FALL 2008 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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American History

• American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Global Terrorism. T. Kidd.
• American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. H.J. Sharkey.
• Americans at the Gate: The United States and Refugees during the Cold War. C.J. Bon Tempo.
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 35: 1 August to 30 November 1801. T. Jefferson; B.B. Oberg, ed.
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 5: 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813. T. Jefferson; J.J. Looney, ed.

Anthropology

• Along the Archival Grain: Thinking through Colonial Ontologies. A. Stoler.

Archaeology

• Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani. D. Kacharava and G. Kvirkvelia; J.Y. Chi, ed.

Art History

• Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism. C. Poggi.
• The Patron's Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art. J.K. Nelson and R.J. Zeckhauser, eds.

Earth Science

• Geochemical Kinetics. Y. Zhang.

Ecology

• Ecological Models and Data in R. B.M. Bolker.
• Exploring Animal Social Networks. D. Croft, R. James, et al.
• A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology. T. Kiørboe.

Economics

• Anticipating Correlations: A New Paradigm for Risk Management. R. Engle.
• Development Macroeconomics: Third Edition. P. Agénor and P.J. Montiel.
• Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations. P. Combes, T. Mayer, et al.
• The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets. T. Boeri and J. Ours.
• The Economics of Inaction: Stochastic Control Models with Fixed Costs. N.L. Stokey.
• Introduction to Modern Economic Growth. D. Acemoglu.
• Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion. J.D. Angrist and J. Pischke.
• Social and Economic Networks. M.O. Jackson.

Education

• Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools. M. Pollock.

Film Studies

• Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director Jiang Wen. J. Silbergeld.

History

• God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars. B. Lazier.
• The Medieval Prison: A Social History. G. Geltner.
• The Other Within: The Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity. Y. Yovel.
• Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution. M. Sonenscher.

Jewish Studies

• The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. S. Heschel.
• Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period. M. Goldish.

Law

• The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth. R.C. Ellickson.
• A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age. D. Markovits.

Literature / Literary Studies

• Dostoevsky's Democracy. N. Ruttenburg.
• Five Fictions in Search of Truth. M. Jehlen.
• Franz Kafka: The Office Writings. F. Kafka; S. Corngold, J. Greenberg, et al., eds. E. Patton and R. Hein, trans.
• A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government. S. McCann.
• Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. J. Plotz.
• The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930. K. Flint.
• The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau: Journal, Volume 7: 1853-1854. H.D. Thoreau; N.C. Simmons and R. Thomas, eds.

  Mathematics

  • Classifying Spaces of Degenerating Polarized Hodge Structures. K. Kato and S. Usui.
  • Group Theory: Birdtracks, Lie's, and Exceptional Groups. P. Cvitanovic.
  • The Hypoelliptic Laplacian and Ray-Singer Metrics. J. Bismut and G. Lebeau.
  • Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History. E. Robson.
  • Mathematics in India: 500 BCE-1800 CE. K. Plofker.
  • Modeling with Data: Modern Statistical Computing with C. B. Klemens.
  • Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics. J. Gray.
  • The Structure of Affine Buildings. R.M. Weiss.

  Music

  • Sergey Prokofiev and His World. S. Morrison, ed.

  Philosophy

  • Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture. E. Skidelsky.
  • Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research. E.J. Emanuel and J. Hawkins, eds.
  • From Protagoras to Aristotle: Essays in Ancient Moral Philosophy. H. Segvic; M. Burnyeat, ed.
  • Kant and the Early Moderns. D. Garber and B. Longuenesse, eds.
  • Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume 3, Notebooks 1-15. S. Kierkegaard; N.J. Cappelørn, A. Hannay, et al., eds.
  • Moral Disquiet and Human Life. M. Canto-Sperber; E.J. Emanuel, trans.
  • Philosophical Essays, Volume 1: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It. S. Soames.
  • Philosophy and Real Politics. R. Geuss.
  • Thinking of Others: On the Talent for Metaphor. T. Cohen.
  • The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy. S. Mulhall.

  Political Science

  • Analyzing the Global Political Economy. A. Walter and G. Sen.
  • Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. S. Haggard and R.R. Kaufman.
  • Does Peacekeeping Work? Shaping Belligerents' Choices after Civil War. V. Fortna.
  • Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World. B.K. Rutherford.
  • From Economic Crisis to Reform: IMF Programs in Latin America and Eastern Europe. G. Pop-Eleches.
  • Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform. C. Weaver.
  • The Myth of Digital Democracy. M. Hindman.
  • Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted. E. Patashnik.
  • Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform. M.A. Orenstein.
  • Punishing the Prince: A Theory of Interstate Relations, Political Institutions, and Leader Change. F. McGillivray and A. Smith.
  • The Steps to War: An Empirical Study. P.D. Senese and B.K. Rutherford.
  • Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes. M.T. Fravel.
  • Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics. J. Kirkpatrick.
  • World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy. S.G. Brooks and W.C. Wohlforth.

  Political Theory

  • Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation. S.R. Krause.
  • On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship. N.L. Rosenblum.
  • Public Freedom. D.R. Villa.

  Reference

  • The Elements of Library Research: What Every Student Needs to Know. M.W. George.
  • The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. T. Gowers, J. Barrow-Green, et al., eds.
  • The Princeton Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. I. Shaw and P. Nicholson.
  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy. K.A. Reinert, R.S. Rajan, et al., eds.

  Religion

  • The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna. D. Sorkin.
  • Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia. J. Garrard and C. Garrard.

  Sociology

  • Demographic Forecasting. F. Girosi and G. King.
  • Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant. M. Anteby.
  • The Nature of Demography. H.L. Bras.
  • Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine. J.B. Imber.
  • Weaving Self-Evidence: A Sociology of Logic. C. Rosental.

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