RECOMMENDED READING LIST
THE NEW COOL: A VISIONARY TEACHER, HIS FIRST ROBOTICS TEAM, AND THE ULTIMATE BATTLE OF SMARTS by Neal Bascomb (New York, New York: Crown Publishers, 2011, 352 pages)
The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts follows FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 1717 “D’Penguineers” and their mentor, physics teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer. The first public school teacher to receive the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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“Genius” Fellllo shiw hip, Abo-Shaeer sought to create a new “cool” at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, CA—a “cool” focused not on sports glory, but lauding science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education—and led the creation of the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy within the high school. Bestselling author Neal Bascomb follows Abo-Shaeer’s journey as he uses the competition, started by inventor Dean Kamen, to get students excited about STEM subjects. The Engineering Academy made the construction of an FRC robot and competition a senior class project, reflecting FIRST’s ultimate vision of a Nation filled with similar academies and enthusiasm for STEM. (For more on Kamen, see Critical Thinking, Page 84.)
PROVIDING THE MEANS OF WAR: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEFENSE ACQUISITION, 1945-2000 Edited by Shannon A. Brown (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005, 411 pages)
Providing the Means of War: Historical Perspectives on Defense Acquisition, 1945-2000 is an anthology of papers by former acquisition officials, federal historians, and defense acquisition history scholars. Recom- mended by the U.S. Army Logistics University Library, this compilation showcases 15 papers offering lessons db ervations from the Acquisition History Symposium in Washington, DC, Sept. 10-12, 2001. Selections include: the full transcript of the roundtable discussion, “Acquisition in DoD—Past, Present, and Future,” on connections between national security strategy and resource management; Harvard Business School Professor J. Ronald Fox’s symposium keynote address on acquisition-related issues; and Industrial College of the Armed Forces Professor B.F. Cooling’s closing remarks, focused on the Defense Acquisition History Project.
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SWITCH: HOW TO CHANGE THINGS WHEN CHANGE IS HARD by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (New York, New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2010, 320 pages)
Recommended by GEN Odierno, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard explores the ques- tion: “Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?” For co-authors and brothers Chip and Dan Heath, the answer lies in an internal conflict in the brain between the rational mind and the emotional mind. For example, the rational mind wants to lose
weight, whilile the emotional mind wants a cookie. In this New York Times bestseller, the Heaths use a story-driven narrative— with examples from employees and managers, parents, and nurses—combined with psychological and sociological research to illustrate how individuals can unite both sides of the brain to achieve transformative change by using the pattern that exists in successful changes.
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