Freshman Reading Roundup
The Freshman Reading Round-Up offers incoming freshmen the opportunity to read a book recommended by a distinguished faculty member and participate in a discussion about the book with the faculty member and other incoming freshmen. Incoming freshman can sign up for a book by visiting the Freshman Reading Roundup Book List page. Click on the call number to check availability. Reading Roundup Book List Printable Version. | |
 | A Confederacy of Dunces A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. It is an important part of the 'modern canon' of Southern literature. The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central character is Ignatius J. (Jacques) Reilly, an educated but slothful man still living with his mother at age 30 in the city's Uptown neighborhood, who, because of family circumstances, must set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. |
 | A Technique for Producing Ideas Join the legions of poets, scientists, politicians, and others who have learned to think at the invitation of James Webb Young's A Technique for Producing Ideas. This brief but powerful book guides you through the process of innovation and learning in a way that makes creativity accessible to anyone willing to work for it. While the author's background is in advertising, his ideas apply in every facet of life and are increasingly relevant in the world's knowledge-based economy. Young's tiny text represents an ideal start to university education with its tactics for viewing life through a new lens and its encouragement to look inside for a more creative version of ourselves. |
 | Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass Discover why hundreds of students have found these books remarkably useful preparations for and guides to the college experience. |
 | All the Pretty Horses When do we lose our innocence? When do we lose our sense of the past? These are just two of the themes that define this remarkable novel, which is the first volume of the author's celebrated Border Trilogy. Set in West Texas and Mexico of the 1940s, All the Pretty Horses tells the powerful coming-of-age story of two young men who share the same quest but end up following very different paths. The Pulitzer-prize winning McCarthy's extraordinary gifts for language and story-telling are on full display here, creating some of the most memorable scenes and characters in modern literature. |
 | An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It "In the eyes of hurricanes and in the tears of refugees—the world is witnessing mounting and undeniable evidence that nature's cycles are profoundly changing." So begins the companion book to Al Gore's Academy Award winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. This insightful yet controversial book details planetary evidence of climate change, and makes a personal connection to events from the life of the former vice president. "We have everything we need to begin solving this crisis, with the possible exception of the will to act. But in America, our will to take action is itself a renewable resource." How big is our carbon footprint, and what actions will contribute most in taming this warming trend? Join in the discussion! |
 | Blindness by José Saramago PQ 9281 A66 E6813 1998 PCL Stacks How would people react if everyone went blind almost simultaneously? What would these reactions tell us about the human spirit? About our strengths and weaknesses of character? A Nobel Prize winning author, Portugal's José Saramago explores these issues in Blindness. Professor Robert Prentice - Information, Risk & Operations Management |
 | Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches by Winston Churchill edited by David Cannadine DA 566.9 C5 A5 1989 PCL Stacks These thirty three speeches by one of the great statesmen, orators, and writers of the 20th Century capture significant figues and moments in our history and do so in language at once masterful and memorable. |
 | Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Substance Abuse by K. Keegan HV 5805 K42 A3 2008 PCL Stacks Chasing the High is a fascinating, true story about a young person with a substance abuse problem coupled with the best, cutting edge scientific information on substance abuse, treatment, and recovery. It is a fast read, in straightforward language, drawing on real experience as well as the expertise of a psychiatrist. It is both intriguing and educational, especially for those that know someone with addiction issues or wonder about their own use. |
 | Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi DG 975 L78 L43 1964 PCL Stacks A classic Italian biography, this book describes the time and place of Carlo Levi's banishment to a God-forsaken (hence the title, a place so bad that Jesus Christ stopped well to the north and refused to come further) southern Italian village during the Mussolini years. The original manuscript is in the Harry Ransom Center. |
 | Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah BJ 1031 A63 2006 PCL Stacks How should we think about moral community when there is so much disagreement about what counts as right and wrong, good and bad? How can you live a responsible life yourself and still take responsibility for others? Drawing on several humanities disciplines, as well as his own experience of life on three continents, Appiah explores such questions and develops an account of cosmopolitanism in response to them. |
 | Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes PQ 6329 A2 2009 PCL Stacks Don Quixote is about a Spanish man who becomes obsessed with chivalry and rides into the countryside to live out his dream of being a knight. This laugh-out-loud novel also asks questions about how to tell right from wrong and humorously addresses romance, honor, and class structure. After 400 years, the Spanish classic is still exciting, funny, and touching. |
 | Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn An allegory about the progressive banning of the use of certain letters of the alphabet on an imaginary island off the coast of South Carolina. I chose it because it is an epistolary lipogram about a pangram! (Just kidding.) I really chose it because it is a light-hearted, allegorical work perfect for summer reading that nonetheless addresses two themes: the balancing of tradition and innovation in society and government's relationship to the individual, and a tour de force of vocabulary. |
 | Emma by Jane Austen 823 AU7E 1906R1 PCL Stacks Published in 1816, this is a classic romantic comedy about a small English village where a local teenage matchmaker, Emma Woodhouse, keeps getting things wrong as she plays cupid to her reluctant single friends. Simultaneously charming and sharp-witted, this may be Jane Austen's most perfect novel. After you read it, enjoy two very different interpretations for the screen: Emma (1996), starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and Clueless (1995), starring Alicia Silverstone. |
 | Food in History by Reay Tannahill GT 2850 T34 2002 PCL Stacks You may be what you eat, but what we eat has been shaped by a combination of geography and cultural exchanges that are still occurring today. Food in History is Reay Tannahill's fascinating account of the history of food procurement, production, and consumption from prehistoric times to the present. Her narrative explores the foods and eating habits of numerous cultures around the globe in a writing style that is readable yet scholarly. |
 | Galileo's Daughter 2009 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first use of the telescope, and is being celebrated as the International Year of Astronomy. But who was Galileo? Why would his daughter be important to understanding the man and his conflict with the church? Newsweek labeled this best-selling book as "innovative history and a wonderfully told tale." I love this book for portraying the father-daughter relationship as it examines the man behind the science. |
 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Guns, Germs and Steel was initially subtitled 'The Fates of Human Societies.' Within a few months, this subtitle had evolved into 'A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years.' It was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, the Rhone Poulenc Science Book Prize, and three other international literary prizes. The central question addressed is: "Given that human societies were fairly equally advanced 13,000 years ago, what was it that allowed some—those from Asia and Europe—to dominate the ones from Africa, Australia, and the Americas?" Professor Alan Cline - Computer Sciences |
 | Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine HQ 56 L3255 2002 PCL Stacks Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex is easy to read, interesting, and should certainly provoke controversy and spirited discussion. Levine argues that sex is not necessarily bad for minors, and that puritanical attitudes, overzealous laws, and a lack of education are the roots of real trouble. Her book is well-researched and a good starting point for discussing questions vital to us all. |
 | Homecoming by Berhard Schlink PT 2680 L54 H4513 2008 PCL Stacks Bernhard Schlink is author of The Reader, which was made into a hit film released last winter. This latest book tells of a young man's search for his father, who disappeared (and was probably killed) in the last days of World War II, shortly after the young man was born. He has only these clues: his father was a Swiss German who loved poetry and had been a brilliant student. Along the way, our hero meets the love of his life and discovers more and more about his father—realizing the final truth while stranded in a blizzard in upstate New York. Echoes of the Odyssey, and of every young man's estrangement from his father. Professor Paul Woodruff - School of Undergraduate Studies & Philosophy |
 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri PS 3562 A316 I58 1999 PCL Stacks Lahiri's characters are ordinary but unforgettable, and their feelings resonate with anyone who has ever left home or experienced the feeling of isolation. Interpreter of Maladies is a collection of beautifully written short stories portraying characters who are part of two cultures, Indian and American. As Caleb Crain wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "The reader finishes each story...wishing he could spend a whole novel with its characters." Professor Shelley Payne - Molecular Genetics and Microbiology |
 | Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog E 99 D1 M425 1990 PCL Stacks At seventeen years old, Mary Brave Bird gave birth to a son during the 71-day siege of Wounded Knee in 1973, which ended with a bloody assault by U.S. marshals and police. Her searing autobiography is courageous, impassioned, poetic and inspirational. Her girlhood, a vicious circle of drinking and fighting, was marked by poverty, racism and a rape at 14. She ran away from a coldly impersonal boarding school run by abusive nuns to join the American Indian Movement (AIM). The authors write of AIM's infiltration by FBI agents, of Mary Crow Dog helping her husband endure prison, of Indian males' macho attitudes. The book also describes AIM's renewal of spirituality as manifested in sweat lodges, peyote ceremonies, sacred songs and the Ghost Dance ritual. |
 | Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter In this wise, wonderful book, award-winning teacher Hal Urban presents twenty principles that are as deeply rooted in common sense as they are in compassion. The topics, gathered from a lifetime of teaching both children and adults, span a wide range of readily understood concepts, including attitudes about money, success, and the importance of having fun. Classic in its simplicity and enduring in its appeal, Life's Greatest Lessons will help you find the best in others and in yourself. Professor David W. Fowler - Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering |
 | Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination Listening In chronicles radio's role in twentieth-century American culture. Douglas explores how the radio changed Americans' experiences of the everyday and created new ways of listening across the 20th century. In engaging, accessible prose she discusses jazz, and rock 'n' roll on the radio, as well as broadcast journalism, baseball, and ham radio. How did radio shape 20th-century America? What might the role of radio be in the twenty-first century? |
 | Man's Search for Meaning Man's Search for Meaning is the powerful and fascinating story of the author's time imprisoned in Auschwitz and other concentrations camps. This is an especially influential book everyone should read; it has sold 14 million copies. NOTE: Please make sure you read the new edition with the afterword by Dr. Winslade. |
 | Mongrel Nation In this short, well-written, and provocative book, Walker uses the contradictions between Jefferson's writings on race and his 38-year relationship with his slave Sally Hemings as a prism through which to view the complexities of American race relations. |
 | Oedipus Rex Oedipus was written in 5th Century b.c.e. Athens. Fulfilling a prophecy of the Oracle at Delphi, Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother, and then becomes King of Thebes. Later, he investigates the cause of a plague in Thebes, only to find that it is he and his sin. The play raises issues of free will, humanism, and the role of the gods. |
 | On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt BJ 1421 F73 2005 PCL Stacks "The most audacious of the ancient alchemists desired to transmute lead into gold. They never succeeded. Who would have known that they should have started not with a base metal, but with bullshit? Harry Frankfurt offers a philosophical analysis of bullshit that is golden. The prose by turns employs irony, broad humor, and tongue-in-cheek high seriousness while at the same time manages to have a rigorous logical coherence that is always impressive. One leaves the essay not merely thinking it was a delight. One leaves it realizing that one has engaged the accomplishment of a great analyst and thinker."-William Chester Jordan, |
 | Outside Lies Magic by John Stilgoe E 169.04 S75 1999 PCL Stacks This book s our senses to the created environment we all share, to gently dissect our neighborhoods and public spaces for the knowledge hidden in plain sight. It allows us to explore the secret histories of the places where we live and encourages us to explore hidden territories just waiting for our attention—encouraging us to look around and ask questions of our community. Professor Nancy Kwallek - Interior Design, School of Architecture |
 | Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler PS 3552 U827 P37 2000b PCL Stacks Parable of the Sower is a hopeful tale set in a dystopian Los Angeles of walled cities, homelessness, disease, fires, and madness. Lauren Olamina is an 18-year-old with hyper-empathy syndrome: if she sees another in pain, she feels their pain as acutely as if it were real. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and begins a journey north. |
 | Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures You will look at the world in a completely different light after reading this engaging book. Carl Zimmer, science writer for the New York Times, weaves together the stories of the most fascinating parasites and the people that study them. Your skin will crawl but you will not be able to put it down! Professor Arturo DeLozanne - Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology |
 | People of the Book Rescued by a Muslim librarian during the Bosnian war, the Sarajevo Haggadah is "the book" of Brooks's title. This beautifully illuminated Hebrew medieval text serves as the pretext for Brooks to interweave her fictional heroine's story of restoring the book with the stories of its various owners, protectors, thieves, artisans, and creators. Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Brooks creates a tale at once epic in scope yet inward-turning, a tale both inspiring and instructive about the past and present. |
 | Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas and Winning New Business by Jon Steel HF 5718.22 S74 2007 PCL Stacks Steel shares his experience and wisdom in crafting winning ad agency presentations. Steel, an irreverent Brit who has worked in the U.S. for 20 years, draws insights for a diverse range of persuasive experts including Johnnie Cochran vs. prosecutor Marsha Clark in the O.J. Simpson trial, Bill Clinton and a London hooker. The applications extend to any situation where an audience is the focus of a persuasive pitch. This is a lively, fun, and most revealing read. |
 | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely HB 74 P8 A75 2008 PCL Stacks In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes, Ariely discovers. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable—making us predictably irrational. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, Ariely explains how to break through these systematic patterns of thought to make better decisions. Predictably Irrational will change the way we interact with the world—one small decision at a time. |
 | Saturday by Ian McEwan PR 6063 C4 S27 2005 PCL Stacks Ian McEwan's Saturday, set in London on the day of a huge demonstration against the impending invasion of Iraq, is a superbly written psychological thriller that illuminates our post-9/11 world of terror and uncertainty. |
 | Sizwe's Test by Jonny Steinberg RA 643.86 S62 S74 2008 PCL Stacks Sizwe's Test is a remarkable and provocative account of the politically vexed and personally invested collaboration between a celebrated investigative reporter from Johannesburg and a locally acknowledged and aspiring entrepreneur from a small community in the Eastern Cape. Subtitled (in its US publication), "A Young Man's Journey through Africa's AIDS Epidemic," Sizwe's Test raises questions of international human rights, personal choices, local practices, and shared concerns of life and death. Should Sizwe get his HIV/AIDS test? Why? Why not? Steinberg accompanies Sizwe through much of that deliberative narrative and Sizwe's Test tells a story that invokes the dilemmas that the two men share, both with each other and with their readers. |
 | Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut PS 3572 O5 S6 1994 PCL Stacks The New York Times described this cheerfully irreverent (and sometimes mildly coarse and scatological) novel as "tough and funny, sad and delightful." Slaughterhouse-Five (or, The Children's Crusade) tracks the life of nebbishy Billy Pilgrim from his experience as a captured American prisoner in WWII Germany, where he witnesses the savage Allied firebombing of Dresden, to his postwar life as an optometrist in the Midwest, with periodic digressions for space travel, sex, and philosophy. |
 | The Book Thief by Markus Zusak YOUTH PZ 7 Z837 BOO 2006 Youth Collection PCL Stacks 6S I tried my best to choose a funny book for this year's Round-Up. My own kids have told me the high school canon is dark and... depressing. But it didn't work. I've chosen an award-winning tale, originally published in Australia, and narrated by Death himself. Set in World War II's Nazi Germany, the story's Book Thief is an illiterate foster child who learns to read from the first book she steals—The Grave Digger's Handbook. During a horrific time, stolen books become treasures to Liesel, her neighbors, and to the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In a life-sustaining move, Liesel herself begins to write a book. Critics have called the text brilliant, mesmerizing, and moving. Death's dispassionate narration is unforgettable. |
 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz PS 3554 I259 B75 2007 PCL Stacks What do "The Lord of the Rings," Caribbean history, and the Chinese surname "Wao" have in common? At first glance, not much, but all three come together in surprising and hilarious ways in Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The title character is a Dominican American teenager who defies all sorts of stereotypes in his journey through adolescence. Oscar is a "supernerd" with a heart of gold, a hopeless misfit when compared to his svelte older sister and suave college roommate but an unexpected hero when appreciated for his sincerity and generosity. Moving back and forth between New Jersey and the Dominican Republic, Diaz weaves family and national histories with some of the smartest, most touching prose I've encountered in a long time. |
 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon PZ 7 H1165 CU 2003 PCL Stacks Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel is a murder mystery of sorts—one told by a fifteen-year-old with autism. Christopher John Francis Boone is a mathematical genius and takes everything that he sees at face value. When his neighbor's poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. This quirkily illustrated, genuinely moving novel is told in Christopher's unique and compelling voice giving us a small glimpse into the world of children with autism. |
 | The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts HD 9650.6 R63 2005 PCL Stacks Roberts presents a non-technical introduction to the factors that will determine where we go next in responding to the peak oil crisis, and surveys various alternative energy strategies in the process. For the most part the book reads as investigative journalism (which it is) and provides an educational framework as free from an agenda as one could hope. This should allow the reader to develop an informed, yet personal opinion on how to respond to an energy crisis certain to profoundly change how we live. |
 | The F Word: Feminism in Jeopardy by Kristin Row-Finkbeiner HQ 1426 R68 2004 PCL Stacks Few young women want to be called "feminist" these days. It's so taboo that even some women's magazines jokingly use "the f-word" when referring to feminism, and the word is often hurled in insults on talk radio. That's a lot of flack for a word that simply means the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes. This modern permutation of antipathy toward feminism, by women whose ideals closely mirror those of feminism in general, is something new. Clearly the word itself is quite problematic to this generation. If the term feminism is deterring women from engaging in important issues, perhaps it's time to move beyond the word—because while we're preoccupied debating the limitations of the term, our sexual and social landscape, our rights and freedoms, are being shaped...not by women. |
 | The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson RC 133 G6 J64 2006 Life Science Library We live in a hybrid world, one in which all organisms, not just humans, compete for ecosystem space not only in natural habitats but increasingly so in the built environment—the physical infrastructure erected by us partly in the hope of excluding unwanted bacteria, viruses, and others of our competitors. Steven Johnson in Ghost Map reminds us that this struggle is hardly new. The London cholera outbreak of 1854 ravaged the city and killed tens of thousands before the combined courage and creativity of Henry Whitehead and John Snow determined not only the mechanism of transmission of the disease, but a means for protection against it. Though tragic, this epidemic helped lay the foundation for modern public health and civil engineering strategies for containment of disease outbreak. Maybe more important, this book gives us insight to controlling pandemics in a highly connected global society, where diseases such as the H1N1 flu virus, which does not need a single spot on Broad Street to reach the world. Finally, the book is completely readable and enjoyable, and will forever alter how you feel when visiting London or any old metropolis that may still retain vestiges of their ghost maps on the streets where you walk. |
 | The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai PS 3554 E82 I54 2006 PCL Stacks The Inheritance of Loss centers on Kalimpong, a town in northeast India at the foot of the Himalayas. Set in the mid-1980s during a period of political unrest, the novel portrays love, loss, and longing in a post-colonial world through the lives of a British-trained judge, his orphaned daughter, his cook, and the cook's son, an undocumented worker in America. A beautifully written book, The Inheritance of Loss received the Man Booker Prize in 2006. |
 | The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich JK 271 B24 2008 PCL New Books Collection This compact, meaty volume ought to be on the reading list of every candidate for national office—House, Senate or the White House—in November's elections. In an age of cant and baloney, Andrew Bacevich offers a bracing slap of reality. Bacevich is not running for office, so he is willing to speak bluntly to his countrymen about their selfishness, their hubris, their sanctimony and the grave problems they now face. The Limits of Power is a dense book but gracefully written and easy to read. It is chockablock with provocative ideas and stern judgments. Bacevich's brand of intellectual assuredness is rare in today's public debates. Many of our talking heads and commentators are cocksure, of course, but few combine confidence with knowledge and deep thought the way Bacevich does here. |
 | The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould BF 431 G68 1996B PCL Stacks, Geology Library, Life Science Library In The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould makes two startling claims. First, IQ tests have been used to maintain the established social hierarchy. Second, there is no such thing as intelligence as measured by IQ tests. |
 | The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In "Obama and Tiger are both "hapa." This is the short answer to the question: What do President Barack Obama and Tiger Woods have in common? (Note: The term "hapa" is a non-derogatory way to refer to someone born to parents belonging to different racial groups, literally meaning "half." This nomenclature is commonplace in the vernacular spoken in Hawaii where President Obama spent his formative years.) Paisley Rekdal's enlightening and humorously insightful book has nothing to do with the figures of Obama or Tiger, but everything to do with cultural identity formation, and the significance of being mixed-race in today's global culture. Her personal stories of growing up as a Norwegian/Chinese resident of Seattle take us to Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the American South. Her running commentary reveals insightful and thought-provoking observations delivered in a light-hearted style. She suggests that especially for the mixed-race, race is a passe concept for one's identity, that race is a social construct based on the way we look. |
 | The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño PQ 8098.12 O38 D4813 2007 PCL Stacks, Benson Latin American Collection Roberto Bolaño's Savage Detectives are two young poets searching for their roots in the Mexican avant-garde of the past. This search leads them to all kinds of people and to locations all over the world. In the end, however, the journey, not the destination, is what matters to both the poets and to the reader. |
 | The Tempest by William Shakespeare PR 2833 A2 D9 2000 PCL Stacks A shipwreck brings together old enemies and young lovers on an enchanted island. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, has spent twelve years here teaching the liberal arts to his daughter, Miranda. What good is such an education when Miranda confronts the castaways and their problems? These problems confront students even now: recognizing true love, reconciling young hopes with the crimes of an older generation, facing down inhumanity without becoming inhuman. Shakespeare wraps the disenchantments of adult life in the enchantment of words at their most musical. |
 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell HM 1033 G53 2002 PCL Stacks How do little, almost unnoticeable, changes in everyday life turn into social epidemics that can make big differences in how we think, behave and feel? This is the focus of The Tipping Point, an interesting examination of small ideas can have a widespread impact on our lives. Gladwell discusses how innovative ideas, products and messages can spread throughout society like viruses through small groups and word of mouth. A book that will change the way you process information and look at the world around you. |
 | The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell Please read the 2007 10th anniversary edition. Welcome to the forty acres—where lives are transformed! Begin your journey by reading Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. These life changing principles and inspiring leadership stories will transform your life and challenge you to enhance your leadership capabilities. The foundation of leadership you achieve will inspire and challenge you to make a difference. How will you be a leader while at Texas? How will you serve others? Professor Mary Steinhardt - Kinesiology and Health Education |
 | Tuesdays with Morrie If you've ever had a teacher that touched your life in a very positive way, this book is for you. Short, very readable, and yet, quite profound in its reflection, Mitch Albom's Tuesday's with Morrie describes rediscovery of that mentor and a rekindled relationship that goes beyond the classroom and brings us to lessons on how to live. |
 | We Before Brave New World...before 1984...there was We. A page-turning futuristic adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, We is the classic dystopian novel. It is also an enjoyable bit of 1920s-era science fiction. Fun... and strangely apt in 2009! |
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