| BOOK TITLE | AUTHOR | MISC. INFO | Student Name(s) |
| Wk3: Wednesday | The Maya Culture, Due Oct. 3 in class: Oct. 5 |
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| Sons of the Shaking Earth, The People of Mexico and Guatemala-their Land, History and Culture | Eric Wolf | ||
| The Maya | Michael D. Coe | ||
| Popol Vuh, the Book of the Ancient Maya | Delia Goetz and Sylvanus Griswold Morley | ||
| Amaranth, modern Prospects for an ancient Crop | Board on Science and Technology, International Development Office, International Affairs | ||
| Maya Folk Tales, Folklore from Lake Atitlan | James D. Sexton | ||
| The lost civilization, the Story of the Classic Maya | T. Patrick Culbert | ||
| Maya de Guatemala | Carmen Petersen | ||
| The Two Crosses of Todos Santos | Maud Oakes | ||
| Wk4: Monday | Collapse of Society, Due Oct. 10, in class: Oct. 12 |
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| Guns, Germs and Steel, the Fate of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | ||
| Collapse | Jared Diamond* | Jesse Hynes | |
| Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire | Patricia A. McAnany | ||
| Why Nations Fail | Daron Acemoglo and James Robinson | ||
| King Leopald’s Ghost | Adam Hochschild | ||
| Yucatan, before and after the conquest | Friar Diego de Landa | ||
| When Victims Become Killers | Mahmood Mamdanis | Elizabeth Russell | |
| Wk4: Wednesday | |||
| Neocolonialism | Due Oct 12, In Class: Oct. 14 | ||
| Overthrown, America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq | Stephen Kinzer | ||
| The Global Village Myth: Distance, War, and the Limits of Power | Patrick Porter | ||
| Guatemala, Unnatural Disaster | Roger Plant | ||
| Bitter Fruit, the untold story of the American Coup in Guatemala | Stephen Schlesinger; Stephen Kinzer | ||
| Guatemala in Rebellion, Unfinished History | Edited by Jonathan L. Fried, Marvin E. Gettleman, Deborah T. Levenson and Nancy Peckenham | ||
| [[#|Dollars]] & Dictators, a Guide to Central America | Dollars & Dictators, a Guide to Central America | Difficult to find. You may borrow Pete’s copy | |
| Wk5: Monday | The People’s Struggle, Due. Oct. 17, In class: Oct. 19 | ||
| I, Rigoberta Menchu, an Indian Woman in Guatemala | Rigoberta Menchu, edited by Elizabeth Burgos-Debray | Class Reads Wikipedia: Rigoberta Menchu | |
| Refugees of a Hidden War, The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency in Guatemala | Beatriz Manz | ||
| Trade Unionist Against Terror, Guatemala City 1954-1985 | Deborah Levenson-Estrada | ||
| Bridge of Courage | Jennifer Harbury | Class Reads wikipedia: Jennifer Harbury | |
| A Long Way Gone | Ishmael Beah | ||
| Wk 5: Wednesday The People and the Forest |
Due. Oct. 19, In class: Oct. 21 | ||
| Blue Clay People | William Powers | ||
| The World is as you Dream it, teachings from the Amazon and Andes | John Perkins | ||
| Whispering in the Giant’s Ear | William Powers | ||
| Wk6: Monday International Interventions (AID) |
Due Oct. 24, In class: Oct. 26 | ||
| Dead Aid | Dambisa Moyo | Pete has copy | |
| How to Change the World, social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas | David Borenstein | ||
| Delivering Development | Edward R. Carr | Joanne Phung | |
| The End of Poverty, economic possibilities of our time | Jeffrey D. Sachs | ||
| Haiti: The Aftershocks of History | Laurent Dubois | ||
| Just Transitions | Mark Swilling | ||
| Poor Economics | Abhiji V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo | ||
| Rwanda, Inc | Patricia Crisafulli | ||
| Wk6: Wednesday Development |
Due Oct. 26, in class: Oct. 28 | ||
| Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen | Sandy Shane | |
| Guatemalan National Human Development Report 2009 – 2010 (In Spanish) | http://desarrollohumano.org.gt/content/indh-2009-2010 | Class reads Human Development Report, 2010 | |
| Mastering the Machine Revisited: Poverty, Aid and Technology | Ian Smilie | Pete has copy | |
| The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development | Maggie Black | ||
| The Bottom Billion | Paul Collier | ||
| The White Man’s Burden | William Easterly | ||
| Confessions of an Economic Hitman | Perkins | ||
| Wk7: Monday | Working with People, Due Oct. 31, In class: Nov. 2 |
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| When the ground turns in its sleep | Sylvia Sellers-Garcia* | ||
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson | ||
| Deer Hunting with Jesus | Joe Beagant | ||
| Mountains Beyond Mountains | Tracey Kidder | Pete has copy | Kyle Cherry |
| My Path Leads to Tibet | Sabriye Tenberken | ||
| Three Cups of Deceit | Jon Krakauer | ||
| Wk7: Wednesday Appropriate Technology |
Due Nov. 2, In class: Nov. 4 | ||
| Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices and Implications | Barrett Hazeltine and Christopher Bull | ||
| Small is Beautiful | E.F. Schumacher | ||
| Design like you Give a Damn, Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crisis | Cameron Sinclaire | ||
| Manos de Mujer, manual on Appropriate Technology for Community DevelopmentSpanish | Luz Marina Delgado | I have this book | |
| The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind | William Kamkwamba | Allison Tuso | |
| Gaviotas | Alan Weisman | Sarah Mete | |
| Stuffed and Starved | Raj Patel | Ari Burton | |
| Wk8: Monday | Micro Lending and Business Solutions, Due Nov. 7, In class: Nov. 9 | ||
| Out of Poverty, what works when traditional approaches fail | Paul Polak | ||
| Creating a World Without Poverty, social business and the future of capitalism | Muhammad Yunus | ||
| A Framework for Understanding Poverty | Ruby Payne | ||
| Banker to the Poor, Micro-lending and the battle against world poverty | Muhammad Yunus | Chloe Spencer | |
| The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World | Jacqueline Novogratz | ||
| More Than Good Intentions | Dean Karlan | ||
| Wk8: Wednesday, Micro Lending and Business Solutions | Due Nov. 9, In class: Nov. 11 | ||
| The New Age of Innovation, driving cocreated value through global networks | C.K. Prahalad; M.S. Krishnan | ||
| The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, eradicating poverty through profits | C.K. Prahalad | ||
| You can Hear Me Now | Nicholas P. Sullivan | ||
| Diffusion of Innovations | Everett M. Rogers | Pete has copy | Sahil Oberoi |
| Wk 9: Monday | Innovation of Things: Due Nov. 14, In class: Nov. 16 | ||
| The design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman | Pete has copy | Gianno Lucas Eli S. |
| Design for a living world | Abbott Miller | ||
| Do Good Design: How designers can change the world | David B. Berman | Jim Marett | |
| Cradle to Cradle, rethinking the way we make things | William McDonough & Michael Braungart | ||
| The 10 Faces of Innovation | Tom Kelley | Kaelyn Rohm | |
| The Art of Innovation | Tom Kelley | Harrison Waschura | |
| Where Good Ideas Come From | Steven Johnson | ||
| Wk 9: Wednesday Reinventing Ourselves | Due Nov. 16, In class: Nov. 18 | ||
| Imagine | Jonah Lehr | Pete has CD | |
| Convergence | Thomas H. Colledge | Download .pdf from web | |
| Thinking in Systems | Donella H. Meadows | Pete has copy | |
| Cradle to Cradle | Look up from Monday’s class, | ||
| Change by Design: How design thinking transform organizations and inspire innovation | Tim Brown | ||
| Design Activism: Beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world | Alastair Faud-Luke | Ariana Brandao | |
| Creative Confidence | Tom Kelley | Chelsea Glasnow | |
| The Other World: DUE when the reader finds it appropriate | Weatherby, Arceneaux, Evans, Long, Reed, Novikova-Carter | You can’t pick this text if you’ve had it for a class. Pete has copy | |
| The New Age of Innovation, driving cocreated value |
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