UC Berkeley Summer Reading List2017

Uitgereikt door Unversity of California Berkeley

Andere Namen: Berkeley Summer Reading (Engels), UC Berkeley Summer Readin List (Engels)
30 Werken 60,925 boeken 2,874 Besprekingen 4.0
From the website: These readings aren't required; they're offered for pleasure. They've been suggested by Cal faculty, staff, and students as great readings that will introduce incoming students toon meer to a small slice of the intellectual life of the university and perhaps send them exploring the library's rich collections. Also, the readings aren't selected by us, the list's curators. Instead, we ask people on the Cal campus for their suggestions of great readings that would fit within a given theme, and then see what we get. (Also, we don't accept suggestions from publishers or authors.) The list is always potluck, always eclectic, and always full of worthwhile readings. We feel sure you'll find something on one of these lists that will spark your interest. toon minder
Jaren:
Alle, 2024 (4), 2023 (34), 2022 (19), 2021 (18), 2020 (23), 2018 and 2019 (1), 2019 (26), 2018 (19), 2017 (30), 2016 (20), 2015 (13), 2014 (16), 2013 (18), 2012 (12), 2011 (10), 2010 (15), 2009 (10), 2008 (15), 2007 (16), 2006 (14), 2005 (12), 2004 (9), 2003 (12), 2002 (10), 2001 (10), 2000 (23), 1999 (11), 1997 (17), 1995 (11), 1991 (9), 1990 (10), 1989 (8), 1988 (12), 1985 (25)
WerkJaar
Hag-Seed door Margaret Atwood
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy door Kevin Bales
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness door Simone Browne
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Silent Spring door Rachel Carson
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Ready Player One door Ernest Cline
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin door Cornelia Dean
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City door Matthew Desmond
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution door Jennifer A. Doudna
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit door Barry Estabrook
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
De man die bomen plantte door Jean Giono
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream door Sara Goldrick-Rab
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing door Jamie Holmes
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life door Walter Isaacson
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Forked: A New Standard for American Dining door Saru Jayaraman
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Vlieggedrag door Barbara Kingsolver
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Native Speaker door Chang-Rae Lee
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
March: Books 1-3 door John Lewis
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Where Song Began door Tim Low
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation (Design Thinking, Design Theory) door Ezio Manzini
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Hamilton: An American Musical: Original 2015 Broadway Cast Recording door Lin-Manuel Miranda
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
De keizer aller ziektes een biografie van kanker door Siddhartha Mukherjee
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
The Study Quran door Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Why I Write door George Orwell
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
The World We Made: Alex McKay's Story from 2050 door Jonathon Porritt
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis door Robert D. Putnam
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the US-Mexico Boundary door Ronald Rael
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet door Jim Robbins
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today door John Thackara
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Hillbilly Blues door J. D. Vance
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017
Printing Things: Visions and Essentials for 3D Printing door C. Warnier
Theme: What Can We Change In A Single Generation?
2017

Beschrijvingen

From the website: These readings aren't required; they're offered for pleasure. They've been suggested by Cal faculty, staff, and students as great readings that will introduce incoming students to a small slice of the intellectual life of the university and perhaps send them exploring the library's rich collections. Also, the readings aren't selected by us, the list's curators. Instead, we ask people on the Cal campus for their suggestions of great readings that would fit within a given theme, and then see what we get. (Also, we don't accept suggestions from publishers or authors.) The list is always potluck, always eclectic, and always full of worthwhile readings. We feel sure you'll find something on one of these lists that will spark your interest. (English, Door lid geschreven)
From the website: "Since 1985, the University has offered the UC Berkeley Summer Reading List for New Students as one of the welcomes to the incoming classes of freshmen and transfer students. Whether you’re a new student at Cal, an alum, a UC Berkeley employee, or an avid reader who’s found your way to our site (in which case, welcome!), we invite you to have a look at the current list of suggestions as well as an archive of past years’ reading lists." See http://reading.berkeley.edu/index.html. (English, Door lid geschreven)

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