| Themes |
Humanities Texts |
Science Texts |
Social Science Texts |
Education
Cognition |
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy
League (Ron Suskind)
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
(Jonathan Haidt)
Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman)
Blink
(Malcolm Gladwell)
Ender’s Game
(Orson Card)*
Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
(Robert Pirsig) |
Uncle Tungsten
(Oliver Sacks)
The Double Helix: A Personal
Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
(James D. Watson)
One True, Platonic Heaven (John
Casti)
The Mismeasure of Man (Stephen
Jay Gould)*
October Sky
(Homer Hickham, Jr.)
The Creative Mind (Margaret Boden)
|
Freaks, Geeks, and
Cool Kids (Murray Milner, Jr.)
My Freshman Year (Rebekah Nathan)
Binge: What Your College Student Won’t Tell You
(Barrett Seaman)*
Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses (Henry
Wechsler and Bernice Wuethrich)
My Trouble Is My English: Asian American Students and the American Dream
(Danling Fu)
The Freedom Writers Diary (Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell)
A Tribe Apart: A Journey in the Heart of American Adolescence
(Patricia Hersch) |
| Autism |
The Curious
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
(Mark Haddon) |
Animals in
Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
(Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson)
An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks)* |
Children with
Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys & Girls (Mira
Rothenberg) |
| Sexuality |
The Left Hand of
Darkness (Ursula K. Leguin)
Dance on My Grave
or Postcards from No Man’s Land (Aidan Chambers)
Missing You: Love, Loss, and the
Musical Rent (Anthony Rapp)
The Handmaid’s Tale
(Margaret Atwood)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(Stephen Chbosky) |
Adam’s Curse: A
Future without Men (Bryan Sykes)
The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights
(Deborah Rudacille)
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics
and the Construction of Sexuality
(Anne Fausto-Sterling)
Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality
(Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan) |
The Man Who Would Be
Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism
(J. Michael Bailey)
Dating:
Delights, Discontents, and Dilemmas
(Mary Riege Laner)
Falling in
Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose
(Ayala Malach Pines)
Sex, Love &
Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic Portrayals
and Their Influence
(Mary-Lou Galician)* |
Race
Class |
The White Boy Shuffle
(Paul Beatty)
Race Matters
(Cornel West)
Outlaw Culture
or Where We Stand or Reel to Real (bell hooks)
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy
League (Ron Suskind)
The Way to Rainy Mountain
or House Made of Dawn (N. Scott Momaday)
Mona in the Promised Land
(Gish Jen)
No-no Boy
(John Okada)
Buried Onions
(Gary Soto) |
The Bell Curve Wars:
Race, Intelligence, and the Future of America (Steven
Fraser, editor)
The
Mismeasure of Man
(Stephen Jay Gould)*
|
Fear of Falling: The
Inner Life of the Middle Class or
Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American
Culture (Bakari Ktwana)
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and
Sex Workers in the New Economy
(Arlie Russell Hochschild & Barbara Ehrenreich)
Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer
Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture (Andrew Hurley)
Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture
(Elizabeth Chin)
My Trouble Is My English: Asian American Students and the American Dream
(Danling Fu)
The Freedom Writers Diary (Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell) |
Eating Disorders
Food |
Feeding the Hungry
Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating
(Geneen Roth)
Into the Wild
(Jon Krakauer)
Diary of an Eating Disorder
(Chelsea Smith and Beverly Runyon)
Life
without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder
and How You Can Too
(Jenni Schaefer with Thom Rutledge)
You Remind Me of You
[poems]
(Eireann Corrigan) |
The 2002 Official
Patient's Sourcebook on Binge Eating Disorder
(James N. Parker and Philip M. Parker, editors)
The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes,
Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders
(Carolyn Costin)
What Einstein
Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained
(Robert L. Wolke)
Safe Food: Bacteria,
Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
(Marion Nestle)*
Fast Food Nation
(Eric Schlosser)*
Fat
Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
(Greg Critxer)*
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World or The
Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Michael
Pollan) |
Hunger Pains: The
Modern Woman’s Tragic Quest for Thinness
(Mary Pipher)
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating,
and Identity (Kim Chernin)
The Obsession: Reflections on the
Tyranny of Slenderness (Kim
Chernin)
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth
Anniversary Edition
(Susan Bordo)
|
| Substance Abuse |
Assault on the Senses (Michael P. Ferrari)
Smashed: Story of a Drunken
Girlhood (Koren Zailckas)
Drinking: A Love Story (Caroline Knapp)
Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death
Struggle with Alcoholism (George
McGovern)
Alcoholism: The Genetic Inheritance
(Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald) |
You Mean I Don't Have
to Feel This Way? New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction
(Colette Dowling)
Beyond the Influence: Understanding and Defeating Alcoholism
(Katherine Ketcham and William F. Asbury)
Alcoholism Myths and Realities: Removing the Stigma of Society's most
Destructive Disease
(Doug Thorburn) |
What It Takes To Pull
Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out
(David L. Marcus)
Binge: What Your College Student Won’t Tell You
(Barrett Seaman)*
The Fix: Solving the Nation's Drug Problem (Michael Massing)
|
| Sports |
Shoeless Joe
or The Great Iowa Baseball Confederacy (W. P. Kinsella)
The Natural (Bernard Malamud)
A River Runs Through It (Norman
Maclean)
Roughnecks
(Thomas Couchran)
Sexy (Joyce Carol Oates)
|
The Physics of
Baseball (Robert K. Adair)
The Physics of Football: Discover the Science of Bone-Crunching Hits,
Soaring Field Goals, and Awe-Inspiring Passes (Timothy Gay)
Dunks, Doubles, Doping: How Steroids Are Killing American Athletics (Nathan
Jendrick) |
Hoop Dreams: The
True Story of Hardship and Triumph (Ben Joravsky)
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (H. G.
Bissinger)
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle (Madeleine Blais)
Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little
Bighorn (Larry Colton)
We've Got Spirit: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Cheerleading
Team (James T. McElroy)
Only the Ball Was White: A History of Legendary Black Players and
All-Black Professional Teams (Robert W. Peterson) |
| Music |
Please Kill Me: The
Uncensored Oral History of Punk
The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap
(Alex Ogg and David Upshal)
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
(Jeff Chang)
The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer [opera] (Renee Fleming) |
Music, The Brain, And
Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination
(Robert Jourdain)
Emotion and Meaning in Music
(Leonard B. Meyer)
Science of Percussion Instruments (Thomas D.
Rossing)
Categories On the Beauty of Physics : Essential Physics Concepts and Their
Companions in Art and Literature
(H. T. Hamann) |
Hip Hop Matters:
Politics, Popular Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
(S. Craig Watkins)
Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip Hop Culture
(Yvonne Bynoe)
|
| Crime Investigation |
In Cold Blood
(Truman Capote)
Anil’s Ghost (Michael Ondaatje) |
The Forensic
Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation (Ngaire E.
Genge)
Forensic Science of CSI (Katherine M. Ramsland) |
The Massacre
at El Mozote
(Mark Danner) |
| Environmental Issues |
The Open Space of
Democracy (Terry Tempest
Williams)
Riverwalking (Kathleen Dean
Moore)
Any work by John Muir
Sand County Almanac
(Aldo Leopold)
Pilgrim at Tinker
Creek (Annie Dillard) |
An Inconvenient
Truth (Al Gore)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
(Elizabeth Kolbert)
The Weather Makers
(Tim Flannery)
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
or The Control of Nature (John McPhee)
Out
of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
(Alan Burdick) |
Collapse
(Jared Diamond)*
The Island of the Colorblind
(Oliver Sacks)*
Coming into the Country
or The Pine Barrens (John McPhee)
Cod
(Mark Kurlansky)
|
Media Impact
Consumerism |
Feed (M. T.
Anderson)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Being There (Jerzy Kosinski)
Mindfulness in the
Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism
(Allan Hunt Badiner)
Celebrating the Family: Ethnicity, Consumer Culture, and Family Rituals
(Elizabeth H. Pleck)
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and
Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
(Eric Schlosser)
The
Mosquito Coast
(Paul Theroux) |
Beyond the Image Machine: A History
of Visual Technologies (David Tomas)
Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
Fat Land: How Americans Became the
Fattest People in the World (Greg
Critxer)
Waste and Want: A Social History
of Trash (Susan Strasser)
Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash
(Elizabeth Royte) |
Ads, Fads, and Consumer
Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society
(Arthur Asa Berger)
Sex, Love & Romance in the Mass Media: Analysis and Criticism of Unrealistic
Portrayals and Their Influence
(Mary-Lou Galician)*
Amusing Ourselves to Death or
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Neil
Postman)
Purchasing
Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture
(Elizabeth Chin)
The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downsizing, and the New Consumer
(Juliet B. Schor)
Freakonomics
(Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)
The Tipping
Point
(Malcolm Gladwell) |
War
International Relations |
Seven Years in Tibet
(Heinrich Harrer)
Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
First They Killed My Father
(Loung Ung)
The Things They Carried
or If I Die in a Combat Zone
(Tim O’Brien)
And a Hard Rain Fell
(John Ketwig)
Fallen Angels
(Walter Dean Myers)
We Were Soldiers Once, and Young
(Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway)
A Rumor of War
or Indian Country (Philip Caputo)
Jarhead
(Anthony Swofford)
The Kite Runner (Khaled Housseini) |
Hitler’s Scientists
(John Cornwell)
War and Nature:
Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals
from World War I to Silent Spring
(Edmund Russell)
The River Runs
Black: The Environmental Challenge To China's Future
(Elizabeth C. Economy)
The Curve of Binding
Energy (John McPhee)
E=mc2
(David Bodanis)
|
Guns, Germs, and
Steel (Jared Diamond)*
The World Is Flat
(Thomas Friedman)
Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America
(James William Gibson)*
Hitler’s Pope
(John Cornwell)
Blood Rites: Origins and History
of the Passions of War (Barbara
Ehrenreich)
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