Gentrain Books and 'Great Books' Disc Library

These Books, CDs and DVDs are available to be borrowed by students in a Gentrain class and by Gentrain Society members. To borrow an item, send an email to the Librarian. Be sure to indicate that you are enrolled or a member of the Gentrain Society!  A selection of items will also be available during Tuesday and Thursday classes. 

Please see me if you have items to donate.

Semester One; Unit 1

• INANNA; Queen of Heaven and Earth, Wolkstein and Kramer
• INANNA: Lady of Largest Heart, Meador
• GILGAMESH,  Stephen Mitchell
• MOSES AND MONOTHEISM, Sigmund Freud
• PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY: The Mask of God, Joseph Campbell
• A SHORT HISTORY OF MYTH, Karen Armstrong
• PRIMITIVE MAN AS PHILOSOPHER, Paul Radin
• PREHISTORY; THE MAKING OF THE HUMAN MIND, Colin  Renfrew
• GODS AND MEN IN EGYPT, 3000 BC to 395 CE, Frnçoise Durand and Christiane Zivie-Coche
• HERITAGE: Civilization and the Jews, Abba Eban
• WORSHIPPING POWER, Peter Gelderloos
• AGAINST THE GRAIN,  James Scott
• AFFLUANCE WITHOUT ABUNDANCE, James Suzman
• STONEHENGE; A NEW UNDERSTANDING, Mike Pearson
• THE HITTITES,  O.R Gurney
• THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD, Robin Winks and Susan Mattern-Parkes
• THE GREATNESS THAT WAS BABYLON, H.W.F. Saggs
• THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATIO IN THE NEAR EAST, Henri Frankfort
• WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS, Vol I, Joshua Cole and Catol Symes
• THE FACE OF THE ANCIENT ORIENT, Sabatino Moscat
• ORIGINS OF THE BOOK, Mohamed Hussein
• THE WORLD OF ANCIENT TIMES, Carl Roebuck
• THE MIND IN THE CAVE, THames & HUdson
• A WORLD HISTORY, William McNell
• ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE, John Foster, trans
• ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE; old and Middle Kingdoms, M. Lichtheim, trans
• LOVE SONGS OF THE NEW KINGDOM John Foste, trans

SEMESTER ONE:  Unit 2

• THE HITTITES, J.G. Macqueen
• THE HITTITES AND THEIR WORLD, Billie Collins
• TROY AND ITS REMAINS, Heinrich Schliemann
• MINOAN AND MYCENAEN ART, Reynold Higgins
• MINOAN AND MYCENEAN ART, Tames & Hunson
• THE VIRGIN IN SONG, Arentzen
• THE ILIAD, Homer  (Fagles)
• THE ODYSSEY (Fagles)
• THE ODYSSEY (Wilson)
• ACHILLES IN VIETNAM, Shay

SEMESTER ONE UNIT 3

• THE REPUBLIC Plato
• THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY
• SOPHOCLES, Three Theban Plays
• CLSSSIC ENGLISH RHETORIC, Farnswoth
• MEDEA, Euripides
• THE BACCHAE ANDOTHER PLAYS, Euripides
• THE ORESTEIA, Aeschylus
• COMPLETE PLAYS, Aristophanes
• THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR, Thucydides
• EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY (Penguin)
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE HELLENISTIC WORLD, Burns
• THE LIVES AND OPINIONS OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, Diogenes

SEMESTER ONE UNIT 4

• COMEDIES Terence
• THE COMPLETE ODES AND EPODES, Horace
• POEMS, Tibulius
• THE AENEID, Virgil
• FOUR COMEDIES, Plautus
• THE EARLY HISTORY OF ROME, Livy
• THE METAMORPHOSES, Ovid
• THe ENCHIRIDION, Epictitus
• ETRUSCAN PLACES D. H. Lawrence
• PLUTARCH LIVES Vol.1
• PLUTARCH LIVES Vol. 2
• POEMS, Catullus

SEMESTER TWO: UNIT 1

• PSYCHOMANIA, 'Prudentia
• THE SECRET HISTORY, Procopus
• THE CONFESSIONS, Sr. Augustine
• THE CITY OF GOD, St. Augustine
• THE PRINCE OFMEDICINE (GALEN), Mattern
• THE WAY OF HERMES, Salaman
• THE NAG HAMADI SCRIPTURES
• THE GOLDEN ASS, Apulius
• A SHORT HISTOR OF BYZANTIUM, Norwich
• THE SATYRICON, Petronius
• THE FALL OF THE WEST, Goldsworthy
• THE JEWISH WAR, Josephus
• COMPLETE TRAGEDIES, Seneca
• ARE WE ROME?  Murphy
• THE MEDITATIONS, Marcus Aurelius
• I, CLAUDIUS , Robert Graves
• CLAUDIUS THE GOD, Robert Graves

SEMESTER TWO: UNIT 2

• ISLAM; A SHORT HISTORY Armstrong
• THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE
• PHILOSO[HY N THE ISLAMICWORLD, Adamson
• TH THIRTEEN THEORIES OF HUMAN NATURE, Stevenson, et al.
• A CELTIC MISCELLANY
• THE SONG OF ROLAND
• THE VINLAND SAGAS
• THE PROSE EDDA, Sturlson
• THE SAGA OF ICELANDERS
• THE BLIND WATCHMAKER, Dawkins
• BEOWULF, Heaney, trans.
• TH ARABIAN NIGHTS

SEMESTER 2:  UNIT 3

• A DISTANT MIRROR, Barbara Tuchman
• LARK IN THE MORNING, Ezra Pound et al., trans
• THE GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED, Maimonides
• THE SCYTHIAN EMPIRE, Christopher Beckwith
• THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS, Margeurite Porette
• INVENTING THE INDIVIDUAL, Larry Siedentop
• ARAB HISTORIANS OF THE CRUSADES, Francesco Gabrieli
• THE DECAMERON, Giovanni Boccaccio
• THE DIVINE COMEDY: HELL Dante (Dorothy Sayers)
• THE DIVINE COMEDY: PARADISE Dante(Dorothy Sayers)
• THE ESSENTIAL KABBALAH, Daniel Matt
• THE ART OF COURTLY LOVE, Capellanus
• CHILDREN OF ASH AND ELM, Price
• MONUMENTS OFMEDIEVAL ART, Calkins

SEMESTER 2 UNIT 4

• The Old Testament Vol 1 (6 CD’s) Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University Divinity School (SP)
• The Old Testament Vol 2 (6 CD’s) Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University Divinity School (SP)
• The New Testament Vol 1 (6 CD’s) Bart D. Ehrman, U. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill (SP)
• The New Testament Vol 2 (6 CD’s) Bart D. Ehrman, U. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill (SP)
• Foundations of Western Civilization II, a History of the Modern Western World (starts with Renaissance) (24 CD’s) Robert Bucholz, Loyola University of Chicago (BE)
• Turning Points in Medieval History (12 CD’s) Dorsey Armstrong, Purdue University (BE)
• The Skeptic’s Guide to American History (12 CD’s) Mark Stoler, University of Vermont (BE)
• European and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (starts with enlightenment and French Revolution) (24 CD’s) Thomas Childers, University of Pennsylvania (BE)
• The Long 19th Century; European History from 1789 to 1917 (18 CD’s) Robert Wagner, Lafayette College (BE)
• A Day’s Read, (discussion of 36 short pieces of fiction by well-known writers) Various lecturers, (18 CD’s) (BE)
• The Early Middle Ages, (approx 300 AD to 1000 AD) (12 CD’s) Philip Daileader, College of William and Mary (BE)
• The High Middle Ages (Approx 1000 AD to 1300 AD) (12 CD’s) Philip Daileader, College of William and Mary (BE)
• The Late Middle Ages (Approx 1300 AD to 1500 AD) (12 CD’s) Philip Daileader, College of William and Mary (BE)
• American Revolution (12 CD’s) Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College (BE) The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins (18 CD’s) Ann Curzon, University of Michigan (BE)
• The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest (18 CD’s) Jennifer Paxton Catholic University of America (BE)
• The Development of European Civilization (Medieval to post-war era) (24 CD’s) Kenneth Bartlett, Univ of Toronto )
• Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You (12 CD’s) Valerie Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno(BE)
• Great Presidents (24 CD’s) Allen Lichtman, American University(BE)
• History of the United States, 2nd Ed. (42 CD’s) Multiple speakers(BE)
• The Skeptics Guide to the Great Books, (6 CD’s) Grant Voth MPC (BE)
• Understanding Cultural and Human Geography, (12 cd’s) Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin - Madison (BE)
• Turning Points in American History (24 CD’s) E. T. O’Donnell, College of the Holy Cross (BE)

• World War II: A Military and Social History (5 DVD’s), Thomas Childers, Univ of Pennsylvania (BE)
• A History of Hitler’s Empire (2 DVD’s), Thomas Childers, Univ of Pennsylvania (BE)
• Churchill (2 DVD’s) J. Rufus Fears, University of Oklahoma (BE)
• A Brief History of the World (6 DVD’s) Peter Sterns, George Mason Univ. (BE)
• America and the World: A Diplomatic History (4 DVD’s) Mark Stoler, University of Vermont (BE)
• A History of the England From the Tudors to the Stuarts (8 DVD’s) Robert Bucholz, Loyola University Chicago(BE)