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2004 Suggested Reading



THE ARTS

B.J. Kish Irvine -- Books or Art? Artists' Books in the Fine Arts Library
Lyons, Joan, ed. Artists Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook (Out-of-print; limited availability)
Drucker, Johanna. The Century of Artists' Books (Out-of-print; limited availability)

Rudy Pozzatti -- Art of the Illustrated Book
Rudy Pozzatti, et al. Rudy Pozzatti, A Printmaker's Odyssey (Indiana University Art Museum, 2002). ISBN: 0-253-21540-4, $22.95

Anya Peterson Royce -- Great Choreographers and Their Muses
Arocella, Joan. Mark Morris (Out-of-print; limited availability)
Dunning, Jennifer. Alvin Ailey (DaCapo Press, 1998). ISBN: 0-306-80825-0, $21.00
Royce, Anya Peterson. Anthropology of the Performing Arts (Altamira Press, 2004). ISBN: 0-759-10224-4, $29.95

Deborah Christiansen and Kate Rowold -- Bill Blass: An American Designer's Legacy
Blass, Bill. Bare Blass (Harper Collins, 2002). ISBN: 0-06-018555-4. $25.95
O'Hagan, Rowold, Vollbracht. Bill Blass: An American Designer (Harry N. Abrams, 2002) ISBN: 0-8109-3280-6 $65.00. [This title will be available at a special Mini U price of $25.00; notecards for $10.00]

David Baker -- Celebrating Count Basie
Dance, Stanley. The World of Count Basie (DaCapo Press, 1985). ISBN: 0-306-80245-7, $18.95
Simon, George T. The Big Bands (Out-of-print; limited availability)
Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz (Oxford University Press, 1998). ISBN: 0-19-509081-0, $16.95

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BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY

David Rubinstein -- Ignorance As an Asset
Buckingham, Marcus; Coffman, Curt. First, Break All the Rules (Simon and Schuster, 1999) ISBN: 0684852861 $27.00
Stanley, Thomas; Danko, William. The Millionaire Next Door (Pocket Books, 1998) ISBN: 0671015206 $14.95
Brown, Dan. The DaVinci Code (Doubleday, 2003) ISBN: 0385504209 $24.95

Susan Herring -- Connecting Online: The Evolution and Social Impact of E-mail
http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/emailrel.html#asynchron

Bill Witte -- The U.S. Economy in an Election Year
http://www.georgewbush.com/Economy/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy

Gladys DeVane -- It's All About Style—Yours!
Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism (New Society Publications, 2002) ISBN: 0-865-714592. $17.95
Williams, Lena. It's the Little Things (Harvest Books, 2002) ISBN: 0-156-013487. $13.00

Alan Rugman -- NAFTA at Ten
Rugman, Alan. The End of Globalization . Amacom/McGraw-Hill, 2001

Tim Baldwin -- If You Really Want to Understand Something, Try to Change It…
Kotter, John. The Heart of Change (Harvard Business School Press, 2002) ISBN: 1-57851-254-9. $24.95

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DOMESTIC ISSUES

Erik Bucy -- Media Bias: Conservative Myth or Liberal Fact?
Alterman, Eric. Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (Basic Books, 2003) ISBN: 0-465-00176-9. $25.00
Goldberg, Bernard. Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN: 0-895-26190-1. $27.95
Robinson, Paul. Would You Convict? Seventeen Cases That Challenged the Law (New York University Press, 2001) ISBN: 0814775314. $19.00

Christine Brancolini -- Going Digital: The Library of the Future
www.dlib.indiana.edu
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem

Steve Chermak -- Celebrity Trials and the Media
Geis, Gilbert. Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O.J. Simpson (Northeastern University Press, 1998) ISBN: 155-553-4279 $18.95

Edwardo Rhodes -- Environmental Justice in America
Rhodes, Edwardo. Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm (IU Press, 2004) ISBN: 0-253-34137-X. $39.95
Bullard, Robert. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality (Westview Press, 1990) ISBN: 0813367921. $29.00
Visgilio, Gerald and Whitelaw, Diana, eds. Our Backyard: A Quest for Environmental Justice (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003) ISBN: 0742523632. $22.95

T. Makana Chock and Herb Terry -- The (Sur)real World of Reality TV
Branton, Sam and Cohen, Reuben. Shooting People: Adventures in Reality TV (Verso Books, 2003) ISBN: 1859845401. $21.00

Michael Ensley -- The Good, the Bad, and the Wealthy: Campaign Finance in American Elections
Smith, Bradley. Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform (Princeton University Press, 2001) ISBN: 0-691-11369-6 $17.95

Lawrence Hanks -- Race and American Politics in the Age of Diversity
Black, Earl and Merle. The Rise of Southern Republicans (Belknap Press, 2002) ISBN: 67400728X. $29.95
Gates, Henry Louis. America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans (Warner, 2004) ISBN: 0446532738. $25.95
West, Cornel. Race Matters (Beacon Press, 1993) ISBN: 0679749861. $12.00
McWhorter, John. Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (Harper Collins, 2001) ISBN: 0060935936. $13.00

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HEALTH, FITNESS AND LEISURE

Lynn Jamieson -- Recreational Sports and Violence: What Every Citizen Should Know
Coakley, Jay. Sports in Society (McGraw-Hill, 2003) ISBN: 0-07-2921617. $65.00

Lucille Bertuccio -- Cultivating Ecological Consciousness
Orr, David. Earth in Mind (Island Press, 2004) ISBN: 155963295X. $19.95

Lloyd Kolbe -- The Dollars and Sense of Preventing Chronic Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Healthy Aging: Preventing Disease and Improving Quality of Life Among Older Americans 2004. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/aag/aag_aging.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Burden of Chronic Diseases and Their Risk Factors: National and State Perspectives 2004 . http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/burdenbook2004/index.htm

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HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Frank DiSilvestro -- Are You Really Listening?
Adler, Mortimer. How to Speak, How to Listen (MacMillen Publishing 1997) ISBN: 0684846470. $12.00

Ellen Brantlinger -- Social Class Issues in Schooling
Brantlinger, Ellen. Dividing Classes: How the Middle Class Negotiates and Rationalizes School Advantage (RoutledgeFalmer, 2003) ISBN: 041593298X. $22.95
Lareau, Annette. Home Advantage (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) ISBN: 0742501450. $26.95
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities (Perennial, 1992) ISBN: 0060974990. $14.00

Henry Merrill and Larry Vandermolen -- Lessons in Cyberspace: Online Learning for All Ages
Distance Learning Guide: http://www.distancelearn.about.com
Indiana College Network: http://www.icn.org
Barnes and Noble University: http://barnesandnobleuniversity.com
World Lecture Hall: http://unt.cc.utexas.edu/~wlh

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HUMANITIES

Nancy Klein -- The Architecture of Victory: The Partenon, Perikles and the Persians
Woodford, Susan. The Parthenon (Cambridge University Press, 1981) ISBN: 0521226295. $16.00

James Madison -- World War II and the Propaganda of War
Roeder, George. The Censored War (Yale University Press, 1995) ISBN: 0300062915. $24.00
Boomhower, Ray. ‘One Shot': The World War II Photography of John A. Bushemi (Indiana Historical Society, to be published, May, 2004)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion.html (National Archives exhibit, “Powers of Persuasio n)

Fred McElroy -- Knowledge Is the Pathway to Freedom: The Education of Frederick Douglass
McDowell, Deborah. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Oxford University Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-19-283250-6. $8.95

Don and Kim Manlove -- The Best of James Whitcomb Riley
Manlove, Donald (Editor). The Best of James Whitcomb Riley. Indiana University Press, 1982
(ISBN: 0-253-20299-X), $11.95.

Salih Altoma -- Arab Women Writers Between Tradition and Modernity
Badran, Margot and Cooke, Miriam. Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (IU Press, 2004) ISBN: 0-253-21703-2. $27.95
Mikail, Mona. Seen and Heard: A Century of Arab Women in Literature and Culture (Interlink Publishing Group, 2003) ISBN: 1566564638 $15.00
Handal, Nathalie. The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology (Interlink Publishing Group, 2000) ISBN: 1566563747. $22.00

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Rebecca Manring -- The Goddess Constrained? Women in 21st Century Hinduisim
Hiltebeitel, Alf. Is the Goddess a Feminist? (Sheffield Academic Press, 2001) ISBN: 1841271578. $20.00
Bose, Mandakranta. Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval and Modern India (Oxford University Press, 2000) ISBN: 0-19-512229-1 $52.00

Osita Afoaku -- U.S.-African Relations: Lessons from the Cold War
Schraeder, Peter. African Politics and Society (St. Martin's Press, 2000) ISBN: 0-312-07603-7 $45.00
Keller, Edmund (ed.). Africa in the New International Order (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996) ISBN: 1555876315 $19.95

Dina and Martin Spechler -- Middle East Update: Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism
Dershowitz, Alan. Why Terrorism Works (Yale University Press, 2002) ISBN: 0-300-10153-8 $16.00
Chesler, Phyllis. The New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About It (Jossey-Bass, 2003) ISBN: 078796851X $24.95
Strauss, Mark. “Antiglobalism's Jewish Problem,” Foreign Policy , Nov-Dec 2003, pp. 58-67

George Wilson -- Northeast Asian Quadrille
Johnson, Chalmers. Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Owl Books, 2004) ISBN: 0-8050-7559-3 $15.00
Schmid, Andre. Korea Between Empires (Columbia University Press, 2002) ISBN: 0-231-12539-9 $23.50
Terrill, Ross. The New Chinese People (Basic Books, 2004) ISBN: 0-465-08413-3 $16.95

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SCIENCE

Abhijit Basu -- Mysterious Mars
Boyce, Joseph. The Smithsonian Book of Mars (Smithsonian, 2003) ISBN: 1588340740 $37.95
Hartmann, William. A Traveler's Guide to Mars (Workman, 2003) ISBN: 0761126066 $18.95

Charles Heiser -- Weeds In My Garden: Observations on Some Misunderstood Plants
Heiser, Charles. Weeds in My Garden: Observations on Some Misunderstood Plants (Timber Press, 2003) ISBN: 0881925624 $22.95
Yatskievych, Kay. Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers (Indiana University Press, 2000) ISBN: 0-253-21420-3 $17.95

Kevin Hunt -- EVOLUTION, PART 2: The Human Evolutionary Journey
Meier, Robert. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Human Prehistory (Alpha Books, 2003) ISBN: 0-020864421-2 $18.95

Bruce Martin -- Aging and Stress-Related Disease
Sapolsky, Robert. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers (Freeman, 1998) ISBN: 0-7167-3210-6 $16.00

David Smith -- This Mortal Coil: Morality, Mortality and Stem Cells
Robertson, John. Children of Choice (Princeton University Press, 1996) ISBN: 0691036659 $23.95
Green, Ronald. The Human Embryo Research Debates (Oxford University Press, 2001) ISBN: 0195109473 $32.50
Evans, John. Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate (University of Chicago Press, 2002) ISBN: 0226222624 $20.00

Caty Pilachowski -- Past, Present and Future of the Sun
Golub, Leon and Pasachoff, Jay. Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun (Harvard University Press, 2002) ISBN: 0-674-01006X $16.95
Krauss, Lawrence. Atom: A Single Oxygen Atom's Journey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth…and Beyond (Back Bay Books, 2002) ISBN: 0316183091 $15.95

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