General Interest and Professional Development Resources
Spring 2019
General Interest
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask in order to survive. Also available in audiobook.
Dear America
by Jose Antonio Vargas
“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book is about the unsettled, unmoored psychological state in which undocumented immigrants like me find ourselves. This book is about what it means to not have a home.” - Vargas
Dare to Lead
by Brené Brown
The future belongs to brave leaders, and Brown has written the ultimate playbook for daring leadership by teaching us to build those muscles with research, stories, examples, and new language. Also available in audiobook.
Heavy
by Kiese Laymon
Heavy is an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family that begins with a confusing childhood and continues through 25 years of haunting implosions and long reverberations.
The World of All Souls
by Deborah Harkness
The guide for Harkness’ All Souls trilogy includes a thorough summary of each title in the trilogy, characters, organizations, magic, science, alchemy, decorative arts, lifestyles, and translations of terms.
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean
Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to show the larger crucial role that libraries play in our lives. With wit, insight, and compassion, she reveals why libraries are an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country.
Happiness is a Choice You Make
by John Leland
Leland, a NY Times journalist, interviews 6 people over the age of 85 about what it means to be alive and present in one’s life. He learns unexpected life lessons about happiness, growing old, and everything in between.
Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies
by Donald A. Barclay
Barclay, a career librarian, takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the complex and nuanced topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information.
Vox: A Novel
by Christina Dalcher
What if women and girls could only speak 100 words a day? Through the eyes of Dr. Jean McClellan, a scientist who is thrust into the world where women are limited on everything, we learn the dangers of silence and the consequences of noncompliance.
Professional Development
Online Teaching at Its Best
by Linda B. Nilson and Ludwika A. Goodson
The approaches outlined in this guide provide practical, real-world advice grounded in educational science to help online instructors, instructional designers, and administrators deliver an exceptional learning experience.
Teaching and Learning STEM
by Richard M Felder and Rebecca Brent
Teaching and Learning STEM offers a collection of practical, research-based strategies for designing and teaching courses as well as assessing students' learning. The strategies outlined can be easily implemented in an established or new course.
Deep Reading
by Patrick Sullivan et al.
This book defines the challenges to integrating reading into the writing classroom, develops a theory of reading as a specific type of inquiry and meaning-making activity, and offers techniques for teaching deep reading that can be put to use immediately.
Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice
by ed. by Maurianne Adams et al.
A classic for teachers across disciplines, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice presents a thoughtful, well-constructed, and inclusive foundation for engaging students in the complex and often daunting problems of discrimination and inequality in American society.
Safe is Not Enough
by Michael Sadowski
Sadowski identifies how educators can make their schools more supportive of LGBTQ students with emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive of LGBTQ students; and initiating effective community outreach programs.
Hitting Pause
by Gail Taylor Rice
This publication draws together research and arguments from a wide range of fields in order to demonstrate that simple, brief activities in class--built around the idea of creating "pauses" for student learning--can have a major positive impact on student success.
