Course Reserves

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 library@olin.edu.

AHSE

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
AHSE 1160: 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
  • Citizen Power: A Citizen Leadership Manual Introducing the Art of No-Blame Problem Solving by Harry Pozycki
  • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tears Us Apart by Nicholas Carr
  • The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes
  • Democracy Inside: Participartory Innovation in Unlikely Places by Albert Dzur
  • Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations and States Albert Hirschman
  • Democracy 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
  • Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy . by Eric Oliver et al
AHSE 1199: Foundation Topics: The Fiction of Self | Gillian Epstein
AHSE 2114: Science Fiction and Historical Context | Rob Martello
  • Fantastic Firsts
  • The Feminine Mystique: contexts, the scholarship on the feminine mystique by Betty Friedan
  • 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 and with commentary by Eric S. Rabkin
  • Science Fiction Hall of Fame edited by Robert Silverberg.
  • Science Fiction: the new critical idiom by Adam Roberts
  • The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
  • 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 and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
  • Frankenstein: the 1818 text, contexts and criticism by Mary Shelley
  • Monster She Wrote by Lisa Kroger and Melanie Anderson
  • Dangerous Visions and New Worlds by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre
  • The History of Science Fiction by Xavier Dollor and Djibril Morissette-Phan
  • The Time MachineL an invention: authoritative, text, backgrounds, and contexts, criticism by H. G. Wells
  • Farscape Season One
  • Firefly
  • The Expanse Season One
  • Battlestar Galactica Season One
  • Star Trek the Original Series Season One
  • Star Trek the Original Series Season Two
  • Star Trek the Original Series Season Three
  • 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
AHSE 2135: Digital Photography | Helen Donis-Keller
  • Digital Ultraviolet and Infrared Photography by Adrian Davies
  • Eveningside by Greg Crewdson

Engineering

ENGR 2320: Mechanics of Solids and Structures | John Bell
  • An Introduction to ANSYS Fluent 2020 by John E. Matsson
  • Engineering Materials 1: an introduction to properties, applications and design by M.F. Ashby
  • Engineering Mechanics: statics by Andrew Patel
  • Finite Element Analysis: with solidwork simulation by Robert H. King
  • Form and Forces: designing efficient, expressive structures by Edward Allen and Wacław Zalewski
  • Fundamentals of Biomechanics: equilibrium, motion, and deformation by Nihat Özkaya et al.
  • Materials Selection in Mechanical Design by M.F. Ashby
  • Mechanics of Materials: an integrated learning system Timothy A. Philpot
  • Nonlinear Theory of Elasticity: applications in biomechanics by Larry Alan Taber
  • Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain by Raymond J. Roark
  • Shaping Structures: statics by Wacław Zalewski
  • Statics: analysis and desisgn of systems in equilibrium by S. Sheppard
  • Structures or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J.E. Gordon
  • The Elements of Continuum Biomechanics by M. Epstein
ENGR 3199 (AHSE2199B): Maker Pedagogy: Curriculum & Space Design | Daniela Faas
  • Flow: the psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihal
  • Lifelong Kindergarten: cultivating creativity through projects, passion peers and play by Mitchel Resnick
  • The Courage to Teach:exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life by Parker J. Palmer
  • Make Space: how to set the stage for creative collaboration by Scott Doorly
  • Design for Belonging: how to build inclusion and collaboration in your communities by Susie Wise and Rose Jaffe
  • Creative Acts for Curious People: how to think, create, and lead in unconventional ways by Sarah Stein Greeberg
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
ENGR 3290: Mechanical Design | Jesse Austin-Breneman, Georgia Van de Zande
  • Guide to the Use of Tables and Formulas in Machinery's Handbook by John Milton Amiss
  • Machinery's Handbook by Erik Oberg
  • Machinery's Handbook and the Guide by Erik Oberg
  • Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook by Neil Sclater
  • Mechanical Design of Machine Elements and Machines : a failure prevention perspective by J.A. Collins
  • Fundamentals of Machine Component Design by Robert C. Juvinall
  • Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design by Richard G. Budynas
  • Electric Motors and Drives : Fundamentals, Types and Applications by Austin Hughes
ENGR 3345:Mechanical and Aerospace Systems | Chris Lee
  • Flight Dynamics by Robert F Stengel
  • Flight Dynamics and Control of Aero and Space Vehicles by Rama K Yedavalli
  • Mechanics of Flight by Warren F. Phillips
  • Dynamics of Flight: Stability and Control by Bernard Etkin
  • Fundamentals of aerodynamics by John D. Anderson
  • Aerospace Design: aircraft, spacecraft and the art of modern flight edited by Anthony M. Springer
  • Getting Started with MATLAB: a quick introduction for scientists and engineers by Rudra Pratap
  • Low Earth Orbit Satellite Design by George Sebestyen
  • Classical Mechanics by John R. Taylor
  • Dynamics: analysis and design of systems in motion by Benson H. Tongue
  • Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies by Anil Vithala Rao
  • Engineering Mechanics: dynamics by R.C. Hibbeler
  • Engineering Mechanics by J.L. Meriam
  • Engineering Vibration by Danile Inman
  • Fundamentals of Applied Dynamics by James H. Williams
  • MATLAB: a introduction with applications by Amos Gilat
  • MATLAB: the language of technical computing
  • Mechanical Vibrations by Singiresu S. Rao
  • Modeling, Analysis and Control of Dynamic Systems by William J. Palm III
  • Principles of Vibration by Benson H. Tongue
  • Reading the Principia: the debate on Newton's mathmatical methods for natural philosophy from 1687 to 1736 by Niccolò Guicciardini
  • Systems Dynamics by Katsuhiko Ogata
  • Systems Dynamics and Response by Graham S. Kelly
  • The Principia: mathmatical principles of natural philosophy by Issac Newton
  • Vector Mechanics for Engineers: dynamics by Ferdinand P. Beer et al.
ENGR 3410: Computer Architecture | Brad Minch
  • Computer Organization and Design: RISC V Edition: the hardware/software interface by David A. Patterson
  • Digital Design amd Computer Architecture RISC V Edition by Sarah L. Harris
  • RTL Modeling with SystemVerilog for Simulation and Synthesis: using systemverilog for ASIC and FPGA design by Stuart Sutherland
ENGR3421: Image Processing, Reconstruction and Analysis | Chhavi Goenka
  • Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision by Mark S. Nixon
ENGR 3430: Eclectronics | Brad Minch
  • Bogatin's Practical Guide to Prototype Breadboard and PCB Design by Eric Bogatin
  • Designing Electronics That Work: real-world hardware development by Hunter Scott
  • Applied Embedded Electronics: design essentials for robust systems by Jerry Twomey
  • The Art of Electronics 3rd e. by Paul Horowitz
  • Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering by Henry W. Ott
  • Fast Circuit Boards: energy management by Ralph Morrison
ENGR 3590: Computational Introduction to Robotics | Victoria Preston
  • Artificial Intelligence: a modern apporach by Stuart J. Russell
  • Probabilistic Robotics by Stuart J. Russell
  • Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots by Roland Siegwart
  • Planning Algorithms by Stephen LaValle
  • Principles of Robot Motion Teory, Algorithms and Implementations
  • Statistical Inference by George Casella
ENGR 4290: 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
  • Local People : the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer
  • Crossroads at Clarksdale: the Black freddom struggle in the Mississippi Delta after World War II by Françoise N. Hamlin
  • Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: a radical deocractic vision by Barbara Ransby
  • Power Lines: building a labor-climate justice movement edited 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
  • 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
ENGR 3290-01: 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
ENGX2000-01: QEA1 | Sarah Spence Adams, Sam Michalka and David Shuman
  • Linear Algebra and it's Applications by David C. Lay
ENGX 2011-01: QEA3 | Jack-William Barotta, John Bell, Orion Taylor and Emily Tow
  • 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
  • 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

IDX

IDX 1111: Modeling and Simulation of the Physical World | Zach del Rosario, Jesse Austin-Breneman, Rachel Yang, Lynn Stein
  • 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
  • Inference and Representation: a study in modeling science by Mauricio Suarez
IDX 1250: Six Microbes that Changed the World | Rob Martello and Jean Huang
  • Life: the science of Biology
  • Life at the Edge of Sight: a photographic exploration of the microbial world by Scott Chimileski
  • The Surprising Archaea: discovering another domain of life by John L. Howland
  • Mircocosm: E. coli and the new science of life by Carl Zimmer
  • Microbes from Hell by Patrick Forterre
  • The Ghost Map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world by Steven Johnson
  • Penicillin: triumpth and tragedy by Robert Bud
  • The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: the story of the peicillin miracle by Eric Lax
  • The Art of Fermentation: an in-depth exploration of essential concepts and processes from around the world by Sandor Ellix Katz
  • Cooked: a natural history of transformation by Michael Pollan
IDX 2131: Data Science | Zach del Rosario
  • Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio
  • Not the End of the World: how we could be teh first generation to build a sustainable planet by Hannah Ritchie
  • R for Data Science: import, tidy, transform, visualize and model data by Hadley Wickham
  • Visualize This: the FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics by Nathan Yu
  • W.E.B Du Bois's Data Portraits: visualizing Black America: the color line at the turn of the twentieth century by W.E.B. Du Bois

Math

MTH2110-01: Discrete Math | Sarah Adams
  • Applications of Discrete Matematics by John G. Michaels and Kenneth H. Rosen
  • Discrete Mathmatics by Kenneth Rosen

Science

SCI 1240: Designing Better Drugs | Joanne Pratt
  • Life: The Science of Biology et al. by David Sedava et al.
SCI 1240: Immunology | Joanne Pratt
  • Janeway's Immunobiology: the immune system in health and disease by C.A. Janeway
  • Kuby Immunology by Judith A. Owen
  • THe Immune System 2nd edition by Judith Owen
  • How the Immune System Works 3rd Edition by Lauren Somapa yrac
  • Cellular and Molecular Immunology by Abul K. Abbas et al.
  • Case Studies in Immunology: a clinical companion 5th edition by Ghea Raif and Fred Rosen
  • Immune A Journey into the Mysterious Systems that Keeps You Alive by Phillip Dettmer
SCI 1420: Metals, Mining and the Enviroment | Jonathan Stolk
  • Objectified
  • Manufactured Landscapes
  • The Elements of Power: gadgets, guns and the struggle for a sustainable future in the rare metal age by David Abraham
  • Materials Science and Engineering: an introduction by William D. Callister
  • Tar Creek
  • The E-Waste Tragedy
  • Waste by Kate O'Neill