Letters & Science Bookshelf

Our virtual bookshelf features publications authored, translated, or edited by members of the L&S community. To submit a publication, please use this form or email lscomms@berkeley.edu. 

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Title Author Yearsort descending Publication type
The Spectacular Generic Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico Cori Hayden 2022 Book
Embodying Peripheries Edited By: Giuseppina Forte; Edited By: Kuan Hwa 2022 Book
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life Dacher Keltner 2023 Book
Untimely Sacrifices Work and Death in Finland Daena Aki Funahashi 2023 Book
The Word of the Muse Bridgette Portman 2023 Book

Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education

2019

By the end of this decade, the U.S. economy will annually create hundreds of thousands of new jobs requiring a bachelor's degree in STEM fields, particularly computer science. This increasing need for computer scientists, coupled with an inconsistent agenda for managing dramatic shifts in...Read more about Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education

America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories

2019
When published in 1993, America Street was the very first collection of stories about young people growing up in our diverse society. It has informed and inspired hundreds of thousands of readers. Now this influential and much-loved anthology is expanded and updated...Read more about America Street: A Multicultural Anthology of Stories

Imagining World Order

2018

In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and uncertain,

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Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook

2018

Homage to the Black Arts Movement: a handbook pays tribute to the father of that historic literary protest movement, Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), through the writing of Judy Juanita, who encountered him and emulated his work and activism when she was a twenty-year-old student at San...Read more about Homage to the Black Arts Movement: A Handbook

Persian Carpets : The Nation as a Transnational Commodity

2018

Persian Carpets: the Nation As a Transnational Commodity tracks the Persian carpet as an exotic and mythological object, as a commodity, and as an image from mid-

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In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business

2018
We’ve decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes
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Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

2018

Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field makes a formidable intervention into the emerging field of ecopoetics. The volume’s essays model new and provocative methods for reading twentieth and twenty-first century ecological poetry and poetics, drawing on the insights of ecocriticism,...Read more about Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

The Cloud of Unknowing

2018

This anonymous fourteenth-century text is the glory of English mysticism, and one of the most practical and useful guides to finding union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher’s new translation is the first to bring the text into a modern English idiom—while remaining strictly...Read more about The Cloud of Unknowing

Treating Sleep Problems: A Transdiagnostic Approach

2017

This practical manual presents an innovative modular treatment for adults and adolescents with a wide range of

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Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life

2017

“The future of America, its openness and understanding that we, as a nation, have always depended has thrived on the energy, ideas and struggle of immigrants like Alberto Ledesma. The promised land can only be envisioned by the newcomer to our shore. Ledesma’s story, its powerful images, is...Read more about Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life