Books for The World Since 1945
Required Texts
| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Tsuyoshi Hasegawa | Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan | Harvard, 2005 |
| Geraldine Brooks | Nine Parts of Desire | Doubleday/Anchor, 1995 |
| Jung Chang and Jon Halliday | Mao: The Unknown Story | Anchor, 2005 |
| Stephen Kinser | All The Shah's Men | John Wiley and Sons, 2004 |
| Lawrence Wright | The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 | Random House, 2006 |
| Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali | Khrushchev’s Cold War | Norton, 2006 |
| Naomi Klein | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Shock Capitalism | Metropolitan Books, 2007 |
The books listed above are required. They can be checked out from your local library in your hometown or throughout the state of Kansas by using the appropriate hyperlink. Kansas Library Catalog will indicate where the book is located and perhaps can be found not far from your location.
The books can also be purchased at the Memorial Union Bookstore, the Textbook Corner, and the Town Crier Bookstore in down town Emporia. Likewise, students can go online at Abebooks, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and E. R. Hamilton Booksellers for cheap and affordable books for this course.