Next, when I got home I looked at the Honors Program course description for this Honors 202 class because I knew that it had a list of books for the class. So from that I added three more books to my list, which finally looked like this:
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
I choose this book because it is an excellent work about the French Revolution and would help me and my group better understand it. - The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
First of all, the title is awesome and the subject matter fascinating: the story behind the making of the Oxford English Dictionary. I thought this book would do quite well in relationship with our study of the Enlightenment and the organization of knowledge. - The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Having already talked significantly about capitalism in class, I thought that this would be an excellent choice for a more in-depth read and better look at Adam Smith's ideas of the separation of labor, the market and the invisible hand.
