Arcadia Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 "Is this required reading? Absolutely not. Do we hope you'll find something on this list that appeals to you? Absolutely yes. This year's list—“Summer Sampler: Selections from First-Year Coursesâ€â€”offers a potluck of great suggestions from a few of our many faculty who teach these courses. If you don't get to one of these readings this summer, you'll be able to find them at one of Cal's many libraries when you arrive. For a look at the many engaging suggestions on previous years' lists, we encourage you to visit the Reading List archive. And, of course, we encourage you to read: avidly, widely, and wildly." http://reading.berkeley.edu/index.html The list: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Katherine BooNew York: Random House, 2012 Welcome to Braggsville T. Geronimo JohnsonNew York: William Morrow, 2015 Hrafnkel's Saga anonymous IcelanderHarmondsworth: Penguin, 1971 Jar City Arnaldur IndridasonNew York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2005 "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" John P.A. IoaniddisPLoS Med, August 30, 2005 The Beauty Bias: the Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law Deborah RhodeNew York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia RankineMinneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014 “Statistical Models and Shoe Leather" David A. FreedmanSociological Methodology, volume 21, 1991 Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash Edward HumesNew York: Avery, 2013 French Lessons Alice KaplanChicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993 Jane Eyre: An Autobiography Charlotte BrontëNew York: Oxford University Press, 2000 Love and Longing in Bombay Vikram ChandraBoston: Little, Brown and Co., 1997 The Ghost Map Steven JohnsonNew York: Riverhead Books, 2006 The Story of Stuff Annie LeonardNew York: Free Press, 2010 The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth KolbertNew York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Thanks for posting that. I am putting together a Scandinavian geography course, and thanks to the list discovered the Scandinavian Studies Dept. at Berkely :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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