Grad School

Grad school can focus on individuals attending graduate school, or else an age range, especially popular in the New Adult genre. ...more

The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Elements)
Constellation Route
Pollution Is Colonialism
Booked
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848–1920
In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West
Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Mrs. Dalloway
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Jane Eyre
The Tempest
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association(r)
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
To the Lighthouse
Orientalism
Othello
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Atmospheres by Peter ZumthorThe Poetics of Space by Gaston BachelardA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. AlexanderTwenty Buildings Every Architect Should Understand by Simon Unwin
An Architect Reads
102 books — 11 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreSpillover by David Quammen
Public Health Must Reads
39 books — 20 voters
A New Theory of Urban Design by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Phenomenon of Life by Christopher W. AlexanderA Vision of a Living World by Christopher W. AlexanderHassan Fathy by Salma Samar DamlujiArchitect's Handbook of Construction Detailing by David Kent Ballast
architect reads - part 2
100 books — 2 voters

Summer Sons by Lee MandeloHex by Rebecca Dinerstein KnightThe Starless Sea by Erin MorgensternThe Entanglement of Rival Wizards by Sara RaaschSunsets & Other Dangerous Things by Dani  Frank
Queer Grad Students
19 books — 5 voters
Surviving Your Stupid Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School by Adam RubenPiled Higher and Deeper by Jorge ChamGetting What You Came For by Robert L. PetersA PhD Is Not Enough! by Peter J. FeibelmanGraduates in Wonderland by Jessica Pan
Best Books about Graduate School
53 books — 39 voters


Norbert Wiener
What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are in an age where the enormous per capita bulk of communication is met by an ever-thinning stream of total bulk of communication. More and more we must accept a standardized inoffensive and insignificant product which, like the white bread of the bakeries, is made rather for its keeping and selling properties than for its food value. This is fundamentally an exter ...more
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

Lev Grossman
And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.
Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

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