SPRING 2012 FEATURED ACADEMIC BOOKS

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American History

• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 37: 4 March to 30 June 1802. T. Jefferson; B.B. Oberg, ed.
• The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series: Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814. T. Jefferson; J.J. Looney, ed.

Art

• Edgar Degas Sculpture. S. Lindsay, D.S. Barbour, et al.
• Gandhara. J.Y. Chi and A. Proser.

Biology & Ecology

• Adaptive Diversification. M. Doebeli.
• Phase Transitions. R. V. Solé.
• Pollination and Floral Ecology. P. Willmer.
• Tropical Ecology. J. Kricher.

Economics & Finance

• A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. S. Bowles and H. Gintis.
• Creating Wine: The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914. J. Simpson.
• The Economics of Linguistic Diversity: How Many Languages Make Sense?. V. Ginsburgh and S. Weber.
• Exchange-Rate Dynamics. M.D.D. Evans
• The General Equilibrium Theory of Value. Y. Balasko.
• The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History. F. Boldizzoni
• States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities. D. Stasavage.
• The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism. G. Saint-Paul.
• Unified Growth Theory. O. Galor.

Earth Science & Geochemistry

• Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems. T.S. Bianchi and E.A. Canuel.
• Mathematical Modeling of Earth's Dynamical Systems: A Primer. R. Slingerland & L. Kump.

Engineering

• Steady Aircraft Flight and Performance. N.H. McClamroch.
• Engineering Dynamics: A Comprehensive Introduction. N.J. Kasdin and D.A. Paley.

History

• The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth Century. F. Sejersted.
• Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking. M. Keevak.
• Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society. S.A. Barnes.
• Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border. R. St. John.

Law

• Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India. P. Kotiswaran.

Literature / Literary Studies

• The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons. C. Dayan.
• The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Volume Four: The Climax. D.T. Roy, ed. and trans.

Mathematics

• Computational Aspects of Modular Forms and Galois Representations: How One Can Compute in Polynomial Time the Value of Ramanujan's Tau at a Prime. B. Edixhoven and J. Couveignes, eds.
• Discrete and Computational Geometry. S.L. Devadoss and J. O'Rourke
• Modern Anti-windup Synthesis. L. Zaccarian and A.R. Teel.
• Numerical Analysis. L.R. Scott.
• A Primer on Mapping Class Groups. B. Farb and D. Margalit.
• Thurston's Work on Surfaces. A. Fathi, F. Laudenbach and V. Poénaru.
• Totally Nonnegative Matrices. S. Fallat and C.R. Johnson.
• Validated Numerics: A Short Introduction to Rigorous Computations. W. Tucker.
• Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art. M. Frantz and A. Crannell.
• Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series: Type A Combinatorial Theory. B. Brubaker, D. Bump, et al.

Philosophy

• Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. J.E. H. Smith.
• Love's Vision. T. Jollimore.
• On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy. G.A. Cohen; T. Jollimore, ed.
• Philosophy of Law. A. Marmor.
• The Pragmatism Reader: From Pierce through the Present. R. Talisse and S. Aikin, eds.
• The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment. P. Saint-Amand; J.C. Gage, trans.
• Truth. A.G. Burgess and J. Burgess.

Physics & Astrophysics

• Fundamentals of Spacecraft Charging: Spacecraft Interactions with Space Plasmas. S.T. Lai.
• Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium. B.T. Draine.

Political Science

• Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South. R. Mickey.
• The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the New Global Economy. T. Büthe and W. Mattli.
• Politics and Strategy: Partisan Ambition and American Statecraft. P. Trubowitz
• Why Americans Don't Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate. Z.L. Hajnal and T. Lee.
• Worse Than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia. T.J. Christensen.

Political Theory

• Changes of State: Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law. A.S. Brett.
• The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte. I. Nakhimovsky.
• Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity. P. Rosanvallon; A. Goldhammer, trans.
• The Ethics of Voting. J. Brennan.

Sociology

• Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End. N. Eliasoph.

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