Plan to write a paper of 5-10 pages. Show in it your understanding of some or all of these topics we discussed in class, by citing the discussion or reading for a particular class session, and citing examples of the topic from your book.
At a minimum, choose four of the eight topics for your paper.
Remember, you each chose a book to read for the semester and now you will use it to support the points you make, in a paper of about 5-10 pages.
| Author Last Name | Author First Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Alexie | Sherman | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| Allen | David | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity |
| Barbusse | Henri | Under Fire |
| Beschloss | Michael | Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times |
| Beyer | Kurt | Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age |
| Bird | Kai | The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames |
| Bloch | Marc | Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence, written in 1940 |
| Bregman | Peter | 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done |
| Brown | Brené | Braving the Wilderness : the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone |
| Brown | Brené | Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts |
| Brown | Brené | Rising Strong |
| Brown | Brené | The gifts of imperfection : let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are |
| Bryson | Bill | A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail |
| Buford | Bill | Among the Thugs |
| Cain | Susan | Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking |
| Chandrasekaran | Rajiv | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone |
| Coleman | Daniel | Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ |
| DeJean | Joan | How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City |
| Diamond | Jared | HCollapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed |
| Dyson | George | Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe |
| Eberhardt | Jennifer | Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do |
| Edgerton | Clyde | Killer Diller |
| Englund | Peter | The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War |
| Fall | Bernard | Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina |
| Fenby | Jonathan | The General: Charles De Gaulle And The France He Saved |
| Fields | Jonathan | Uncertainty: turning fear and doubt into fuel for brilliance |
| Forester | C.S. | The General |
| Freeberg | Ernest | The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America |
| Fussell | Paul | The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations |
| Gertner | Jon | The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation |
| Gopnik | Adam | Paris to the Moon |
| Gordon | Michael & Bernard Trainor | Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq |
| Grant | Adam | Originals: how non-conformists move the world |
| Greene | Graham | Our Man in Havana |
| Hager | Thomas | The Alchemy of Air: A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler |
| Hanson | Neil | Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War |
| Harding | Thomas | The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany |
| Hašek | Jaroslav | The Good Soldier Švejk |
| Heller | Joseph | Catch-22 |
| Herriot | James | All Creatures Great and Small |
| Herriot | James | All Things Bright and Beautiful |
| Herriot | James | All Things Wise and Wonderful |
| Herriot | James | The Lord God Made Them All |
| Hillenbrand | Laura | Seabiscuit: An American Legend |
| Holiday | Ryan | The Obstacle is the Way: the timeless art of turning trials into triumph |
| Isaacson | Walter | The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution |
| Jiwa | Bernadette | Story Driven: you don’t need to compete when you know who you are |
| Jonasson | Jonas | The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared |
| Junger | Sebastian | War |
| Kantor | MacKinlay | Glory for Me |
| Keegan | John | The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme |
| Keegan | John | The Mask of Command: Alexander the Great, Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant, Hitler, and the Nature of Leadership |
| Kimsey-House | Karen | Co-Active Coaching: changing business, transforming lives |
| King | Ross | The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism |
| Kunstler | James | The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape |
| Larson | Eric | In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin |
| Linhart | Robert | The Assembly Line |
| Loewen | James | Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong |
| Logewall | Fredrik | Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam |
| Logewall | Fredrik | Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam |
| MacDonald | Lyn | Somme |
| MacMillan | Margaret | Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World |
| McKeown | Greg | Essentialism: the disciplined pursuit of less |
| Moorehead | Alan | The White Nile |
| Morin | Amy | 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do: take back your power, embrace change, face your fears, and train your brain for happiness and success |
| Mukherjee | Siddhartha | The Gene: An Intimate History |
| Mukherjee | Siddhartha | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer |
| Nicolay | Franz | The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar |
| Nisbett | Richard | The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why |
| Orlean | Susan | The Library Book |
| Owens | Delia | Where the Crawdads Sing |
| Packer | George | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq |
| Packer | George | The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America |
| Painter | Nell Irvin | The History of White People |
| Powers | Thomas | Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb |
| Rosner | Bob | The Boss's Survival Guide, 2E: Workplace 911 for the Toughest Problems Today's Managers Face |
| Rubin | Gretchen | The Four Tendencies: the indispensable personality profiles that reveal how to make your life better (and other people’s lives better, too) |
| Rubin | Gretchen | The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun |
| Salter | James | The Hunters |
| Schlosser | | Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety |
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| Sheehan | Neil | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | Roseanna (Martin Beck Police Mystery #1) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Martin Beck Police Mystery #2) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | The Man on the Balcony (Martin Beck Police Mystery #3) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck Police Mystery #4) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | The Fire Engine That Disappeared (Martin Beck Police Mystery #5) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | Murder at the Savoy (Martin Beck Police Mystery #6) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | The Abominable Man (Martin Beck Police Mystery #7) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | The Locked Room (Martin Beck Police Mystery #8) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | Cop Killer (Martin Beck Police Mystery #9) |
| Sjöwall | Maj and Per Wahlöö | The Terrorists (Martin Beck Police Mystery #10) |
| Slim | Pamela | Body of Work: finding the thread that ties your story together |
| Sloan | Robin | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore |
| Sloan | Robin | Sourdough or, Lois and her adventures in the underground market |
| Slotkin | Richard | Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality |
| Sobel | Dava | The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars |
| Stahlberg | Alexander | Bounden Duty: The Memoirs of a German Officer, 1932-45 |
| Stanier | Michael | The Coaching Habit: say less, ask more and change the way you lead forever |
| Steinbeck | John | Travels with Charley: In Search of America |
| Stoltzfus | Tony | Coaching Questions: a coach’s guide to powerful asking skills |
| Stoltzfus | Tony | Coaching Questions: a coach’s guide to powerful asking skills |
| Tolkien | J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings |
| van Crevald | Martin | Command in War |
| von Senger u. Etterlin | Frido | Neither Fear Nor Hope: The Wartime Memoirs Of The German Defender Of Cassino |
| Walls | Jeannette | The Glass Castle |
| Ward | Jesmyn | Salvage the Bones |
| Westover | Tara | Educated: A memoir |
| Wilkerson | Isabel | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration |
| Winch | Guy | Emotional First Aid: practical strategies for treating failure, rejection, guilt, failure and other everyday psychological injuries |
| Wouk | Herman | The Caine Mutiny |
| Wulf | Andrea | The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World |
| Zuboff | Shoshana | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power |
| Zuboff | Shoshana | In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power |
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