FALL 2006 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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Anthropology

• Global "Body Shopping": An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry. B. Xiang.
• Wild Profusion: Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago. C. Lowe.

Art

• Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture. E. Maguire and H. Maguire.

Classics / Language

• Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese. C. Chou, H. Wei, et al.
• Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace. M.C.J. Putnam.

Earth Science

• Geochemistry of Marine Sediments. D.J. Burdige.

Ecology / Biology

• Aquatic Photosynthesis: Second Edition. P.G. Falkowski and J.A. Raven.
• Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites: Second Edition. R. Poulin.
• How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook. R. Karban and M. Huntzinger.
• Mechanistic Home Range Analysis. P. Moorcroft and M.A. Lewis.

Finance / Economics

• The Central Asian Economies Since Independence. R. Pomfret.
• Economics and the Law, Second Edition: From Posner to Postmodernism and Beyond. N. Mercuro and S.G. Medema.
• Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling. J.M. Epstein.
• Inequality, Cooperation, and Environmental Sustainability. J. Baland, P. Bardhan, et al., eds.
• Investors and Markets: Portfolio Choices, Asset Prices, and Investment Advice. W. Sharpe.
• Louis Bachelier's Theory of Speculation: The Origins of Modern Finance. L. Bachelier; M. Davis and A. Etheridge, eds. and trans.
• Quantitative Management of Bond Portfolios. L. Dynkin, A. Gould, et al.
• Real Analysis with Economic Applications. E. Ok.

History

• Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. C. Gráda.
• On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru. S. MacCormack.
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 33: 17 February to 30 April 1801. T. Jefferson; B.B. Oberg, ed.
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. T. Jefferson; J.J. Looney, ed.
• The Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic. D. Harsch.
• Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. J. Adelman.
• Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. E. Pollock.

History of Science

• All Creatures: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity, 1850-1950. R. Kohler.
• The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 10: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, May-December 1920, and Supplementary Correspondence, 1909-1920. A. Einstein; D. Buchwald, T. Sauer, et al., eds.
• The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 10: The Berlin Years: Correspondence, May-December 1920, and Supplementary Correspondence, 1909-1920. (English translation of selected texts). D. Buchwald, T. Sauer, et al., eds.
• Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Survey of Astronomy. J. Evans and J.L. Berggren.
• The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940. J. Carson.

Law

• The Canon of American Legal Thought. D. Kennedy and W.W. Fisher, III, eds.
• The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership. L. Bosniak.
• Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms. M.B. Fox and M.A. Heller, eds.
• The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. N.M. Gorsuch.
• Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force. J.B. White.
• Religion and the Constitution: Volume I: Free Exercise and Fairness. K. Greenawalt.

Literary Studies

• Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class. J. Kucich.
• Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit, Volume 2. P. Bien.
• Lyric Poetry: The Pain and the Pleasure of Words. M. Blasing.
• Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945. M. Wollaeger.
• Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time. W. Dimock.

Mathematics

• Differential Equations on Fractals: A Tutorial. R.S. Strichartz.
• Diffusion, Quantum Theory, and Radically Elementary Mathematics. W.G. Faris, ed.
• Field Effect in Semiconductor-Electrolyte Interfaces: Application to Investigations of Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces. P.P. Konorov, A.M. Yafyasov, et al.
• Hadamard Matrices and Their Applications. K.J. Horadam.
• Impulsive and Hybrid Dynamical Systems: Stability, Dissipativity, and Control. W.M. Haddad, V. Chellaboina, et al.
• Integration of One-forms on P-adic Analytic Spaces. V. Berkovich.

Middle East Studies

• Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice. M. Bonner.
• Women in the Middle East: Past and Present. N. Keddie.

Music

• The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity. R. Knapp.
• Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven. M.E. Bonds.
• The Musical as Drama. S. McMillin.

Natural History / Field Guides

• Atlantic Shorelines: Natural History and Ecology. M.D. Bertness.
• Birds of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. S. Latta, C. Rimmer, et al.
• Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. F. Gill and M. Wright.
• Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa. S. Spawls, K. Howell, et al.

Philosophy

• Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama. T. Zamir.
• Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy. D.W. Graham.
• Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondage: An Essay on Free Will. N. Arpaly.
• Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil. P.W. Kahn.

Philosophy of Science

• On Physics and Philosophy. B. d'Espagnat.

Political Science

• Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America. K. Goss.
• Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877­-1929. K. Johnson.
• Judges and Their Audiences: A Perspective on Judicial Behavior. L. Baum.
• The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy. C. Howard.
• When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. E. Amenta.
• Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life. D.E. Campbell.

Political Theory

• Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context. D.A. Bell.
• Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village. D. Deudney.
• Journeys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge. R.L. Euben.
• Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit. J.F. Dienstag.
• Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. W. Brown.

Religion

• Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature. T. Fessenden.
• Religions of Korea in Practice. R.E. Buswell, Jr., ed.

Sociology

• Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis. S. Franklin and C. Roberts.
• Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. R. Brubaker, M. Feischmidt, et al.
• The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century. N. Rose.
• Rethinking Friendship: Hidden Solidarities Today. L. Spencer and R. Pahl.

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