2008 Mini University Suggested Reading List
The Arts
Patrick Harbison – Jazz: Where’s the Melody?
Coker, Jerry. Listening to Jazz. Prentice Hall, 1982. ISBN: 0135372259.
Gridley, Mark. Jazz Styles Prentice Hall, 2006. ISBN: 0131931152.
Williams, Martin. Where’s the Melody? Da Capo Press, 1983. ISBN: 0306801833.
Nanette Esseck Brewer – Thomas Hart Benton’s Indiana Murals at 75
Foster, Kathleen A., Nanette Esseck Brewer, and Margaret Contompasis. Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 2000/2008. ISBN: 0-253-33760-7.
David Michael Hertz – Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, & Paul Dresser: Three Indiana Songwriters and the Modernist Experience
Friedwald, Will. Stardust Melodies: A Biography of 12 of America’s Most Popular Songs. Chicago Review Press, 2004. ISBN: 1-556-52557-5.
Furia, Philip. The Poets of Tin Pan Alley: A History of America’s Great Lyricists. Oxford University Press, 1992.
ISBN:0-195-07473-4.
Sudhalter,
Richard. Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0-195-13120-7.
Diane Pelrine -- The Ancient American World:
Pre-Columbian Treasures at the IU Art Museum
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies. http://www.famsi.org/.
Miller, Mary Ellen. The Art of Mesoamerica, fourth edition. Thames & Hudson; 2006. ISBN: 978-0500-20392-7.
Judah Cohen—Music and World Health
Barz, Gregory. Singing for Life: HIV/AIDS and Music in Uganda, first edition. Routledge; 2006. ISBN:0-415-97290-6.
Corigliano, John. Symphony #1: Of Rage and Remembrance.
CD. 1991.
Various Artists. 46664: The Event — Nelson Mandela’s AIDS Day Concert. DVD. 2004
Business & Technology
Carol Rhodes – Correcting and Managing Digital Photographs on the Computer with Google Picasa
Grover, Chris. Digital Photography: The Missing Manual.
O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2006. ISBN: 0-596-00841-4.
Schwartz, Steve. Organizing and Editing Your Photos with Picasa: Visual QuickProject Guide. Peachpit Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-321-36901-7.
Alan Rugman – The World is NOT Flat: Regional Multinationals Contradict Thomas Friedman
Rugman, Alan M. The Regional Multinationals. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-521-60361-7.
Bill Witte – The U.S. Economic Outlook in an Election Year
Web sites of the major candidates should contain information on their positions.
Amy Kinser – Networking in the 21st Century: My Space,
Facebook, Privacy, and Hiring
Claburn,
Thomas. “Trojan 2.0 Crafted Using Web 2.0 Technology.” Information Week, Dec.
10, 2007, http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=15FXU04J0JIGIQSNDLRCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=204800655.
Lynch,
C.G. “A Wake-up Call for Users in Facebook-Beacon Controversy.” CIO, Dec.
6, 2007, http://www.cio.com/article/163050/A_Wake_Up_Call_for_Users_in_Facebook_Beacon_Controversy/1.
Shein,
Esther. “The Web 2.0 Campaign for the White House.” CIO, Nov. 21, 2007, http://www.cio.com/article/157600/The_Web_._Campaign_for_the_White_House.
Martin Siegel – Let’s Go on an E-mail Diet
Siegel, Martin and Steven Clapp. The E-Mail Diet Book.
Lifequest, 2006. ISBN: 1-893-27026-2.
Domestic Issues
Christine Barbour – If You are What You Eat, Who are You?
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Penguin, 2007. ISBN:
0-143-03858-3.
Slow Food Bloomington, http://www.slowfoodbloomington.org.
Slow Food International, http://www.slowfood.com.
Slow Food USA, http://www.slowfoodusa.org.
Gene Coyle – The Serious and the Humorous Sides of World War II Espionage
Casey, William. The Secret War Against Hitler. Regnery Gateway, 1988. ISBN: 0-895-26563-X.
Coyle, Gene. The Dream Merchant of Lisbon:
The Game of Espionage. Xlibris, 2004. ISBN: 1-4134-7368-7.
Hall, Roger. You’re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger. U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2004. ISBN: 978-1591-1435-36.
Beth Cate – The Second Amendment and the D.C. Handgun Ban: What Does the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Mean?
Cate, Beth. Compilation of Supreme Court opinions
(edited) concerning the Second Amendment. Available by May 1, 2008.
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Opinions in Parker v.
District of Columbia, http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200703/04-7041a.pdf.
United States Constitution. Second Amendment
Peter Guardino – Mexican Immigration to the U.S.: Policy and Experience
Alba, Richard and Victor Nee. Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-674-01813-3.
Huntington, Samuel. Who We Are: The Challenges to America’s National Identity. Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN:
0-684-87053-3.
Anthony Fargo – Shielding Reporters from Subpoenas
Gant,
Scott. We Are All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age. Free Press, 2007. ISBN: 0-743-29926-4.
Pearlstine,
Norman. Off the Record: The Press, the Government, and the War Over Anonymous Sources. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2007. ISBN: 0-374-22449-8.
PBS. “Frontline: News War, Parts 1 and 2,” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newswar/view.
Sharon Brehm – Interrogations, Psychology, and Policy
American Psychological Association. “Reaffirmation of the American Psychological Association Position Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and Its Application to Individuals Defined in the United States Code as ‘Enemy combatants’.”Resolution adopted by APA on August 19, 2007, http://www.apa.org/governance/resolutions/councilres0807.html.
Leslie Lenkowsky – the Future of Neo-Conservatism
Gerson, Mark, ed. The Essential Neo-Conservative Reader. Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN:
0-201-15488-9.
Fukuyama, Francis. “After Neoconservatism.” New York Times Magazine, February 2006,
http://nytimes.com/2006/02/19/magazine/neo.html.
Muravchik, Joshua. “The Past, Present, and Future of Neoconservatism.” Commentary Magazine, October, 2007, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewArticle.cfm/The-Past--Present--and-Future-of-Neoconservatism-10935.
Colin Johnson – Is There a History of Sexuality?
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 0-679-72469-9.
George, Chauncey. “What Gay Studies Taught the Court: The Historians’ Amicus Brief in Lawrence v. Texas.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Oct.3, 2004, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies/v010/10.3chauncey.pdf.
Halperin, David. “Is There A History of Sexuality?” The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Ed. Henry Abelove, et al. Routledge; 1993.
416-431.
Terry Spradlin – Are the Federal and the State Accountability Systems Driving Higher K-12 Student Achievement?
Cole,
C.M. “What Is the Impact of NCLB on the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities?” Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, Nov. 15,
2006, http://www.ceep.indiana.edu/projects/PDF/PB_V4N11_Fall_2006_NCLB_dis.pdf
.
Plucker,
J.A. and T.E. Spradlin. “2007 Public Opinion Survey on K-12 Education in Indiana” Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, Jan. 9, 2008, http://www.ceep.indiana.edu/projects/PDF/POS_Ed_IN_20080108.pdf.
Plucker,
J.A. and T.E. Spradlin, et al. “No Child Left Behind Spring 2005 Implementation Update.” Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, June 30, 2005, http://ceep.indiana.edu/projects/PDF/PB_V3N6_Spring_2005_NCLB.pdf.
Lesa Hatley Major – The Framing of News Coverage: A Question of Responsibility
Iyengar,
Shanto. Is Anyone Responsible?: How Television Frames Political Issues.
University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN: 0-226-38855-7.
Health, Fitness, and Leisure
Lloyd Kolbe – Global Health Threats in the 21st Century
Fong, I.W. and Ken Alibek, ed. New and Evolving Infections of the 21st Century, first edition. Springer; 2006.
Gore, Albert. An Inconvenient Truth. DVD, 2006.
Institute of Medicine, U.S.The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century.
National Academies Press; 2003. ISBN: 0-309-50655-7.
Lesa Lorenzen-Huber – Gadgets, Gizmos, and You: Keeping Up with New Technologies
AARP. “Computers and Technology.” AARP, 2008,
http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/.
Burdick, David and Sunkyo Kwon. Gerotechnology: Research and Practice in Technology and Aging, first edition. Springer; 2004.
Lesnoff-Caravaglia, Gari. Gerontechnology:
Growing Old in a Technological Society. Charles C. Thomas Publisher; 2007.
Human Growth and Development
Frank DiSilvestro – Teaching Today’s Medical Students How to Better Communicate with Patients
Cousins, Norman. Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient. Norton
& Co.; 2005. ISBN: 0-393-32684-5.
Lown, Bernard. The Lost Art of Healing. Ballantine Books;1999)
ISBN: 0-345-42597-9.
Daniel Callison – 21st Century Information & Communication Skills for Lifelong Learners
Association of College & Research Libraries.
“Information Literacy: Overview, Standards & Guidelines,” ALA, http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/acrlinfolit/informationliteracy.cfm.
Educational Testing Service. “ICT Literacy Assessment Web Demo.” (Requires FLASH software.) ETS, http://www.ets.org/Media/Products/ICT_Literacy/demo2.
Munger, Roger. “Tutorial on Evaluating Online Sources.” Bedford/St.
Martin’s Press, http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/techcomm/content/cat_030/evaluatingsources/index.html.
Jennifer Bass & Catherine Johnson-Roehr – The Interdisciplinary World of Sex Research at the Kinsey Institute
The Kinsey Institute. Research Programs at http://www.kinseyinstitute.org.
Sharlene Newman – We All Multi-Task, but Is It Good for Us?
Just, M.A., et al. “A Decrease in Brain Activation Associated with Driving When Listening to Someone Speak.” In Press, Brain Research, http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/index_main.html , publications.
Newman, Sharlene, et al. “Volitional Control of Attention and Brain Activation in Dual Task Performance.” Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, 2007, http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu/index_main.html, publications.
Humanities
Linda Charnes – Hamlet, Hollywood, and the Romance of Revenge
Branagh, Kenneth. Hamlet. DVD, 2007. ASIN: B00005JLCI.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Washington Press, 2003. ISBN:
0-743-47712-X.
Zeffirelli, Franco. Hamlet. DVD, 2004. ASIN: B00019072G.
Paul Gutjahr – Harry Potter as Social Critique
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Scholastic,
1999. ISBN: 0-590-35342-X.
Edward Watts – The Closing of the Academy? Philosophy &
Christianity in the Later Roman Empire
Watts, Edward. City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria. University of California Press; 2006. ISBN: 0-520-24421-4.
Kim Manlove – A Backward Glance: The Poetry of James Whitcomb Riley
Manlove, Donald. The Best of James Whitcomb Riley. Indiana University Press; 1982. ISBN: 025320299X.
Van Allen, Elizabeth. James Whitcomb Riley: a Life (Indiana). Indiana University Press; 1999. ISBN: 0-253-33591-4.
James Madison – An American Woman in World War II
Madison,
James. Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II. Indiana University Press; 2007. ISBN: 0-253-35047-6.
Aurelian Craiutu – Searching for Happiness: The History of the Concept and Its Dilemmas
de Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. Penguin; 2003.
ISBN: 0-140-44760-1.
Payne, Alexander. About Schmidt. DVD; 2003. ASIN: B00005JLSK.
Seneca. Letters from a Stoic. Penguin, 1969. ISBN: 0-140-44210-3.
Charles Beeker -- Captain Kidd to Columbus: Establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Dominican Republic
Spirek,
James and Della Scott-Treton. Submerged Cultural Resource Management: Preserving and Interpreting Our Maritime Heritage (Underwater Archaeology Series).
Springer; 2003. ISBN: 0-306-47856-0.
Matthew Guterl – What Is Race?
Senna, Danzy. Caucasia: A Novel. Riverhead Trade; 1999. ISBN:
1-573-22716-1.
Barbara Truesdell – The History and Symbolism of the Statue of Liberty
Dillon,
Wilton and Neil Kotler, eds. The Statue of Liberty Revisited: Making a Universal Symbol. Smithsonian Institution Press; 1994. ISBN: 1-560-98252-7.
Christoph Irmscher – Drawn from Nature: John James Audubon as a Painter and Writer
Audubon, John James. Writings and Drawings.
Library of America; 1999. ISBN: 1-883-01168-X.
Betty Rose Nagle – The Face that Launched a Thousand Clips: Helen Goes to Hollywood
Homer. The Iliad (any translation).
Tim Long — The Germany of Tacitus
Tacitus (translated by Anthony Birley). Agricola and Germany. Oxford University Press; 1999. ISBN: 0-192-83300-6.
Stephen Watt – Dancing at Lughnasa and the Celtic Tiger
Friel, Brian. Dancing at Lughnasa: A Play. Faber & Faber;
1998. ISBN: 0-571-14479-9.
International Affairs
Jim Bright – Japan: A Rare and Special Treat
Barry, Dave. Dave Barry Does Japan. Ballantine Books; 1993.
ISBN: 0-449-90810-0.
Reid,
T.R. Confucious Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West. Knopf; 2000. ISBN: 0-679-77760-1.
William Scheuerman – What is Globalization?
Held, David and Anthony McGrew.“Globalization.” Polity, http://www.polity.co.uk/globalization/.
Scheuerman,
William. “Globalization.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, June 2002;
revised June 2006, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization.
Scott Kennedy – Globalizing China, Sinifying the World
Fallows, James. “China Makes, the World Takes.” Atlantic Monthly, July-August 2007.
Kennedy, Scott. “Driving China’s Future.” World Policy Journal, Winter 2004-05.
Sarah Phillips — Learning from Elders in Ethnographic Encounters: Ukrainian Folk Healers Decipher “Shapes in the Wax” to Soothe Body and Soul
Phillips, Sarah. “Waxing Like the Moon: Women Folk Healers in Rural Western Ukraine.” Folklorica, 9(1): 13-45/2004), http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/SEEFA/FolkloricaIX1W.pdf.
Science
Michael Hamburger – Turning Big Red Green:
The Campus Sustainability Movement
Bartlett, Peggy and Geoffrey Chase. Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change. MIT Press; 2004. ISBN:
0-262-52422-3.
Frederika Kaestle — The CSI Effect: The Influence of TV on the Legal System
Heinrick,
Jeffrey. “Everyone’s an Expert: The CSI Effect’s Negative Impact on Juries.” Arizona State University; The Triple Helix, fall 2006, http://www.cspo.org/documents/csieffectheinrick.pdf.
Kevin Hunt – Planet of the Apes Monkeys
Walker, Alan and Pat Shipman. The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul. Belknap Press; 2005. ISBN: 0-674-01675-0.
Meredith West – Close Encounters of the Avian Kind: Social Relations in Songbirds
Rothenberg, David. Why Birds Sing: a Journey Through the Mystery of Bird Song. Rerseus; 2005. ISBN: 0-465-07135-X.
Tyson, Alan. Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores. Harvard University Press; 1987. ISBN: 0-674-58830-4.
Abhijit Basu – The Rock: Michelangelo’s Marble
Blatt,
Harvey, and Robert Tracy, and Brent Owens. Petrology: Igneous, Sedimentary,
and Metamorphic (W.H. Freeman, 2005) ISBN: 0-716-73743-4
Penny, Nicholas. The Materials of Sculpture. Yale University Press; 1996. ISBN: 0-300-06581-7.
Bruce Martin – Aging and Sleep
Dement,
William. The Promise of Sleep: A Pioneer in Sleep Medicine Explores the Vital Connection between Health, Happiness, and a Good Night's Sleep.
Dell; 2000. ISBN: 0-440-50901-7.
Breus,
Michael. Good Night: The Sleep Doctor’s 4-Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health. Penguin; 2006. ISBN: 0-525-94979-8.

