Books
A special collection, Class Book Related Readings, is located
in the Bentley Library near the Reference Desk. The books
may be checked out. Titles include:
D.H. Lawrence: A Study of the Short Fiction
by Weldon Thornton
Twayne, 1993
A critical introduction to Lawrence's short fiction.
Includes selected criticism, biographical materials,
chronology of the author's life and works, a
comprehensive primary bibliography and a selected
criticism bibliography.
Flourishing:Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived
by Corey L.M. Keyes and Jonathan Haidt
American Psychological Association, 2003
An analysis of being mentally healthy and the rationale
for studying fulfillment, morality, and other factors that
make life worthwhile.
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cambridge University Press Edition, 1991
The Great Gatsby, first published in 1925, is considered
to be Fitzgerald's greatest novel, and a remarkable study
of the American Dream -- the green light. "Gatsby believed
in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year
recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter
- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther.....
And one fine morning ---- " (p.141)
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
by E.F. Schumacher
Hartley & Marks Publishers, 1999
The 25th anniverary edition of this classic collection
of essays on humanistic economics. Contemporary
commentaries analyze the impact of Schumacher's
philosophy on current political and economic thought.
Stumbling on Happiness
by Daniel Gilbert
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
Drawing on psychology, cognitive neuroscience,
philosophy and behavioral economics, Gilbert
challenges universal assumptions about happiness
such as the joys of money.
Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
by Henry David Thoreau: edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer
Yale University Press, 2004
This authoritative edition of the American classic text
first published in 1854 is supported with extensive and
useful annotations by the curator of collections at the
Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods.
