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2005 Suggested Reading
THE ARTS
Ricardo Lorenz -- It Takes Two to Tango: Musical Exploration into U.S./Latin American Relations
Chasteen, John. National Rhythms: African Roots (University of New Mexico Press, 2004) ISBN: 0826329411
Jonathan Michaelsen -- A Novel Approach: From Page to Stage with The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (any edition)
Nagy, Phyllis. The Scarlet Letter (Samuel French, Inc.) ISBN: 0573695296
Sherry Rouse -- Artistic Treasures of Indiana University
Steele, Selma, Theodore L. Steele, and Wilbur D. Peat. House of the Singing Winds: The Life and Work of T.C. Steele (Indiana Historical Society, 1990) ISBN: 0871950537
Diane Pelrine -- Exploring African Art at the Indiana Art Museum
Visonà, Monica, et al. A History of Art in Africa (2001) ISBN: 0-13-442187
McNaughton, P., and Diane Pelrine. "African Art," pp. 223-56 in Africa , Martin, Phyllis and O'Meara, Patrick, eds. (1995) ISBN: 0-253-32916-7
Roy, Christopher D., ed. Art and Life in Africa Online: http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/index.html (Rev. 2003)
James Mumford -- The Black Spiritual as Seen Through the Eyes of Traditional & Contemporary Composers
Southern, Eileen. Readings in Black American Music (W. W. Norton & Company; 2nd edition, 1983) ISBN: 0-393-95280-0
Ware, Charles Pickard, et al. Slave Songs of the United States (Applewood Books, 1996) ISBN: 1-55709-4344-9
Anya Peterson Royce -- Five Hot Dance Companies: What Makes Them Hot?
Ailey, Alvin. "Four By Ailey" (VHS-Kultur Video, 1997) ASIN: 156127075X
Morris, Mark, and Yo-Yo Ma. "Falling Down Stairs" (VHS-Sony Classics, 1998) ASIN: 1573301272
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. "Bamboo Dream" (DVD-Naxos of America, 2003) ASIN: B0000C5RQD
Adelheid Gealt -- Domenico Tiepolo and His "New Testament Code"
Bible ~ King James Version
Robert Goehlert -- Seeds of the American Dream: Farm Security Photos and the Epic of America
Guimond, James. American Photography and the American Dream (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991) ISBN: 0-8078-4308-3
Nanette Esseck Brewer -- American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh
Davis, Keith F. American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh (Hudson Hills Press, 2004) ISBN: Not yet listed;
Available at the IU Art Museum Gift Shop
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BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
Bill Witte -Social Security Reforms: Myth and Reality
White House website: www.whitehouse.gov (search on Social Security)
Congressional Budget Office website: www.cbo.gov (search on Social Security)
Greg Kitzmiller - The Evolving European Union: A Look at the E.U. and Its Impact on the U.S.
Mercado, Simon, Richard Welford, and Kate Prescott. European Business (Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2001) ISBN: 0273646001
P. Roberto Garcia - Understanding and Leveraging Effective Persuasion
Cialdini, Robert. "Harnessing the Science of Persuasion" (Harvard Business Review, October 1, 2001)
Timothy T. Baldwin - Building Great Places to Work: The Management Fundamentals
Goleman, Daniel. "What Makes A Leader" (Harvard Business Review, 1998; Reprint 98606)
Buckingham, Marcus, and Curt Coffman. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (Simon & Schuster, 1999) ISBN: 0684852861
Dick Canada - How To Influence People
Rackham, Neil. SPIN Selling (McGraw-Hill, 1988) ISBN: 0070511136
Canada, Dick. The 24 Sales Traps (American Management Association, 2002) ISBN: 0814471412
Lou Malcomb - Using Maps in Researching Local and Family Histories (With a Focus on Indiana)
USGS. "How Topographic Maps Are Made" (2001) http://www.indiana.edu/~libgm/howtop.html
USGS. "Using Maps in Genealogy" (1999) http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs09902.html
USGS. "About the National Map" (2004) http://nationalmap.gov/nmabout.html
Steven Ashby - Is Wal-Mart Good for America?
PBS Frontline. "Is Wal-Mart Good for America?" http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/
Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-walmart-sg,1,1534896.storygallery
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DOMESTIC ISSUES
Suzanna Walters -- All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America
Walters, Suzanna. All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America (University of Chicago Press, 2001)ISBN: 0-226-87232-7
Gross, Larry. Up From Invisibility (Columbia University Press, 2002) ISBN: 0-231-11953-4
Russo, Vito. The Celluloid Closet (Perennial Press, 1987) ISBN: 0-060-96132-5
Kenneth Richards -- Managing Global Warming: Fossil Fuel, Forests and Fear
Pew Center's Website on Climate Change http://www.pewclimate.org
The Future of the City -- Eric Sandweiss
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward, 2000-1987 (Signet, 2000) ISBN: 0451527631
Rykwert, Joseph. The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities (Vintage, 2002) ISBN: 0375700447
Sabrina Williamson Sullenberger -- Poverty in the United States: A Current Profile
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Metropolitan Books, 2002) ISBN: 0805063897
Craig Bradley -- Inside the Supreme Court
Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court (Vintage Books, 2001) ISBN: 0-3757-0861-8
Jeffrey Hart -- The Politics of Biotechnology
Robbins-Roth, Cynthia. From Alchemy to IPO (Perseus Books Group) ISBN: 073820482X
Martineau, Belinda. First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Foods (McGraw-Hill Companies, 2001) ISBN: 0071360565
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HEALTH, FITNESS AND LEISURE
Lesa Lorenzen-Huber - Brain Teasers: Engage Your Brain in Fun New Ways!
Cox, Harold. Annual Editions: Aging 05/06 (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2004) ISBN: 0-07-301255-6
Roodin, Paul A., and John M. Rybash. Adult Development and Aging (McGraw-Hill Higher Education) ISBN: 0697-36202-7
Nussbaum, Paul David. Brain Health and Wellness (Word Association Publishers, 2003) ISBN: 1-932205-64-0
Catherine M. Sherwood-Puzzello - What's Important to Know About Cancer: The Basics
Teeley, Peter, and Philip Bashe. The Complete Cancer Survival Guide (Main Street Books, 2000) ISBN: 0-385-48605-7
Buckman, Robert, What You Really Need to Know About Cancer (Johns Hopkins University Press) ISBN: 0-8018-5593-4
Babcock, Elise. When Life Becomes Precious: The Essential Guide for Patients, Loved Ones and Friends of Those Facing Serious Illness (Bantam, 1997) ISBN: 0-5533-7869-4
Gary Sailes - The Role of Sport in American Culture
Michenor, James A. Sports in America (Random House, 1976) ISBN: 039440646X
Ellen Brantlinger - The Influences of Social Class on Schooling
Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods (University of California Prss, 2003) ISBN: 0520239504
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities (Perennial, 1992) ISBN: 0-06-097499-0
Brantlinger, Ellen. Dividing Classes (Falmer Press, 2003) ISBN: 0-415-93298-1
Claude Clegg - To Live and Die in Liberia: African American Immigration to West Africa in the 19th Century
Clegg, Claude. The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia (University of North Carolina Press, 2004) ISBN: 0-8078-5516-2
Edward J. Watts - Barbarians, the Anti-Christ, and the Fall of the Roman Empire
Gibbon, Edward. "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gibbon-fall.html
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/g/gibbon/edward/g43d/chapter36.html
James Madison - Why Did the "Good Guys" Win World War II?
Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won (W.W. Norton & Company, 1996) ISBN: 0-393-03925-0
Michael Grossberg - Is the American Family in Crisis? Law and the Family in the U.S. , 1950-2005
Mason, Mary Ann. Custody Wars: Why Children Are Losing the Legal Battles and What We Can Do About It (Basic Books, 1999) ISBN: 0-465-01529-8
Cott, Nancy F. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Harvard University Press, 2002) ISBN: 0-674-00875-8
Heins, Marjorie. Not in Front of the Children: Indecency, Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth (Hill & Wang, 2002) ISBN: 0-8090-7399-4
Kevin Glowacki - The Archaeology of Democracy: Exploring the Ancient City of Athens
Camp, John M. The Archaeology of Athens (Yale University Press, 2004) ISBN: 0300101511
Lang, Mable. The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (American School of Classical Studies, 2005) ISBN: 0876616422
Glowacki, Kevin. "The Ancient City of Athens" www.stoa.org/athens
Valerie Grim - African American Political and Social Movements
Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration (Vintage Books, 1992) ISBN: 0-679-73347-7
Helen Gremillion - Anorexia Nervosa in Cultural Context
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight (University of California Press, 1995) ISBN: 0520088832
Gremillion, Helen. Feeding Anorexia (Duke University Press, 2003) ISBN: 0-8223-3120-9
Robert Meier - Darwinian Medicine: Evolution for the 21st Century
Nesse, R.M., and G.C. Williams. Why We Get Sick (Vintage Books, 1996) ISBN: 0-8129-2224-7
Lappe, Marc. Evolutionary Medicine: Rethinking the Origins of Disease (Sierra Club Books, 1994) ISBN: 0-87156-519-6
Frederick McElroy - My Complexion Was Almost White: Hannah Crafts and the Myth of the Tragic Mulatto
Crafts, Hannah. The Bondwoman's Narrative (Warner Books, 2002) ISBN: 0-446-69029-5
Michael McGerr - A Billion Isn't What It Used To Be
Phillips, Kevin. Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (Broadway, 2002) ISBN: 0767905334
Wolff, Edward N. Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It (Second Edition) (New Press, 2002) ISBN: 1565846656
Wesley K. Thomas - Contemporary American Indian Pow-Wow
Browner, Tara. Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow (University of Illinois Press, 2004) ISBN: 0-252-07186-7
Timothy Long - Ancient Rome and the American Political Experience
Richard, Carl J. The Founders and the Classics (Harvard University Press, 1994) ISBN: 0-674-31426-3
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Osita Afoaku - The Struggle for Democracy in Congo-Kinshasa
Wrong, Michela. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (HarperCollins, 2001) ISBN: 0060188804
French, Howard. A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa (Alfred Knopf, 2004) ISBN: 0375414614
Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost (Mariner Books, 1999) ISBN: 0618001905
Toivo Raun - Russia's Relations With the former Soviet Borderlands
Kotkin, Stephen. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (Oxford Press, 2003) ISBN: 0195168941
Bremmer, Ian, and Ray Taras, editors. New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations (Cambridge Press, 1996) ISBN: 0521577993
Michael Hamburger - Deconstructing Catastrophe: Understanding the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
Bolt, Bruce. Earthquakes (5th Edition) (W.H. Freeman & Co., 2003) ISBN: 0-7167-5618-8
Gere, James, and Haresh Shah. Terra Non Firma (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1984) ISBN: 0716714965
Hough, Susan. Earthshaking Science: What We Know (and Don't Know) About Earthquakes (Princeton University Press, 2004) ISBN: 0691-11819-1
Peter Guardino - Mexican Immigration to the United States: Policy and Human Experience
Huntington, Samuel. Who Are We: Challenges to America's National Identity (Simon & Schuster, 2004) ISBN: 0-684-87053-3
Alba, Richard, and Victor Nee. Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (Harvard University Press, 2003)
Durand, Jorge, and Douglas Massey. Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States (University of Arizona Press, 1995) ISBN: 0-8165-1471-2
Geoffrey Conrad - Christopher Columbus, Baseball and Bureaucracy: Doing Archaeology in the Dominican Republic
Bercht, Fatima, et al. Taino: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean (Monacelli Press, 1997) ISBN: 1-885254-82-2
Deagan, Kathleen, and Jose Cruxent. Columbus' Outpost Among the Tainos (Yale, 2002) ISBN: 0-300-09040-4
De Las Casas, Bartolome. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin, 1992) ISBN: 0-14-044562-5
Sumit Ganguly - India Faces the New Millenium
Ganguly, Sumit. "The Start of a Beautiful Friendship?" (World Policy Journal, Spring 2003) Ganguly, Sumit. "India's Foreign Policy Grows Up" (World Policy Journal, Winter 2003/04)
Daniel Maki - Forecasting for Fun and (perhaps) Profit
Winston, Wayne L., and S. Christian Albright. Practical Management Science: Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications (Duxbury Press, 1997) ISBN: 0-534-21774-5
Bruce Martin - Brain connections: Aging and Memory
Small, Gary. The Memory Bible (Hyperioon, 2003) ISBN: 0786887117
Katz, Lawrence. Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises (Workman, 1998) ISBN: 0761110526
Gluck, Mark, and Catherine Myers. Gateway to Memory: An Introduction to Neural Network Modeling of the Hippocampus and Learning (MIT, 2000) ISBN: 0262072114
Clay Fuqua - Sticking Around: Tacky Germs that Affect Your Health
Gest, Howard. Microbes: An Invisible Universe (American Society Microbiology, 2003) ISBN: 1-55581-264-3
Costerton and Stewart. "Battling Biofilms" (Scientific American, Vol 285:74-81; 2001)
Costerton et al. "Bacterial Biofilms: A Common Cause of Persistent Infections (Science 284: 1318-1322; 1999)
Roger Hangarter - Plant Growth Revealed Using Time-lapsed Imaging
Hangarter, Roger. "Plants-in-Motion" http://sunflower.bio.indiana.edu/~rhangart/plantsinmotion.html
Catherine Pilachowski - Telescopes: From Galileo to Hi-Tech Giants
Voit, Mark. Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe (Abrams, 2000) ISBN: 0810929236
Kerrod, Robin. Hubble: The Mirror on the Universe (Firefly Books, 2003) ISBN: 1552977811
Panek, Richard. Seeing Is Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens (Penguin Books, 1999)
Jennifer Bass and Catherine Johnson-Roehr
Visit the Kinsey Institute website: www.kinseyinstitute.org
Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick - The Archaeology of Human Origins
Schick, Kathy, and Nicholas Toth. Making Silent Stones Speak (Touchstone, 1994) ISBN: 0671-87538-8
Klein, Richard. The Human Career (University of Chicago Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-226-43963-1
Boyd, Robert, and Joan Silk. How Humans Evolved (W.W. Norton & Co., 1999) ISBN: 0-393-97477-4
Frederika Kaestle - Mummies, Neanderthals and Beyond: New Data from Old Bones
Jones, Martin. The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA (Arcade Publishing, 2003) ISBN: 1559706791
Albert Ruesink - Hopes, Fears and Actualities: The Genetic Engineering of Plants and Animals
Campbell, N.A., and J.B. Reece. Biology, 7th Edition (Benjamin Cummings, 2004) ISBN: 080537146X [Chapter 20, "DNA Technology & Genomics," pp. 384-408]
Purves, W.K. et al. Life: The Science of Biology, 7th Edition (Sinauer, 2003) [Chapter 16, "Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology," pp. 315-337
Stewart, C. Neal. Genetically Modified Planet: Environmental Impacts of Genetically Engineered Plants (Oxford University Press, 2004) ISBN: 0195157451
Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Modified Foods on Human Health (of the National Research Council). "Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects," pp. 256. (2004)
David Smith - The Stem Cell Debate Yet Again
Robertson, John. Children of Choice (Princeton University Press, 1996) ISBN: 0-691-03665-9
Steinbock, Bonnie. Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses (Oxford University Press, 1996) ISBN: 0-19-510872-8
The President's Council on Bioethics. "Human Cloning and Human Dignity" (U.S. Government Printing Office) ISBN: 0-16-042819-X [also visit www.bioethics.gov]
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