DANTES List of Recommended Books

Appropriate textbooks for study are not limited to those on this sample list. If you wish to obtain study resources to prepare for the examination, you may reference either the current edition of the titles mentioned or textbooks used at a local college or university for the same class title. It is recommended that you reference more than one textbook for any exam.

Anthropology

General Anthropology

Barrett, Richard A.
Culture and Conduct: An Excursion in Anthropology.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, current edition.
ISBN: 0-53414-724-0

Bower, John.
In Search of the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology.
Chicago: Dorsey, current edition.
ISBN: 0-25602-215-1

Ember, Carol R. and Melvin Ember.
Anthropology.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, current edition.
ISBN: 0-13227-753-0

Harris, Marvin.
Cultural Anthropology.
New York: Harper and Row, current edition.
ISBN: 0-20545-443-7

Haviland, William A.
Anthropology.
New York: Wadsworth Publishing. Current edition.
ISBN: 0-53462-361-1

McCurdy, David and James Spadley.
Issues in Cultural Anthropology: Selected Readings.
Boston: Waveland Press, current edition.
ISBN: 0-80873-329-x

Poirier, Frank E.
An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and the Archaeological Record. Minneapolis: Burgess, current edition

Sharer, Robert and Wendy Ashmore.
Archaeology: Discovering Our Past.
Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield, current edition.
ISBN: 0-07297-882-1

Art

Art of the Western World

Honour, Hugh and Fleming, John.
The Visual Arts: A History. 7th ed.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2005
ISBN: 0-13193-507-0

Business Mathematics

Brooks, Lloyd D.
Business Math.
St. Paul, MN: EMC Paradigm Publishing Co., current ed.
ISBN: 1-56118-657-0

Introduction to Business

Nickels, William G., James McHugh, and Susan M. McHugh.
Understanding Business.
Chicago, IL: Irwin, current edition.
ISBN: 0-07292-218-4

Computer Science

Introduction to Computing

General Computer Concepts

Abernethy, Ken, and Tom Allen.
Exploring the Digital Domain: An Introduction to Computing with Multimedia and Networking, Volume 1
Boston, MA: PWS Publishing Company, current edition.
ISBN: 0-53440-707-2

Brookshear, J. Glenn.
Computer Science: An Overview. 8th ed.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Longman, Inc., current edition.
ISBN: 0-32124-726-4

Long, Larry, and Nancy Long
Computers
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 12th edition.
ISBN: 0-13143-235-4

Parsons, June Jamrich, and Dan Oja.
Computers, Technology, and Society.
Cambridge, MA: Course Technology, current edition.
ISBN: 0-76007-022-9

Social and Ethical Issues

Baase, Sara.
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal and Ethical Issues for Computers and the Internet
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, current edition.
ISBN: 0-31008-215-5

Ermann, M. David, Mary B. Williams, and Michele S. Shauf.
Computers, Ethics and Society.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed.
ISBN: 0-19514-302-7

Comunications and Networks

White, Curt M. Data
Data Communications and Computer Networks: A Business User's Approach
Danvers, MA: Boyd and Fraser Publishing Company, current edition.
ISBN: 1-41883-610-9

Management Information Systems

Kroenke, David and Richard Hatch.
Management Information Systems.
New York, NY: Mitchell McGraw-Hill, current edition.
ISBN: 0-07113-422-0

Laudon, Kenneth C., and Jane Price Laudon.
Management Information Systems: Organization and Technology.
New York: Macmillan College Publishing Company

Criminal Justice

Allen, Harry E., and Clifford E. Simonsen.
Corrections in America, An Introduction.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 10th ed.
ISBN: 0-13102-728-x

Clear, Todd R., and George F. Cole,
American Corrections.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-53459-523-5

Inciardi, James A.
Criminal Justice.
Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, current edition.
ISBN: 0-07325-231-x

Newman, Donald T., and Patrick R. Anderson.
Introduction to Criminal Justice.
Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, current edition

Senna, Joseph J., and Larry J. Siegel.
Introduction to Criminal Justice.
St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company, current edition.
ISBN: 0-07006-166-7

Introduction to Law Enforcement

Barker, Thomas, Ronald D. Hunter, and Jeffrey P. Rush.
Police Systems and Practices: An Introduction.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Career and Technology.
ISBN: 0-13682-865-5

Walker, Samuel.
The Police in America: An Introduction. 3rd ed.
Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2004.
ISBN: 0-07294-478-1

Earth Science

Astronomy

Kaufmann, William J.
Discovering the Universe.
New York: Freeman, current edition.
ISBN: 0-71676-960-3

Pasachoff, Jay M.
Astronomy: From Earth to the Universe.
Philadelphia: Saunders College Publishing, 6th ed.
ISBN: 0-03033-488-8

Seeds, Michael.
Horizons: Exploring the Universe.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, current edition.
ISBN: 0-53452-434-6

Zeilik, Michael.
Astronomy: The Evolving Universe.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., current edition.
ISBN: 0-52180-090-0

Physical Geology

McGeary, David and Charles C. Plummer.
Physical Geology: Earth Revealed.
Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown Publishers
ISBN: 0-07304-083-5

Plummer, Charles C. and David McGeary.
Physical Geology.
Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown Publishers
ISBN: 0-07330-178-7

Press, Frank and Raymond Siever.
Earth
New York: W. H. Freeman, 3rd ed.
ISBN: 0-71674-401-5

Tarbuck, Edward J. and Frederick K. Lutgens.
The Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology.
New York: MacMillan, 7th ed (with cd-rom).
ISBN: 0-13114-865-6

Economics

Money and Banking

Kaufman, George G.
The U.S. Financial Systems: Money, Markets, and Institutions.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 6th ed.
ISBN: 0-13122-912-5

Kidwell, David S., Richard L. Peterson, and David W. Blackwell.
Financial Institutions, Markets, and Money.
Fort Worth, TX: Dryden Press, 7th ed.
ISBN: 0-47169-757-5

Mishkin, Frederick S.
The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets.
New York, NY: Harper Collins, 7th ed.
ISBN: 0-32135-794-9

Ritter, Lawrence S., and William L. Silber.
Principles of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 11th ed.
ISBN: 0-32120-525-1

Finance

Principles of Finance

Block, Stanley B. and Geoffrey A. Hirt.
Foundations of Financial Management.
Chicago, IL: Irwin, 11th ed.
ISBN: 0-07297-792-2

Dickerson, Bodil, B.J. Campsey, and Eugene F. Brigham.
Introduction to Financial Management.
Fort Worth, TX: Dryden Press, 4th ed.
ISBN: 0-03097-602-2

Geography

Human/Cultural Geography

Fellman, Getis and Getis.
Human Geography: Landscape of Human Activity.
Debuque, IA: Brown, 8th ed.
ISBN: 0-07111-233-2

Gabler, Sager and Wise.
Essentials of Physical Geography.
Philadelphia, PA: Saunders College Publishing, 1998, 8th ed.
ISBN: 0-49501-194-0

Strahler and Strahler.
Modern Physical Geography. 4th ed.
New York: Wiley and Sons, 1992.
ISBN: 0-47153-392-0

Health

Here's to Your Health

Bruess, Clint, and Glenn Richardson.
Decisions for Health.
Madison, WI: Brown and Benchmark, current edition.
ISBN: 0-69715-224-3

Insel, Paul M., and Walton T. Roth.
Core Concepts in Health.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 10th ed.
ISBN: 0-07313-888-6

Morgan, Monroe T.
Environmental Health.
Englewood, CO: Morton Publishing Co., 3rd ed.
ISBN: 0-53451-717-x

Payne, Wayne A., and Dale B. Hahn.
Understanding Your Health.
Boston, MA: WCB/McGraw-Hill, 9th ed.
ISBN: 0-07325-205-0

Pruitt, B. E., and Jane J. Stein.
Health Styles:Decisions for Living Well.
Fort Worth, TX: Saunders College Publishing Co.
ISBN: 0-03094-072-9

Ray, Oakley Stern, and Charles Ksir.
Drugs, Society,and Human Behavior.
St. Louis, MO: Mosby Year Book, 11th ed.
ISBN: 0-07313-892-4

History

Civil War & Reconstruction

Boatner, Mark Mayo.
The Civil War Dictionary.
New York, NY: David McKay, current edition.
ISBN: 0-67973-392-2

Boritt, Gabor S. ed.
Why the Confederacy Lost.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, current edition.
ISBN: 0-19508-549-3

Burns, Ken and Burns, Ric.
The Civil War.
Random House, Incorporated.
ISBN: 0-67975-543-8

Eaton, Clement.
A History of the Southern Confederacy.
New York, NY: The Free Press, 1st ed.
ISBN: 0-02908-710-4

Foote, Shelby.
The Civil War, A Narrative. 3 vols.
New York, NY: Random House, current edition.
ISBN: 0-39474-913-8

McPherson, James.
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
ISBN: 0-19516-895-x

McPherson, James.
Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, current edition.
ISBN: 0-07231-736-1

Nolan, Alan T.
Lee Considered: General Robert E.Lee and Civil War History.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, current edition.
ISBN: 0-80784-587-6

Paludan, Phillip Shaw.
A People's Contest: The Union and Civil War.
New York, NY: Harper and Row, current edition.
ISBN: 0-70060-812-5

Thomas, Emory M.
The Confederate Nation: 1861-1865.
New York, NY: Harper and Row.
ISBN: 0-06131-965-1

Contemporary Western Europe

Curtis, Michael.
Introduction to Comparative Government.
New York: Harper and Row, 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-32136-481-3

Urwin, W. Derek.
Western Europe Since 1945: A Political History
New York: Longman, 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-58225-374-8

History of the Vietnam War

Herring, George C.
America's Longest War: The U.S. and Vietnam 1950-1975.
New York: Knopf, current edition.
ISBN: 0-07253-618-7

Karnow, Stanley.
Vietnam: A History
New York: Penguin USA, current edition.
ISBN: 0-14026-547-3

Gelb, Leslie, and Richard Betts.
The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked.
Washington, DC: Brookings, current edition.
ISBN: 0-81573-071-3

Greene, Graham.
The Quiet American.
New York: Penguin, current edition.
ISBN: 0-41303-902-4

Kimball, Jeffrey P.
To Reason Why: The Debate About Causes of U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
ISBN: 1-59752-387-9

Krepinevich, Andrew.
The Army and Vietnam.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, current edition.
ISBN: 0-80183-657-3

Lederer, William J., and Eugene Burdick.
The Ugly American.
Greenwood, CT: Fawcett.
ISBN: 0-39331-867-2

Pratt, John Clark.
Vietnam Voices: Perspectives on the War Years, 1941-1982.
New York: Viking-Penguin Books, current edition.
ISBN: 0-82031-969-4

Race, Jeffrey.
War Comes to Long An: Revolutionary Conflict in a Vietnamese Province
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, current edition.
ISBN: 0-52002-361-7

Introduction to Modern Middle East

Andersen, Roy R., Robert F. Seibert, and Jon D. Wagner.
Politics and Change in the Middle East: Sources of Conflict and Accommodation.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 7th ed.
ISBN: 0-13140-193-9

Goldschmidt, Arthur.
A Concise History of the Middle East.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 7th ed.
ISBN: 0-81334-275-9

Peretz, Don.
The Middle East Today.
New York: Praeger, 6th ed.
ISBN: 0-27594-576-6

Shipler, David.
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land.
New York: Time Books, current edition.
ISBN: 0-14200-229-1

Spencer, William ed.
Global Studies: The Middle East.
McGraw-Hill, 7th ed.
ISBN: 0-07340-405-5

Rise & Fall of Soviet Union

Hosking, Geoffrey.
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within.
Cambridge,MA: Harvard University Press, 2nd ed.
ISBN: 0-67430-443-8

Kort, Michael.
The Soviet Colossus: History and Aftermath.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-76561-455-8

McCauley, Martin.
The Soviet Union 1917-1991.
New York, NY: Longman, 2nd ed.
ISBN: 0-58201-323-2

Thompson, John M.
A Vision Unfulfilled: Russia and the Soviet Union in the Twentieth Century.
Houghton Mifflin Company.
ISBN: 0-66928-291-X

Management

Human Resource Management

Cascio, Wayne F.
Managing Human Resources.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 7th ed.
ISBN: 0-07298-732-4

Werther, William B., Jr., and Keith Davis.
Human Resource and Personnel Management.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-07069-572-5

Organizational Behavior

Davis, Keith A., and John W. Newstrom.
Organizational Behavior: Human Behavior at Work
New York: McGraw-Hill, 12th ed.
ISBN: 0-07287-546-1

Gibson, James L., John M. Ivancevich, and James H. Donnelly, Jr.
Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes.
Chicago, IL: Irwin, current edition.
ISBN: 0-07298-717-0

Hellriegel, Don, John W. Slocum, and Richard W. Woodman.
Organizational Behavior.
Cincinnati, OH: South-Western College Publishing, 9th ed.
ISBN: 0-32432-363-8

Luthans, Fred.
Organizational Behavior.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
ISBN: 0-07287-387-6

Moorhead, Gregory, and Ricky W. Griffin.
Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 6th ed.
ISBN: 0-61861-158-4

Robbins, Stephen P.
Organizational Behavior: Concepts, Controversies, Applications.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall International, 9th ed.
ISBN: 0-13055-231-3

Robbins, Stephen P.
Essentials of Organizational Behavior.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall International, 8th ed.
ISBN: 0-13144-571-5

Schermerhorn Jr., John R., James G. Hunt, and Richard N. Osborn.
Organizational Behavior.
New York: Wiley, current edition.
ISBN: 0-47168-170-9

Philosophy

Ethics in America

Barcalow, Emmett.
Moral Philosophy Theory and Issues.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 4th ed.
ISBN: 0-49500-715-3

Newton, Lisa H., ed.
Ethics in America Source Reader.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2nd ed.
ISBN: 0-13182-625-5

Sommers, Christina, and Fred Sommers.
Vice & Virtue in Everyday Life.
Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College, 6th ed.
Short selections, both historical and contemporary, in ethical theory and its applications
ISBN: 0-53460-534-6

Psychology

Drug & Alcohol Abuse

Hanson, Glen, and Peter Venturelli.
Drugs and Society.
Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 7th ed.
ISBN: 0-76371-410-0

Maisto, Stephen A., Mark Galizio and Gerard J. Connors.
Drug Use and Abuse.
Fort Worth: Harcourt Press, 4th ed
ISBN: 0-15508-517-6

Fundamentals of Counseling

Brammer, Lawrence M., Everett L. Shostrom, and Philip J. Abrego.
Therapeutic Counseling and Psychotherapy.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 6th ed.
ISBN: 0-13912-817-4

Corey, Gerald, Marianne Schneider Corey, and Patrick Callanan.
Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions.
Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 7th ed.
ISBN: 0-53461-443-4

Faiver, Christopher, Sheri Eisengart, and Ronald Colonna.
The Counselor Intern's Handbook.
Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., current edition.
ISBN: 0-53452-835-X

George, Rickey L., and Therese S. Cristiani.
Counseling: Theory and Practice.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 4th ed.
ISBN: 0-20515-252-X

Gibson, Jane Whitney.
The Supervisory Challenge:Principles and Practices.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, current edition.
ISBN: 0-02341-792-7

Martin, David G., and Allan D. Moore, eds.
First Steps in the Art of Intervention.
Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1st ed.
ISBN: 0-53422-272-2

Vondracek, Fred W., and Sherry Corneal.
Strategies for Resolving Individual and Family Problems.
Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1st ed.
ISBN: 0-53425-470-5

Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Berger, Kathleen S.
The Developing Person Through the Life Span.
New York, NY: Worth Publishers, 6th ed.
ISBN: 0-71675-706-0

Cole, Michael and Sheila Cole.
The Development of Children.
New York, NY: W.H. Freeman, 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-71675-555-6

Craig, Grace J.
Human Development.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 9th ed.
ISBN: 0-13033-441-3

Gormly, Anne V.
Lifespan Human Development.
Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 6th ed.
ISBN: 0-15502-034-X

Hughes, Fergus P. and Ilene C. Noppe.
Human Development Across the Lifespan.
New York, NY: Merrill/Macmillan, current edition.
ISBN: 0-67521-241-3

Papalia, Diane E., Sally W. Olds and Ruth Duskin Feldman.
Human Development.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 10th ed
ISBN: 0-07322-878-8

Santrock, John W.
Life-span Development.
Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 10th ed.
ISBN: 0-07319-417-4

Sigelman, Carol K. and David R. Shaffer.
Life-span Human Development.
Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-53455-381-8

Turner, Jeffrey, and Donald Helms.
Lifespan Development.
Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-15500-996-6

Vander Zanden, James W.
Human Development.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 8th ed.
ISBN: 0-07327-130-6

Religion

Introduction to World Religions

Noss, David, and John Noss.
A History of the World's Religions.
New York: Macmillan, 11th ed.
ISBN: 0-13099-165-1

Smart, Ninian.
The Religious Experience.
New York: Schribner, 5th ed.
ISBN: 0-02412-141-X

Science

Environment and Humanity

Kupchella, Charles E., and Margaret C. Hyland.
Environmental Science: Living Within the System of Nature
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, current edition.
ISBN: 0-13282-740-9

Miller, G. Tyler, Jr.
Environmental Science: Working with the Earth.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 10th ed.
ISBN: 0-53442-408-2

Nebel, Bernard J., and R.T. Wright.
Environmental Science: The Way the World Works.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
ISBN: 0-13083-134-4

Vesilind, P. Aarne, J. Jeffrey Peirce, and Ruth F. Weiner.
Environmental Pollution and Control.
Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 4th ed.
ISBN: 0-75069-899-3

Wolf, Edward C.,
The Race to Save the Planet, Study Guide.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000 ed.
ISBN: 0-53439-612-7

Principles of Physical Science I Physics-Books

Krauskopf, Konrad B. and Arthur Beisner.
The Physical Universe.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 11th ed.
ISBN: 0-07301-465-6

Chemistry

Brown, Theodore L., Eugene H. LeMay, Jr., and Bruce E. Burston.
Chemistry: The Central Science.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., current edition.
ISBN: 0-13109-686-9

Technical Writing

Brusaw, C.T., Alred, G.J., and Oliu, W.E.
Handbook of Technical Writing.
New York, NY: St. Martin 's Press, 8th ed.
ISBN: 0-31235-267-0

Olsen, Leslie A. and Huckin, Thomas N.
Technical Writing and Professional Communication.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2nd ed.
ISBN: 0-07047-823-6