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Textbooks available as eBooks in the Library

Below is a list of textbooks for the Spring 2013 semester that are available to students for free as library ebooks. For other assigned reading that may be available in the library check the course reserves catalog by course or professor: http://catalog.sjlibrary.org/search/p and the library catalog: http://discover.sjlibrary.org/iii/encore_sjsu/

DepartmentCourse # Professor Book Title
AMS169Williamson DThe Working Poor: Invisible in America
AMS169Ormsbee JRagged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
AMS169Ormsbee JThe American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
AMS169Williamson DThe American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
AMS169Ormsbee JThe New Jim Crow
ANTH11Salazar GThe Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder
ANTH100WSTAFFWriting for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article
ANTH125Salazar GBlack Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
ANTH125Salazar GRighteous Dopefiend
ANTH136Gonzalez RBrave New World
ANTH136Gonzalez RAn Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Second Edition
ANTH139WILSONTeaching History with Museums: Strategies for K-12 Social Studies
ANTH151Salazar GInfections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated with a New Preface
ANTH151Salazar GStories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare
ANTH177CATEEveryday Life in Southeast Asia
ANTH179Gonzalez RZapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
ANTH179Gonzalez RDrug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez
ANTH193CATELearning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society
ANTH234Meniketti MPlaces in Mind: Public Archaeology as Applied Anthropology
ANTH234Meniketti MDesigning and Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction
ASIA177CATEEveryday Life in Southeast Asia
BUS4118XKwanService is Front Stage
BUS245KwanService is Front Stage
CMPE140HUNGComputer Organization and Design : The Hardware/Software Interface
CMPE200STAFFComputer Organization and Design : The Hardware/Software Interface
COMM176MORRISONShe's Not There: A Life in Two Genders
COMM151ICoopman TVirtual Methods
DSGN100WLoomis JGraphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field
ECON112Haight CThe Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
ECON158Estill JFoundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
EDCO280Oliver LCounseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice
EDSE218BHAGIE CThe Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome
ENGL1BChow BFactory Girls: Women in the Thread Mills of Meiji Japan
ENGL22Maio SDr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
ENGL22Maio SThe Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
ENGL71Maio SThe Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
ENGL71Maio SThe Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
ENGL126Mesher DMurambi, The Book of Bones
ENGL126Mesher DFatelessness
ENGL139Evans KBring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else
ENGL162English KWalden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
ENGL162English KLeaves of Grass, Second Edition
ENGL202Soldofsky AMy Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
FREN101BDesalvo JGouverneurs de La Rosee
FREN102BDESALVOThe Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge
GERO166Boero NThe Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders
HIST155Katsev AThe Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
HIST177Gendzel GAmerica in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State
HIST189AGendzel GThis Land Was Mexican Once: Histories of Resistance from Northern California
HIST211Vasquez GChurchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.
HIST211Vasquez GFranklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
HUM1AROSTANKOWSKIBeing Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking
HUM100WGeorges JThe Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
HUM119BScaff SThe Canterbury Tales
HUM119BScaff SThe Divine Comedy
HUM169Williamson DThe Working Poor: Invisible in America
HUM169Ormsbee JRagged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
HUM169Ormsbee JThe American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
HUM169Williamson DThe American Dream: A Short History of an Idea that Shaped a Nation
HUM169Ormsbee JThe New Jim Crow
JS132Herrera VClass, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America
LIBR202Rebmann KGlut: Mastering Information Through The Ages
LIBR202Kemp JAmbient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
LIBR202Tucker VAmbient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
LIBR202Rebmann KAmbient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
LIBR202Bolin MAmbient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
LIBR210Liu MReference and Information Services: An Introduction
LIBR220Bodart JThe Readers' Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction
LIBR220Bodart JThe Readers' Advisory Handbook
LIBR221Bontenbal KIntroduction to United States Government Information Sources:
LIBR230Gilman TDefining Relevancy: Managing the New Academic Library
LIBR231Brewsaugh SBest Practices for Corporate Libraries
LIBR231Brewsaugh SThe New Opl Sourcebook: A Guide for Solo And Small Libraries
LIBR240Wile SCreating a Website: The Missing Manual
LIBR240Dean RHTML5: The Missing Manual
LIBR240Parsons AHTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
LIBR244Bedord JThe Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher
LIBR244Tucker VThe Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher
LIBR244Kassel AThe Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook: A Guide for the Serious Searcher
LIBR244Kassel AThe Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)
LIBR246Brown SSocial Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online
LIBR247Weedman JThe Accidental Taxonomist
LIBR248Goetting DLearn Descriptive Cataloging
LIBR250Harlan MUnderstanding by Design
LIBR250Harlan MHow People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
LIBR250Harlan ME-Learning in the 21st Century: A Framework for Research and Practice
LIBR250Harlan MHow People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
LIBR250Harlan MHow People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
LIBR251Kemp JDesigning Interfaces
LIBR251Kemp JInteraction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
LIBR251Kemp JSketching User Experiences: The Workbook
LIBR260APeck PFrom Boardbook to Facebook: Children's Services in an Interactive Age
LIBR261AVelasquez JNew Directions for Library Service to Young Adults
LIBR264Harlan MBorn Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
LIBR265Wrenn-Estes EServing Older Teens
LIBR265Wrenn-Estes EYoung Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism
LIBR267Bodart JThey Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction
LIBR268Tomeo MYoung Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism
LING22STAFFThe Study of Language
LING161Vanniarajan SPathways to Language: From Fetus to Adolescent
MCOM101SOKOLOFFDigital Media Law
NURS202McNieshPhilosophies and theories for advanced practice nursing
PHIL104Mou BChinese Philosophy A-Z
PHIL111GiddingsThe Hippocratic Oath and the Ethics of Medicine
PHIL160Lindahl JTheory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
PHYS240RomanowskyA Survey of Computational Physics: Introductory Computational Science
POLS3Schendan AThe Prince
POLS3Schendan AUtopia
POLS3Schendan AThe Trial and Death of Socrates
POLS3Schendan ADiscourse on the Origin of Inequality
POLS160BPeter KLeviathan
PR191Cabot MPresentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
PSYC191Rattan NMicroaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
PSYC193CATELearning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society
RTVF111WALKERUnsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film
SOCI161Chua PThe New Urban Sociology
SOCI166Boero NThe Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders
SOCI173Bryant-Anderson RUnequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
SOCI177ALANIZThe Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
SOCI193CATELearning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society
SOCI100WMorewitz SDeath Threats and Violence: New Research and Clinical Perspectives
SOCI201BRUDYDiscipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
SOCI201BRUDYAge of Fracture
SOCS177ALANIZThe Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
SPAN202Fountain ACecilia Valdes