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AHSE
AHSE1515: Products and Market | Deb Chachra, Donald Ger, Joanne Pratt, Tim Sauder
- Business Model Generation: a Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder
- Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want by Alexander Osterwalder
- Thanks for the Feedback: the Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well (even when it is off base, unfair, poorly delivered, and frankly, you're not in the mood) by Douglas Stone
- Business Model You: a One-Page Method for Reinventing Your Career by Tim Clark
- Talking to Humans: Success Starts with Understanding your Customers by Giff Constable
- Scrum: a Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction by Chris Sims
- The People's Scrum: Agile Ideas for Revolutionary Transformation by Tobias Mayer
AHSE2114: Science Fiction and Historical Context | Rob Martello
- Fantastic Firsts by Marvel Comics
- Film Studies by Warren Buckland
- Inventing America: a History of the United States by Pauline Maier et al.
- Masterpieces: the Best Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century edited by Orson Scott Card
- Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology edited by Eric S. Rabkin
- Science Fiction: The New Critical Idiom by Adam Roberts
- The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction edited by Edward James and Farah Mendelesohn
- The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World by Thomas M. Disch
- The Science of Science-Fiction Writing by James Gunn
- Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
- How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
- Frakenstein: the 1818 text, Contexts, Criticism by Mary Shelley, edited by J. Paul Hunter
- Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson
- Dangerous Visions and New Worlds by Andrew Nette, Iain McIntyre
- The History of Science Fiction by Xavier Dollo, Djibril Morissette-Phan
- The Time Machine: An Invention: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, and Contexts, Criticism by H.G. Wells, edited by Stephan Arata
- Science Fiction Hall of Fame edited by Robert Silverberg
- Farscape Season One created by Rockne S. O'Bannon
- Firefly created by Joss Whedon
- The Expanse Season One based on The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
- Battlestar Galatica Season Onebased onBattlestar Galactica by Glen A. Larson
- Star Trek The Original Series Season One created by Gene Roddenberry
- Star Trek The Original Series Season Two created by Gene Roddenberry
- Star Trek The Original Series Season Threes created by Gene Roddenberry
- Island of Doctor Moreau: A Norton Critical Edition by H.G. Wells
- Gulliver's Travels: Based on the 1726 Text: Contexts, Criticism by Jonathan Swift
AHSE2131: Responsive Drawing and Visual Thinking | Helen Donis-Keller
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: Clothing Folds and Creases by Michel Lauricella
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists by Michel Lauricella
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: Fat and Skin Folds by Michel Lauricella
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: Hands and Feet by Michel Lauricella
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: Joint Forms and Muscular Functions by Michel Lauricella
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: Muscled Bodies by Michel Lauricella
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: Skeleton and Bone Reference Points by Michel Lauricella
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: Simplified Forms by Michel Lauricella
- Morpho: Anatomy for Artists: Face, Head and Neck by Michel Lauricella
- Mammals: Elements of Comparative Morphology by Michel Lauricella
AHSE2199C: Special Topics in Arts, Humanities and Social Science: Data, Design: Disaster! A Critical Data Studies Course | Leah Horgan
- Sorting Things Out: Classifications and their Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker
- Dark Matters: on the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne
- Economization of Life by Michelle Murphy
- Automating Inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police and punish the poor
- Seeing Like a State: how certian schemes to improve the human condition have failed by James C. Scott
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
- Advocacy after Bhopal: Enviromentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders by Kim Fortun
- Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll
- The Data Revolution: A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures by Rob Kitchin
- How Data Happened Chris Wiggins
- Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter by Natasha Myers
- Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality by Roderic Crooks
Engineering
ENGR1125: Introduction to Sensors, Instrumentation and Measurement | Chhavi Goenka, Xuan Kong, Emily Tow, Amon Millner
- ISIM by Brian Storey
ENGR2199: Special Topics in Engineering: Sustainability Initiatives Research Collaboration | Jean Huang
- Thinking in Systems: a Primer by Donella H. Meadows
- Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems by Derek Cabrera and Laura Cabera
- Sustainability: a History by Jeremy L. Caradonna
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk
- A Pocket Style Manual by Diana Hacker
- Waste by Kate O'Neill
- Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
ENGR2250: Collaborative Design | Sarah Bloomer, Andrea Cuara, Dan Koff, Georgia Van de Zande
- 101 Design Methods: a Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization by Vijay Kumar
- Design for People: Stories About How (and Why) We All Can Work Together to Make Things Better essay by Karrie Jacobs ; edited by Chappell Ellison, Bryn Smith, and Scott Stowell
- Beautiful Users: Designing for People by Ellen Lupton, with contributions by Thomas Carpentier and Tiffany Lambert
ENGR2330: Mechanical Prototyping | Georgia Van de Zande, David Meeker
- Fundamentals of Machine Component Design by Robert C. Juvinall
- History of Strength of Materials: with a Brief Account of the History of Theory of Elasticity and Theory of Structures by Stephen Timoshenko
- Machine Design Databook by K. Lingaiah
- Making Mechanical Marvels in Wood by Raymond Levy
- Prototyping and Low-volume Production by Rob Thompson
- Shigley's Mechanial Engineering Design by Richard G. Budynas
ENGR2340: Engineering Systems Analysis: Dynamics | Orion Taylor
- Getting Started with MATLAB: a Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers 7th Edition Rudra Pratap
- MATLAB: an Introduction with Applications 4th Edition Amos Gilat
- MATLAB: the Language of Techincal Computing by MathWorks Inc.
- Continuous and Discrete Time Signals and Systems by Mrinal Mandal and Amir Asif
- Reading the Principia: the Debate on Newton's Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 by Niccolò Guicciardini
- The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Isaac Newton
- Fundamentals of Applied Dynamics by James H. Williams
- Classical Mechanics by John R. Taylor
- System Dynamics and Response by S. Graham Kelly
- Vector Mechanics for Engineering: Dynamics by Ferdinand P. Beer
- System Dynamics by Katsuhiko Ogata
- Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies: A Systematic Approach by Anvil V. Rao
- Engineering Vibration Second Edition by Daniel J. Inman
- Mechanical Vibrations by Singiresu S. Rao
- Principles of Vibration by Benson H. Tongue
- Engineering Mechanics Dynamics by R.C. Hibbeler
- Dynamics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Motion by Benson H. Tongue and Sheri D. Sheppard
- DSP First by James H. McClellan
ENGR2510: Software Design | Victoria Dean, Steve Matsumoto, Amon Millner
ENGR3199: College as a Living Lab: Building Energy and Operations Optimization | Victoria Dean, Alessandra Ferzoco, Claire Rodgers, David Shuman
- Principles of HVAC by Kevin L. Amende et al.
- More Than Meets the Eye by Georgina Kleece
- Guide to Energy Management by Georgina Barney Capehart, et al.
- Air-Conditioning System Design Manual by Walter Grondzik
ENGR3235: Biomimicry | Jean Huang, Ben Linder
- Planet Earth II
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Sacred Ecology by Fikret Berkes
- Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets From Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease by Rafe Sagarin
- Biomimicry in Architecture by Michael Pawlyn
- Wetlands by William J. Mitsch and James G. Gosselink
- The Way Nature Works by Macmillian Publishing
- Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan.
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries From a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- Animals editors-in-chief, David Burnie and Don E. Wilson
- For the Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner
- A World of Insects : the Harvard University Press Reader edited by Ring Carde and Vincent Resh
- The Butterflies of North America : a Natural History and Field Guide by James A. Scott
- Bumblebee Economics by Bernd Heinrich
- The Book of Beetles : a Life-size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems edited by Patrice Bouchard
- A Field Guide to the Birds : a Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America written and illustrated
- Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way by David Barrie
- Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation by Jay Harman
- Biomimicry: Resource Handbook: a Seed Bank of Best Practices by Dayna Baumeister with Rose Tocke, Jamie Dwyer, Sherry Ritter and Janine Benyus
- Adapt: How Humans are tapping Into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future by Amina Khan
- Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects from the Collections of the Oxford University of Natural History by Levon Biss
ENGR3242: Quantitative Engineering Design: Design Optimization | Jesse Austin-Breneman
- Principles of Optimal Design Modeling and Computations by Panos Y. Papalambros and Douglass J. Wilde
ENGR3290: Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship | Chhavi Goenka, Scott Hersey, Elizabeth Johansen, Ben Linder, Kofi Taha
- As Long Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- Pollution is Colonialism by Max Liboiron
- Indigenous Enviormental Justice by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
- Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Roots of Resistance: a History of Land Tenure in New Mexico by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- A People's Guide to Greater Boston by Joseph Nevins, Suren Moodliar and Eleni Macrakis
- Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- Power Lines: Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement by Jeff Ordower and Lindsay Zafir
- 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
- Caste: the Orgins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne 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 by Colleen Graves
- People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making by Karilyb Crockett
- A People's History of the New Boston by Jim Vrabel
ENGR3299: Special Topics in Design: Farfetching: Artifacts from the Future We Want | Deb Chachra
- How Infrastructure Worksby Deb Chachra
- The Art of Critical Making Edited by Rosanne Somerson and Mara L. Hermano
- Afrofuturism: A History of Black History by Kevin Strait and Kinshasha Holman Conwill
- The Toaster Project: or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance From Scratch by Thomas Thwaites
- Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need by Johanna Hoffman
- Speculative Everything by Anthony Dunne
- Design is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton
- Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything-Even Things that Seem Impossible Today by Jane McGonigal
- The Art of Activism: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
- Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph
- American Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History by Ariel Aberg-Riger
- The Art of Activism Workbook: Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
- Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
- The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
- Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott
- TBD Catalog: Volume 9, Issue 24 by Near Future Labratory
- This Mesh We're In: Futures of Infrastructure by Paul G. Raven
- Systems Ultra: How Things, People, and Ideas Connect in a Complex World by Georgina Voss
- TBD Catalog: 10th Anniversary Edition by Near Future Labratory
- Electrify: An Optimist's Playbook For Our Clean Energy Future by Saul Griffith
ENGR3360: Thermal-Fluids Systems Analysis | Emily Tow
- Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer An Introduction to the Fundamentals by Brian D. Storey
- Ground-Source Heat Pumps: Fundamentals, Experiments and Applications by Joan Sarbu and Calin Sebarchievici
ENGR3390: Fundamentals of Robotics | Kenechukwu Mbanisi
- Robotics Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in Python by Peter Corke
- Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control by Kevin M. Lynch
- Fundamentals of Power Electronics by Maksimovic Erickson
ENGR3410: Computer Architecture | Brad Minch
- Digital Design and Computer Architecture: RISC-V Edition by Sarah L.
- Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware Software Interface 2nd RISC-V Edition by David A.
- FPGA Prototyping by SystemVerilog Examples: Xilinx Microblaze MCS SoC Edition by Pong P.
- SystemVerilog for Design: A Guide to Using SystemVerilog for Hardware Design and Modeling 2nd Edition by Stuart Sutherland, Simon Davidmann and Peter Flake
- SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning Testbench Language Features 3rd Edition by Chris Spear and Greg Tumbush
ENGR3415: Digital Signals Processing | David Shuman
- DSP First by Ronald W. Schafer and Mark A. Yoder
- Discrete Fourier Analysis and Wavelets Second Edition by S. Allen Broughton and Kurt Bryan
- Harmonic Analysis: From Fourier to Wavelets by Maria Cristina Pereyra and Lesley A. Ward
- A First Course in Wavelets with Fourier Analysis by Albert Boggess and Francis J. Narcowich
- Signal Processing First by James H. McClellan, Ronald W. Schafer and Mark A. Yoder
- The World According to Wavelets: The Story of Matematical Technique in the Making by Barbara Burke Hubbard
- An Intuitive Guide to Compenating Switching Power Supplies by Christopher Basso
- Fundamentals of Power Electronics by Maksimovic Erickson
ENGR3525: Software Systems | Steve Matsumoto
- Head First C by David Griffiths
- Practical C Programming by Steve Oualline
- The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
- C in a Nutshell by Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford
- Linux Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini
- The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook by Michael Kerrisk
- Linux Kernel Development by Robert Love
- Linux System Programming by Robert Love
- Introduction to Embedded SystemsL Using ANSI C and the Arduino Development Enviroment by David James Russell
- Making Embedded Systems by Elecia White
ENGR3599:Special Topics in Computing: Introduction to Databases | Riccardo Pucella
- Database Management Systems by Raghu Ramakrishnan
ENGR3599A: Special Topics in Computing: Advanced Algorithms | Victoria Preston
- Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Corman
ENGR3820: Failure Analysis and Prevention | Jon Stolk
ENGX2006: Quantitative Engineering Analysis 2 | Chris Lee, Victoria Preston, Orion Taylor, Jessica Townsend
- Calculus: Single and Multivariable by Deborah Hughes-Hallett et. al
- Multivariable Calculus by James Stewart
ENGX2134: Engineering Systems Analysis | Chris Lee, Orion Taylor
- Engineering Vibrartion by D. J. Inman
- MATLAB: an Introduction with Applications by Amos Gilat
- Mechanical Vibrations by Singiresu S. Rao
- Getting Started with MATLAB: a Quick Introduction for Scientists and Engineers by Pratap Rudra
- The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton Isaac
- Reading the Principia:the Debate on Newton's Matematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 by Niccolò Guicciardini
- Fundamentals of Applied Dynamics by James H. Willilams
- Classical Mechanics by John R. Taylor
- System Dynamics by Katsuhiko Ogata
- System Dynamics and Response by Graham S. Kelly
- Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics by Ferdinand P. Beer et al.
- Principles of Vibration by Benson H. Tongue
- Material Selection in Mechanical Design by M. F. Ashby
- Engineering Mechanics Dynamics by R. C. Hibbeler
- Dynamics: Analysis and Design of Systems in Motion by Benson H. Tongue
- Nonlinear Control of Engineering Systems: a Lyapunov-based Approach by Dixon E. Warren
- DSP First by James H. McClellan
- Modeling Analysis, and Control of Dynamics Systems by William J. Palm III
ENGR3531: Data Science | Zach del Rosario
- W.E.B Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert
- Data Feminism by Cathrine D'Iganzio and Lauren F. Klein
- Visualize This: the FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau
- R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize and Model Data by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund
Math
MTH2131: Data Science | Zach del Rosario
- W.E.B Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America: the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert
- Data Feminism by Cathrine D'Iganzio and Lauren F. Klein
- Visualize This: the FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics by Nathan Yau
- R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize and Model Data by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund
MTH2136: Astronomy and Statistics: AstroStats | Carrie Nugent
- The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley
- Numerical Recipes: the Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press
Science
SCI2136: Astronomy and Statsitics: AstroStats | Carrie Nugent
- The Craft of Scientific Writing by Michael Alley
- Numerical Recipes: the Art of Scientific Computing by William H. Press
SCI1240: Designing Better Drugs | Joanne Pratt
- Principles of Biology: the complete set by David Sadava et al.
SCI1299: Special Topics in Biological Foundations: Introduction to Tissue Building | Michael Fannon
- Hydrogels in Biology and Medicine by J. Michalek
- Principles of Tissue Engineering by Robert Lanza et al.
SCI2235: Biomimicry | Jean Huang, Ben Linder
- Planet Earth II
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Sacred Ecology by Fikret Berkes
- Learning From the Octopus: How Secrets From Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease by Rafe Sagarin
- Biomimicry in Architecture by Michael Pawlyn
- Wetlands by William J. Mitsch and James G. Gosselink
- The Way Nature Works by Macmillian Publishing
- Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity edited by Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson ; prologue by Kofi Annan.
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries From a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- Animalseditors-in-chief, David Burnie and Don E. Wilson
- For the Love of Insects by Thomas Eisner
- A World of Insects : the Harvard University Press Reader edited by Ring Carde and Vincent Resh
- The Butterflies of North America : a Natural History and Field Guide by James A. Scott
- Bumblebee Economics by Bernd Heinrich
- The Book of Beetles : a Life-size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems edited by Patrice Bouchard
- A Field Guide to the Birds : a Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America written and illustrated
- Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way by David Barrie
- Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation by Jay Harman
- Biomimicry: Resource Handbook: a Seed Bank of Best Practices by Dayna Baumeister with Rose Tocke, Jamie Dwyer, Sherry Ritter and Janine Benyus
- Adapt: How Humans are tapping Into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future by Amina Khan
- Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects from the Collections of the Oxford University of Natural History by Levon Biss