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    Astronomy

  • Longitude by Dava Sobel  (QB 225 .S63)
TOP

    Biography

  • American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 – 1964 by William Manchester.  (E 745 .M3 M27)
  • George Washington, A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman.  (E 312 .F83)
  • Harold Macmillan (DA 566.9 .M33 H6 1989)
  • Hilbert, by Constance Reid (QA 29 .H5 R42 1986)
  • John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison. (E 207 .J7 M6 1989)
  • Lincoln by Gore Vidal.  (PS 3543 .I26 L5 1998) (FICTION)
  • Master of Sea Power, A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King by Thomas Buell.  (V 63 .K56 B83 1995)
  • The Nightingale’s Song by Robert Timberg. (Book: E 876 .T55 1995, Videorecording: E 876 .T553 1995)
  • Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglass. (E449 .D75 D68 1997)
  • Nimitz by E. B. Potter.  (V 63 .N55 P67)
  • R. E. Lee, A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman.  (E 467.1 .L4 F83 1943)
  • Shackleton: Books on Sir Ernest Shackleton and his third expedition to Antartica (1914-1916)
  • Tecumseh by John Sugden.   (E 99 .S35 S86 1998)
  • Witness by Whittaker Chambers.  (E 743.5 .C47) 
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Persig.  (CT 275 .P6483 D57 1990)
TOP

    Economics

  • The Ancient Economy, by M. I. Finley. (HC 31 .F5)
  • Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman.  (HB 501 .F7) 
  • The Citizen and the State, George Stigler.  (HD 82 .S834) 
  • Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. (HB 501 .F72) 
  • Economics and the Public Purpose by John Kenneth Galbraith. 
  • The Economist as Preacher, George Stigler.  (HB 71 .S83 1982)
  • The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman. (Book: HF 1359 .F74 1999; Audiovisual: HF 1359 .F74 1999b)
  • The Machine That Changed the World, by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos.  (HD 9710 .A2 W65 1990) 
  • Talking From 9 To 5: How Women's And Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work by  Deborah Tannen.  (HF 5718 .T36 1994)
  • Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L Engerman.  (E 449 .F65)
  • The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. (HB 161 .S646 1961)
  • (HC 106.6 .G344) 
  • The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner. (HB 76 .H4 1999)
TOP

    Education

  • Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom. (LD 571 .B418 S383 1998)
TOP

    Engineering and Technology

  • Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology: An Inside Look at Catastrophes and Why They Happen by James Chiles.  (T 174.5 .C57 2001)
  • Miracle of Flight by Stephen Dalton (TL 570 .D35 1999)
  • Skunk Works by Ben Rich and Leo Janos.  (TL 565 .R53 1994)
  • To Engineer is Human:  The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski.  (Book: TA 174 .P474 1985,  Videotape: TA169.5 .W52 1997 Title:  When Engineering Fails.)
  • The  Woman's  Guide to  Navigating the Ph.D. in Engineering and Science, by Barbara B. Lazarus, Lisa M. Ritter, and Susan A. Ambrose. (TA 157 .L385 2001)
TOP

    Fishing

  • Fly Fishing in Salt Water, Lefty Kreh.  (SH 456.2 .K73 1997)
TOP

    Gender Related Issues

  • The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.  (HQ 1426 .F844 1997)
  • Talking From 9 To 5: How Women's And Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit, and What Gets Done at Work by  Deborah Tannen.  (HF 5718 .T36 1994)
  • You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen. (HQ 734 .T24 1990)
TOP

    History

  • American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880 – 1964 by William Manchester.  (E 745 .M3 M27)
  • American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan. (E 445 .V8 M67 1975)
  • Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.  (Book: E 184 .I6 1966, Audio:  E 184 .I6 M117 1997)
  • Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson.  (E 173 .O94 vol 6)
  • Black Like Me by John Howard Griffen. (E 185.61 .G84 1989)
  • Brave Ship, Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott.  (D 774 .A2 L6 1994)
  • A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (DS 558 .S47 1988)
  • Citizen Soldiers: the U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945.  Stephen Ambrose.  (Book: D 756 .A52 1997, Audiotape: D 756 .A52 1997b)
  • Civil War, A Narrative (3 Volumes) by Shelby Foote.  (E 468 .F7)
  • Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.  (DS 135 .N6 F73413 1995)
  • Emergence of Man (Time/Life Series)  Some volumes in this series are:
    • The Empire Builders.  (DS 66 .H5)
    • The First Americans.  (E 77 .C57)
    • The First Farmers.  (S 421 .L46)
    • The First Horsemen.  (SF 280 .T7)
    • The First Men.  (GN 768 .F57 1973)
    • The Metalsmiths.  (TT 205 .K57)
    • The Neanderthals.  (GN 285 .C66)
    • The Northmen.  (DL 65 .F7)
    • The Persians.  (DS 275 .H5)
  • The Ends of the Earth by Robert Kaplan (DS 10 K345 .1977)
  • The Face of Battle by John Keegan.  (D 25. K43 1976)
  • Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis. (E 302.5 .E45 2000)
  • George Washington, A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman.  (E 312 .F83)
  • The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill.  (Book: D 805 .G3 B713, Videotape:  D 805 .G3 B713 1996)
  • Harold Macmillan (DA 566.9 .M33 H6 1989)
  • In Love and War: the Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years by Jim and Sybil Stockdale. (DS 559.4 .S75 1984)
  • John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison. (E 207 .J7 M6 1989)
  • Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg. (DK 268.3 .G513)
  • Log from The Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck. (F 1246 .S78 1951)
  • The Making of the Middle Ages by Richard Southern.  (CB 351 .S6 1953a)
  • Markings by Dag Hammarskjold.  (D 839.7 .H3 A313)
  • Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman. (DS 135 .P63 S68 1997)
  • The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull. (DT 429 .T87)
  • Any book by Bruce Catton, such as Mr. Lincoln's Army (E 470.2. C37 1962)
  • My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass.  (E 449 .D7838 1968)
  • Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglass. (E 449 .D75 D68 1997)
  • The Nightingale’s Song by Robert Timberg. (Book: E 876 .T55 1995, Videorecording: E 876 .T553 1995)
  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.  (E 169.1 Z53 1980)
  • Peter the Great, His Life and World by Robert K. Massie. (DK 131 .M28 1980)
  • The Puritan Dilemma by E. S. Morgan. (F 67 .W798)
  • R. E. Lee, A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman.  (E 467.1 .L4 F83 1943)
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence. (D 568.4 .L4 1935b)
  • Strategies of Containment by John Lewis Gaddis.  (E 774 .G24 1982)
  • Tecumseh by John Sugden.   (E 99 .S35 S86 1998)
  • Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L Engerman.  (E 449 .F65)
  • The Tragedy of American Diplomacy by William Appleman Williams. (E 744 .W56)
  • The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer. (D 397 .M38 2001)
  • The Two Ocean War by S. E. Morison.  (D 773 .M62)
  • Witness by Whittaker Chambers.  (E 743.5 .C47) 
  • Witness to Gettysburg by Richard Wheeler.  (E475.53.W55 1987)
  • Wrapping Culture by Joyce Hendry. (DS 830 .H45 1993)
TOP

    Humanities (General Works)

  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay. (AZ 999 .M2 1932)
  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams. (DC 20 .A2 1913)
TOP

    Leadership

  • Situational Leadership by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard (Out of print; updated by the videotape Situational Leadership for Supervisors (HD 57.7 .S57 1990)
TOP

    Literature

  • General - American - Arabic - British - Classical - French - German - Greek - Italian - Russian - Spanish

     

    • General
    • The Chemist's English by Robert Schoenfeld.  (PE 1475 .S29 1985) 
    • The Dermis Probe by Idries Shah. (PN 6071 .S85 S49 1980)
    • The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White.  (PE 1408.S772 2000)
    • The Peter Principle by Laurence Peter.  (PN 6231 .M2 P4 1969)
    Literature TOP
      American
    • Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. (PS 3511 .A86 A65 1951)
    • The Agony and the Ecstasy: a novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone (PS 3537 .T669 A64 1961)
    • Airframe by Michael Crichton.  (PS 3553 .R48 A77 1996)
    • All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (PS 3545 .A748 A7 1996)
    • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.  (PS 3535 .A547 A94 1992)
    • Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris (PS 3515.A757 B3 1984)
    • Battle Cry by Leon Uris.  (PS 3541 .R46 B38 1953)
    • Beloved by Toni Morrison. (PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1987, Videorecording: PS 3563 .O8749 B4 1998)
    • The Black Flower, Howard Bahr.  (PS 3552 .A3613 B57 1997)
    • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. (PS 3563 .C337 B4 2001)
    • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.  (Book:  PS 3537 .T3234 C35 1945, Videotape: PS 3537 .T3234 C35 1993)
    • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.  (PS 3558 .E476 C3 1961)
    • Cat's Craddle by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (PS 3572 .O5 C38 1963b).
    • Chesapeake by James Michener.  (PS 3525 .I19 C55)
    • The Children's Story by James Clavell.  (PS 3553 .L365 C5 1989)
    • Cider House Rules by John Irving (PS 3559.R8 C5 1999)
    • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.  (PS 3556 .R3599 C6 1997) 
    • The Covenant by James Michener.  (PS 3525 .I19 C68)
    • The Cream of the Jest by James Branch Cabell.  (PS 3505 .A153 C7 2001)
    • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.  (Book: PS 3525 .I5 156 A6 1995, Videotape: PS 3525 .I5 156 D4 2001)
    • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey (PS 3551 .B2 Z463 1988)
    • Dune by Frank Herbert.  (PS 3558 .E63 D8 1999)
    • Einstein's Dreams by Alan P. Lightman. (PS 3562 .I45397 E38 1993)
    • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. (PS 3553 .A655 E5 1991)
    • Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson. (PS 1608 .A2 F47 1987)
    • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (PS 3515 .E37 F67 1968, Videotape: PS 3515 .E37 F67 1995)
    • Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (PS 3566.R3944 G38 1998)
    • The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers (PS 3566 .O92 G65 1992)
    • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  (PS 3537 .T3234 G8 1986b)
    • Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (PS 3566 .Y55 G7)
    • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  (Book: PS 3511 .I9 G7 1991, Audiotape: PS 3511 .I9 G74 1997).  
    • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.  (PS 3519 .A392 H3 1976)
    • Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (PS 3568 .O3125 H6 1997)
    • The Hunters by James Salter. (PS 3569 .A4622 H86 1997)
    • The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.  (PS 1313 .A1 1996)
    • Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison. (PS 3555 .L625 I53)
    • Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.  (PZ 10.3 .B123 Jo)
    • Just an Ordinary Day by Shirley Jackson.  (PS 3519 .A392 J8 1997)
    • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.  (Book: PS 3569 .H2 K55 1975, Audiotape: PS 3569 .H2 K55 1994, Videotape: PS 3569 .H2 K55 1993)
    • Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson.  (PS 3519 .A392 Z5 1953).
    • Lincoln by Gore Vidal.  (PS 3543 .I26 L5 1998)
    • Log from The Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck. (F 1246 .S78 1951)
    • On the Road by Jack Kerouac. (PS 3521 .E735 O6 1991)
    • Memoirs of A Geisha by Arthur S. Golden (PS 3557 .O35926 M45 1999)
    • Moby Dick by Herman Melville. (PS 2384 .M6 1989, Audiotape: PS 2384 .M6 1987, Videotape: PS 2384 .M6 M62 1990)
    • The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.  (PS 3564 .I9 M6)
    • Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. (PS 3572 .O5 M6 1999)
    • 1919 by John Dos Passos (vol II of his USA trilogy)  (PS 3507 .O743 U5 1946)
    • A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving.  (PS 3559 . R8 P7 1990).  
    • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.  (Book: PS 3513 .I25 P7 1991, Audiotape: PS 3513 .I25 P6 1985)
    • The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (PS 2116 .P6 1995b)
    • Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson.  (PS 3519 .A392 R3 1957)
    • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (PS 3511.A86 R6 1970)
    • The Sand Pebbles: A Novel by Richard McKenna. (Book: PS 3563 .A3155 S26 1984, videotape: PS 3563 .A3155 S26 1986)
    • Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel.  (PS 3561 .N4 S48 1962)
    • The Shipping News by Annie Proulx.  (PS 3566 .R697 S4 1994)
    • Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (PS 3554 .I86 S57 2000)
    • Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey.  (PS 3561 .E667 S6 1988)
    • Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein (PS3515.E288 S75 1997)
    • Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (PS 3515 .E288 S87, Audiotape: PS 3515 .E288 S87 1997
    • Tides of War by Steven Pressfield (PS 3566.R3944.T54 2001)
    • The Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr (PS 3552.A73184 T7 1994)
    • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (PS 2954 .U5 1998)
    • Virtues of War by Steven Pressfield (PS 3566.R3944 V57 2004)
    • Walden by Henry David Thoreau. (PS 3048 . A1 1970)
    • We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson. (PS 3519 .A392 W45 1962)
    • Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.  (PS 3568 .A85 W484 2001)
    • White Jacket by Herman Melville.  (Book:  PS 2384 .W5 1988, Audiotape:  PS 2384 .W5 1983)
    • The Winds of War by Herman Wouk (PS 3545 .O98 W55)
    • Word of Honor by Nelson Demille.  (PS 3554 .E472 W6 1985)
    Literature TOP
      Arabic
    • The Cairo Trilogy by Naghib Maufouz.  (PJ 7846 .A46 C35 2001)
    • The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar (12th Century Persian Poet)  (PK 6451 .F4 M2813 1984)
    Literature TOP
      British
    • The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
      • Justine.  (PR 6007 .U76 J88 1957)
      • Balthazar.  (PR 6007 .U76 B34 1958)
      • Mountolive.  (PR 6007 .U76 M68 1959)
      • Clea.  (PR 6007 .U76 C44 1960)
    • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.  (Book: PR 4611 .A7 1983, Videotape: PR 4611 .A73 A43 1994)
    • Black Dogs by Ian McEwan.  (PR 6063 .C4 B5 1999)
    • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (PR 6015 .U9 B73 1950)
    • Captain Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Forester (PR 6011 .O56 C36 1967) (or any other Hornblower novel)
    • Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. (PR 4854 .C36 E97)
    • The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell (PR 6029 .R8 A6)
    • The Collected Verse of A B Paterson by A B "Banjo” Paterson.  (PR 9619.3 .P28 A17 1982)
    • The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. (PR 4621 .C6 1973)
    • Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne. (PR 6025 .I65 W45 2001)
    • [Complete Works] Edgar Allan Poe (PS 2601 .H3 1965)
    • The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat (PR 6025 .O36 C7 1988, Audiotape: PR 6025 .O36 C7 1977, Videotape: PR 6025 .O36 C7 1993)
    • Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.  (PR 6031.A757 C78 1948)
    • The English Patient, by Michael Odantje.  (PR 9199.3 .O5 E54 1993)
    • Flaubert's Parrot by  Julian Barnes.  (PR 6052 .A6657 F56 1990)
    • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (PR 5397 .F73 1912, Audiotape: PR 5397 .F7 1994)
    • The General by C. S. Forester.  (PR 6011 .O56 G4 1982)
    • Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams.  (PR 6051 .D345 G57 1981)
    • The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Book: PR 9199.3 .A8 H3 1986, Audiotape: PR 9199.3 .A8 H3 1999)
    • HMS Ulysses by Alastair MacLean.  (Paine M163hm 1955)
    • The Hornblower stories by C. S. Forester.
    • Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.  (PR 5318 .A2 D86 1996)
    • London Fields by Martin Amis.  (PR 6051 .M5 L6 1991)
    • Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis.  (PR 6001 .M6L8 1976) 
    • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.  (PR 6068 .U757 M5 1995).   
    • The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (PR 4494 .M62 1999)
    • The Once and Future King by T. H. White.  (PR 6045 .H2052 1958)
    • The Magus by John Fowles (PR 6056 .O85 M30)
    • Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, (PR 6029 .B55 M28 1990, Audiotape: PR 6029 .B55 M28 1992) plus other works in the Jack Aubrey / Stephen Maturin Series by this author.
    • The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (PR 4750 .M39 1984)
    • The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (PR 2825 .A2 M87 1987, Audiotape: PR 2825.A2 G7 1995, Videotape: PR 2825 .A23 1987)
    • Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.  (PR 6068 .U757 M5 1995)
    • Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester. (Book: PR 6011 .O56 M74 1950, Audiotape: PR 6011 .O56 M74 1983)
    • The Once and Future King by T.H. White.  (PR 6045 .H2 O52 1958)
    • Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (PR 4568 .C67 1986)
    • Parade's End by Ford Maddox Ford.  (PR 6011 .O53 P37 1950)
    • Perelandra by C. S. Lewis.  (PR 6023 .E926 P47)
    • Politics and the English Language, in The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell.  (PR 6029 .R8 A6 1968)
    • Possession by A.S. Byatt.  (PR 6052 .Y2 P6 1990)
    • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (PR 4034 .P7 1990, Audiotape: PR 4034 .P7 1980, Videotape: PR 4034 .P7 1998)
    • The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott. 
      • The Day of the Scorpion.  (PR 6069 .C596 D39 1992)
      • A Division of the Spoils.  (PR 6069 .C596 D58 1979)
      • The Jewel in the Crown.  (PR 6069 .C596 J49 1979)
      • The Towers of Silence.  (PR 6069 .C596 T68 1979)
    • Regeneration by Pat Barker.  (PR 6052 .A6488 R4 1961)
    • The Remains of the Day by Kauzuo Ishiguro.  (PR 6059.S5 R46 1990)
    • The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. Book: PR 6005 .H52 R52 1995, Sound recording: PR6005.H52 R52 1989)
    • Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth. (PR 6071 .N8 S3 1992)
    • Selected Poems by W. H. Auden.  (PR 6001 .U4 A17 1959) 
    • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Book:  PR 4034 .S4 1953, Audio CD:  PR4034 .S4 2000)
    • The Story of San Michele (Le Livre de San Michele) by Axel Munthe.  (PR 6025 .U69 S7) 
    • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.  (Book: PR 4571 .C48 1996, Audiotape: PR 4571 .A1 1986, Videotape:  PR 4571 .A1 1990)
    • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.  (PR 4825 .J3 T5 1999)
    • To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (PR 6045 .O72T6)
    • A Treasury of Great Poems, edited by Louis Untermeyer.  (PR 1175 .T74 1993)
    • Waiting for the Barbarians by Joseph Coetzee.  (PR 9369.3 .C58 W3 1982)
    Literature TOP
      Classical Greek and Roman
    • Discourses, by Epictetus.
    • The Iliad by Homer.  (PA 4025 .A2 M85 1999)
    • The Odyssey by Homer.  (Book: PA 4167 .H66 1996, Audiotape: PA 4025 .A5 M36 1996)
    • Tales from Ovid (translated by Ted Hughes) (PA 6522 .M2 H78 1997)
    • Tragedies, by Aeschylus.
    Literature TOP
      French
    • Candide by Voltaire (Book: PQ 2082 .C3 E5 1951, Audiotape: PQ 2082 .C3 E5 1986)
    • The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint Exupe'ry.  (PQ 2637 .A274 P43713 1943) 
    • Maxims by La Rochefoucauld.  (PQ 1815 .A7 1940)
    • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo  (PQ 2286 .A33 1982)
    • Night Flight (Vol de Nuit) by Antoine de Saint Exupe'ry.  In Airman's Odyssey.(PQ 2637 .A274 A23)
    • The Stranger by Albert Camus (PQ 2605 .A3734 E813)
    • A Very Long Engagement by Sebastian Japrisot.  (PQ 2678 .O72 J3613 1994))
    • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (PQ 2603 .E378 E513 1954)
    Literature TOP
      German
    • Faust by Johann Goethe.  (PT 2026 .F2 P25) 
    • The Neverending Story by Michael Ende (PT 2665 .N27 N39 1997)
    • The Reader by  Bernhard Schlink.  (PT 2680 .L54 V6713 1998)
    Literature TOP
      Greek
    • Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.  (PA 5610 .K39 Z6713 1952)
    Literature TOP
      Italian
    • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. (Book: PQ 4315 .D87 1996, Videotape: PQ 4315.17 .C57 1998)
    • Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. (PQ 4865 .C3 P4613 1989)
    • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (PQ 4865 .C6 N613 1983)
    • Pereira Declares by Antonio Tabucchi.  (PQ 4880 .A24 S6613 1995)
    Literature TOP
      Russian
    • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (PG 3366 .A6 1995)
    • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.  (Book:  PG 3326 .B7 G32, Audiotape:  PG 3326 .B7 F5 1997)
    • Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (PG 3476 .P27 D63 1990)
    • Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev. (PG 3420 .O8 E5 1996)
    • Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (PG 3476 .B78 M3 1967)
    • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (PG 3366 .V6 1942)
    • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.  (PG 3476 .Z34 W4)
    Literature TOP
      Spanish/South American
    • Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes (Book: PQ 6329 .A2 1932, Videotape: PQ 6323 .A5 1993)
    • Lazarillo of Tormes  (Anonymous)  (PC 4117 .A52 2000)
    • Life is a Dream by Calderon de la Barca.  (PQ 6292 .V5 C55 1998)
    • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  (PQ 8180.17 .A73 C513 1970)
    • The Poems of St. John of the Cross (PQ 6400 .J8 A26 1989)
    • El Tunel by Ernesto Sabato.  (PQ 7797 .S214 T8 1965)
    Literature TOP
TOP

    Mathematics

  • A First Course in Turbulence by J.L. Lumley and H. Tennekes.  (QA 913 .T44)
  • Flatland by Edwin A. Abbot. (QA 699 .A13 1983)
  • Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter. (QA 9.8 .H63)
  • Hilbert, by Constance Reid (QA 29 .H5 R42 1986)
  • An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics by G.K. Batchelor.  (QA 911 .B33 1999)
TOP

    Medicine and Public Health

  • Plagues and Peoples, by William H. McNeill. (RA 649 .M3)
  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. (RA 418.5 .T73 F33 1997)
TOP

    Music

  • Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. (Music Collection at Circulation Desk)
TOP

    Natural History/Biology/Physiology

  • The Double Helix by James Watson.  (QH 450.2 .W37)
  • How the Mind Works by Stephen Pinker.  (QP 360.5 P56 1997)
  • On Evolution, by John Maynard Smith. (QH 366.2 .M3919)
  • On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin. (QH 365 .O2 1979) 
  • Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold.  (QH 81 .L56 1966)
  • What Is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger (QH 331 .S3557)
TOP

    Naval History and Science

  • Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew (VB 231.U54 S65 1998, Audiotape: VB 231 .U54 S65 1999).
  • Brave Ship, Brave Men by Arnold S. Lott.  (D 774 .A2 L6 1994)
  • The Influence of Law on Seapower by D.P. O'Connell.  (V 25 .O23)
  • John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison. (E 207 .J7 M6 1989)
  • Life in Nelson’s Navy by Dudley Pope. (VA 454 .P66 1981)
  • Master of Sea Power, A Biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King by Thomas Buell.  (V 63 .K56 B83 1995)
  • Nimitz by E. B. Potter.  (V 63 .N55 P67)
  • This People's Navy by Kenneth J. Hagan. (E 182 .H26 1991)
  • The Two Ocean War by S. E. Morison.  (D 773 .M62)
  • The United States Navy: 200 Years  by Edward Beach.  (VA 55 .B36 1986) 
TOP

    Philosophy

  • After Virtue by Alasdair MacInytre.  (BJ 1012 .M325 1984)
  • The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong. (BL 238 .A76 2000)
  • Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche. (B 3313 .G42 E55 1990)
  • The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry (BJ 1409 .S35 1985)
  • The Book of Jewish Values by Joseph Telushkin.  (BJ 1285 .T45 2000)
  • The Death of the Soul by William Barrett.  (BD 421 .B33 1986) 
  • Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre. (B 819 .S32 1977)
  • A History of Western Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell. (B 72 .R8)
  • On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche.  (B 3313 .Z73 D5413 1994)
  • The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. (BD 512.T413 1965)
  • Science And Human Values by J. Bronowski (Q 171 .B8785 1965)
  • The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser. (On order)
  • The Tao is Silent by Raymond Smullyan.  (B 127 .T3 S65 1992)
  • Writings of C. S. Lewis
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig  (CT 275 .P648 A33)
TOP

    Physics

  • Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics by Craig Bohren (QC 861.2 .B64 1987).
  • Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson. (QC 16 .D95 A33 1979)
  • The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein (QC 7 .E5)
  • Foundations of Physics by Robert B. Lindsay and Henry Margenau. (QC 6 .L42)
  • Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein (QC 71 .E54 1954)
  • Magnetic Induction in Iron and Other Metals by Sir James Alfred Ewing (1892) (On Order)
  • QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard Feynman. (QC 793.5 .P422 F48 1985)
  • "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman (QC 16.F49 A37, Audiotape: QC 16 .F49 A37 1998).
  • The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritof Capra. (QC 6 .C277b)
  • University Physics by Frank Sears and Mark Zemansky.  (QC 21.2 .S36 1976)
TOP

    Political Science

  • Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville. (JK216 .T713 2000)
  • Miracle at Philadelphia; the story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September, 1787 by Catherine Drinker Bowen.  (JK 146 .B75)  
  • On Liberty by John Stuart Mill. (JC 585 .M6 1985)
  • Politics, by Aristotle (JC 71 .A41 L67 1985)
  • The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.  (JC 143 .M3813 1997)
  • The Republic by Plato.  (JC 71 .P35 1985)
  • The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer. (D 397 .M38 2001)
TOP

    Psychology

  • Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud. (BF 173 .F682 1962)
  • Don't Sweat the Small Stuff--And It's All Small Stuff by Richard Carlson.  (BF 637 .B4 C35 1997)
  • Escaping the Hostility Trap by Milton Layden. (BF 575 .H6 L39 1977)
  • The Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck.  (BF 637 .S4 P43)
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. (Book: BF 637.S8 C68 1989, Audiotape: BF 637 .S8 C68 1989b)
  • Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn.  (BF 637 .M4 K23 1994)
TOP

    Religion

  • The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong. (BL 238 .A76 2000)
  • The Bible
  • The Book of Romans, New Testament
  • Can Man Live Without God? by Ravi Zacharias.  (BR 128 .A8 Z33 1994b)
  • The City of God by St. Augustine.  (BR 65.A64 E5 1998)
  • Confessions by St. Augustine.  (BR 65 .A6 E5 1991)
  • A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All Life (Book 1) by John Piper.  (BV 4501.2 .P55436 1997 v.1)
  • How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer.  (BR 115 .C5 S33 1976)
  • Letters and Papers from Prison by Deitrich Bonhoeffer.  (BX 4827 .B57 A34 1972)
  • Life of Teresa of Jesus translated by David Lewis.  (BX 4700 .T4 A2 1991)
  • The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell.  (BS 480 .M384 1999)
  • Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton. (BR 121 .C5 1959) 
  • The Path to Tranquility by the Dalai Lama.  (BQ 5580 .B77 1999)
  • Psalms of David (BS 1424 .P73 1996)
  • The Shattered Lantern by Ronald Rolheiser. (On order)
  • The Sleep Walkers by Arthur Koestler (BL 245.K63 1959a)
TOP

    Science (General)

  • The End of Certainty by Ilya Prigogine (Q 175 .P7513 1997)
  • Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue With Nature by Ilya Prigogine. (Q 175 .P8823 1984)
  • Science And Human Values by J. Bronowski (Q 171 .B8785 1965)
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn.  (Q 175 .K95 1970)
TOP

    Sociology

  • Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond. (Book: HM 206 .D48 1997, CD: HM 206 .D48 2001) 
  • The Need for Roots by Simone Weil.  (HM 216 .W352 1971) 
  • News from Nowhere by William Morris. (HX 811 .1890 .M62)

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