SPRING 2006 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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Anthropology

• Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States. S.S. L. Jain.
• Law as Culture: An Invitation. L. Rosen.
• Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico. J. Masco.
• Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali. J.S. Lansing.

Art and Archaeology

• Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing. J. Silbergeld and D.C. Y. Ching, eds.

Asian Studies

• Classical Chinese (Supplement 4): Selections from Philosophical Texts. N. Yuan, H. Tang, et al.

Biology

• Dynamic Models in Biology. S.P. Ellner and J. Guckenheimer.
• Self-Organization in Complex Ecosystems. (MPB-42). R.V. Solé and J. Bascompte.

Birds and Natural History

• Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi. T. Stevenson and J. Fanshawe.
• Birds of South America: Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers. F. Erize and
• Raptors of the World. J. Ferguson-Lees and D.A. Christie.
• Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Guide to Field Identification. D. Taylor, et al.
• Tanagers, Cardinals, and Finches of the United States and Canada: The Photographic Guide. D. Beadle and J.D. Rising.

Classics

• Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status. M.B. Roller.
• Plato's Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times. J. Mitchell.

Computer Science

• Information Science. D.G. Luenberger.
• Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences. A. Shiflet, A. Shiflet, G.W. Shiflet, et al. G.W. Shiflet, et al.

Earth Science

• Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics. J.L. Sarmiento.

Economics

• Beyond Individual Choice: Teams and Frames in Game Theory. M. Bacharach; N. Gold and R. Sugden, eds.
• Computational Economics. D.A. Kendrick, P.R. Mercado, et al.
• Exchange Rate in a Behavioral Finance Framework. P. De Grauwe and M. Grimaldi.
• Globalization and Egalitarian Redistribution. P. Bardhan, S. Bowles, et al., eds.
• Lecture Notes in Microeconomic Theory: The Economic Agent. A. Rubinstein.
• Poverty Traps. S. Bowles, S.N. Durlauf, et al., eds.
• Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions. D.W. Bromley.

Education

• Citizenship under Fire: Democratic Education in Times of Conflict. S.R. Ben-Porath.

Finance

• Empirical Dynamic Asset Pricing: Model Specification and Econometric Assessment. K.J. Singleton.
• Theory of Corporate Finance. J. Tirole.

History

• Being Modern in the Middle East: Revolution, Nationalism, Colonialism and the Arab Middle Class. K.D. Watenpaugh.
• Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon. L. Deeb.
• Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany. F. Biess.
• Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity. E.L. Goldstein.
• Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence. E. Horowitz.

Literary Studies

• Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850. V. Kahn, N. Saccamano, et al., eds.

Mathematics

• Classical Mathematical Logic: The Semantic Foundations of Logic. R.L. Epstein.
• Fundamental Papers in Wavelet Theory. C. Heil and D.F. Walnut.
• Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings. A. Langville and C.D. Meyer.
• Honors Calculus. C.R. MacCluer.
• Invitation to Modern Number Theory. S.J. Miller and R. Takloo-Bighash.
• Modular Forms and Special Cycles on Shimura Curves. S. Kudla, M. Rapoport, et al.
• Nonlinear Optimization. A. Ruszczynski.

Philosophy

• Selected Writings on Aesthetics. J.G. von Herder; G. Moore, ed. and trans.

Political Science

• Craft of International History: A Guide to Method. M. Trachtenberg.
• Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law, and Economics of the GATT and the WTO. J.H. Barton, J.L. Goldstein, et al.
• Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate. G. Wawro and E. Schickler.
• Knocking on the Door: The Federal Government's Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs. C. Bonastia.
• Macropolitics of Congress. E.S. Adler and J.S. Lapinski, eds.
• Making War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations. N. Sambanis and N. Sambanis.
• Nation-States and the Multinational Corporation: A Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment. N.M. Jensen.
• Politics as Religion. E. Gentile; G. Staunton, trans.
• Politics of Precedent on the U.S. Supreme Court. T.G. Hansford and J.F. Spriggs, II.
• Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy. C. Dueck.
• States, Scarcity, and Civil Strife in the Developing World. C.H. Kahl.
• Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism. D. Ziblatt.
• Theory of Foreign Policy. G. Palmer and C. Dueck.
• Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power. R.L. Schweller.

Political Theory

• Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism. M. Walzer, ed.
• World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State. P. Manent; M.A. LePain, trans.

Religion

• Authorizing Marriage? Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions. M.D. Jordan, ed.
• People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States. M.O. Emerson.

Sociology

• Culture and Demography in Organizations. J.R. Harrison and G.R. Carroll.
• On Justification: Economies of Worth. L. Boltanski and L. Thévenot; C. Porter, trans.

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