Book List: Spring 2012

How to order

These books are available at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. When visiting the Amazon website, place the ISBN into the search field and the books will come up. If the books are available in electronic format, you may prefer to purchase them for your Kindle or IPad.

If you prefer to have your books shipped to Italy, order them through Amazon.co.uk and have them shipped to
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• PL 202 Philosophical Perspectives: The Project of Modernity

  • An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy, ed. Karen Warren (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), ISBN: 0742559246




• PL 302 Ethics

  • The Good Life, ed. Charles Guignon (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing), ISBN: 0-87220-438-3




• TH206 Liturgical Art and Architecture
  NOTE: There are some copies of the required books availalbe to borrow in Rome. These can be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis by emailing Dr. Dawson.

  • Edward Foley, From Age to Age: How Christians Have Celebrated the Eucharist, revised and expanded edition (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2009), ISBN 978-0814630785.

  • Richard Taylor, How to Read a Church: A Guide to Symbols and Images in Churches and Cathedrals (Mahwah, NJ: Hidden Spring, 2005), ISBN 978-1587680304.

  • Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen, Art & Architecture: Rome (Königswinter: Tandem Verlag, 2005), ISBN 978-0841600515.

  • Christopher Hibbert, Rome: The Biography of a City (New York: Penguin, 1985), ISBN 978-0140070781.

  • Vatican II, Sacrosanctum Concilium, online (to download or print out): http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html

  • Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy, Built of Living Stones, online (to download or print out): http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/livingstonesind.shtml

  • Also recommended

    • Giorgia Masson, Companion Guide to Rome (Suffolk: Companion Guides, 2009), ISBN 978-1900639453.

    • Alta Madadam, Blue Guide Rome, Tenth Edition (London: Blue Guide, 2010), ISBN 978-1905131389.

    • Jonathan Boardman, Rome: A Cultural History (Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2007), ISBN 978-1566567114.




• TH205 Christian Rome: Understanding Jesus Christ in Rome
  NOTE: There is no need to purchase books for this class.




• HS321 Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome (be sure to order the correct edition)
  NOTE: There are some copies of most of the required books available to borrow in Rome. These can be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis by emailing Dr. Dawson.
  

  • Amanda Claridge, Rome (Oxford Archaeological Guide) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), ISBN 978-0199546831.

  • John Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press, 1988), ISBN 978-0801836923.

  
  



• EN xx Italy in American and British Literature
  A book list will be posted in January. Since the course does not start until late February, there will be plenty of time to order books




• Contemporary Italian Politics

  • James L. Newell, The Politics of Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), ISBN 978-0521600460.




• MK 348 International Marketing

  • TBA




• Commerce, Culture, and Catholicism

  • TBA




• Italian Classes

  • Books for the Italian courses are provided on the first day of class (no need to purchase).