New Books by Northwestern Faculty -- 2007
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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 2007.
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.
| Race, space, and riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles / Janet L. Abu-lughod. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 305.89607 A166r University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Janet L. Abu-lughod Professor Emeritus, WCAS Sociology |
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| The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession. New York: Free Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 363.254 A361l University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Ken Alder Professor Department of History Ken Alder (PhD Harvard) studies the history of science and technology in the context of social and political change. His previous books include the award-winning Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 (1997) and The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (2002). His most recent work, The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession (2007) is slated for translation into Japanese. He is currently working on a comparative study of the relationship between science and the law in France and America from the seventeenth century to the present. He also serves on the editorial board of Technology & Culture and the executive councils of the History of Science Society and the Society for the History of Technology, and he directs the program in Science in Human Culture at Northwestern. More information |
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| Recurrence and topology / John M. Alongi, Gail S. Nelson. Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2007. MATHEMATICS: Call number: 515.24 A454r University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll John Alongi WCAS Mathematics Research Area: Dynamical Systems - Alongi studies dynamical systems from a topological viewpoint with an emphasis on recurrent orbits of flows. |
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| Value merchants: demonstrating and documenting superior value in business markets / James C. Anderson, Nirmalya Kumar, James A. Narus.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007. MAIN Lower Level Storage: Call number: 658.804 A547v University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll James C Anderson William L. Ford Professor of Marketing and Wholesale Distribution Professor of Behavioral Science in Management Marketing Professor Anderson’s research interests are in constructing persuasive value propositions in business markets, and measurement approaches for demonstrating and documenting the value of market offerings. More information |
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| Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 823.91091 B433a University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Kevin Bell Associate Professor Department of English Kevin Bell (PhD New York University) concentrates upon trans-Atlantic literary modernisms, 20th century African American literature, modern philosophical aesthetics and experimental aesthetic forms. His book Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), pursues the philosophical question of non-identity in the prose fiction of such writers as Joseph Conrad, Nathanael West and Ralph Ellison among others. He has published essays on Conrad and Ellison, as well as on Katherine Mansfield and Chester Himes. At present, he is finishing work upon a second book project entitled Panegyric Exposures: Black Fragments in Explorative Music, Literature and Film. More information |
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| Arts Marketing Insights: The Dynamics of Building and Retaining Performing Arts Audiences. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 791.0698 B531a University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Joanne Scheff Bernstein Professor WCAS Business Institutions |
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| Honorable bandit : a walk across Corsica / Brian Bouldrey. Madison, Wis. : Terrace Books, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 813.54 B763ZUniversity Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Brian Bouldrey Senior Lecturer, WCAS English Brian Bouldrey, is the author of the nonfiction books Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica (University of Wisconsin Press, September, 2007), Monster: Adventures in American Machismo (Council Oak Books), and T he Autobiography Box (Chronicle Books); three novels, The Genius of Desire (Ballantine), Love, the Magician (Harrington Park), and The Boom Economy (University of Wisconsin Press ; and editor of several anthologies. He is recipient of Fellowships from Yaddo and Eastern Frontier Society, and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award from the San Francisco Foundation, a Lambda Literary Award, and the Western Regional Magazine Award. Teaches fiction and creative nonfiction. |
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| Negotiating globally : how to negotiate deals, resolve disputes, and make decisions across cultural boundaries/ Jeanne M. Brett. 2nd ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2007. MAIN Lower Level Storage: Call number: 658.4052 B845n 2007 MITCHELL MULTIMEDIA Center (Circulating): Call number: 658.4052 B845n 2007 CD University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Jeanne M. Brett Professor, Kellogg Management and Organizations |
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| The Future of Psychoanalysis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 616.8917 C524f University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Richrad Chessick Professor Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
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| Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Call Number: 658.7 C549s 2007(Main Lower Level) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Sunil Chopra IBM Distinguished Professor Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Professor Chopra's (PhD SUNY-Stony Brook) research areas include supply chain management, design of communication systems, and design of distribution systems. He currently is working on supply chain risk. He is the Departmental Editor of Managment Science and an Associate Editor of Decision Science. He has received the Sid Levy Teaching Award three times, most recently in 2005. He authored Managing Business Process Flows, 2nd Edition, and he has held academic positions at New York University and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. More information |
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| Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2007. Call Number: SCIENCE ENGINEERING 620.11 C5593i University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Yip-Wan Chung Professor Department of Materials Science & Engineering Professor Chung's research is in the area of surface science, tribology, design and characterization of hard coatings and thin films. He is interested in understanding how surface interactions affect friction and wear, especially in different temperature and environmental conditions. His work in hard coatings focuses on the synthesis, characterization and applications of hard coatings in computer disk drives, dry machining, ultralow friction and various high-temperature tribological applications. He is also designing thin films and materials with excellent infrared reflection properties, for use in automotive and aviation applications. More information |
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| Stages of emergency : Cold War nuclear civil defense. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 363.35097 D264s University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Tracy C. Davis Barber Professor of Performing Arts Professor of English & Theatre Specialties: 19C British theatre history, gender and theatre, economics and business history of theatre, performance theory, research methodology, museum studies, Cold War studies More information |
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| Higher ground: New Hope for the working poor and their children. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 362.58409 D911h University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Greg Duncan Professor, School of Education and Social Policy Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research Duncan is a member of the interdisciplinary MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2007-08; he is currently its vice president. He was elected president of the Society for Research in Child Development. More information |
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| Through the labyrinth: the truth about how women become leaders.
Alice H. Eagly & Linda L. Carli.
Boston, Mass : Harvard Business School Press, c2007. MAIN Lower Level Storage: Call number: 658.4092 E11t University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Alice H. Eagly Professor in Psychology More information |
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| Authors of the storm: meteorologists and the culture of prediction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 551.63 F495a University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Gary Alan Fine Professor WCAS Sociology Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976. Areas of interest include social psychology, sociology of culture, sociology of science, qualitative sociology, social theory, and collective behavior. Before coming to Northwestern, Fine was on the faculty of the University of Georgia and the University of Minnesota, and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, and the Russell Sage Foundation. More information |
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| Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews: William Goyen, edited and introduced by Reginald Gibbons, Univ. of Texas Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: MAIN 813.5 G724Z.g University Archives (non-circulating): Call Number Faculty Coll Reginald Gibbons Professor of English, Classics, and Spanish and Portuguese Director, Center for the Writing Arts Weinberg College of Arts and Science Reginald Gibbons (Ph.D Stanford University, Comparative Literature) is a poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist, and Professor of English and Classics. He has published 30 books. From 1981 to 1997, he served as the editor of TriQuarterly magazine. |
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| Music in the galant style / Robert O. Gjerdingen. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. MUSIC Library (Stacks): Call number: ML 240.3 .G54M8 University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Robert Gjerdingen |
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| No caption needed: iconic photographs, public culture, and liberal democracy / Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 306.0973 H281n University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: faculty Coll Robert Hariman School of Communication Robert Hariman teaches courses in rhetorical theory and the critical study of public culture. He is interested in the role of style in human affairs, particularly with regard to political judgment and the discursive constitution of modern society. Work in these areas includes Political Style: The Artistry of Power (Chicago, 1995) and two edited volumes, Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations (Michigan State, 1996, co-edited with Francis A. Beer) and Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice (Penn State, 2003). More recent work includes No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy (Chicago, 2007), co-authored with John Louis Lucaites (Indiana U.), which argues that visual practices such as photojournalism can provide important resources for democratic identity, thought, and action. Continuing work includes a conference on Visual Democracy, to be held November 1-4, 2007 in Evanston. More information |
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| Pragmatic liberalism : constructing a civil society / Albert Hunter and Carl Milofsky. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 303.372 H945p 2007 University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Albert Hunter Professor Department of Sociology Areas of interest include urban sociology, community, civil society, ethnicity, culture and literature, and methods. Hunter has published numerous books and articles, including Symbolic Communities, and most recently Pragmatic Liberalism: Constructing a Civil Society. His broad methodological interests include multimethod research and studies in the rhetoric of science, and these are reflected in two of his books Foundations of Multimethod Research, and The Rhetoric of Social Research: Understood and Believed. More information |
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| After anarchy: legitimacy and power in the United Nations Security Council. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 320.011 H959a University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Ian Hurd Assistant Professor Political Science Professor Hurd is working on research about the relationships between states and rules, norms, and law in international politics. He is writing a book that examines how and why states use international law and norms in strategic ways. It uses historical cases to critique both the constructivist and rationalist models of international norms, and suggests that the practice of invoking norms is important for constituting both agents and structures in world politics. More information |
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| Seismosis. John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse. Roanoke, VA: 1913 Press. c2006. Call Number: 813.54 K267s 2006 (MAIN Library) John Keene Assistant Professor of English Director of the English Major in Writing Department of English, WCAS John Keene (M.F.A. New York University) is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New Directions, 1995), and of the poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), with artwork by Christopher Stackhouse. More information |
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| What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 171.3 K91w University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Richard Kraut Charles and Emma Morrison Professor Department of Philosophy Professor Kraut's (PhD Princeton) interests include moral and political philosophy, particularly in Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. He is the author of Socrates and the State (1984), Aristotle on the Human Good (1989); and Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII, translation with commentary (1997), as well as of Aristotle: Political Philosophy (2002). He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992) and Plato's Republic: Critical Essays (1997). He served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in 1993-4, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Center for Hellenic Studies. He served from 2002 to 2004 as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association. In 2006 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More information |
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| Apples are square : thinking differently about leadership : the 6 critical values that are changing the way we lead and succeed / Susan Smith Kuczmarski & Thomas D. Kuczmarski. New York : Kaplan Pub., 2007. MAIN Lower Level Storage: Call number: 658.4092 K95a University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Thomas Kuczmarski Kellogg Marketing Thomas Kuczmarski, Senior Partner and President of Kuczmarski & Associates, is a nationally recognized expert in the management of new products and services, innovation, and marketing strategy. More information |
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| Exporting press freedom: economic and editorial dilemmas in international media assistance / Craig L. LaMay. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 323.44509 L217e University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Craig LaMay Assistant Professor Medill Assistant professor and faculty associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research; former editorial director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center and editor of Media Studies Journal; and a former newspaper reporter. Work has appeared in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Federal Communications Law Journal, Health Policy, Communications and the Law, and many other places. More information |
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| Shyness: how normal behavior became a sickness / Christopher Lane.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 616.89075 D5357Zl University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Christopher Lane Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature Christopher Lane (Ph.D. University of London) teaches and writes about mostly Victorian and modern British fiction, and has secondary expertise in 19th-century psychology, psychiatry, and intellectual history. More information |
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| Jews and Muslims in the Arab world: haunted by pasts real and imagined / Jacob Lassner and S. Ilan Troen. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 956.04 L347j University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Jacob Lassner Professor in History Medieval Near Eastern history; Jewish-Muslim relations Jacob Lassner (PhD Yale, 1963), Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish civilization, specializes in medieval Near Eastern History with an emphasis on urban structures, political culture and the background to Jewish-Muslim relations. He has held appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Rockefeller Institute (Bellagio), and The Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council. Among his publications are seven books, the most recent being The Middle East Remebered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces. |
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| Culture, literacy, & learning : taking bloom in the midst of the whirlwind / Carol D. Lee ; foreword by Linda Darling-Hammond. New York, NY : Teachers College Press, c2007. MAIN Lower Level Storage: Call number: 373.18299 L477c University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Carol D Lee Co-Cordinator, SESP Spencer Research Training Program Professor, African American Studies Professor, Learning Sciences, Learning Sciences Carol D. Lee has developed a theory of cultural modeling that provides a framework for the design and enactment of curriculum that draws on forms of prior knowledge that traditionally underserved students bring to classrooms. More information |
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| Bioregenerative engineering: principles and applications. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, c2007. SCIENCE ENGINEERING: Call number: 610.28 L783b University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Shu Q. Liu Assoc Professor MCC Biomedical Engineering Research summary: Pattern formation of vascular smooth muscle cells; Elastic lamina-based vascular engineering - mechanisms and applications. More information |
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| Mathematics as metaphor: selected essays of Yuri I. Manin / with foreword by Freeman J. Dyson. Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2007. MATHEMATICS: Call number: 510 M2783m University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Yuri Manin Trustee Chair and Professor of Mathematics PhD, Steklov Mathematics Institute Research Area: Algebraic Geometry - Manin has done fundamental work in several areas of Mathematics. They can be classified into contributions to algebraic geometry, non-commutative geometry, number theory, differential equations, and mathematical physics. |
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| Identification for prediction and decision / Charles F. Manski. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 303.49 M288i University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Charles F. Manski Board of Trustees Professor of Economics Faculty Fellow, Insitute for Policy Research 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. More information |
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| Anna Karenina in our time : seeing more wisely / Gary Saul Morson.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 891.7 T65aZmo University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Gary Saul Morson Chair; Professor Department of Slavic Professor Morson's work ranges over a variety of areas: literary theory (especially narrative); the history of ideas, both Russian and European; a variety of literary genres (especially satire, utopia, and the novel); and his favorite writers -- Chekhov, Gogol, and, above all, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. He is especially interested in the relation of literature to philosophy. More information |
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| The culture wars of the late Renaissance : skeptics, libertines, and opera. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 945.3107 M953c University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Edward Muir Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences Department of History 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. More information |
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| The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. Call Number: AFRICANA (Reference) 820.99676 G462c University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Evan Mwangi Assistant Professor Department of English Evan Mwangi (PhD U. of Nairobi) teaches 20th Century Anglophone African Literature. He researches the intersection of nationalism, gender, and sexuality in canonical and popular artistic expressions, relating local texts to global theories. His articles and poems have appeared in Mwangaza, Research in African Literatures, English Studies in Africa, and The Nairobi Journal of Literature. He has a number of articles forthcoming in PMLA, Africa Today, and Research in African Literatures. He is finishing work on a book manuscript on metafiction, gender, and sexuality in African novels. Among other projects on African sports, murals, film, Sherlock Holmes, and hip hop, he is currently working on a monograph investigating the place of gender and sexuality in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's politics of language. More information |
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| The design of future things / Donald A. Norman. New York : BasicBooks ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], 2007. MAIN Lower Level Storage: Call number: 658.5752 N842d University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Donald A. Norman Professor of electrical engineering and computer science and co-director of the Segal Design Institute More information |
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| Troubadour poems from the South of France / translated by William D. Paden and Frances Freeman Paden. Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 849.1108 T859 University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll William D. Paden Professor Department of French and Italian More information Frances Freeman Paden College Lecturer WCAS Writing Program |
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| Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 820.9353 P563t University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Susan Phillips Associate Professor Department of English A medievalist with Early Modern leanings, Susie Phillips (PhD Harvard) teaches courses on late medieval and Early Modern book culture, medieval literature and culture (sin and confession, heresy, rebellion, courtly love), Shakespeare, and Chaucer. In her scholarship as well as her teaching, she is interested in the materiality of the book, that is, in exploring how texts were produced, published, circulated, and read. More information |
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| Gay artists in modern American culture : an imagined conspiracy / Michael S. Sherry. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 701.03 S553g University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Michael Sherry Professor, WCAS History Michael Sherry (Ph.D. Yale, 1975), the Richard W. Leopold Professor of History, is a historian of war, politics, and culture in twentieth century America. For 1998-2001, he also served as Associate Dean of Weinberg College, Northwestern University. More information |
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| Urban disorder and the shape of belief : the great Chicago fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman / Carl Smith. 2nd ed. / with a new foreword. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 977.311 S644u 2007 University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Carl Smith Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English & American Studies Departments of English and History Carl Smith (Ph.D Yale University) is the author of Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920 (1984) and of Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (1994), which won the Urban History Association's prize for Best Book in North American Urban History and the Society of Midland Authors' first prize for non-fiction. He is curator of the online Chicago Historical Society exhibitions, The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory and The Dramas of Haymarket. With the Art Institute of Chicago, he wrote the text and coordinated the preparation of the digital essay, The Plan of Chicago in the electronic version of the Encyclopedia of Chicago. A recipient of a WCAS Outstanding Teaching Award, Smith was named Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in 1994. He teaches American literature and cultural history. More information |
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Global competitive strategy / Daniel F. Spulber. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. Daniel F. Spulber |
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| Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 261.88088 T246g University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Sarah Taylor Assistant Professor Department of Religion Sarah McFarland Taylor's (PhD UCSB) courses focus on aspects of American religion and culture and explore various understandings of the category of religion as it relates to ethnicity, women's experiences, and the natural environment. Taylor has published journal articles on the "greening" of American religion, and her next book project, Green Prophecy: Activists, Artists, and Scientists Envision Earth’s Future, explores the role played by women of diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds in shaping discourse about environmental problems and the future of life on the planet. Her third project Eternally Green: The Ecology of Death in America, covers the religious dimensions of the "Green Death Movement" and “green burial.” More information |
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| The Phenomenon of Religion: Pagan and Biblical Religion : Some Reflections on the Bifurcation of the Religious Phenomenon Between the Dimension-of-Power and the Dimension-of-Consciousness. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 200 V879p University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Manfred Vogel Professor Emeritus Department of Religion Manfred Vogel (PhD 1963) has taught at Brandeis University and at Northwestern University (since 1962). His scholarly work and teaching has been in the fields of modern Jewish thought, the philosophy of religion, and the Jewish-Christian dialogue. Vogel's publications include a translation and introduction to L. Feuerbach's Principles of the Philosophy of the Future (Bobbs-Merrill, 1966), A Quest for a Theology of Judaism (University Press of America, 1987), Rosenzweig on Profane/Secular History (Scholars Press, 1996), and essays on various figures and issues in modern Jewish thought. He is working on a book, An Ethical Right to Life. Vogel is an ordained rabbi and a classical violinist who plays in chamber music groups. More information |
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| SIXTY-YEAR RIDE THROUGH THE WORLD OF EDUCATION. University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Rudolph H. Weingartner |
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| Head and heart : American Christianities / Garry Wills. New York: Penguin Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 277.3 W7413h University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Garry Wills Wills is the author of more than 20 widely read books on American culture and politics. "Lincoln at Gettysburg" won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, for its close textual analysis of the Gettysburg Address, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. |
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| Strategic Public Speaking: A Handbook. Boston.: Pearson, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 808.51 Z36s University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll David Zarefsky Owen L. Coon Professor Department of Communication Studies David Zarefsky (PhD Northwestern) teaches courses in the history and criticism of U.S. public discourse, with a special focus on the pre-Civil War period and on the 1960's, and also teaches courses in argumentation and in Presidential rhetoric. Additionally, he directs the honors program for seniors in Communication Studies. Among his publications are books on the Lincoln-Douglas debates and on the rhetoric of the war on poverty during the Johnson administration. He currently is working on the controversy surrounding the annexation of Texas during the 1840's and on the legal and political dispute following the 2000 election and culminating in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Bush v. Gore. More information |
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| Kant on beauty and biology : an interpretation of the 'Critique of judgment.'
Rachel Zuckert. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 193 K16cZz University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Rachel Zuckert Assistant Professor Research interests include 18th and 19th century aesthetics; the role of organic metaphor in conceptions of systematicity in Kant's philosophy and in German idealism; the meaning and status of autonomy and objectivity in the Kantian and feminist traditions; and the nature of aesthetic and practical subjectivity. More information |
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