UCSD
BOOKSTORE TOP 12 LIST
Ever wonder what the students and faculty are reading? Here
were the top 12 bestsellers at the UCSD bookstore this past quarter.
 1. Bookseller
of Kabul, Asne Seierstad, Back Bay Books, 2004, $12.95
2. 9/11
Commission Report, National Commission of Terrorist Attacks, W.W.
Norton & Company, 2004. $10.00
3. The
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon, Vintage
Books, 2004 $12.00
4. The
Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler, Villard, 2000 $12.95
5.
It’s My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of
the GOP and the Future of America, Christine Todd Whitman, Penguin
Press
HC, 2005 $24.95
6. Coming
to Our Senses, John Kabat-Zinn , Hyperion, 2005 $24.95
7. America
(The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction, Jon
Stewart and the writers of the Daily Show Warner Books, 2004 $24.95
8. Animals
in Translation, Temple Grandin Catherine Johnson Scribner, 2005,
$25.00
9. A
Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple
Numbers, Pi Press, 2005, $24.95
10. VDHL
for Designers Stefan Sjoholm, Lenart Lindh Prentice Hall PTR, 1997,
$70.65
11. Complexity:
Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Mitchell M. Waldrop,
Simon & Schuster, 2002, $14.00
12. Leadership
and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational
Leadership, Ken Blanchard and Patricia Zigarmi, William Morrow,
1999, $20.00
Visit the UCSD
Bookstore online to purchase these titles and more. Look
out for the monthly Alumni
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NEW FACULTY BOOKS
Democracy
in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective, Peter H. Smith (political science, professor)
Oxford University Press, 2005, $24.95  MORE
Joining
the Conversation: Dialogues by Renaissance Women,
Janet Levarie Smarr (theatre and dance, professor) University
of Michigan Press, 2005, $70.00 MORE
On
Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, Steven
Adler (theatre and dance, professor), Southern Illinois
University Press, 2004, $27.00 MORE
Contentious
Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public
Schools, Amy J. Binder (sociology,
associate professor),
Princeton University Press, 2004, $19.95 MORE
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NIGHTSTAND
Provost Cecil Lytle's Booklist
We asked him what books he is currently reading.
London: The Biography—by Peter
Ackroyd
Bebop to Cool: Context, Ideology,
and Musical Identity— by
Eddie S. Meadows
A Love Supreme: The Making of
John Coltrane’s Masterpiece
— by Ashley Kahn
Fruitful and Multiplying: 9 Contemporary
Plays from the American Jewish Repertoire
— edited by Ellen Schiff
Memories of a Hyphenated Man
— by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz Urueta
Everything & Nothing
— by Jorge Luis Borges, et al.
The Invention of Solitude
— by Paul Auster
No More Killing Fields: Preventing
Deadly Conflict
— by David A. Hamburg
...and lots
of Beethoven Piano sonatas
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