{"id":2866,"date":"2011-03-21T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:45","slug":"spring-reads-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2011\/03\/21\/spring-reads-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Reads 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"outliers\"
\nIn Defense Of Civility : How Religion Can Unite America On Seven Moral Issues That Divide Us
\nBy James Calvin Davis.
\nCudahy Main Stacks
\nBJ1251 .D275 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

From “the big four” (abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and stem-cell research) to war, poverty, and the environment, this timely book considers religion’s impact on moral debates in America’s past and present. James Calvin Davis argues for religion’s potential to enrich both the content and the civility of public conversation. This book will interest all concerned citizens yearning for more careful thinking about the role of religion in public debate.
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\"ruthless\"<\/p>\n

Ruthless: How Enraged Investors Reclaimed Their Investments And Beat Wall Street
\nBy Phil Trupp
\nLewis Main Stacks
\nHV6769 .T78 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

Referred to as a “financial roach motel” (investors get in, but they can’t get out), there had never been anything like it in Wall Street’s checkered history\u2014$336 billion in auction-rate securities were suddenly worthless. Hundreds of thousands of investors\u2014from corporate giants like 3M and Texas Instruments, to reporters with the Wall Street Journal, to small investors\u2014lost everything. Phil Trupp was one of those investors. He was determined to fight back, and that’s what he did. Ruthless shows you how he took on Wall Street and took back what was his, and how you might do the same.
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\"ruthless\"<\/p>\n

Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle To Brain Science
\nBy Sissela Bok.
\nBok, Sissela.
\nCudahy Main Stacks
\nBJ1481 .B64 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

In this smart and timely book, the distinguished moral philosopher Sissela Bok ponders the nature of happiness and its place in philosophical thinking and writing throughout the ages. With nuance and elegance, Bok explores notions of happiness – from Greek philosophers to Desmond Tutu, Charles Darwin, Iris Murdoch, and the Dalai Lama – as well as the latest theories advanced by psychologists, economists, geneticists, and neuroscientists.
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\"happ\"<\/p>\n

Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife
\nBy Mary Roach
\nCudahy Main Stacks
\nBL535 .R63 2005<\/em><\/p>\n

After probing autopsies, the funeral home business, and the implications of human composting, it seems only natural that the author would turn her attention to the afterlife. To learn what she can about the Other Side, she enrolls in an English school for mediums; banters with reincarnation researchers; and interviews a Duke University professor about a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech.
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\"happ\"<\/p>\n

Someone Has To Fail: The Zero-Sum Game Of Public Schooling
\nBy David F. Labaree
\nLewis Main Stacks
\nLA212 .L33 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.
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\"happ\"<\/p>\n

Before They Were Famous: How Seven Artists Got Their Start
\nBy Bob Raczka
\nLewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor)
\nN351 .R33 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

Albrecht Durer, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Artemisia Gentileschi, John Singer Sargent, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, and Salvador Dali all grew up to have their own unique styles. But when they were kids, they all had one thing in common: they loved to make art.
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\"happ\"<\/p>\n

Is It Just Me?: Or Is It Nuts Out There?
\nBy Whoopi Goldberg
\nCudahy Popular Reading Collection (1st floor)
\nBJ1533 .C9 G578 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

In her new book, Whoopi shares stories from her own life when she’s been forced to deal with tough situations in family, marriage, friendship, and business. She relates how she navigated through them with healthy honesty, which has all but vanished in the era of the volatile pundit.
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Life
\nBy Keith Richards ; with James Fox.
\nCudahy Popular Reading Collection (1st floor)
\nML420 .R515 R52 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

Rock ‘n’ roll’s great survivor looks back on an extraordinary life. From the Rolling Stones’ first success in the 1960s through increasing fame and addiction to the present day, Richards tells his story in his own inimitable way.
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