This list was compiled during the Fall 2012 semester. These readings are offered by the students of the Global Resource Systems program. GRS students hope that these readings provide you many interesting perspectives in a variety of international development issues, and will also stimulate your lifelong learning and participation in this discipline. Special thanks to Dylan G. Clark for compiling and distributing the original collection.
There are 5 broad categories of book topics: Economic and Development Theory, Environment and Food Systems, Globalization and Travel, Health and Gender Rights, and Politics and History.
Most of the books are available at Parks Library, and in a few cases, an e-book is also available.
Creating a World Without Poverty: social business and the future of capitalism by 
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by 
Small Is Still Beautiful: economics as if families mattered by 
The End of Poverty: economic possibilities for our time by 
The price of civilization: reawakening American virtue and prosperity by 
The White Man's Burden: : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good by 
Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa by 
Enough: why the world's poorest starve in an age of plenty by 
Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire by 
Silent Spring by 
Jihad vs. McWorld by 
The Global Soul: jet lag, shopping malls, and the search for home by 
The Poisonwood Bible by 
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by 
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by 
Infections and Inequalities by 
Kabul Beauty School: an American woman goes behind the veil by 
Pathologies of Power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor by 
The Gender of Globalization: Women Navigating Cultural and Economic Marginalities by 
Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts by 
Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures by 
Favela: four decades of living on the edge in Rio de Janeiro by 
Long Walk to Freedom: The autobiography of Nelson Mandela by 
The library's collections and services are available to all ISU students, faculty, and staff and Parks Library is open to the public.
