June 2006 
 UConn Co-op
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Last weekend I went on Ashford’s home and garden tour which included some wonderful eighteenth century houses, several tucked deep into the back woods, beyond sight of the road; the astonishing St Phillip’s Church with its blue domed ceiling and lavish liturgical art; and an amazing off the grid post and beam house surrounded by organic gardens and a vineyard. I was reminded what an interesting area of the state we live in.

This is good news, because with the price of gas, many of us will be staying close to home this summer, or simply staying home. If you plan on vacationing in your own back yard, you will want some books to read while you sit on your deck or lie in your hammock.

You can order all the books your heart desires from the Co-op online, or, if you live in the area, take the short drive to campus. We have a few suggestions below. Happy Reading!

Suzy

 Can Books Change the World?
 Penguin’s Great Ideas

consumption Launching a new paperback series, Penguin USA tells us, “Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.”

The series, which begins with an offering of ten titles, are pocket-sized books with covers that feel as if they’ve been printed on a real printing press. Published at $8.95, we are offering the books at $6.98 for your summer pleasure.

Click here for a complete listing of Great Ideas 


 Were the Ming Really in Nova Scotia?
 The Island of Seven Cities

7 cities When I told Professor P, who is about to embark on his annual trip to Nova Scotia for the summer, that the Chinese built a city on a terraced hill not too far from his family farm long before Columbus or Cabot plied the shores of the Western Hemisphere, he thought I ‘d suddenly gone New Age. No, I had just finished reading Paul Chiasson’s fascinating The Island of Seven Cities: Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America.

Of course, we will have to await the results of archaeological excavations and DNA tests, but Chiasson has done a lot of research and fieldwork and his conclusions that the Chinese did indeed spend time on Cape Breton and influenced the Mi’kmaq are mind jolting yet convincing.

This thought provoking book is fun to read and even more fun to talk about. Like all our carefully selected Co-op Picks, it is specially priced.

For The Island of Seven Cities and other Co-op Picks, click here. 


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 on our website.

We have a robust searchable data base on our website with reliable information. If you haven't used it yet, we invite you to give it a try right now. We think you will be pleased.

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 Charles Boer's translation of
 The Homeric Hymns

homeric Happily, Asphodel Press has recently reissued Charels Boer's widely praised translation of The Homeric Hymns. Boer writes in the new introduction, "...Homer still offers for our consideration the foremost imaginative polytheism in the world's literature. His poetry ever remains a sanctuary in the psychology of the sacred, a sane refuge from the temple of religious psychosis that we seem to be entering today. Reading him now is to realize more than ever the truth of that old cliché, that what the Greeks have given us is "classic" and for all time."

Boer is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at UConn and the author of several books and translations (which we hope will also be reissued soon).

Add The Homeric Hymns to your personal library.... 


 


The UConn Co-op is a member-owned independent bookstore serving the University of Connecticut and the wider academic community. We welcome everyone, young and old, through our doors and to our online bookstore.

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Suzy Staubach
UConn Co-op

 
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