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Improve your commute by improving your mind; check out these new CD lectures, foreign language programs and great literature. And let us know how you like them!


May 2004

Foreign Languages

Chinese (Cantonese): The Short Course
PL1125 .E6 C57238x 2001

Chinese (Mandarin): The Short Course
PL1125 .E6 C57668x 2001

Egyptian Arabic: The Short Course
PJ6779 .E4938x 2001

French: The Short Course
PC2112.7 .F748x 2000

German: The Short Course
PF3112.7 .G478x 2000

Hebrew: The Short Course
PJ4573 .H448x 1999

Irish: The Short Course
PB1227.5 .E5 I758x 1999

Japanese: The Short Course
PL539.3 .J268x 2000

Modern Greek: The Short Course
PA1059 .M68x 2001

Portuguese: The Short Course
PC5067.5 .P6728x 2000

Russian: The Short Course
PG2112.7 .R88x 2001

Spanish: The Short Course
PC4112.5 .S6358x 2001


Literature

Death in Venice and Other Tales, by Thomas Mann
T2625 .A44 A265 1999b

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
PS3537 .T3234 G8 1998b

The Pearl, by John Steinbeck
PS3537 .T3234 P4 1999b

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
PR4034 .P72 2000b

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
PS1868 .A1 2001b

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen
PR4034 .S42 1999

Tortilla Flat, by John Steinbeck
PS3537 .T3234 T65 1999c

Lectures

The American Presidency: From Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, by Robert Dallek.
E176.1 .D339x 2003

Astronomy: Earth, Sky and Planets, by James B. Kaler
B43.3 .K35x 2003

The Bible as the Root of Western Literature: Stories, Poems, and Parables, by Adam Potkay
BS535 .P685x 2003

Global Warming: Global Threat, by Michael B. McElroy
QC981.8 .G56 M314x 2003

Hebrews, Greeks and Romans: The Foundations of Western Civilization, by Timothy Baker Shutt
CB245 .S498x 2003

A History of Ancient Rome, by Frances B. Titchener
DG210 .T483x 2003

Islam: A Short History, by Karen Armstrong
BP50 .A69 2002b

Jerusalem: The Contested City, by F. E. Peters
DS109.9 .P372x 2003

Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The Monotheists, by F. E. Peters
BL80.2 .P4552x 2003

The Law of the Land: A History of the Supreme Court, by Kermit Hall
KF8742 .H35 2003

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