Recommended Books
Fall 2009
Ethics (PHL 106-0H1) and Introduction to Global Studies (SSC
201-0H1)
Holly Graff and Richard Stacewicz
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond......This book is a must-read. It addresses the question of why some people have so much and other have so little. It discusses key events that are usually not sufficiently emphasized such as the domestication of plants and animals. Diamond's account of the devastation of the indigenous population of the Americas is especially important.
Collapse by Jared Diamond
1491 by Charles Mann......
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred Crosby
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
The Invasion of America by Francis Jennings
The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and
Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild........A description of what happened in the Congo under
the rule Belgium
The Darker Nations: A People's
History of the Third World
by Vijay Prashad
Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
Language, Thought, and Reality by Benjamin Whorf
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Recommended Films
An Inconvenient Truth
Food, Inc.
Author: Hollace Graff
Oakton Community College
Updated: August 17, 2009