Selected by Nancy Elliott Mukundan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
The Copernican Revolution opened a new world to me, in which science could be, in addition to a set of facts, a way of thinking, a philosophy, a historical movement, and even a culture. Read more...Selected by Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian
Vice Provost for Library Affairs
Adjunct Associate Professor of History
Selected by Anne Firor Scott, Professor Emeritus, Department of History
Since I have read, at a conservative estimate, 8,000 books in the past 80 years, several of which have had a profound influence on my thinking, how to choose? Somewhat arbitrarily, and with a wistful look at Virginia Woolf, George Eliot and other candidates, I fixed on Staffan Burenstam Linder, The Harried Leisure Class. Read more...