Click here to see summaries of each book (taken from Amazon.com) or click on the title to go directly to its entry on Amazon. Remember that I need your choice on Monday; email me if you'll be out of school.
Books Relating to Medicine:
• Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
• How Doctors Think
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Books Relating to American History & Contemporary Politics:
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
• The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
• Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
• A Walk in the Woods
Books Relating to the Workforce:
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
• Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Books Relating to Struggling in America:
• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
• Random Family
• Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America’s Educationally Underprepared
Books Relating to Negotiating Cultural Differences:
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• Paris to the Moon
Books Relating to the Nature of Good and Evil:
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
• In Cold Blood
Books Relating to Language & Literature:
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
• The Power of Babel
Books Relating to Science & Technology:
• The Mismeasure of Man
• Silent Spring
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
• The Female Brain
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