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To symbolize that it is possible to balance an academic career with family and laugh along the way!
Sarita V. Adve
Computer Science
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The Age of Uncertainty
John Kenneth Galbraith
This surprisingly enjoyable book opens your eyes to the economic ideas that shape our world and our lives. As scientists and engineers, we take pride in understanding and changing the world but our influence doesn’t compare to the impact of the ideas described here.
Vikram S. Adve
Computer Science
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
James M. Washington
I chose this book because it clearly demonstrates the brilliance of King. Although regarded as a great orator and social activist, he was also a philosopher, theologian, political scientist, author, and essayist. If fate hadn’t intervened, I’m convinced that he would have redirected his brilliance and become a respected artist in his retirement years. Lastly, I look forward to my sons reading this text when they become older. Its relevance is timeless.
Reginald J. Alston
Kinesiology and Community Health
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
Bernd Heinrich
These tales of winter survival embody the core of economics – the study of the allocation of scarce resources – and the setting evokes my childhood home in New England.
Amy W. Ando
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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Women in the Material World
Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel
The book presents portraits of individual women from 20 different countries, ranging from Mali to the U.S. The women talk about their dreams and their difficulties. They point out the importance of control over their fertility and their children’s education; both are topics I research. And the pictures are gorgeous!
Mary Arends-Kuenning
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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Plant Pathology, Fifth Edition
George N. Agrios
I believe this is the most widely used text book in Plant Pathology worldwide. This book has had very significant impact on dissemination of science of Plant Pathology. The fifth edition of the book is probably the last edition prepared by the author.
Mohammad Babadoost
Crop Siences
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DNA: The Secret of Life
James D. Watson with Andrew Berry
With his writings, Jim Watson has inspired generations of young scientists (myself included) and drawn them to the exciting and wonderful world of molecular biology.In this most recent book, he casts the grand ideas and talks about the future challenges that we will face in the next fifty years.
Milan Bagchi
Molecular and Integrative Physiology
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Hungerfield and Other Poems
Robinson Jeffers
The peat fires of Connemara
Armand Beaudoin
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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The best of C. M. Kornbluth
Cyril M. Kornbluth
Kornbluth’s short stories show extraordinary vision and deep insight into human nature.
Florin Boca
Mathematics
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Handbook of Optical Coherence Tomography
Brett E. Bouma, Guillermo J. Tearney, editors
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality that I have been involved with since its inception. I believe OCT will play a significant role in helping to diagnose diseases such as cancer. This book reviews many of the fundamental advances and applications for this technology.
Stephen Boppart
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, Medicine
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From the Ghetto to the Main: The story of the Jews of Montreal
Joe King
We all bring something of our background to the University of Illinois, and this book documents an aspect of the world in which I grew up.
Alvan Bregman
Rare Book and Special Collections Library
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The Glorious Burden : The History of the Presidency and Presidential Elections from George Washington to James Earle Carter
Stefan, Lorant
My father was a high school social studies teacher, and this book was always on our family room bookshelf when I was growing up. I spent countless hours reading it over and again. To this day, I still have a deep interest in the Presidency, politics and public policy, thanks to my father and to this book.
Jeffrey R. Brown
Finance
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The Welfare Economics of Public Policy
Just, Richard, Darrel Hueth, and Andrew Schmitz
Much of my research and teaching is in the area of applied welfare economics. Just, Hueth and Schmitz wrote the standard reference in this field in 1982. Over two decades, it became impossible to find this book. People stole them from libraries. Finally, the authors have revised the book. I want our library to have plenty of copies.
David S. Bullock
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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Communicating Social Support
Daena Goldsmith
I learned more about communication from this book than any others I have read in a long time.
John P. Caughlin
Speech Communication
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S Dweck
‘I love achievement.’ That is what the author once said to me. In this book, the author describes how achievement can be empowering, and how we can empower ourselves to become a successful person.
Chi-yue Chiu
Psychology
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Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Gregory Bateson
Steps to an Ecology of Mind has been an extremely influential book in my life. I discovered it during my undergraduate years spent at UIUC and based my Bachelor’s Thesis on it and Bateson’s other work. The ideas and problems Bateson raises have yet to be confronted in any adequate way today even though he astutely anticipated many of the predicaments we now face.
Daniel Thomas Cook
Advertising
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I selected Handling Sin because it has given me great joy for nearly twenty years. It is a life-affirming grand comic adventure novel, that can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of age/race/gender,class, etc. I find I read it of necessity when the egregious behavior of humankind gets me down. The authors love of humanity–warts and all–shows through clearly, and is a refreshing reaffirmation of ‘possibility’ and hope in the best and worst of circumstances. Plus, it’s just plain fun.
Lisa Gaye Dixon
Theatre
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Mind, Language and Reality: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2
Hilary Putnam
These brilliant early papers by Hilary Putnam, especially The Analytic and the Synthetic, Dreaming and ‘Depth’ Grammar, and The Meaning of ‘Meaning’, have inspired and deeply influenced me.
Gary Ebbs
Philosophy
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Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology
Hermann Ebbinghaus
This is the first book I checked out from the library stacks as a first-year graduate student. This book (originally published in 1885) is historically important because it showed that memory (and by extension other mental processes) could be studied scientifically and quantitatively. In this day and age in which I am studying memory and aging processes as they unfold in the brain, I still find this book, and the pioneering work of Ebbinghaus, inspiring.
Monica Fabiani
Psychology
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The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (eds. Patricia Hampl and Dave Page)
F. Scott Fitzgerald and I share the same hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota. When I was a child, my mother shared with me her love of Fitzgerald’s short stories about St. Paul and its people. This volume is the first to collect them all together in one place. No one captures the sparkling, icy, breathtaking cold of a Minnesota winter night quite like Fitzgerald.
Cara A. Finnegan
Speech Communication
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Theoretical Astrophysics, Volume I: Astrophysical Processes
Thanu Padmanabhan
This book reviews the foundations of modern astrophysics, from cosmology to the structure of stars. It is as complete an introduction to the field as one could hope to find in one volume, and a real treasure for both graduate students and professors!
Charles F. Gammie
Astronomy and Department of Physics
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The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
A colleague told me of this little self-help book and he recommended that I read it. I did, and I enjoyed it very much. It was a refreshing break from the grind of work.
Timothy A. Garrow
Food Science and Human Nutrition
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Courts
Martin Shapiro
A classic in comparative law, and the masterpiece of my PhD advisor.
Tom Ginsburg
Law
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Lectures on conversation edited by Gail Jefferson
Sacks, Harvey
This book is a seminal work in the field. With his lectures, Sacks became the founder of an entire field ‘Conversation Analysis.’
Andrea Golato
Germanic Languages and Literatures
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Words and rules: The ingredients of language
Steven Pinker
I found the research questions addressed in this book to be so fascinating as to convince me to accept the ideas it advanced, and embark upon an entirely new research program.
Peter Golato
French
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Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
The book tells an important story about modernity and enlightenment. As a former Peace Corps volunteer and now professor, having social impact is important. Sinclair Lewis deftly teaches us about humility and respect for our fellow human beings as we set about trying to change the world around us.
Peter Goldsmith
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
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John von Neumann
Collected Works
John von Neumann was an astoundingly creative mathematician and innovator with significant contributions to mathematics, economics and computer science. His work is inspiration to many of us; his utter brilliance is quite humbling.
Christoforos Nikos Hadjicostis
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Acoustic Phonetics
Kenneth Noble Stevens
When I joined Ken Stevens as a doctoral student in 1991, his book Acoustic Phonetics already existed in the form of a series of lecture notes that were being continuously revised and re-ordered. He intended this book as, in effect, an updated and expanded version of Gunnar Fant’s definitive 1960 text, The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production. Ken continued working on the book during the entire period of my doctoral and post-doctoral studies. During this time, light banter about the progress of his book was a continuous source of amusement and inspiration for his students and colleagues. We could all see, clearly, that he refused to publish the book until everything in it was correct; we could also see that, in so doing, he was postponing its publication to the point of absurdity. The book was finally published in 1999, the year that I came to Urbana as an Assistant Professor. The most highly reputed phoneticians in the world have called this ‘the key sourcebook for many years to come.’ Indeed, it gives me pleasure to share the birth of my career with a textbook that is designed to be definitive for the next 40 years.
Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Harry Bolton Seed Volume
National Academy of Engineering
Prof. Seed is a pioneer in the geotechnical eathquake engineering field. This book acquaints the reader with the professional legacy of Prof. Seed and his numerous contributions.
Youssef Hashash
Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Self-theories
Carol S. Dweck
This book can change a person’s life. It presents two frameworks, based on my mentor Carol S. Dweck’s lifetime of research, within which people understand themselves and other people. One framework predicts emotional misery and maladaptive reactions in the face of setback, whereas the other framework predicts resilience. This book enables readers to reflect on the framework they would like to use in their life.
Ying-yi Hong
Psychology
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Evolution in Age Structured Populations, Second Edition
Brian Charlesworth
It was written by my Ph.D. supervisor, and it has been the most influential book in my professional career. In it, Brian Charlesworth develops the mathematical theory of evolution in organisms with overlapping generations (where different ages coexist at the same time, like in humans). The evolutionary process in these kinds of organisms is complicated because it involves the interaction of genetics, natural selection, and population demography. This theory has profound implications for many of the most fundamental problems in evolutionary biology: life-history evolution, the evolution of senescence (aging), kin selection, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems.
Kimberly A. Hughes
Animal Biology
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You tai xian guan bi ji
Yu, Yue
While I was being treated for cancer, I tried to read this book and could not, no longer able to end the sentences. Once I recovered, I could read it again, and came to see the book and its author as my companion in a dark hour. I couldn’t bear to return it to the library for a long time.
Rania Huntington
East Asian Language & Cultures
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Posttranslational Modification of Proteins: Expanding Nature’s Inventory
Christopher T. Walsh
Neil L. Kelleher
Chemistry
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Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies, and Case Studies
David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kamisky, Edith Simchi-Levi
A nice mixture of theory and practice written by experts in the field
Diego Klabjan
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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Citizen Soldiers
Stephen E. Ambrose
A great book about how the independent actions of ordinary soldiers in WWII, collectively lead to an extraordinary outcome. It follows their responses to day to day difficulties, and how they overcame these most challenging times order to do their job.
Robert V. Knox
Animal Sciences
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
It was the first book I remember that dealt with issues of social justice.
Sandra Kopels
Social Work
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Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis
This book has had a strong impact on my intellectual as well as my spiritual development. Lewis not only taught me to think critically about my earlier bias against Christianity; he also trained me to think more critically about philosophical assumptions in general, including those underlying my discipline.
Irene Koshik
English as an International Language
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Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
“But it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”
The Phantom Tollbooth taught me about learning and exploration and the wonders of imagination. I was even more fortunate to have my own Milo to guide me through life, foster my desire to learn and set me on my journey to becoming a teacher.
Robin Kravets
Computer Science
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Principles of Psychology
William James
It exemplifies qualities I admire: keen observation, courage, originality, and great writing.
Frances E. Kuo
Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences
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Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism and Process in Physiologcal Evolution
Peter W. Hochachka and George N. Somero
Written by my academic Great Grandfather and Grandfather, this book is the last in a series of essays that has profoundly influenced my thinking, research, and career.
Kurt E. Kwast
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
Leonard Q. Ross (Leo C. Rosten)
This book humorously portrays both a joy and a frustration similar to those I have experienced over the last six years in working with students on research and in teaching!
James M. LaFave
Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Concrete (2nd Edition)
S. Mindess and J.F. Young, and D. Darwin
This book is the leading textbook in the field of concrete materials, the area of my work. One of the authors, UIUC Professor Emeritus Francis Young, was instrumental in recruiting me to come to the University, and served as an influential mentor through the years.
David A. Lange
Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Areopagitica and Other Political Writings of John Milton
John Milton
Milton’s classic defense of freedom of expression against censorship remains a viable argument almost four hundred years later. First introduced to this work as an English major on this campus, it has come to personally represent for me a central tenet of my professional code of ethics as a librarian.
Mary S. Laskowski
University Library
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Home Advantage
Annette Lareau
Lareau’s work is interesting to me as a scholar of social class differences in students’ learning, but it is perhaps even more enlightening to me as a former working-class kid who is now a middle-class parent.
Sarah Theule Lubienski
Curriculum and Instruction
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America , 2nd Edition
John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman
Intimate Matters is a model for doing work that centralizes the intersectionalities of race, class, gender and sexuality. In addition to being a great read on the history of sexuality in the U.S., it’s an easy book to teach.
Cris Mayo
EPS
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Voices of the Mind: A Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action
James V. Wertsch
Voices of the Mind has served as an inspiration for my research, teaching, and personal life. The author has provided a scholarly, innovative, yet accessible explication of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. The book demonstrates how the mind develops through engagement in dialogue with the social world.
Sarah Jane McCarthey
Curriculum and Instruction
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Cyclic Homology
Jean-Louis Loday
Randy McCarthy
Mathematics
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3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres
A. Marshak
One of the most pressing problems in better predicting future scenarios of global climate change is obtaining a better understanding of three-dimensional cloud radiation effects. I selected this book because it gives an overview of issues in this field that are not represented in any other book in the university library.
Greg McFarquhar
Atmospheric Sciences
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Chasin The Trane
Thomas, J. C.
I selected this book because it documents the life of the artist who has had the most musical impact on my life as a performing artist and my passion, jazz improvising. Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane has influened millions of jazz musicians throughout the world and is one of my earliest and deepest influences. His sound and expressiveness were the main two elements that brought me to jazz and continue to inspire me!
Charles L. McNeill
Music
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How to Set Parameter. Arguments from Language Change
David Lightfoot
This book opened my eyes and my heart to the study of my current disccipline when I was a graduate student.
Silvina Montrul
Spanish Italian and Portuguese
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Mutants of Maize
M. Gerald Neuffer, Edward H. Coe, Susan R. Wessler
The visually dramatic variations in the morphology of the maize plant are fascinating to all who observe them and have contributed greatly to our understanding of plant biology. This book documents the interesting history and science of maize genetics and presents exciting opportunities for future discovery.
Stephen Moose
Crop Sciences
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The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
Most important, this is a fabulous adventure story, but it is also a sly meditation on good and evil, consciousness, and many other grand issues. It is also wonderful to see a science fiction update of Paradise Lost!
Daniel Morrow
Institute of Aviation
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The Good Soldier Svejk: His Fortunes in the World War
Jaroslav Hasek
This book describes the 1914-1918 World War I in Europe through eyes of the good soldier Svejk. However, looking at the world situation today, many of Svejk’s observations are very timely. I often think about this book when reading about the current world affairs.
Klara Nahrstedt
Computer Science
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Blessings
Anna Quindlen
This author so beautifully describes how an act of kindness can transform people’s lives.
Ann M. Nardulli
Molecular and Integrative Physiology
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Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
Valentino Braitenberg
The clever thought experiments in this entertaining little book got me hooked on trying to understand brains, behavior, and the evolution of intelligence.
Mark E. Nelson
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
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Human Adjustment to Floods
Gilbert F. White
This 1945 book was a reprint of White’s 1942 dissertation at the University of Chicago. By taking a broad view, he redefined flooding as a problem of both natural and human systems. His view is now the basis of U.S. floodplain management policy. His dissertation was an inspiration to me as I wrote my dissertation.
Robert Olshansky
Urban and Regional Planning
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Time Series Analysis and Its Applications
Robert Shumway and David Stoffer
This book is about a very fascinating topic, written by even more fascinating statisticians who love their work but love life even more.
Hernando Ombao
Statistics
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
This book is one of my husband’s favorites. I hope it brings the reader as much joy as it has brought him.
Cornelia C. Otnes
Business Administration
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Selections From the Prison Notebooks
Antonio Gramsci
Gramsci’s prison notebooks–his merging of humanism and science–have profoundly affected social theories in fields as unlike as archaeology (my own) is, from sociology and political science. It is essential for any understanding of the ancient or present-day world.
Timothy R. Pauketat
Anthropology
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Fracture of Functionally Graded Materials, Special Issue of the International Journal of Engineering and Fracture Mechanics (Vol. 69, Nos. 14-16) Elsevier 2002
G. H. Paulino, Editor
Research on functionally graded materials (FGMs) considers, in a large sense, functions of gradients in materials comprising thermodynamic, mechanical, chemical, optical, electromagentic, and/or biological aspects. I hope that whoever reads this statement will be motivated to learn more aobut the fascinating field of FGMs.
Glaucio Paulino
Civil & Environmental Engineering
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The Hunting of the Quark
Michael Riordan
This book is a fascinating description of the early years of modern elementary particle physics. It describes the first experiments to definitively prove that protons and neutrons are not fundamental particles, instead they are made of smaller objects known as quarks.
Kevin T. Pitts
Physics
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Friction: An Introduction to Tribology
Bowden and Tabor
Tribology, ‘the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion and all practices related thereto,’ became an important scientific discipline due to Bowden and Tabor’s work. The book is very well conceptualized, written in a simple way, yet addresses many of the complexities involved in this field, and has been a great inspiration for me.
Andreas A. Polycarpou
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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Asian American Psychology : the Science of Lives in Contex
Sumie Okazaki
My wife is co-editor of this book.
Allen M. Poteshman
Finance
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The Gormenghast Trilogy
Peake, Mervyn
The University of Illinois Library has been a great place for me. My life and research have been enriched immeasurably by the books I found in the collection, and the Gormenghast Trilogy symbolizes perfectly what a great library is about. I discovered the Library’s worn paperback copies of it when I needed some pleasure reading while completing a reserach project. The characters and especially the sense of place evoked by the books will never leave me. They are great works of imaginative fiction and I hope this copy of Peake’s masterpiece enjoys a long and widely read life in the library
Chris Prom
University Archives
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Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty
Effective teaching and student advising require an ability to recognize the student’s natural abilities, as well as their shortcomings. Phil Jackson coached the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships, and managed to unify a diverse group of role players and stars with a superstar named Michael Jordan. I believe that excellence in teaching and in coaching athletics (as pointed out by Phil Jackson) require similar types of skills.
Dean E. Riechers
Crop Sciences
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The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
Thomas Blass
This book captures something unusual for my field of social psychology (or any scientific field for that matter): a charismatic ‘character’ who in addition to pushing the boundaries of the field was also the sort of colorful personality who would be at home in a comedic novel.
Neal Roese
Psychology
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Cat’s Eye
Margaret Atwood
Deliberate abstruseness is not a virtue. Thus, I recommend the works of Margaret Atwood to young researchers; when we write a research paper, we should choose our words as carefully as does Atwood. Her novels are works of art, and also terrific stories. Cat’s Eye is one of my favorites.
Elyse Rosenbaum
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Mark A. Noll
This book implores Evangelicals not to abandon intellectual rigor and the life of the mind for the sake of mere comfort or simplicity. Its indictment of modern evangelicalism inspired me to pursue a career in the academy.
Thomas J. Rudolph
Political Science
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Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation
Stephen H. Penman
It is the first book connecting in a comprehensive way the principles of modern finance and financial statements produced by the accrual accounting system. It is also the first book that fully exploits the articulation of financial accounting in carrying out financial statement analysis for equity security valuation.
Theodore Sougiannis
Accountancy
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Restoring Nature: Perspectives From the Social Sciences and Humanities
Paul Gobster and Bruce Hull
Restoring Nature has enlarged the scope of restoration ecology from the province of environmental biologists to a broad range of experts and citizens concerned with healthy communities, social justice, and quality of life in developed areas. It aligns with my research directed at building healthy communities in which human connections to nature are transparent and community culture appreciates environmental ‘services.’ This edited volume has helped me recognize new roles for parks and their planning processes. Both Paul Gobster and Bruce Hull are friends who have been part of my growth and development.
William Stewart
Recreation, Sport and Tourism
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ESV Reformation Study Bible
Edited by R.C. Sproul
The ESV (English Standard Version) Reformation Study Bible is a scholarly work that combines the latest translation research with insight on reformed Christian theology as the 500th anniversary of the Reformation nears. It is an invaluable resource for anyone who wishes to better understand the most important book in history.
Rick Strand
School of Architecture
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Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907
Hamm, Thomas D.
I chose this book to honor Tom Hamm, my favorite undergraduate history professor. As part of a grant funded seminar in which faculty and students conducted primary research for publication, Tom loaded up the class in the Earlham van and toured the area where our research subjects, whose lives we were uncovering through minutes and land records, lived and worked. The power of place and local history was never more vivid.
Ellen Swain
University Library/Archives
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
This book has no special academic significance to me, it’s just a pleasure to read.
Patrick Vargas
Advertising
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Candide
Voltaire
Candide’s incisive social satire is as hilarious and relevant now as when it was written. It also has a lot to say about academic careers: ‘I would be glad to know which is worst, to be ravished a hundred times by Negro pirates, to have one buttock cut off, to run the gauntlet among the Bulgarians, to be whipped and hanged at an auto-da-fe, to be dissected, to be chained to an oar in a galley; and, in short, to experience all the miseries through which every one of us [who are Professors] hath passed, or to remain here doing nothing?’
‘This,’ said Candide, ‘is a grand question.’
Venugopal V. Veeravalli
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Ethica symbolica e fabularum umbris in veritatis lucem varia eruditione
M. Pexenfelder
This book is a late example of the “mens emblematicus, ” consisting of so-called “nude emblems” and demonstrating how classical texts can be read as religious ones. His examples are the stuff emblems are made of. I very much wanted an emblem book to be purchased as it reflects both a prominent collection strength and an area of my research.
Mara Wade
German Deparment
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History of Structuralism (vols. I & II)
Francois Dosse
Theory always has a history, even as it tries to abstract patterns from the intellectual, cultural, social and political formations of any historical moment. In this wonderful two-volume study, Dosse illuminates some of the most influential theories of our own moment by situating them within their formative contexts.
Julia A. Walker
English
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Xi shi xiu xiang zhen cang ben hong lou meng / Cao Xueqin, Gao E zhu ; Zhou Shuwen dian jiao ; Gai Qi hui xiang.
Cao, Xueqin, ca 1717-1763.
It is one of the greatest novels in Chinese literature and one of my favorite since I was 12. This volume has some nice pictures illustrating the story and characters, which may be enjoyed even if you don’t read Chinese!
Ranxiao Frances Wang
Psychology
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Dreams of a Final Theory
Steven Weinberg
This book captures the intellectual excitement of elementary particle physics better than any that I know of. I recall reading it right around the time that I was offered a position at the University of Illinois, so it has special meaning to me.
Scott Willenbrock
Physics
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Poor People’s Movements
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward
Cynthia Williams
College of Law
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This book came out when I started my academic career, and has since been a beacon.
Xudong Zhang
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
I chose this book because it inspired me during my teen years to follow my own path and gain knowledge through personal experience. As thought by Siddhartha, one must find the source within one’s own self.
Federico A. Zuckerman
Pathobiology