ENVS-420-660 Sustainability From the Shoal Cave to the Sushi Buffet
Octopus! The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea, Katherine Harmon Courage
Penn prides itself on weird interdis- ciplinary mash-ups. Octopus! is exactly that. Part Japanese studies, part natural history, part animal behavior and hu- man anthropology—this book would take care of every single distribution requirement while providing a vital education on a sea creatures made only of arms and a head..
PHIL-203-105 Confucius to Karl Marx: A History of Moral Philosophy through Eccentric Facial Hair
The Gigantic Beard that Was Evil, Stephen Collins
Had Dr. Seuss been a philosopher, he probably would have written The Gigantic Beard that Was Evil. This graphic novel tells the story of a conformist utopia that is shattered by one man’s wild beard growth. It’s a comic book that reads like a philosophical thesis: “What we see here is becauselessness itself.”
BBB-270-401 This is Your Brain on Drugs
Buzzed, Cynthia Kuhn and Wilkie Wilson
Buzzed reads like an IKEA manual for substance-induced neurobiological disturbances. It clearly illus- trates, step–by–step, how we get fucked up. Read it as a roadmap for the trip to your altered mind state. You might find out, you know, what we actually spend our weekends doing.
WRIT-030-300 Food Porn: Aesthetics of Eating
Cookbook Book, Annahita Kamali and Floriam Bohm
Phaidon’s newest coffee table release is the Playboy of food porn: glossy, high res photos, insightful essays and centrefolds that’ll make you drool. As anyone who has taken an art history writing seminar (not many of you) know, a picture book is *the* Holy Grail of this requirement. Cookbook Book is all lush photography with a block of text every 50 pages. Enjoy rhetorically outlining in two minutes and then laughing maniacally in the faces of everyone reading about reading.
SOCI-235-401 The Year of Seeing in Color: American Racial Dialogue in 2014
Who We Be: The Colorization of America, Jeff Chang
Last semester the university and nation erupted in a vital dialogue about race, minorities and Christmas cards in contemporary US society. Who We Be tells the history of America’s last three decades through the backgrounds, skin tones and stories of the diverse people living here. Read about the sociology of America’s recent past to better understand its present.
