FALL 2007 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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Anthropology

• Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil. J. Holston.
• Marking Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary. P. Rabinow.
• Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival. J. Biehl.

Art History

• The Robert Lehman Collection XIII: Frames. T. Newbery.

Biology

• Dynamics of Cancer: Incidence, Inheritance, and Evolution.
• Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals. M.J. Keeling and P. Rohani.

Classics

• The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome. J. Connolly.

Cultural Studies

• Electric Salome: Loie Fuller's Performance of Modernism. R.K. Garelick.

Current Affairs

• The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought since September 11. J. Brenkman.

Ecology / Earth Science

• The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere. T. Schneider and A.H. Sobel, eds.
• Physiological Ecology: How Animals Process Energy, Nutrients, and Toxins. W.H. Karasov and C. Martínez del Rio.

Economics

• Connections: An Introduction to the Economics of Networks. S. Goyal.
• The Economic Theory of Annuities. E. Sheshinski.
• Foreign Direct Investment: Analysis of Aggregate Flows. A. Razin and E. Sadka.
• Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk. R. Frydman and M.D. Goldberg.
• Robustness. L.P. Hansen and T.J. Sargent.

History

• The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. S. Kurashige.
• A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950. J. Hoffnung-Garskof.
• Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad. M. Lazreg.

Intellectual History

• From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After. R. Leys.
• The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900. D. Bell.

Jewish Studies

• Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications. M. Halbertal; J. Feldman, et al., trans.
• Greece--a Jewish History. K.E. Fleming.

Law

• Regulation and Public Interests: The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government. S.P. Croley.
• Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law. M. Tushnet.

Literature / Literary Studies

• American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945. G. Jones.
• Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel. R.B. Yeazell.
• Excursions. H.D. Thoreau; J.J. Moldenhauer, et al., eds.
• Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century. S. Blair.
• The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850. L. Tennenhouse.
• In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination. G.Z. Hochberg.
• Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh. I. Duncan.
• War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma. C. Herbert.
• William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words. R. Godden.

Mathematics

• Genomic Signal Processing. I. Shmulevich and E.R. Dougherty.
• The Geometry and Topology of Coxeter Groups. M.W. Davis.
• The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook. V.J. Katz, ed.
• Optimization Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds. P. Absil, R. Mahony, et al.
• Prime-Detecting Sieves. G. Harman.
• Topics in Commutative Ring Theory. J.J. Watkins.
• Wave Scattering by Time-Dependent Perturbations: An Introduction. G.F. Roach.

Music

• Edward Elgar and His World. B. Adams, ed.

Natural History / Field Guides

• Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk. J. Wells.
• Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Passerines: Tyrant Flycatchers to Buntings. N. Arlott.
• Birds of Peru. T.S. Schulenberg, D.F. Stotz, et al.
• The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. C. Mattison.
• Seashells of Southern Florida: Living Marine Mollusks of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Regions: Bivalves. P.M. Mikkelsen and R. Bieler.

Philosophy

• Ethics and the Beast: An Argument for Speciesist Liberationism. T. Zamir.
• Nietzsche's Political Skepticism. T. Shaw.

Political Science

• Appeasing Bankers: Financial Caution on the Road to War. J. Kirshner.
• Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party. P. Frymer.
• Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America. K. Weyland.
• Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military. Z. Barany.
• Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism. K.E. Calder.
• Hindu Nationalism: A Reader. C. Jaffrelot, ed.
• Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures. S.J. Brams.
• Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East. E. Solingen.
• Personal Roots of Representation. B.C. Burden.
• The Politics of Economic Leadership: The Causes and Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric. B.D. Wood.
• The Politics of Secularism in International Relations. E.S. Hurd.
• Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt across Three Centuries. M. Tomz.
• Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000. A.I. Johnston.
• State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation. T.M. Fazal.
• The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. P. Pierson and T. Skocpol, eds.
• Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism. P.G. Roeder.
• While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. W.G. Howell and J.C. Pevehouse.

Political Theory

• Christian Political Ethics. J.A. Coleman, S. J., ed.
• Confucian Political Ethics. D.A. Bell, ed.
• Constitutional Patriotism. J. Müller.
• Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework. D.M. Estlund.
• Democratic Rights: The Substance of Self-Government. C. Brettschneider.
• Faith in Schools? Autonomy, Citizenship, and Religious Education in the Liberal State. I. MacMullen.
• Freedom's Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children. D.L. Tubbs.
• Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory. N.J. Hirschmann.

Public Policy

• Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption. K.A. Appiah and M. Bunzl, eds.
• The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition. J. Le Grand.

Religion

• The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam. S.H. Griffith.

Sociology

• Disrupting Science: Social Movements, American Scientists, and the Politics of the Military, 1945-1975. K. Moore.
• The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy. B. Steensland.
• From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe. N. Bandelj.
• Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art. S. Baumann.
• Inherited Wealth. J. Beckert; T. Dunlap, et al., trans.
• Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies. M.T. Hannan, L. Pólos, et al.
• Partisan Publics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks. A. Mische.
• Vatican II: A Sociological Analysis of Religious Change. M.J. Wilde.
• Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory. R. Collins.

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