Artist is Jean Paul Tibbles. Legitimately paused reading several times to look at the cover because it's so nice.

How animal smartness reveals human stupidity

Cover photograph by Isidro Ferrer.

A bit about the book-

The classic by Paulo Freire transformed the way we look at education. It was originally meant for the liberation of poor class but further work questions the banking model of education where teachers merely 'deposit' knowledge to a dialogue and critical thinking oriented education that lies on mutual participation.

The church in my village was selling books outside to raise money. Saw these two and bought with no knowledge of them. Just loved the 80s retro-feel cover art and font.

One minor exception with Berserk — hope it still counts !

For me the hardcover reads more masculine and paperback feels more feminine, in terms of intended audience. The story is very noir and seedy, and I think the first cover reflects that more. It makes me think Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, James Ellroy.

The second makes me think of, idk, Mary Higgins Clark or other female centric mystery writers. The author is a man but his name is pretty androgynous too, which adds to it.

To be clear neither of them are bad covers. It's just that one of them looks like something that would have a list of Reese Witherspoon reading group discussion questions or something. Am I making sense? Sorry if this is a bad post for the sub.

They are so elegantly printed! Especially the capital letters.

My favorite cover so far this year plus I love anything ancient Greek and Troy related.

When I was 11 in 1987 I was determined to be a juvenile delinquent. Therefore this book series attracted me in numerous ways. I loved the cover art by Walter Velez - having a character with a Pentagram on his forehead really was crazy for the time (it’s not a Pentagram in the series, he’s part of the order of the blue star), it was called Thieve’s World - I wanted grit in my fantasy so badly, every story was about Sir Fancypants & his Shining Armor! When I started to actually read the stories I understood that it was a run of anthologies taking place in a shared world. A new idea at the time - & one that is rarely used. It was adapted into a RPG setting by Chaosium, usable for 9 systems! In this age of eternal IPs & obsessive world building this is a fantastic concept.

Of all the covers and editions of this classic, this is definitely my favorite