The Course Reserves shelf, on the upper level of the Library, has all required AND recommended books for current Olin courses. Students can borrow a reserves book for three hours at a time to ensure equal access. To borrow a Reserves item fill out the paper sign out/in sheet on top of the shelf. Reserves should be returned directly to their course section (and not our regular Returns cabinet). Required films on DVD, and external DVD drives are also available. Using Course Reserves can help students save money and reduces environmental impact.
On this page Course Reserves are sorted by course name and professor. Click the drop down for your class for a complete list of your class's required and recommended readings. Links to eBooks and audiobooks are also included when available. If you have any questions or if you don't see a book you're looking for email us at
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AHSE
AHSE1122: The Wired Ensemble - Instrusments, Voices, Players | Diana Dabby
- The Study of Orchestration by Samuel Adler
AHSE1155: Identity From the Mind & the Brain: Who Am I and How Do I Know | Jon Adler
- Capturing the Friedmans
- The Synaptic Self by Joseph E. LeDoux
AHSE1160: Democracy and Media | Erhardt Graeff
- Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When We're Gone by Astra Taylor
- What Should We Do? by Peter Levine
- I Never Thought of it That Way by Mónica Guzmán
- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Buisness by Neil Postman
- How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century by Hanrie Han
- People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democractic Renewal by Marshall Ganz
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Prostest by Zeynep Tufekci
- On Democracy by Robert Dahl
- The Citizen Solution: How You Can Make A Difference by Harry Boyte
- Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tears Us Apart by Nicholas Carr
- The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes
- Democray Inside: Participartory Innovation in Unlikely Places by Albert Dzur
- Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations an dStates Albert Hirschman
- Deomcracy Despite Itself by Danny Oppenheimer and Mike Edwards
- The AI Mirror How to Reclaim our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor
AHSE1199: Foundation Topics: The Fiction of Self | Gillian Epstein
AHSE2112-01: Six Books that Changed the World | Rob Martello
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: authorirative text, backgrounds, and contexts, criticism by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Feminine Mystique: contexts, the scholarship on the feminine mystique by Betty Friedan
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, edited by Frederic L. Bender
- Darwin: texts commentary selected and edited by Philip Appleman
- Silent Springs & Other Writings on the Enviroment by Rachel Carson
AHSE2116-01: Framing History Through Comics: Icons, Identities and Impacts | Rob Martello
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- Kindred by Octavia Butler, art by Damian Duffy
- Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe and Phoebe Kobabe
- March Vol 1. by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, art by Nate Powell
- Fantastic Firsts by Marvel
- Understanding Comics by Scott Cloud
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang, colored by Lark Pien
AHSE2199: Curriculum Redesign | Caitrin Lynch
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UNgrading: Why Rating Students Underminds Learning (and what to do instead) edited by Susan D. Blum
- Audiobook
- Grading and Assessment: New Practices, New Perspectives The Chronicle of Higher Education
Engineering
ENGR2360-01: Introduction to Thermal-Fluid Systems | Alessandra Ferzoco
- Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction by P.W. Atkins
- A Heat Transfer Textbook by John H. Lienhard V and John H. Lienhard IV
- Thermodynamics and Climate Change by Peter Godart
- Engines, Energy and Entropy: a thermodynamics primer by John B. Fenn
- Understanding Thermodynmaics by H.C. Van Ness
- Principles of HVAC by Ronald H. Howell
ENGR3260-01: Design for Manufacturing | Daniela Faas
- Fundamentals of Graphic Communication by Gary R. Bertoline et al.
- Jig and Fixture Design by Edward G. Hoffman
- Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly by Geoffrey Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst and Winston A. Knight
- Design for Manufacturability Handbook edited James G. Bralla
- Manufacturing Engineering and Technology by Serope Kalpakjian and Steven R. Schmid
ENGR3290-01: Design Justice Studio | Kofi Taha
- Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond
- Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks
- The Warmth of Other Suns:the epic story of America's great migration by Isabel Wikerson
- The Sum of Us: what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together by Heather McGhee
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a radical democratic vision by Barbra Ransby
- Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: migrant farmworkers in the United States by Seth M Holmes
- Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond
- The Four Pivots: reimagining justice, reimagining ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright
- Practical Radicals: seven strategies to change the world by Deepak Dhargava and Stephanie Luce
- Caste: the orgins of our discontents by Isabel Wikerson
- Emergent strategy: shaping change, changing worlds by Adrienee Maree Brown
- How to Be a Craftivist: the art of gentle protest by Sarah Corbett
- Makerspaces in School: a month-by-month schoolwide model for building meaningful makerspaces by Lacy Brejcha
- The Big Book of Makerspace Projects: inspiring makers to experiment, create and learn
ENGR3290-01: Design Justice Studio | Chhavi Goenka
- As Long As Grass Grows: the indigenous fight for enviromental justice from colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron
- Indigenous Enviromental Justice by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
- Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Roots of Resistance: a history of land tenure in New Mexico by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
- Native Nations: a millennium in North America by Kathrine DuVal
- Cobalt Red: how the blood of the Congo powers our lives by Siddharth Kara
- The World in a Grain by Vince Beiser
- The New Geographies of Energy edited by Karl Zimmerer
- On the Swamp by Ryan Emanuel
ENGR3220-01: Human Computer Interaction | Andrea Cuadra
- Interaction design :beyond human-computer interaction by Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp and Jenny Preece
- Contextual Design Holzblatt Beyer
- Psychology (Design) of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
- Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces by Carolyn Snyder
- Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler
- The AI Mirror: how to reclaim our humanity in an age of machine by Shannon Vallor
ENGR3330-01: Mechanical Design | Jesse Austin-Breneman
- Guides to the Use of Tables and Formulas in Machinery's Handbook by Johm M. Amiss et al.
- Machinery's Handbook by Erik Oberg et al.
- Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook by Neil Sclater
- Mechanical Design of Machine Elements and Machines: a Failure Prevention Perspective by Jack A. Collins, Henry R. Busby and George H. Staab
- Fundamentals of Machine Component Design by Robert C. Juvinall and Kurt M. Marshek
- Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design by Richard G. Budynas and J. Keith Nisbett
- Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications by Austin Hughes
ENGR3410-01: Computer Architecture | Brad Minch
- Computer Organization and Design RISC V Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy
- Digital Design and Computer Architecture RISC V Edition by David Harris and Sarah Harris
- RTL Modeling with SystemVerilog for Simulation and Synthesis: Using SystemVerilog for ASIC and FPGA Design by Stuart Sutherland
- CMOS Analog Circut Design by P.E. Allen and D.R. Holberg
- CMOS: Circut Design, Layout, and Simulation by R.J. Baker, H. W. Li and D.E. Boyce
- CMOS: Mixed-Signal Circut Design by R. J. Baker
- VLSI:Design Techniques for Analog and Digital Circuits by R.L. Geiger, P.E. Allen and N.R. Strader
- The Art of Analog Layout by A. Hastings
- Analog VLSI: Circuits and Principles by S.C. Liu, J. Kramer, G. Indiveri, T. Delbrück and R. Douglas
- Design of Analog CMOS Circuits by B. Razavi
- CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective by N.H.E Weste and D. Harris
- Mixed Analog-Digital VLSI Devices and Technology: An Introduction by Y. Tsividis
ENGR3525-01 | Steve Matsumoto
- C in a Nutshell by Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford
- The C Programming Language by Braian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
- Head First C by David Griffiths and Dawn Griffiths
- Practical C Programming by Steve Oualline
- Linux Systems Programming by Robert Love
- The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX Systems Programming Handbook by Michael Kerrisk
- Introduction to Embedded Systems: Using ANSI C and the Arduino Development Enviroment by James H. Williams
- Making Embedded Systems by Elecia White
- Linux Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini
- Linux Kernel Development by Ferdinand P. Beer
ENGR3590-01: Computational Intro to Robotics | Victoria Preston
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell
- Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies: A Systematic Approach by Anvil V. Rao
- Probabilistic Robotics by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burdard, Dieter Fox
- Introduction to Autonomus Mobile Robots by Roland Siegwart
- Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms and Implementations by H. Choset et al.
- Planning Algorithms by Steven M. LaValle
ENGR3599A-01: Special Topics in Computing: Longer-term Software Development | Steve Matsumoto
- Effective Software Testing: A Developers Guide by Maurício Aniche
ENGX2000-01: QEA1 | Sam Michalka and David Shuman
- Linear Algebra and it's Applications by David C. Lay
ENGX2011-01: QEA3 | Chris Lee, Alesssandra Ferzoco, Orion Taylor
- Application of Abstract Differential Equations to Some Mechanical Problems by Isabell Titeux
- Elementary Differential Equations by William E. Boyce
- Differential Equations by Paul Blanchard, Robert L. Devaney and Glen R. Hall
- Elemental Differential Equations by Lyman M. Kells
- Differential Equations by Harry W. Reddick
- A First Course in Differential Equations with Modeling Applications by Dennis G. Zill
- Introduction to Nonlinear Differential and Integral Equations by Harold T. Davis
- Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan.
- Differential EquationsL: A Dynamical Systems Apporach by John H. Hubbard
- Existence Theorems for Ordinary Differential Equations by Francis J. Murray
- Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems by Thomas Eisner
- Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations by Earl A. Coddington
- Handbook of Differential Equations: Ordinary Differential Equations edited by A. Canada et al.
- A First Course in Differential Equations by Dennis G. Zill
- Handbook of Differential Equations: Evolutionary Equations Volume 1 edited by A. Canada
Math
MTH1111: Modeling and Simulation of the Physical World | Zach del Rosario, Jesse Austin-Breneman, Rachel Yang, Victoria Preston.
- Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It by Erica Thompson
- Computational Modeling by Case Study: All Models Are Uncertain by Gianluca Iaccarino and Zachary Del Rosario
MTH2110-01: Discrete Math | Sarah Adams
- Applications of Discrete Matematics by John G. Michaels and Kenneth H. Rosen
- Discrete Mathmatics by Kenneth Rosen
MTH2130: Probability and Stats | David Shuman
- Introduction to Probability 2nd Edition by Joseph K. Blizstein and Jessica Hwang
Science
SCI1230-01: Think Like A Biologist | Jean Huang
- Life: The Science of Biology et al. by David Sedava et al.
- The Circular Economy in Europe: Critical Perspectives on Policies and Imaginaries by Zora Kovacic, Roger Strand and Thomas Volker
- Bio-valorization of Waste: Trends and Perspectives Print by Shachi Shah, V. Ventkatramana and Ram Prasad
- From Waste to Value edited by Antje Klitkou, Arne Martin Fevolden and Marco Capasso
SCI1240: Designing Better Drugs | Joanne Pratt
- Life: The Science of Biology et al. by David Sedava et al.
SCI1440:Materials Creation, Consumption and Impact | Jonathan Stolk
- Objectified
- Manufactured Landscapes
- Materials Science and Engineering: an introduction by William D. Callister
- Waste by Kate O'Neill