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My Personal Favorites

• "B" is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• "K" is for Killer by Sue Grafton
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

Recent Reads

• Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
• Eric by Terry Pratchett
• The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
• The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner
• The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle
• Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind
• Maurice by E.M. Forster
• Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• P is for Peril by Sue Grafton
• The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
• Seven Up
• Fast Food Nation
• The Satanic Verses

Books from Caltech

This new section will be updated periodically.

2002-2003

Ge211 (Stock/Clayton)

2001-2002

ACM95c (Pullin)

• Elementary Applied Partial Differential Equations by Richard Haberman

Ge111a (Clayton/Simons/Stock

• An Introduction to Applied and Environmental Geophysics by John M. Reynolds

Mu22 (Neenan)

• The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera by Roger Parker

Ge66 (Helmberger)

• Modern Global Seismology by Thorne Lay and Terry C. Wallace

Law134

• Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age by Robert P. Merges, Peter S. Menell, and Mark A. Lemley
• The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project edited by Daniel J. Kevles and Leroy Hood

Ph106b (Gubser/Peck)

• Classical Electrodynamics by John David Jackson

ACM95a (Pierce)

• Fundamentals of Complex Analysis for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering by E. B. Saff and A. D. Snider

CS138a (Schulman)

• The Design and Analysis of Algorithms by Dexter C. Kozen
• Algorithms from P to NP: Volume I - Design and Efficiency by B.M.E Moret and H.D. Shapiro

Ph106a (Gubser)

• Analytical Mechanics by Louis N. Hand and Janet D. Finch
• Mechanics by L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz
• Classical Mechanics by Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, and John Safko

2000-2001

Ge/Ay11c (Burnett)

• The New Solar System edited by J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen, and Andrew Chaikin

Psy20 (Camerer)

• Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications by John R. Anderson

Ge11b (Kirschvink)

• Evolution of the Earth by Robert H. Dott, Jr and Donald R. Prothero

Ma2b (Flach)

• Elementary Differential Equations by William E. Boyce and Richard C. DiPrima

Ph2b (Martin)

• Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. Griffiths

CS20a (Arvo)

• ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham
• Elements of the Theory of Computation by Harry R. Lewis and Christos H. Papadimitriou

Ge11a (Eiler)

• Understanding Earth by Frank Press and Raymond Siever
• Exercises in Physical Geology by W. Kenneth Hamblin and James D. Howard

Ma2a (Wilson)

• Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists by Sheldon M. Ross

Ma/CS6a (Wilson)

• Discrete Mathematics with Combinatorics by James A. Anderson

Mu121 (Neenan)

• The Enjoyment of Music: Chronological Version by Joseph Machlis and Kristine Forney

1999-2000

Bi1 (Lester)

• An Introduction to the Mathematics of Biology With Computer Algebra Models by Edward K. Yeargers, Ronald W. Shonkwiler, and James V. Herod
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• Drugs and the Brain by Solomon H. Snyder
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Ec11 (Wilkie)

• Economics by John B. Taylor

Ma1c (Paharipande)

(in addition to Ma1b books)

• Student's Guide to Calculus: Volume III by Frederick H. Soon

Ch1b (Barton/Rees)

(in addition to Ch1a books)

• Beginning Organic Chemistry 1 by Graham L. Patrick

H/SES169 (Yavetz)

• The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought by Thomas S. Kuhn
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• The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics by Richard S. Westfall
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Ma1b

• Calculus II by Jerrold Marsden and Alan Weinstein
• Calculus III by Jerrold Marsden and Alan Weinstein

Ph1b

Two books required and two suggested.

• Spacetime Physics: Introduction to Special Relativity by Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler
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• Electricity and Magnetism by Edward M. Purcell
• Special Relativity by A. P. French
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• Div, Grad, Curl, and All That by H. M. Schey

APh9ab (Scherer)

• Semiconductor Device Fundamentals by Robert F. Pierret

Ch1a (Lewis)

• Principles of Modern Chemistry by David W. Oxtoby, H. P. Gillis, and Norman H. Nachtrieb
• Chemical Bonds: An Introduction to Atomic and Molecular Structure by Harry B. Gray

Hum2a (Brown)

• Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams
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• The Agricola and the Germania by Tacitus translated by H. Mattingly and S. A. Handford
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• Confessions by Augustine translated by F. J. Sheed
• The Song of Roland translated by Robert Harrison
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• The Poem of the Cid translated by Rita Hamilton and Janet Perry
• The Divine Comedy 1: Hell by Dante translated by Dorothy L. Sayers

Hum6a (Barkan)

• Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
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• Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
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• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
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Ma1a (Simon)

None required, but three books are recommended.

• Calculus: Volume I by Tom M. Apostol
• Probability by Jim Pitman

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