SPRING 2010 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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American History

• Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Soldier in the Great War. J.H. Ebel.
• Heavenly Merchandize: How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America. M. Valeri.

Ancient History/Archaeology

• Alexander the Great and His Empire: A Short Introduction. P. Briant; A. Kuhrt, trans.
• The Cattle of the Sun: Cows and Culture in the World of the Ancient Greeks. J. McInerney.

Art

• French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. P. Conisbee; R. Rand, et al., eds.
• The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume III: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Paintings. R. Brettell, P.H. Tucker, et al.

Astrophysics

• Exoplanet Atmospheres: Physical Processes. S. Seager.

Biology

• Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior. D.M. Gordon.
• The Calculus of Selfishness. K. Sigmund.
• An Introduction to Methods and Models in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology. S. Braude and B.S. Low, eds.
• From Populations to Ecosystems: Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis. M. Loreau.
• The Symbiotic Habit. A.E. Douglas.

Birds and Natural History

• All about Birds: A Short Illustrated History of Ornithology. V. Chansigaud.
• Birds of Australia: Eighth Edition. K. Simpson and N. Day.
• Birds of Mongolia. S. Gombobaatar, A. Bräunlich, et al.
• Birds of Peru: Revised Edition. T.S. Schulenberg, D.F. Stotz, et al.
• Galapagos: Islands Born of Fire (10th Anniversary Edition). T. De Roy.
• Seeds of Amazonian Plants. F. Cornejo and J. Janovec.

Chinese Language

• A Kaleidoscope of China: An Advanced Reader. C. Chou, J. Wang, et al.

Classics

• Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry. B. Acosta-Hughes.
• Eratosthenes' Geography. Eratosthenes; D.W. Roller, et al., eds. and trans.
• Reconstructing the Roman Empire: An Ancient Political Culture and Modern Research. K. Hölkeskamp; H. Heitmann-Gordon, et al., trans.
• The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece. B. Holmes.

Economics & Finance

• Complete and Incomplete Econometric Models. J. Geweke.
• Forward-Looking Decision Making: Dynamic Programming Models Applied to Health, Risk, Employment, and Financial Stability. R.E. Hall.
• Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Growth. C. Greenhalgh and M. Rogers.
• The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable iin Financial Risk Management: Measurement and Theory Advancing Practice. F.X. Diebold, N.A. Doherty, et al., eds.
• Labor Markets and Business Cycles. R. Shimer.
• The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship. W.J. Baumol.
• The New Dynamic Public Finance. N.R. Kocherlakota.
• Portfolio Risk Forecasting. G. Connor, L. Goldberg, et al.
• Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800. R.S. Grossman.

History

• Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. A. Zimmerman.
• Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean. M. Greene.
• China and the Vocation of History in the Twentieth Century: A Personal Memoir. F.W. Mote.
• France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Liberation. P.G. Nord.
• Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility. M.D. Gordin, H. Tilley, et al., eds.

History of Science

• How to Read Historical Mathematics. B. Wardhaugh.

Literature / Literary Studies

• Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960. A. Hungerford.

Mathematics

• Adaptive Control of Parabolic PDEs. A. Smyshlyaev and M. Krstic.
• Dynamic Programming. R.E. Bellman.
• Flow in Networks. L.R. Ford, Jr. and D.R. Fulkerson.
• Graph Theoretic Methods in Multiagent Networks. M. Mesbahi and M. Egerstedt.
• Introduction to Ramsey Spaces (AM-174). S. Todorcevic.
• Log-Gases and Random Matrices. P.J. Forrester.
• Nonnegative and Compartmental Dynamical Systems. W.M. Haddad, V. Chellaboina, et al.
• Numerical Methods for Stochastic Computations: A Spectral Method Approach. D. Xiu.
• On the Cohomology of Certain Non-Compact Shimura Varieties (AM-173). S. Morel.

Philosophy

• The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory. A. Honneth; L. Löb, et al., trans.

Physics

• Physics and Technology for Future Presidents: An Introduction to the Essential Physics Every World Leader Needs to Know. R.A. Muller.
• Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell: Second Edition. A. Zee.

Political Science

• Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India. D. Kapur.
• The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics. M.C. Horowitz.
• Diversity in Complex Adaptive Systems. S.E. Page.
• Forbidden Fruit: Counterfactuals and International Relations. R.N. Lebow.
• Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring. F. Rosenbluth and M.F. Thies.
• Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation. C.L. Glaser.
• Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA. D.P. Carpenter.
• Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice. A.R. Poteete, M.A. Janssen, et al.

Political Theory

• Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism. K. Mantena.
• Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics. M. Stears.
• Machiavelli's God. M. Viroli; A. Shugaar, et al., trans.
• A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain. J. Martí and P. Pettit.
• Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants: Plato's Gorgias and the Politics of Shame. C.H. Tarnopolsky.
• Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce. T. Metz.

Reference

• A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism. S. Pons and R. Service, eds.

Sociology

• Economic Sociology: A Systematic Inquiry. A. Portes.
• The Entrepreneurial Group: Social Identities, Relations, and Collective Action. M. Ruef.
• Learning by Example: Imitation and Innovation at a Global Bank. D. Strang.
• Orderly Fashion: A Sociology of Markets. P. Aspers.
• Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in America. W.G. Roy.
• Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities. L. Karpik.

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