May 2006

Dear Readers,
My faculty colleagues across the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences have put together this list of recommended texts, organized by academic discipline. We're not claiming that these, much less only these texts are absolutely essential for the various disciplines in the College. We're not creating the ultimate eternal canon! Indeed, many of these texts have sparked great intellectual controversy and continue to do so. Such textual provocations may have much to teach us. We're simply offering, as educators, our considered suggestions for some of the texts we think students, prospective students and lifelong learners would do well to consider. We hope you'll engage many of them as conversation partners throughout your educational journey, and we hope you'll add to the list with your own insights and discoveries.
Happy reading!

Jeff Carlson
Dean, Rosary College of Arts and Sciences

Accounting

David Grayson Allen, et al., Accounting for Success: A History of Price Waterhouse in America, 1890-1990

Peter Bernstein, Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street

Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

Dan M. Guy, D. R. Carmichael, and Linda Lach Ethics for CPAs: Meeting Expectations in Challenging Times

Guy Lander, What is Sarbanes-Oxley?

Claire B. May and Gordon S. May, Effective Writing: A Handbook for Accountants

Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, The Smartest Guys in the Room: THe Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Charles W. Mulford and Eugene E. Comisky, The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices

Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino, A History of Accountancy in the United States: The Cultural Significance of Accounting

Howard M. Schilit, Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports

African/African-American Studies

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Ifi Amadiume, Reinventing Africa: Matriachy, Religion and Culture

Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

Joseph L. Graves, The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America

Ali Mazrui, The Africans: A Triple Heritage

Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Tavis Smiley, ed., The Covenant with Black America

Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

American Studies

Dorothy Allison, Trash: Stories

W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

Mitchell Duneier, Slim's Table: Race, Respectability and Masculinity

Gary Gerstle, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century

Jacqueline D. Hall, et al., Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

George Lipsitz, Time Passes: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture

Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society

Carroll Smith Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian American

Thomas Schlereth, Artifacts and the American Past

Teri Agins, The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever

Elizabeth Wayland Berber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Fred Davis, Fashion, Culture, and Identity

Sara Forden, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

James Laver, Costume and Fashion: A Concise History

Mary Litrell and Marsha Dickson, Social Responsibility in the Global Market: Fair Trade and Cultural Products

Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

Paco Underhill, Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping

David von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire the Changed America

Art History

Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle, ed., Critical Theory Since 1965

Machael Baxandall, Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Richard Bolton, Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts

Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, ed., Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

Lucy Lippard, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America

Griselda Pollock, Differencing the Canon: Feminst Desire and the Writings of Art's Histories

Howard Singerman, Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University

Giorgio Vasari, et al., Lives of the Artists

Heinrich Wolfflin, Principles of Art History

Biology

Rachael Carson, Silent Spring

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

John H. Langdon, The Human Strategy: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Anatomy

Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

Gregor Mendel, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation

James D. Watson and Francis H. C. Crick, Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribonucleic Acid

James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

Business Administration

Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

Joan Magretta and Nan Stone, What Management Is: How it Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

Burton Malkiel, A Random Walk Down Wall Street

Blaine McCormick, Ben Franklin: America's Original Entrepreneur

David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising

Al Ries and Jack Trout, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

James Womack, et al., Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

Sergio Zyman, The End of Marketing as We Know It

Chemistry

Peter W. Atkins, The Periodic Kingdon: A Journey into the Land of Chemical Elements

Simon Garfield, Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World

Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

Barbara Marinacci, ed., Linus Pauling in His Own Words

Rollo May, The Courage to Create

Mark J. Plotkin, Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures

James D. Watson, The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

Barry Werth, The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug

Communication/Corporate Communication

Paul A. Argenti, Corporate Communication

Charles Berger and Steven Chaffee, ed., Handbook of Communication Science

Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Edward T. Hall, The Silent Language

Edward T. Hall, Beyond Culture

Richard D. Lewis, When Cultures Collide

Richard D. Lewis, The Cultural Imperative: Global Trends in the 21st Century

Terri Morrison, Wayne A. Conaway, and George A. Borden, Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries

Stephen P. Robbins, Organizational Behavior

Computer Science

Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Dorothy Denning, Cryptography and Data Security

Robert Glass, Software Creativity

Brian Kernighan and J. P. Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style

Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming

Susan Lammers, ed., Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry

Gerald Weinberg, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation

Edward Yourdon, Classics in Software Engineering

Criminology

Howard S. Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance

Steven Bogira, Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

William J. Chambliss, On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents

Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Emile Durkheim, Suicide

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison

Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory

Jay McLeod, Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low Income Neigborhood

Richard Quinney, The Social Reality of Crime

Jeffrey Reiman, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class and Criminal Justice

Economics

Alfred D. Chandler, The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

R. H. Coase, The Firm, the Market and the Law

Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time On the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Milton Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

John Kenneth Galbriath, The Affluent Society

Robert Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers

Donald L. Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

Education

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Teacher

Lisa Delpit, Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom

Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

David William Jardine, et al., Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning: Thinking the World Together

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time

Sherrie Reynolds, Learning is a Verb: The Psychology of Teaching and Learning

Harry and Rosemary Wong, The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher

English

Jane Austen, Emma

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Charles Dickens, Bleak House

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

James Joyce, Dubliners

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

John Milton, Paradise Lost

Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

W. B. Yeats, The Collected Poems

French

Guillaume Apollinaire, Alcools and Calligrammes

Marguerite Duras, Moderato Cantabile

Annie Ernaux, Journal du dehors

Marie de France, Lais

André Gide, L'immoraliste

Eugène Ionsesco, La cantatrice chauve

Louise Labé, Sonnets

Molière, Tartuffe

Francis Ponge, Le parti pris des choses

Alain Robbe-Grillet, La jalousie

Graphic Design

Josef Albers, Interactions of Color

Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Steven Heller, Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design

Ellen Lupton, Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture

Donald Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Paul Rand, Design, Form and Chaos

Gunnar Swanson, ed., Graphic Design and Reading: Explorations of an Uneasy Relationship

Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information

Wolfgang Weingart, My Way to Typography

History

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre

W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

Joyce Oldham Appleby, Telling the Truth About History

Alfred W. Crosby, The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of Prison

Karl Marx, A Reader, ed. Jon Elster

Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession

David Warren Sabean, The Power in the Blood: Popular Culture and Village Discourse in Early Modern Germany

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

International Business

Robert Christopher, The Japanese Mind

Ted C. Fishman, China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

Vijay Govindarajan and Anil K. Gupta, The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage

Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad, Competing for the Future

Geert Hofstede, Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind

Jehad al-Omari, The Arab Way: How to Work Effectively with Arab Cultures

C. K. Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradication Poverty Through Profits

Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time

Martin Wolfe, Why Globalization Works

International Relations & Diplomacy

Inis L. Claude, Power and International Relations

Winston Churchill, Marlborough, His Life and Times

John Fairbanks and Merle Goldman, China: A New History

Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace

George Frost Kennan, Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin

Henry Kissinger, A World Restored

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

John G. Stoessinger, Why Nations Go to War

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe

Italian

Dante Aligheri, La Divina Commedia

Giovanni Boccaccio, Il Decameron

Italo Calvino, Il barone rampante

Carlo Goldoni, Commedie

Niccolo Machiavelli, Il Principe

Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi

Eugenio Montale, Tutte le poesie

Elsa Morante, La Storia

Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere

Luigi Pirandello,

Journalism

Steve Borgira, Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

Brant Houston, Len Bruzzese and Steven Weinberg, The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases and Techniques

Philip Knightley, The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq

Alex Kotlowitz, There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America

Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

New Yorker Articles within the past four years, by Ken Auletta, Seymour Hersh or Calvin Trillin

Romenesko's Media News: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45

Mike Royko, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago

Paul Starr, Creation of the Media: The Political Origins of Modern Communications

Hunter Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

Mathematics

Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimension

E. T. Bell, Men of Mathematics

John L. Casti, Mathematical Mountaintops: The Five Most Famous Problems of All Time

Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

Martin Gardner, Mathematical Games

G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Darell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Lynn M. Osen, Women in Mathematics

Music

Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Wake, Awake, a Voice is Calling), perf. Ramey Ameling, cond. Raymond Leppard

Johann Sebastian Bach, The "Goldberg Variations" perf. Glenn Gould, pianist

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony #5 in C Minor perf. Cleveland Orchestra, cond. George Szell

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonatas (Moonlight, Pathetique, Appassionata), perf. Rudolph Serkin, pianist

Johannes Brahms, Symphony #1 in C Minor, perf. Cleveland Orchestra, cond. George Szell

Frédéric Chopin, The Four Ballades, perf. Artur Rubinstein, pianist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), perf. Schwarzkopf, Taddei, Moffo; cond. Carlo Maria Guilini

Robert Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben (Woman's Life and Love), perf. Fredericka Von Stade, soprano.

Igor Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), perf. Cleveland Orchestra, cond. Pierre Boulez

Richard Wagner, Die Walkuere, perf. Behrens, Norman, Morris; cond. James Levine

Nutrition Sciences

Isabel Allende, Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

Andrew Gilman and Karen Berg, Get To The Point: How To Say What You Mean and Get What Your Want

Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Lori Hartwell, Chronically Happy: Joyful Living in Spite of Chronic Illness

Ron Hoff, Say It In Six: How to Say Exactly What You Mean in Six Minutes or Less

Rhoda Makoff and Jeffrey Makoff, Get Off The Fence! The 10 + 1 Steps to Help You Make That Big Decision

Michael Powell, Behave Yourself: The Essential Guide to International Etiquette

Howard M. Shaprio, Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss: The Visual Program for Permanent Weight Loss

Robert L. Wolke, What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained

Abdo S. Yazbeck, David R. Gwatkin, Adam Wagstaff, ed., Reaching the Poor With Health, Nutrition, and Population Services: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why

Painting & Drawing

Joseph Albers, The Interaction of Color

Rudolf Arnheim, Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting, ed. Martin Kemp

Robert Hughes, Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists

James Lord, A Giacometti Portrait

Henri Matisse, Matisse on Art

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Roger Shattuck, The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War One

Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Emile Zola, L'Oeuvre

Pastoral Ministry

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

Austin P. Flannery, ed., Documents of Vatican II

Bernard Häring, Free and Faithful in Christ

Joseph Martos, Doors to the Sacred: A Historical Introduction to Sacraments in the Catholic Church

Henri Nouwen, The Wounded Healer

Thomas F. O'Meara, Theology of Ministry

Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity

Edward Schillebeeckx, Ministry: Leadership in the Community of Jesus Christ

James D. Whitehead and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Method in Ministry: Theological Reflection and Christian Ministry

Philosophy

John Dewey, Democracy and Education

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Reason in History

William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

Gabriel Marcel, Creative Fidelity

Plato, Apology

Plato, Republic

Max Scheler, Selected Philosophical Essays

St. Teresa of Avila, Life of Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus: The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila

Photography

Michelangelo Antonioni, et al., The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema

Thomas Barrow, ed., Reading into Photography

Peter Bunnell, The Eye That Shapes: The Photographs of Minor White

Robert Frank, The Americans

Jean-Luc Godard, The Future(s) of Film

Vicki Goldberg, ed., Photography in Print

Jonathan Greene, American Photography: A Critical History, 1945 to the Present

Henry Horenstein, Black and White Photography: A Basic Manual

Bill Jay, Occam's Razor: An Outside-In View of Contemporary Photography

Susan Sontag, On Photography

Physics

Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Tom Clancy, The Sum of all Fears

Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

John Cornwell, Hitler's Scientists: Science, War, and the Devil's Pact

Albert Einstein, Special Relativity

Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics

John Gribbin, In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Kip S. Thorne, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Political Science

Aristotle, Politics

Fredrick Douglass, Selected Speeches and Writings

Alexander Hamilton, et al., The Federalist Papers

Abraham Lincoln, et al., The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

Plato, Republic

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History

Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Psychology

John Dollard and Neal E. Miller, Personality and Psychotherapy: An Analysis in Terms of Learning, Thinking, and Culture

Albert Ellis, A Guide to Rational Living

Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Michael S. Gazzaniga, The New Cognitive Neurosciences

William James, The Principles of Psychology

Ulric Neisser, Cognitive Psychology

Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person

Nancy K. Schlossberg, Retire Smart, Retire Happy: Finding Your True Path in Life

B. F. Skinner, The Behavior of Organisms

B. F. Skinner, Science and Human Behavior

Sociology

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment

W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor

Paulo Friere, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Eduardo Galeano, The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination

Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World

Dorothy E. Smith, The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology

Spanish

Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus

Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha

Rubén Darío, Azul

El Poema de El Cid

Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina

Benito Pérez Galdós, Misericordia

Federico García Lorca, El romancero gitano

Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad

Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

Theatre Arts

John Barton, Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's Guide

Jo Bonney, ed., Extreme Exposure: Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century

Peter Brook, The Empty Space: A Book About the Theatre: Deadly, Holy, Rough, Immediate

Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club

Paolo Freire, Education for Critical Consciousness

Susan Jonas, Geoff Proehl and Michael Lupu, ed., Dramaturgy in American Theatre

Robert Edmond Jones, The Dramatic Imagination

Kristin Linklater, Freeing the Natural Voice

Constantine Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, Creating a Role

Theology

Introduction to St. Thomas Aquinas, ed. Anton C. Pegis

St. Augustine, Confessions

Ian G. Barbour, Issues in Science and Religion

The Holy Bible

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Jacques Dupuis, Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism

Martin Luther: Selections from his Writings, ed. John. Dillenberger

John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua

Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity

St. Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle