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Vacation
Reading 2001
Non-Fiction List
Compiled by Lee-Wang
Cheng Yeng
Head, Users Services Division
NUS Central Library
April 2001
We present below a list of non-fiction titles for your enjoyment. The topics covered range from anecdotes and humour to fashion and jewelry, from globalisation to popular culture and travel.
This list is also available in PDF format
(42KB).
You may wish to refer to our other two vacation reading lists for 2001, namely,
The Booker Prize Winners List and The Nobel Literature Laureates
List.
ANECDOTES & HUMOUR
A cabinet of medical curiosities / Jan Bondeson, 1997.
R706 Bon (CL Main Shelves)
I think, therefore I laugh : the flip side of philosophy / John Allen Paulos, 2nd ed., 2000.
BC71 Pau (CL Main Shelves)
Legal blunders / Geoff Tibballs, 2000.
KB222 Tib (LW Main Shelves)
Of clowns and gods, brahmans and babus : humour in south Asian literatures / Christina Oesterheld, Claus Peter Zoller, eds., 1999.
PK2078 Wit.Of (CL Main Shelves)
Shark tales : true (and amazing) stories from America's lawyers / Ron Liebman, comp., 2000.
KB222 Sha (LW Main Shelves)
The big book of humorous training games / Doni Tamblyn, Sharyn Weiss, 2000.
HF5549.5 Tam.Tr (HL Main Shelves)
The New Yorker book of money cartoons : the influence, power, and occasional insanity of money in all of our lives / Robert Mankoff, ed.; introduction by Christopher Buckley, 1999.
NC1428 New (CL Main Shelves)
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ARCHITECTURE
Architecturally speaking : practices of art, architecture, and the everyday / Alan Read, ed., 2000.
NA2500 Arc (CL Main Shelves)
Asian architects 1 / Tan Kok Meng, ed., with a foreword by Fumihiko Maki, 2000.
NA1460 Asi 1 (CL Main Shelves)
Asian architects 2 / Tan Kok Meng, ed., with a foreword by Kenneth Frampton, 2001.
NA1460 Asi 2 (CL Main Shelves)
The monumental impulse : architecture's biological roots / George Hersey, 1999.
NA2500 Her (CL Main Shelves)
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ART
A World History of Art / Hugh Honour & John Fleming, 5th ed., 1999.
N5300 Hon (CL Main Shelves)
Andy Warhol : drawings and illustrations of The 1950s / Ivan Vartanian, ed., 2000.
NC108 War (CL Main Shelves)
Art matters : how the culture wars changed America / Julir Ault ... [et al.] ; Brian Wallis, Marianne Weems, and Philip Yenawine, eds., 1999.
N72 Soc.Ar (CL Main Shelves)
Artists at work : inside the studios of today's most celebrated artists / David Seidner ; project coordinator, Diana Edkins, 1999.
N6536 Sei (CL Main Shelves)
Classical art and the cultures of Greece and Rome / John Onians, 1999.
N5610 Oni (CL Main Shelves)
Ramayana in the arts of Asia / Garrett Kam, 2000.
BL1139.26 Kam (CL Main Shelves)
The art of modernism : art, culture and society from Goya to the present day / Sandro Bocola, 1999.
N6350 Boc (CL Main Shelves)
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ASIA
After the Asian crisis : perspectives on global politics and economics / Maria Weber, ed., 2000.
DS35.2 Aft (CL Main Shelves)
After the crisis : the social contract and the middle class in East Asia / Nancy Birdsall, Stephan Haggard, 2000.
JC336 Bir (HL Main Shelves)
Asia in Western fiction / Robin W. Winks and James R. Rush, eds., 1990.
PN3352 Asi.A (CL RBR)
Asian nationalism / Michael Leifer, ed., 2000.
DS35 Asi (CL Main Shelves)
Consumption in Asia : lifestyles and identities / Chua Beng Huat, 2000.
HC415 Con.C (CL RBR, CL Main Shelves)
The cultural construction of politics in Asia / Hans Antlov and Tak-Wing Ngo, eds., 2000.
JQ36 Cul (CL Main Shelves)
A history of Asia / Rhoads Murphey, 3rd ed., 2000.
DS33 Mur (CL RBR)
Globalization and networked societies : urban-regional change in Pacific Asia / Yeung Yue-man 2000.
HT147 Eas.Ye (CL Main Shelves)
Informal politics in East Asia / Lowell Dittmer, Haruhiro Fukui, Peter N.S. Lee, eds., 2000.
JQ1499 Inf (CL Main Shelves)
Thunder from the East : portrait of a rising Asia / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, 2000.
DS5 Kri (CL Main Shelves)
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CULTURE
An intelligent person's guide to modern culture / Roger Scruton, 2000.
HM621 Scr (CL Main Shelves)
Culture matters : how values shape human progress / Samuel P. Huntington and Lawrence E. Harrison, eds., 2000.
HM681 Cul (CL Main Shelves)
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CYBERSPACE
Democracy in the digital age : challenges to political life in cyberspace / Anthony G. Wilhelm, 2000.
JF799 Wil (CL Main Shelves)
Digital mythologies : the hidden complexities of the Internet / Thomas S. Valovic, 2000.
HM851 Val (CL Main Shelves)
Mapping cyberspace / Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin, 2001.
QA76.9 Comc.Do (SC Main Shelves)
NetSlaves : true tales of working the Web / Bill Lessard, Steve Baldwin, 2000.
HM851 Les (CL Main Shelves, HL Gen Reading)
Race in cyberspace / Beth E. Kolko, Lisa Nakamura, and Gilbert B. Rodman, eds., 2000.
HT1523 Race (CL Main Shelves)
The internet and society / James Slevin, 2000.
HM851 Sle (CL Main Shelves)
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ETHICS
Cross-cultural perspectives in medical ethics / Robert M. Veatch, ed., 2nd ed., 2000.
R725.5 Cro (CL Main Shelves)
Danger in the field : risk and ethics in social research / Geraldine Lee-Treweek and Stephanie Linkogle, eds., 2000.
H62 Lee (CL Main Shelves)
Developing professional behaviors / Jack Kasar, E. Nelson Clark, eds., 2000.
R724 Dev (HL Main Shelves)
Engineering ethics / Charles B. Fleddermann, 1999.
TA157 Fle (CL Main Shelves)
Ethics and the practice of architecture / Barry Wasserman, Patrick Sullivan, Gregory Palermo, 2000.
NA1995 Was (CL Main Shelves)
Ethics on the job : cases and strategies / Raymond S. Pfeiffer, Ralph P. Forsberg, 2nd ed., 2000.
HF5387 Pfe (HL Main Shelves)
Good care, painful choices : medical ethics for ordinary people / Richard J. Devine, 2nd ed., 2000.
R724 Dei (MD Main Shelves)
Internet ethics / Duncan Langford, ed., 2000.
TK5105.875 Int.In (HL Main Shelves)
Moral issues in business / William H. Shaw, Vincent Barry, 8th ed., 2001.
HF5387 Sha (HL Main Shelves)
Moral measures : an introduction to ethics West and East / J.E. Tiles, 2000.
BJ1012 Til (CL Main Shelves)
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FAMILY
Adult sibling rivalry : understanding the legacy of childhood / Jane Greer with Edward Myers, 1992.
BF723 Sib.Gr (CL Main Shelves)
Becoming an adult stepchild : adjusting to a parent's new marriage / by Pearl Ketover Prilik, 1998.
HQ755.86 Ket (MD Main Shelves)
Divorce & new beginnings : a complete guide to recovery, solo parenting, co-parenting, and stepfamilies / Genevieve Clapp, 2nd ed., 2000.
HQ834 Cla (CL Main Shelves)
Father courage : what happens when men put family first / Suzanne Braun Levine, 2000.
HQ756 Lev (CL Main Shelves)
Fathers, sons & golf : lessons in honor and integrity / Andrew Shanley, 1997.
BJ1671 Sha (CL Main Shelves)
My mother was right : how today's women reconcile with their mothers / Barbara McFarland, Virginia Watson-Rouslin, 1997.
HQ755.85 Mcf (CL Main Shelves)
Tangled lives : daughters, mothers, and the crucible of aging / Lillian B. Rubin, 2000.
HQ755.86 Rub (CL Main Shelves)
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FASHION & JEWELRY
A world of rings : Africa, Asia, America / Anne van Cutsem; photographs by Mauro Magliani ; English translation by Susan Wise, 2000.
NK7443 Ghy.C (CL Main Shelves)
Fashion and its social agendas : class, gender, and identity in clothing / Diana Crane, 2000.
GT525 Crn (CL Main Shelves)
Fashion Asia / Douglas Bullis, 2000.
TT504.6 Asi.Bu (CL Main Shelves, CLSMC)
Jewelry of Southeast Asia / Ann Richter, 2000.
NK7377 Ric (CL Main Shelves)
The fashioned body : fashion, dress, and modern social theory / Joanne Entwistle, 2000.
GT525 Ent (CL Main Shelves)
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FILMS
Action/spectacle cinema : a sight and sound reader / Jose Arroyo, ed., 2000.
PN1995.9 Adv.Ac (CL Main Shelves)
The art and politics of film / John Orr, 2000.
PN1995.9 Pol.Or (CL Main Shelves)
From book to screen : modern Japanese literature in films / Keiko I. McDonald, 2000.
PL747.55 Mcd (CL Main Shelves)
Italian film / Marcia Landy, 2000.
PN1993.5 *Ita.La (CL Main Shelves)
Movies, masculinity, and modernity : an ethnography of men's filmgoing in India / Steve Derne, 2000.
PN1993.5 Ind.De (CL Main Shelves)
Planet Hong Kong : popular cinema and the art of entertainment / David Bordwell, 2000.
PN1993.5 *Hon.B (CL Main Shelves)
Shots in the mirror : crime films and society / Nicole Rafter, 2000.
PN1995.9 Gan.R (CL Main Shelves)
Tinker Belles and evil queens : the Walt Disney Company from the inside out / Sean Griffin, 2000.
PN1999 Wal.Gr (C L Main Shelves)
Walls have feelings : architecture, film and the city / Katherine Shonfield, 2000.
PN1995.9 Cit.Sh (CL Main Shelves)
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GLOBALISATION
The global soul : jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home / Pico Iyer, 2000.
G530 Iye (CL Main Shelves)
The Lexus and the olive tree / Thomas L. Friedman, 2000.
HF1359 Fri (CLRBR, SC Main Shelves)
World view : global strategies for the new economy / Jeffrey E. Garten, ed., 2000.
HD62.4 Wor (CL Main Shelves, HL Main Shelves)
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HEALTH & ILLNESS
The butterfly healing : a life between East and West / Julia Ching, 1998.
BX4705 Chi.Ch (CL Main Shelves)
Creativity and disease : how illness affects literature, art, and music / Philip Sandblom, 5th ed., rev., 1989.
R702 San (MD Main Shelves)
Cheers to life! / by Grace Segran, 2000.
RC279.6 Seg (CL Main Shelves)
Intoxicated by my illness : and other writings on life and death / Anatole Broyard ; Alexandra Broyard, comp. & ed., 1992.
PS29 Bro.B (CL Main Shelves)
On doctoring : stories, poems, essays / Richard Reynolds and John Stone, eds., new, rev. and expanded ed., 1995.
PN6071 Phy.O (MD Main Shelves)
The Outsider : a journey into my father's struggle with madness / Nathaniel Lachenmeyer, 2000.
RC514 Lac (CL Main Shelves)
When illness strikes the leader : the dilemma of the captive king / Jerrold M. Post, Robert S. Robins, c1993.
JF1525 Dec.Po (CL Main Shelves)
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LIFE
It's a meaningful life : it just takes practice / Bo Lozoff, 2000.
BL624 Loz (CL Main Shelves)
Managing with the wisdom of love : uncovering virtue in people and organizations / Dorothy Marcic, 1997.
HD38 Mar (HL Main Shelves)
A 6th bowl of chicken soup for the soul : 101 more stories to open the heart and rekindle the spirit / Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, comps., 1999.
BL624 Six (CL Main Shelves)
The road less traveled and beyond : spiritual growth in an age of anxiety / M. Scott Peck, 1997.
BL624 Pec (CL Main Shelves)
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MUSIC
First nights : five musical premieres / Thomas Forrest Kelly, 2000.
ML63 Kel (CL Main Shelves)
Last night a dj saved my life : the history of the disc jockey / Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, 2000, c1999.
ML3470 Bre (CL Main Shelves)
Music as medicine : the history of music therapy since antiquity / Peregrine Horden, ed., 2000.
ML3920 Mui (CL Main Shelves)
Musical instruments : a worldwide survey of traditional music-making / Lucie Rault, 2000.
ML460 Rau (CL Main Shelves)
Number to sound : the musical way to the scientific revolution / Paolo Gozza, ed., 2000.
ML3800 Num (CL Main Shelves)
The October 2000 issue of the library newsletter LINUS carries a reading list
“Let’s have music now”.
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PEOPLE
The Beatles anthology, 2000.
ML421 Bea.Be (CL Main Shelves)
Bold science : seven scientists who are changing our world / Ted Anton, 2000.
Q171 Ant (MD Main Shelves)
Candid science : conversations with famous chemists / Istvan Hargittai ; Magdolna Hargittai, ed., 2000.
QD21 Can (SC Main Shelves)
Doris Lessing : a biography / Carole Klein, 2000.
PR6023 L639*Kl (CL Main Shelves)
The education of a mathematician / Philip J. Davis, 2000.
QA29 Dav (SC Main Shelves)
Einstein in love : a scientific romance / Dennis Overbye, 2000.
QC16 Ein.Ov (CL Main Shelves)
First person : an astonishingly frank self-portrait by Russian's President Vladimir Putin / with Nataliya Gevorkyan, Natalya Timakova and Andrei Kolesnikov ; translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, 2000.
DK61 Put (CL Main Shelves)
Francois Mitterrand : the last French president / by Ronald Tiersky, 2000.
DC423 Tie (CL Main Shelves)
Harvard business review interviews with CEOs, 2000.
HD38.2 Har (HL Main Shelves)
Hegel : an intellectual biography / Horst Althaus ; Michael Tarse, translator, 2000.
B2947 Alt (CL Main Shelves)
Hirohito and the making of modern Japan / Herbert P. Bix, 2000.
DS889.8 Bix (CL Main Shelves)
Ho Chi Minh / William J. Duiker, 2000.
DS557.23 Ho.Du (CL Main Shelves)
Khomeini : life of the Ayatollah / Baqer Moin, 1999.
DS318.84 Kho.Mo (CL Main Shelves)
Marguerite Duras : a life / Laure Adler ; Anne-Marie Glasheen, translator, 2000.
PQ2607 D952*A (CL Main Shelves)
Out of place : a memoir / by Edward W. Said, 1999.
E184 Pan.S (CL Main Shelves)
Rachel Carson : witness for nature / Linda Lear, 1997.
QH31 Car.L (CL Main Shelves)
Rosalyn Yalow, nobel laureate : her life and work in medicine : a biographical memoir / by Eugene Straus, 1998.
R154 Yal.S (MD Main Shelves)
Susan Sontag : the making of an icon / Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock, 2000.
PS3569 S699*R (CL Main Shelves)
Steven Spielberg : interviews / Lester D. Friedman and Brent Notbohm, eds., 2000.
PN1998.3 Spi (CL Main Shelves)
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography : a critical introduction / Liz Wells, ed., 2nd ed., 2000.
TR145 Pho (CL Main Shelves)
The spoken image : photography and language / Clive Scott, 1999.
TR642 Sco (CL Main Shelves)
Time pieces : photographs, writing and memory / Wright Morris, 1999.
TR642 Mor (CL Main Shelves)
Seizing the light : a history of photography / Robert Hirsch, 2000.
TR15 Hir (CL Main Shelves)
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POPULAR CULTURE
Ads, fads, and consumer culture : advertising's impact on American character and society / Arthur Asa Berger, 2000.
HF5823 Ber (HL Main Shelves)
Cute, quaint, hungry, and romantic : the aesthetics of consumerism / by Daniel Harris, 2000.
BH301 Con.H (CL Main Shelves)
Japan pop! : inside the world of Japanese popular culture / Timothy J. Craig, ed., 2000.
DS822.5 Jap (CLRBR)
Popular culture : production and consumption / C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby, eds., 2001.
E169.12 Pop (CL Main Shelves)
Something completely different : British television and American culture / Jeffrey S. Miller, 2000.
PN1992.3 Uni.Mi (CL Main Shelves)
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SINGAPORE
Civil justice in Singapore : developments in the course of the 20th century / Jeffrey Pinsler, 2000.
KE5190 Pin (LWSMC, LW Main Shelves)
From Third World to first : the Singapore story, 1965-2000 / Lee Kuan Yew, 2000.
DS599.51 Lee (CL Main Shelves, CLSMC, CLRBR, HL Gen Reading, LW Ref Off, SC Ref2)
Governing Singapore : democracy and national development / Raj Vasil, 2000.
JQ729 Vas (CL Main Shelves)
The politics of policy-making in Singapore / Ho Khai Leong, 2000.
JQ729 Ho (CLSMC, CLRBR)
Renaissance city report : culture and the arts in renaissance Singapore / [a report by Ministry of Information and the Arts], 2000.
NX577.2 Sin (CLSMC, CL Main Shelves)
Singapore : architecture of a global city / Robert Powell ; with photography by Albert Lim K.S ; with essays by Chee Li Lian ...[et al.], 2000.
NA1530.12 Pow (CL Main Shelves)
Singapore : the air-conditioned nation : essays on the politics of comfort and control 1990-2000 / Cherian George, 2000.
DS599.63 Geo (CLRBR, CL Main Shelves)
State-society relations in Singapore / Gillian Koh, Ooi Giok-Ling, eds., 2000.
DS599.63 Sta (CLSMC, CLRBR, CL Main Shelves, LWSMC)
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SPORTS
Dragon boats : a celebration / Pat Barker, 1996.
GT4883 Bar (CL Main Shelves)
Masculinities, gender relations, and sport / Jim McKay, Michael A. Messner, and Don Sabo, eds., 2000.
GV706.5 Mas (CL Main Shelves)
Who wins the Olympic games : economic development and medal totals / Andrew B. Bernard, Meghan R. Busse, 2000.
HB1 Wpsn 7998 (CL Main Shelves)
Also accessible to staff and students at: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7998
Wanderlust : a history of walking / Rebecca Solnit, 2000.
GV199.5 Sol (CL Main Shelves)
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TRAVEL
Travel that can change your life : how to create a transformative experience / Jeffrey A. Kottler, 1997.
BF637 Sel.ko (CL Main Shelves)
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UTOPIA
Utopia : the search for the ideal society in the western world / Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, and Lyman Tower Sargent, eds., 2000.
HX806 Uto (CL Main Shelves)
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