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These are books recommended by the faculty at Emporia State University during the fall 2002 term. The books are arranged by the department of the faculty member making the recommedation and not by the discipline of the book.
Art
· Moby Dick. 1987. Herman Melville. Madrid: Ediciones Gaviota.
· Flying Change. 1985. Henry Taylor. Louisiana State University Press.
Biology
· Full House. 1996. Stephen Jay Gould. New York: Harmony Books.
· The World According to Pimm. 2001. Stuart Pimm. New York: McGraw-Hill.
· The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution. 1995.. Luigi Luca Cavalii-Sforza and Francesco Cavalli-Sforza. Addison Wesley Publ. ISBN 0-201-44231-0
· Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. 1999. Jared M. Diamond. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-31755-2
· The Camel's Nose. Memoirs of a Curious Scientist. 1998. Knut Schmidt-Nielsen. Island Press/Shearwater Books.
· Silent Spring. 1962. Rachel Carson. Houghton Miflin, Boston.
· A Dancing Matrix. 1994. Robin Marantz Henig. Vintage Press. Dust. 1998. Charles Pellegrino. Avon Books.
· The Ecological Theater and the Evolutionary Play. 1965. G.E. Hutchinson. Yale University Press.
· New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers. 1981. Desowitz, R.S. W.W. Norton and Company. New York, NY. 224 pp.
· Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. 1973. E.F. Schumacher.
· King Solomon's Ring. 1952. Konrad Lorenz. Harper & Row, New York.
Business
· Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL. 2001. Kevin Yank. SitePoint Pty. Ltd.
· The Knowing-Doing Gap. 2000. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton. Harvard Business School Press
· Space Cadet. 1948. Robert Heinlein. Scribner.
· The Old Man and the Sea. 1960. Ernest Hemingway. Scribner
· Moving Beyond Words. 1994. Gloria Steinem. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-51052-5
Communication and Theatre
· Foucault's Pendulum. 1989. U Eco. (translated by William Weaver) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
· Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics. 1966. Anonymous (Joe Klein). Random House.
· The Courage to Create. 1983. Rollo May. Bantam Books, New York. 0-535-24222-9
· Creative Visualization. 1985. Shakti Gawain. Bantam Books, New York. 0-535-24147-8
· Ghost Light. 2000. Frank Rich. Random House.
· The Dramatic Imagination. 1941. Robert Edmond Jones. Theatre Arts Books.
Counselor Education and Rehabilitation
· Learning to listen. 1996. H. Lovett. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.
Education
· The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. 1989. Covey, Stephen R. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-70863-5
· Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom. 1998. Glasser, William. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-019109-0
· Man's Search for Meaning. 1984. Victor Frankel. Washington Square Press/Pocket Books.
· Savage inequalities: children in America's schools. 1991. Jonathan Kozol. Crown Publications, New York.
· Living, loving & learning. 1982. Leo F. Buscaglia. Thorofare, N.J.: C. B. Slack; New York
English
The Mayor of Casterbridge. 1922. Thomas Hardy. New York, London, Harper & brothers.
· The Last Cattle Drive. 1977. Robert Day., now available in paper through the Univ. Press of Kansas
· Shoeless Joe. 1982. W. P. Kinsella,. New York: Ballantine.
· My Antonia. 1918, 1957. Willa Cather, New York: Houghton Mifflin.
· The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. 1993. Alexie, Sherman. New York: Harper
· Walden. 2002. Henry David Thoreau, New York: Dover.
· American Short Stories Since 1945. 2002. Parks, John G. ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
· The Collected Stories of T. Coraghesan Boyle. 1998. Boyle. T.C. New York. Penguin
· Great Expectations. 1994. Charles Dickens. Oxford World's Classics paperback, edited by Margaret Cardwell
· The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. 2000. Michael Chabon. Random House. Now out in paperback from Picador (2001).
Foreign Languages
· Don Quijote. 1605 & 1615. Miguel de Cervantes. Norton Critical edition, 1999.
· The Emigrants. 1997. W.G. Sebald. New Directions.
· Faust I. 1806. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. available in English translation.
· The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel). 1959. Guenter Grass. available in English translation.
WAW Library
· Orientalism. 1979. Edward W. Said. Vintage, Knopf Publishing Group
Library & Information Management
· Information anxiety 2. 2001. R. S. Wurman. Indianapolis, IN: Que.
· Emerson: The mind on fire. 1995. R. D. Richardson. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Mathematics
A Mathematician's Apology. 1967. G. H. Hardy. Cambridge U. P.
John Adams. 2001. David McCollough. Simon & Schuster.
Flatland. 1992. Edwin Abbott. Dover Pubns. ISBN: 048627263X; unabridged edition.
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age. 2002. Steven Levy. Penguin Putnam Inc.; ISBN: 0140244328.
Music
Schumann, The Inner Voices of a Musical Genius. 1985. Peter Ostwald. Northwestern University Press, Boston. If It Ain't Baroque More Music History As It Ought To Be Taught. 1992. David W. Barber. Sound and Vision, Toronto.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. 1973. Richard Bach. Avon Books ISBN 0-380-01286-3
The Memoires of Hector Beriloz. 1975. Hector Berlioz, W.W. Norton. New York.
Nursing
The Nursing Profession: Tomorrow and Beyond. 2001. Chaska, N.L. Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, California. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. 1999. Norman, E. M. Random House, New York.
Physical Education
· High Five: The Magic of Working Together. Ken Blanchard
· Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success. 2000. John C. Maxwell. Thomas Nelson Publishers.
Physical Sciences
· Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. 1963. Edwin Abbott. Barnes & Noble ESU call # 510.2 Ab26f5
· Molecules. 1987. Peter W. Atkins. W.H. Freeman.
· Volcanoes in Human History. The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions. 2002. de Boer & Sanders, Princeton University Press.
· The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1970. Thomas S. Kuhn. The University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-45804-0 (paper).
· Cosmic Connections. 1973. Carl Sagan. Dell Publishing, NY.
· Discovering. 1989. R. S. Root-Bernstein. Harvard Univ. Press.
· Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. 1994. Antonio R. Damasio. Avon books, New York.
· Fire in the Mind. 1995. George Johnson. First Vintage Books.
· Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe. Alan Lightman.
· The New World of Mr. Tompkins. George Gamow and Russell Stannard.
Psychology
· Cognitive Psychology. Ulric Neisser.
· Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand.
· Beyond Freedom and Dignity. 1971. B.F. Skinner. NY: Alfred Knopf.
· About Behaviorism. 1974. B.F. Skinner. NY: Alfred Knopf.
Social Sciences
· The Book of Tao. Lao Tze.
· The Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx.
· The Road to Serfdom. 1944. F.A. Hayek. University of Chicago Press.
· The Black Book of Communism. 1999. Stephanie Courtois. Harvard University Press.
· The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. 1976. Maxine Hong Kingston. Vintage reissue. 1989
· The Handmaid's Tale. 1985. Margaret Atwood. Anchor Books paperback edition 1998.
· The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller. 1980. Carlo Ginzburg. John Hopkins University Press.
· The Greeks. 1991. H. D. F. Kitto. Penguin.
· Annals of the Former World. 1981. John McFee. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.
· Foucault's Pendulum. 1988. Umberto Eco. Franklin Library.
· Madame Curie, a biography. 1937. Eve Curie. Doubleday.
· Sod and Stubble. 1996. John Ise. University Press of Kansas.
· Epictetus, Encheiridion (The Manual). Available online: http://www.san.beck.org/Epictetus.html
· The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1998. Oscar Wilde. Modern Library. ISBN: 0375751513
· Material World: A Global Family Portrait. 1995. Peter Menzel, Introduction by Paul Kennedy, Text by Charles C. Mann. Sierra Club Books.
· Stupid white men: and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation! 2001. Michael Moore. ReganBooks.
· Galileo's Daughter. 1999. Dava Sobel. Walker & Co.
· The Prophet. 1976. Kahlil Gibran. Publisher Alfred A Knopf.
· Fish! 2002. Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D, Harry Paul, and John Christensen. Hyperion Press.
Sociology & Anthropology
· The Souls of Black Folks. 1990. WEB DuBois. Vintage Books/The Library fo American. ISBN 0-679-72519-9
· Invisible Privilege: A memoir about race, class, and gender. 2000. Paula Rothenberg. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-1004-9
· Brave New World. 1974. Aldous Huxley. Heritage Press.
· Civilization and its Discontents. 1962. Sigmund Freud. WW Norton.
· Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind. 1990. Donald C. Johanson, Maitland Armstrong Edey. Touchstone Books.
· Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa 1994. Katherine Dettwyler. Waveland.
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