Publications

Given the mix of unencumbered time, academic freedom, and interdisciplinary stimulation, it is not surprising that many Fellows choose to spend their year writing major books.

Tyler Collection

Just how many books have been written at CASBS? There is no way to know the precise answer to this question, but the Center’s Tyler Collection (named after the first Center director, Ralph Tyler) hints at the impressive volume of resulting scholarship. Though all Fellows are asked to donate copies of books written at the Center to the collection, we know that some forget to do so. That makes the roughly 1,600 volumes in the collection a conservative estimate. On average, some 25-30 books can be credited to each class over the 50 years the Center has been in existence.

For a list of the most recent works in the CASBS Tyler Collection, click here.

For a complete list of the CASBS Tyler Collection, click here.

Seminal works

Among the titles in the Tyler Collection are many that are recognized as classic works, books that have had a profound influence on academic discourse and contemporary thought. These include:

Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation

Bruno Bettelheim, A Home for the Heart

Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society

John Hope Franklin, A Southern Odyssey

Victor Fuchs, Who Shall Live?

Norman Naimark, Fires of Hatred

Deborah Tannen, Gender and Conversational Interaction

W.V. Quine, Word & Object

Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Lawrence Cremin, American Education

Robert Dahl, Who Governs?

William Durham, Coevolution

Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll

E.D. Hirsch, Cultural Literacy

Edward Said, Orientalism

Ed Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Arthur Koestler; The Ghost in the Machine

Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice.