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The book is edited by my graduate school advisor without whom I would not have been able to do the work I have done.

Personal and spiritual growth.

This is a book that I authored under a pen name. I would love for more people to read it.

It's a book about 'quality of character' when decisions are hard and character matters. If you don't ask, 'what kind of person do I want to be?' at the end of this book, you've never struggled to get to where you wanted to go and had to dig deep to find out what you were made of. That's why I love this book.

Wendy Mitchell's book serves as an eloquent reminder as to why I do the work that I do. Her words help to give meaning to the data collected and analyzed, presented and published. In her memoir, she beautifully shows how one can live well with Alzheimer's disease and why compassion and dignity are essential not only to interacting with someone living with this disease, but also for interacting with all of those around us.

The book I chose was the work of a close friend and colleague. Her encouragement and guidance helped me through many professional situations.

"A Random Walk Down Wall Street" is a great introduction to investing and what I recommend my AREC 352: Futures and Options Markets class read before putting any money into the market themselves.

I wrote my first "philosophy" paper about this book for a final project in my high school AP English class. It has stayed with me for many reasons, not all of which I can easily explain. The subject matter has a lot to do with it: a close, vexed, loving and deeply flawed lifelong relationship between two (loving and deeply flawed) women; the possibility of redemption or grace for a (deeply flawed) human being; the palpable ineliminability of mystery and concealment as part of the human condition. The authorship of the book is also meaningful to me; my father taught me to read with a children's book by C.S. Lewis. And the provenance of this particular work represents the chronically obscured but essential status of women in the history of philosophy. (The listed author is Lewis, but the book was coauthored by him and his wife, Joy Davidman, and he could not have written it alone.) Finally, this novel is created by weaving together and deliberately, creatively blurring boundaries between ancient Greek and Christian theological themes. The significance of that hybrid beast to our own cultural ethics and cosmologies is a central topic of my own philosophical research.

Corruption, greed, and finance have always interested me. This book reads like a fiction crime novel but it's based on actual events. It's amazing to see how one person can make such a huge difference.

In working towards tenure, I took a lot of pride in pursuing research questions that were relevant to practice and where academic theory could help explain what we see at real companies. The Larcker and Tayan book reflects that same goal - it provides rich institutional details about various aspects of corporate governance, and then explains how what we've learned from academic research can inform present and important issues facing boards, executives, and stakeholders today.

Reading from this book and teaching from this book led me to the type of teacher and writer I am today.