Books Recommendation by faculties

Recommended books by PROGLER Joseph sensei

Theme:Academic
Jazz cosmopolitanism in Accra : five musical years in Ghana

Steven Feld

Comment
Counters the assumption of a one-way flow of Black music from Africa to the Americas by showing that it has always been a two-way journey.
Theme:Personal
Let them eat data : how computers affect education, cultural diversity, and the prospects of ecological sustainability

C.A. Bowers

Comment
Suggests how digitization of information excludes other ways of knowing by focusing on the metaphorical basis of languages.
Theme:Fun
Ishmael : a novel

Daniel Quinn

Comment

Expands awareness of the history of civilizations by having a telepathic gorilla teach human beings about themselves and their world.

Theme:Japan
Kurosawa : film studies and Japanese cinema

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto

Comment

Surveys the films of Akira Kurosawa by bridging the viewpoints of cinematic and sociological studies.

Theme:Future
Staying alive : women, ecology, and development

Vandana Shiva

Comment

Delivers a hopeful message of environmental sustainability by placing women at the center of development.