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
Young
Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail,
Daniel Vickers (history, chair), Yale University Press,
2005, $35.00
Madhouse: A
Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine,
Andrew Scull
(sociology, professor), Yale University Press, 2005, $30.00
Charlotte:
Being a True Account of an Actress’s Flamboyant
Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London’s Wild
and Wicked Theatrical World, Kathryn Shevelow (literature,
associate professor), Henry Holt & Company,
2005, $27.50
I Never Knew
What Time It Was,
David Antin (visual arts, professor emeritus), University
of California Press, 2005, $16.95
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NIGHTSTAND
Charles Kennel has
been director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography since
1998. We asked
him what books he is currently reading.
Introduction to Three-Dimensional
Climate Modeling
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by Warren M. Washington and
Claire L. Parkinson
The Twilight Years: Paris in the 1930s
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by William Wiser
Climate Change and Biodiversity
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by Thomas E. Lovejoy and
Lee Hannah (Editors) Henry VIII: The King and His Court
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by Alison Weir Sotheby’s: Bidding for Class
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by Robert Lacey Francis Drake: Lives of a Hero
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by John Cummins Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
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by William Manchester One Brief Shining Moment:
Remembering Kennedy
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by William Manchester
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