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This is an Honors class. Our concern is public intellectuals: not academic specialists but groundbreaking thinkers whose work has broad appeal. We’ll be doing lots of reading of and writing about authors from the ancients to contemporaries. As a result, I guarantee you’ll be a better thinker and writer in April than you were in January. Write dkirby@fsu.edu if you have any questions. Here are our books; you may want to order them now to make sure you have them on hand.

• Plato, Gorgias and Timaeus (Dover, ISBN 9780486427591)
• Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Dover, ISBN 9780486298238)
• Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (CreateSpace, ISBN 9781495298523
• Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (Dover, ISBN 9780486290386)
• Rachel Lloyd, Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself (Harper Perennial, ISBN 9780061582066)
• Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys: A Novel (Anchor, ISBN 9780345804341)
• Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (Scribner, ISBN 9781501133107)
• Anders Ericsson, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 9780544947221)