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| Course Code | Course Name | Instructor Names | Item Title | Contributors | Find Item |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAAS188.01; MUSIC147.01 | Black Music and the Soul of America | Brothers, Thomas | Louis Armstrong's New Orleans | Brothers, Thomas David | See item info |
| AADS198.01.f23; HISTORY189S.01 | Introduction to Asian American History | Cheung-Miaw | Citizen 13660 | Okubo, Miné,; Baskin, Lisa Unger,; Columbia University. Press,; Lisa Unger Baskin Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library); Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture | See item info |
| AADS198.01.f23; HISTORY189S.01 | Introduction to Asian American History | Cheung-Miaw | Island : poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 | Lai, H. Mark,; Lim, Genny,; Yung, Judy, | See item info |
| AADS198.01.f23; HISTORY189S.01 | Introduction to Asian American History | Cheung-Miaw | The best we could do : an illustrated memoir | Bui, Thi, | Find info in Sakai course |
| AADS198.01.f23; HISTORY189S.01 | Introduction to Asian American History | Cheung-Miaw | The making of Asian America : a history | Lee, Erika, | See item info |
| BIOLOGY201L.001 | Gateway to Biology: Molecular Biology | Spana, Eric | Essential cell biology | Alberts, Bruce, | See item info |
| BIOLOGY220.01 | Cell Biology | Sherwood, David | Essential cell biology | Alberts, Bruce, | See item info |
| BIOLOGY220.01 | Cell Biology | Sherwood, David | Molecular biology of the cell | Alberts, Bruce,; Heald, Rebecca, 1963-; Johnson, Alexander (Alexander D.),; Morgan, David Owen, 1958-; Raff, Martin C.,; Roberts, K. (Keith),; Walter, Peter (Professor), | See item info |
| BIOLOGY223.002; NEUROSCI223.02 | Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology | Newpher, Thomas | Neuroscience | Purves, Dale, | See item info |
| BIOLOGY271.01 | Marine Biology and Ecology: Fantastic Sea Creatures and Where to Find Them | Silliman, Brian | Marine community ecology and conservation | Bruno, John F.,; Bertness, Mark D., 1949-; Silliman, Brian R., 1972-; Stachowicz, John J., | See item info |
| BIOLOGY325.01 | Current Technologies in Genomics and Precision Medicine | Wray | Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics | Find info in Sakai course | |
| BME221DL.001 | Biomaterials | Collier, Joel | Biomaterials : the Intersection of biology and materials science | Temenoff, J. S.,; Mikos, Antonios G., | Find info in Sakai course |
| BME244L.01 | Quantitative Physiology with Biostatistical Applications | Wallace, Charles | Guyton and Hall textbook of medical physiology | Hall, John E. | See item info |
| BME271D.01 | Signals and Systems | Buckholz, Libby | Fundamentals of signals and systems using the Web and MATLAB | Kamen, Edward W; Heck, Bonnie S | Find info in Sakai course |
| BME354.01 | Introduction to Medical Instrumentation | Nightingale | Medical instrumentation : application and design | Webster, John G., 1932-; Nimunkar, Amit J.,; Clark, John W. (John William), 1936- | See item info |
| CHEM101DL.001 | Core Concepts in Chemistry (Lec) | Parise, James | Chemistry | Brown, Theodore | Find info in Sakai course |
| CHEM201DL.01 | Organic Chemistry I | McCafferty, Dewey | Organic chemistry | Loudon, G. Marc,; Parise, Jim, 1978- | See item info |
| CHEM201DL.01 | Organic Chemistry I | McCafferty, Dewey | Study guide and solutions manual to accompany Organic chemistry | Parise, Jim, 1978-; Loudon, G. Marc,; Bonner, Lisa, | See item info |
| CHEM202DL.01 | Organic Chemistry II | Canelas, Dorian | Organic chemistry | Loudon, G. Marc,; Parise, Jim, 1978- | See item info |
| CHEM301.01 | Elemental Physical Chemistry | Welsher | Physical chemistry for the chemical sciences | Chang, Raymond; Thoman, John W., Jr., 1960- | Find info in Sakai course |
| CHEMISTRY99D.01 | Introductory Chemistry Essentials | Canelas, Dorian | Introductory chemistry essentials | Tro, Nivaldo J | Find info in Sakai course |
| COMPSCI93.001 | History of Computing, Cryptography, and Robotic Devices | A brief history of computing | Find info in Sakai course | ||
| COMPSCI210D.001 | INTRO TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS | Astrachan | Computer systems : a programmer's perspective | Bryant, Randal E.,; O'Hallaron, David R. (Davie Richard), 1955- | See item info |
| COMPSCI250D.001 | Computer Architecture | Bletsch, Tyler | Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition : The Hardware/Software Interface | See item info | |
| COMPSCI310.001 | Introduction to Operating Systems | Lentz | Operating systems : principles and practice | Anderson, Thomas E., 1961-; Dahlin, Michael, | Find info in Sakai course |
| COMPSCI316.01 | Introduction to Database Systems | Chao and Yang | Database systems : the complete book | Garcia-Molina, Hector; Ullman, Jeffrey D., 1942-; Widom, Jennifer | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECE110L.001 | Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Massoud; Huettel | Introduction to electric circuits | Svoboda, James A; Dorf, Richard C | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECE110L.001 | Fundamentals of Electrical and Computer Engineering | Massoud; Huettel | Practical electronics for inventors | Scherz, Paul,; Monk, Simon | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECE230L.001 | Introduction to Microelectronic Devices and Circuits | Franklin | Semiconductor physics and devices : basic principles | Neamen, Donald A | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECE270DL.001 | Fields and Waves: Fundamentals of Information Propagation | Cummer, Steven | Elements of electromagnetics | Sadiku, Matthew N. O., | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECE280L.02 | Intro to Signals and Systems - Duplicate | Collins | Linear systems and signals | Lathi, B. P. (Bhagwandas Pannalal),; Green, R. A. (Roger A.), | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON104D.01 | Statistical Foundations of Econometrics and Data Science | Brent, Jason | Mathematical statistics and data analysis | Rice, John A., 1944- | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON119.001 | Introduction to Political Economy | Dept. Staff | Choosing in groups : analytical politics revisited | Munger, Michael C; Munger, Kevin M | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON119.001 | Introduction to Political Economy | Dept. Staff | Economics in one lesson : the shortest & surest way to understand basic economics | Hazlitt, Henry, 1894-1993, | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON119.001 | Introduction to Political Economy | Dept. Staff | Political economy : a comparative approach | Clark, Barry Stewart, 1948- | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON174.01 | Financial Accounting | Skender, CJ | Financial accounting | Hoyle, Joe Ben,; Skender, C. J., 1954-; Kratz, Leah (Accounting teacher), | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON201D.001 | Intermediate Microeconomics | Sa, Nelson | Microeconomics : an intuitive approach with calculus | Nechyba, Thomas J., 1968- | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON204D.001 | Intermediate Microeconomics I | Thomas, Duncan | Introductory econometrics : a modern approach | Wooldridge, Jeffrey M., 1960- | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON205D.001 | Intermediate Microeconomics II | Arcidiacano, Peter | Game theory for applied economists | Gibbons, Robert, 1958- | Find info in Sakai course |
| ECON205D.001 | Intermediate Microeconomics II | Arcidiacano, Peter | Microeconomics : an intuitive approach with calculus | Nechyba, Thomas J., 1968- | Find info in Sakai course |
| EDUC101.01 | Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education | Anderson, Amy | Teachers, schools, and society : a brief introduction to education | Sadker, David Miller, 1942-; Zittleman, Karen R., | Find info in Sakai course |
| EGR103.001 | Computational Methods in Engineering | Gustafson, Michael | The practice of computing using Python | Punch, W. F. (William F.),; Enbody, Richard J., | Find info in Sakai course |
| EGR201L.001 | Mechanics of Solids | Nadeau, Joseph | Statics and mechanics of materials | Hibbeler, R. C., | Find info in Sakai course |
| EGRMGMT578.01 | Designing Customer Experiences in Technology | Twiss, Robert | Emotional design : why we love (or hate) everyday things | Norman, Donald A | Find info in Sakai course |
| EGRMGMT578.01 | Designing Customer Experiences in Technology | Twiss, Robert | slide:ology | See item info | |
| EGRMGMT578.01 | Designing Customer Experiences in Technology | Twiss, Robert | The design of everyday things | See item info | |
| ENVIRON102.01 | Introduction to Environmental Sciences and Policy - Duplicate | Wernegreen, Jennifer | The Environment and you | Christensen, Norman L., 1946-; Leege, Lissa,; St. Juliana, Justin, | Find info in Sakai course |
| EOS101.03 | The Dynamic Earth | GLASS | Earth : an introduction to physical geology | Tarbuck, Edward J; Lutgens, Frederick K | Find info in Sakai course |
| FRENCH101.01 | Elementary French 1 | Staff, Departmental | Cosmopolite 1 : Cahier d'activités | Hirschsprung, Nathalie,; Mater, Anaïs,; Mathieu-Benoit, Émilie,; Mous, Nelly,; Tricot, Tony, | Find info in Sakai course |
| FRENCH101.01 | Elementary French 1 | Staff, Departmental | Cosmopolite 1 : méthode de français, A1 | Hirschsprung, Nathalie,; Tricot, Tony, | Find info in Sakai course |
| FRENCH102.01 | Elementary French 2 | Staff, Departmental | Cosmopolite 1 : Cahier d'activités | Hirschsprung, Nathalie,; Mater, Anaïs,; Mathieu-Benoit, Émilie,; Mous, Nelly,; Tricot, Tony, | Find info in Sakai course |
| FRENCH102.01 | Elementary French 2 | Staff, Departmental | Cosmopolite 1 : méthode de français, A1 | Hirschsprung, Nathalie,; Tricot, Tony, | Find info in Sakai course |
| FRENCH204.01 | Advanced Intermediate French Language and Culture | STAFF, DEPARTMENTAL | Contrastes : grammaire du français courant | Rochat, Denise, | Find info in Sakai course |
| GLHLTH101.01 | Fundamentals of Global Health | Ariely | Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy | Ehrenreich, Barbara | Find info in Sakai course |
| HISTORY297.01 | The Holocaust | Gengler, Peter | Belonging : a German reckons with history and home | Krug, Nora, | Find info in Sakai course |
| HISTORY297.01 | The Holocaust | Gengler, Peter | Neighbors : the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland | Gross, Jan Tomasz | Find info in Sakai course |
| HISTORY297.01 | The Holocaust | Gengler, Peter | Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity. Translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf. | Levi, Primo, 1919-1987 | Find info in Sakai course |
| ITALIAN101.01 | Elementary Italian 1 | Staff, Departmental | Sentieri : attraverso l'Italia contemporanea | Cozzarelli, Julia | Find info in Sakai course |
| ITALIAN102.01 | Elementary Italian 2 | Staff, Departmental | Sentieri : attraverso l'Italia contemporanea | Cozzarelli, Julia | Find info in Sakai course |
| JPN101.001 | Elementary Japanese | Staff, Dept | 初級日本語げんき | Banno, Eri,; 坂野永理,; Ikeda, Yōko,; 池田庸子,; Ōno, Yutaka, 1961-; 大野裕, 1961-; Shinagawa, Chikako,; 品川恭子,; Tokashiki, Kyōko,; 渡嘉敷恭子, | Find info in Sakai course |
| JPN203.001 | Intermediate Japanese | Staff, Dept | 初級日本語げんき | Banno, Eri,; 坂野永理,; Ikeda, Yōko,; 池田庸子,; Ōno, Yutaka, 1961-; 大野裕, 1961-; Shinagawa, Chikako,; 品川恭子,; Tokashiki, Kyōko,; 渡嘉敷恭子, | Find info in Sakai course |
| LINGUIST201.001 | Introduction to Linguistics | Clements, Gail | An introduction to language | Fromkin, Victoria,; Rodman, Robert,; Hyams, Nina, 1952- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH105L.001 | Laboratory Calculus and Functions I | Staff, Dept. | Calculus : single and multivariable | Hughes-Hallett, Deborah,; Gleason, Andrew M.,; McCallum, William Gordon, | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH106L.001 | Laboratory Calculus and Functions II | Staff, Dept. | Calculus : single and multivariable | Hughes-Hallett, Deborah,; Gleason, Andrew M.,; McCallum, William Gordon, | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH111L.011 | Laboratory Calculus I | Viel, Shira | Calculus : single and multivariable | Hughes-Hallett, Deborah,; Gleason, Andrew M.,; McCallum, William Gordon, | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH112L.011 | Laboratory Calculus II | Wheeler, James | Calculus : single and multivariable | Hughes-Hallett, Deborah,; Gleason, Andrew M.,; McCallum, William Gordon, | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH122L.01 | Introductory Calculus II with Applications | Schott, Sarah | Calculus : concepts and contexts | Stewart, James, 1941- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH202D.001 | Multivariable Calculus for Economics | Mela | Mathematics for Economics | Find info in Sakai course | |
| MATH202D.001 | Multivariable Calculus for Economics | Mela | Mathematics for economics | Hoy, Michael, 1953 September 22-; Livernois, John; McKenna, C. J; Rees, Ray; Stengos, Thanasis | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH212.001 | Multivariable Calculus | Robles | Multivariable calculus | Edwards, C. Henry (Charles Henry), 1937- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH218D-1.001 | Matrices and Vector Spaces | Rabinoff, Joseph | Introduction to linear algebra | Strang, Gilbert, | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH218D-2.001 | Matrices and Vector Spaces | Fitzpatrick, Brian | Introduction to linear algebra | Strang, Gilbert, | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH219.001 | Multivariable Calculus | Staff, Dept. | Multivariable calculus | Edwards, C. Henry (Charles Henry), 1937- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH221.001 | Linear Algebra and Applications | Regan, Margaret | Abstract algebra : a geometric approach | Shifrin, Theodore, 1953- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH222.001 | Advanced Multivariable Calculus | Levine | Vector calculus | Marsden, Jerrold E; Tromba, Anthony | See item info |
| MATH230.001 | Probability | Akin, Victoria | Probability | Pitman, Jim | See item info |
| MATH353.001 | Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations | Venakides,Stephanos | Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems | Find info in Sakai course | |
| MATH356.01 | Elementary Differential Equations | Habibi-Eshfahani | Differential equations with boundary value problems | Polking, John C; Boggess, Albert; Arnold, David, 1945- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH401.01 | Introduction to Abstract Algebra | Ng | Abstract algebra : a geometric approach | Shifrin, Theodore, 1953- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH431.01 | Introduction to Real Analysis | Reed | Fundamental ideas of analysis | Reed, Michael, 1942- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH501.01 | Algebraic Structures | Miller | Abstract algebra | Dummit, David Steven; Foote, Richard M., 1950- | Find info in Sakai course |
| MATH581.01 | Mathematical Finance | Mela, Xavier | An introduction to mathematical finance with applications : understanding and building financial intuition | Petters, Arlie O., 1964-; Dong, Xiaoying, | Find info in Sakai course |
| ME221L.001 | Structure and Properties of Solids | Ni, Xiaoyue | Materials science and engineering : an introduction | Callister, William D., Jr., 1940-; Rethwisch, David G., | Find info in Sakai course |
| ME336L.001 | Fluid Mechanics | zhong | Introduction to fluid mechanics | Shaughnessy, Edward J; Katz, Ira M., 1958-; Schaffer, James P | Find info in Sakai course |
| ME344.01 | Control of Dynamic Systems | Bridgeman, Leila | Control systems engineering | Nise, Norman S | Find info in Sakai course |
| ME421L.001 | Mechanical Design | Twiss, Robert | Shigley's mechanical engineering design. | Budynas, Richard G. (Richard Gordon); Nisbett, J. Keith; Shigley, Joseph Edward. Mechanical engineering design | Find info in Sakai course |
| ME431L.001 | Heat and Mass Transfer | Hotz, Nico | Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer. | Bergman, T. L; Incropera, Frank P. Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer | Find info in Sakai course |
| NEUROSCI217D.001 | Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience | Egner, Tobias | Neuroscience | Purves, Dale | Find info in Sakai course |
| NEUROSCI277.01 | Looking Inside the Disordered Brain | Hariri, Ahmad | Looking inside the disordered brain : an introduction to the functional neuroanatomy of psychopathology | Hariri, Ahmad R., 1972- | Find info in Sakai course |
| PHYSICS141L.001 | General Physics I | Wu, Ying | University physics with modern physics | Young, Hugh D.,; Freedman, Roger A.,; Young, Hugh D. Sears and Zemansky's university physics | Find info in Sakai course |
| PHYSICS142L.001 | General Physics II | Mueller | University physics with modern physics | Young, Hugh D.,; Freedman, Roger A.,; Young, Hugh D. Sears and Zemansky's university physics | Find info in Sakai course |
| PHYSICS152.001 | Introductory Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics | Roy, Arya | Fundamentals of physics | Walker, Jearl, 1945-; Resnick, Robert, 1923-2014; Halliday, David, 1916-2010 | Find info in Sakai course |
| POLSCI160D.001 | Introduction to Security, Peace and Conflict | Feaver, Peter | International politics : enduring concepts and contemporary issues | Art, Robert J; Jervis, Robert, 1940-2021 | Find info in Sakai course |
| PSY102.001 | Cognitive Psychology | Rubin, Paul | Cognitive psychology : connecting mind, research, and everyday experience | Goldstein, E. Bruce, 1941- | Find info in Sakai course |
| PSY425.01 | The Psychology of Consumers | Vieth, Angela | Influence : science and practice | Cialdini, Robert B., | Find info in Sakai course |
| PSY425.01 | The Psychology of Consumers | Vieth, Angela | Why we buy : the science of shopping | Underhill, Paco, | Find info in Sakai course |
| PUBPOL890.03 | Evaluation Design & Practice - Duplicate | Sperling | Evaluation essentials : from A to Z | Alkin, Marvin C.,; Vo, Anne T., | Find info in Sakai course |
| RELIGION342.01 | The Holocaust | Gengler, Peter | Belonging : a German reckons with history and home | Krug, Nora, | Find info in Sakai course |
| RELIGION342.01 | The Holocaust | Gengler, Peter | Neighbors : the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland | Gross, Jan Tomasz | Find info in Sakai course |
| RELIGION342.01 | The Holocaust | Gengler, Peter | Survival in Auschwitz, The Nazi assault on humanity. Translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf. | Levi, Primo, 1919-1987 | Find info in Sakai course |