Academic Year 2009–2010

• THE MESSAGE MATTERS: The Economy and Presidential Campaigns — by Lynn Vavreck
• POWER POLITICS: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles — by Karen Brodkin
• KING'S DREAM: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech — by Eric J. Sundquist
• ALIAS MAN RAY: The Art of Invention — by Mason Klein, with contributions by George Baker, Merry L. Foresta, and Lauren Schell Dickens
• NATURAL EXPERIMENTS OF HISTORY — edited by Jared Diamond & James A. Robinson
• YES!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive — by Noah J. Goldstein, Robert B. Cialdini and Steven J. Martin

Academic Year 2008–2009

• MIRRORING PEOPLE: The New Science of How We Connect with Others — by Marco Iacoboni
• BEYOND BULLSH*T: Straight-Talk at Work — by Samuel A. Culbert
• THE ARTWORK CAUGHT BY THE TAIL: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris — by George Baker
• AFTER THE CURE: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors — by Emily K. Abel & Saskia K. Subramanian
• ASIAN AMERICAN ART: A History, 1850–1970 — by Valerie J. Matsumoto
• INVENTING HUMAN RIGHTS: A History — by Lynn Hunt
• ANOTHER CITY: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic — by Dell Upton
• WORLDS AT WAR: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West — by Anthony Pagden

Academic Year 2007–2008

• WEIMAR ON THE PACIFIC: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism — by Ehrhard Bahr
• BEG NO PARDON — by Lynne Thompson
• ROMANCE IN THE IVORY TOWER: The Rights and Liberty of Conscience — by Paul R. Abramson
• PROCESSING: Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists — by Casey Reas
• DATABASE AESTHETICS: Art in the Age of Information Overflow — by Victoria Vesna
• CALLIGRAPHY OF THE WITCH — by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
• ELIZABETH CADY STANTON: Feminist as Thinker — edited by Ellen Carol DuBois and Richard Cándida Smith
• IN SPITE OF PARTITON: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination — by Gil Z. Hochberg
• SCHOLARSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet — Christine L. Borgman

Academic Year 2006–2007

• POSTMORTEM: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths — by Stefan Timmermans
• PARTY WARS: Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making — by Barbara Sinclair
• JOBS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: In Minority Communities — by Paul Ong & Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
• THE PERIODIC TABLE: Its Story and Its Significance — by Eric R. Scerri
• WOMAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA: My Life as a Russian Filmmaker — by Marina Goldovskaya
• WHERE THE LIGHTNING STRIKES: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places — by Peter Nabokov
• RECYCLOPEDIA: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge — by Harryette Mullen
• SATAN: A Biography — by Henry Ansgar Kelly
• OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics — by Nina Byers & Gary Williams