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Richard Walker

Dr. Richard Walker has written and contributed to more than 100 books about science and natural history. His DK Guide to the Human Body won the 2002 Royal Society Young People’s Science Books Prize, and The Way We Work, coauthored with illustrator David Macaulay, won a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in 2009.

2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections from publicly available sources, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this

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