June’s last batch of free books

Before June evolves into July, take a look at the most up-to-date list of our books for free give-away.

We invite you — students, alumni, and friends of the Core — to peruse the list of books below. If you would like any of them, they are yours for the asking!

All you have to do is email the Core office, letting us know what book you want, and to what mailing address we should send it. (Or if you’re in the Boston area or plan to be soon, you can let us know that, and we’ll set the book aside for you to pick up in person.

If you’re feeling particularly thankful for the free book(s) from Core,we would be grateful if you’d consider making a donation to the EnCore alumni fund. By doing so, your donations to BU will go directly to support our community life programs, including the intellectual social activities of the undergraduate Word & Way Society, the monthly book club meetings of the alumni association, and the annual Devlin Award book prize for undergraduate writing. This donation is entirely voluntary;these books are genuinely available with no strings attached.It isn’t the amount that you donate that matters as much as that you donate at all. Alumni giving sends a powerful message to the University officers, that Core provides an experience for students that they stay connected to even long after graduation. To that end, even a donation of $5 is worth it.

BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR FREE:

China Violations of Human Rights: Prisoners of Conscience & the Death Penalty in the People’s Republic of China, by Amnesty International
Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico, by Burkhart
Easy French Phrase Book, by Dover
A Survey of Buddhism: Its Doctrines and Methods Through the Ages , by Sangharakshita
The Red and the Black, by Stendhal
China After Mao, by A. Doak Barnett
Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism, No 4) , by Alan Sponberg
The Liberation of the Jew, by Albert Memmi
Communism, by Alfred G. Meyer
Complex Organizations: A Sociological Reader, by Amitai Etzioni
Touch the Water, Touch the Wind, by Amos Oz
Under This Blazing Light, by Amos Oz
Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, by and Garrard Broude
Behind the Mud Walls, by and Wiser Wiser
The Innocent Eye: The Life of Robert J. Flaherty, by Arthur Calder-Marshall
The Essential Schopenhauer, by Arthur Schopenhauer
Science and Human Behavior, by B.F. Skinner
European Historical Statistics, by B.R. Mitchell
A.J. Ayer: A Life, by Ben Rogers
Spring Symphony Op44 Vocal Score, by Benjamin Britten
Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, by Benjamin I. Schwartz
Communism and China Ideology in Flux, by Benjamin I. Schwartz
Voyagers to the West, by Bernard Bailyn
The Emergence of Modern Turkey, by Bernard Lewis
The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud
Saffron Days in L.A.: Tales of a Buddhist Monk in America, by Bhante Piyananda
Box Man: A Professional Thief’s Journey, by Bill Chambliss
Hammarskjold, by Brian Urquhart
Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism, by Bron Raymond Taylor
The Dynamics of Modernization, by C.E. Black
A Genius For War, by Carlo D’Este
Ideology and Politics in Contemporary China, by Chalmers Johnson
Aloft, by Chang-rae Lee
Culture and Poverty, by Charles A. Valentine
Beijing Turmoil: More Than Meets the Eye, by Che Muqi
Personality in nature, society, and culture , by Clyde Kluckhohn
Mountain people, by Colin Turnbull
Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru, by Cynthia McClintock
The Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra: A Discussion, by Daisaku Ikeda
Rights in Conflict : Chicago’s 7 Brutal Days, by Daniel Walker
Falun Gong’s Challenge To China: Spiritual Practice or Evil Cult?, by Danny Schechter
Hogarth, by David Bindman
The Psychosocial Analysis of a Hopi Life-History, by David Friend Aberle
NGOs, States and Donors: Too Close for Comfort?, by David Hulme
Akwe-Shavante Society, by David Maybury-Lewis
The Savage and the Innocent , by David Maybury-Lewis
The Wind Will Not Subside: Years in Revolutionary China 1964-1969, by David Milton
Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit, by David Thelen
Health, Lifestyle & Environment: Countering the Panic, by Digby C. Anderson
Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis, by Dorothy Emmet
Rural Small-Scale Industry in the People’s Republic of China, by Dwight Perkins
Population and History, by E.A. Wrigley
As We Are, by E.F. Benson
Secret Lives, by E.F. Benson
Our Brother’s Keeper: The Indian in White America, by Edgar S. Cahn
Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmund Rostand
The Puritan Family, by Edmund S. Morgan
Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy
The Hidden Dimension, by Edward T. Hall
Return to Laughter, by Elenore Smith Bowen
Anthropology and Community Action, by Elizabeth Hegeman
The Monkey as Mirror , by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Pastoral Production and Society, by Equipe Ecologie
Rendezvous with Destiny: A History of Modern American Reform, by Eric Goldman
Spell of Steam, by Eric Treacy
Documentary: A History of Non-Fiction Film, by Erik Barnouw
Nations and Nationalism, by Ernest Gellner
Operation Sail 1976, by Evelyn Chisolm
Ireland Since the Famine, by F.S.L. Lyons
Primitive Revolutionaries of China, by Fei-Ling Davis
The Social Role of the Man of Knowledge, by Florian Znaniecki
Readings in Cross-Cultural Methodology, by Frank W. Moore
On Religion: Speeches to its cultured despisers, by Friedrich Schleiemacher
The Western World and Japan, by G.B. Sansom
The Complete Films of Rita Hayworth, by Gene Ringgold
Language and Communication, by George A. Miller
Literature in Revolution, by George Abbott White
Education and Culture: Anthropological Approaches, by George D. Spindler
Political Anthropology, by Georges Balandier
The Story of a Montagnard Village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, by Georges Condominas
Reflections on Violence, by Georges Sorel
The White House Transcripts, by Gerald Gold
Linden Hills, by Gloria Naylor
The Analysis of Social Change: Based on Observations in Central Africa, by Godfrey & Monica Wilson
Kabloona, by Gontran de Poncins
Reflets: Methode de francais, by Guy Capelle
Pierre and Jean, by Guy Maupassant
An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, by H.A. Gleason
The Tiwi of North Australia, by Hart and Goodale Pilling
Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism, by Hayden White
With a Heigh-heigh-ho: Stories and Verse for Children, by Helen Creighton
Kurozumikyo and the New Religions of Japan, by Helen Hardacre
Shinto and the State, 1868-1988, by Helen Hardacre
Italian Hours, by Henry James
The London Life , by Henry James
The Reverberator, by Henry James
The Getting of Wisdom, by Henry Richardson
Communication and Cultural Domination, by Herbert I. Schiller
The Urban Villagers: Group and class in the life of Italian-Americans, by Herbert J. Gans
Don’t Stop the Carnival, by Herman Wouk
Wolfram’s “Parzival”: Five Essays, by Hermann Weigand
Vienna’s Golden Autumn, by Hilde Spiel
Government and Politics in Tribal Societies, by I. Schapera
Japsnese Religion Past & Present , by Ian Reader
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, by Ivan Morris
Origins and Growth of Sociology, by J.H. Abraham
Contemporary Republic of China: The Taiwan Experience 1950-1980, by James C. Hsiung
Serenade, by James Cain
Conformity & Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, by James P. Spradley
The Hunger Wall (Uncorrected Proof), by James Ragan
Perspectives on Political Philosophy Volume III: Marx through Marcuse, by James V. Downton
Symbolic Anthropology: A Reader in the Study of Symbols and Meanings , by Janet Dolgin
A Seventh Man, by Jean Mohr
The Blue Nowhere: A Novel, by Jeffery Deaver
Agrarian Revolution, by Jeffery M. Paige
Prophetic Religions and Politics: Religion and the Political Order, by Jeffrey K. Hadden
Where’s Dan Quayle?, by Jim Becker
Action in Late Ming Thought: The Reorientation of Lu K’un and Other Scholar- Officials , by Joanna Handlin
Honour, by Joanna Murray-Smith
Bringing Out the Dead, by Joe Connelly
Life in a Turkish Village, by Joe Pierce
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, by John Womack
Communitarian Societies, by John A. Hostetler
Language in Use: Readings in Sociolinguistics, by John Baugh
Constituting Communities: Theravda Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia , by John Clifford Holt
Daniel Martin, by John Fowles
China’s Economy and the Maoist Strategy, by John G. Gurley
The Last Juror, by John Grisham
The Pelican Brief, by John Grisham
Culture Against Man, by Jules Henry
Non Governments: NGOs and the Political Development of the Third World, by Julie Fisher
Socialism in the Chinese Countryside: Rural Societal Policies in the People’s Republic of China 1949-1979 , by Jurgen Domes
The Chinese Cultural Revolution: Selected Documents, by K.H. Fan
Edwin H. Sutherland on Analyzing Crime, by Karl Schuessler
The Great British Bed and Breakfast, by Ken Plant
Mambu Paperback, by Kenelm Burridge
New Heaven, New Earth: A Study of Millenarian Activities, by Kenelm Burridge
The Meaning of the 20th Century: The Great Transition, by Kenneth E. Boulding
Slavery in the New World: A Reader in Comparative History, by Laura Foner
The Road to Democracy: Taiwan’s Pursuit of Identity, by Lee Teng-hui
Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma: The Lotus Sutra , by Leon Hurvitz
Makers of Modern Science Georg Simmel, by Lewis A. Coser
Falun Gong: Principles and Exercises for Perfect Health and Enlightenment , by Li Hongzhi
The Idea of the City in Roman Thought, by Lidia Mazzolani
Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class Family, by Lillian Breslow Rubin
Scoundrel Time, by Lillian Hellman
Bright Blue: Rabbi Lionel Blue’s Thoughts for the Day, by Lionel Blue
Warring States, by Liu Xiang
Blu’s Hanging, by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Portrait in Brownstone, by Louis Auchincloss
Rates of Exchange, by Malcolm Bradbury
Stepping Westward, by Malcolm Bradbury
The Shouting Signpainters, by Malcolm Reid
Primitive and Peasant Economic Systems, by Manning Nash
Blackberry Winter: My earlier years, by Margaret Mead
The Wilding, by Maria McCann
The San Juan Islands: Crown Jewels of the Pacific Northwest, by Mark Gardner
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History, by Mark Girouard
Nest in the Wind, by Martha Ward
Sex, Evolution, and Behavior, by Martin Daly
Red Pottage, by Mary Cholmondeley
Perspectivas, by Mary Ellen Kiddle
Gender and Distorder in Early Modern Seville , by Mary Perry
A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion , by Masao Abe
Beaumarchais, by Maurice Lever
Savage and the Innocent, by Maybury-Lewis D
Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity, by Melvyn Goldstein
The Snow Lion and The Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama, by Melvyn Goldstein
Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century, by Michael Edwards
The Camera Age: Essays on Television, by Michael J. Arlen
Coming of Age in New Jersey, by Michael Moffatt
Introduction to Spanish for Translation, by Mildred Basker-Seigel
The Drugging of the Americas: How Multinational Drug Companies Say One Thing About Their Products to Physicians in the United States, and Another Thing to Physicians in Latin America , by Milton Morris Silverman
Death, Afterlife, and the Soul, by Mircea Eliade
Good Company: A Study of Nyakyusa Age-Villages, by Monica Wilson
Marginal Natives: Anthropologists at Work , by Morris Freilich
Linguistic Anthropology, by Nancy Parrott Hickerson
Theory of Collective Behavior, by Neil J. Smelser
Never Come Morning, by Nelson Algren
The Pity of War, by Niall Ferguson
The Learning of Political Behavior, by Norman Adler
The Crisis of Industrial Society, by Norman Birnbaum
The Visitor’s Guide to France: Provence & Cote d’Azur, by Norman Brangham
The History of Popular Culture to 1815, by Norman F. Cantor
Black Jack Vol. 1, by Osamu Tezuka
Teppztlan Village in Mexico , by Oscar Lewis
The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk, by Palden Gyatso
The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker
James Miranda Barry (copies x 3), by Patricia Duncker
Paul Scott: Images of India, by Patrick Sweden
Teach Yourself German, by Paul Coggle
Division of the Spoils, by Paul Scott
Staying On, by Paul Scott
The Day Of The Scorpion, by Paul Scott
The Tower of Silence, by Paul Scott
Japanese Culture, by Paul Varley
Babyhood, by Penelope Leach
The Second Billion, by Penny Kane
Venice: Pure City, by Peter Ackroyd
The Life of Berlioz, by Peter Bloom
True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
Hometown: A Portrait of an American Community, by Peter Davis
Institutions of Democracy & Development, by Peter L. Berger
The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, by Peter Schickele
The Mechanics of Submission, by Phil Tabakow
Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture, by Philip R. DeVita
The Pursuit of Lonliness , by Philip Slater
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life, by Philippe Aries
Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, by Pico Iyer
Social and Cultural Mobility, by Pitirim A. Sorokin
The Lost Grove, by Rafael Alberti
The Chinese Economy: Past and Present, by Ramon H. Myers
Moments in Eden; Garden Photographs, by Richard Brown
Meanings of Madness, by Richard Castillo
The Quest for El Cid, by Richard Fletcher
No Way But Gentlenesse, by Richard Hines
The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory , by Richard J. Bernstein
Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism, by Richard Seager
The Hidden Injuries of Class, by Richard Sennett
Hill Farms and Padi Fields: Life in Mainland Southeast Asia, by Robbins Burling
Man’s Many Voices: Language in its Cultural Context, by Robbins Burling
Elites in the People’s Republic of China, by Robert A. Scalapino
Getting Saved from the Sixties, by Robert Bellah
The Zen Monastic Experience, by Robert Buswell
The Island Civilizations of Polynesia, by Robert C. Suggs
The Return of a Native Reporter, by Robert Chesshyre
The Search for Order, by Robert H. Wiebe
Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart , by Robert Martin
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, by Robert McNamara
Sociology as an Art Form, by Robert Nisbet
Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy, by Robert Russell
Kinship and Marriage, by Robin Fox
Season Ticket, by Roger Angell
A Short History of Africa, by Roland Oliver
Comparative Political Systems: Studies in the Politics of Pre-Industrial Societies, by Ronald Cohen
On the Frontiers of Management, by Rosabeth Kanter
Commitment and Community: Communes and Utopias In Sociological Perspectives, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Liberation Theology: Human Hope Confronts Christian History and American Power, by Rosemary Ruether
Pigs for the ancestors : ritual in the ecology of a New Guinea people, by Roy A. Rappaport
Pigs for the ancestors : ritual in the ecology of a New Guinea people, by Roy Rappaport
Nonverbal communication , by Ruesch and Kees
Sources of Japanese Tradition, by Ryusaku Tsunoda
Portrait of Max An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm, by S.N. Berhman
Gardening with Prairie Plants, by Sally Wasowski
Three Novels by Samuel Beckett, by Samuel Beckett
Generative Phonology, by Sanford A. Schane
The Rich Man’s Table, by Scott Spencer
Poor White, A Novel, by Sherwood Anderson
The Sun Never Sets, by Simon Winchester
Mao and China: A Legacy of Turmoil, by Stanley Karnow
Illegal Action, by Stella Rimington
Gilgamesh, by Stephan Mitchell
China’s Industrial Revolution: Politics, Planning, and Management 1949 to the Present, by Stephen Andors
The Emperor of Ocean Park, by Stephen Carter
The Ghost Festival in Medieval China , by Stephen Teiser
Government in Business, by Stuart Chase
Dudley Murphy: Hollywood Wild Card, by Susan Delson
The Prints of Suzanne Caporael, by Suzanne Caporael
Peasants and Peasant Societies, by Teodor Shanin
Angels of Mercy or Development Diplomas?, by Terje Tvedt
Mademoiselle de Maupin, by Theophile Gautier
Church-State Relations: Tensions and Transitions, by Thomas Robbins
Greater China and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Choice Between Confrontation and Mutual Respect, by Thomas A. Metzger
Carlyle: Selected Writings, by Thomas Carlyle
The Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorstein Veblen
Keep the River on Your Right, by Tobias Schneebaum
A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe
Work in America, by U.S. Department of Health
Guerrillas, by V.S. Naipaul
Mount Vernon: An Illustrated Handbook, by Various Authors
Land Reform and Economic Development in China, by Victor D. Lippit
State and Society in Contemporary China , by Victor Nee
Sports illustrated: Racquetball, by Victor Spear
Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
The Burned-over District (copies x2), by Whitney R. Cross
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community, by William McNeill
The Harvard Book, by William Bentinck-Smith
The Art of Kissing, by William Cane
The Celebration of Heroes , by William Goode
At the Edge of History: Speculations on the Transformation of Culture, by William Irwin Thompson
A History of Economic Thought, by William J. Barber
American Indians, by William T. Hagan
Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan, by Winston Davis
The Second World War- Volume V: Closing the Ring, by Winston S. Churchill
Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature, by Wylie Sypher
How the World Changed, by Amit Ghosh
The Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita: A perfect guide for a successful human life made easy to learn and to benefit from, by Anil Jha
Tematica E Structura Dell’eneide Di Virgilio, by E. Coleiro
The World of the Shining Prince, by Ivan Morris
Language and Social Context, by Pier Gigioli
As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen, by Reverend Sun Myung Moon
English Declarations of Indulgence 1687 and 1688, by Richard E. Boyer
Plunkity of Tammy Hall, by Willaim Riordon

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