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The 2011 list of recommended readings for incoming Berkeley freshmen focuses on social media, exploring how the hyperconnected, interactive online world is changing our conversations, our political discourse, our neurological development, even our attention spans.
Tag: books
What’s the matter with sports fans?
May 13, 2013:
Author, J-School instructor and sports nut Eric Simons set out on a quest to figure out why he, and millions of other fans all over the world, act the way they do. He gathered his findings in a new book, The Secret Lives of Sports Fans.
Law prof’s book reveals human cost of climate change
February 8, 2013:
New book by Andrew Guzman, Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change, predicts a grim future for billions of people in this century.
Voters act on performance, not policy, new book says
October 2, 2012:
Politicians may focus on policy issues in hopes of persuading voters, but a new book by a UC Berkeley political scientist says that’s not what matters most to voters.
A fair display of books as art
February 4, 2011:
Handmade fine-art books are a vanishing species, says printer Peter Koch, who is staging the third Codex book fair on campus to try to build respect for books as art. It starts Sunday in Pauley Ballroom.
New book will make you an instant physicist (maybe)
December 20, 2010:
UC Berkeley physicist Richard Muller has published a new book, “The Instant Physicist: An Illustrated Guide,” replete with fun physics facts and accompanied by witty cartoons by illustrator Joey Manfre.
Twain autobiography – the way he wanted it – hits stores today
November 15, 2010:
The first volume of the autobiography of Mark Twain lands on bookstore shelves on Monday, Nov. 15, 100 years after his death, courtesy of editors at the Mark Twain Papers and Project at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library.
The Bancroft Library accepts gift of William Saroyan archives
May 19, 2010:
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has received a spectacular gift of hundreds of books, drawings, correspondence and other personal communications to and from one of America’s best-known writers, the Armenian-American author and playwright William Saroyan.
