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Interdisciplinary Studies
116 Living Learning Center
Academic Building
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
Phone: 828.262.3177
Fax: 828.262.6400
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Book of the Summer | Featured Books
Faculty & Staff Picks: Beaulieu, Buchanan, Carp, den Biggelaar, Gerber, Gonzalez, Huntley, McFadden, Meixell, Reichle, Stanovsky, Wentworth, Wood
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WATAUGA COLLEGE FACULTY & STAFF PICKS
Below are some favorite books chosen by the faculty and staff of Watauga College. If you're looking for something more to read, you might want to consider one of these.
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Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice, edited by Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers, Routledge 2003; ISBN: 0415943205
Martha McCaughey is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of Women's Studies at ASU, and teaches in both the Watauga College and Internet Studies programs. She is also the editor along with Neal King of Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies and the author of Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense. |
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The Toni Morrison Encyclopedia, edited by Elizabeth Beaulieu, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003; ISBN: 0313316996
Betsy Beaulieu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and a member of the Watauga College and Women's Studies faculties. She is also the author of Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered . |
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Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth Century Feminism by Margaret McFadden, University Press of Kentucky, 1999; ISBN: 0813121175
Maggie McFadden is a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University and a member of the Watauga College and Women's Studies faculties. An interview with Professor McFadden about her book is also available online. |
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Betsy Beaulieu
Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden
I Know Just What You Mean: The Power of Friendship in Women's Lives by Ellen Goodman and Patricia O'Brien
Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Wit by Margaret Edson |
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Harriette Buchanan
Man and Microbes: Disease and Plagues in History and Modern Times by Arno Karlen
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
The Balm of Gilead Tree: New & Selected Stories by Robert Morgan
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
The Store of Joys: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary, edited by Huston Paschal and Reynolds Price
The Songcatcher: A Ballad Novel by Sharyn McCrumb
Oral History by Lee Smith
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Richard Carp
The Senses Still: Perception and Memory As Material Culture in Modernity, edited by C. Nadia Seremetakis
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics in Our Time: A Reader, edited by Walter Jost and Michael J. Hyde
Sensuous Scholarship by Paul Stoller |
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Christof den Biggelaar
A Language Older than Words by Derrick Jensen
The Web of Life: A New Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof Capra
Technological Change in Agriculture: Locking in to Genetic Uniformity by Dominic Hogg
Regenerating Agriculture: Policies and Practice for Sustainability and Self-Reliance by Jules Pretty
The Unnatural Nature of Science by Lewis Wolpert
The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community by Malidoma Patrice Somé
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Slanted Truths: Essays on Gaia, Symbiosis and Evolution by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan, and Philip Morrison
Imaginings of Sand by André Brink
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane
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Bud Gerber
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. Best "read" on cassettes because of McCourt's remarkable voice, accent, singing, and expression. Begins in Brooklyn and goes to Ireland. Intense image of the poverty of the Depression in USA and Limrick.
Snow in August by Peter Hamill. Terrific book about growing up Catholic and Jewish in NYC after WWII.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden. A brilliant account of Japanese village culture and the Geisha culture of Kyoto in this century. By a Harvard Asianist. |
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Joe Gonzalez
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
The Tao of Abundance, by Laurence G. Boldt
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Vol. I, II & III by Robert Caro
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Liar's Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict 1500-2000 by Paul Kennedy |
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David Huntley
The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing by Thomas McGuane
The Earth Is Enough: Growing Up in a World of Fly Fishing, Trout, & Old Men by Harry Middleton and Russell Chatham
On the Spine of Time: A Fly Fisher's Journey Among Mountain Streams, Trout, and Peopleby Harry Middleton
Listening to the Landby Derrick Jensen
Dalva and The Road Homeby Jim Harrison |
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Maggie McFadden
Boderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva
The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner
Cracking India by Bhapsi Sidwa
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis
Reindeer Moon by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
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Joan Meixell
Posters of the WPA by Christopher Denoon and Chris Denoon
Prints and Printmaking: An Introduction to the History and Techniques by Antony Griffiths
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America by Jonathan Harris |
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Pete Reichle
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear by Lori Arviso Alvord & Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
Forgiveness by Robin Casarjian
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer
Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder-Full Self by Sark |
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Derek Stanovsky
Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences by Slavoj Zizek
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internetby Lisa Nakamura
Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford
The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs, edited by John Bowe, Marisa Bowe, and Sabin Streeter |
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Jay Wentworth
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations, by Clive Ponting
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines |
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Cynthia Wood
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Days and Nights of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marques
With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today by Daniel Rothenberg
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture and the Past by Sidney Mintz
Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes by Mary J. Weismantel |
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