Introduction
Are you looking for a book to read? In this guide you will find a selection of new books that were added to the Pardee Library collection over the past few months, both in print and as eBooks. You can also view new books that were purchased this month for all of the BU Libraries.
The print books can be found on the 3rd floor of Pardee Library on the Book Display shelves, near the front entrance and in the Periodicals area. You are welcome to browse the print books and borrow whichever books you like, by checking them out at the Services Desk. Books currently on display can also be borrowed. Click on the book titles or jacket images for more details about each book and to see if they are currently available to borrow.
If you want to look up a book by subject or title, use the advanced search feature of BU Libraries Search to find books or eBooks on the topic of your choice. Enter your search terms into the search box and select "Books/eBooks" as the material type.
If you would like to recommend a book for purchase, you may do so through our Suggest a Purchase page.
Disability Pride Month
July is Disability Pride Month! This month marks the 34th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), landmark legislation that broke down barriers to inclusion in society. To learn more about the history of disability rights and advocacy in the United States, visit UC Berkeley's collection of written and oral histories by disability advocates, compiled in the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement Project.
Accessibility can be more than just physical! To learn more about and improve digital accessibility across campus, see BU's collection of learning resources compiled by the BU Office of Distance Education.
Disability Pride Month Featured Reading
22 Cents an Hour: Disability Rights and the Fight to End Subminimum Wages
Location: Online
As recently as 2016, the United States Congress enacted bipartisan legislation which continued to allow workers with disabilities to legally be paid far lower than the federal minimum wage. Drawing on ongoing federal Department of Justice lawsuits, the Crandell shows the history of the policies that have led to these unjust outcomes, examines who benefits from this legislation, and asks important questions about the rise of a disability industrial complex. Twenty-Two Cents an Hour forces the reader to face the reality of this exploitation, and builds the framework needed for reform.
Autism Equality in the Workplace: Removing Barriers and Challenging Discrimination
Location: Online
Only 15% of adults with an autism spectrum condition (ASC) are in full-time employment. The author highlights common challenges in the workplace for people with ASC, such as discrimination and lack of communication or the right kind of support from managers and colleagues, and provides strategies for changing them. Setting out practical, reasonable adjustments such as a quiet room or avoiding disruption to work schedules, this book demonstrates how day to day changes in the workplace can make it more inclusive and productive for all employees.
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
Location: Online
In Disability Pride, disabled journalist Ben Mattlin traces the generation that came of age after the ADA reshaped America, and how it is influencing the future. He documents how autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement upended views of those whose brains work differently. He also explores the movement’s shortcomings, particularly the erasure of nonwhite and LGBTQIA+ people that helped give rise to Disability Justice. And he finds glimmers of hope in how disabled people never give up their fight for parity and fair play.
Summer Reading: White Collar Crime
Pardee's summer reading theme for 2024 is white collar crime: usually nonviolent, financially motivated crimes carried out by individuals and businesses. These scandalous true stories of greed, corruption, and fraud are as intriguing as they are infuriating. Consider these some handy guides on what not to do in the world of business and management.
Featured Reading on White Collar Crime
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Location: Online
The Sackler family is one of the richest in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama--baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful.
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
Location:Pardee Book Display HV6692.M33 H46 2011
Who was Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? And in The Wizard of Lies, Diana B. Henriques of the New York Times has written the definitive and bestselling account of the man and his scheme, drawing on unprecedented access and more than one hundred interviews, including Madoff’s first interviews for publication following his arrest. It is also the most complete account of the heartbreaking personal disasters and landmark legal battles triggered by Madoff’s downfall—the suicides, business failures, fractured families, shuttered charities—and the clear lessons this timeless scandal offers to Washington, Wall Street, and Main Street.
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Location: Online
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? Faux's investigation would lead him to a schlubby, frizzy-haired twenty-nine-year-old named Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF for short) and a host of other crypto scammers, utopians, and overnight billionaires. When the bubble suddenly bursts in 2022, Faux brings readers inside SBF's penthouse as the fallen crypto king faces his imminent arrest. Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Zeke Faux the accolade "our great poet of crime" (Money Stuff columnist Matt Levine), Number Go Up is the essential chronicle, by turns harrowing and uproarious, of a $3 trillion financial delusion.
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