New Books by Northwestern Faculty
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 since this project began in 2005.
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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.
2005 to Present
| 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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| 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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| 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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| Microneconomics, 3rd edition / David Besanko and Ronald R. Braeutigam / Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc., c2007. MAIN Library: Call Number: 338.5 B5537m 2007 University Archives: Call Number: Faculty Coll David Besanko Senior Associate Dean: Planning and External Relation Alvin J. Huss Professor of Management & Strategy Kellogg School of Management More information |
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| Database marketing : analyzing and managing customers/ Robert C. Blattberg, Byung-Do Kim, Scott A. Neslin / New York; London: Springer, c2008 MAIN Lower Level Storage: Call Number: 658.872 B644d University Archives: Call Number: Faculty Coll Robert C. Blattberg Polk Brothers Distinguished Professor of Retailing, Professor of Marketing, Director of the Center for Retail Management Kellogg School of Management 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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| 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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The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate. Oxford: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 2005. Tad Brennan More information |
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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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Differential Geometry and Topology: With a View to Dynamical Systems, Studies in Advanced Mathematics. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2005. Keith Burns More information |
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| Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937. Stanford , Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006. MAIN Library: Call number: 330.95113 C319b University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Peter Carroll Asst. Professor Department of History Peter J. Carroll (PhD 1998) specializes in the social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China. His research interests include urban history, Chinese modernism, popular and material culture, gender/sexuality, and nationalism. A two-time Fulbright recipient, he has also held fellowships with the Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University; the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley; and the Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center. From February to September 2004, he was a visiting fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He is currently working on a book on suicide and ideas of modern society in China during the first half of the 20th century. During the summer of 2006, he will be a fellow at the National Central Library, Taibei, Taiwan. More information |
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| Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience by Carolyn Chen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. MAIN Library: Call number: 200.8951 C518g University Archives (non-circulating): Call Number: Faculty Coll Carolyn Chen Assistant Professor Department of Sociology Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Carolyn Chen (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) joined the Sociology and Asian American Studies faculty in 2003. Her areas of research interest are religion, immigration, and race/ethnicity. She is currently working on a new project that examines health and spirituality in the United States. More information |
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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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Marketing Channels. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006. Anne T. Coughlan Anne Coughlan’s (PhD Stanford) research areas include distribution channel management and design, strategic alliances, network marketing, and competitive strategy. She was named Teacher of the Year in the Executive Master's Program, 1996. She also serves on the editorial boards of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, and on the board of directors of Hendricksen-The Care of Trees. Coughlan is also an associate editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Louis W. Stern Professor Stern (PhD Northwestern) joined the Northwestern faculty in 1973. Professor Stern’s research efforts have focused on issues related to designing and managing marketing channels and on antitrust issues. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of marketing, legal, and behavioral science journals. Among his many honors, he has been awarded the Paul D. Converse Award from the American Marketing Association, “Marketing Educator of the Year” by Sales and Marketing Executives-International, the American Marketing Association/Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award, and, in June 1999, he was the first recipient of Kellogg’s newly created Special Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Stern is a member of the American Marketing Association and the American Association of University Professors. |
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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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Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Isaac M. Daniel Professor Daniel's interests and experience encompass a broad range of areas in Applied Mechanics with emphasis on Composite Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation. He has pioneered test methods for characterization of composite materials and has developed models for damage development, aging and property degradation of these materials. He serves on the editorial boards of Composites, Part A, and the Journal of Composite Materials. He is the Director of the Center for Intelligent Processing of Composites (IPC) at Northwestern University. |
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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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| How to Read Derrida . New York : W. W. Norton, 2006. MAIN Library: Call number: 194 D438Zdeu University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Penelope Deutscher Associate Professor Department of Philosophy Penelope Deutscher (PhD NSW) specializes in twentieth century and contemporary French philosophy and philosophy of gender. Her main publications include Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deconstruction and the History of Philosophy (1997); A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (2002), and she has recently completed Conversions of Ambiguity: The Age of Simone de Beauvoir. She is co-editor of Enigmas: Essays on Sarah Kofman (1999), and of Repenser le politique: l'apport du féminisme (2004). She also guest edited for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy the special issue 'Contemporary French Women Philosophers' (15:4, 2000). Other areas of special interest include theories of genealogy and biopolitics. Her research has been recognized by an Australian Research Council Large Grant (1999-2001), a N.S.W. Residency Expatriate Scientists Award at the University of Sydney (2005), and a Distinguished Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study Distinguished Fellowship, University of Durham, UK (2007). More information |
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| Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System Without Destroying It, by David Dranove. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. MAIN Library: Call number: 362.10425 D764c University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll David Dranove Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management Professor of Management and Strategy Kellogg School of Management David Dranove taught at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business from 1987 to 1991, before coming to the Kellogg School of Management. His research areas include Industrial Organization, Business Strategy, the Economics of Uncertainty, Medical Economics, Cost-benefit Analysis, and Pharmaceutical Economics. 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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| Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Marda Dunsky / New York: Columbia University Press, c2008 MAIN Library: Call Number: 956.94054 D926p University Archives: Call Number: Faculty Coll Marda Dunsky Marda Dunsky has taught a media literacy course on American reporting of the Arab and Muslim worlds at Medill and served on the Advisory Board of Northwestern’s Center for International and Comparative Studies. She is a former Arab affairs reporter for the Jerusalem Post and editor on the national/foreign desk of the Chicago Tribune. |
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Rainer Maria Rilke: The Poet's Trajectory. Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, V. 72. New York: P. Lang, 2006. Volker Durr Volker Dürr's (PhD Princeton) research areas include 18th to early 20th century German and Comparative Literature (Goethe, the novel, lyric poetry, Realist writers, Flaubert, Rilke, German history). He is interersted in the interplay of literature and philosophy, as well as literature and history. Professor Dürr's publications include: Versuche to Goethe, Festschrift fur Erich Heller (1976); Coping with the Past (1990), co-ed.; and Flaubert’s Salammbô: The Ancient Orient as a Political Allegory of Nineteenth-Century France (2002), in addition to a wide variety of articles from Lessing’s theology to Gottfried Benn (altogether 29). |
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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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| Writer's guide to character traits: includes profiles of human behaviors and personality types. 2nd ed. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, c2006. MAIN Library: Call number: 808.397 E21w University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll. Linda N. Edelstein WCAS Psychology |
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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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| 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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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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| Creatures of a Day: Poems: Reginald Gibbons. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008. MAIN Library: Call Number: MAIN 811.54 G441c 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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| 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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| Forensic Art Essentials: A Manual for Law Enforcement Artists / Lois Gibson / Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press MAIN Library: Call Number: 363.258 G449f University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Lois Gibson Center for Public Safety School of Continuing Studies Lois Gibson is recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records as "The World's Most Successful Forensic Artist." She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the FBI Academy Forensic Artist Course. She teaches forensic art at Northwestern’s Center for Public Safety. More information |
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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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| Anti-individualism: mind and language, knowledge and justification / Sanford C. Goldberg / Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 MAIN Library: Call Number: 121.3 G6183a University Archives (non-circulating): Call Number: Faculty Coll Sanford C. Goldberg Professor, Department of Philosophy Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Sandy Goldberg's work focuses on topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and epistemology. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1995. Before coming to Northwestern Goldberg taught at Grinnell College (1995-99) and the University of Kentucky (1999-2007). More information |
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| Macroeconomics. 10th ed, The Addison-Wesley Series in Economics. Boston: Pearson Addison Wesley, 2006. Call Number: 339 G664m 2006 (MAIN Library) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Robert J. Gordon Robert Gordon (PhD MIT) is a macroeconomist with a particular interest in unemployment, inflation, and both the long-run and cyclical aspects of productivity behavior. He has become one of the world's leading interpreters of the post-1995 acceleration of U. S. productivity growth, the slowdown in European productivity growth, and the causes of divergent economic behavior between the U. S. and Europe. His work contrasting performance in the U. S. and Europe includes the economic history of the last two centuries in economic performance across the Atlantic. |
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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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| Cultures and Societies in a Changing World. 3rd Edition. Wendy Griswold. Pine Forge Press, 2008. MAIN Library: Call number: 306 G871c 2008 University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Wendy Griswold Professor of Sociology & Adjunct Professor of English WCAS Wendy Griswold (Ph.D. Harvard University) works with the sociology of literature, and is the author of many books which examine this. Her current research interests are literary and cultural regionalism in the United States as well as in Norway and Italy. More information |
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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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| War of no pity: the Indian Mutiny and Victorian trauma / Christopher Herbert.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008. MAIN Library: Call number: 823.80935 H536w University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Christopher Herbert Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities Department of English Christopher Herbert (Ph.D. Yale University) is a Victorianist specializing in the novel and in cultural and intellectual history. He has received an NEH and two ACLS Fellowships and two WCAS Outstanding Teaching Awards. More information |
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| Toward an Art History of Medieval Rings : a private collection by Sandra Hindman; with Ilaria Fatone and Angélique Laurent-di Mantov. London : Paul Holberton publishing for Les Enluminures ; [Seattle]: Distributed in the United States and Canada by University of Washington Press, c2007. ART Collection (Deering Library) Call number: 739.2782 H662t University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Sandra Hindman Professor Emerita Art History Department Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Sandra L. Hindman (Ph.D. 1973, Cornell; Professor Emeritus) has taught courses on medieval manuscripts and early printed books, Gothic art, and women in medieval art and society. More information |
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The African-American odyssey / Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, and Stanley Harrold. Combined volume, 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2008. Darlene Clark Hine Darlene Clark Hine (PhD Kent State University, 1975) is a leading historian of the African American experience who helped found the field of black women’s history and has been one of its most prolific scholars. A past-president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and the winner of numerous honors and awards, she is the Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern. |
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| African Americans : a concise history, 3rd ed. / Darlene Clark Hine, William C. Hine, Stanley Harrold / Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009 MAIN Library: Call number: 973.0496 H662af 2009; CD: MITCHELL MULTIMEDIA CENTER(circulating) Call number: 973.0496 H662af 2009 CD University Archives (non-circulating): Call Number: Faculty Coll Darlene Clark Hine Professor, African American Studies and History Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Darlene Clark Hine, historian of the African American experience, helped found the field of black women’s history and has been one of its most prolific scholars. A past-president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and the winner of numerous honors and awards, she is the Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern. 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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| The Politics of Secularism in International Relations / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd.Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2008. MAIN Library: Call number: 327.101 H959p University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Political Science Assistant Professor Professor Hurd studies the philosophical and theological underpinnings of international relations, with a focus on relations between Europe, the United States, and the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently developing a new project on politics, metaphysics and international relations. 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability . New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. MAIN Library: Call number: 305.42 K57f University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Laura Kipnis Professor Department of Radio/Television/Film Laura Kipnis is a cultural theorist/critic and former video artist. She has received grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo. In addition to four books, her essays and reviews have appeared in Slate, The Nation, Critical Inquiry, Social Text, Wide Angle, the Village Voice, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and numerous edited collections. Her books and essays have been translated into ten languages. Her video-essays have been screened and broadcast in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia, and are distributed by Video Data Bank, Electronic Arts Intermix, Cinema Guild, and V/Tape in Canada. Her present work focuses on the intersections of American politics, psyche, and the body--with detours through love, Marx, gender distress, adultery, scandal, Freud, and the legacy of the avant garde. More information |
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| Strategic marketing for nonprofit organizations / Alan R. Andreasen, Philip Kotler. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2008. MAIN Lower Level Storage: Call number: 658.8 K87ma 2008 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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| Social marketing : influencing behaviors for good, 3rd ed./ Philip Kotler, Nancy R. Lee / Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2008 Call Number: MAIN Lower Level Storage 658.8 K87s 2008 University Archives (non circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Philip Kotler S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing Kellogg School of Management (see above for biographical information) More information |
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| Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. Call Number: 647.94068 K87m 2006 (MAIN Library) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Philip Kotler S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing Kellogg School of Management (see above for biographical information) 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 (see above for biographical information) |
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| High Visibility: Transforming Your Personal and Professional Brand. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. Call Number: 659.2 R364h 2006 (Main Lower Level) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Philip Kotler S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing Kellogg School of Management (see above for biographical information) Irving Rein Professor School of Communication Irving Rein's (PhD Pittsburgh) research explores the influence of communication on the public. He is currently researching how images affect communicators. He is a consultant to governments, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and political candidates. His recent publications include Marketing Places (1993), High Visibility (1997), Marketing Places Europe (1999), and Marketing Asian Places (2001). 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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| Carbon in the Geobiosphere: Earth's Outer Shell . Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. Call Number: GEOLOGY 577.144 M156c University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Abraham Lerman Professor Department of Geological Sciences Abraham Lerman's (PhD Harvard) research interests include: global biogeochemical cycles in the geologic past and present, geochemical and transport processes in the surficial and underground environment, and natural and anthropogenic controls of geochemical systems. More information |
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| Fundamentals of nuclear reactor physics / Elmer E. Lewis / London: Academic Press, c2008 SCIENCE ENGINEERING: Call number: 621.4831 L673f University Archives: Call number: Faculty Coll Elmer E. Lewis Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor Lewis received his BS, MS, and PhD from the University of Illinois. At McCormick, he teaches courses in heat transfer and reliability engineering. He is also an instructor for the freshman sequence, Engineering Design and Communication. 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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| 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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| Nano Mechanics and Materials: Theory, Multiscale Methods and Applications. Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2006. SCIENCE ENGINEERING: Call Number: 620.5 L783n University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Wing Kam Liu Walter P. Murphy Professor Mechanical Engineering Wing Kam Liu (PhD Cal Tech) made fundamental contributions to nonlinear finite element methods and pioneering work in meshfree particle methods, multiple scale analysis and multiresolution methods, and coupling of atomistic with continuum simulations. His techniques have been applied in nano mechanics and materials, surface engineering, manufacturing processes, computational fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, bio- and nano- fluidics, biological cellular systems, safety analysis of nuclear reactors, seismic analysis, and probabilistic fracture and fatigue problems. His many awards and honors recently include the 2004 Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, “Computational Mechanics Award.” His present research includes: Numerical Methods, Reproducing Kernel Particle and Wavelets Methods, Linear and Nonlinear Fluid Structure Interactions, Finite Element and Finite Difference Numerical Methods, Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics and Plates and Shells Structures, Seismic Analysis and Vulnerability of Structures, Linear and Nonlinear Vibrations, Structural Acoustics, Computer Aided Design, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Computational Approach to Probabilistic Fracture and Fatigue, Computational Nanotechnology, Multi-scale analysis and design, and Computational Biology. More information Eduard G. Karpov Research Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering |
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| Graphics concepts for computer aided design. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 2008. SCIENCE ENGINEERING: Call number: 620.0022 L948g 2008 University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Richard M. Lueptow Professor, MCC Mechanical Engineering Professor Co-Director, Master of Product Development Department of Mechanical Engineering Northwestern University Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center More information |
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| Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. New York Cambridge, Mass.: Russell Sage Foundation; Harvard University Press, 2006. Call Number: 331.13309 M163f (MAIN Library) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Nancy Maclean Professor Departments of History, African American Studies Nancy MacLean (PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) teaches a wide range of courses on the twentieth-century U.S., with a particular focus on the history of social movements and public policy. Her first book, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), was named a “noteworthy” book of the year by the New York Times Book Review, received the Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Owsley Prize from the Southern Historical Association, and the Rosenhaupt Award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. A recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Russell Sage Foundation, as well as Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research and Kaplan Humanities Center, she is one of Northwestern's Charles Deering McCormick Professors of Teaching Excellence. MacLean also serves as co-chair of the Chicago Center for Working-Class Studies, and as senior history advisor to Creating a Community of Scholars. 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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Social Choice with Partial Knowledge of Treatment Response. Econometric Institute Lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Charles F. Manski (see above for biographical information) |
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| Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. Studies in Crime and Public Policy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Call Number: 324.62086 M296l (MAIN Library) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Jeff Manza Professor Department of Sociology Jeff Manza (PhD UC Berkeley) is Associate Director of the Institute for Policy Research. His research is in the area of social stratification, political sociology and public policy. He has done work on how different types of social identities and inequalities in the United States influence political processes such as voting behavior, partisanship, and public opinion. He is the co-author (with Clem Brooks) of Social Cleavages and Political Change (Oxford University Press, 1999), and the co-editor of Navigating Public Opinion (Oxford University Press, 2002). He is currently working on two new projects with Clem Brooks: an analysis of the comparative impact of public opinion on welfare state effort in the OECD democracies, and an investigation of the impact of policy framings on public opinion, using data from new original experimental survey they fielded in the summer of 2005. More information |
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The Person: A New Introduction to Personality Psychology. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006. Dan P. McAdams More information |
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| The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Call Number: 155.25 M113r (MAIN Library) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Dan P. McAdams Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Director, The Foley Center for the Study of Lives Professor, Human Development and Social Policy Professor, Psychology (see above for biographical information) |
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Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality, Sexual Cultures. New York: New York University, 2005. Leon Forrest Professor of African American Studies & Professor of English and Communication Studies 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. More information |
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Derivatives Markets. 2nd ed, The Addison-Wesley Series in Finance. Boston: Addison
Wesley, 2006. Call Number: 332.645 M135d 2006 (MAIN Library) 332.645 M135d 2006 CD ( Main Circulation Desk) University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Robert McDonald Erwin P. Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Finance Dept. of Finance Robert McDonald (PhD MIT) has been a faculty member since 1984 and also served as department chair. Professor McDonald's research interests include corporate finance, taxation, derivatives, and applications of option pricing theory to corporate investments. His honors include the Graham and Dodd Scroll from the Financial Analyst's Federation, the Iddo Sarnat Prize from the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Smith Breeden Prize from the Journal of Finance, and the Review of Financial Studies Prize from the Review of Financial Studies. Professor McDonald is Co-Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, and has served on a number of editorial boards, including those for the Journal of Finance, Management Science, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. More information |
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| Culture and resource conflict: why meanings matter . New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. MAIN Library: Call number: 304.2089 M491c University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll Douglas L. Medin Professor Department of Psychology Professor Medin has been doing research on biological concepts among three groups in Petan, Guatemala, and among Native American, Amish, and Majority culture people in northcentral Wisconsin. The scope of these projects is fairly broad, ranging from studies of basic level concepts and the use of categories in reasoning to environmental decision making and links between cultural differences in mental models of nature and inter-group conflict over natural resources. In a nutshell, the work on categorization and category-based reasoning shows patterns that systematically diverge from what undergraduates show, suggesting that theory and data based on undergraduates may not generalize to the world at large. More information |
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| Contract and domination by Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills.Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2007. Charles W. Mills John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy Department of Philosophy, WCAS Dr. Mills got his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, and was a Distinguished Professor at UIC before coming to Northwestern. He works in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. In recent years he has been focusing on race. More information |
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| A Bewitched Duchy: Lorraine and Its Dukes, 1477-1736 by William Monter. Genève: Droz, c2007. MAIN Library: Call number: 944.38 M778b University Archives (non-circulating): Call number: Faculty Coll E. William Monter Professor Emeritus Department of History Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences E. William Monter (PhD Princeton, 1963), an internationally renowned early-modern social historian, has worked on a wide variety of subjects, including witchcraft, the Inquisition, women's history, and perceived deviance, with special reference to France, Switzerland and Spain. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, and membership in the Institute for Advanced Study. 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 |
