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| American
History
II
(1877 to present)
|
A Bright and Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan The
Awakening-
Kate
Chopin Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan
Wilson |
| Rag Time E.L. Doctrow
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On the Road Jack Kerouac |
| Beloved
Toni
Morrison |
Catch
22 Joseph
Heller |
| Sister
Carrie
Theodore
Dressier
|
any book by Stephen
Crane,
William
Faulkner |
|
To
Kill
a
Mockingbird-
Harper
is not accepted |
Grapes
of
Wrath-
John
Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men is not
accepted |
|
Women's Studies SS 105
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe-
Fannie Farmer
The Awakening- Kate Chopin |
Beloved
Toni
Morrison
Sister
Carrie
Theodore
Dressier
Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston |
Western Civilizations I
beginning of Man to 1715
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| Hammarabi’s Code |
The
Song
of
Roland |
| The
Aeneid
Virgil |
Divine
Comedy
Dante |
| The
Odyssey
or
The
Iliad
Homer |
The
Prince
Machiavellian |
|
Epic
of
Gilgamesh |
Canterbury
Tales
Chaucer |
| Any
of
the
Oedipus
Cycle
(Antigone,
Oedipus
Rex
Sophocles,
etc.) |
Paradise
Lost
John
Milton |
History
of
the
Peloponnesian
War
Thucydides
|
Utopia
Thomas
More |
| Any
Play
by Moliere |
Book
of
Courtier
Baldissare
Castiglione |
| any
Shakespeare
except
Romeo
and
Juliet |
and
Hamlet |
|
Anything
by
St.
Augustine |
Don
Quixote
Cervantes |
|
or
choose
your
own
see
these
links
|
|
Western
Civ
2
(1715-present)
A
Vindication
of
the
Rights
of
Women
Mary
Wollstonecraft
The
Wealth
of
Nations
Adam
Smith
Communist
Manifesto
Marx
and
Engels
Origin
of
Species
Charles
Darwin
Madame
Bovary
Gustave
Flaubert
War
and
Peace
Leo
Tolstoy
All
Quiet
on
the
Western
Front
Erich
Remarque
The
Dram
Shop Emile
Zola
The
Wasteland
TS
Eliot
Sister
Carrie
Theodore
Dressier
Triumph
and
Tragedy
Winston
Churchill
or
choose
your own, see an MJC reference librarian for help
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|
Leviathan
Thomas
Hobbes
Candide
Voltaire
Separation
of
Powers
Montesquieu
Democracy
in
America
De
Toqueville
Social
Contract
Rousseau
Hard
Times
Dickens
Any
memoirs
or
autobiography
of
any
women
from
1700-
present
with
in
the
context
of
European
history:
English
women
suffragists
Female
monarchs
Behind
the
Urals
John
Scott
Catch
22 Joseph
Heller
Diary
of
Anne
Frank
Anne
Frank
The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich- Wm.
Shirer
|
| American
History
I
(colonial
period
-
1877)
|
|
| The
Captivity
of
Mary
Rowlandson |
Autobiography
of
Ben
Franklin |
| Walden,
Thoreau |
The
Scarlet
Letter-
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
The
House
of 7
Gables
|
| Democracy
in
America
De
Toqueville |
Uncle
Tom's
Cabin-
Harriet
Beecher
Stowe |
| Little
Women-
Louisa
May
Alcott Mark
Twain-Pudd'n'head
Wilson,
Innocents
Abroad,
Tom
Sawyer,
Huck
Finn, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Crevecoeur-
Letters
from
an
American
Farmer
Walt
Whitman-
Leaves
of
Grass
Herman
Melville-
Moby-Dick,
Billy
Budd
|
Sister
Carrie
Theodore
Dressier
Stephen
Crane
Red
Badge
of
Courage
The
Federalist
Papers
Edgar
Allen
Poe-Tell
Tale Heart
or other Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne-Twice
Told
Tales
Frederick
Douglass-
Narrative
of
(his)
Life
Jonathon
Edwards-
Sinners
in
the
Hands
of
an
Angry
God |
|
Political
Science
101
and
102
|
|
|
1984, Animal Farm George Orewell
|
Separation
of
Powers
Montesquieu
|
The
Federalist
Papers
|
Autobiography
of
Ben
Franklin |
| Democracy
in
America
De
Toqueville |
The
Prince
Machiavelli |
| Social
Contract
Rousseau |
The
Wealth
of
Nations
Adam
Smith
|
| Presidential
Ambitions
Rich
Shenkman |
People Of Plenty David Potter |
| Biography
of
any
Supreme
Court
judge |
Any
book
on
any
Supreme
Court
case
or law. |
Political
Science
120
|
California History 129 |
| Book
about
any
California
issue
or
controversy
covered
in
class. |
Any book by John Steinbeck |
|
same books for PS 120 |
| Biography
of
any
Californian
judge,
lawmaker,
governor |
click on this
link for more choices |
World Civ History 106
|
|
| Hammarabi’s
Code |
The
Song
of
Roland |
| The
Aeneid
Virgil |
Divine
Comedy
Dante |
| The
Odyssey
or
The
Iliad
Homer |
The
Prince
Machiavellian |
|
Epic
of
Gilgamesh |
Canterbury
Tales
Chaucer |
| Any
of
the
Oedipus
Cycle
(Antigone,
Oedipus
Rex
Sophocles,
etc.) |
Paradise
Lost
John
Milton |
History
of
the
Peloponnesian
War
Thucydides
|
Utopia
Thomas
More |
| Art of War- Sun Tzu |
Book
of
Courtier
Baldissare
Castiglione |
| any
Shakespeare
except
Romeo
and
Juliet |
and
Hamlet |
|
Anything
by
St.
Augustine |
Chuang Tzu- Basic Writings |
| Old Testament or New
Testament |
The Teachings of Buddha |
| Kama Sutra |
The Q'aran (Koran) |
| Bhagavad Vita
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