Our local library had a booksale fundraiser a couple of weekends ago. You could fill a brown bag for $5 or a paper box for $10. Boy, I sure cleaned up. For practically nothing, I was able to stock my (new, and slightly empty) bookshelves with such gems as:
"On Death and Dying" by Kubler-Ross
"Voyage of the Beagle" by Darwin
A pocket-size DSM-IV (outdated, but useful in its own right)
An 8-volume Encyclopedia of Psychology (must have been just before Wikipedia completely blew up)
"Sex and Temperament" and "Culture and Commitment" by Margaret Mead
"Go ask Alice"
"Searching for Memory" by Daniel Schacter
as well as a few young-adult and popular books on the topics of animal rights, genetics, technology and social psychology, general audience counseling books.
Now, my bookshelves look a lot more interesting.
Speaking of technology and social psychology, I'm thinking about offering a special-topics course in the next year or so on this very topic. I read Sherry Turkle's book "Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other" and thought it was a really great starting point for getting students to think about how heavily we rely on batteries that run on devices. If you're interested in Turkle's work, may I recommend her TED talk:
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