New Books by Northwestern Faculty -- 2005
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This web site accompanies the New Books by Northwestern Faculty display in the New Acquisitions Alcove of the Library. The display and website serve to showcase examples of the monographic output of Northwestern's faculty in 2005.
Click on an author listed below to be taken directly to the bibliographical information of the text, call number, and a brief biography of each author. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image.
| Scaling of Structural Strength. 2nd ed. Oxford; Burlington, MA: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005. SCIENCE ENGINEERING: Call Number: 624.171 B362s 2005 University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Zdenek P. Bazant McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Born and educated in Prague (PhD 1963), Bazant joined Northwestern University in 1969, became Professor in 1973, and served as Director of Center for Geomaterials (1981-87). He has authored over 450 refereed journal articles and six books. Among other organizations, he has been inducted to the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Academia di Scienze e Lettere (Italy) and Academy of Engineering of Czech Rep. He is an Illinois Registered Structural Engineer. His honors include 5 honorary doctorates, the SES Prager Medal, the ASCE von Karman Medal, Newmark Medal, Lifetime Achievement Award, the Croes Medal, Huber Prize and Lin Award, Am. Ceramic Soc. Roy Award, the Solın and Stodola Medals (Czech Rep., Slovakia), Medal of Czech Soc. for Mechanics, Engineering Book of the Year (SAP), and the ISI Highly Cited Scientist in Engineering. He has received fellowships from Guggenheim, JSPS, NATO, Humboldt, Kajima and Ford Foundation. More information |
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Business-to-Business Market Research. Mason, Ohio: Texere, 2005. Martin Block Martin Block (PhD Michigan State) has served as the chair of the Department of Advertising, at Michigan State University and as a senior market analyst at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. |
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The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 2005. Tad Brennan Brennan’s research and interests cover Ancient Philosophy, from Presocratics to Late Platonics. His publications focus on the center of that period, specifically the Hellenistic era: Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics. He also published on the Presocratic Anaxagoras, and just recently finished translating a treatise written by Simplicius, one of the last non-christian Greek philosophers. |
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Differential Geometry and Topology: With a View to Dynamical Systems, Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2005. Keith Burns Burns (PhD Warwick University) works on geometrical and dynamical problems connected with geodesics in manifolds with nonpositive curvature. |
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All This Heavenly Glory: Stories. New York: Little Brown and Co., 2005. Elizabeth Crane Elizabeth Crane is the author of two short story collections. Her work has been featured in The Sycamore Review, Washington Square, New York Stories, Book, The Florida Review, Eclipse, Bridge Magazine, Sonora Review, Nerve, and the Chicago Reader. She received the Chicago Public Library's 21st Century Award in 2003. |
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| International law today : a handbook / by Anthony D'Amato ; Jennifer Abbassi.
St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, c2006. MAIN Library: Call number: 341 D155i University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Anthony D'Amato Judd & Mary Leighton Professor ANTHONY D'AMATO is the Leighton Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, where he teaches courses in international law, international human rights, analytic jurisprudence, and justice. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. More information |
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Morocco Bound: Disorienting America 's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express, New Americanists. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Brian Edwards Brian T. Edwards (PhD Yale University) teaches and writes about twentieth-century American literature and culture in its international context; fields of interest include American studies, cultural and diaspora studies, colonial and postcolonial discourse, film, and globalization. A former Fulbright Fellow to Morocco, he also specializes in Maghrebi literature and culture, especially in its intersections with United States culture and politics. He is also a core faculty member in the PhD Track in Postcolonial and Diaspora Studies. Edwards has published essays on Edith Wharton, Paul Bowles, Frantz Fanon, Mohammed Mrabet, the encounter of American Studies and postcolonial studies, and 1950s Hollywood Orientalism. He directs the Globalizing American Studies Project, a multi-year initiative with the Center for Global Culture and Communication and Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern. |
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National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia, Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare; 20. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Benjamin Frommer Frommer (PhD Harvard) specializes in the history of East-Central Europe, with a focus on the periods of Nazi and Communist rule. He is primarily interested in collaboration and resistance under repressive regimes, the use of courts for political ends, the consequences of ethnic cleansing, and the development of modern nationalism. |
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| Family communication : cohesion and change / Kathleen M. Galvin, Carma L. Bylund, Bernard J. Brommel. 6th ed. Boston : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2004. MAIN Library: Call number: 306.8 G182f 2004 University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Kathleen Galvin Professor, SoC Communication Studies More information |
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| Entre el Mundo Ibérico y el Atlántico: Comercio y Especialización Regional, 1550-1650. Bilbao: Diputación Foral de Bizkaia Departamento de Cultura, 2005. Call Number: University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Regina Grafe Assistant Professor History Regina Grafe (PhD London School of Economics and Political Science) is a historian of early modern Spain with a special interest in economic history. Currently, her work centers on a book project that seeks to unravel the sources of peninsular Spain’s painfully slow economic, political and social integration between the late 17th and the early 19th centuries and on a parallel study of the political economy of Spanish imperial rule. Grafe was elected to a Prize Fellowship at Oxford’s Nuffield College 2003-6 and has enjoyed support from the European Union’s Marie Curie Fellowship Programme, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Library Company Philadelphia. She teaches courses on early modern Spanish history as well as a survey of European economic history. More information |
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| Democratic Humanism & American Literature. New Brunswick , N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2005. Call Number: 810.9384 K17d (MAIN Library) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Harold Kaplan Professor Emeritus Department of English Harold Kaplan served as a member of Department of English at Rutgers from 1946-49, at the Bennington College Department of English from 1949-72, and at Northwestern University beginning in 1972. He has also been a Fulbright professor in Italy from 1956-57, and France, from 1960-61 and 1967-68. |
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| Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. Call Number: 709.4709 K46i (Art) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Christina Kiaer Professor Department of Art History Christina Kiaer (PhD UC Berkeley) teaches twentieth-cenury art, specializing in Russian and Soviet art, the politics of the avant-garde, and feminist theory and art. Her current research focuses on the problem of Soviet Socialist Realism within the history of modern art. She has held postdoctoral research grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, and the J. Paul Getty Foundation, among others. At Columbia University, where she taught prior to coming to Northwestern, she was the recipient of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award for junior faculty who have distinguished themselves as teachers and who demonstrate serious scholarly potential. More information |
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| Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing the Most Good for Your Company and Your Cause. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2005. Call Number: 658.408 K87c (Main Library Lower Level Storage) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Philip Kotler S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing Kellogg School of Management Kotler received his Master’s Degree at the University of Chicago and his PhD Degree at MIT, both in economics. He did post-doctoral work in mathematics at Harvard University and in behavioral science at the University of Chicago. Professor Kotler was the first recipient of the American Marketing Association’s (AMA) “Distinguished Marketing Educator Award” (1985). The European Association of Marketing Consultants and Sales Trainers awarded Kotler their prize for “Marketing Excellence”. He was chosen as the “Leader in Marketing Thought” by the Academic Members of the AMA in a 1975 survey. He also received the 1978 “Paul Converse Award” of the AMA, honoring his original contribution to marketing. In 1989, he received the Annual Charles Coolidge Parlin Marketing Research Award. In 1995, the Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI) named him “Marketer of the Year”. More information |
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No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. Steve Liss Steve Liss is an award-winning photographer for Time magazine, where he has worked since 1976. Forty of his photographs have appeared on the cover of Time, and he has won numerous awards from the World Press Association and the National Press Photographers' Association, including First Place: Magazine Picture Story in 1996 and First Place: Magazine Feature in 2003. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Soros Criminal Justice Journalism Fellowship for his work on No Place for Children. |
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Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response. Econometric Institute Lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Charles F. Manski Charles Manski (PhD MIT) is broadly concerned with problems of empirical inference faced by economic researchers and agents alike. Part of his ongoing work in econometric methods studies partial identification of probability distributions, with applications to the analysis of missing data and of treatment response. Another part studies identification of social interactions. His ongoing empirical work examines the expectations that individuals form for their futures and investigates the relationship between expectations and decision making. |
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Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality, Sexual Cultures. New York: New York University, 2005. Dwight A. McBride McBride chairs the Department of African American Studies. His current research interests include poetics, politics, and Phillis Wheatley. He earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's and doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles. His recent awards include the 2003 Lambda Literary Award and the 2003 Monette-Horwitz Achievement Award. |
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Ritual in Early Modern Europe. 2nd ed, New Approaches to European History. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Edward Muir Edward Muir (PhD Rutgers) works in Italian social and cultural history, especially during the Renaissance. Besides receiving Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, he has been a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has edited three volumes of translated essays from the Italian journal, Quaderni Storici, is a general editor of the book series "Palgrave Early Modern History: Culture and Society," and has served on the Board of Editors of The American Historical Review and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. He is the author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, which won the Adams and Marraro Prizes, and Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy, which also won the Marraro Prize. He is currently working on a series of essays on the idea of community in Renaissance Italy and a book, The Culture Wars of Late Renaissance Venice. |
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Parenting Experts: Their Advice, the Research, and Getting It Right. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2005. Jane L. Rankin Jane Rankin (PhD University of Colorado) researches in behavioral science research in public media, aging and communication, and adolescent self-perceptions and social communications. She has recently published an article on adolescent self-consciousness in the Journal of Research on Adolescence. |
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From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Švejk: A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, 2005. Andrew Roberts Andrew Roberts' (PhD Princeton) interests include comparative politics, politics of Eastern Europe , democratization, and public policy. His dissertation, "Social Policy Reform in East Central Europe," focuses on reforms of housing, pension, and health-care systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland after the fall of communism and analyzes the reasons why politicians chose the reforms they did. He currently researches the development of parliamentary governments, particularly the process of coalition formation in postcommunist countries. He recently published articles in East European Politics and Societies, Central European Review, The New Presence, and The Prague Post. He has received fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the International Research and Exchanges Board. |
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| Through Strangers' Eyes: Fictional Foreigners in Old Regime France. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures; V. 33. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2005. Call Number: 840.99206 R759t (MAIN Library) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Sylvie Romanowski Sylvie Romanowski (Ph.D. Yale) is the author of L'illusion chez Descartes: la structure du discours cartésien, Through Strangers' Eyes: Fictional Foreigners in Old Regime France, Purdue University Press (2005), and of articles on Colette, Malraux, Montesquieu, Molière, and Racine; co-editor of Homage to Paul Bénichou. She has research interests in seventeenth and eighteenth century literature as well as in theatre and feminism. She has given lectures at the MLA, the North American Association for French Seventeenth-Century Literature, The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Association, the University of Texas at Austin , the University of Kansas , and Ohio State University. Professor Romanowski is a past director of the Women's Studies Program. |
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| Samadhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga. Suny Series in Religious Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Call Number: 294.5436 S243s (MAIN Library) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Stuart Ray Sarbacker |
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| Ten Key Customer Insights: Unlocking the Mind of the Market. Mason, OH: Thomson/Texere, 2005. Call Number: 658.8343 S332t (Main Library Lower Level) Also Available in University Archives Robert Schieffer |
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Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition, Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. Hendrik Spruyt Professor Spruyt (PhD University of Leiden) is the author of The Sovereign State and Its Competitors ( Princeton 1994) which won the J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in History and Politics 1994-96. He has published in numerous journals, and contributed chapters to edited books. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1997-98. He has received research support from the Josephine de Karman Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation. Professor Spruyt is former co-editor of the Review of International Political Economy.
His research intersects comparative politics with international relations and includes particularly the formation of polities and their disintegration; and the rise and demise of sovereignty. |
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Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Helen Thompson Thompson (PhD Duke University) teaches eighteenth-century British literature and philosophy, gender studies, and literary theory. She was a Mellon/ NEH research fellow at the Newberry Library in 2003-2004. Selected publications include: "Betsy Thoughtless and the Persistence of Coquettish Volition," JEMCS: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 4: 1; "Charlotte Lennox and the Agency of Romance," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 42: 3; "Plotting Materialism: W. Charleton's The Ephesian Matron , E. Haywood's Fantomina , and Feminine Consistency," Eighteenth-Century Studies 35: 2; "How the Wanderer Works: Reading Burney and Bourdieu," ELH 68; and "Evelina's Two Publics," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 39: 2. |
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The Disorder of Political Inquiry. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. Keith Topper Topper (PhD UCLA) conducts research on social and political theory, liberal and democratic theory, American political thought, the philosophy of the social sciences and theories of international politics. |
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Henry Adams and the Making of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Garry Wills |
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