Considering the Kindle and the Nook
It is not necessary to own a Kindle or a Nook in order to read a Kindle or Nook eBook. 

Free software from Amazon and Barnes & Noble allows you to read these titles on a number of electronic devices, including your laptop or desktop computer, iPods, tablets, and Smartphones.  Click on the images below for more information:

Fall Semester 2011

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History 150 - History of Latin America Through Independence

The Following Books Are Required
	2 of the required books for this class is available in an Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook Book edition.
	Kenneth J. Andrien.  The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America.  Scholarly Resources.  Paper.  ISBN 0-8420-2888-9
	James Lockhart and Stuart B. Schwartz.  Early Latin America.  Cambridge University Press.  Paper.  ISBN 0-521-29929-2
	Matthew Restall.  Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.  Oxford University Press.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0195176117.  There is an Amazon Kindle edition and as a Nook book.
	Matthew Restall and Amara Solari.  2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse.  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.  ISBN  978-1442206090.  Also available in a Kindle edition and as a Nook book.
	David J. Weber, editor.  What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?  Bedford/St. Martin's.  Paper.  ISBN 0-312-19174-X
The Following Books are Recommended  (See Note* Below)
	*  Each student will read only one of the books below (Crowley, Reston, or Russell-Wood) for a special book report.  The Spanish and Portuguese empires were global empires; these books add that aspect to the course.
	Roger Crowley.  Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World.  Random House.  Paper.  ISBN 978-0812977646.  Also available in a Kindle edition and as a Nook book.
	James Reston, Jr.  Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536.  Penguin.  Paper.  ISBN 978-0143117599.  Also available in a Kindle edition.
	A.J.R. Russell-Wood.  The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move.  The Johns Hopkins University Press.  Paper.  ISBN 978-0801859557.
	NOTE  Copies of all of these texts are available for 1-week check-out from the Instructor Reserve area of the Palomar College Library.  Andrien - 5 copies Lockhart & Schwartz - 2 copies Restall - 1 copy Weber - 3 copies Crowley - 1 copy Reston - 1 copy Good prices are available for used copies from the following:  Amazon.com (links above) and Barnes&Noble.com Off Campus Books  Palomar College Bookstore
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History 140 - History of the Americas to 1800

Sections 70979 (Live TTh), 71153 and 71183 (Online), and 71283 (W Hybrid)

All Books Listed Below Are Required

	Several books for this class are available in an Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook Book edition. John Demos.  The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America.  Vintage.  Paper.  ISBN 978-0679759614.  Available in a Kindle edition and a Nook book.
	Allan Greer, editor.  The Jesuit Relations.  Bedford/St. Martin's.  Paper.  ISBN 0-312-16707-5
	Anthony Pagden.  Peoples and Empires:  A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present.  The Modern Library.  Paper.  ISBN 0-8129-6761-5  *  Amazon Kindle edition and Nook book version.  Also available as Audible text.
	Matthew Restall.  Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford University Press.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0195176117.  There is an Amazon Kindle edition and as a Nook book.
	David G. Sweet and Gary B. Nash.  Struggle & Survival in Colonial America. University of California Press.  Paper.  ISBN 052-004501-7
	Alan Taylor.  American Colonies: The Settling of North America. Penguin.  Paper.  ISBN 014-200210-0 *  Amazon Kindle edition.
Recommended
	David Hackett Fischer.  Paul Revere’s Ride. Oxford University Press.  Paper.  ISBN 019-509831-5  * Amazon Kindle edition and a Nook book.
	NOTE  For the Online and Hybrid sections, everyone must read some chapters of this book, but copies are available at libraries, or online used.

History 141 - History of the Americas Since 1800

Sections 71016 and 71154

All Books Listed Below Are Required

	5 of the 7 books for this class are available in an Amazon Kindle edition.
	Mariano Azuela.  The Underdogs.  Hackett Publishing.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0872208346   This reading is a short novel of 84 pages (fiction).
	This book is available in many editions, but you must purchase this edition because of the additional readings included.
	Caleb Carr.  The Alienist: A Novel.  Random House.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0812976144  Amazon Kindle edition.  This reading is a longer novel (fiction)
	Parag Khanna.  The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century.  Random House.  Paper.  ISBN  0-812-97984-2  *  Amazon Kindle edition.
	Joel Kotkin.  The Next Hundred Million:  America in 2050.  Penguin.  Paper.  ISBN 978-0143118817.  Amazon Kindle edition.
	James M. McPherson.  Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.  Oxford University Press.  Paper.  ISBN 0-19-517330-9  *  Amazon Kindle edition.
	Kevin Starr.  California:  A History.  The Modern Library.  ISBN 0-812-97753-X  *  Amazon Kindle edition.  Each student will select several chapters to read from this book, not the entire book.
	Edwin Williamson.  The Penguin History of Latin America.  Revised Edition (2009).  Penguin.  Paper.  705 pages.  ISBN 978-0141034751   IMPORTANT  The Kindle edition of this text is NOT acceptable; it is an earlier edition.  You must have the 2009 Revised edition for this course.  This is a very readable and inexpensive survey, which includes extensive sections on post-independence Latin America.   Each student will read selected chapters from this book, not the entire book.

Spring Semester 2012

History 140
History 141
History 151

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History 151 - History of Latin America Since 1824
Section # 31226

The Following Books Are Required
	2 of the 4 paperback books for this class are available in an Amazon Kindle edition.
	Beezley and Ewell, eds.  The Human Tradition in Modern Latin America. Scholarly Resources.  Paper.  ISBN 0-8420-2613-4
	Parag Khanna.  The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century.  Random House.  Paper.  ISBN  0-812-97984-2  *  Amazon Kindle edition.
	Julia E. Sweig.  Cuba:  What Everyone Needs to Know.  Oxford University Press, 2009.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0195383805  Amazon Kindle edition.
	Peter Winn.  Americas: The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean.  3rd ed.  University of California Press, 2006.  Paper.  ISBN 0-5202-4501-6  *
The Following Books Are Recommended
One feature of the course is that you will select from several books below.  Everyone in the course will read one novel, plus selections from one reader that focuses on one of the following countries:  Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, or Mexico. Novels I have listed several recommended novels below, but you may read any novel of your choice, as long as you clear it with me.  Most novels can be found (for free!) in either the Palomar College Library or your local Public Library.  Right now, the Picador editions of works by the 2010 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, are available from Amazon in paperback for less than $10. All are also available in Kindle or Nook editions.  Libraries will have different editions of these novels from other publishers as well, and Spanish editions if you can read Spanish.  Some of these are listed below:
	Death in the Andes. Picador.  Paper.  The Storyteller.  Picador.  Paper The War at the End of the World.  Picador.  Paper. The Feast of the Goat.  Picador.  Paper.
Readers Everyone is required to read selections from one (only one) of the following Country Readers.  It is not necessary to read all of the selections in these readers! The Palomar College Bookstore should have copies of the Brazil Reader, but you can select from any of the following from Amazon or Barnes & Noble:
	The Argentina Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Edited by Gabriela Nouzeilles and Graciela Montaldo. The Brazil Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Edited by Robert M. Levine and John Crocitti. The Costa Rica Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Edited by Steven Palmer and Ivan Molina. The Cuba Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Edited by Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, and Pamela Maria Smorkaloff. The Ecuador Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Edited by Carlos de la Torre and Steve Striffler. The Guatemala Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Edited by Greg Grandin, Deborah T. Levenson, and Elizabeth Oglesby. The Peru Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Edited by Orin Starn, Ivan Degregori, and Robin Kirk. The Mexico Reader:  History, Culture, Politics.  Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson.
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History 140 - History of the Americas to 1800
Online Section # 31139, plus Live section 31140

All Books Listed Below Are Required

History 141 - History of the Americas Since 1800
Online Sections # 31136 and 31137, plus Live section 31225 and Hybrid section 30324

All Books Listed Below Are Required

	6 of the 7 paperback books for this class are available in an Amazon Kindle edition.
	Mariano Azuela.  The Underdogs.  Hackett Publishing.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0872208346
	This book is available in multiple editions, but you must purchase this edition because of the additional readings included.
	Caleb Carr.  The Alienist: A Novel.  Random House.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0812976144  Amazon Kindle edition.
	Jorge G. Castaneda.  Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants.  The New Press, 2009.  Paperback.  ISBN 978-1-59558-455-7.  Available in a Kindle edition and as a Nook book.
	Parag Khanna.  The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century.  Random House.  Paper.  ISBN  0-812-97984-2  *  Amazon Kindle edition.
	Joel Kotkin.  The Next Hundred Million:  America in 2050.  Penguin.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0143118817.  Amazon Kindle edition.
	NOTE:  This paperback edition will be published in late January 2011.  Hardcover copies are available from libraries or online at Amazon as used copies.
	James M. McPherson.  Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam.  Oxford University Press.  Paper.  ISBN 0-19-517330-9  *  Amazon Kindle edition.
	Kevin Starr.  California:  A History.  The Modern Library.  ISBN 0-812-97753-X  *  Amazon Kindle edition.

Summer Session 2011

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History 140 - History of the Americas to 1800

All Books Listed Below Are Required

History 141 - History of the Americas Since 1800

All Books Listed Below Are Required

How To Use the Course Books

If you are concerned about the number of books assigned for these courses, consider the following:

• The total cost of these course books is often less than the cost of one large textbook for a US, World, or Western Civilization survey course.

• You will not be required to read every chapter for most books assigned, such as the Taylor, Sweet & Nash, Fischer, Khanna, and Starr books.

• By the end of each course, most students are amazed that history books can be so well written and interesting!  These are very different from the 1-volume history textbooks you may have read for other courses in the past.

• As there are no "objective" exams for these courses, only short essays and projects, you will not be memorizing information from these books, but rather reading them for their content and themes.

• Most of these books can be obtained for free from local college and public libraries.  Please read below under Instructor Reserve Copies and Other Libraries.  Those that can be obtained through libraries are marked by an asterix - *

Where To Find Your Books

I am not in the business of selling books.  I do want you to get into the habit of reading good history books, AND using your local libraries.  In several of my classes you will be required to use a library book.

If you are concerned about the costs for these books, please read below under Instructor Reserve Copies and Other Libraries. 

All texts will be available in the Palomar College Bookstore, where they can be purchased in person or online. 

The links above on this page for each title are to Amazon.com, where you can obtain these texts online either new or used at reduced prices.  You can also find new and used copies online at Barnes&Noble.com, Powells.com, and Abebooks.com. 

Off Campus Books
This local discount bookseller has copies of class texts at reduced prices.  Located near the San Marcos Campus at 1450 W. Mission Road, telephone (760) 598-2665.  Call ahead to see what texts they have in stock for my classes.  Click here for information on this store at Yelp.

Local Chain Bookstores
The Carr, Demos, Fischer, Khanna, Kotkin, McPherson, Starr, Taylor, and Vargas Llosa books are "trade books" that can also be obtained from you local book store, particularly chains such as Barnes & Noble, Bookstar, and Borders.  These stores can generally obtain these books within one week.

Instructor Reserve Copies - Palomar College Library
Copies of the Andrien, Beezley and Ewell, Carr, Demos, Fischer, Greer, McPherson, Pagden, Starr, Sweet & Nash, Taylor, Vargas Llosa, Weber, and Winn texts are available for student check out in the Instructor Reserve area of the Palomar College Library, 2nd floor.  Consult the Online Reserve Desk to check the availability of these titles; search the Reserve Desk by my Last Name: Arguello. 

All are also generally available through your local Public Library.

Other Libraries
The Carr, Demos, Fischer, Khanna, Kotkin, McPherson, Pagden, Taylor, Starr, and Vargas Llosa texts should be available in most public libraries.  If not available in your local branch, you should be able to obtain them through either the San Diego City and/or County Library systems.  Follow this link at the Palomar College Library page for links to other local libraries.