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| Author |
Title |
Nationality |
Year |
Call Number |
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Alvarez, Walter
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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1997
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on order
|
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A geologist, Alvarez describes the theory of dinosaur extinction
(meteor impact) as an exciting mystery/adventure story.
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Bernstein, Carl and Bob Woodward
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All the President’s Men
|
American
|
1974
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364.1 BER
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Following lead after lead, two Washington Post reporters lift
the veil of secrecy surrounding the Nixon administration’s Watergate
cover-up.
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| |
The Bible
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|
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220.5 BIB
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A collection of the sacred literature of Judaism and Christianity.
Much of Western writing alludes to the language and the stories in The
Bible. Many colleges suggest that you read The King James Version
of The Bible for literary study.
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Bronowski, Jacob
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The Ascent of Man
|
American
|
1973
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501 BRO
|
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A scientist’s history of the human mind and the human condition.
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Brown, Dee
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
|
American
|
1971
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970.5 BRO
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A narrative of the white man’s conquest of the American land as the
Native American victims experienced it.
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Capote, Truman
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In Cold Blood
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American
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1966
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364.1 CAP |
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A masterpiece of non-fiction, often described as the first
"non-fiction novel," Capote re-creates the events
surrounding a real-life murder of a family of four in 1959.
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Carson, Rachel
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Silent Spring
|
American
|
1962
|
632.9 CAR |
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Carson was the first writer to raise warnings about the destruction
of our environment.
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Darwin, Charles
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Origin of Species
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British
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1859
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575.0162 DAR
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Darwin’s book on his theories of natural selection and of evolution
was a sellout the day it was issued, and caused a storm of controversy
that still continues today.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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"The American Scholar" in Essays
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American 1837
|
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814 EME
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An address at Harvard in which Emerson urged Americans to declare
intellectual independence from Europe, and to be thinkers and not
"parrots of other men’s thought."
Also: "On Self-Reliance"
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Gould, Stephen Jay
|
The Mismeasure of Man
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American
|
1981 |
on order
|
|
Gould uses anthropology to analyze human behavior, in this case,
theories of intelligence.
|
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Haley, Alex
|
Roots
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American
|
1976 |
929.2 HAL
|
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Haley reveals the struggles of African-Americans throughout the
history of the United States by uncovering the personal histories of his
own ancestors. This book was the basis for the most-watched television
mini-series of all time.
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Hamilton, Edith
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Mythology
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American
|
1940
|
292 HAM
|
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A collection of Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are
often alluded to in the language and literature of the Western world.
|
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Hawking, Stephen W.
|
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang
to Black Holes
|
British
|
1988
|
523.1 HA
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A very complex subject, cosmology, becomes understandable as the
author discusses the origin, evolution, and fate of our universe.
|
|
Hersch, Patricia
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A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
|
American
|
1998 |
305.235 HER
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Teen culture is examined from the inside, following the lives of 8
"typical" teens for three years.
|
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Hersey, John
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Hiroshima
|
American
|
1946 |
940.544 HER
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Survivors of the atomic bomb blast that ended World War II reflect on
what has happened.
|
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Kennedy, John F.
|
Profiles in Courage
|
American
|
1955-56
|
920 KEN
|
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Stories of eight U.S. congressmen who risked political oblivion
because their moral principles were stronger than their ambitions.
|
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Machiavelli, Niccolo
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The Prince
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Italian 1532
|
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320 MAC
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A treatise giving the absolute ruler practical advice on ways to
maintain a strong central government. The term Machiavellian has
come to mean "ruthless and deceitful" because Machiavelli
theorized that politics are above moral law.
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Marx, Karl
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The Communist Manifesto
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German
|
1848
|
335.4 MAR
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This was written with Friedrich Engels as the official platform of
the International Communist League. This short book expresses Marx’s
belief in the inevitability of conflict between social classes, and
calls on the workers of the world to unite and revolt.
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Plato
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The Republic
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Greek
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370 BC
|
141 PLA
|
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In this dialogue, Plato imagines an ideal society where justice is
equated with health and happiness in the state and in the individual.
|
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Sagan, Carl
|
Cosmos
|
American
|
1980
|
520 SAG
|
|
A universal history of the galaxy presents choices for the future.
|
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Shilts, Randy
|
And the Band Played On
|
American
|
1987
|
362.1 SHI
|
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A reporter takes a detailed look at the first five years of the
unfolding AIDS epidemic.
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Spiegelman, Art
|
Maus
|
American
|
1986
|
940.531 SPI
|
|
Spiegelman uses the graphic novel format to detail his father’s
view of the Holocaust as a Jew in Europe. The story is continued in Maus
II.
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Stein, Gertrude
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
|
American
|
1933
|
818.5209 STE
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World War I Paris as seen by Gertrude Stein, the friend of Picasso,
Mattisse, Hemingway, and other famous artists of the time.
|
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Thomas, Lewis
|
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
|
American
|
1974
|
574 THO
|
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Looking through a microscope at the tiniest forms of life, Thomas
discerns in their inter-relationships clues to the mysteries of life.
|
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Thoreau, Henry David
|
Walden
and
Civil Disobedience
|
American
|
1854
|
818 THO
|
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In Walden, Thoreau, an extreme individualist, wrote about the
26 months he spent alone in the woods to "front the essential facts
of life." The essay "Civil Disobedience" describes
Thoreau’s beliefs about an individual’s relationship to his
government, and stresses that individual beliefs must take precedence
when a government is morally wrong. His theory of peaceful resistance
inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
|
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Williams, Juan
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Eyes on the Prize
|
American
|
1987
|
323.4 WIL
|
|
The "prize" of equal rights for African Americans is closer
at hand because of the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
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