Mandatory reading for all students July & August 2008:
Bjorn Lomborg: Cool it - The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide To Global Warming
Publication date 2007-09-04
Pages 272
ISBN 9780307266927
Art of the month
George Bellows. (American, 1882-1925).
Dempsey and Firpo. 1923-24.
Lithograph, composition: 18 1/8 x 22 3/8" (46 x 56.9 cm); sheet: 22 3/4 x 26" (57.8 x 66 cm). Publisher: probably the artist, New York. Printer: Bolton Brown, New York. Edition: 103. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Mandatory reading for all students May & June 2008:
Art of the month (May & June 2008)
Caspar David Friedrich - Chalk Cliffs on Ruegen, est. 1818
Oil on canvas, 35.63 × 27.95 inches
Museum Oskar Reinhart am Stadtgarten Winterthur, Switzerland
Mandatory reading for all students April 2008:
HOW TO INTERVIEW LIKE A TOP MBA - Job-Winning Strategies from
Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors
by Shelly Leanne
Art of the month
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
Whispering Noon, 1896, oil on canvas,
56x39.3 cm, private collection
Mandatory reading for all students March 2008:
Chapter 8: Introduction to probability and statistics -
in: Mathematics for Business, Science and Technology
by Steven T. Karris
Paperback,
ISBN-13: 9780970951106, Pub. Date: May 2001
Art of the month
Mandatory reading for all students February 2008:
A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down
by Robert B. Laughlin
Pub. Date: February 2005
ISBN-13: 9780641808395
Art of the month
Toulouse-Lautrec: La Goulue arrivant au Moulin Rouge. 1892
Oil on carton, dimensions 79,4 × 59 cm
Current location Museum of Modern Art New York
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Mandatory reading for all students January 2008:
Jean - Luc Lebrun
Scientific Writing : A Reader and Writer's Guide
ISBN-13: 9789812701442 Pub. Date: June 2007
Art of the month
Georges Seurat: "Gray weather, Grande Jatte", 1888. Size: 28 by 34 inches (71 by 86 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA.
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Mandatory reading for all students December 2007:
Thomas Sowell: Black Rednecks and White Liberals (2005), ISBN 1-59403-086-3
Art of the month
Paolo Uccello
The Battle Of San Romano
London, Florence, Paris
Egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar
181.6 x 320 cm.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=Ng583
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Mandatory reading for all students November 2007:
John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt : The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. 2006
Free access to book in our online library.
Art of the month
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Madeleine Bernard. 1888. Oil on canvas. Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble, France.
Mandatory reading for all students October 2007:
The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush
Administration
by Jack L. Goldsmith
Hardcover
ISBN: 0393065502
Pub. Date: September 2007
Art of the month
BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
The Numbering at Bethlehem
1566
Oil on oak, 115,5 x 163,5 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Mandatory reading for all students September 2007:
Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell
- Hardcover - 3RD
- ISBN: 0465002609
- Pub. Date: April 2007
Art of the month
Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window,
about 1658
Oil on canvas
Dimensions 83 × 64,5 cm
Current location Gemaeldegalerie Dresden, Germany
Mandatory reading for all students August 2007:
The AIDS Pandemic: The Collision of Epidemiology with Political Correctness
by James Chin
- Paperback
- ISBN: 1846191181
- Pub. Date: March 2007
Art of the month
Kahlo, Frida
Self-Portrait with the Portrait of Doctor Farill
1951
Oil on Masonite
16 1/2 x 19 3/4 in
Private collection, Mexico City
Mandatory reading for all students July 2007:
Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks for Using Your Brain (Hacks)
by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb
Paperback
ISBN: 0596007795
Pub. Date: November 2004
Art of the month
Wassily Kandinsky - The Blue Rider. 1903. Oil on canvas. 55 x 65 cm. Private collection.
Mandatory reading for all students June 2007:
Robert Higgs - Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society
Paperback
ISBN: 0945999968
Pub. Date: August 2004
Art of the month
Dr. Wayne Gahan: Tribute To Pollock . Cosmo-Art.2007. 1154 x 623
Wayne Gahan Digital Art Collection
May 2007
Ed Husain: The Islamist
Why I joined radical Islam in Britain, what I saw inside and why I left
Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 304 pages | ISBN 9780141030432 | 03 May 2007 | Penguin
Mandatory reading for all students April 2007:
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
by Bruce Bawer
ISBN: 0385514727
Art of the month
Winslow Homer
American, 1836 - 1910
Key West, Hauling Anchor, 1903
watercolor over graphite, 35.5 x 55.5 cm (14 x 21 7/8 in.)
National Gallery Of Art http://www.nga.gov/feature/homer/homerchron01.htm
Mandatory reading for all students March 2007:
Gilbert, Daniel : Stumbling on Happiness. Hardcover
ISBN: 1400042666, Pub. Date: May 2006
Art of the month
Paul Klee (1879 -1940) :
Cosmic Composition. 1919. Oil on pasteboard. 48 x 41 cm. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Mandatory reading for all students February 2007:
How Real Is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication
by Paul Watzlawick
Art of the month
Pablo Picasso, The Tragedy
1903, oil on wood, 1.053 x .690 m (41 7/16 x 27 3/16 in.),
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection
January 2007
America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq
By: James Dobbins, John G. McGinn, Keith Crane, Seth G. Jones, Rollie Lal, Andrew Rathmell, Rachel M. Swanger, Anga Timilsina
Pages: 280, ISBN: 0-8330-3460-X
(The book is available for free here.)
Salvador Dalí - The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table (1934). Oil on panel 24 x 18 cm.
http://salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
Mandatory reading for all students December 2006:
The Holocaust Industry
by Norman G. Finkelstein
Art of the month
Berlin Street Scene (1913), by German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
http://www.ludorff.com/bio/kirchnerbioe.html
http://members.cox.net/germanexpressionist/
Mandatory reading for all students November 2006:
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
(September 2006, ISBN 0618680004)
Art of the month
Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917
Portraits in an Office (1873)
FEYERABEND, Paul, (1924-1996) was professor of
Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and professor of the
philosophy of science at the Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich. Trained in
physics, astronomy and mathematics, Feyerabend turned to questioning the
philosophical bases of the sciences. He wrote "Against Method", "Science in a Free
Society", "Philosophical Papers" and "Farewell to Reason" (1987), three dialogs on knowledge.
Mandatory reading for all students October 2006:
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks , Pub. Date: July 2006
ISBN: 159420103X
Art of the month
Gustav Klimt (Austria)(1862 - 1918):
The Kiss 1907-1908, oil on canvas, http://www.belvedere.at/overview/index.htm
Scientist of the month
Mandatory reading for all students September 2006:
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. William Easterly. : Penguin Press, 2006, 417 pp.
Art of the month (September 2006)
Delacroix : Liberty Leading the People (1830, Louvre)
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La Liberté guidant le peuple", oil painting (width 325 cm × height 260 cm) of the Romanticism.
Date
oil painting created in 1833
Author
Eugène Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
Mandatory reading for all students August 2006:
James Bovard: Attention Deficit Democracy.
Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1403971080.
Art of the month (August 2006)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849):
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
From "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji"; 1823-29; Color woodcut, 10 x 15 in; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
http://www.andreas.com/hokusai.html
Mandatory reading for all students June 2006:
Milton Friedman
Capitalism and Freedom, ISBN 0226264017 (1962)
Art of the month (June 2006)
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (March 30, 1746 – April 16, 1828)
El 3 de mayo de 1808 en Madrid, 1814. Museo del Prado. The shootings of May third 1808. 1814, oil on canvas 268 x 347 cm.
http://artchive.com/artchive/G/goya/may_3rd.jpg.html
Mandatory reading for all students June 2006:
Bertrand Russell
The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
http://www.gurus.com/dougdeb/Courses/Happy/Conquest/outline.html
http://members.aol.com/timlebon/conquest.htm
Art of the month (June 2006)
Umberto Boccioni
1882, Reggio di Calabria - 1916, Verona
Dynamism of a Soccer Player [Dinamismo di un footballer]. (1913)
Oil on canvas, 6' 4 1/8" x 6' 7 1/8" (193.2 x 201 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection.
April, May 2006
Edouard Manet (1832 – 1883): Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Protocol: The Complete Handbook of Diplomatic, Official and Social Usage (Paperback) by Mary Jane McCaffree, Pauline Innis
Mandatory reading for all students March 2006:
Samuel P. Huntington: The clash of civilizations
Art of the month (March 2006)
Creation of the Animals (1555)
Tintoretto (1518-1594) , located at the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
Mandatory reading for all students January 2006:
David Hockney: Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
Art of the month (Jan 2006)
Salvatore Dali (1904-1989)
Figure at a Window, 1925
Mandatory reading for all students February 2006:
Paul Feyerabend: Science in a Free Society
Art of the month (Feb 2006)
Vincent Van Gogh: View of the Sea at Scheveningen, 1882
Oil on Canvas, 34.5 X 51 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
(Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
