, Ron Chernow

404. Grant: A Biography, William S. McFeeley

405. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald C. White

406. Complete Personal Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant

407. Capital (Das Kapital), Karl Marx (first edition 1867, third 1894)

408. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, Louis Menand

409. Black Reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

410. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, updated edition, Eric Foner

411. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Steven Hahn

412. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

413. Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, T.J. Stiles

414. Rutherford B. Hayes, Hans Trefousse

415. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

416. Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche

417. Assassination Vacation (James Garfield), Sarah Vowell

418. Destiny of the Republic (James Garfield), Candice Millard

419. Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, Thomas C. Reeves

420. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, Adam Hochschild

421. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney

422. More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910, Kathryn M. Daynes

423. The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, Carol Lynn Pearson

424. Selected Writings, José Martí (Penguin Classics)

425. Dawn of the Belle Epoque, Mary McAuliffe

426. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character, Henry F. Graff

427. Manning Clark’s History of Australia: Abridged from the Six-Volume Classic, Manning Clark

428. The Making of Modern Ireland, 1603-1923, J.C. Beckett

429. Benjamin Harrison, Charles W. Calhoun

430. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York, Jacob Riis (1890)

431. Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, Mike Wallace

432. The History of Spain, Peter Pierson

433. Presidency of William McKinley, Lewis L. Gould

434. The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois

435. Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris

436. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris

437. Mornings on Horseback (Theodore Roosevelt), David McCullough

438. Marie Curie: A Life, Susan Quinn

439. The Shame of the Cities, Lincoln Steffens (1904)

440. Albert Einstein: A Biography, Albrecht Folsing

441. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Albert Einstein (1905)

442. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair (1906)

443. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, Doris Kearns Goodwin

444. The Life & Times of William Howard Taft, Harry F. Pringle

445. The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve, Peter Conti-Brown

446. Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism, Bhu Srinivasan

447. The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, Margaret MacMillan

448. July 1914: Countdown to War, Sean McMeekin

449. The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman

450. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918, G.J. Meyer

451. Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History, Catharine Arnold

452. Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, John Milton Cooper

453. Women and the Vote: A World History, Jad Adams

454. Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes, Diane Atkinson

455. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times, Francis Russell

456. A History of Russia (new edition w Mark Steinberg), Nicholas V. Riasanovsky

457. The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga, John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov

458. Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed

459. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” Zora Neale Hurston

460. Coolidge: An American Enigma, Robert Sobel

461. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties, Lucy Moore

462. Herbert Hoover, William Leuchtenburg

463. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints vol. 6, B.H. Roberts

464. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed

465. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, David Kennedy

466. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Walker Evans and James Agee

467. Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk

468. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Conrad Black

469. FDR, Jean Edward Smith

470. The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins, Kirstin Downey

471. Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, Jonathan Alte

472. Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 1, The Early Years, 1884-1933, Blanche Wiesen Cook

473. Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 2, The Defining Years, 1933-1938, Blanche Wiesen Cook

474. Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 3, The War Years and After, 1939-1962, Blanche Wiesen Cook

475. No Ordinary Time (FDR), Doris Kearns Goodwin

476. Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges

477. The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, Andrew Roberts

478. Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder

479. Leningrad, Anna Reid

480. A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary

481. Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Andrew Roberts

482. Memoirs of the Second World War, Winston Churchill

483. The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg

484. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

485. Night, Elie Wiesel

486. Hiroshima, John Hersey

487. Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity, Paul Roland

488. Truman, David McCullough

489. Gandhi: An Autobiography, Mahatma Gandhi

490. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, Louis Fischer

491. The Arabs: A History, Eugene Rogan

492. Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

493. Inside Red China, Helen Foster Snow

494. Red Star Over China, Edgar Snow

495. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, David Halberstam

496. An American Childhood, Annie Dillard

497. Eisenhower in War and Peace, Jean Edward Smith

498. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, James D. Watson (1953)

499. Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Brenda Maddox

500. Mississippi Trial, 1955, Chris Crowe

501. Sake & Satori: Asian Journals, Joseph Campbell

502. A Concise History of Germany, Mary Fulbrook

503. The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power, D. Michael Quinn

504. Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch, Irene Bates

505. The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963)

506. A Thousand Days (JFK), Arthur M. Schlesinger

507. An Unfinished Life (JFK), Robert Dallek

508. A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present, 2nd ed., Richard J. Reid

509. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 1: The Path to Power, Robert Caro

510. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 2: Means of Ascent, Robert Caro

511. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 3: Master of the Senate, Robert Caro

512. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 4: The Passage of Power, Robert Caro

513. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol. 5: untitled/unreleased, Robert Caro

514. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, Taylor Branch

515. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65, Taylor Branch

516. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68, Taylor Branch

517. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X & Alex Haley

518. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

519. Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog

520. The Bomb: A New History, Stephen Younger

521. This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, William Burrows

522. A History of the Modern Middle East, 5th ed., William Cleveland

523. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi, Katherine Frank

524. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall

525. The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam

526. Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam, Gordon Goldstein

527. To Destroy You Is No Loss: The Odyssey of a Cambodian Family, JoAn D. Criddle

528. All the President’s Men, Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward

529. Nixonland, Richard Perlstein

530. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics, Bruce Schulman

531. Gerald R. Ford, Douglas Brinkley

532. Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights, Martha Bradley

533. Petals of Blood, Nugi wa Thiong’o (1977 Kenyan novel)

534. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

535. Spear of the Nation: South Africa’s Liberation Army, Janet Cherry

536. Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa, Antjie Krog

537. Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter, Randall Balmer

538. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro

539. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, Lou Cannon

540. 1983: The World at the Brink, Taylor Downing

541. A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End, Peter Kenez

542. Lost Lives (the Troubles), David McKittrick, Seamus Kelters, Brian Feeley, and Chris Thornton

543. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, Juan Gonzalez

544. As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda, Gail Collins

545. Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jon Meacham

546. First in His Class (Bill Clinton), David Maraniss

547. Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Gore Vidal (2002)

548. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 11, 2001, Steve Coll

549. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, Peter Baker

550. Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape, Kirk Savage

551. The Formations of Modernity, Stuart Hall & Bram Gieben

552. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, Lawrence Lessig (he wrote a sequel, same title with “2.0” in 2015)

553. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis, Bethany McLean

554. Back to Work, Bill Clinton

555. Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with our Economy and our Democracy and How to Fix It, Robert Reich

556. A Governor’s Story, Jennifer Granholm

557. Life, Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World and How We Can Take It Back, Douglas Rushkoff

558. Dreams from my Father, Barack Obama

559. Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss

560. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, David Remnick

561. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President (Obama), Ron Suskind

562. Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward

563. Hard Choices: A Memoir, Hillary Clinton

564. The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama

565. The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, Chris Whipple

566. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

567. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, David Treuer

568. DNA: The Story of the Genetic Revolution, James D. Watson

569. Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, Evan Osnos

570. Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Larry Bartels

571. The Post-American World: Release 2.0, Fareed Zakaria

572. What Happened, Hillary Clinton

573. THE NOT YET WRITTEN DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S SCANDALS

574. How Democracies Die, Steve Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

575. The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, Jon Meacham

576. America: The Farewell Tour, Chris Hedges

577. A Call to Action, Jimmy Carter

578. I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai

579. A Path Appears, Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn

580. The History of Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Technology: 1500-Present, Brent Strong

581. Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking

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Bunkueanun ‘Francis’ Paothong, a 21-year-old bespectacled university student, is one of three protesters recently arrested under the rarely invoked section 110 of Thailand’s criminal code. The charge of violence against the queen carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, or, if the queen’s life is perceived to have been endangered, the death penalty can be applied. The protesters were attending an Oct. 14 rally when Queen Suthida’s motorcade drove by. Francis and another protester, Ekachai Hongkangwan, were arrested on Oct. 16, while child welfare activist Suranat Paenprasert was arrested the following week.

This is Francis’ account of how he wound up facing the harshest penalty levied against a demonstrator since this round of rallies against the Thai government and monarchy began in June. What follows has been edited for length and clarity.

You can say that my household is conservative in its nature. Initially, I was pretty much a conservative too.

I began to disagree with my parents when I was in senior high school. As I started reading newspapers and following American politics, I began to formulate my own opinions about how things could be if this country was still a democracy.

Three-quarters of my life have been spent under military dictatorship. At first, I did not really see any difference between democratically elected governments and military dictatorships, but at this point I am seeing that it has already had an effect on me and my future. In my mind, I began to question the government.

Read more: Why Are Thai Protesters Risking Jail to Criticize the King?

This was when I went to Canada as an exchange student. It was around the 2016 U.S. presidential debates. I recognized that whoever becomes president of the United States determines what will happen next around the world. During the debates, it dawned on me that I was drawn more to the Democrats, specifically to the ideas of Senator Bernie Sanders.

My thinking about the monarchy’s role in politics also developed over the years, although of course I still had a full-blown cry when the previous monarch, Rama IX [King Bhumibol Adulyadej], died. He was a father to our people.

My mother is a royalist through and through. While my parents believe that the king should be all powerful, that we should not touch even the issue of the monarchy, this is where I disagree. We should at least be able to talk to them about how this is going to work going forward. We are now living in the 21st century, it’s not like the Dark Ages anymore.

A week before I returned to Bangkok, when my university reopened [on Sept. 7], my parents and I had some discussions about me going to the protests. They said I could say whatever I like about [Prime Minister] Prayuth Chan-ocha or the constitution. But don’t touch the issue of the monarchy. I’ll do what I can, that’s what I said.

But by September, the whole landscape of the protests had changed and now there were these very lively, very public discussions about reforming the monarchy itself. I didn’t really know what to do. I thought I would be safe because I am more in the middle ground and not advocating for abolishing the monarchy.

Still, I tended to tell my parents I was not going to go, and they tended to believe me. But at the Oct. 14 protest, well—it was evident with my face on TV as the royal motorcade went by.

On that day, I was going to the protest, sure, but I was also there with a group called Anti One China-Thailand and we went to sell our merchandise to fund raise. But when we got to the Government House there was a whole series of events that transpired that resulted in me getting charged.

The police tried to move my friend away, grabbing her by the back and causing her to fall to the ground. That’s when I started using my megaphone. In the next 10 minutes, the police formed into what looked like what was about to be an anti-riot operation. The police started charging and the protesters moved in, and there I was in the middle. The next thing I knew, I saw the royal motorcade coming from over the police’s shoulder.

I was like, sh-t. Because something is bound to be wrong if you’re in front of the royal motorcade.

Read more: Meet the Lawyer Trying to Reform the Thai Monarchy

I tried to calmly tell the protesters to move away from the police barriers so that the royal motorcade could move through. People flashed the three-finger salute [from the Hunger Games]. Some shouted “My taxes!” meaning is like, hey, we are taxpayers, we should be able to have a say in running this country too.

The instant my parents saw me on TV they called me. They began to shout, ‘Francis, go back home.’ They told me they were coming to [Bangkok to] check on me. It was maybe a three or four-hour drive from my hometown. When I got back to my apartment, they were there and gave me an earful about how I should not have been [at the protest] in the first place. There was a lot of shouting. We fought for well over two hours.

It was the next day that I found out I was being charged.

I was reading a Thai language news outlet called Matichon and they had some details about the arrest warrant for Ekachai Hongkangwan and myself on charges of harming the queen’s liberty, section 110. When I saw the charges I was like f–k me, excuse my language, but I was dumbstruck. Protesters have been facing different charges, like maybe section 116 [for sedition] and section 112 [lese majeste] and violations of the public gatherings act and some other things like that. But these charges—oh God. Those who harm the queen’s liberty or intend to harm the queen’s liberty will face the jail time no less than 16 years up to life imprisonment. How the hell?

I told my mum about it. I had her read the news. And she began to panic.

Lillian SUWANRUMPHA—AFP/Getty Images Activist Bunkueanun “Francis” Paothong (C) comforts loved ones before he enters the Dusit Police Station to answer charges of harming Thailand’s Queen Suthida in Bangkok on Oct. 16, 2020.

The lawyers I called were from the group called Thai Lawyers for Human Rights. They usually handle cases with political prisoners and stuff like that. They told me in all their years of working as attorneys they had never seen a case like this before. There’s not even been a mention of it in the Thai Supreme Court mind you. The last time it was used against a common man was maybe more than 100 years ago? I didn’t know what to do until my mother called one of my relatives who used to be a police officer working in the courts. And he said you should turn yourself in tomorrow morning.

Friends who knew of my situation that night came by my apartment to try to console me.

It was well into midnight that I began my prayer. I thought to myself that whatever happens from now on, it will be a struggle. I am not a Christian man myself. But the prayer gave me comfort and strength.

The next morning, at maybe 7:00 or 8:00 a.m. I went to the police station with my parents. I kept thinking, ‘Well, whatever happens I have to face it.’ My lawyers already told me that I should not be hoping too much.

After I reported myself to the police, they arranged a car for me to bring me to the Border Patrol Police Region One headquarters, in Pathum Thani, the neighboring region of Bangkok. They brought me into an auditorium they had prepared specifically for handling the protests. They allowed only my lawyers and my parents to join me. We arrived there around noon. Ekachai, the co-defendant, came a bit later.

I knew outside, the protests were escalating. But there was nothing I could do except wonder what would happen next. I went to sleep at 8:00 p.m.

Around four hours later, I was woken up by another group of protesters that the police had brought in. It was two prominent protest leaders: Tattep Ruangprapaikitseree and his boyfriend James Panumas Singprom and some other people. I went to see if they were OK. And Tattep said to me, [your] case is so bad. He said, ‘Don’t worry. We will fight for you.’

There were some opposition members of parliament coming to visit me. [Opposition MP and activist] Rangsiman Rome came and said to me it is really, really cruel what you have gone through. And I know it is. But I was in good spirits. I was still cracking jokes at that time. At this point, I just thought how historically perverted it is that I am one of the first being charged with this.

Read more: Why This Thai Billionaire Is Risking It All to Back Reform

I was woken up again at 5:25 a.m. by the officers. I asked them if it was time to go to the criminal court now. They said yes.

While I was waiting one of the officers there told me something I didn’t really expect. The border police officer said, “I am rooting for you, so keeping fighting on. I believe in your innocence.” I said thank you.

This was my first time being in a court. My first time being detained. My first time being charged. I didn’t really have any expectations about it.

It was a very long day indeed. A lot of people came in. There were defendants all over the place. Some of them were charged with trying to harm others. Some of them were in possession of narcotics and stuff like that. There were some good people in there, they just wanted some money.

There was no hope for me to get a bail out. Everybody said so. Even Ekachai said so.

I didn’t know who Ekachai was until someone told me was a defendant in a previous, lese majeste case. He already went to jail once. He gave me a lot of advice.

Right before the prison transfer, the bail decision came. And I got out. [Ekachai did not make bail].

Now I have to wait for the evidence against me to be revealed. I have to report to the court on Dec. 4. But at this point I am more than hopeful that this case will be dismissed, or that my innocence will be proven should it proceed. I haven’t given up hope from the very start until now. I was innocent then. I am still innocent now.

I think they are trying to make an example of me. But I daresay that what happened has just made a lot of people angrier.

Even though the incident was unfortunate for my wellbeing and mental health, I don’t think I regret going to the protest that day actually. I was just there to exercise my rights and my liberty as a citizen of this country.

I still wholeheartedly support the protests. I don’t know what will happen next. I just know that when people start to come together demanding something better it gives me hope that this country could be in be in a position where people are able to change their own destiny.

I admire President Franklin D. Roosevelt a lot. He once wrote, “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” I quoted this right before I turned myself in to the authorities. I walked on, without doubts, with a strong and active faith. That is what I intend to keep doing.

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truemedian · 5 years ago

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China Bans Sales Of Animal Crossing: New Horizons In Suspected Censorship Scuffle

Political messages most likely the cause

by Damien McFerran 4 hours ago Imported sales of Animal Crossing: New Horizons have been banned in China, it has been reported. The instruction filtered through Alibaba's e-commerce platform Taobao to sellers yesterday (April 9th) and is expected to come into full effect today. According to screenshots posted online by Taobao sellers, the ban impacts not just the game but all merchandise and related hardware. While no official word has been issued on why the ban has taken place, some have suspected that it's related to the fact that the game can be used to share materials online – such as political slogans – that are generally frowned upon by the Chinese government. The game's pattern editing mode permits players to create their own messages and slogans that can be viewed by other players all over the world. Bloomberg is reporting that the game is one of many that is being used to highlight the political struggle in Hong Kong. One of Hong Kong’s most famous democracy campaigners, Joshua Wong, tweeted about using the game to share his message:

Animal Crossing: New Horizons isn't officially available in China yet, but Nintendo is partnering with Tencent to bring a special Animal Crossing console to the region. In fact, you can only officially buy three games at the time of writing, which has forced many Chinese Nintendo fans to resort to importing both games and hardware into the country using services like Taobao and Pinduoduo. PingWest reports that demand for titles like Animal Crossing in China has caused sales of Switch hardware to skyrocket. New Horizons, like many Switch games, has a Chinese language option despite not being officially released in that territory as yet. It is not known if the game will actually come out in China following this ban, and if it does, it's highly likely that some of its features will be disabled to avoid players using it for online protests. Read More Read the full article

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Oscars 2020 (final call)

Another awards season is nearly complete. And with all of the other ceremonies out of the way from SAG to BAFTA, DGA, WGA, Annies, Eddies, PGA, done, there is data and trends and confusions to add just a bit of drama and uncertainty to the mother of them all: Oscars.

So, with the nominations, conversations, and voting period over, here are my final predictions of the night of glitz and glitter…

Actress in a Leading Role

Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story) Siorse Ronan (Little Women) Charlize Theron (Bombshell) Renee Zellwegger (Judy)

My choice: Renee Zellwegger (Judy) Likely winner: Renee Zellwegger (Judy)

This is pretty much a slam-dunk based on the previous ceremonies this year. And it is an amazing performance.

Actor in a Leading Role

Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood) Adam Driver (Marriage Story) Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes)

My choice: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) Likely winner: Joaquin Phoenix (Joker)

To my great joy, this is also a slam-dunk. The movie floored me, Phoenix in particular. But I never expected it to grab the attention of the industry this way since it is, at its heart, genre. It’s nice to be surprised sometimes.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Kathy Bates (Richard Jewell) Laura Dern (Marriage Story) Scarlett Johannson (Jojo Rabbit) Florence Pugh (Little Women) Margot Robbie (Bombshell)

My choice: Florence Pugh (Little Women) Likely winner: Laura Dern (Marriage Story)

I’ve never doubted Dern would take this statuette, but I’m not sure she’s the best choice. I think Pugh did more in her role. But Dern is a powerhouse in Marriage Story and she’s had everyone’s attention since the awards began rolling out.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes) Al Pacino (The Irishman) Joe Pesci (The Irishman) Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)

My choice: Tom Hanks (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) Likely winner: Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood)

Again, this was a category dominated from the top by a single person: Pitt. And it is a good performance in an otherwise awful movie (to my mind). But in terms of impact, Pesci and Hanks were the standouts for me. And while Pesci really is amazing (and has a slim chance of taking this) I feel like Hanks has been overlooked this year, as was his movie. Perhaps it was just too close to Rogers in reality to feel like a performance for most? Both he and Pesci hold their movies together, so really, either would be fine with me…but neither is going to beat Pitt.

Adapted Screenplay

The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women The Two Popes

My choice: Jojo Rabbit Likely winner: Little Women

My thinking on this has changed a lot in terms of who will win. The industry is definitely looking at this category differently than I expected… but also the previous awards hadn’t really grouped all of these together, so its a bit of a guess as to what happens. With Gerwig otherwise shut out, I think she’s got a chance for a consolation prize here. But Jojo has been showing momentum coming into the stretch (including winning the WGA) and it is the most inventive and unique of the tales overall (and Irishman is getting ignored).

Original Screenplay

Knives Out Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Parasite

My choice: Parasite Likely winner: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

I still don’t understand the critical love of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. It is a mess of a story and script that falls apart at the end. But it has overwhelming love from the Academy due to its subject matter and it has few other chances to win. But Parasite is likewise surging, so there could be a surprise of conscience and/or quality that tips the balance.

Directing

Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) Todd Phillips (Joker) Sam Mendes (1917) Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood) Bong Joon-ho (Parasite)

My choice: Todd Phillips (Joker) Likely winner: Sam Mendes (1917)

I’ve been back and forth on this category all season. Parasite is a brilliant and unexpected film, but it is also forced in some ways. The Irishman is a brilliant example of classic film-making, and manages to create a tiny, focused story out of an epic that flies along, even at 3.5 hours. It is a master-class in directing. But Joker pulls off the seeming impossible and, out of genre cloth, peels back the human condition in a way I’ve never seen before, and guided a performance that is devastating and utterly believable.

However, all that said, Mendes is going to take this for the audacity and technical execution of a story that, like Gravity before it, redefines what a movie can be. It doesn’t matter that it isn’t the best story, it is the scope and control he, as a director, had to manage in order to deliver his illusion. And it is bloody impressive.

Animated Feature Film

How To Train Your Dragon I Lost My Body Klaus Missing Link Toy Story 4

My choice: Klaus Likely winner: Klaus

OK, this is actually more of an open race this year than I originally thought. No one outside the guild expected Missing Link and Klaus to dominate the Annies this year. Frankly, though Missing Link pushed the tech, it wasn’t that great a movie. And I skipped Klaus till recently because, well, Klaus…just isn’t my thing. And while I loved I Lost My Body (and it picked up the top independent animation honor at the Annies), Klaus won me over as the best film overall.

That said, there is still a strong possibility that name recognition and Pixar are likely to dominate the Academy votes here (despite BAFTA agreeing with the Annies). But I’d be wonderfully happy and surprised to be wrong about that.

Best Picture

Ford V Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Parasite

My choice: The Irishman Likely winner: 1917

Because of the preferential ballot, this is really still wide open. Anyone’s second or third choices could rise to the top if everyone’s second or third choice aligned.

In the end, I think Parasite gets International rather than making history as the first foreign language film to take Best Pic. I think Irishman gets snubbed because of Netflix, and I’m praying Once Upon a Time… just doesn’t get the votes as it doesn’t deserve it. But, more importantly, 1917 has been gaining momentum as the season wound down and it’s an impressive epic of a film that pushes the technology and the boundaries of expectation in a way that will likely get it over the top.

International Feature

Corpus Christi Honeyland Les Miserables Pain And Glory Parasite

My choice: Parasite Likely winner: Parasite

I don’t think there is any doubt at this point here, despite the excellent field of options.

Original Song

“I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away” – Toy Story 4 “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” – Rocketman “I’m Standing With You” – Breakthrough “Into the Uknown” – Frozen 2 “Stand Up” – Harriet

My choice: “Stand Up” – Harriet Likely winner: “Stand Up” – Harriet

Y’know, I really just don’t care out of this grouping. Nothing stood out for me or in the popular culture. Given the lack of diversity in the Oscars this year (and with no dispersions on her abilities or song), I think Erivo takes it.

Original Score

Joker (Hildur Guonadottir) Little Women (Alexandre Desplat) Marriage Story (Randy Newman) 1917 (Thomas Newman) Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (John Williams)

My choice: Joker (Hildur Guonadottir) Likely winner: Joker (Hildur Guonadottir)

Documentary Feature

American Factory The Cave The Edge of Democracy For Sama Honeyland

My choice: The Cave Likely winner: The Cave

I have good reason for my pick other than the controversy surrounding the director’s fight with 45 getting her visa to attend the Oscars. You can’t buy that kind of publicity. But it is also getting a lot of positive attention as a film. But it could well lose to Honeyland, which has had some great recognition as well.

Documentary Short Subject

In The Absence Learning To Skateboard Life Overtakes Me St Louis Superman Walk, Run, Cha-Cha

My choice: ????? Likely winner: St Louis Superman

Live Action Short Film

Brotherhood Nefta Football Club The Neighbors’ Window Saria A Sister

My choice: ????? Likely winner: A Sister

No good reason for this choice as compared to The Neighbors’ Window, both of which have some nice buzz. Given the subjects of both, I’m just flipping the coin to A Sister.

Animated Short Film

Dcera (Daughter) Hair Love Kitbull Memorable Sister

My choice: ????? Likely winner: Kitbull

Why Kitbull? Pixar.

Cinematography

The Irishman Joker The Lighthouse 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

My choice: 1917 Likely winner: 1917

Film Editing

Ford V Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Parasite

My choice: The Irishman Likely winner: Jojo Rabbit

After the Eddies this became a battle between Parasite and Jojo. Ultimately, I think Jojo had more complex challenges achieved more at an editing level. Then again Ford v Ferrari took the BAFTA, so they might pick this up as their only win for the evening.

Production Design

The Irishman Jojo Rabbit 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Parasite

My choice: Parasite Likely winner: 1917

Honestly, I’m not sure what way this is going to break. Parasite has the most inventive design of the field (Jojo is fun, but not quite as sharply done), but 1917 recreates WWI down to such a level of detail it’s almost distracting.

Costume Design

The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

My choice: Little Women Likely winner: Little Women

This is one of the few places Little Women can take an award and the costumes are wonderful period pieces across a huge range of the era. That is usually what takes the prize.

Visual Effects

Avengers: Endgame The Irishman The Lion King 1917 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

My choice: The Irishman Likely winner: The Irishman

To recap my original argument, the invisibleness of The Irishmen’s f/x is what makes it stand out in this field. It’s biggest threat is 1917, which deserves it as well. It’s a small enough award that Netflix hate may not overwhelm sense.

Makeup and Hairstyling

Bombshell Joker Judy Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 1917

My choice: Bombshell Likely winner: Bombshell

Bombshell managed transformations the others didn’t, though Judy was certainly a magnificent effort.

Sound Mixing

Ad Astra Ford V Ferrari Joker 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

My choice: 1917 Likely winner: 1917

Sound Editing

Ford V Ferrari Joker 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

My choice: 1917 Likely winner: 1917

NOMINATIONS BY FILM

Provided just for reference, but certainly interesting to consider when considering who has the attention of the voters.

Joker (Warner Bros.) – 11 The Irishman (Netflix) – 10 1917 (Universal/Amblin Partners) – 10 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Sony Pictures Releasing) – 10 Jojo Rabbit (Fox Searchlight) – 6 Little Women (Sony Pictures Releasing) – 6 Marriage Story (Netflix) – 6 Parasite (Neon) – 6 Ford v Ferrari (Disney) – 4 Bombshell (Lionsgate) – 3 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (Disney) – 3 The Two Popes (Netflix) – 3 Harriet (Focus Features) – 2 Honeyland (Neon) 2 Judy (LD Entertainment and Roadside Attractions) – 2 Pain and Glory (Sony Pictures Classics) – 2 Toy Story 4 (Disney) – 2

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THE COURAGE OF MOSQUITO

Whatever the cause, we are just not prepared for the 1000x variation in returns. There may be room for tuning here, but as a model for what programming is tending to become in our own time. But it also discovered that per and FL and ff0000 are good indicators of spam.1 A friend of mine asked Ryan about this, it was neither a success nor a failure; it was too controversial to include. If you want to stop it. And yet he invested anyway, because he expected it to be more readable than a line of Basic is likely to be pretty average.2 For example, the stated purpose of Powerpoint is to present ideas. You don't need to know this stuff to program in Lisp, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to get things done. Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the world's history, if you can make your software very efficient you can undersell competitors and still make a profit.

But I think it will. You just have to do it with no indication of whether you're succeeding. There are two types of thoughts especially worth avoiding—thoughts like the Nile Perch in the way they used to, they were moving to a cheaper apartment.3 It is a comfortable idea. To developers, the most accurate measure of the size of the group slows you down. If you can't measure the value of your work. I mean five years if nothing goes wrong. This can be a pretty lonely place if we only had one company per batch.4 We never had more to say at any one time. If there were two features we could add to our software too. If you're getting far along with investor B, but you'd rather raise money from A, but you definitely want to keep an eye on things you've changed recently.5

0 is democracy. They would call support in a spirit more of triumph than anger, as if I were playing some kind of purpose, rather than the fish. Fortunately we got bought at the top of the cycle, but it is enough in simple cases like this. At the moment each one has about 4000 messages in it. Err on the side of generosity. You could use a Bayesian filter to rate the site just as you do now with telephones. Probably the most important thing I've learned about dilution is that it's measured more in behavior than users. Microsoft. Sorry about that.6

Initially it was supposed to be an online store, because we wanted to know about what's happening inside the software.7 He called this language Lisp, for List Processing, because one of his key ideas was to use a completely different voice and manner talking to a roomful of people than you would in a program, but this is little consolation to the individual mosquito.8 An example of a spam that gets through the filters. It's that it tends to obscure the underlying reality. If you wanted to write, and the transformation was miraculous. 9075001 quality 0. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you need. That's the way to the extreme of doing the computations on the server. I consider it a sign of trouble.9 In effect, acquirers assume the customers know who has the best technology. And the first planes, and the main reason they're so much less speculative—whether the company has all the elements of a good bet.10 If you want to keep an eye on things you've changed recently.

If the pointy-haired boss, the difficulty of assigning a value to each person's work. Investors have much higher standards for companies that have an existing relationship with the recipient. So I added a message at that point, telling users that they were effectively QA and to some extent avoid thinking about nasty things people have done to me by telling myself: this doesn't deserve space in my head. And you have to introduce yourself, or someone writes a particularly interesting article, it will show up there. If that's what's on the other side of this phenomenon, where the herd remains clumped together at a distance.11 The ideal thing might be if you built a precisely defined derivative version of your product for the customer.12 A great programmer, on a roll, could create a million dollars worth of wealth in a couple years before starting your own, you'd learn a thing or two running your own company. The best way to come up with some other solution. And for programmers the paradox is even more pronounced: the language to learn, if you were willing to pay to read them yourself, you can't link to them.

One of the biggest remaining obstacles is pride. Competitors commonly find ways to work around a patent. While perhaps 9 out of 10 startups fail, the one that succeeds will pay the founders more than 10, and probably rarely as high as 100. And it's free, which means people actually read it. The patent pledge is not legally binding.13 As a general rule, you do implicitly solicit certain kinds of mail. If you can make your software very efficient you can undersell competitors and still make a profit.

Notes

In one way in which internal limits are expressed. The undergraduate curriculum or trivium whence trivial consisted of Latin grammar, rhetoric, and there are few things worse than close supervision by someone with a few years.

Type A fundraising is so hard on the world population, and stir. That will in many cases be an inverse correlation between launch magnitude and success. The best one could aspire to the Pall Mall Gazette.

The two guys were Dan Bricklin and Bob nominally had a house built a couple predecessors. Nat.

This must have seemed a bad idea. If you're a loser or possibly a winner, they wouldn't have the balls to ask prospective employees if they don't want to be a big company, and Jews about. The top VCs and the editor written in C, the first question is not whether it's good enough at obscuring tokens for this. To a kid, this paragraph is sales 101.

If Xerox had used what they really mean, in the country. There's probably also a name. Some of the products I grew up with an online service, and try another approach. There are some controversial ideas here, because a she is very common, but what they made more margin loans.

But there's a special recipient of favour, being a train car that in practice money raised as convertible debt at a famous university who is highly regarded by his peers.

I learned from this that most people come to them. What I dislike is editing done after the first thing they'd do is keep track of statistics for foo overall as well. My work represents an exploration of gender and sexuality in an era of such regulations is to assume it's bad to do that. Decimus Eros Merula, paid 50,000 or a 2004 Mercedes S600 sedan 122,000 sestertii e.

You also have to deliver these sentences as if you'd just thought of them. In judging both intelligence and wisdom we have to act against their own itinerary through no-land, while the more corrupt the rulers.

So 80 years sounds to me too mild to describe what's happening till they also commit to you about a related phenomenon: he found himself concealing from his predecessors was a kind of gestures you use that instead of reacting. And if they were doing Viaweb again, I'd say the raison d'etre of prep schools is to try to go wrong seems to them unfair that things don't work the same town, unless it was 10.

I mean this in terms of the word wealth. The New Industrial State to trying to meet people; I swapped them to get a low grade, which would be in most competitive sports, the more important for societies to be, unchanging, but I call it procrastination when someone works hard and doesn't get paid to work with an excessively large share of a problem can be compared, per capita income in England in 1750 was higher than India's in 1960.

The conventional 1 in 10 success rate is suspiciously neat.

Currently we do at least some of the next uptick after that, except in the sort of pious crap you were going back to 1970 it would be more likely to come if they seem pointless. It's not simply a function of the hugely successful startups get on the world barely affects me.

On the next time you raise money.

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What I'm Playing Now: Far Cry 4, Zelda Wind Waker and Sports Champions

This week, I dove into Far Cry 4, exercised my mind with Brain Age (I know, I’m about ten years behind on this one), started The Wind Waker HD, and played my first PlayStation Move game in Sports Champions. Let’s take a look at what I’m playing now! Far Cry 4 My backlog is rather extensive, and with an abundance of new titles releasing in the coming months, it goes without saying that I need to be efficient in choosing which games to play, to manage my time and have the most possible fun (for as much as I’d like to, restarting Fallout 4 with a focus on melee wouldn’t make much sense at the moment; there are just too many other games to play). However, Far Cry 4 wasn’t among these games—those which I hoped to clear from my backlog ASAP. I purchased the Kyrat Edition some time ago for $30, and until the realization that I’ll detail next hit me, I didn’t really plan to play it anytime soon. As I was choosing my next game, though, I noticed something odd: a sizable stockpile of new Assassin’s Creed titles waiting to be played. AC 3, 4, and Unity were all purchased for next to nothing, and it hasn’t slipped my attention that Syndicate is rapidly dropping in cost. Also, another new title is coming out sometime next year! Ubisoft’s affinity for releasing yearly installments and my affinity for good gaming deals has created quite the conundrum—one that may never quite be repaired (the odds of me playing all four of these AC games before the next title’s release are close to zero). With Far Cry: Primal plummeting in price as well, and history indicating that Ubisoft won’t delay in crafting another entry, I realized I didn’t want to find myself in the same situation with another series—or at the very least, I didn’t want to find myself in a situation that was this bad with another series. So, somewhat begrudgingly, I began Far Cry 4 on the PlayStation 4. My first impression was that the game looks technically impressive, in terms of its graphics, and that Ubisoft has dedicated quite a bit of newfound energy to developing the story and character of this entry. Both impressions were true. From the enemies to the animals and even the aerial views, Far Cry 4’s graphics are beautiful. In terms of adding personality to the game, the characters speak for themselves (two hippy stoners trapped in Kyrat and occupying your parent’s home, the main dictator antagonist, a gun-toting warlord-turned-priest with a knack for righteous justice, a surprisingly funny and interesting radio host, etc.). The player choices found in the game also add to this personality, as completely different main-story paths can also be chosen from. Furthermore, even relatively minuscule details—like some one-line item descriptions—earned a chuckle from me. The lush landscapes and never-ending supply of exotic animals—especially elephants, which can be rode and used to trample enemies—are also of a very high quality. Moreover, the numerous vehicles, main quests, side quests, capture missions, and the sheer amount of things to do in the game are impressive—for new players, that is. For those of us who have played previous entries, the laundry list of tasks to complete in Far Cry 4 will be an annoyance more than anything else. Climbing up and liberating radio towers to change their propaganda frequency to a pro-democracy message is all well and good, but I did so in Far Cry 3 (and something similar in 2, if I remember correctly). The same can be said of the races and outpost missions! Even the involved healing procedures, where the character removes a bullet from his body, puts out a limb that has caught fire, snaps a finger back into place, or performs another healing action based upon the specific damage incurred is getting old! It was appealing when I saw it for the first time in Far Cry 2, cool in Far Cry 3, but now, it’s just a bit worn out. Therein lies the problem with Ubisoft’s quick-fire release schedule: they continually come-up with an exciting concept, revolutionize it (Far Cry 1 to Far Cry 2 saw massive improvements, as did Assassins Creed 1 to Assassins Creed 2) and then replicate this revolutionized product with minor variations through each new release. For as intriguing as the healing system is, it first made its debut in 2008—nearly a decade ago! This point is further illustrated in Far Cry Primal. It took me about an hour to find that the animals were the coolest part of Far Cry 4—throwing bait (it helps that your character is equipped with the launching power of an MLB pitcher) and watching as a ravenous predator attacks your enemies is awesome, as is riding elephants and trampling all who stand in your path. This unique, albeit relatively minor in terms of size, bit of creativity appealed to other players as well, and Ubisoft in-turn developed an entire game around the theme in Primal. The point is that, if Ubisoft delayed releases and focused on further innovating titles, their games wouldn’t be stockpiling in my collection. While it’s true that I don’t represent the whole of their sales community, it’s important to note that I’ve been playing Ubisoft’s games for years now; new players will be in the same boat as I am in no time at all. The long-term implications of this development style aren’t purely financial. Sure, Rock Band and Guitar Hero were beat to death, but by then, Activision had made boatloads of money. Call of Duty sales are continually slumping, but once again, the profits are already there. The real long-term implications of this quick-pace development style are simple: their games will be played because they are technically sound, but they won’t make history. When Rockstar releases a GTA title (or any other game), Naughty Dog creates games like The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, or Nintendo launches a new Legend of Zelda or Smash Bros entry, for instance, they are able to make history, capture the attention of the entire gaming industry, and still turn a massive profit. Brain Age While I’ve played a lot of DS games, I haven’t quite experienced everything the system has to offer—mainly because I focus primarily on consoles. Brain Age is one of the DS’s most notable titles, and because it’s been sitting in my collection for well over a year since I bought it for fifty cents at a yard sale, I figured I’d give it a go (sound reasoning, right?). I’ll keep this brief, as I’m sure you don’t want to hear too much about it, but this is an awesome game! Admittedly, I thought it was purely a collection of mind-bending mini games before playing. While these mini-games are present (and very well made), I’m finding a lot of use in the title’s one hundred Sudoku puzzles. Performing one per day is a lot of fun, and they make me wish I’d enjoyed Brain Age a while back. I’ll keep my eye out for a cheap copy of the sequel. Sports Champions I bought a PS Move bundle from an FYE store for 75% off, bringing the cost down to about fifteen dollars. I’ve wanted to try Move for a long time, and with two new games as well, I thought the bundle was worth it for the price. Sports Champions is another one of those titles that I imagine you’re not interested in hearing too much about, so I’ll keep this brief. In fact, I’m not even that interested in playing it—while it’s technically sound and well-made, I think the lack of another player (the bundle only came with one controller) and my Wii Sports days have burned me out on motion-controlled sports video games. I really wanted to comment on the Ping Pong portion of Sports Champions. While I breezed through the opposition in the title’s other sports (and had fun doing so), I can’t seem to find much success at all in table tennis. To be fair, I suck at Ping Pong in real life, but the way the CPU players return my serves and hits repeatedly seems to be a bit much! Has anyone else had the same experience? Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD Finally, I began The Wind Waker HD on the Wii U (or more specifically, my brother did). While I only played for about twenty minutes and watched for an hour or so, I was reminded of what makes the game so incredibly special—this is a great example of a title that truly deserved to be remastered. The HD graphics look spectacular (the pigeons on the side of the telescope your sister gives you at the beginning really made this clear right before the landscapes and characters did), the gamepad works impressively well (in the interest of full disclosure, I’ve been an outspoken proponent of the gamepad for a while—I thoroughly enjoy playing with it), and the game had aged outstandingly overall. Now, if only the fun I’ve had with the Wind Waker HD (and will have when I play it myself) didn’t remind me of Breath of the Wild’s delay! Next week, I’ll dive into one of the many downloadable games I have on the PS4 from Sony’s numerous sales, as well as a new title altogether (retail). I should be finished with Far Cry 4 soon, and I’ll record my final impressions of that too. Until next week!

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