SPRING 2007 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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Anthropology

• Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan. J. Boddy.

Biology

• A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution. S. Otto and T. Day.
• Models for Ecological Data: An Introduction. J. Clark.

Classics

• Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text. J. Elsner.
• The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch. R. Cribiore.
• Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid. J. Reed.

Comparative Literature

• Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris. K. Newman.
• Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture. A.R. Mufti.

Economics

• Behavioral Economics and Its Applications. P. Diamond and H. Vartiainen, eds.
• Do Economists Make Markets? On the Performativity of Economics. D. MacKenzie, F. Muniesa, et al., eds.
• Econometric Modeling: A Likelihood Approach. D.F. Hendry and B. Nielsen.
• The Econometrics of Individual Risk: Credit, Insurance, and Marketing. C. Gourieroux and J. Jasiak.
• Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of the Free-Enterprise Economies. E. Sheshinski, R. Strom, et al., eds.
• How China Grows: Investment, Finance, and Reform. J. Riedel, J. Jin, et al.
• The Making of an Economist, Redux. D. Colander.
• Methods for Applied Macroeconomic Research. F. Canova.
• Nonparametric Econometrics: Theory and Practice. Q. Li and J.S Racine.
• Poverty and Discrimination. K. Lang.
• Services and Employment: Explaining the U.S.-European Gap. M. Gregory, W. Salverda, et al., eds.
• Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior. K. Steiglitz.
• Structural Macroeconometrics. C. Dave and D. DeJong and
• War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900. J.V.C. Nye.
• When Insurers Go Bust: An Economic Analysis of the Role and?Design of Prudential Regulation. G. Plantin and J. Rochet.

Field Guides

• Albatrosses, Petrels and Shearwaters of the World. D. Onley and P. Scofield.

History

• Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution. M. Sonenscher.
• Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad. S. Aschheim.
• Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: The Registered Charters of Its Conqueror, Jaume I, 1257-1276. IV: Unifying Crusader Valencia, The Central Years of Jaume the Conqueror. R.I. Burns.
• In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns. D. Gaggio.
• In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution. J. Crespino.
• Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages. J. Elukin.

Language

• Chinese Primer: Revised Edition. T. Ch'en, P. Link, et al.

Literary Studies

• A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens. E. Cook.
• Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. W. Dimock and L. Buell, eds.
• The Shadow of Death: Literature, Romanticism, and the Subject of Punishment. M. Canuel.
• Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State. B. Robbins.

Mathematics

• Discrete Orthogonal Polynomials: Asymptotics and Applications. J. Baik, T. Kriecherbauer, et al.
• Lectures on Resolution of Singularities. J. Kollár.
• Mathematical Aspects of Nonlinear Dispersive Equations. J. Bourgain, C. Kenig, et al., eds.
• Mathematics for Physics and Physicists. W. Appel.
• Positive Definite Matrices. R. Bhatia.
• Spherical CR Geometry and Dehn Surgery. R. Schwartz.
• Topics in Mathematical Modeling. K.K. Tung.
• The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study. D. Applegate, R. Bixby, et al.

Middle East Studies

• Identity and Religion in Palestine: The Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories. L. Lybarger.

Philosophy

• Dream, Death, and the Self. J. Valberg.
• Reasons without Rationalism. K. Setiya.

Physics

• Astrophysics in a Nutshell. D. Maoz.
• Conversations on Electric and Magnetic Fields in the Cosmos. E. Parker.
• The Galactic Supermassive Black Hole. F. Melia.
• Nuclear Physics in a Nutshell. C. Bertulani.
• String Theory in a Nutshell. E. Kiritsis.

Political Science

• After Anarchy: Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council. I. Hurd.
• All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes. D. Drezner.
• Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab World. A. Jamal.
• Charter Schools: Hope or Hype?. J. Buckley and M. Schneider.
• Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life. J. Miller and S.E. Page.
• Going Local: Decentralization, Democratization, and the Promise of Good Governance. M.S. Grindle.
• Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880. R. Adcock, M. Bevir, et al., eds.
• Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History. K. Whittington.
• Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes. D. Lindley.
• When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands. P.M. Sniderman and L. Hagendoorn.

Political Theory

• Multiculturalism without Culture. A. Phillips.
• What Democracy Is For: On Freedom and Moral Government. S. Ringen.

Religion

• Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism. M. Hassett.
• Schooling Islam: Modern Muslim Education. R.W. Hefner and M.Q. Zaman, eds.

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