Freshman Reading Roundup Sessions booklist.docx

7/27/2019 Freshman Reading Roundup Sessions booklist.docx

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Freshman Reading Roundup Sessions

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A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir

by Elena Gorokhova

Professor Christopher LongArchitecture

10:30AM -12:00PM

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Elena Gorokhova's "A Mountain of Crumbs" is a lyrical and moving memoir of a young girl growing up in the Soviet Union in the

1960s and 1970s. It is an extraordinary document, by turns revealingof the Soviet reality of the timeardent, and funny.

Gorokhova's English is smart, limpid, and beguiling: she is a splendid writer. Her book is a very good read and a remarkableportrait of a place and time now all but faded from view.

Professor Christopher Long

Architecture

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A Technique for Producing Ideas

by James Webb Young

Professor Brad Love

Advertising

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12:00PM

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Join the legions of poets, scientists, politicians, and others who have learned to think at the invitation of James Webb Young's ATechnique 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.

Professor Brad Love

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A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Professor Leslie Moore

Educational Psychology

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An engrossing story of the fate and friendship of two women in modern Afghanistan. I chose this book because in our global

society, it gives a personal face to a country that is now part of U.S. history. While reading about the hardships in the lives of menand women in Afghanistan, I learned about how important creating meaning in life is to people everywhere. This book starts as a

slow read, but hang in there: it quickly becomes a page turner.

Professor Leslie Moore

Educational Psychology

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Alone Together: Why We Expect More From

Professor Keri Stephens

Communication Studies

10:30AM -

12:00PM

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Technology & Less from Each Other

by Sherry Turkle

As you enter college, your mobile phone will come with you. You will use social media to remain connected to your friends and to

learn about the latest meetings and parties on campus. Your devices will enter our classrooms and some of you will Google contentto contribute productively to a class discussion. But our constant connection to technology can also create problems as we learn to

manage our time and create new relat ionships. Alone Together explores the benefits and challenges created by technology.

Professor Turkle invites us to examine our communication and rediscover the humans around us. Her book provides a justification

for why students in my communication technology classes are asked to try to live 24 hours with no communication technologies

and share their experiences with the class. Check out her Ted Talk here:http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together.html

Professor Keri Stephens

Communication Studies

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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

by Katherine Schulz

Professor Nancy Roser

Education

10:30AM -

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This humorous and eloquent study of the values of making mistakes is essential for you to read now, at the beginning of college,because Schulz tells us that mistakes are the beginning of wisdom. Error is both a given and a giftone that can transform our

worldviews, our relationships and, most profoundly, ourselves. Yet most of us go through life tacitly assuming (and sometimes

noisily insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. If being

wrong is so natural, why are we all so bad at imagining that our beliefs could be mistaken?

Professor Nancy Roser

Education

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Change Your Life Through Travelby Jillian Robinson

Professor James Patton

Education

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Travel can and will have an impact on your life in a variety of ways. This nonfiction book sets the backdrop for making travel moremeaningful; our discussion of this book will spark your journeys.

Professor James Patton

Education

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Chasing the High: A Firsthand Account of OneYoung Person's Experience with Substance

Abuse

by K. Keegan & H.B. Moss

Professor Lori K. HolleranSteiker

Social Work

10:30AM -12:00PM

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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

a real experience as well as the expertise of a psychiatrist. It is both intriguing and educational, especially for those that knowsomeone with addiction issues or wonder about their own use.

Professor Lori K. Holleran Steiker
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Social Work

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by Mark Kurlansky

Professor Skip Porter

Marine Science Institute

10:30AM -

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So you think you know who discovered America? Ever get a good fisherman to reveal his best spot? Know what the "Coin of the

Realm" is today, or how it changes? OK then, read COD, lets talk.

Professor Skip Porter

Marine Science Institute

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Professor Elizabeth Richmond-

Garza

English

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In 1887, sitting in a library in London, Bram Stoker created Count Dracula, a villain, who continues to frighten and intrigue us.

Drawing on Transylvanian legends, Stoker invented a dangerous, bloody and exciting vampire who combined the intensity of agothic novel with the terrible reality of the Jack the Ripper murders. From films to novels to computer games, few novels haveinspired so many imitators, and few themes have resonated so strongly across generations of readers.

Professor Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

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Embassytown

by China Mievelle

Professor Shelley PayneMolecular Genetics andMicrobiology

10:30AM -12:00PM

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Embassytown is set in the far future on a planet that humans share with the resident Ariekei. The Ariekei hosts tolerate the

humans, but they speak a language that only a few genetically engineered human Ambassadors can understand. The arrival of a

new Ambassador bring chaos to the carefully balanced society. This is a great science fiction story that, at its heart, is an

exploration of the nature and power of language.

Professor Shelley Payne

Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

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Emmaby Jane Austen

Professor Janine BarchasEnglish

10:30AM -12:00PM

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Published in 1816, this is a classic romantic comedy about a small English village where a local teenage matchmaker, EmmaWoodhouse, 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.
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Professor Janine Barchas

English

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Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensionsby Edwin Abbott

Professor Linda Henderson

Art History

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Flatland has retained its appeal throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. When in the 1995 Halloween episode of The

Simpsons, Homer crossed into the third dimension, he was demonstrating for thousands of viewers one of the key points Abbotthad made in 1884: the advantages gained by accessing a higher spatial dimension. Abbott's allegorical tale is set in a two-

dimensional plane world that denies the existence of more dimensions than its own. A response to the popular fascination with a

possible fourth dimension of space in this period, Flatland continues to offer lessons for us in the era of string theory in physics with

its suggestion of a ten-dimensional universe.

Professor Linda Henderson

Art History

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Gdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas Hofstadter

Professor David Laude

Chemistry & Biochemistry

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This is one of those books that I realize I think back on often when explaining everything from artificial intelligence to

consciousness to the way everything is interconnected, thought it has been around awhile and I read it a long time ago. Studentswho like to think and go, "ah" about the world should read this book if they haven't already.

Professor David Laude

Chemistry & Biochemistry

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Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer asHero

by Charles Sprawson

Professor Carol MacKayEnglish

10:30AM -12:00PM

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Part cultural history, part literary legacy, part memoir, this absorbing account has been called the best celebration of swimming

ever written. In the author's own words, "The peculiar psychology of the swimmer, and his 'feel for water,' form the basic themes ofthis book." (Dr. MacKay confesses that she is a daily swimmer in Barton Springs six months out of the year.)

Professor Carol MacKay

English

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Jane FairfaxThe Secret Story of the SecondHeroine in Jane Austen's Emma

by Joan Aiken

Professor Chiu-mi Lai

Asian Studies

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Fans of Jane Austen's Emma will truly enjoy Jane Fairfax. Before "fan fiction" became a widespread cyber genre, novels that re-imagined classics were called by the misleading term "sequels." Jane Fairfax retells the story of Emma from the perspective of the

"rival" female protagonist, delving into the characterization of Emma from the original novel's first impressions of Emma as spoiled,

complacently self-centered, and somewhat unpleasant. On the surface, Jane Fairfax is a paragon of virtue, but plot twists create

interesting contradictions about this character, and hint that the untold whole story of Jane Fairfax is one worth knowing. As it turnsout, just as with Emma Woodhouse in Austen's novel, Jane Fairfax in Joan Aiken's retelling is not who we thought she was from first

impressions, either.

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Jayber Crow

by Wendell Berry

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An orphan, a barber, a bachelor, Jayber Crow enjoys the company of women, as well as that of the farmers and tradesmen who

frequent his shop (sometimes for haircuts), and moonlights as a church custodian and grave digger. An elegant celebration of the

redemptive power of love and community, Jayber's hard-won acceptance of loss offers a compelling andby contemporary

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quite unusual climax. A precise and moving evocation both of a vanishing lifestyle and of the liberating power of faith.

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Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman can be good company for people looking for a way to live (and love) in troubled times. The poet's America, like ours,

was a bewildering place, deeply divided, proud but fearful. As a man who loved men and who cared little for the business of makingmoney, Whitman stood apart from some sacred American conventions, but in his musings he seems to take us very close to the

land and its people. For voices and visions from all sides he makes ample room in his songs. In their insistent music we hear about

strange possibilities: community made stronger by differences, selfhood both naked and modest, love outgrowing fear.

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Life is Yours to Win: Lessons Forged from the

Purpose, Passion, and Magic of Baseball

by Augie Garrido

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What can you learn about life from someone who has built a national reputation training college students to succeed, during and

after their years at the University of Texas? This book, by famed coach Augie Garrido, leads its readers through a series of helpfullessons about competition, ambition, desire, and self control. You will like reading this book, for it is only superficially about sports.

Life is Yours to Win summarizes a lifetime of insights into human achievement, and its wisdom will help you in every endeavor youtake up.

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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 simplicityand enduring in its appeal, Life's Greatest Lessons will help you find the best in others and in yourself.

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Man's Search for Meaning

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A profound and passionate interpretation of survival and death in Nazi concentration and extermination camps during World War II.Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it. Frankl believes that the quest for meaning is

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spite of suffering and loss.

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Marcovaldo: or the Seasons in the Cityby Italo Calvino

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This is a collection of twenty short stories written by one of the most influential Italian authors of the XX century, Italo Calvino. It's

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My Freshman Year

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difficult job. I chose this book out of my interest in understanding the experience of freshmen today. I hope this book will help

incoming freshmen to anticipate some of the challenges and opportunities that may await them in the year ahead. And I think it'san entertaining read!

Professor Gretchen Ritter

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Not for Sale: The Return of the Global SlaveTrade & How We Can Fight It

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Did you think that slavery was eradicated in the US and across the globe? There is ample evidence that this crime still existsit has

been estimated that 27 million people around the world are bought and sold into modern day slavery every year. Author Batstonesummarizes what is happening and how we can get involved to end it.

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Oedipus Rex

by Sophocles

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Oedipus was written in 5th Century b.c.e. Athens. Fulfilling a prophecy of the Oracle at Delphi, Oedipus kills his father and marrieshis 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.

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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural

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Charles Darwin's Origin of Species has fueled debate about our own origins for nearly 200 years, though the author took pains toavoid discussing human evolution. Dig into his confident, elegantly simple arguments this summer to form your own view of this

perennially controversial subject. Read for free at http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/pdf/Origin_of_Species.pdf, among other

sources.

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Astronomy

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Packing for Mars

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Mary Roach explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toiletto a crash test of NASA's new space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the sciences of life in space

and space on Earth.

Professor Arturo De Lozanne

Biology

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Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas & Winning

New Business

by Jon Steel

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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.

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Persepolisby Marjane Satrapi

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In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Marjane Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years

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Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing up and a reminder of thehuman cost of war and political repression. The intelligent and outspoken only child of committed Marxists and the great-

granddaughter of one of Iran's last emperors, Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her

country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran and the bewildering contradictions between home and public

life. Marjane's child's-eye view of dethroned emperors, state-sanctioned whippings, and heroes of the revolution allows us to learnas she does the history of this fascinating country and of her own extraordinary family. It shows how we carry on, with laughter and

tears, in the face of absurdity.

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by Willard Spiegelman

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At a time when people stressfully complain of how busy they are and feel detached from what they are busy with, Seven Pleasures

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on reading, walking, looking, dancing, listening, swimming, and writing, Spiegelman celebrates living, essentially, for the fun of itthe sheer delight of experience.

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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 lifeas an optometrist in the Midwest, with periodic digressions for space travel, sex, and philosophy.

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Straight Man

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Is this really the way universities are run? Why is there so much in-fighting amongst the faculty when the stakes seem to be solow? Do all my professors want to strangle a goose on live television? Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo addresses these

questions and many more in this hilarious satire of modern campus life. Russo writes with his customary compassion and insight in

what has been called "the funniest serious novel" of recent memory.

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Suits: A Woman on Wall Streetby Nina Godiwalla

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New York City, Wall Street, Investment Banking, oh my!! Follow the tale of this UT graduate as she learns the successes and

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Sustainable EnergyWithout the Hot Air

by David JC MacKay

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This book is a superb example of common sense, quantitative, and non-partisan reasoning applied to one of the most importantproblems of our age. The core chapters are readily accessible to readers with no math or physical science training, yet are widely

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mathematically inclined readers. Above all, this book is a beacon of reason amidst the storm of rhetoric that surrounds our

discussion of energy, and will provide readers of any background with a foundation for understanding the real energy issues behindpartisan rhetoric. The author directs his discussion at a UK audience, but is clearly aware of h is American audience as well. The

author has made a free, downloadable .pdf version available at www.withouthotair.com.

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The Ajax Dilemma

by Paul Woodruff

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I liked the book so much that I bought additional copies for both my children so they would have an opportunity to think about the

issues discussed in the book, and return to them from time to time in the future. There are no facile answers to hard questions, buta thoughtful consideration of personal character traits needed to face difficult decisions. It's very entertainingly written and full of

wisdom. I've been recommending it to everyone.

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Time

by Mark Haddon

Professor Judith JellisonSchool of Music

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Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel is a murder mystery of sorts 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.

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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules

Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow

Professor Michael StarbirdMathematics

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Stephen Hawking says it best: "A wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives. Withinsight he shows how the hallmarks of chance are apparent in the course of events all around us. The understanding of randomness

has brought about profound changes in the way we view our surroundings, and our universe. I am pleased that Leonard has

skillfully explained this important branch of mathematics."

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The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?by Edward Albee

Professor Paul Woodruff

Philosophy, UndergraduateStudies

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A play by our greatest living playwright about a middle-aged architect who has fallen in love and cannot explain this to his wife,son, or best friend. After all, who can explain a personal epiphany? And who IS Sylvia?

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Philosophy, Undergraduate Studies

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The Grizzly Years

by Doug Peacock

Professor Stuart Reichler

Biological Sciences

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Most people do not respond to a stressful situation by putting themselves in further danger, but that is exactly what Doug Peacock

did on his return from the Vietnam war. He wanted to escape human culture, and in the Yellowstone National Park wilderness that

he escaped to, he found grizzly bears. His encounters with these large and potentially dangerous animals allowed him to come to

grips with his wartime experiences. In his book, "the Grizzly Years", Doug Peacock interweaves tales from his days in the Vietnamwar and his time exploring and interacting with grizzly bears to make a compelling story about humans, nature, and our

interdependence on each other.

Professor Stuart Reichler

Biological Sciences

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The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

Professor Mary Steinhardt

Kinesiology and Health

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Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it's 1962, and

her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise woman raising her seventeenth

white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. These three extraordinarily

determined women come together to work on a project that will put them all at risk. A deeply moving novel with poignancy, humor,and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't. It is timely read for first-

year students coming to Texas whose lives are about to be transformed in ways they can't imagine, and who in turn, will go forth

and transform society for the better!

Professor Mary Steinhardt

Kinesiology and Health Education

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The Inheritance of Loss

by Kiran Desai

Professor Pauline StrongAnthropology

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The Inheritance of Loss centers on Kalimpong, a town in northeast India at the foot of the Himalayas. Set in the mid-1980s during aperiod 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, TheInheritance of Loss received the Man Booker Prize in 2006.
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Professor Pauline Strong

Anthropology

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The Mists of Avalonby Marion Zimmer-Bradley

Professor Eric Anslyn

College of Natural Sciences

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The Mists of Avalon tells the tale of King Arthur from the point of view of Morgain (Morgana Le Fay). It gives a totally different

perspective of the Arthurian legends.

Professor Eric Anslyn

College of Natural Sciences

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The Power of Habitby Charles Duhigg

Professor Michael Domjan

Psychology

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We are told we should develop good habits and get rid of bad ones. What are habits anyway? What do they make us to or not do,and why are they so hard to change?

Professor Michael Domjan

Psychology

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

by Edward FitzGerald

Professor Michael Craig HillmanMiddle Eastern Studies

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The most famous English poem based on a foreign language model (Persian quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, d. 1131)) was

the most famous poem in the English-speaking world at the end of the 19th-century. Greatly influencing T.S. Eliot, the Khayyamic

view in FitzGerald's poem presages modern(ist) ideas so important in the 20th century, while the poem itself offers readers a

memorable (and enjoyable) experience of its individualistic speaker. The text is available online at a dozen websites, e.g.,

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/FitRuba.html

Professor Michael Craig Hillman

Middle Eastern Studies

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The Sense of an Ending

by Julian Barnes

Professor Timothy Loving

Human Development & FamilySciences

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A new novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth andsophistication. A middle-aged man contends with a past he has never much thought about?until his closest childhood friends returnwith a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all th is behind as he
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built a life for himself: by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But a

mysterious legacy obliges him to reconsider things he thought he?d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his ownnature and place in the world.

Professor Timothy Loving

Human Development & Family Sciences

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The Social Animal: the Hidden Sources of Love,Character, and Achievement

by David Brooks

Professor Larry Carver

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Harold and Erica were not born geniuses: they did okay on the SAT, are fine looking but not beautiful, play tennis and hike, but are

not gifted athletes. Everyone who meets them senses, however, that they live blessed lives. Why? For New York Times columnistDavid Brooks, the answer lies in how genetics, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, economics, and anthropology play out in real

life. Harold and Erica possess "what economists call non-cognitive skillsa catchall category for hidden qualities that can't be easilycounted or measured." Brooks argues that for a new understanding of human nature that stresses "the relative importance of

emotion over pure reason, social connections over individual choice, character over IQ, emergent, organic systems over linear,

mechanistic ones, and the idea that we have multiple selves over the idea that we have a single self."

Professor Larry Carver

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The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality MakesSocieties Stronger

by Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

Professor Ross Jennings

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Wilkinson and Pickett make an eloquent case that the income gap between a nation's richest and poorest is the most powerful

indicator of a functioning and healthy society. Amid the statistics that support their argument (increasing income disparity seescorresponding spikes in homicide, obesity, drug use, mental illness, anxiety, teenage pregnancies, high school dropouts?even

incidents of playground bullying), the authors take an empathetic view of our ability to see beyond self-interest... Wilkinson and

Pickett do not advocate one way or the other to close the equality gap. Government redistribution of wealth and market forces that

create wealth can be equally effective, and the authors provide examples of both. How societies achieve equality, they argue, isless important than achieving it in the first place. Felicitous prose and fascinating findings make this essential reading.

Professor Ross Jennings

Accounting

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The Unlikely Disciple: a Sinner's Semester atAmerica's Holiest University

by Kevin Roose

Professor Stephen ReeseJournalism

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What happens when a student at one of the country's most liberal Ivy League universities goes undercover at one of the most

conservative evangelical schools? This is his story of that adventure at Liberty University, and what he learnedabout the studentshe met as a participant ethnographer, and about himself.

Professor Stephen Reese
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