Andrea M. Karkowski

Professor of Psychology

Capital University

Columbus, OH 43209
What I’m reading now…

Nonfiction

  • Arnett, J. J., & Tannen, J. L. (2006). Emerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Benjamin, L. T. (2009). A History of Psychology, 3rd Ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Holton, G. (1998). The Scientific Imagination. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Lehrer, J. (2007). Proust was a Neuroscientist. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, Co.
  • Ramey, R. (2002). 50 More Hikes in Ohio. Woodstock, VT: Backcountry Guides. (5 hikes left to do)
  • Ramey, R. (2007). 50 Hikes in Ohio, 3rd Ed. Woodstock, VT: Backcountry Guides. (24 hikes left to do)

Fiction

  • Hosseini, K. (2007). A Thousand Splendid Suns. New York, NY: Riverhead Books.
  • Cornwell, P. (2009). The Scarpetta Factor. New York, NY: Putnam.
Recently Finished

Nonfiction

  • Baker, N. (2008). The Body Toxic. New York, NY: North Point Press.
  • Bloom, J. L., Hutson, B. L., & He, Y. (2009). The Appreciative Advising Revolution. Champaign, IL: Stipes Publishing.
  • Christopher, T., & Asher, M. (1994). Compost this Book. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Book.
  • Gordon, V. N., Habley, W. R., Grites, T. J. et al. (2008). Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Kemp, M. (2006). Seen/Unseen: Art, Science, and Intuition from Leonardo to the Hubble Telescope. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Kuh, G. D., Kinzie, J., Schuh, J. H. & Whitt, E. J. (2005). Student Success in College. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
  • Lewis, C. (2000). The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • McKinney, K., Howery, C. B., Strand, K. J., Kain, E. L., & Berhaide, C. W. (2004). Liberal Learning and the Sociology Major Updated: Meeting the Challenge of Teaching Sociology in the Twenty-First Century. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association.
  • Mitchell, M. L., Jolley, J. M., & O'Shea, R. P. (2007). Writing for Psychology, 3rd Ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  • Mortenson, G. & Relin, D. O. (2006). Three Cups of Tea. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
  • O'Conner, P., & Kellerman, S. (2009). Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. New York, NY: Random House.
  • Schneiderman, J. S. & Allmon, W. D. (Eds.) (2009). For the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent Design. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
  • Shermer, M. (2005). Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown. New York, NY: Times Books.
  • Twenge, J. M. & Campbell, W. K. (2008). The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement. New York, NY: Free Press.
  • Ulin, D. (2004). The Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line between Reason and Faith. New York, NY: Viking.

2008

  • Ariely, D. (2008). Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions. New York, NY: Harper.
  • Broecker, W. S., & Kunzig, R. (2008). Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat, and How to Counter It. New York, NY: Hill & Wang.
  • Edwards, B. (1999). Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. New York, NY: Tarcher/Putnam.

  • Fagan, B. (2008). The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press.

  • Hayes, B. (2008). Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions. New York, NY: Hill and Wang.

  • Jones, A. (2006). Kabul in Winter. New York, NY: Picador.

  • Kolbert, E. (2006). Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Pub.

  • Lipsey, M. W., & Wilson, D. B. (2001). Practical Meta-analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

  • Miller, K. R. (2008). Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul. New York, NY: Viking.

  • Mlodinow, L. (2008). The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives. New York, NY: Pantheon Books.
  • Paulos, J. A. (2008). Irreligion. New York, NY: Hill and Wang.
  • Pelikan, J. (1992). The Idea of the University: A Reexamination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
  • Pollan, M. (2006). The Onmivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York, NY: Penguin Books.
  • Sachs, J. S. (2007). Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World. New York, NY: Hill and Wang.
  • Thaler, R. H., & Sunstein, C. R. (2008). Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven CT: Yale University Press.

2007

  • Blackburn, R. T., & Lawrence, J. H. (1995). Faculty at Work: Motivation, Expectation, Satisfaction. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • Camp, M. J. (2006). Roadside Geology of Ohio. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company.
  • Collier, M. (2007). Over the Mountains: An Aerial View of Geology. New York, NY: Mikaya Press.
  • Glassick, C. E., Huber, M. T., & Maeroff, G. I. (1997). Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • Raymo, C. (2003). The Path. New York, NY: Walker & Company.
  • Rufus, A. S. (2003). Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto. New York, NY: Marlowe & Co.
  • Salsburg, D. (2001). The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Owl Books.
  • Shermer, M. (2004). The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule. New York, NY: Owl Books.

Fiction

  • Cook, R. (2009). Foreign Body. New York, NY: Berkley Publishing Group.
  • Coulter, C. (2009). Knock Out. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
  • Deaver, J. (2009). Roadside Crosses. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
  • Fraser, A. (2005). Three Great Novels: Jemima Shore Investigates. London, UK: Orion.
  • French, T. (2007). In the Woods. New York, NY: Viking.
  • Gardner, L. (2009). The Neighbor. Ney York, NY: Bantam Books.
  • Greenlaw, L. (2007). Slipknot. New York, NY: Hyperion.
  • Jance, J. J. (2007). Justice Denied. New York, NY: Harper.
  • Kellerman, F. (2009). Blindman's Bluff. New York, NY: Milliam Morrow.
  • Kellerman, J. (2009). Evidence. New York, NY: Ballentine Books.
  • Kellerman, J. (2009). True Detectives. New York, NY: Ballentine Books.
  • McDermid, V. (2006). The Grave Tattoo. New York, NY: St. Martin's Minotaur.
  • Neggers, C. (2007). The Widow. New York, NY: Mira Books.
  • Reichs, K. (2009). Devil Bones. New York, NY: Scribner.
  • Reichs, K. (2009). 206 Bones. New York, NY: Scribner.
  • Sangalli, A. (2009). Pythagoras' Revenge. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Silva, D. (2005). Prince of Fire. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
  • Slaughter, K. (2009). Undone. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
  • White, S. (2009). The Siege. New York, NY: Dutton.

2008

  • Ablow, K. (2005). The Architect. New Your, NY: St. Martin's Press.
  • Abu-Jaber, D. (2007). Origin. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company.
  • Alcorn, R. (2007). Deception. Colorado Springs, CO: Multnomah Books.
  • Andrews, L. (2006). Sequence. New York, NY: St. Martin's Minotaur.
  • Beckett, S. (2007). Written in Bone. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
  • Burnham, S. (2002). The Treasure of Montsegur. Ney York, NY: Harper San Francisco.
  • Cornwell, P. (2008). Scarpetta. New York, NY: Putnam.
  • Coulter, C. (2008). Tailspin. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
  • Deaver, J. (2008). The Broken Window. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
  • Dreyer, E. (2004). Head Games. New York, NY: St. Martin Press.
  • Dreyer, E. (2005). Sinners and Saints. New York, NY: St. Martin Press.
  • Fairstein, L. (2008). Killer Heat. New York, NY: Doubleday.
  • Gabaldon, D. (2007). Lord John and the Hand of Devils. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
  • George, E. (2008). Careless in Red. New York, NY: Harper.
  • Graham, H. (2008). Deadly Harvest. New York, NY: Mira Books.
  • Graham, H. (2008). The Death Dealer. New York, NY: Mira Books.
  • Hawke, R. (2005). Speak of the Devil. New York, NY: Random House.
  • Hewson, D. (2008). The Garden of Evil. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
  • Hooper, K. (2007). Blood Dreams. New York, NY: Bantan.
  • Jackson, L. (2008). Lost Souls. New York, NY: Kansington.
  • Johansen, I. (2006). Killer Dreams. New York, NY: Bantam Books.
  • Kalogridis, J. (2001). The Burning Times. New York, NY: Scribner Paperback Fiction.
  • Kellerman, F. (2008). The Mercedes Coffin. New York, NY: William Morrow.
  • Kellerman, J. (2008). Bones. New York, NY: Ballantine Press.
  • Kellerman, J. (2008). Compulsion. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.
  • Lakeman, T. (2007). Chillwater Cove. New York, NY: St. Martin's Minotaur.
  • Lippman, L. (2005). To the Power of Three. New York, NY: William Morrow.
  • Lippman, L. (2008). Another Thing to Fall. New York, NY: William Morrow.
  • Neggers, C. (2007). The Angel. New York, NY: Mira Books.
  • Palmer, M. (2007). The Fifth Vial. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
  • Parker, T. J. (2006). The Fallen. New York, NY: William Morrow.
  • Rice, C. (2001). The Snow Garden. New York, NY: Miramax Books.
  • Shuman, G. D. (2008). Lost Girls. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
  • Slaughter, K. (2008). Fractured. New York, NY: Delacorte Press.
  • Stewart, M. (2007). Last Breath. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.
  • Waites, M. (2007). Bone Machine. New York, NY: Pegasus Books.
  • Wilhelm, K. (2007). A Wrongful Death. Ontario CA: Mira Books.
  • White, S. (2008). Dead Time. New York, NY: Dutton.
  • Whyte, J. (1992). The Skystone. Toronto, CA: Penguin Canada.
  • Whyte, J. (1993). The Swinging Sword. Toronto, CA: Penguin Canada.

2007

  • Cornwell, P. (2007). Book of the Dead. New York, NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
  • Dreyer, E. (2003). With a Vengence. New York, NY: St. Martin Press.
  • Eugenides, J. (2002). Middlesex. New York, NY: Picador.
  • Fairstein, L. (2007). Bad Blood. New York, NY: Scribner.
  • George, E. (2006). What Came before He Shot Her. New York, NY: Harper.
  • Gerritsen, T. (2007). The Bone Garden. New York, NY: Ballentine Books.
  • Gerritson, T. (2006). The Mephisto Club. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.
  • Graham, H. (2007). The Séance. Ontairo, Canada: Mira Books.
  • Hawley, P. (2007). Stigma. New York, NY: Harper.
  • Johanson, I. (2007). Pandora's Daughter. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press.
  • Kohn, R. (2006). Seven Days to the Sea. New York, NY: Rugged Land.
  • Ladd, L. (2007). Dark Places. New York, NY: Pinnacle Books.
  • Reichs, K. (2007). Bones to Ashes. New York, NY: Scribner.
  • Stewart, M. (2002). The President's Duaghter. New York, NY: Ballantine Books.

Updated: 20 November 2009