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Table of Contents Accounting ...... 2 Art ...... 5 Biology ...... 15 Business Administration ...... 26 Child Study ...... 31 Computer Information Science & Mathematics ...... 41 Criminal Justice ...... 52 Economics ...... 61 Education ...... 68 English ...... 78 Health Administration ...... 92 History ...... 107 Hospitality & Tourism Management ...... 118 Human Services ...... 124 Journalism & New Media Studies ...... 130 Modern Languages...... 136 Music ...... 138 Natural Sciences: Chemistry/Physics ...... 142 Nursing ...... 148 Organizational Management ...... 156 Philosophy ...... 161 Political Science ...... 167 Psychology ...... 182 Recreation ...... 186 Religious Studies ...... 189 Sociology, Human Relations & Anthropology ...... 194 Speech & Communication ...... 206 Theater ...... 208 Writer’s Foundry ...... 210

2 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Accounting Faculty Member: Clikeman, Paul M. Called to account: financial frauds that shaped the accounting profession. Click here to enter text. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2013. 371p bibl index afp ISBN 9780415630245, $200.00; ISBN 9780415630252 pbk, $60.70; ISBN 9780203097946 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required If one were to write a history of the accounting profession in the US, a historian might compile a chronological record of key events, persons, legislation, and the like. Some within ☐ Recommended the profession might relate it to the economic history of the country, as Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino did with A History of Accounting in America (CH, Nov'98, 36-1669). Most modern accountants, however, perceive the evolution of the profession, at least in part, in light of its difficulties and failures. Clikeman has done a superb job of presenting this evolution through the masterfully told accounts of 16 of the most famous financial frauds. Starting with the Ivar Kreuger matchstick fraud of the early 20th century, Clikeman takes the reader through the major eras of the profession's history, revealing how specific financial scandals provided the stimulus for many key professional, legislative, and regulatory developments. This second edition (1st ed., CH, Aug'09, 46-6897) includes a new section dealing with recent events, including Parmalat, Satyam, and the recession. The book is extensively documented and includes suggested discussion questions and a full index. Summing Up: Essential. Accounting collections, upper-division undergraduate through professional. Faculty Member: Stone, Brad. The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon. Little, Brown, 2013. Click here to enter text. 372p index ISBN 9780316219266, $28.00 ☐ Required Arguably, there are three great stories that have emerged from the current age of technological innovation: Steve Jobs, the "Google fellows," and Jeff Bezos. Bloomberg ☐ Recommended Businessweek writer Stone employs a historian's approach in presenting Amazon in relentless detail flowing from the personality and focus of founder Jeff Bezos. This can lead to insights as well as mind-numbing detail: "Christopher Smith, a twenty-three-year-old warehouse temp with tattoos of Chinese characters on his forearms...." Amazon is presented as a triumph of small things done well in creating a global organization that is potentially on the threshold of even more exponential growth. Bezos is presented as a driven, detailed-oriented innovator focused on improving the customer experience at Amazon, which has grown as a function of Bezos's personality. Neither Steve Jobs, as presented by Walter Isaacson in Steve Jobs (CH, Apr'12, 49-4500), nor Bezos comes off as an average nice guy. How could they? The real lesson is that the "heroic entrepreneur" is captive to his/her vision and that most other things are secondary. Anyone wanting to learn about Jeff Bezos's remarkable development of Amazon and his ambition to make it "the everything store" will want to read this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels and collections. Faculty Member: DeLong, David. Graduate to a great job: make your college degree pay off in today's market. Click here to enter text. Longstone Press, 2013. 271p bibl index ISBN 9780988868601 pbk, $15.00 ☐ Required DeLong, whose experience includes being a career-planning researcher at Harvard Business School, has produced an outstanding overview of the process of securing employment as a ☐ Recommended recent or soon-to-be graduate. The author showcases tactics and advice from recent college grads who found success in their own job search strategies. DeLong's writing style carries a casual yet wise tone that works well for a young generation of educated readers facing the incredible challenges of landing their first professional jobs. Chapters are brief, but references to current sources offering in-depth guidance appear throughout the book. "Checklists for Action" are provided to assist job seekers in incorporating specific tasks into their job search. Networking is a constant theme throughout the work; other strategies emphasized are securing a useful internship and utilizing university career service departments. Tips are offered for formatting a resumé for applicant tracking systems, as well as for the proper use of LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in the job search. Similar titles worth examining are Mary Ghilani's Working in Your Major: How to Find a Job When You Graduate (CH, Mar'13, 50- 3 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 3939) and Tori Randolph Terhune and Betsy Hays's Land Your Dream Career: Eleven Steps to Take in College (CH, Oct'13, 51-0976). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate students and career services professionals. Faculty Member: Judgment and decision making at work, ed. by Scott Highhouse, Reeshad S. Dalal, and Click here to enter text. Eduardo Salas. Routledge, 2014. 386p bibl indexes ISBN 9780415886864, $95.00; ISBN 9780203767054 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Highhouse (Bowling Green State Univ.), Dalal (George Mason Univ.), and Salas (Univ. of Central Florida) have done an exceptional job of providing expertly presented perspectives on ☐ Recommended the broad field of judgment and decision making as applied to the workplace. The outstanding set of well-written, cutting-edge, scholarly chapters provide a great description of, and also push forward, the science of judgment and decision making. The editors and chapter authors provide research-based perspectives relying on scholarly research from a wide variety of theoretical foundations, models, and literatures. The decision-making process is examined from three main perspectives, as reflected in the book's three parts: "Personnel Decision Making," "Organizational Decision Making," and "Decision Making in Action." Offering enlightening commentary on a wide range of important issues, this rigorous work will be a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in organizational behavior and industrial psychology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through research collections. Faculty Member: Cohen, William A. The practical Drucker: applying the wisdom of the world's greatest Click here to enter text. management thinker. AMACOM, 2014. 277p index ISBN 9780814433492, $25.00 ☐ Required Cohen (Institute of Leader Arts) is a former student and colleague of Peter Drucker, who is regarded as the "father of modern management." In this important book, Cohen explains ☐ Recommended Drucker's many management ideas that are applicable to current and future management problems. This work should be required reading for all managers of profit as well as nonprofit organizations and all students and professors in business schools. It is very clearly written with short chapters and examples for each idea discussed. Cohen shares Drucker's insights on key topics, including the importance of marketing and innovation for success; why leadership is a marketing job; where the best innovations come from; the importance of ethical behavior and social responsibility; what quality is; how to measure performance and productivity; why controls are important; how to handle crises; how to predict the future; how to adapt to change; why profit maximization is bad for society and for the success of an organization; why an organization needs optimal profits to support marketing and innovation; and why Drucker's most valuable idea is to think and ask questions. See also Cohen's other books on Drucker, including Drucker on Leadership (2009) and A Class with Drucker (CH, May'08, 45- 5078). Summing Up: Essential. Business collections, lower-division undergraduate through professional. Faculty Member: Kaplan, Robert Steven. What you're really meant to do: a road map for reaching your unique Click here to enter text. potential. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. 219p index afp ISBN 9781422189900, $25.00 ☐ Required Kaplan (Harvard Business School; author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, 2011) provides excellent advice and self-assessment guidance for anyone interested in professional ☐ Recommended growth and achievement of their "unique potential." The book is easy to digest, written in a conversational manner, and made more readable by the text's organization into smaller sections with descriptive headers. To provide context and perspective to the many valuable points made throughout the book, Kaplan gives many examples of real interactions and anecdotes with those he has coached over the years--from job seekers to employers and from recent graduates to seasoned professionals. The book also offers interactive components throughout; for example, in chapter 2 Kaplan asks the reader to create a "skills checklist" and offers detailed examples of what this list would look like. Additionally, after each chapter, suggested follow-up steps allow readers to continue to assess and identify their next course of action. Overall, Kaplan uses his corporate and academic expertise to provide excellent advice for readers at all stages of their careers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. 4 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 All readership levels and collections.

5 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Art Faculty Member: Mayer, Lance. American painters on technique: 1860-1945, by Lance Mayer and Gay Myers. Click here to enter text. Getty Publications, 2013. 298p bibl index ISBN 9781606061350, $50.00 ☐ Required In keeping with their impressive achievement in a preceding book on the subject, subtitled The Colonial Period to 1860 (CH, Feb'12, 49-3088), authors Mayer and Myers (both ☐ Recommended experienced conservators) maintain a high level of scholarship in their most recent book on techniques of American painters. In this well-written and accessible discussion of more recent major American artists, like Whistler and Sargent, they again successfully overcome the presumption that technical studies are likely to be less interesting than those focused on other matters. And, indeed, as they managed to do in their earlier study, they offer readers a clear understanding of the many ways in which technique is related to a complex web of art world influences, insights, and other cultural factors. Thus, along with their earlier book, this study would make a good companion to standard texts used in advanced lecture courses on American art history. As such, this volume would be useful for advanced students and researchers, as well as general readers curious about the technical details of late-19th- and early-20th-century American painting. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Ana Mendieta: traces, ed. by Stephanie Rosenthal, with essays by Stephanie Rosenthal, Click here to enter text. Adrian Heathfield, and Julia Bryan-Wilson. Hayward Publishing, 2013. 240p bibl ISBN 9781853323171 pbk, $35.00 ☐ Required Traces is an exceptional exhibition catalogue that offers new scholarship on Ana Mendieta (1948-85), an artist who pursued a range of media in the production of her "earth-body-art," ☐ Recommended which addressed the placement of a female form in a landscape. The three essays move beyond the ingrained horror of her death, and focus instead on the context of Mendieta's work. This focus includes her sense of displacement and identification as a double minority in the North American art world of the 1970s-80s; and the themes of her works, e.g., transience, absence, violence, and belonging. Curator Rosenthal addresses Mendieta's evocation of the liminal spaces between art and documentation; the inseparability of her body, her life, and her cultural heritage; and her blurring of artistic boundaries among body art, land art, and performance. Heathfield examines Mendieta's atemporality and the migration of her work across disciplines. Bryan-Wilson critiques the artist's classification as a feminist. Full-color images are featured throughout. A visual and textual anthology of archival and source material is supplemented by a brief bibliography, notes for each essay, and an exhibition checklist--all of which point readers to further information. Exceptionally rich, this catalogue is a necessary purchase for all academic libraries. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: The Armory Show at 100: modernism and revolution, ed. by Marilyn Satin Kushner and Click here to enter text. Kimberly Orcutt with Casey Nelson Blake. New-York Historical Society Museum & Library/D. Giles, 2013. 512p index ISBN 9781907804045, $79.95 ☐ Required With three editors and 20-plus contributors, this volume is a monumental undertaking worthy of the Armory Show's 100th anniversary. The 1913 assembly of 1,350 modern works ☐ Recommended exhibited in New York transformed American art. This catalogue, for an exhibition that featured some 100 masterworks from the 1913 show, views the show in its social and intellectual context. Contributors look at the organizers, offer case studies of selected artists, and note the importance of American artists' contributions. Chapters focus on 1913's "modern" music, photography, literature, feminism, New York City, and the artistic milieu of the time. The volume covers artists' responses, contemporary exhibitions, collectors, dealers, participants, and characters involved in the show, along with its organization and physical arrangement. Criticism--both pro and con--is reprinted, with cartoons. The Chicago venue spurred museums and collectors; Boston was indifferent. Included are excellent, bright pictures with details, period photos, ephemera, a selected bibliography, and footnotes with 6 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 more citations. Appendix A is a complete show checklist; Appendix B lists works by gallery. With its detailed historiography, this catalogue is indispensable for American art/culture studies. It provides perspective, with many telling details and without past misconceptions, allowing a complete reevaluation of the Armory Show's significance. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Oles, James. Art and architecture in Mexico. Thames & Hudson, 2013. 432p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780500204061 pbk, $26.95 ☐ Required This volume by Oles (Wellesley College) is one of the most important contemporary contributions to understanding Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish conquest to ☐ Recommended the present. Part of the "World of Art" series, it introduces readers to the social, political, and historical complexities that frame Mexico's rich cultural production. Through key examples-- some well known and canonical, others that are overlooked in traditional scholarship--it provides expressions for those complexities. Oles presents painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture in a balanced way and highlights their relationships; this is especially true in discussions on plastic integration. While much of the book's focus is on work produced in the 19th and 20th centuries, Oles's chronological organization of the material allows him to carefully present the precedents and debates that engendered the works. Included are discussions of international, stylistic cross-pollination and the influence of indigenous traditions. The book concludes with a presentation of contemporary artistic developments that are contextually defined within broader concerns or tendencies in Mexican art. Despite its modest physical size, this volume is generously illustrated. Summing Up: Essential. Lower- level undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Stein, Perrin. Artists and amateurs: etching in 18th-century France, by Perrin Stein with essays Click here to enter text. by Charlotte Guichard, Rena M. Hoisington, and Elizabeth M. Rudy. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013. (Dist. by Yale) 230p bibl index ISBN 9780300197006, $60.00 ☐ Required This handsome exhibition catalogue, organized by drawings curator Stein (Metropolitan Museum of Art), is the first from a major institution to be devoted to etchings by 18th- ☐ Recommended century French painters, architects, and amateurs. Drawing mainly from the rich collections of important American museums, Stein and contributing scholars investigate these unusual, freely worked prints and how they differ from those by contemporary professional printmakers. The mutually reinforcing chapters examine the medium of etching, the market for prints, and the important nexus of Rome. They also discuss the role of the amateur (an informed, passionate adviser to artists and one who usually collected and copied works of art); and the growing desire to invent original prints, and to dialogue with past and contemporary art. Together the contributors clearly and convincingly build the argument that these prints were created in a novel, more private atmosphere of exploration and collaboration through new cultural practices of sociability, connoisseurship, and appropriation. While the topic may seem highly specialized, the authors' ability to evoke the intricate social, economic, and aesthetic contexts for these etchings makes this a visually stimulating and broadly rewarding study. Excellent illustrations. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Brassaï. Brassaï: Paris nocturne, ed. by Sylvie Aubenas and Quentin Bajac. Thames & Hudson, Click here to enter text. 2013. 308p bibl index ISBN 9780500544259, $85.00 ☐ Required During the 1920s-30s, Brassaï, with his compatriots Lucien Aigner, Robert Capa, Germaine Krull, André Kertész, and others, used the new smaller, faster cameras and film to capture ☐ Recommended finer slices of everyday life and to bring both a new humanistic ideal and a poetical approach to photojournalism and to documentary photography. Photographically illustrated books, ranging from travelogues to poetry, and a flood of illustrated magazines (e.g., the news magazine Vu and avant-garde journal Verve) provided both an income and a creative milieu for these photographers. Surrealism was in the air, and in most of the better photographs of the time. Brassaí's moody, evocative scenes of Paris and its nightlife soon gained him a well- deserved reputation as a photographer of excellent merit. This book provides the most 7 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 complete look at Brassaí's nocturnal photographs yet produced. Many will be new to readers. The editors give an excellent description of the contexts within which those photographs were created. Thoroughly researched and well written, excellently designed and beautifully printed, this is one of the better photographic books published in 2013. It will appeal to everyone interested in either pre-WW II photography or Paris in the 1930s. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Zalmona, Yigal. A century of Israeli art. Lund Humphries/Israel Museum, 2013. 498p index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781848221277, $80.00 ☐ Required This handsomely produced and lavishly illustrated book is an English translation of a 2010 Hebrew publication issued on the occasion of the opening of the new Edmond and Lily Safra ☐ Recommended Fine Arts Wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Zalmona (formerly, Israel Museum) demonstrates a truly encyclopedic grasp of Israeli art. The examples of painting, sculpture, and photography that he analyzes, in perspicuous fashion, are for the most part drawn from the museum's collections. The opening chapter is devoted to a consideration of Jewish art in late-19th-century Europe, which forms the background for subsequent developments in Mandate Palestine, and later in Israel. This volume concludes with a survey of contemporary art on the local scene. The author also pays welcome attention to the social background and literary parallels that inform the aesthetic sphere, making pertinent references to local conditions and the impact of international currents. This highly informative volume should remain the standard work on the topic for the foreseeable future. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Rohrbach, John. Color: American photography transformed, by John Rohrback with Sylvie Click here to enter text. Pénichon and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Texas, 2013. 336p bibl index afp ISBN 9780292753013, $75.00 ☐ Required The Amon Carter Museum has been collecting photographs since the 1960s and has published many works on the medium. In Color, curator Rohrbach unveils the story of color ☐ Recommended photography in the US, from the imperfect Hillotypes of the 1850s to today's digital technologies. Commercially viable color photography dates from 1907 with the introduction of the Lumière brothers' Autochrome process. Color's chapters trace the fits and starts of color photography's invention and its gradual embrace by the art world. Although color photography had been widely used in advertising, MoMA's show of William Eggleston's works in 1976 paved the way to its becoming a dominant contemporary art form. This volume examines in detail what color brings to photography and its connections to other arts, particularly painting. Expansive in focus and attractively presented, 25-30 full-page reproductions illuminate each essay. An overview of technical advances and an impressive bibliography conclude the book. Entertaining, informative, and vivid in its examples, this new scholarly interpretation is a valuable work, along with other recent titles such as Pamela Roberts's A Century of Colour Photography (2007); Kevin Moore's Starburst: Color Photography in America, 1970-1980 (CH, Jan'11, 48-2492); and Nathalie Boulouch's Le ciel est bleu (2011). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: David Hockney: a bigger exhibition, by Richard Benefield, Lawrence Weschler, and Sarah Click here to enter text. Howgate. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2013. 228p bibl index ISBN 9783791353340, $65.00 ☐ Required A good catalogue accurately foregrounds an artist's work. A better catalogue similarly documents the artwork but also highlights an artist's accomplishments through the critical ☐ Recommended mediation of the artist's aesthetic and the process of production. However, the best catalogue not only provides superb documentation of the selected artwork, along with supporting contributions offering expertly written and knowledgeable mediation, but also makes room for an artist to speak. No matter how brief, nothing is more important, nothing contributes more, and so nothing can replace artists' own words about their art and 8 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 themselves. This exhibition catalogue by Benefield et al. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) details the de Young Museum's Bigger exhibition, an exhaustive survey of Hockney's 21st- century work. The exhibition was organized by Benefield and curated and designed by Gregory Evans. Rich in technique, artistic influences, and Hockney's own philosophy of his art, the catalogue David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition bests expectations. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Marías, Fernando. El Greco: life and work--a new history . Thames & Hudson, 2013. 348p bibl Click here to enter text. indexes ISBN 9780500093771, $95.00 ☐ Required This book is indispensable for serious students of El Greco, a painter whose life and art have been seen in very disparate ways over the centuries. Marías (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid) ☐ Recommended puts all speculation aside and devotes his text to a close examination of the historical record. Of particular significance are some 20,000 words in El Greco's own hand, annotating the writings of Vitruvius and Vasari, that Marías has published over several decades. The present text is a revision, with newly uncovered material, of a book first published in French (1995) and in Spanish (1997). The author, who has written extensively on art and architecture in Spain during the Renaissance, is now organizing a major exhibition in Toledo for El Greco's 2014 anniversary year. The present book is striking for its many large color illustrations, yet the text does not undertake discussion of individual paintings, except as part of what one can objectively determine about the artist. As Marías clears away old interpretations, he avoids replacing them with his own. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Home front: daily life in the Civil War North, by Peter John Brownlee et al. Chicago, 2013. Click here to enter text. 193p index afp ISBN 9780226061856, $35.00 ☐ Required This handsomely published, attractively illustrated, and meticulously researched volume was prepared to accompany an exhibition prepared by the Newberry Library and the Terra ☐ Recommended Foundation for American Art. Its goal is to reveal what life on the home front was like in the North during the Civil War by examining the many forms of visual culture that documented this complex subject. Though the visual record of the Civil War battlefront, with its photographers and photographs, painters and paintings, and illustrators and mass-produced illustrations, has been frequently studied, the six essays in this work effectively present a perceptive interdisciplinary introduction to the fundamental themes in the visual and pictorial culture of the Northern states. This imagery chronicles scenes and events that are distinct from the battlefield and that speak primarily to the daily lives of the North's civilian citizens. These images allow the authors to interpret social, political, popular, ethnic, and economic themes that often are ill defined in the chronicling of this era's history. Not only is this unique volume a well-illustrated and carefully documented investigation, it is also an engagingly interpretive study of an area of Civil War history that has been somewhat neglected. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo. Idea of the temple of painting, ed. and tr. by Jean Julia Chai. Click here to enter text. Pennsylvania State, 2013. 258p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780271059532, $74.95 ☐ Required Several of the foundational treatises of 16th-century art commentary and theory recently have been translated into English, including Borghini's Il Riposo and Comanini's Il Figino. ☐ Recommended Lomazzo's Idea of the Temple of Painting is a particularly welcome example. A Milanese enthusiast of Michelangelo, Lomazzo grapples with the possibilities of eclecticism and attempts to mold instead a coherent theory of an art both imitative and fantastical, both objective and subjective. He writes for artists, among others, and though his thought includes Neoplatonic intricacies, the translation is highly readable. Chai's nuanced introductory essay deftly places this late effort by the blind artist into both the context of Lomazzo's life and interests (the mascot of his deliberately unfashionable academy was a wine porter), and the complicated strands of 16th-century society and books. An abstruse author with a taste for allegory and the occult, Lomazzo, hitherto scarcely available in English, is presented with sympathy and clarity. His text highlights artists now obscure (e.g., Gaudenzio Ferrari), 9 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 juxtaposing them with the highly famous: it is precious not least for this insight into how the world of art looked in the pivotal years around 1590. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Broug, Eric. Islamic geometric design. Thames & Hudson, 2013. 256p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780500516959, $75.00 ☐ Required In Islamic Geometric Design, Broug (Ateliers, UK) offers readers an exemplary and detailed practitioner account of Islamic pattern design. Although historical contextualization abounds ☐ Recommended throughout, formal analysis organizes the book into chapters about basic design principles, grids and polygons, fourfold geometric design, fivefold geometric design, and combined geometric design. The emphasis on form and on the process of Islamic pattern making, instead of symbolic intentionality, makes this pedagogical exercise unique in its contemporary relevance. A full how-to section is offered in the appendix. Consistent with the book's pedagogical intent, the lush photographic images are accompanied by a visualized formal analysis that gives the patterns conceptual depth. This demonstration of a traditional artistic process presents a fascinating approach to art history as active practice instead of abstract interpretation. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Irvine, Gregory. Japonisme and the rise of the modern art movement: the arts of the Meiji Click here to enter text. period: the Khalili Collection, ed. by Gregory Irvine with texts by Tayfun Belgin et al. Thames & Hudson, 2013. 240p index ISBN 9780500239131, $75.00 ☐ Required This is an extremely thorough study of the influences of Japanese art from the Meiji period (1868-1912) on European artists. Editor Irvine (V&A Museum) introduces the study and ☐ Recommended contributes two major essays: one on Japan's trading history from the 16th to the later 19th century, including the commercial scenes in Europe; and a concluding one on the relationships between Japanese and Western artists and technicians. This study emphasizes the applied arts of ceramics, metal, enamel, and lacquer wares in the Meiji holdings of the Khalili Collection, which is the largest private collection of Meiji art in the world. Five more essays by international museum directors and scholars examine the era's Western art and its relationships to Meiji art, including paintings and prints in collections throughout Europe and Japan. Emphasis is given to Van Gogh, the scene in Vienna, Impressionism, and the explosion of European international exhibitions, in which Japan participated. Included in this rich view of a complex issue are fine illustrations, a glossary, a bibliography, lists of international exhibitions from 1851 to 1915, and a list of 11 international exhibitions of the Khalili Collection. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers; general readers. Faculty Member: Israel, Matthew. Kill for peace: American artists against the Vietnam War. Texas, 2013. 252p Click here to enter text. bibl index afp ISBN 9780292748309 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Government policies and actions in the Vietnam War changed from year to year, month to month, and even day to day. Art historian Israel provides a detailed analysis of those shifts ☐ Recommended and the ways in which artists responded in ephemeral actions (which he labels "extra- aesthetic"), collective efforts ("collective aesthetics"), and other forms of artistic production (including "benefit works"). Israel begins with an analysis of the buildup to the Vietnam War and artists' responses; in each of the following six chapters, he addresses a single year in the conflict, beginning with 1965 and ending with 1970. Each of those chapters offers a nuanced understanding of the conflict and how artists responded through protest and the production of anti-war art. In the last chapter, Israel details some of protest art's lasting impact on art production, artist collectives, and protests from the end of the Vietnam War through the Iraq War. The extensive research, clear organization, and concise prose fill a lacuna in the scholarship on art of this period (as the author rightly acknowledges). This will be an invaluable resource to scholars seeking a deeper understanding of this volatile period. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. 10 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Haskell, Francis. The king's pictures: the formation and dispersal of the collections of Charles I Click here to enter text. and his courtiers, ed. by Karen Serres. Yale, 2013. 244p bibl index ISBN 9780300190120, $60.00 ☐ Required In 1994, at the invitation of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, Haskell inaugurated the Mellon Lectures with six talks on the art collections of Charles I and ☐ Recommended his courtiers, with an emphasis on the Civil War's impact. Two decades later, scholars are fortunate to have access to those lectures in this handsome volume, edited by Serres. Even with the appearance of a half-dozen important studies addressing the topic since 1994 (studies shaped in many ways by Haskell's own work), this book is indispensable. With its main text, notes, and bibliography updated to reflect the latest scholarship, it is valuable not only for British studies, but also for issues of taste and collection formation, generally, in early modern Europe. Beautifully designed, with 182 color illustrations, it is an impressive posthumous complement to Haskell's Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque (revised and enlarged ed., 1980). It offers both a trove of particular observations related to specific people and works of art, and one of the best summaries of the state of collecting in Stuart England. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Eastberg, John C. Layton's legacy: a historic American art collection, 1888-2013, by John C. Click here to enter text. Eastberg and Eric Vogel. Layton Art Collection, 2013. (Dist. by Wisconsin) 479p bibl index ISBN 9780982381014, $75.00 ☐ Required Layton's Legacy recounts the story of Frederick Layton (1827-1919), an immigrant butcher who became one of Milwaukee's first serious art collectors. It offers the first major ☐ Recommended publication on the Layton Art Collection's history from its establishment in 1888 to the present day. After introducing Layton's early biography, the book focuses on the story of the gallery; the establishment of the Layton School of Art in 1920, and its successor, the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; and the location of these facilities over the years. More than 30 scholars contribute essays, including Eastberg (independent scholar), who traces the collection's development, and Vogel (Milwaukee Institute), who considers the architectural history of the Layton Art Gallery as a single-patron museum. The catalogue draws on primary research, including Layton family papers, travel writing, and photographs, resulting in a publication that is pithy yet approachable. With copious notes, 700-plus illustrations, and a compilation of the art collection since its inception, this volume makes available detailed information about individual works in the collection, closely documenting 40 of them. It pays tribute to the Art Gallery's formative place in the development of the American art museum, ensuring the collection and its narrative a place in exhibition, museum, and art history. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Living and sustaining a creative life: essays by 40 working artists, ed. by Sharon Louden. Click here to enter text. Intellect, 2013. (Dist. by Chicago) 217p ISBN 9781783200122 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9781783201358 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Consisting of 40 essays, this book presents the realities of the creative life over time, as reported by practicing artists. The stories take the form of interviews, narratives, and ☐ Recommended statements, and convey in frank, authentic form the joys and challenges of being an artist. Featured artists include Adrienne Outlaw, Amy Pleasant, Blane de St. Croix, Brian Novatny, George Stoll, Julie Langsam, Justin Quinn, Maureen Conner, Brian Tolle, and Michael Waugh. Aspiring artists and students will be inspired by these essays, and professionals will see themselves in many of the stories being told. Anyone considering a career in art can profit from reading this book. It also provides insight into the world of art as a commodity, and the challenges of balancing business, relationships, and the creative life. A color reproduction of the work of the artist in focus accompanies each essay. The book is edited by Louden, an artist whose work is in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, and other permanent collections. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. 11 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Cooper, Donal. The making of Assisi: the pope, the Franciscans and the painting of the Click here to enter text. Basilica, by Donal Cooper and Janet Robson. Yale, 2013. 296p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300195712, $75.00 ☐ Required This beautiful book deals with questions of influence and symbolism in the paintings of San Francesco, Assisi, particularly the upper church. Cooper (Univ. of Warwick, UK) and Robson ☐ Recommended (independent scholar) discuss how the first Franciscan pontiff, Nicholas IV (pope, 1288-92), was the "catalyst and facilitator" for the frescoes in the nave of the basilica. They suggest further influence from the pope's Colonna supporters and mention the importance of erudite Franciscans in the church. Drawing on a wealth of historical, theological, and artistic sources and downplaying issues of attribution, the authors stress the meaning of the fresco program within its Franciscan context. They carefully explain the complex interplay among the narrative cycles in the nave: Old Testament, New Testament, and the famous series of scenes from the life of Francis. The authors argue that while much of the iconography within the individual scenes, and the ideas linking the cycles, would likely have been formulated in advance, other fortuitous connections would have developed in the process of painting, as a collaboration between learned advisers and successive workshops of artists. Richly illustrated, this book should serve as the crucial source for the Assisi frescoes for decades to come. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Bell, Nicholas. A measure of the earth: the Cole-Ware Collection of American baskets. Click here to enter text. Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013. (Dist. by North Carolina) 192p bibl index afp ISBN 9781469615288, $50.00 ☐ Required The Renwick Gallery's 2013 exhibition catalogue A Measure of the Earth documents a single collection from the traditional basket revival of the last 50 years. Rather than a broad ☐ Recommended representation, the baskets reflect a strict collecting policy. With few exceptions, they are from undyed materials domestically collected or raised by the artists themselves, from the woods, fields, farms, or coastal shores surrounding their homes. Beautiful photographs and printing provide readers with visual access to the textures, materials, and processes. The main essay, by Bell, engages readers in conceptual questions of creation, memory, lifestyle, and connections to the land, and shows how these elements come together in the creation of beautiful and functional vessels that bridge the gap between traditional baskets and the studio craft world. Traditional ways of making and using baskets have transitioned into new ways without losing the ritualized behaviors that make this activity possible and bring value to the craft. The importance of this essay and collection derives from its willingness to take seriously the idea that craft artists respond to local history, contemporary aesthetics, and a changing natural environment. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers; general readers. Faculty Member: Eaton, Natasha. Mimesis across empires: artworks and networks in India, 1765-1860. Duke, Click here to enter text. 2013. 331p bibl index afp ISBN 9780822354666, $99.95; ISBN 9780822354802 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Eaton (University College London) offers a nuanced, sophisticated analysis of "mimesis in flux" in 18th- and 19th-century India. She focuses on the "two-way or bifocal" exchange of art ☐ Recommended between colonizer and colonized from India to Britain and beyond. Thoroughly researched, beautifully illustrated, and compellingly argued, the book centers on five case studies of "artworks and networks" that recast the agency of art and the operations of empire through the dynamics of "copy and contact." Eaton proposes that art was neither illustration nor propaganda but an active force in articulating the tensions of empire. Her theoretical framework draws on Bruno Latour's actor network theory, Homi Bhabha's concepts of mimicry and hybridity, and Michael Taussig's notions of mimesis and alterity. This is an exemplary historical account of early colonial period relationships between Europeans and Indians--artists, patrons, administrators, rulers, scholars, and critics. These relationships were complexly entangled and richly productive; individual and collective desires, anxieties, and rivalries often made themselves known in and through art. Eaton also questions the 12 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 conventional boundaries of British art and South Asian art, marking a new paradigm for studying art and material-cultural artifacts "across empires"--specifically British and Mughal. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty in art history, anthropology, history, literary studies, and material-culture studies. Faculty Member: Burgard, Timothy Anglin. Richard Diebenkorn: the Berkeley years, 1953-1966, by Timothy Click here to enter text. Anglin Burgard, Steven A. Nash, and Emma Acker. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/Yale, 2013. 255p bibl index ISBN 9780300190786, $60.00 ☐ Required Recent exhibition catalogues on Richard Diebenkorn's work include V. Mecklenburg's Modern Masters (CH, Jun'09, 46-5443), featuring Diebenkorn's Ocean Park, No. 6 (1968), a painting ☐ Recommended that commenced an important series of works marking his last foray into abstraction. Following this was Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series, by Sarah Bancroft, Susan Landauer, and Peter Levitt (CH, Jun'12, 49-5466). This new exhibition catalogue by Burgard and Acker (both, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) and Nash (Palm Springs Art Museum) features a period when Diebenkorn transitioned away from abstraction into a period of representation (c. 1955-1967). Three essays carefully describe the connections between Diebenkorn's Berkeley representational paintings and the works from his earliest--c. 1946-56- -abstract phase. Also discussed are Diebenkorn's favorite subjects--the figure, landscape, and still life--and ties to important art historical precedents and contemporaries such as Matisse, Bonnard, Cézanne, Hopper, Bischoff, and Park. The essays--largely concerned with formal and thematic issues--leave much room for closer, contextually based readings of the work, especially regarding abstraction and representation's relationship, and the critical reception of Diebenkorn's Berkeley-period paintings. Included are numerous color plates, a thorough biographical chronology, Rose Mandel's photographs of the artist at work, and an extensive bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Clunas, Craig. Screen of kings: royal art and power in Ming China. Hawai'i, 2013. 248p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780824838522, $57.00 ☐ Required Most studies of patronage in Ming China (1368-1644) focus on the well-known emperors. Clunas (Univ. of Oxford, UK) has focused his recent research on the roles of the regional ☐ Recommended aristocracy or "kings"--relatives of the emperors--whose patronage of the arts (painting, calligraphy, and architecture) was as rich and enlightened as that of the emperors themselves. Based on newly excavated tombs, archaeological discoveries, and translations of inscriptions and dedications, this volume sheds new light on the lives and collections of Ming China's provincial kings. Chapters include "The Writing of the King of Jin," "The Painting of the King of Zhou," "The Jewels of the King of Liang," and "The Bronzes of the King of Lu." Clunas's meticulous research reveals that emperors often presented gifts of paintings, calligraphy, or scholarly books to relatives who were "kings" of provinces, thus promoting erudition of the gentlemanly arts on surprising levels. Translated inscriptions also offer new insights into the lives of the lesser-known Ming aristocracy with an exactness one has come to expect from the author's research. Enhanced with exhaustive notes and an invaluable bibliography, this exciting new contribution to the field is indispensable for scholars and students of Ming China. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-level undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Bleiberg, Edward. Soulful creatures: animal mummies in ancient Egypt, by Edward Bleiberg, Click here to enter text. Yekatarina Barbash, and Lisa Bruno. Brooklyn Museum/D. Giles, 2013. 151p bibl index ISBN 9781907804274, $40.00 ☐ Required For this catalogue to a 2014-15 travelling exhibition, Bleiberg and co-authors (all, Brooklyn Museum) used archaeology, art history, and medical imaging to look at Egyptian animal ☐ Recommended mummies. According to the museum's director, the exhibition's purpose is to display treasures from the Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian collection that were recently rediscovered and retrieved from long-term storage. Chemical analysis, CT scans, X-rays, and carbon-14 dating were used to learn how animals were mummified and to show what those mummies contain. The curators used that information to clarify the purposes behind the creation of the 13 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 large number of animal mummies (over a million of which have been found in Egyptian cemeteries). Numerous full-color in-text images enhance readers' understanding of the easy- to-read essays. Images are not limited to the mummies themselves, but also include many ancient artifacts, e.g., sculptures in wood, faience, bronze, and stone; textiles; and jewelry. Images include X-rays and CT scans of the mummies and mummy bundles. Image captions include a description, medium, size, and provenance. The catalogue features a chronology, essays by museum curators, and an index of illustrations. This lavishly illustrated and informative catalogue will interest a wide variety of readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Arasse, Daniel. Take a closer look, tr. by Alyson Waters. Princeton, 2013. 167p index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780691151540, $35.00 ☐ Required In this publication of work by the eminent late art historian Arasse (translated from French), the author searches for the meaning of master paintings. He discusses details of work that ☐ Recommended are often overlooked, and thus provides descriptions of things usually not seen. Like Jacques Lacan, he finds "codes of decipherment [that] are often within painting." In his analysis of depictions of Mary Magdalene and of seminal work by Tintoretto, Francesco del Cossa, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Titian, and Diego Rodriguez Velázquez, Arasse mentions the limitations of conventional approaches for analyzing art. He favors a keen discernment of form and subject matter that allows him to speculate on the original meaning of each work. He discusses patronage, human perception, humanism, and sexuality as these issues become relevant to understanding an artwork. Arasse's comments can be playful and provocative, and he examines issues with humor and wit. Each one of the six essays in this collection, including a letter, an interview, and a dialogue among academics, is creative and original. Throughout, Arasse explores the significance of images in ways that provide enormous insight into Renaissance and Baroque art and culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Riding, Christine. Turner and the sea, by Christine Riding and Richard Johns. Thames & Click here to enter text. Hudson/Royal Museums Greenwich, 2013. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780500239056, $60.00 ☐ Required Turner and the Sea is a rare example of an exhibition catalogue that also functions independently as an informative, thorough investigation of an underexplored aspect of an ☐ Recommended artist's oeuvre. In this case, Riding (National Maritime Museum), Johns (Univ. of York, UK), and several other scholars examine, for the first time, the totality of Turner's contribution to marine art (painting and print culture) as a subgenre of his overall achievement as a landscape artist. Subsequently they reveal how maritime subjects shaped Turner's stylistic development and choice of subject matter over time. The book comprises seven richly illustrated, loosely chronological, thematic sections that trace Turner's trajectory from youthful emulator of such earlier practitioners of the genre as Willem van de Velde the Younger to innovative interpreter of oceanic imagery. Many of the sections include detailed discussions of Turner's work alongside his European and American predecessors and peers, including his rivals John Constable and Augustus Wall Callcott. These provide a rich art historical context for the artist's maritime productions. Investigations of British history and national identity also inform much of the analysis in the text, forging useful links between Turner's dramatic sea imagery and its social milieu. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Vellekoop, Marije. Van Gogh at work, by Marije Vellekoop with Nienke Bakker et al.; ed. by Click here to enter text. Nienke Bakker; tr. by Ted Alkins. Van Gogh Museum Mercatorfonds, 2013. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780300191868, $55.00 ☐ Required Van Gogh's image as an eccentric, mad, and visionary artist seems to have run its course in art history studies. Scholars are now more interested in that which was traditional in his art: ☐ Recommended his letters are mined for their literary references, and his images for their knowledge of the pictorial canon. This exhibition catalogue from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam analyzes his working methods for their use of conventional studio practices and the role they played in 14 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 his stylistic development. Of the catalogue's four sections, the most accessible is curator Vellekoop's chronological survey of the artist's oeuvre. While her discussion is not new, her matching--with such specificity--of manuals, paints, canvases, and more to Van Gogh's evolving style is. The sections that follow are much more technical in nature ("Van Gogh's Cobalt Blue Analyzed" and "Reused Canvases" are two chapters that give a flavor of its content). "Van Gogh down to the Nanometer" is a brief section that describes the use of sophisticated analytical tools (scanning electronic microscopy, liquid chromatography) in the study of the physical structure of his paintings. A crucial and innovative contribution to Van Gogh studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Moxey, Keith. Visual time: the image in history. Duke, 2013. 207p bibl index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780822353546, $89.95; ISBN 9780822353690 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required Moxey (Barnard College; Columbia Univ.) offers a most perceptive and elegantly articulate book on what might be termed the time(s) of meaning: how to think about the ongoing ☐ Recommended intersections between artistic intention and its contexts of mental to material activity, and the evolving reception of art across temporal and geocultural territories. His analysis spans a remarkable range of visual art and critical thinking, thereby contributing significantly to a discourse sustained most notably by W. J. T. Mitchell, Joseph Koerner, James Elkins, and Georges Didi-Huberman. Moxey concentrates, with particular insight, on the work of Bruegel senior, Dürer, and Grunewald. The seven chapters, illustrated by fine color and monochrome images and supported by comprehensive yet concise endnotes, offer a very serviceable template that could be transposed to architectural history, given architecture's inherent claims to transcend temporality. Consequently, this study will enlighten researchers, educate graduate students, and engage a broad readership, including those involved in digital humanities. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, and general readers. Faculty Member: The Young Van Dyck, ed. by Alejandro Vergara and Friso Lammertse. Thames & Hudson, Click here to enter text. 2013. 413p index ISBN 9780500970508, $70.00 ☐ Required Van Dyck has always been regarded as precocious and brilliant. Seeking his genius in his early works is not difficult, as these are insightful portraits and ambitious history paintings. In ☐ Recommended praising the 19-year-old Van Dyck's paintings, Rubens called him "my best disciple." Making sense of Van Dyck's early works in terms of a chronological, stylistic development has not been easy. The contributors to this excellent monograph propose that Van Dyck adheres to a Rubensian model and tries to break free of it, paradoxically and simultaneously. Methodologically, this study is an innovative approach to Van Dyck, and a break from paradigms of generally accepted stylistic development. Thus it is indispensable for studying Van Dyck, and may provide a model for approaching other artists who are similarly complex. Not as learned in the classics as his master, Van Dyck nonetheless studied history subjects in order to paint them with narrative expertise. Only when Van Dyck journeyed to England (1620) and to Italy (1621) did he seem to break free of Rubens, and hit his stride with fluidly painted portraits that show their sitters to be graceful and interactive. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers.

15 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Biology Faculty Member: Loxton, Daniel. Abominable science!: origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids, by Click here to enter text. Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero. Columbia, 2013. 411p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231153201, $29.95 ☐ Required There is no end to nonsense presented in the guise of science, and thus there will always be a need for sensible, comprehensive books like this. Writer/journalist Loxton and noted ☐ Recommended paleontologist Prothero (formerly, Occidental College) have written the best and most useful book yet on the phenomenon of illusory "cryptids" like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Cryptozoology will always be, at least conceptually, caught between real exploratory science and myth mongering. Abominable Science! not only explores this boundary zone with authority, but delves deep into the historical origins of the most famous monsters and then addresses why so many people are convinced they really exist. The illustrations are spectacular, and the book is very well referenced and up-to-date. The prose combines scientific rigor with journalistic flash. One of the best chapters, especially to jaded skeptics, is on the evolution of the sea serpent meme, which is complexly intertwined with the world's growing maritime experience. This reviewer suspects a new edition might even include mythic fossil sea monsters like the recently proposed "Triassic kraken." This book is valuable for all libraries because interest in this topic is high in virtually all age and scholarship groups. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Burtt, Edward H., Jr. Alexander Wilson: the Scot who founded American ornithology, by Click here to enter text. Edward H. Burtt Jr. and William E. Davis Jr. Belknap, Harvard, 2013. 444p bibl index afp ISBN 9780674072558, $35.00 ☐ Required Scientific progress often emerges from modest and even failed beginnings. Unlike his contemporary Scottish countryman Robert Burns, Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), though a ☐ Recommended talented writer, was never able to achieve success as a poet. In fact, some of his more political poetry and writings landed him in jail more than once. Yet from these ignoble beginnings, Wilson immigrated to a young America in the early 1800s and, in a short life of 47 years, founded American ornithology. Here, Burtt (Ohio Wesleyan Univ.) and Davis (emer., Boston Univ.) cover what is known of Wilson's early life. The book includes many letters to and from US naturalists and dozens of beautifully reproduced and previously unpublished line drawings and paintings of birds that contributed to Wilson's greatest tangible achievement, the encyclopedic nine-volume American Ornithology. Unlike most of his contemporaries, such as Audubon, Wilson argued for the need for field observation to truly understand and illustrate the character of wild creatures, and he traveled thousands of miles across a wild continent to accomplish this. This book is full of delightful anecdotes and excellent detailed drawings; it will do much to elevate the reputation of Wilson among those with an interest in birds, illustration, and history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general audiences. Faculty Member: Byers, John A. Animal behavior: a beginner's guide. Oneworld, 2013. 198p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9781780742601 pbk, $14.95; ISBN 9781780742618 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This book is part of the "Beginner's Guides" series, comprised of some 100 volumes on a wide range of subjects. Beyers (Univ. of Idaho) is a zoologist whose past interests have included the ☐ Recommended behavior of the pronghorn antelope (American Pronghorn, CH, Jul'98, 35-6223). In this work's first 11 chapters, the author covers all the basic tenets of animal behavior as related to nonhuman organisms. In the final chapter, he examines human behavior, focusing on the idea of "evolutionary psychology." The material in all chapters is concise, readable, and often illustrated with black-and-white tables, figures, and drawings. There are no footnotes, but a "Further Reading" section lists three or so books or articles for each chapter. The index is useful and focuses on people, ideas, and organisms. Although very well written, the short length prevents it from matching an in-depth text such as John Alcock's Animal Behavior (10th ed., 2013). It is an ideal book for lay readers or high school or college students 16 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 interested in animal behavior. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, advanced high-school students, and lower-division undergraduates. Faculty Member: Animal communication theory: information and influence, ed. by Ulrich E. Stegmann. Click here to enter text. Cambridge, 2013. 452p bibl index ISBN 9781107013100, $99.00 ☐ Required When researchers differ about a concept as fundamental as animal communication, this book's topic, the best thing would be to get them together to talk it over. The second best ☐ Recommended would be to capture their discourse in book form. The subtitle, "information and influence," is appropriate: in the first section of the work, contributors cover the information approach; in the second section, contributors reply with the influence approach. Part 3 discusses specific case studies and part 4, the evolutionary perspective; the last section explores the links between animal communication and human language. Papers are followed by commentaries from others who might not agree with the ideas proposed, and then by the authors' responses. The book also discusses signaling theory, neural representation, and contrasts with human language. The ideas are tossed back and forth, discussed, and compared, leaving readers to decide which approach they believe to be most correct; this reviewer favors some of both. The best aspect of the book, though, is that it not only provides ideas about communication but the evidence and thought processes behind them--an excellent example of scientific theory making in action. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Yang, Ning. Apoptosis, by Ning Yang and Ing Swie Goping. Morgan & Claypool Life Sciences, Click here to enter text. 2013. 98p bibl (Colloquium series on building blocks of the cell, 3) ISBN 9781615045389 pbk, $60.00 ☐ Required For decades, biomedical scientists focused on studying processes of cell growth. This focus, it was thought, would foster understanding of normal cellular structure and function. Cell death ☐ Recommended was the consequence of injury or pathology. Why, then, study the processes of cell death? Here, Yang and Goping (both, biochemistry, Univ. of Alberta, Canada) aim to demonstrate that studying cell death opens doors to fascinating new understandings about the delicate balance between growth and death in animal development and in the maintenance of cellular and tissue homeostasis. Study of apoptosis--which includes many interrelated pathways to cell death--will allow better understanding of disease processes and perhaps offer new possibilities for treatment. In an evolutionary sense, apoptosis suggests that mitochondrial endosymbiosis in eukaryotic cells may be more of an ongoing struggle than the placid mutualism suggested by earlier studies. This brief work is the print version of a title in the Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences, www.morganclaypool.com/page/lifesci#series, a resource intended to update researchers and interested students in particular areas of study. A valuable contribution to the collection, it is an admirably complete introduction to the multifaceted and growing body of work that comprises modern apoptosis research. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. Faculty Member: Cranshaw, Whitney. Bugs rule!: an introduction to the world of insects, by Whitney Cranshaw Click here to enter text. and Richard Redak. Princeton, 2013. 480p index afp ISBN 9780691124957, $55.00 ☐ Required This is an interesting, well-written introduction to entomology, providing a broad overview of the biology and natural history of insects and related arthropods (crustaceans, spiders, ☐ Recommended scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, mites, and ticks). Cranshaw (Colorado State Univ.) and Redak (Univ. of California, Riverside) emphasize life histories, select adaptations, ecological importance, and aspects of economic and public health concern. More than 800 full-color photographs and a variety of black-and-white line drawings complement the text. Numerous boxed inserts highlight a myriad of interesting and unusual topics, which are explained in greater detail. Appendixes include a table of insects by state, a list of the largest insects, a useful glossary, and a brief synopsis of existing insect orders. Having developed out of a specific need to create an entomology text for nonscience majors, this book is readily accessible to a wide range of readers and will appeal to anyone interested in learning about 17 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 insects and their kin. Terms are well defined, and the book also includes the etymology of insect order names. The use of jargon and discussions of difficult concepts are kept to a minimum. Nonscience majors or readers unfamiliar with insect biology will appreciate this discussion of the fascinating diversity of insect life. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All entomology library collections Faculty Member: Clarke, Robert C. Cannabis: evolution and ethnobotany, by Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Click here to enter text. Merlin. California, 2013. 434p bibl index afp ISBN 9780520270480, $95.00 ☐ Required This is a true ethnobotanical work. Authors of other botanical-related publications frequently omit key aspects of a plant's history, but here Clarke (International Hemp Association, ☐ Recommended Netherlands) and Merlin (Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa) capture a "high resolution" picture of this complicated plant. They begin with a discussion of the pros and cons of Cannabis production. A multifaceted look at Cannabis in human history follows, unraveling the complex tale of domestication and global distribution through time, cultures and their religions, medicine, and economic change. The authors tell the whole story of the plant so that the book is more than a report; it is interesting reading, filled with fascinating information. Glossy color plates show the movement of Cannabis and the change in its use, which makes the scientific evidence more palatable and easy to understand. This story also brings with it a surprise in the plant's history; the true history runs counter to popular assumptions. This well-written work will be useful for freshmen through seniors in higher education. Researchers and teachers will also find it extremely helpful, and it will intrigue even casual readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Designer biology: the ethics of intensively engineering biological and ecological systems, ed. Click here to enter text. by John Basl and Ronald L. Sandler. Lexington Books, 2013. 296p bibl index afp ISBN 9780739178218, $80.00; ISBN 9780739178225 ebook, $79.99 ☐ Required This work, edited by Basl and Sandler (both, philosophy, Northeastern Univ.), is a compilation of papers based on a workshop held at Northeastern. The book contains 13 chapters divided ☐ Recommended in three parts: "Engineering Humans," "Engineering the Environment," and "Engineering Life." Twelve of the 13 chapters are from the workshop; the last chapter does a very nice job of providing conclusions and generalizations based on the other chapters. Contributors address topics such as the consideration of moral responsibility for using engineering methods to select the sex of human embryos; using molecular techniques to create "designer" children; using implants and/or drugs to affect moral behavior; altering the Earth's atmosphere to combat climate change; and artificially designing and developing technologically created organisms. Each chapter stands alone and would pique a reader's interest in moral issues associated with new and future use of biological engineering to manipulate biological entities. The chapters are provocative and are valuable as a basis for considerations of the ethics of human intervention into natural systems. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Van Wyhe, John. Dispelling the darkness: voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the discovery Click here to enter text. of evolution by Wallace and Darwin. World Scientific, 2013. 405p bibl index ISBN 9789814458795, $49.00; ISBN 9789814458825 ebook, $37.00 ☐ Required This work successfully answers those who accuse Charles Darwin of appropriating his theory of evolution from Alfred Russel Wallace without sufficient attribution. Sympathy for Wallace's ☐ Recommended secondary status in history is misguided, reinforced by the image of a "legendary Wallace," who in the view of Darwin expert Van Wyhe (National Univ. of Singapore) is quite different from the "historical Wallace." These "romantic tales" are the result of sloppy thinking that has fed an inaccurate and mythical narrative. To dispel these myths, Van Wyhe has undertaken a thorough account of Wallace's education and training as a naturalist, very much in the manner of historians studying Darwin's life and work. He also notes the "science amnesia" of certain historians of science who incorrectly assume that almost everyone before Darwin and Wallace viewed species as immutable, and cites pre-Darwinian naturalists who thought evolution plausible. He strengthens his argument by providing a list of prominent naturalists 18 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 (including Wallace), with whom Darwin confided concerning his belief in evolution before publication of the Origin. The book has marvelous illustrations of the flora and fauna observed by Wallace, as well as other images of the period, and is ideal for historians as well as naturalists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, general, and professional libraries. Faculty Member: Encountering life in the universe: ethical foundations and social implications of astrobiology, Click here to enter text. ed. by Chris Impey, Anna H. Spitz, and William Stoeger. Arizona, 2013. 269p index afp ISBN 9780816528707 pbk, $39.95 ☐ Required The debate about whether convergent evolution characterizes the development of life wherever it occurs continues unresolved. The frequency of extrasolar life, and whether it is ☐ Recommended intelligent, is completely unknown. If intelligent life is discovered, it seems very likely, based on current knowledge of the numbers of nearby earthlike planets, that it will be at distances that will take even a simple message-and-response transmission more than a human lifetime. It is in this framework that conjectures about the effects of such a discovery on our own civilization take place. The recent discovery of large numbers of extrasolar planets has generated a cottage industry of books about astrobiology, mostly about the science associated with such conjectures. The current volume, based on a workshop held at the University of Arizona in 2008, concentrates on the social, ethical, and philosophic aspects. It is, therefore, introspective and revealing of human interests, concerns, and fears. The individual chapters are frequently insightful, but the real stimuli for the text do not come from concerns about interactions with alien intelligences but rather from primarily human needs to understand values. This wide-ranging and thought-provoking volume belongs in college libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general library collections. Faculty Member: Griffiths, Paul. Genetics and philosophy: an introduction, by Paul Griffiths and Karola Stotz. Click here to enter text. Cambridge, 2013. 270p bibl index ISBN 9780521173902 pbk, $29.99 ☐ Required Griffiths and Stotz (both, Univ. of Sydney, Australia) explore the development of genetic ideals and scientific thought from the early exploration of heredity through modern genomic ☐ Recommended analysis. The history of the field is particularly well developed in early chapters. The authors build this historical perspective in light of modern understanding of the discipline and provide an encyclopedic list of "geneticists" throughout the text. Later chapters explore modern applications of genetic information, including the role of information theory as applied to the functional aspects of DNA as well as philosophical and ethical models. Chapter 6, "The Gene as Information," focuses on the philosophical debate about the nature of information, differentiating "the information in genes and the information about genes." The authors discuss the genetic control of biological phenomena and associated bioethical issues in recording and disseminating an individual's genetic information. The "Further Reading" sections of each chapter complement the work, providing expanded background information and context. A valuable resource for students and other readers interested in science and philosophy and the history of these fields, along with modern applications of genetic information, including the bioethics of genomic analysis. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals; informed general audiences. Faculty Member: Martin, Robert. How we do it: the evolution and future of human reproduction. Basic Books, Click here to enter text. 2013. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780465030156, $27.99; ISBN 9780465037841 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This fascinating, highly readable book by a leading expert on the evolution of primate reproduction examines human reproduction from an evolutionary perspective. Although the ☐ Recommended somewhat unfortunate title might suggest a book focusing on the sex act, this is not the case. Martin (Field Museum; Univ. of Chicago) begins with an account of sperm and egg development and then considers a wide range of topics. These include seasonality in conception; the ancestral human mating system (he favors a one-male system); when in the menstrual cycle conception can occur (he argues it is not limited to mid-cycle because sperm 19 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 are stored in the female reproductive tract); length of human pregnancy; morning sickness; placenta structure; human brain growth and the problems that large brains cause in childbirth; nutritional properties of human breast milk; toilet training; birth control; and assisted reproductive techniques. Martin's approach clearly illustrates how a comparative evolutionary perspective utilizing information on other primates, other mammals, and even a wider range of animals can enrich people's understanding of human reproduction. The author explains potentially complicated topics in a marvelously clear manner; although the focus is clearly evolutionary, he does not shy from considering practical implications. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: List, Charles J. Hunting, fishing, and environmental virtue: reconnecting sportsmanship and Click here to enter text. conservation. Oregon State, 2013. 176p bibl index afp ISBN 9780870717147 pbk, $21.95 ☐ Required This well-written work offers an excellent argument that field sports have the capacity to generate environmental virtues by seeking the "biotic good." List (philosophy, SUNY ☐ Recommended Plattsburgh) asks whether hunting and fishing can foster such virtues as an ecological conscience, environmental awareness, and aesthetic competence. The author takes clear steps through the difficult terrain of connecting Platonic virtue to field sports. He uses definitions and then demonstrations that all audiences will appreciate. Field sports require practical reason where skill and mastery play a pivotal role and where participants seek excellence, learn from good mentors, and use ethical practices. Aldo Leopold articulated the biotic good: something is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community. List demonstrates how each of these elements, along with diversity, provides an ethical framework that fosters an ecological conscience, environmental awareness, and aesthetic competence. The desired result is protection, preservation, and conservation of our Earth. The book also shows how the biotic good can influence other outdoor activities that potentially consume a resource (e.g., rock climbing, four-wheeling, mushrooming). Valuable for philosophers and sports practitioners alike. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general audiences. Faculty Member: Lockwood, Julie L. Invasion ecology, by Julie L. Lockwood, Martha F. Hoopes, and Michael P. Click here to enter text. Marchetti. 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 444p bibl index afp ISBN 9781444333640, $150.00; ISBN 9781444333657 pbk, $74.99; ISBN 9781118570821 ebook, $48.99 ☐ Required Nonnative species are one of the chief threats to ecosystems. When nonnative species become established and spread, they harm the ecosystem and become what are termed ☐ Recommended invasive species. Invasive species have been the focus of considerable scientific study in the last 30 years. This book by Lockwood (Rutgers Univ.), Hoopes (Mount Holyoke College), and Marchetti (St. Mary's College of California) reviews the ecology of invasive species. The 14 chapters in this new edition (1st ed., 2007) provide excellent breadth of coverage, including the way species move around, population dynamics and spread, and the role of biotic interactions and disturbance. The last half of the book discusses the impacts of invaders, evolution, predicting invaders, management issues, and the role of climate change. Each chapter contains boxes with in-depth case studies on relevant topics. The text is lucid and contains useful background information for nonexpert readers. A companion website offers access to downloadable files for teaching or making notes. This is "the" textbook/reference on the ecology of invasive species. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students, researchers/faculty, land managers, policy makers, and interested general readers. Faculty Member: Wallace, Alfred Russel. Island life, or, The phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, Click here to enter text. including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates, commentary and introd. by Lawrence R. Heaney. Chicago, 2013. 526p index afp ISBN 9780226045030 pbk, $30.00 ☐ Required British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), codiscoverer with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by natural selection, is also known as the father of biogeography. ☐ Recommended Wallace's Line runs through Indonesia between Bali and Lombok, as well as Borneo and 20 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Sulawesi, dividing fauna from Asia and Wallacea (the zone between Asia and Australia). Wallace recognized this faunal division during his eight-year expedition around the Malay Archipelago. Island Life is a classic work that focuses specifically on island biogeography, and it represents one of Wallace's most important contributions. Fortunately, the first edition (1880) has been reissued to commemorate the centennial of Wallace's death. This new version begins with a brief foreword by author David Quammen and a thorough 60-page introduction by Lawrence Heaney (The Field Museum), one of the foremost modern scholars on island biogeography, especially for Southeast Asia. Heaney's detailed commentary is a wonderful addition that updates the original book. The volume's 24 chapters are divided into two parts. Part 1 covers faunal distributions and the effects of evolution, dispersal, geology, climate, and glaciations on these distributions. Part 2 focuses on island faunas and floras, including those from the Galapagos, UK, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Madagascar, and New Zealand. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals in zoology. Faculty Member: Alexander, Mike. Management planning for nature conservation: a theoretical basis & Click here to enter text. practical guide. 2nd ed. Springer, 2013. 508p bibl index afp ISBN 9789400751156 pbk, $109.00; ISBN 9789400751163 ebook, $79.95 ☐ Required This second edition (1st ed., CH, Jun'08, 45-5563) comes with improved typography and layout, the addition of color to flow diagrams, color photographs appropriate to the topic ☐ Recommended under discussion, an expanded chapter 6 introducing the most important planning concepts, and a new chapter on an ecosystem approach to planning, all greatly improving the usefulness of this book. In the first 10 chapters, Alexander (Conservation Management System Consortium, UK), a conservation management specialist with extensive worldwide experience, focuses on the conceptual basis of management: the structure of management planning, central issues involved in a plan, important planning concepts, conservation ethics, and various approaches to nature conservation and management. Chapters 11 through 19 provide a practical guide to planning from initial stages to implementation. Users can choose those chapters most appropriate to their project. The book concludes with five case studies, each with a different objective. Although strongly European in approach, the planning principles are applicable to any global geographical location to be managed wholly or in part for wildlife or as nature-oriented parks for tourism/recreation. Like its predecessor, this book is essential for nature conservation planners and managers from academia and various governmental and private agencies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Dehler, Gregory J. The most defiant devil: William Temple Hornaday and his controversial Click here to enter text. crusade to save American wildlife. Virginia, 2013. 254p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813934105, $29.95; ISBN 9780813934341 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Hornaday is no longer a household name, but he is a significant figure in conservation history. Here, Dehler (Chester Alan Arthur, 2007) provides an interesting, well-researched account of ☐ Recommended Hornaday's contributions to the field. Once an intrepid hunter and collector of skins and skeletons, he became convinced that hunting threatened extinction for many animals, and pursued a relentless program of conservation that spanned decades. As the first director of the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo), Hornaday and his efforts to expose citizens of all classes to the wonder of animal life raised awareness of the natural history of America and the dire threats to it. As a naturalist and trained taxidermist, he wrote seminal works on natural history and preservation techniques. As an activist, he testified regularly before Congress, cowrote or consulted on major pieces of conservation legislation, and popularized and galvanized the conservation movement through newspaper pieces and speaking engagements to diverse audiences. He pulled no punches and alienated many, but his efforts were often successful. No one did more to save the bison, fur seals, and migratory birds in this country. The text moves at a consistent, fast pace, but does not provide much coverage of the historical development of conservation itself. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All 21 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Williams, Glyn. Naturalists at sea: scientific travellers from Dampier to Darwin. Yale, 2013. Click here to enter text. 309p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300180732, $38.00 ☐ Required Historian Williams (emer., Univ. of London, UK) describes the adventures of many devoted, and often "eccentric," voyagers. Intoxicated by the opportunity to study the exotic and ☐ Recommended lucrative world of natural resources, many intrepid naturalists/explorers set out to collect, catalog, and document the flora and fauna in previously unchartered territories. Included in this fascinating work are well-known naturalists such as Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, and lesser-known figures such as Georg Wilhelm Steller and the self-taught naturalist William Dampier, a "buccaneer" in the author's words, who journeyed to the Caribbean (Jamaica) in the late 17th century. Missing from this discussion is the extraordinary naturalist and artist from the Netherlands, Maria Sibylla Merian, who journeyed to Surinam in the 17th century and made magnificent illustrations of insects and flowers. Williams indicates that many of the naturalists dealt with minuscule details, confining their study to islands and coasts and to the mechanical tasks of collecting and listing. By contrast, Humboldt and his greatest admirer, Darwin, set out to discover the new world before them, and by exploring the interior, uncovered the "great" laws of nature. This well-illustrated book will interest a wide audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general readers. Faculty Member: Griffis, Roger. Oceans and marine resources in a changing climate: a technical input to the Click here to enter text. 2013 National Climate Assessment, [by] Roger Griffis and Jennifer Howard. Island Press, 2013. 249p bibl afp ISBN 9781610914345 pbk, $39.95 ☐ Required This book documents the impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems and marine resources. It is one of a series of reports supporting the most recent National Climate ☐ Recommended Assessment; other reports in the series focus on specific geographic regions in the US. Many experts from various fields have contributed to provide the rich content. However, readers will easily be able to follow the text thanks to the superb editorial work of Griffis and Howard (both, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service). The format and organization are consistent throughout, weaving the chapters into one grand theme: the impact of climate change. Chapters begin with sections titled "Executive Summary," "Key Findings" and "Key Science Gaps/Knowledge Needs." This introductory content along with the inserts of several specific case studies makes the book very readable. Chapter 4, "Impacts of Climate Change on Human Uses of the Ocean and Ocean Services," is particularly noteworthy, as it addresses important questions that the US cannot avoid, focusing on areas such as fisheries/aquaculture, energy, tourism, and human health. This chapter also emphasizes the role of "social scientific assessments" for future planning to deal with climate change. Low resolution of the illustrations is the only drawback. Full text is available at http://cakex.org/virtual- library/oceans-and-marine-resources-changing-climate-technical-input-2013-national- climate-a. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: Fleming, Theodore H. The ornaments of life: coevolution and conservation in the tropics, by Click here to enter text. Theodore H. Fleming and W. John Kress. Chicago, 2013. 588p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780226253404, $125.00; ISBN 9780226253411 pbk, $50.00 ☐ Required The title of this splendid, important book is taken from a paper published in 1977 that suggested animals such as birds and mammals are of little fundamental importance in plant ☐ Recommended dynamics in the tropics, and thus are mere "ornaments" rather than integral to community function. Fleming (emer., biology, Univ. of Miami) and Kress (Smithsonian) seek to dispel that notion, and they do so with great skill and fine detail. The book focuses on two essential processes--pollination and fruit dispersal--and vertebrates' specific importance/role in them. In tropical forests, most plant species rely on animal pollinators, particularly insects; however, birds (e.g., hummingbirds) and mammals (e.g., bats) are also important in the pollination of many species. Seed dispersal, like pollination, is a highly coevolved characteristic; many bird 22 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 and mammal species are fundamental to successful seed dispersal. Indeed, reduction/loss of these species could quickly result in certain plant species being unable to reproduce. The authors develop their thesis in ten well-crafted chapters that carefully examine all aspects of plant-animal mutualisms, including the resource base, genetic consequences of pollen/seed dispersal, biogeography, phylogeny, and conservation implications. This book, well supported by tables, figures, and photographs, is an important contribution to tropical biology and deserves a wide readership. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners Faculty Member: Despommier, Dickson D. People, parasites, and plowshares: learning from our body's most Click here to enter text. terrifying invaders. Columbia, 2013. 213p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231161947, $28.95; ISBN 9780231535267 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Despommier (emer., public health and microbiology, Columbia Univ.) presents an informative and entertaining view of parasitic life cycles and resulting human diseases, but it is the ☐ Recommended author's addition of a "plowshare" concept that makes his book unique. He uses this concept to give specific examples of how studying parasites and their survival mechanisms can help scientists and physicians find ways to treat nonparasitic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, immune-related disorders, and others. The book is intended for a wider readership than academics and medical professionals, and Despommier definitely succeeds in his goal. His writing style makes the subject matter interesting, avoiding the dryness often seen when books on scientific subjects are written for a general audience. The use of illustrations, examples, and stories, combined with limited use of technical terms, works well to connect and engage the reader. A glossary of scientific terminology and a four-page "Further Reading" list supports the text. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic and general audiences. Faculty Member: Whelan, Brett. Precision agriculture for grain production systems, by Brett Whelan and James Click here to enter text. Taylor. CSIRO, 2013. 199p index ISBN 9780643107472 pbk, $89.95 ☐ Required This well-designed book presents technical information on precision agriculture (PA) in a logical and efficient manner. Educators/practitioners Whelan (Australian Centre for Precision ☐ Recommended Agriculture) and Taylor (Cornell Univ.) begin by providing a meaningful understanding of precision farming for both novice and experienced readers. They use graphics, diagrams, and pictures throughout the book to enhance comprehension of the concepts. The color in the map layers is a great asset for illustrating the interactions between items being evaluated. The various tables add to the value of the work by providing information about multiple company products and equipment. The numerous formula calculations used throughout are accurate and easy to follow. The final chapter, "Economics of PA in Australian Grain Crops," will have to be modified depending on the country/region where a course or reader is located. The "Key points" section at the end of each chapter reinforces learning. This book is a must have for the instructor of any PA course, regardless of country/location. The only enhancement this reviewer suggests is the inclusion of a laboratory manual on DVD with actual or demonstration farm data for learning key concepts and mapping techniques. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students of all levels, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Petter, Jean-Jacques. Primates of the world: an illustrated guide, by Jean-Jacques Petter and Click here to enter text. François Desbordes; tr. by Robert Martin. Princeton, 2013. 186p bibl index ISBN 9780691156958, $29.95 ☐ Required This survey of living primates for a general audience combines weak text with an extensive array of beautiful artwork. Petter (deceased, 2002) was a leading French scholar of primate ☐ Recommended behavior and ecology, especially of Madagascar; Desbordes is a major naturalist illustrator. The French edition was published in 2010, but it is not clear if Martin (Field Museum), an Anglo-American evolutionary primatologist, has updated it in addition to providing an excellent translation. The first part of the book is a rambling review of primate adaptation, distribution, social behavior, ecology, and some morphology and paleontology, interspersed 23 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 with small sketches of primates and their environments. Part 2 begins with a classification and an informal family tree painting, but the meat of the book is a survey of most living species by region and zoological grouping. In 72 facing-page spreads, primates are illustrated in naturalistic poses (four to eight watercolor views to a page), their geographic ranges mapped, and each genus or higher taxon described in a paragraph or two. Genera are grouped by family within Malagasy, Neotropical, Asian, and African regions. The book is valuable for its illustrations, but most readers can skip the jumpy first 35 pages. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic and general library collections. Faculty Member: Dargavel, John. Science and hope: a forest history, by John Dargavel and Elisabeth Johann. Click here to enter text. White Horse Press, 2013. 259p bibl index ISBN 9781874267737, $77.00 ☐ Required Science and Hope is one of those intriguing books that is so well written it can reach a wide range of readers. Foresters Dargavel (Australian National Univ.) and Johann (Univ. of Natural ☐ Recommended Resources and Life Sciences, Austria) provide a history of forestry by discipline, looking at subfields such as taxonomy, silviculture, economics, and ecology as they developed as a "science," the first part of the title. "Hope" in the title refers to the vision and promise of forestry as seen by foresters over centuries. The focus of the book is European, including European colonial empires, with some references to forestry in other regions. North American readers will see close parallels to North American forests and forestry. The book is organized in such short, clear chapters that it could easily be used as a textbook for an introductory class in forestry, supplementing the book with a few readings from the US and Canada. For foresters with decades of experience, Science and Hope is a refreshing overview of the field and a compendium of interesting facts. This reviewer learned that the second book published in German was a forestry text; the first was the Bible. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Gay, Hannah. The Silwood circle: a history of ecology and the making of scientific careers in Click here to enter text. late twentieth-century Britain. Imperial College Press, 2013. 430p bibl index ISBN 9781848169890, $99.00; ISBN 9781783262922 pbk, $39.00; ISBN 9781848169920 ebook, $29.00 ☐ Required Science historian Gay (retired, Simon Fraser Univ., Canada) coined the term "Silwood Circle" to describe a notable network of ecologists that formed around the Silwood Park campus of ☐ Recommended Imperial College London during the 1960s and 1970s. This works charts the work and careers of a group of scholars credited with playing an important role in developing ecology from a discipline comprised of mostly descriptive works undertaken by "amateur naturalists" to a discipline marked by statistical analysis and a broader theoretical foundation. Today, an understanding of ecology has become a critical component not only of biology but of a diverse range of public policy issues. The book includes limited color photographs, extensive endnotes, a lengthy bibliography, and a highly subdivided index. An unusual facet of this work is the two appendixes that are detailed elaborations on materials treated within the main text. In a postscript, Gay discusses what she terms her "philosophical lens" or a brief biography of her intellectual influences. Valuable for institutions with programs in ecology and the history of science. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Hoppitt, William. Social learning: an introduction to mechanisms, methods, and models, by Click here to enter text. William Hoppitt and Kevin N. Laland. Princeton, 2013. 307p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691150703, $75.00; ISBN 9780691150710 pbk, $49.50 ☐ Required This excellent volume provides a thorough introduction to research and issues in this field, and also serves as a handbook of methods and techniques for studying social learning. ☐ Recommended Students and researchers new to the discipline will appreciate the authors' detailed coverage of both current research and classic studies. Hoppitt (zoology, Anglia Ruskin Univ., UK) and Laland (behavioral and evolutionary biology, Univ. of St Andrews), both experienced researchers in this area, provide a thorough discussion of the sometimes confusing terminology of social learning and guide readers through explanations of the various social 24 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 learning mechanisms scientists have conceptualized. A chapter on strategic social learning examines recent thinking on circumstances under which social learning might be most adaptive. Research methods for studying social learning and discriminating mechanisms of social learning from one another have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. This work covers multiple methods, including both computational examples and examples of studies that have used these methods. Detailed tables and figures throughout add to the volume's usefulness. A valuable introductory resource for students and an essential handbook for investigators. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic students and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Turkel, William J. Spark from the deep: how shocking experiments with strongly electric fish Click here to enter text. powered scientific discovery. Johns Hopkins, 2013. 287p bibl index afp ISBN 9781421409818, $34.95; ISBN 9781421409948 ebook, $34.95 ☐ Required This beautifully written and exhaustively researched book traces the links between experiments on strongly electric fish and scientific understanding of electricity. Turkel ☐ Recommended (history, Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada) makes it clear that early natural philosophers such as Galvani, Volta, and Davy were not restricted by the disciplinary bounds subsequently imposed by historians. They realized that studies of living organisms, chemical reactions, electricity, and magnetism could shed light on one another. The development of Volta's battery, for example, was an attempt to imitate the organs used by electric fish to stun their prey. The battery is thus an early example of biomimesis, whereby human-made technologies are inspired by features of animal design. Turkel's book documents how studies of electric fish influenced fields such as sensory physiology and neuroethology as well as provided the foundations for the development of electronics and the theory of synaptic transmission. Electric organs were also used as sources of the acetylcholine receptor for studies of neuromuscular diseases such as myasthenia gravis. Turkel's book is a joy to read; it will entertain and educate scientists, historians, and anyone with an interest in the natural world. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, general, and professional libraries. Faculty Member: Synthetic biology and morality: artificial life and the bounds of nature, ed. by Gregory E. Click here to enter text. Kaebnick and Thomas H. Murray. MIT, 2013. 214p bibl index afp ISBN 9780262019392, $42.00; ISBN 9780262519595 pbk, $21.00 ☐ Required Synthetic biology is a hot field due to the potential to create novel organisms for a variety of industries. In fact, at the undergraduate level, programs such as BioBuilder and iGEM ☐ Recommended (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competitions are in place to allow students to create organisms "from scratch." At what cost? Have scientists crossed the ethics line by "playing God" since they are building organisms de novo? Synthetic Biology and Morality is a collection of essays, edited by Kaebnick and Murray (both, Hastings Center), that address this question. The book is divided into three sections: "The Human Relationship to Nature," "The Value of Synthetic Organisms," and "Values and Public Policy." With contributors from several fields including philosophy, medical ethics, sociology, and physics, in addition to systems and synthetic biology, this book should surely stimulate discussions around these three areas, including whether synthetic life-forms have the same intrinsic value as natural organisms, whether an intrinsic objection to synthetic biology is a good basis for legislating policy, and whether scientists should try to accommodate those who reasonably reject the technology. Valuable for genetics, genomics, or bioethics classes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general readers. Faculty Member: Lieberman, Philip. The unpredictable species: what makes humans unique. Princeton, 2013. Click here to enter text. 255p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691148588, $29.95 ☐ Required Humans share a collection of genetic information not greatly different from that of the chimpanzee. However, as Lieberman (emer., Brown Univ.; Human Language and Our ☐ Recommended Reptilian Brain, CH, Dec'00, 38-2156) points out in this book's preface, humans are not just hairless chimps, and in seven chapters he provides arguments for why this is the case. The book progresses from describing brain structure/function relationships to the deconstruction 25 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 of historically established ideas. The concept of a "Rube Goldberg brain" is particularly apt. The processes of evolution, and Darwin's explanation of evolutionary mechanisms, without any knowledge of molecular genetics, are well described in terms of the development of humans and their brains as compared with other vertebrates. There are no references within the text, but there is a 22-page list of references at the end. An exquisitely complete 24-page index allows readers to locate a myriad of specific details within the text. This book is a worthwhile addition to any collection that provides information about humans as a species. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; general readers.

26 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Business Administration Faculty Member: Felton, George. Advertising: concept and copy. 3rd ed. W. W. Norton, 2013. 320p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780393733860 pbk, $65.00 ☐ Required Building on the strengths of previous editions (2nd ed., CH, Dec'06, 44-2200), this new edition places more emphasis on social media and the importance of creating a unique brand ☐ Recommended identity. Felton (Columbus College of Art and Design) has also added a chapter titled "Telling Stories," which focuses on the need for copywriters to develop "narratives" about what a brand represents, its history, and core values. These story lines are what enable a company to connect with consumers and gain long-term loyalty. An excellent resource for advertising professionals and students alike, the book is divided into three parts: "Strategy," "Execution," and a creative "Toolbox." Anyone stumped for an idea will want to look into the toolbox for inspiration. Delving into the reasons why ads do or do not work, Felton looks at FedEx, Gibson guitars, Volvo, Volkswagen, Nike, Hoover, Corona beer, and many other products. With numerous color illustrations, writing examples, suggestions, and a "StudySpace" website where students can access advertising materials, this book has everything needed to empower one to create innovative ads. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division and graduate advertising and design students, faculty, and practitioners. Faculty Member: Kumar, Nirmalya. Brand breakout: how emerging market brands will go global, by Nirmalya Click here to enter text. Kumar and Jan-Benedict E. M. Steenkamp. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 256p index ISBN 9781137276612, $28.00 ☐ Required There has been a dramatic shift in world trade in the recent past and also a significant increase in the number of brands from emerging markets that have achieved global success. ☐ Recommended Kumar (London Business School) and Steenkamp (Univ. of North Carolina) suggest several routes for brands from emerging markets to achieve global market positions. The strategies they present include migrating to higher-quality and premium brands; leveraging B2B strength in B2C markets; buying global brands from Western multinationals to expand rapidly and aggressively into new markets; overcoming negative country-of-origin associations; positioning on positive cultural myths; branding commodities; and leveraging the power of the state by gaining subsidies or some sort of preferential treatment or barriers to entry for competitors. The authors provide an abundance of detailed examples. Clearly, there are exciting possibilities as more and more firms from emerging markets become less obsessed with manufacturing and supply chain considerations and shift to strategies and tactics to build strong brands and brand equity to compete with more established firms and brands. Building successful brands requires great ingenuity and attention to detail; this book offers excellent guidance for making it happen. It is very readable, logically organized, well documented, and compelling in its arguments. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, practitioners. Faculty Member: Clikeman, Paul M. Called to account: financial frauds that shaped the accounting profession. Click here to enter text. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2013. 371p bibl index afp ISBN 9780415630245, $200.00; ISBN 9780415630252 pbk, $60.70; ISBN 9780203097946 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required If one were to write a history of the accounting profession in the US, a historian might compile a chronological record of key events, persons, legislation, and the like. Some within ☐ Recommended the profession might relate it to the economic history of the country, as Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino did with A History of Accounting in America (CH, Nov'98, 36-1669). Most modern accountants, however, perceive the evolution of the profession, at least in part, in light of its difficulties and failures. Clikeman has done a superb job of presenting this evolution through the masterfully told accounts of 16 of the most famous financial frauds. Starting with the Ivar Kreuger matchstick fraud of the early 20th century, Clikeman takes the reader through the major eras of the profession's history, revealing how specific financial scandals provided the stimulus for many key professional, legislative, and regulatory developments. This second edition (1st ed., CH, Aug'09, 46-6897) includes a new section 27 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 dealing with recent events, including Parmalat, Satyam, and the recession. The book is extensively documented and includes suggested discussion questions and a full index. Summing Up: Essential. Accounting collections, upper-division undergraduate through professional. Faculty Member: Stone, Brad. The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon. Little, Brown, 2013. Click here to enter text. 372p index ISBN 9780316219266, $28.00 ☐ Required Arguably, there are three great stories that have emerged from the current age of technological innovation: Steve Jobs, the "Google fellows," and Jeff Bezos. Bloomberg ☐ Recommended Businessweek writer Stone employs a historian's approach in presenting Amazon in relentless detail flowing from the personality and focus of founder Jeff Bezos. This can lead to insights as well as mind-numbing detail: "Christopher Smith, a twenty-three-year-old warehouse temp with tattoos of Chinese characters on his forearms...." Amazon is presented as a triumph of small things done well in creating a global organization that is potentially on the threshold of even more exponential growth. Bezos is presented as a driven, detailed-oriented innovator focused on improving the customer experience at Amazon, which has grown as a function of Bezos's personality. Neither Steve Jobs, as presented by Walter Isaacson in Steve Jobs (CH, Apr'12, 49-4500), nor Bezos comes off as an average nice guy. How could they? The real lesson is that the "heroic entrepreneur" is captive to his/her vision and that most other things are secondary. Anyone wanting to learn about Jeff Bezos's remarkable development of Amazon and his ambition to make it "the everything store" will want to read this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels and collections. Faculty Member: DeLong, David. Graduate to a great job: make your college degree pay off in today's market. Click here to enter text. Longstone Press, 2013. 271p bibl index ISBN 9780988868601 pbk, $15.00 ☐ Required DeLong, whose experience includes being a career-planning researcher at Harvard Business School, has produced an outstanding overview of the process of securing employment as a ☐ Recommended recent or soon-to-be graduate. The author showcases tactics and advice from recent college grads who found success in their own job search strategies. DeLong's writing style carries a casual yet wise tone that works well for a young generation of educated readers facing the incredible challenges of landing their first professional jobs. Chapters are brief, but references to current sources offering in-depth guidance appear throughout the book. "Checklists for Action" are provided to assist job seekers in incorporating specific tasks into their job search. Networking is a constant theme throughout the work; other strategies emphasized are securing a useful internship and utilizing university career service departments. Tips are offered for formatting a resumé for applicant tracking systems, as well as for the proper use of LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in the job search. Similar titles worth examining are Mary Ghilani's Working in Your Major: How to Find a Job When You Graduate (CH, Mar'13, 50- 3939) and Tori Randolph Terhune and Betsy Hays's Land Your Dream Career: Eleven Steps to Take in College (CH, Oct'13, 51-0976). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate students and career services professionals. Faculty Member: Judgment and decision making at work, ed. by Scott Highhouse, Reeshad S. Dalal, and Click here to enter text. Eduardo Salas. Routledge, 2014. 386p bibl indexes ISBN 9780415886864, $95.00; ISBN 9780203767054 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Highhouse (Bowling Green State Univ.), Dalal (George Mason Univ.), and Salas (Univ. of Central Florida) have done an exceptional job of providing expertly presented perspectives on ☐ Recommended the broad field of judgment and decision making as applied to the workplace. The outstanding set of well-written, cutting-edge, scholarly chapters provide a great description of, and also push forward, the science of judgment and decision making. The editors and chapter authors provide research-based perspectives relying on scholarly research from a wide variety of theoretical foundations, models, and literatures. The decision-making process is examined from three main perspectives, as reflected in the book's three parts: "Personnel Decision Making," "Organizational Decision Making," and "Decision Making in Action." Offering enlightening commentary on a wide range of important issues, this rigorous work 28 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 will be a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in organizational behavior and industrial psychology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through research collections. Faculty Member: Carr, Gina. Klout matters: how to engage customers, boost your digital influence--and raise Click here to enter text. your Klout score for success, by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. McGraw-Hill, 2014. 221p index ISBN 9780071827317 pbk, $18.00 ☐ Required Carr and Brock, marketing specialists, present a practical framework for anyone wanting to use the social media to influence others. In the crowded and often chaotic universe of social ☐ Recommended media, thought leaders are faced with the daunting task of "getting through" and effectively engaging people whose behavior they want to shape. The authors present a compelling case for thought leaders to use a highly acclaimed social scoring system called Klout to develop and measure their online and offline influence. Organizations and thought leaders are interested in Klout because it can be used to identify true opinion leaders who have exceptional ability to influence others. The authors do a fine job describing the techniques individuals can use to build a social media presence and cultivate and grow their Klout score on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other social media platforms. The book's appendix contains a wide assortment of recommended podcasts, videos, and blogs that will help people in connecting meaningfully with others. In sum, this book provides great insight on how thought leaders can increase their digital influence with the aid of a social scoring system that has proven effective. See also, Mark Schaefer's Return on Influence (CH, Sep'12, 50-0387). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students at all levels; researchers; practitioners; general readers. Faculty Member: Cohen, William A. The practical Drucker: applying the wisdom of the world's greatest Click here to enter text. management thinker. AMACOM, 2014. 277p index ISBN 9780814433492, $25.00 ☐ Required Cohen (Institute of Leader Arts) is a former student and colleague of Peter Drucker, who is regarded as the "father of modern management." In this important book, Cohen explains ☐ Recommended Drucker's many management ideas that are applicable to current and future management problems. This work should be required reading for all managers of profit as well as nonprofit organizations and all students and professors in business schools. It is very clearly written with short chapters and examples for each idea discussed. Cohen shares Drucker's insights on key topics, including the importance of marketing and innovation for success; why leadership is a marketing job; where the best innovations come from; the importance of ethical behavior and social responsibility; what quality is; how to measure performance and productivity; why controls are important; how to handle crises; how to predict the future; how to adapt to change; why profit maximization is bad for society and for the success of an organization; why an organization needs optimal profits to support marketing and innovation; and why Drucker's most valuable idea is to think and ask questions. See also Cohen's other books on Drucker, including Drucker on Leadership (2009) and A Class with Drucker (CH, May'08, 45- 5078). Summing Up: Essential. Business collections, lower-division undergraduate through professional. Faculty Member: Fortunato, John A. Sports sponsorship: principles and practices. McFarland, 2013. 214p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780786474318 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476602905 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Companies engage in sports sponsorships for many reasons, such as to increase brand loyalty, drive sales/retail traffic, showcase community responsibility, and achieve competitive ☐ Recommended differentiation. However, sponsorships often fail because the sponsor lacks the knowledge to execute a successful sponsorship experience. In his very readable book, Fortunato (Fordham Univ.) offers valuable insights and abundant examples regarding the key building blocks and challenges of designing and maintaining a successful sports sponsorship program. He does an excellent job demonstrating that marketing through sports can give a company a differential advantage over its competition. Important topics discussed include the negotiation process between sponsor and property; key components of a sponsorship deal, i.e., the assets or 29 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 rights being purchased by the sponsor (e.g., category exclusivity, hospitality, signage, special events, tickets); and sponsorship of individuals (versus events, teams, venues, etc.). The chapter on activation is also strong. Acquiring a collection of rights is only the beginning for a sponsor; Fortunato shows how to effectively leverage the rights purchased. He also discusses the importance of a carefully designed measurement and evaluation program for the sponsorship. More attention might be given to fulfillment, a formal report by the property to the sponsor verifying that promised components were delivered. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Practitioners, researchers, students at all levels. Faculty Member: Cohen, Brian S. What every angel investor wants you to know: an insider reveals how to get Click here to enter text. smart funding for your billion-dollar idea, by Brian S. Cohen and John Kador. McGraw-Hill, 2013. 228p index afp ISBN 9780071800716, $30.00 ☐ Required Business angel investors are largely an understudied group relative to venture capitalists, even though both annually invest roughly the same amount of money in start-ups. Because ☐ Recommended this group is understudied, business founders often do not know how to approach business angels for investment or understand what these individuals seek in an investment. Cohen (chairman, New York Angels) and Kador (business writer) seek to change that. While their book is anecdotal, they discuss in depth how angels view a potential investment as well as how they evaluate its prospects. This is the book's strength. Although some advice is generic, there are numerous excellent insights that will surprise those who are not angel investors. The authors argue, for example, that founders should not request a nondisclosure agreement before pitching, and that founders should learn what an angel will think is a reasonable valuation before making their pitch. This work differs from Susan Preston's Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs (2007) in that it focuses more on what angels are thinking as they evaluate the pitch. The concluding chapter offers five useful sources for entrepreneurs seeking angel funding. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels of students, entrepreneurs, practitioners Faculty Member: Kaplan, Robert Steven. What you're really meant to do: a road map for reaching your unique Click here to enter text. potential. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. 219p index afp ISBN 9781422189900, $25.00 ☐ Required Kaplan (Harvard Business School; author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, 2011) provides excellent advice and self-assessment guidance for anyone interested in professional ☐ Recommended growth and achievement of their "unique potential." The book is easy to digest, written in a conversational manner, and made more readable by the text's organization into smaller sections with descriptive headers. To provide context and perspective to the many valuable points made throughout the book, Kaplan gives many examples of real interactions and anecdotes with those he has coached over the years--from job seekers to employers and from recent graduates to seasoned professionals. The book also offers interactive components throughout; for example, in chapter 2 Kaplan asks the reader to create a "skills checklist" and offers detailed examples of what this list would look like. Additionally, after each chapter, suggested follow-up steps allow readers to continue to assess and identify their next course of action. Overall, Kaplan uses his corporate and academic expertise to provide excellent advice for readers at all stages of their careers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels and collections. Faculty Member: Reich, Steven A. Working people: a history of African American workers since emancipation. Click here to enter text. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 231p bibl index afp ISBN 9781442203327, $35.00; ISBN 9781442203334 ebook, $34.99 ☐ Required The title and subtitle of this book say it all. This concisely written history of African American workers recounts the slow progress and many reversals of a people willing to work but ☐ Recommended consistently denied access to decent working conditions, decent remuneration, vocational education, and the opportunity to advance on the job. In short, it is the story of a people denied the American Dream. Reich (James Madison Univ.; author of Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, 2006) divides the time line for his work into the post-Civil War era; the introduction of Jim Crow and the resurgence of white supremacy; the migration from the 30 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 agrarian South to the industrial North; the Depression and WW II; post-WW II and Korea: and the trials and struggles of the civil rights era. A subtheme of the book is the rise and diminution of the economic rights of America's working class. Nothing of note is lacking from Reich's account. This work is a perfect supplement for classes in race and ethnicity, labor history, and diversity. Of special interest is the "Documents" section, which contains contemporaneous narratives and interviews of those who watched these events transpire. Excellent notes and a selected bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels of undergraduate students; general readers.

31 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Child Study Faculty Member: Aesthetics, empathy, and education, ed. by Boyd White and Tracie Costantino. Peter Lang, Click here to enter text. 2013. 252p bibl afp ISBN 9781433120114, $149.95; ISBN 9781433120107 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781453910412 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This second collaboration by the editors of Essays in Aesthetic Education for the 21st Century (2010) aims to build a literature to support David Swanger's idea in Essays in Aesthetic ☐ Recommended Education (1990) that knowledge without empathy is incomplete. Their invitation for contributors hoped to find "perspectives across the curriculum," but, with one exception, all the writers represent some aspect of arts education. The book is organized in four sections: one sets forth several "differing perspectives" of research methodology; a second focuses on "the self as research subject"; in the third, two contributors develop more explicit philosophical underpinnings; and a final section examines approaches to classroom practice. These contributions are insightful. The final section might interest undergraduate students, while the earlier sections would interest graduate students and researchers. White (McGill Univ., Canada) and Costantino (Univ. of Georgia) think of the sections more as "emphases rather than boundaries," not "divisions" but "links" to each other. Given that, it is unfortunate that no final, concluding chapter attempts to summarize a general understanding from the various perspectives. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. Faculty Member: Mehta, Jal. The allure of order: high hopes, dashed expectations, and the troubled quest to Click here to enter text. remake American schooling. Oxford, 2013. 396p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199942060, $29.95 ☐ Required Mehta (Harvard Graduate School of Education) argues that efforts over the last century to reform American schools have failed. The author believes this failure is due to repeated ☐ Recommended efforts to "order" schools from above. His review of current and past school reform movements describes top-down attempts that utilized a paradigm reflective of rationalized administration. This paradigm focused on the scientific management of schools and applying techniques of American industry to make schools more like factories. According to the author, experience and research have revealed that teaching is not like factory work; however, policy makers persist in the illusion that the science of a machine-like bureaucracy can fix schools. Finally, based on hard lessons from the past, he recommends that the "romance" of rationalized administration be abandoned. Mehta believes reformers should "seek not to control but to empower" schools while creating a new infrastructure in which "talented practitioners can create good schools for the future." Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: Anytime, anywhere: student-centered learning for schools and teachers, ed. by Rebecca E. Click here to enter text. Wolfe, Adria Steinberg, and Nancy Hoffman. Harvard Education Press, 2013. 254p index ISBN 9781612505701, $49.95; ISBN 9781612505695 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Nicholas Donohue, president and CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, introduces this collection of research papers commissioned by the Boston-based Jobs for the Future by ☐ Recommended noting that student-centered approaches to learning and "the systems necessary to nurture and manage them constitute the most promising route to achieving equity and excellences for all students." These essays present core practices in student-centered learning and assessment, applications of digital media and the science of learning, formation of identity and literacy instruction for African American males, making mathematics matter for Latin/a and black students, and prioritizing motivation and engagement. Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman conclude that the core elements for student-centered learning include "strong relationships with students; personalization and choice in curricular and instructional tasks; appropriate challenge levels for each learner; support for students' social and emotional growth and identity development; anytime, anywhere and real-world learning; technology that is integral to teaching and learning; clear, timely assessment and support; and practices that foster autonomy and lifelong learning." Eric Toshalis and Michael Nakkula 32 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 add that "to build student-centered classrooms, we need to build schools and school cultures that are teacher-centered." Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: The Arts and emergent bilingual youth: building culturally responsive, critical, and creative Click here to enter text. education in school and community contexts, [ed.] by Sharon Verner Chappell and Christian J. Faltis. Routledge, 2013. 220p bibl index ISBN 9780415509732, $135.00; ISBN 9780415509749 pbk, $44.95 ☐ Required Arguing for the vital role of the arts in the academic development of bilingual youth, Chappell (California State Univ., Fullerton) and Faltis (Univ. of California, Davis) make the link between ☐ Recommended second language acquisition theory and arts education. Using the lens of critical pedagogy, the authors showcase school-based vignettes in each chapter. The heart of the book is the suggestion that bilingual children be provided with the opportunity to tell their own stories through traditional and technological media. Artists' projects and statements are thoughtfully described and supported by useful photographs. The authors make explicit connections between arts-based teaching and culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy. Through an asset-based, responsive community perspective, they show how schools often perpetuate the very problems they seek to remedy. Advocates of bilingual education, the authors make a compelling case for native language use and maintenance for English-language learners. Readers seeking to understand the academic achievement gap will appreciate the original perspective presented but may find some of the language tedious. In light of the recent adoption of the common core standards in most states, this book represents an important perspective and provides strategies for engaging bilingual youth in rigorous and evidence- based reflection centered on the arts. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Shyman, Eric. Beyond equality in the American classroom: the case for inclusive education. Click here to enter text. Lexington Books, 2013. 361p bibl index afp ISBN 9780739177495, $90.00; ISBN 9780739177501 ebook, $89.99 ☐ Required This wonderful book provides a compelling narrative of the historical and philosophical roots of inclusive education and contextualizes that history in a framework of social justice and ☐ Recommended critical pedagogy. Part 1 provides a historical perspective on exceptionality, including a nice chapter describing conceptions of exceptionality during biblical times and additional chapters focusing on legal developments and the genesis of exceptionality as a legitimate academic discipline. Part 2 begins with an overview of Western philosophical thought and its various connections to the study of exceptionality. Two important chapters focus on the study of exceptionality within a framework of social justice and the author's recommendations for utilizing that framework to advance the discipline and improve practice. Curiously, Shyman (Dowling College) makes only brief mention of how critical theory has been and continues to be employed in the theoretical study of exceptionality as well as applied innovations to improve practice. Readers would benefit from some foundational knowledge of critical theory concepts such as hegemony and the hidden curriculum. Overall, this is a wonderful book of great value to scholars of exceptionality as well as advanced practitioners. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Closing the opportunity gap: what America must do to give every child an even chance, ed. by Click here to enter text. Prudence L. Carter and Kevin G. Welner. Oxford, 2013. 320p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199982981, $99.00; ISBN 9780199982998 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required This edited collection provides a foundational discussion of key societal factors that have a direct impact on education, including poverty, teacher quality, English-language acquisition, ☐ Recommended housing segregation, unequal funding, and the controversial topic of school privatization. Each section presents the reader with clear, organized discussions of societal conditions that inhibit academic success for various student groups, thus positioning minimized factors (e.g., poverty) front and center for reader consideration. Moreover, aside from raising the 33 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 significance of such factors, the book incorporates strong and practical recommendations. Perhaps the most notable accomplishment of this book is the strong cohesion of multiple contributing authors into a fair, balanced voice advocating for a truly comprehensive effort to reform US education. While many other books offer discussions of and recommendations to close the achievement gap between white middle-class students and disenfranchised ethnic minorities, this book forces the necessary, often uncomfortable discussion of intangible factors that affect the academic performance of all students. This book is recommended for readers in teacher preparation and school administration programs, and practitioners of ancillary school services. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Morrell, Ernest. Critical media pedagogy: teaching for achievement in city schools, by Ernest Click here to enter text. Morrell et al. Teachers College Press, 2013. 182p bibl index afp ISBN 9780807754399, $72.00; ISBN 9780807754382 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required There is no question but that critical media pedagogy should be central to all forms of contemporary schooling. That it is not--that critical media pedagogy remains marginalized-- ☐ Recommended underscores the importance of this new, collaboratively written book. Here Morrell et al. synthesize a variety approaches to engaging youth in media study, for the value that inheres in such study in addition to its positive resonance to other core disciplines. Students are to be taught not only how to critically examine the media messages to which they are ubiquitously subjected, but to craft their own empowering narratives as well. Traditional forms of literacy are conjoined with digital and other literacies and are celebrated in kind. There is sound practical advice and insight, based on work at two Los Angeles high schools, grounded in a theory of critical emancipatory education that transcends time and place. Perhaps most importantly, the teacher/authors refuse to be constrained by the multiple standards and standardization schemes imposed on them, but rather use critical media pedagogy to animate (and perhaps subvert) these standards in truly creative ways. Highly recommended for general readers, teachers, and pre-service teachers, especially in social studies and English. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and professionals. Faculty Member: Deconstructing privilege: teaching and learning as allies in the classroom, ed. by Kim A. Case. Click here to enter text. Routledge, 2013. 243p bibl index ISBN 9780415641456, $150.00; ISBN 9780415641463 pbk, $42.95 ☐ Required This edited volume displays a strong desire to carefully explore a difficult and controversial topic. The very idea that US society systematically perpetuates white privilege typically yields ☐ Recommended heated debate among scholars, media pundits, and everyday people. The perspectives presented in this book allow the reader to deconstruct the conceptual underpinnings of white privilege in the US through the exploration of various identities (e.g., African American, Hispanic, female, and gay) and how these identities offer drastically different life activities and access to opportunities. Case (psychology and women's studies, Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake) has organized the essays as a sequential process of laying foundational ideas and using personal experiences (as told by contributing authors) to assist the reader in understanding the implicit (though sometimes explicit) tiers within society. Aside from conceptual discussions, the contributed essays provide educators with a suggested road map to assist students in developing a greater sense of their own identities, access, and privilege in relation to the greater whole. This book would significantly assist future helping professionals (e.g., teachers, social workers, counselors, and psychologists) in developing their own cultural competencies to assist individuals from different backgrounds. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Rogers, Rebecca. Designing critical literacy education through critical discourse analysis: Click here to enter text. pedagogical and research tools for teacher researchers, by Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley Wetzel. Routledge, 2014. 173p bibl index ISBN 9780415810593, $135.00; ISBN 9780415810616 pbk, $41.95 34 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Not much is known about how pre-service teachers can learn to use discourse analysis in their classrooms. Most research until now has focused on K-12 students and classroom ☐ Recommended literary practices. Rogers (Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis) and Wetzel (Univ. of Texas, Austin) believe that if critical literacy is to influence current pedagogy, "more and better research" is needed to define what teachers should learn and know how to do. They emphasize four approaches: narrative analysis, building tasks analysis, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis. Their book is brief (105 pages), but the central chapters (3 through 6) have detailed appendixes to guide doing "critically oriented discourse analysis" in educational settings. The authors thus offer a "multi-layered text": if readers are interested in critical literacy or teacher research they should "read the book"; if readers are "short on time" to learn how to do critical discourse analysis they should "read the appendices." This blend of theory and practice should be welcomed by new teachers, who always want to know what to do and how to do it, as well as veteran teachers, who realize the necessity of theory to understanding. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: De-testing and de-grading schools: authentic alternatives to accountability and Click here to enter text. standardization, ed. by Joe Bower and P. L. Thomas. Peter Lang, 2013. 282p bibl afp (Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education, 451) ISBN 9781433122408, $139.95; ISBN 9781433122392 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781453910818 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Bower and Thomas have edited a powerful volume that criticizes testing and the quantification of education. A selection of contributors with wide-ranging experiences in both ☐ Recommended K-12 and higher education settings offer diverse perspectives on the dangers of standardized testing and the utilization of grades to sort, classify, and compare students. The varied accounts push readers to reconsider the purpose of giving grades and reflect upon the difference between assessment and measurement. With the increasing number of state assessments and the elaborate systems of accountability in education, this volume inspires readers to focus on the primary goal of learning and how that can be achieved, beginning in kindergarten and going all the way through graduate school studies. Contributors offer alternatives to traditional assessments in the form of authentic tasks where the emphasis is on learning and recognizing growth and development. A must read for anyone in the field of education, including parents, teachers, administrators, and policy makers. Recommended for general readers, undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Pierce, Clayton. Education in the age of biocapitalism: optimizing educational life for a flat Click here to enter text. world. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 211p bibl index ISBN 9781137027818, $85.00; ISBN 9781137027825 pbk, $29.00 ☐ Required Pierce (Univ. of Utah) offers one of the most important and unique recent analyses of key education policy initiatives, including so-called value-added models (VAM) for evaluating ☐ Recommended teachers; the curricular emphasis on science, technology, mathematics, and engineering; and the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in school-age children. Pierce brings together social and cultural studies of science, studies of neoliberalism, and a critical understanding of human capital theory to apply a "biopolitical" analysis to contemporary education practices. His analysis is penetrating, original, and troubling. The few books focusing on value-added measures for evaluating teachers tend to focus on their purported ability to improve education. Pierce shows how VAMs are derived from human capital theory and in particular agribusiness. He links the development of these models to human capital advocates who rewrite the history of slavery in the US as having educationally benefited slaves, and how VAMs position education as "value extraction" akin to the extraction of natural resources from the earth. The book is a deep theoretical probe into the agenda and assumptions of current education policy initiatives and an important practical means for developing alternatives. This is a must have for all collections serving the social sciences, education, and 35 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 education-related related fields. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Henig, Jeffrey R. The end of exceptionalism in American education: the changing politics of Click here to enter text. school reform. Harvard Education Press, 2013. 235p bibl index ISBN 9781612505121, $49.95; ISBN 9781612505114 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781612505138 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Political scientist Henig (Teachers College, Columbia Univ.) argues that the "exceptional" status of US education governance by "single purpose" agencies, such as local school boards ☐ Recommended and professional groups distinct from "general purpose" government units, is disappearing. This shift is more significant than either "the tension between public and private" or debates concerning increased centralization of authority. Separate chapters document the rise of the new education executives, who have included several southern governors (especially in the 1970s-80s) and big city mayors (e.g., Boston and New York). "An Expanded Role for Legislators and the Courts" details how legislators and courts address education issues once thought to be too contentious for the politicians in general purpose branches of government; "Changing Actors, Issues and Policy Ideas" documents the changes that emerge from this infusion of nonprofessional educators into the education policy arena. The final summary chapter points out that this major (and inevitable) political shift has benefits and disadvantages, but everyone interested in educational policy needs to accept it and adapt to the consequences. Henig writes in an accessible style and, although sometimes repetitive, buttresses his argument with a wealth of academic citations as well as references to relevant examples. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: Bentley, Dana Frantz. Everyday artists: inquiry and creativity in the early childhood classroom. Click here to enter text. Teachers College Press, 2013. 143p bibl index afp ISBN 9780807754405, $70.00; ISBN 9780807754412 pbk, $33.95 ☐ Required Bentley, an early-childhood teacher in child-centered emerging curriculum classrooms, has an advantage over most teachers in the US--she can listen to children and follow up on their ☐ Recommended interests. She offers a model of a teacher learning along with and from the children whom she teaches. There are vivid anecdotes of the children's thinking and of her responses to their ideas. The examples she provides of children's "thinking about thinking," challenge the simplistic dismissal of young children's ideas. As children construct their ideas about the world, they demonstrate the vitality of inquiry that is too often lost in the traditional educational system. Seeing the world as the children do and helping them develop their ideas through strategic questioning is part of the research Bentley records. She supports her work with references to the most respected and authoritative educational thinkers. Each chapter ends with questions for the reader to contemplate. This short book has much to offer, as Bentley considers art a way of thinking, not a separate part of the curriculum. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: The Founding Fathers, education, and "The Great Contest": the American Philosophical Click here to enter text. Society Prize of 1797, ed. by Benjamin Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 279p index ISBN 9781137271013, $90.00 ☐ Required The papers in this volume are products of a mentoring session held during the 2009 conference of the US History of Education Society. Six graduate students and their mentors ☐ Recommended visited the American Philosophical Society (APS) archives seeking information about the contest the APS held from 1795 to 1797 that judged essays describing appropriate systems of education. Part 1 of this book contains two chapters in which graduate students explain the methods they used to determine the names of authors who remained anonymous. Part 2 contains a chapter by a graduate student and six chapters by established historians of education describing how the original essays illuminate the educational concerns of people in the 1790s. The final section contains reproductions of six of the essays that citizens submitted to the contest and notes about the seventh, which is lost. Readers interested in historians' use of archival materials might consult Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg's Processing the Past (2011). Readers interested in educational arrangements might consult 36 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Nancy Beadie's Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic (CH, May'11, 48-5276). Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Martinez, Michael E. Future bright: a transforming vision of human intelligence. Oxford, 2013. Click here to enter text. 303p index afp ISBN 9780199781843, $34.95 ☐ Required This book, published posthumously, can be described in one word: fascinating. Martinez (Univ. of California, Irvine) provides both historical and contemporary perspectives on what ☐ Recommended "intelligence" is and is not. He then takes the reader on an intriguing journey about what IQ means, what intelligence means, how the brain constructs the intellect, and ultimately provides simplistic strategies to enhance one's intelligence. The book explores some of the more controversial issues regarding IQ/intelligence, such as the ongoing nature-nurture debate, race and intelligence, and whether "intelligence" is a unitary construct or one composed of multiple factors and dimensions. This well-researched volume is easy to read, and concepts are presented replete with examples and graphics. The first several chapters are the most interesting in that the several concepts of intelligence are presented, compared and contrasted, and discussed in a non-judgmental fashion. The role of education and its effect on the intellect is explored in a way that makes delightful reading rather than laborious examination of tables, facts, and figures. The final chapter, "Ten Strategies to Enhance Intelligence," brings the book together and is, again, fascinating. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Halvorsen, Anne-Lise. A history of elementary social studies: romance and reality. Peter Lang, Click here to enter text. 2013. 240p index afp ISBN 9781433122866, 9781433122866; ISBN 9781433106477 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9781453909218 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This is a propitious book. Current emphasis in education on STEM subjects and high-stakes testing make a review of social studies critically needed. For instance, Jere Brophy, Janet ☐ Recommended Alleman, and Anne-Lise Halvorsen note in Powerful Social Studies for Elementary Students (2012) that No Child Left Behind legislation largely ignores social studies. The book is a chronology of elementary social studies from the 19th century to the present. Social studies grew out of teaching history and geography in common schools and added other subjects, such as economics and politics, to its concerns. The purpose of social studies was to teach democratic citizenship and social responsibility. Other chapters focus on social studies between the two world wars and today's emphasis on excellence and accountability. Paul Hanna's approach is a touchstone for the analysis in "Expanding Communities." In conclusion Halvorsen (Michigan State Univ.) notes opportunities for improving 21st-century elementary social studies: more interdisciplinary cooperation, intellectual and financial resources, innovation in textbook selection, pedagogical experimentation, and cross-disciplinary integration. This account of the evolution of social studies education is admirably clear and revealing. Anyone in teacher education should benefit from this fine study. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Moll, Luis C. L. S. Vygotsky and education. Routledge, 2014. 173p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780415899482, $125.00; ISBN 9780415899499 pbk, $33.95 ☐ Required Vygotsky was an important pioneering Russian psychologist. While he wrote on a variety of topics in psychology, education, philosophy, and science, he is most known for his emphasis ☐ Recommended on psychology, learning, and thinking as the sociocultural genesis on human thinking and learning. His writings still have a significant impact on psychology and education theory as well as on education praxis. Moll (Univ. of Arizona) is an internationally known scholar on Vygotsky, and this very well-written book is theoretical and practical. Moll's discussion of Vygotsky's theories and applications is lucid and easy to understand. This book is focused on the ideas and practical applications surrounding cultural mediation of thinking and learning and the profound impact that culture (environment) has on psychological development. Vygotsky's theories speak to the issue of diversity today. This excellent book will be of interest to upper-division and graduate students in psychology, educational psychology, 37 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 curriculum theory, and philosophy as well as to faculty, researchers, and practitioners in those areas. It includes a fine reference section for further study and an analysis of Vygotsky's theories. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Schwartz, Daniel L. Measuring what matters most: choice-based assessments for the digital Click here to enter text. age, by Daniel L. Schwartz and Dylan Arena. MIT, 2013. 181p bibl afp ISBN 9780262518376 pbk, $14.00 ☐ Required Thirty years ago reaction to A Nation at Risk (1983) prompted educators to narrow most elementary and secondary school curricula to emphasize what would be tested. There have ☐ Recommended been a number of reactions to "measurement-driven instruction." "Authentic assessment" argued that traditional paper-and-pencil testing emphasized skills that have little value once formal schooling ends. Schwartz (Stanford Univ.) and Arena (co-founder, Kidapt Inc.) have developed this criticism further by suggesting that assessment procedures focusing on knowledge reference a static and, inevitably at some point, obsolete objective. The goal should be to assess the choices that students make since it is their choices that will define what they will learn, how they will proceed, and how persistent they will be in the learning activity. In common with other champions of authentic assessment, they shun that "dark priesthood of assessment makers who pray at the altar of psychometrics." In the process of democratizing assessment, however, they fail to address the questions that psychometrics emerged to deal with; how does one demonstrate that measures of students' choices in fact measure students' choice, for example. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above. Faculty Member: Quinn, Timothy. On grades and grading: supporting student learning through a more Click here to enter text. transparent and purposeful use of grades. Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013. 123p bibl index afp ISBN 9781610489119, $45.00; ISBN 9781610489126 pbk, $20.95 ☐ Required While discussions related to grading in the media, state legislatures, and elsewhere are frequent and passionate, few definitions of the concept are the same. Quinn (Univ. School of ☐ Recommended Milwaukee) examines the theoretical ways in which grades are defined, explores some of the many complicated issues devoted to grading, and builds the case that students would be better served if teachers focused on learning rather than grading. Organized into three sections that discuss each of these areas, the book discusses a variety of pertinent issues. These include the pedagogical purposes of grading, grade inflation, the forms of grades, formative and summative assessment, and inconsistency among grades from different individuals and institutions. Quinn also discusses some of the lesser publicized issues regarding grading, including the importance of failure for a child's development, the assessment of collaborative work, the reporting of grades, and the merits of rubrics. Although practical advice is provided for those interested in improving their grading practices, the book also provides ample grist for vigorous discussions related to the topic. A marvelous complement for Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom (2007). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Public education under siege, ed. by Michael B. Katz and Mike Rose. Pennsylvania, 2013. 245p Click here to enter text. afp ISBN 9780812245271, $55.00 ☐ Required High-stakes testing became national education policy with the No Child Left Behind legislation. It expanded the federal role in education by ramping up federal education ☐ Recommended spending, promising to hold schools accountable for student achievement by requiring states to design and administer tests to all students in grades three through eight, and ensuring the presence of qualified teachers in all classrooms. Public Education under Siege grew out of articles commissioned by the editors of Dissent magazine, who asked Katz (history, Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Rose (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) to edit a series on public education. Part 1 deals with the "Perils of Technocratic Educational Reform"; part 2 focuses on the intersection of "Education, Race, and Poverty"; part 3 proposes "Alternatives to Technocratic 38 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Reform." The final chapter is a letter to aspiring teachers, a kind of graduation speech that the editors want aspiring teachers to hear, knowing they never will. Rose, the author of this chapter, writes that he is most interested in the way aspiring teachers think about what they have to do and what happens on Monday mornings in their classrooms and that their larger goal should be developing a "mindfulness about materials and techniques" that will work in their classrooms. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Mitsikopoulou, Bessie. Rethinking online education: media, ideologies, and identities. Click here to enter text. Paradigm Publishers, 2013. 214p bibl index afp ISBN 9781594519666, $96.00; ISBN 9781612051710 ebook, $96.00 ☐ Required The title of this book suggests a discussion of the reform of online education in general. Instead, the primary purpose appears to be more pointed--comparing and contrasting ☐ Recommended different pedagogies by analyzing two websites. The websites and their complementary resources, both specifically related to the Iraq War, maintain different political ideologies and educational methodologies. Following a comprehensive introduction, Mitsikopoulou (English studies, Univ. of Athens, Greece) uses the first two chapters to thoroughly analyze each website and its correlating activities next to one of the pedagogies. Chapter 3 ends the book's first part with a discussion of the two political ideologies represented. The second part begins with a history of the genre of the lesson plan. The author categorizes the lesson plans provided by the websites as traditional or reflective and analyzes their divergent roles. Additionally, she discusses the differences between print lesson plans and hypermodal ones and how the form of textuality affects the instructional and learning processes. This book presents excellent information and arguments important to the analysis of Internet resources. It would prove particularly beneficial to all educators who use or are considering using Internet technology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Dunn, Alyssa Hadley. Teachers without borders?: the hidden consequences of international Click here to enter text. teachers in U.S. schools. Teachers College Press, 2013. 201p bibl index afp ISBN 9780807754337, $88.00; ISBN 9780807754115 pbk, $41.95 ☐ Required Teachers without Borders? is a volume in the "Multicultural Education" series edited by James Banks. In this volume, Dunn (Georgia State Univ.) examines the trends, benefits, and ☐ Recommended challenges of international teacher recruitment, paying close attention to current educational policies that push globalization and neoliberal reforms. Recruitment agencies for international teachers contend that foreign teachers will serve as effective cultural ambassadors who will enrich the cultural literacy of US students by helping them learn about foreign cultures. However, Dunn's case study of four female teachers from India who were placed in urban, mainly African American schools in Georgia, systematically debunks these claims. Dunn found that while these teachers have the content knowledge and desire to succeed, they are overwhelmed by classroom management issues, student complaints of heavily accented English, and being away from their families. Dunn recommends several strategies for reforming the ways in which international teachers are recruited, in-serviced, and supported. This eye-opening look at a lesser-known educational reform policy can help researchers, policy makers, and practicing educators formulate more effectively what culturally relevant pedagogy is and is not. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Nygreen, Kysa. These kids: identity, agency, and social justice at a last chance high school. Click here to enter text. Chicago, 2013. 217p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226031569 pbk, $25.00 ☐ Required Nygreen (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) has written a theoretically and methodologically sound model of action research that tackles issues facing the education of students attending ☐ Recommended an alternative (read "last chance") high school in California in this highly engaging book. The "kids" of the title were the kids with whom the author worked, initially as her students, and later as her research partners. The author uses ethnographic and participatory action research methods to get at three key issues: identifying common social problems affecting 39 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 the lives of the students; designing research to critically investigate these problems; and engaging in collective action based on the research in order to advance changes in the conditions that led to the students' being sent (involuntarily) to the school in the first place-- something the author refers to as the "consequence gap." In doing so, she smartly debunks the notion that the students themselves are "the problem" that educators and politicians are so determined to "fix." Highly recommended for graduate students, researchers, and anyone interested in change agency. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate and research collections. Faculty Member: Farris-Berg, Kim. Trusting teachers with school success: what happens when teachers call the Click here to enter text. shots, by Kim Farris-Berg and Edward Dirkswager with Amy Junge. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 227p bibl afp ISBN 9781610485098, $70.00; ISBN 9781610485104 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781610485111 ebook, $26.99 ☐ Required While school reform has proceeded seemingly unabated for the last 50 years, the most recent proposals have, for the most part, excluded classroom practitioners from the discussion. ☐ Recommended Farris-Berg and Dirkswager (fellows, Center for Policy Studies, St. Paul, Minnesota) examine the results at schools that trust the teachers who work there to make the important educational decisions affecting the children they serve. While exploring how best to encourage autonomous teachers, the book also reviews how much independence teachers need, how educators respond to this autonomy, and how the results of their decisions can be assessed and evaluated. A large part of the work looks at eight practices that autonomous teachers embrace and that the authors suggest are necessary for a high-performing organization. These practices are explained through the use of vignettes, examples, photographs, and graphics that deepen understanding of the concepts undergirding each practice. Each of these chapters examining effective practices concludes with a series of questions and challenges related to implementation as identified by teachers assuming increased responsibility in school governance. These questions and challenges would provide ideal starting places for discussions related to these issues. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: Kaufman, Scott Barry. Ungifted: intelligence redefined: the truth about talent, practice, Click here to enter text. creativity, and the many paths to greatness. Basic Books, 2013. 397p index ISBN 9780465025541, $29.99; ISBN 9780465037896 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Kaufman (psychology, New York Univ.) has written a thorough study of human intelligence. His information is historically accurate and includes the theories of several authors, including ☐ Recommended Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg. Kaufman himself was labeled with a learning disability, and this experience helped focus his educational studies. His book provides an overview of the effect of standardized testing on the individual. The discussion is divided into stages; origins, or the foundation and history of IQ testing; labels, which considers the effect of labels on abilities; the rules of engagement; and finally, how ability develops. Both individuals with disabilities and those labeled gifted are discussed. Physical, social, and emotional characteristics are considered in addition to cognitive components. In the final chapter, Kaufman provides his own theory, which could be expanded. The personal anecdotes make this book interesting and easy to read. Some background knowledge of the subject is useful and would benefit the reader's understanding, but is not necessary. Current topics include response to intervention and neuroscience. Kaufman agrees that "the ideal learning environment is one that supports active engagement in learning and facilitates a sense of agency and self-efficacy in the school environment." Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Halpern, Robert. Youth, education, and the role of society: rethinking learning in the high Click here to enter text. school years. Harvard Education Press, 2013. 253p index ISBN 9781612505374, $49.95; ISBN 9781612505367 pbk, $29.95 40 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Halpern's subtitle, "Rethinking Learning in the High School Years," captures the essence of this reform-minded book. The core of the book's critique of US high schools is that they have ☐ Recommended not kept up with changes in adolescent development and changes in the social and employment world into which young people must go. Halpern (Erikson Institute for Graduate Study in Childhood Study) laments that educators have responded to the recent social and employment changes by "doubling down" and focusing teacher and student energies on traditional academic areas, such as the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects. Instead he advocates a curriculum that is future oriented, focused on the real world students are entering, a school curriculum with much more linkage between school and workplaces. In addition, methods of teaching and learning that currently work with a relatively narrow range of students need to be replaced with more hands-on, experiential methods. The book is a persuasive guide to rethinking how high schools must be restructured to ensure students an effective pathway into adulthood. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and graduate students.

41 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Computer Information Science & Mathematics Faculty Member: Stanley, Richard P. Algebraic combinatorics: walks, trees, tableaux, and more. Springer, 2013. Click here to enter text. 223p bibl index afp ISBN 9781461469971, $49.95; ISBN 9781461469988 ebook, $29.99 ☐ Required An undergraduate education in pure mathematics progresses toward, but should not stop at, the three pillars of abstract algebra, (real and complex) analysis, and (general and geometric) ☐ Recommended topology. These subjects mostly equip the student with tools, but tools only prove their mettle when they solve problems that precede them (conceptually, at least). Many questions of enumerative combinatorics do have direct intuitive appeal, and this book puts basic abstract algebra to work at cracking them. Stanley (MIT) is a renowned expert on the subject; his Enumerative Combinatorics (v.1, 1st ed., 1986, 2nd ed., 2011; v. 2, CH, Nov'99, 37-1604) stands as the bible for graduate students. While many topics treated in those volumes could fall within the ken of an undergraduate, most would find the pace and density daunting. This gentle book provides the perfect stepping-stone up. The various chapters treat diverse topics, e.g., random walks, chains and antichains in lattices, partitions, Pólya counting, the Robinson- Schensted-Knuth algorithm, Eulerian tours, and electrical networks relating to geometrical decompositions. Stanley's emphasis on "gems" unites all this--he chooses his material to excite students and draw them into further study. As prerequisites, linear algebra and the basics of finite groups should suffice. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Pemantle, Robin. Analytic combinatorics in several variables, by Robin Pemantle and Mark C. Click here to enter text. Wilson. Cambridge, 2013. 380p bibl indexes (Cambridge studies in advanced mathematics, 140) ISBN 9781107031579, $70.00 ☐ Required Few books ever made a better case for the grand unity of mathematics. The classical method of generating functions "solves" parameterized counting problems by translating them into ☐ Recommended algebra, specifically by encoding all the various answers as coefficients of one explicit function's power series. "Solves" is used because extracting individual coefficients exactly may yet involve massive work. Anyway, mathematicians really want trends, estimates, or asymptotics, especially for theoretical questions. The authors' approach, much of it first fully published here, treats the case of power series of several variables. It integrates tools from complex analysis, Fourier analysis, algebraic geometry, convexity, differential algebra, algebraic and differential topology, complex manifolds, and probability. Thankfully, Pemantle (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Wilson (Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand) have included sufficient background material to make this book "self-contained." It deserves a place on college library shelves even if nearly all undergraduates will find it too daunting, for it provides a nearly universal answer to the "what can I do with this stuff?" question that students pose in so many basic courses. This book should be paired with P. Flajolet and R. Sedgewick's Analytic Combinatorics (CH, Aug'09, 46-6858), which treats the simpler case of one-variable power series. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Stone, James V. Bayes' rule: a tutorial introduction to Bayesian analysis. Sebtel Press, 2013. Click here to enter text. 170p bibl index ISBN 9780956372840 pbk, $19.95 ☐ Required This is an excellent book for readers with limited background in advanced mathematics, but wish to learn about the basic principles/concepts governing the Bayesian view of probability ☐ Recommended and statistics. Stone (Univ. of Sheffield, UK) clearly presents the subject matter, writing in an easy-to-understand style. He explains that there are two types of statisticians, frequentists and Bayesians, who have different viewpoints on probability. Frequentists consider probability to be a "property of the physical world," while Bayesians consider it a "measure of uncertainty regarding their knowledge of the physical world." This difference of opinion has led to far-reaching consequences, which the author briefly discusses at the end of the book. Stone begins with four illustrative examples, which he examines in detail in subsequent chapters to clarify the basic concepts of Bayesian rule. Topics covered include geometric 42 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 interpretations which are used to derive Bayes' rule; estimating discrete parameter values; estimating the value of a continuous parameter; estimating the mean of a Gaussian distribution; and using Bayes' rule to obtain the posterior probability distribution. Nine useful appendixes facilitate reading comprehension. Since the volume lacks problem sets, its use as a textbook is limited, but it will be a valuable acquisition for academic libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Stibel, Jeff. Breakpoint: why the Web will implode, search will be obsolete, and everything Click here to enter text. else you need to know about technology is in your brain. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 246p index ISBN 9781137278784, $28.00 ☐ Required What do ants, the human brain, and the Internet have in common? Stibel (CEO, Dun and Bradstreet Credibility Corporation; chair, BrainGate; Wired for Thought, CH, Mar'10, 47-3856) ☐ Recommended taps into his experience as a technology company entrepreneur and his academic background in cognitive and linguistic sciences to explore the commonalities between biological and technological networks. At the center of Stibel's book is the concept of a "breakpoint" at which networks, after experiencing phases of exponential growth, ultimately reach a stage at which growth declines and equilibrium is reached. The author creates an easy-to-understand explanation of the "breakpoint" and shows how ant colonies, Facebook, the Internet, and other networks parallel the machinations of the human brain. Stibel closes with a commentary on artificial intelligence and the future relationship between the brain and technology. The book contains an extensive notes section but lacks cited references and a bibliography. Unfortunately, one cannot ignore references and connections between this title and the "groundbreaking" work of Stibel's company, BrainGate. One part marketing tool and one part meditation on natural and technological systems, this title weaves together a readable narrative on technology, biology, and the human brain. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and undergraduate students. Faculty Member: Dooley, John F. A brief history of cryptology and cryptographic algorithms. Springer, 2013. Click here to enter text. 99p bibl index afp ISBN 9783319016276 pbk, $54.99; ISBN 9783319016283 ebook, $39.99 ☐ Required This well-written book has something for many readers interested in cryptology. Dooley (Knox College) discusses the fascinating contributions of some of the major players in the ☐ Recommended field and also provides an overview of some of the cryptographic algorithms (codes) and corresponding cryptanalytic ideas (attacks). Six of the book's chapters focus on specific time periods, ranging from pre-1500 to 1918-45. The final chapter discusses public key cryptography. The topics are accessible to undergraduates with a background in discrete mathematics. As the title indicates, it is a "brief" history, so those familiar with the area will notice omissions; it is not an in-depth history of cryptology. Though the book covers many algorithms and ideas, there are no proofs (only explanations and statements of "facts"). The work lacks homework problems but includes end-of-chapter references for motivated readers. Consequently, it does not seem to be a candidate for a course focusing on cryptographic algorithms. However, the book could serve as a supportive text for a technical course (by providing some historical perspective) or for a course on computer security issues. Part of the "SpringerBriefs in Computer Science" series. Summing Up: Recommended. All undergraduate students; informed general audiences. Faculty Member: Banks, John. Co-creating videogames. Bloomsbury, 2013. 189p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9781849664967, $75.00 ☐ Required This well-researched, informative volume provides readers with an explanation and analysis of the relatively new phenomenon of user-generated content integrated into professional ☐ Recommended video game development. Banks (Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia) describes an individual case study (Trainz) in great detail, offers more general perspectives of other companies and other games, and outlines the overall issues and problems with this practice. These include determining how player-developers can be recognized and remunerated for their contributions to a game and the difficulties of integrating relationships with large groups of external content creators with a core professional development team. Other sections of 43 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 the book explore current academic and philosophical research in game theory and co- creation. The content is supported by citations from player-developers, descriptions of meetings that the author attended in person, and insights from industry professionals that validate and explicate the author's points. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Agar, Jon. Constant touch: a global history of the mobile phone. Rev. and updated ed. Icon Click here to enter text. Books, 2013. (Dist. by Consortium) 275p bibl index ISBN 9781848315075, $17.95 ☐ Required Agar (science and technology studies, Univ. College London; Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, CH, Mar'13, 50-3819) has updated his earlier history of the mobile phone (1st ☐ Recommended ed., 2003). The author offers a comprehensive technological, social, and cultural history of what is arguably one of the most revolutionary pieces of personal technology to emerge from the 20th century. A concise explanation of the science behind the mobile phone introduces the text and helps the reader understand a device that is now taken for granted. Agar makes compelling, insightful observations on the sharp contrasts between the development of the mobile phone's design, use, and availability in North America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. In doing so, he demonstrates that owning a mobile phone is not the same experience worldwide. At the same time, he effectively weaves together the global big picture of the phone's ongoing development. New in this edition is an examination of the smartphone, a piece of technology he claims is as intimate and ubiquitous as a pair of shoes. Though written for a lay audience, Agar's analysis is penetrating and complex. The accompanying bibliography provides fruitful avenues for further reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students of all levels, general readers. Faculty Member: Moore, Emily H. Difference sets: connecting algebra, combinatorics, and geometry, by Emily Click here to enter text. H. Moore and Harriet S. Pollatsek. American Mathematical Society, 2013. 298p bibl index afp (Student mathematical library, v. 67) ISBN 9780821891766 pbk, $49.00 ☐ Required The topic of this book, difference sets, requires an extensive definition. A finite difference set is a subset of a finite group in which non-identity elements have representations of a certain ☐ Recommended type in a fixed number of ways. This unexpected structure occurs in many contexts, notably in affine and projective geometry over finite fields, in number theory, and in the design of experiments in statistics. The finite group of the definition introduces a homogeneous quality to the difference set, endowing it with useful symmetries. Difference sets are not easy to construct, but they occur naturally in geometry, group rings, Hadamard matrices, representation theory, and algebraic number theory. Here, Moore (Grinnell) and Pollatsek (Mount Holyoke) present a rich mix of the connections between different areas of mathematics in pursuit of difference sets. This kind of applied algebra is an antidote for the abstract presentations of groups, rings, and fields. It is a welcome addition to all undergraduate libraries. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Katz, Brian P. Distilling ideas: an introduction to mathematical thinking, by Brian P. Katz and Click here to enter text. Michael Starbird. Mathematical Association of America, 2013. 171p index ISBN 9781939512031 pbk, $54.00 ☐ Required Katz (Augustana College) and Starbird (Univ. of Texas at Austin) wrote this book to assist professors in teaching mathematical reasoning through an "inquiry based learning method." ☐ Recommended It can supplement other materials used in courses in which proof is introduced, but cannot serve as a textbook for an introductory proofs course. The authors focus on four topical areas--graphs, groups, calculus, and number theory--and include narrative text for each. For example, the book presents the standard argument against a ticket for speeding at a moment (when the car is surely stationary). The book also contains statements of definitions, lemmas, theorems, and corollaries typically presented in first- and second-year undergraduate mathematics courses treating these four topics. Proof exercises are suggested, but the book lacks examples, background information, guidance, and follow-up. The authors do not discuss the nature of proof or types of proof. The difficulty of the exercises varies without warning. 44 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Overall, Distilling Ideas contains some helpful traditional narratives that are often used when the four suggested topics appear in courses; the authors also identify problems in which students might consider proofs. However, it does not provide guidance to readers seeking a stand-alone tool for developing and improving mathematical reasoning. Summing Up: Recommended. Mathematics educators. Faculty Member: Vallin, Robert W. The elements of Cantor sets: with applications. Wiley, 2013. 225p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781118405710, $89.95 ☐ Required The folk psychology of mathematical exposition enforces a fundamental distinction between theory and examples. Well-chosen examples serve their purpose without imposing undue ☐ Recommended distraction. Thus, students of topology and analysis meet the classic middle thirds Cantor set as an example, an uncountable, metrizable, compact, totally disconnected, zero-dimensional, measure zero subset of the unit interval, etc., and then focus on the logical relations between those concepts. Here, Vallin (Slippery Rock Univ.) pushes Cantor sets to center stage. They take on a Rosetta stone-type role so that numerous disciplines (arithmetic, algebra, fractal geometry, and dimension theory, along with the usual topology and analysis) all have their say. Despite an exotic focus, basing a capstone course on this book will mainly recapitulate rather than exalt core undergraduate content. It is a first-of-its-kind volume, but one immediately imagines a more comprehensive, systematic tome, including perspectives from dynamics, harmonic analysis, logic, group theory, category theory, complex analysis, etc. Readers might also wish for a stronger sense of some kind of core Cantor set theory, whatever that may mean, paying off in diverse applications. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: McInerney, Andrew. First steps in differential geometry: Riemannian, contact, symplectic. Click here to enter text. Springer, 2013. 410p bibl index afp ISBN 9781461477310, $79.99 ☐ Required This book is a distinctive and ambitious effort to bring modern notions of differential geometry to undergraduates. What distinguishes McInerney's approach from others at this ☐ Recommended level is the author's side-by-side presentation of Riemannian, contact, and symplectic geometries as different tensor structures on the tangent bundles of manifolds. McInerney (Bronx Community College, CUNY) assumes that his readers have only a background in multivariable calculus and linear algebra. He therefore avoids giving a full treatment of manifold theory or the requisite topology, concentrating instead on the algebraic and analytic machinery of differential forms and tensors needed to discuss such notions as Riemannian curvature; geodesics; contact and symplectic diffeomorphisms; and contact, symplectic, and Hamiltonian vector fields. The result is that the author is able to present some important ideas of contemporary geometry (and mathematical physics) relatively early in the undergraduate curriculum. At the same time, while McInerney's writing is well constructed and very clear, readers will need considerable mathematical sophistication to follow the text. A healthy number of exercises accompany each chapter; many provide concrete practice with the techniques and ideas. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students. Faculty Member: O'Regan, Gerard. Giants of computing: a compendium of select, pivotal pioneers. Springer, Click here to enter text. 2013. 306p bibl index afp ISBN 9781447153399, $59.99; ISBN 9781447153405 ebook, $39.99 ☐ Required Giants of Computing is most useful as a reference work, but it could also serve as a supplemental course resource or possibly a core text in a class on the history of computing. ☐ Recommended O'Regan (Mathematics in Computing, CH, Jul'13, 50-6234) has a background in the computing industry and academia. His work comprises 60 short biographies of important "pioneers," including information on the impact of each individual on the field of computing. Of the 60 entries, only two are on females (Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace), which one might argue is representative of the discipline. The book's largest contribution is the selection/identification of key individuals (e.g., Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Tim Berners-Lee, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs). Other resources are available that could supplement the biographical information provided, but these entries are a helpful starting point. Each biography includes supporting 45 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 references and images. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the last name of each person. A time line of an individual's dates of influence and overlap with other people in the field would have been helpful. Where applicable, the author provides selected examples of pivotal contributions, such as mathematical formula or code samples. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Global mobile: applications and innovations for the worldwide mobile ecosystem, ed. by Click here to enter text. Peter A. Bruck and Madanmohan Rao. Information Today, 2013. 620p bibl index ISBN 9781573874625 pbk, $49.50 ☐ Required Global Mobile, edited by information technology researcher/educator Bruck (Research Studios Austria) and author/consultant Rao (Mobile Monday), describes the extensive impact ☐ Recommended of and developments in mobile technology throughout the world, facilitated by increases in computing power (at decreasing costs) and advances in "optical transmission, data storage, screen resolution, and network switching." The book's 31 chapters, divided in three parts, "Foundations," "Mobile Impacts," and "The Road Ahead," are written by more than 35 international mobile technology leaders and practitioners. The first section includes chapters focused on trends; psychological aspects; theories/frameworks; the mobile technology business and its extreme popularity in Japan; mobile web design; and mobile spectrum. Part 2 assesses the effects of mobile technology in numerous areas including health, education, communication, entertainment, value-added services, the work force, government, etc. A chapter on mobile technology in China is perhaps the most fascinating mobile media story. Finally, part 3 identifies emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges in the world of mobile. Overall, a useful overview of the wide-ranging influence of mobile technology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; informed general readers. Faculty Member: Ellis-Monaghan, Joanna A. Graphs on surfaces: dualities, polynomials, and knots, by Joanna A. Click here to enter text. Ellis-Monaghan and Iain Moffatt. Springer, 2013. 139p bibl index afp ISBN 9781461469704 pbk, $49.95 ☐ Required At the intersection of graph theory and low-dimensional topology sits a whole constellation of subjects flying under the banner "graphs on surfaces.'' For example, Graphs on Surfaces ☐ Recommended and Their Applications, by S. K. Lando and A. K. Zvonkin (2004), aims towards A. Grothendieck's theory of "dessins d'enfants," a visionary program for studying Riemann surfaces and arithmetic Galois theory; B. Mohar and C. Thomassen's Graphs on Surfaces (CH, Apr'02, 39-4635) aims towards deep theorems about graph minors after P. Seymour and his collaborators. But neither of these excellent books shares much content with this volume by Ellis-Monaghan (St. Michael's College, Vermont) and Moffatt (Royal Holloway Univ. of London, UK), beyond perhaps the basic cast of characters. Algebraic graph theorists have long attached to graphs recursively defined polynomials, e.g., the chromatic polynomials. Topologists have long sought ways to attach topologically invariant recursively defined polynomials to knots as a classification tool, and the revolutionary discovery of the Jones polynomial in 1984 elevated this area to central importance in modern mathematics and physics. Here, the venerable knot-theoretic and graph-theoretic themes find a host of unifying common generalizations. Undergraduates will appreciate the patient and visual development of the foundations, particularly the dualities (paired representations of a single structure). Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Peddie, Jon. The history of visual magic in computers: how beautiful images are made in CAD, Click here to enter text. 3D, VR and AR. Springer, 2013. 448p bibl index afp ISBN 9781447149316 pbk, $44.99 ☐ Required Independent researcher Peddie provides a detailed history of the technological developments leading to the complex computer graphics systems used in modern computers. The title's ☐ Recommended acronyms refer to computer-aided design (CAD), used, for example, in automobile design; three-dimensional (3-D) graphics, the book's focus; virtual reality (VR), dealing with artificial worlds; and augmented reality (AR), a mixture of artificial and real-world graphics. The nine- 46 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 chapter book begins with a general overview, including a component diagram of a 3-D graphics computer, the standard three-axis representation of any 3-D image, several examples of realistic and difficult-to-artificially-create computer-generated images, and a time line showing the penetration of 3-D graphics into computing platforms. Next, Peddie discusses the historical development of 3-D mathematics, the software that uses the mathematics to create 3-D images, and the history of applications, from games to simulators. Later chapters address the development of the computer, 3-D controllers, displays that enable users to see 3-D images/worlds, and stereoscopic 3-D computer images. The final chapter gives a glimpse into the future when soon-to-come artificial-world images will be indistinguishable from real-world images. This specialized book is useful to those interested in a detailed historical account of the various technologies that contributed to the development of realistic 3-D computer graphics. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and above. Faculty Member: Kriz, Igor. Introduction to mathematical analysis, by Igor Kriz and Ales Pultr. Birkhauser, 2013. Click here to enter text. 510p index afp ISBN 9783034806350 pbk, $89.99 ☐ Required As an introduction to analysis, this text by Kriz (Univ. of Michigan) and Pultr (Charles Univ., Czech Republic) is wide-ranging and highly nontrivial. In total, it goes beyond (and the authors ☐ Recommended acknowledge this) what could be covered in a year, and in particular, well beyond what is seen in such recent standards as Stephen Abbott's Understanding Analysis (2001) or Kenneth Ross's Elementary Analysis (2nd ed., 2013). Part 1 is a theoretical approach to advanced calculus, proceeding from the basics à la Ross/Abbott, through metric space topology, multivariate differential calculus, the basics of the Lebesgue integral, and systems of ordinary differential equations and linear differential equations. Part 2 provides more content on metric space topology, along with multilinear algebra, differential forms, complex analysis, the calculus of variations, tensor analysis, and some functional analysis. There are two appendixes on linear algebra. Exercises follow each chapter; most are nonroutine, i.e., in many more elementary texts, they might well be part of the exposition. It is difficult to imagine the book's use in a typical undergraduate course. Because of its breadth and sophistication, it is much more plausible as a graduate text or a convenient reference for mathematics graduate students, mathematicians, or other sophisticated users of analysis. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Cuoco, Al. Learning modern algebra: from early attempts to prove Fermat's last theorem, by Click here to enter text. Al Cuoco and Joseph J. Rotman. Mathematical Association of America, 2013. 459p bibl index ISBN 9781939512017, $34.00 ☐ Required This book covers abstract algebra from a historical perspective by using mathematics from attempts to prove Fermat's last theorem, as the title indicates. The target audience is high ☐ Recommended school mathematics teachers. However, typical undergraduate students will also derive great benefit by studying this text. The book is permeated with fascinating mathematical nuggets that are clearly explained. Cuoco (Center for Mathematics Education, Education Development Center) and Rotman (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) begin with a discussion of number theory familiar to Diophantus and Euclid. The next seven chapters cover the details of induction, mathematics of the Renaissance, modular arithmetic, abstract algebra, polynomials, field theory, and cyclotomic integers. Each of these first eight chapters closes with a section on connections to other areas of mathematics. The concluding chapter discusses solvability and some of the mathematics used in Wiles's proof of Fermat's last theorem. The presentation ends with six appendixes on prerequisite and supplementary mathematical topics. The book contains more than 620 exercises without solutions. Readability is enhanced by 70-plus figures. A list of 39 references supports the text. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: Frenkel, Edward. Love and math: the heart of hidden reality. Basic Books, 2013. 292p index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780465050741, $27.99; ISBN 9780465069958 ebook, contact publisher for price 47 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required This book not only juxtaposes the words love and mathematics, but also argues that they belong together! On one level, it is an autobiography. Frenkel (UC Berkeley) describes how he ☐ Recommended overcame anti-Semitism in Russian schools by forcing himself into mathematics classes until mentored by several outstanding mathematicians. When Frenkel's rich mathematical ideas were published (smuggled) outside Russia, he ended up teaching at Harvard at age 21. On another level, Frenkel describes his conversion to the magic of math under the tutelage of Evgeny Evgenievich Petrov. He asserts that too many people hate math because of how it is taught: the "equivalent of watching paint dry." Throughout the book, Frenkel documents his growing love affair with the subject, sharing interesting mathematical insights with readers and trying to kindle their love affair as well. Frenkel discusses his current mathematics efforts in the Langlands Program, a quest toward a grand unified theory in mathematics that allows the solution of an array of problems via translations of research ideas between diverse fields. The book is best read along with a viewing of Frenkel's film Rites of Love and Math. Together, the two are a significant step forward in helping all learners understand how love and math fit together. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Posamentier, Alfred S. Magnificent mistakes in mathematics, by Alfred S. Posamentier and Click here to enter text. Ingmar Lehmann. Prometheus Books, 2013, (c2012). 296p bibl index ISBN 9781616147471, $24.00 ☐ Required Individuals with a solid grasp of standard high school mathematics should find this book enjoyable, entertaining, and even intriguing. The first chapter is the most challenging, ☐ Recommended presenting tales of mistakes in reasoning or computation, which were actually made by great mathematicians. After that, Posamentier (Mercy College) and Lehmann (retired, Humboldt Univ., Germany), authors of numerous mathematics works, turn to arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and probability and statistics as sources of subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways that unexpected results occur, thanks to a variety of error types. While a few examples are classics, the vast majority should be new to most audiences. Moreover, even familiar settings like division by zero errors leading to self-contradictory results are illustrated with a host of examples, which can challenge the reader to clearly sort out exactly where the mistake occurred. The authors effectively present each case along with an explanation of the error made, be it computational, diagrammatically flawed, or based on faulty assumptions. For the sake of variety, some of the problems are shown with multiple approaches leading to different answers. This should provide enjoyment for the reader in the quest to sort out the paradoxical results and reasoning. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers and all undergraduate students. Faculty Member: Aigner, Martin. Markov's theorem and 100 years of the uniqueness conjecture: from Click here to enter text. irrational numbers to perfect matchings. Springer, 2013. 257p bibl index afp ISBN 9783319008875, $69.95 ☐ Required The still relatively newfangled capstone course concept seems lately to drive most undergraduate-level mathematics publishing beyond standard-subject textbooks. The ideal ☐ Recommended capstone course tells a compelling, unified story that interweaves themes from several mathematical disciplines; blends symbolic, computational, and visual approaches which play to mathematics students' diverse strengths; and strikes an intermediate level of abstraction designed to stretch but not defeat the average student. It also simultaneously reinforces foundational knowledge and skill while introducing exotic objects and ideas, and builds a historical context spanning classical results, recent progress, and future challenges. Aigner (Free Univ. of Berlin, Germany) accomplishes all of this in the present volume. The classical Euclidean algorithm generalizes to the method of continued fractions for finding excellent rational approximations to irrational numbers. In number theory, Markov's theorem (1879) reveals surprising structure within a set of real numbers, called the Lagrange spectrum, which collects precise information about approximability of irrational numbers. Group theory, geometry, quadratic forms, and combinatorics all enter the story. The Lagrange spectrum beyond Markov's theorem remains full of mystery, but the author emphasizes another path 48 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 into the future: the uniqueness conjecture predicts that irrationals having identical Lagrange numbers within the Markov chunk also have nearly identical continued fraction expansions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Moore, Will H. A mathematics course for political and social research, by Will H. Moore and Click here to enter text. David A. Siegel. Princeton, 2013. 430p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691159959, $95.00; ISBN 9780691159171 pbk, $39.95 ☐ Required The challenge for a text to provide an overview of mathematics from core algebraic procedures through calculus, including multiple chapters on both statistics and linear algebra, ☐ Recommended is one of maintaining the proper depth. This book by Moore (Florida State) and Siegel (Duke), intended for the advanced political and social science student, appropriately avoids mathematical proofs and unnecessarily formal definitions while maintaining rigor and proper terminology. Problem sets for each chapter tend to be brief, but demanding. Most valuable, however, is the inclusion of "Why Should I Care?" sections. Presented regularly throughout the book, these features tie the mathematical notion at hand to its use by political scientists, often featuring explanatory discussions of authentic research found in refereed journals. The narrative is generally presented in paragraph form, rarely using the traditional mathematics textbook convention of expressions surrounded by lots of white space. When needed, clear illustrations accompany the material, providing strong visualization of the related concept. Because the content is so compactly presented, readers without prior experience in a specific area might find it helpful to supplement this book with more thorough coverage found in preliminary-level texts. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Moller, Faron. Modelling computer systems: mathematics for computer science, by Faron Click here to enter text. Moller and Georg Struth. Springer, 2013. 500p index afp ISBN 9781848003217 pbk, $69.99 ☐ Required This book by UK academics Moller (Swansea Univ.) and Struth (Univ. of Sheffield) is designed to serve as a textbook for first-year university students in computer science. The volume ☐ Recommended contains 15 chapters, divided in two parts. Part 1, "Mathematics for Computer Science," covers the material that would typically appear in an introductory course in discrete mathematics for computer science. This section can be compared with textbooks such as R. Johnsonbaugh's Discrete Mathematics (7th ed., 2009) and K. Rosen's Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (7th ed., 2011). Part 2, "Modelling Computer Systems," introduces formal methods for the specification and verification of systems. For comparison, see Understanding Formal Methods, by J-F Monin and M. Hinchey (2003). The material in the second part of the book is not often taught to first-year students at US institutions and is at a much more sophisticated level than the introductory material on discrete mathematics in part 1. This combination of introductory and advanced material in one volume limits the book's usefulness from a teaching perspective. However, libraries may wish to acquire it for the benefit of advanced undergraduates. Summing Up: Recommended. Only comprehensive academic mathematics and computer science collections. Faculty Member: Mejias, Ulises Ali. Off the network: disrupting the digital world. Minnesota, 2013. 193p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp (Electronic mediations, 1) ISBN 9780816678990, $67.50; ISBN 9780816679003 pbk, $22.50 ☐ Required This work purports to uncover and critique the hidden logic of the Internet. Like any technology, the Internet fosters certain kinds of activities and enables new ones, but ☐ Recommended diminishes others; it elevates some skills and relations while rendering others secondary or obsolete. According to Mejias (communication studies, SUNY Oswego), the meme of a network of nodes intrinsically promotes a hierarchical and controlling structure, reflected in the dominance of a small number of particularly influential sites. Though some have seen decentralization and even democratic empowerment in the structure of the Internet, Mejias sees centralization and reinforcement of economic and political power structures. The descriptions and analyses make extensive use of technical theories from the social sciences that somewhat limit the potential audience, but it is a welcome counter to all-too-common 49 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 platitudes and bromides praising the Internet. Readers may question whether the author has too readily adopted the perspective of the large Internet content providers as descriptive of the Internet itself. But if people are to make technologies serve genuinely liberating human ends, they must understand what tugs in darker directions. Off the Network contributes to that understanding. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. Faculty Member: Canion, Rod. Open: how Compaq ended IBM's PC domination and helped invent modern Click here to enter text. computing. Benbella Books, 2013. 214p index afp ISBN 9781937856991, $24.95; ISBN 9781936661923 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required The 1980s and 1990s were a tumultuous time in the personal computer industry as IBM lost ground on three fronts in the marketplace it started in 1981: processor architecture, system ☐ Recommended software, and system busses. As a founder of Compaq in 1982 and its CEO until Compaq terminated his employment in 1991, Canion (Invesco, ChaCha Search) could observe the tumult as an insider. The title and subtitle suggest that the book will address how Compaq surpassed IBM and discuss Compaq's involvement in the development of modern computing. It does provide insight on the battle between IBM and Microsoft for control of PC software, and it explains Compaq's role in using the EISA bus to counter IBM's Micro Channel bus architecture. There is also a small section on Intel's vacillation when their CISC processors were challenged by RISC designs. However, Open is really a case study in using "industry standards" as a marketing strategy, rather than an account of how "open systems" influenced modern computing. In a telling final chapter, Canion tries unsuccessfully to relate Apple's current success (based on notably closed systems and willingness to drop backward compatibility as needed) to Compaq's marketing strategy--successful in its day. Summing Up: Recommended. All general, academic, and professional business and computer science collections. Faculty Member: Arnold, Vladimir I. Real algebraic geometry, tr. by Gerald G. Gould and David Kramer. Click here to enter text. Springer, 2013. 100p afp ISBN 9783642362422 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9783642362439 ebook, $29.95 ☐ Required Even as Arnold's research made him, as of 2006, the most cited Russian scientist, his two dozen books available in English provide a bedrock of exposition of subjects his expertise ☐ Recommended spanned: ordinary and partial differential equations, dynamics, mechanics, singularities, catastrophes and topology, and here, real algebraic geometry. (Serious mathematics collections should have all his books.) Mathematicians turn to more-complicated structures so that their questions have easier answers. Basic algebraic geometry thus treats complex solutions of systems of polynomial equations; it is harder to understand only the real solutions. But conic sections, the real solutions to quadratic equations, constitute a basic subject, and Arnold (1937-2010; formerly, Steklov Mathematical Institute) crafted these lectures to initiate advanced (Russian) high school students (who evidently know multivariable calculus) into the mysteries of real plane curves of higher degree. Mathematicians still lack a complete answer to the first part of number 16 of Hilbert's famous 23 problems, which asks for a characterization of all configurations of ovals that may arise in connection with a real plane curve of given degree. As Arnold's own 1971 contribution altered the direction of research on this question, this book constitutes a summary of the story coming directly from the master. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Regression: models, methods and applications, by Ludwig Fahrmeir et al. Springer, 2013. Click here to enter text. 698p bibl index afp ISBN 9783642343322, $89.95 ☐ Required Based partially on an earlier German work, this translated version has been improved and written in a more detailed, updated, and expanded format. Fahrmeir (Univ. of Munich, ☐ Recommended Germany) and colleagues provide a seamless narrative blending theory and application in both parametric and nonparametric regression. Using case studies and in many instances real-world examples, the book is an excellent resource for a wide range of readers, from 50 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 students to researchers and teachers in statistics, mathematics, and computer science. Many current books on regression deal either exclusively with linear regression or with more complex, higher-level nonparametric and semiparametric methods. Here, the authors bridge this gap by making this text more accessible to readers interested in applications of these procedures. Through the use of symbols and comprehensive appendixes, they are also able to guide independent readers. Some of the topics covered in the book's ten chapters include linear models, quantile regression, frequentist and Bayesian approaches to regression, and structured additive regression. A knowledge of basic probability, calculus, and statistics (intermediate level) is required to follow the text. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students of all levels, researchers/faculty, and professionals. Faculty Member: Manovich, Lev. Software takes command: extending the language of new media. Bloomsbury, Click here to enter text. 2013. 357p index afp ISBN 9781623568177, $100.00; ISBN 9781623567453 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781623562618 ebook, $29.95 ☐ Required Manovich (CUNY) critically examines modern software media authoring/creation tools in Software Takes Command. The three-part book covers early history and development ☐ Recommended ("Inventing Media Software"), foundational technologies and early experimentation ("Hybridization and Evolution"), and current status and future developments ("Software in Action"). The book does not reveal just the origin of these pervasive tools, e.g., Photoshop or Auto-Tune, but also what the algorithmic DNA within the code shares with the analysis techniques used in the intelligence community and how this "cross-pollination" resulted. One of the most critical points made is how the evolution of the personal computer coupled with the efforts of early software/interface pioneers at Xerox PARC and MIT provided the necessary foundation to even make these software tools possible. This formative period was a key factor in the development of what Manovich terms "metamedia," the melding of standard media within a software environment. The result is the mashable data representations increasingly seen today, e.g., Google Maps and its varying informational overlays. Development of this software over time has made what was once reserved for experts accessible to increasing numbers of laypersons, abolishing the distinction between passive observers and creators. This thoroughly researched, beautifully written book should satisfy even the most curious readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Stewart, Ian. Symmetry: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2013. 144p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780199651986 pbk, $11.95 ☐ Required Part of Oxford's "Very Short Introductions" series, this book, rich with examples and comprehensive in scope, discusses symmetries in the worlds of science and mathematics. In ☐ Recommended his usual manner, noted mathematician and prolific writer Stewart (emer., Warwick Univ., UK) shares mathematical ideas in an enjoyable context. He begins with an overview of different types of symmetry, such as translations, rotations, and reflections, and then connects these symmetries to fundamental structures such as frieze patterns, lattices, and crystallographic solids. After interludes into the role of symmetries in the historical development of group theory and the application of symmetries to the fifteen puzzle, Rubik's cube, and Sudoku puzzles, Stewart shifts to examining how symmetries can both describe and explain patterns in nature, such as water waves, sand dunes, animal markings, and spiral galaxies. He ends with deeper discussions, namely, the role of symmetries in the fundamental equations of mathematical physics and the classification of finite simple groups. Given the amount of content presented, including numerous diagrams, in such a brief work, readers should be forewarned that they may need special glasses to read the small font size. Overall, a good read for anyone wanting to know about symmetries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Sloan, Robert H. Unauthorized access: the crisis in online privacy and security, by Robert H. Click here to enter text. Sloan and Richard Warner. CRC Press, 2014. 374p bibl index afp ISBN 9781439830130 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9781439830147 ebook, contact publisher for price 51 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Online security and privacy is an increasingly important concern to all computer users, not just computing professionals. Many people bandy around the buzzwords associated with ☐ Recommended security and privacy, but few know what to look for, where to look, or what to do. Here, Sloan (computer science, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) and Warner (Center for Law and Computing, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago) provide a guide though the thicket of contradictions and trade-offs in this area. The book grew out of a course that the authors jointly taught to computer science students and law students, focusing on the legal issues of privacy and security for the former audience and the complexity of computer science for the latter. An overriding theme is making trade-offs, which is a central focus in the first chapter. The well- written collection of 12 chapters starts with the basics of computing, networking, and data mining, and proceeds through systems vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses, all within the perspectives of costs (economy), law, social engineering, and public policy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Gardner, Martin. Undiluted hocus-pocus: the autobiography of Martin Gardner. Princeton, Click here to enter text. 2013. 233p index afp ISBN 9780691159911, $24.95 ☐ Required This book describes some of the pivotal moments in the life of prolific author/journalist Martin Gardner (1914-2010), who is best known for his illuminating and entertaining ☐ Recommended contributions to Scientific American magazine from 1956 to 1981. Fans of Martin Gardner will find this posthumously published autobiography fascinating and will forgive the sometimes rambling, less polished style of the prose. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus describes in some detail Gardner's upbringing and schooling through college at the University of Chicago and a tour of duty in the Navy. There is less space given to the second half of Gardner's life, though the chapter devoted to his time with Scientific American is fascinating. Gardner includes several chapters describing his views on philosophy and what might be described as his religious beliefs. Readers unfamiliar with philosophy may find those chapters a bit dense. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.

52 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Criminal Justice Faculty Member: Onwuachi-Willig, Angela. According to our hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the law of Click here to enter text. the multiracial family. Yale, 2013. 325p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300166828, $38.00 ☐ Required Onwuachi-Willig (Univ. of Iowa Law School) has penned a wonderful book on the historical complexities of what it means to be a multiracial couple in the US. She uses law, history, ☐ Recommended politics, and related social sciences to argue that housing law, family law, and employment law fail to protect multiracial couples. The early chapters explain the impact of racial definitions and the racial divide in the US related to both race and class. The second part of the book provides more contemporary discussions of how what she terms "collective discrimination" (the daily disadvantages, in both blatant and subtle forms) infects the public and private lives of multiracial couples. The most persuasive component of the book may be the final chapter, in which Onwuachi-Willig presents the quintessential "where do we go from here" discussion. What she does especially well is provide a more quantitative approach to studying the future for multiracial couples. Most scholars shy away from using survey data on subjects like this, but Onwuachi-Willig does not. According to Our Hearts is an essential book for anyone interested in how race has been and continues to be defined, but it is best suited for those who grapple with the role of law. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Magliocca, Gerard N. American founding son: John Bingham and the invention of the Click here to enter text. Fourteenth Amendment. New York University, 2013. 295p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814761458, $39.00 ☐ Required For someone so involved with the watershed events of 19th-century US history, John A. Bingham has largely escaped modern scholars' notice, even in the current boom of Civil War- ☐ Recommended era commemorations. This oversight is puzzling, since Bingham was a major political figure of his time, as Magliocca (law, Indiana) ably demonstrates. The Ohioan served in the House of Representatives from the mid-1850s to the early 1870s, with only one brief interruption. Allied with the antislavery movement, Bingham was a powerful member of the new Republican Party. During the Civil War and Reconstruction, he was the architect of several initiatives, most prominently the Fourteenth Amendment. He served as a prosecutor in the trial of Lincoln's assassins, and was one of the House lawyers in the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He concluded his public career as ambassador to Japan. Magliocca takes readers through a learned yet accessible analysis of Bingham's legal and congressional careers, showing how Bingham's constitutional thought on citizenship, rights, and liberties evolved, climaxing with his drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment's preamble. Students of legal, constitutional, and Civil War-era history should read this fine volume on an important yet neglected figure. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Rohde, Joy. Armed with expertise: the militarization of American social research during the Click here to enter text. Cold War. Cornell, 2013. 213p bibl index afp ISBN 9780801449673, $29.95 ☐ Required Rohde (public policy, Univ. of Michigan) makes a significant, highly readable, relevant contribution to understanding the relationship between social science expertise and the US ☐ Recommended national security state. The book is a good companion to Mark Solovey's Shaky Foundations: The Politics-Patronage-Social Science Nexus in Cold War America (CH, Jul'13, 50-6262). Rohde retells the well-known history of the utilization of social science expertise by the military during the 1950s and early 1960s to combat the influence of the Soviet Union and communism in developing nations. At the same time, she does a convincing job of demonstrating how some academics and universities, American University in Washington, DC, in particular, benefited from this relationship. During the 1960s, students called for ending the relationship between universities and military funding. However, though formal ties were severed, independent, contract-based think tanks proliferated. Recent authorized and unauthorized revelations about the domestic and foreign programs of the National Security Agency, the role of psychologists during the interrogation of suspects, and the roles 53 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 of the Defense and State Departments in the war on terror suggest that Rohde's work has much to say to Americans today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Miller, Mark Edwin. Claiming tribal identity: the Five Tribes and the politics of federal Click here to enter text. acknowledgment. Oklahoma, 2013. 475p bibl index afp ISBN 9780806143781 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required This is a refreshing look at the intricate politics not just of federal acknowledgment of unrecognized tribes (in the Southeast, primarily), but of the process of negotiating identity ☐ Recommended within these groups. Miller (history, Southern Utah Univ., Cedar City) focuses on the advocacy for or against recognition of some of these tribes by the federally recognized "Five Tribes." In particular, he spends a great deal of time on the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's efforts against recognition of remnant groups, mainly because there are more such groups claiming Cherokee ancestry than for any other tribe. The author also illustrates the sometimes arbitrary ways in which the Office of Federal Acknowledgment determines the status of a petitioning group. While much is made of the "Westernized" emphasis on written documentation, especially elaborate genealogies, Miller is fair in noting that written documentation on the progenitors of federal tribes is often also rare. Historical recognition by neighboring communities figured largely in the US decision to accord recognition to the federal tribes, a facet of many modern petitions that doesn't seem so convincing to current officials. Engaging, enlightening, and provocative, this is bound to become canonical in this field. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Phillips, Nickie D. Comic book crime: truth, justice, and the American way, by Nickie D. Phillips Click here to enter text. and Staci Strobl. New York University, 2013. 289p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814767870, $75.00; ISBN 9780814767887 pbk, $24.00 ☐ Required Innovative, exciting, and truly interdisciplinary, Phillips (sociology and criminal justice, St. Francis College) and Strobl (John Jay College) pen a wonderful book on the iconic cultural ☐ Recommended figures in contemporary American comic books. Phillips and Strobl use criminal justice, criminology, law, history, sociology, and related social sciences to argue that comic books and the characters that inhabit those spaces constitute a rather comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in America. Phillips and Strobl's book is made up of 10 succinct chapters, all edgy and creative. The book's most persuasive component may be the final substantive chapter in which Phillips and Strobl present the impact of this attention to crime fighting, which has led to astronomical numbers of Americans incarcerated. If readers were to only read one chapter of the book, it should be the final chapter. Phillips and Strobl remind the reader that producers must be mindful that comic books can act as a "sleeper cell for conservative, tough-on-crime American nostalgia and retributive brinkmanship." Comic Book Crime is an essential book for anyone interested in truth, justice, and the American way, but more importantly who defines those notions and how. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Waltman, Jerold. Congress, the Supreme Court, and religious liberty: the case of City of Click here to enter text. Boerne v. Flores. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 199p bibl index afp ISBN 9781137300638, $90.00 ☐ Required City of Boerne v. Flores, the 1997 US Supreme Court decision invalidating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, is a complicated case. What began as a local dispute over a Texas ☐ Recommended church's desire to redevelop its main building turned into a broad dispute that centered on a series of major constitutional themes: the free exercise of religion, separation of powers, federalism, and judicial supremacy. Because of its unusually variegated nature, the case can be difficult to explain. However, Waltman (Baylor Univ.) has written a superb monograph on the decision. Waltman weaves together the legal issues, constitutional history, and political backdrop of the case into a highly readable narrative that is a worthy addition to the personal library of undergraduates as well as senior scholars. The book has many virtues, but perhaps its most attractive feature is the comprehensive nature of Waltman's project. He chronicles not only the complex jurisprudential dynamics of the case, but also the personal stories of the parishioners who found themselves wrenchingly divided over the fate of their church. The end result is one of the finest accounts of a single Supreme Court case that has been written 54 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 in many years. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty. Faculty Member: Hauptman, Samantha. The criminalization of immigration: the post 9/11 moral panic. LFB Click here to enter text. Scholarly, 2013. 169p bibl index afp ISBN 9781593326166, $67.00 ☐ Required Immigration in the US has been a racially polarizing subject. Since postwar immigrants were marked out by their salient cultural identity, their "otherification" came in handy, and some ☐ Recommended scholars presented them as a threat to the "American way of life" and the "political order." Since 9/11, the "racialization" of immigration has given way to what Hauptman (sociology and criminal justice, Univ. of South Carolina Union) calls the "criminalization" of immigration, which has led to associating immigration with national security. Moral entrepreneurs (legislators and opinion makers) played on social concerns for public safety to take such sweeping legislative initiatives as the USA PATRIOT Act, which made even lawful immigrants suspect. Informal social control methods legitimized and reinforced formal social control (the criminal justice system) and helped institutionalize it in such architectures as homeland security. The state accumulated more power to strengthen its hand at the expense of civil liberties. Grounded in sociological perspectives, this study offers an evolutionary trajectory from moral panics, moral entrepreneurs, legislative agenda, and social control to the state's gain in elevating immigration to the level of national security, and security over liberty. In such an environment, Hauptman concludes, immigration becomes criminalized. Summing Up: Essential. All collections in immigration studies, criminal justice, criminology, deviance, and social control. Faculty Member: Nuechterlein, Jonathan E. Digital crossroads: telecommunications law and policy in the Click here to enter text. Internet age, by Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser. 2nd ed. MIT, 2013. 506p index afp ISBN 9780262519601 pbk, $35.00 ☐ Required For anyone teaching or just interested in the background and complexities of telecommunications policy, this revised edition (1st ed., CH, Sep'05, 43-0440) is close to ☐ Recommended invaluable. Nuechterlein (chair, telecommunications practice, WilmerHale law firm) and Weiser (dean of the Law School, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) address the wide range of issues relevant to this sector, including the pertinent fundamentals in law, engineering, history, politics, and economics. Among the issues covered are competition among wireline providers (telephone versus cable), and spectrum management--including the current thorny issue of how to induce television broadcasters to cede some airwaves to mobile broadband providers. Separate chapters are also devoted to net neutrality, perhaps the hottest recent hot potato; intercarrier compensation; and universal funding. Distinctive features of this book are sensitivity to nuance and scrupulous non-advocacy. Consequently, it is ideal as a professional reference and for courses in media, the Internet, or telecommunications policy. The volume's only drawback is the widespread but necessary use of the phrase "at press time," since law, regulation, and engineering do not stand still. The only improvement one could wish for is annual supplements. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. Faculty Member: Nicholls, Walter J. The DREAMers: how the undocumented youth movement transformed the Click here to enter text. immigrant rights debate. Stanford, 2013. 226p bibl index afp ISBN 9780804787031, $85.00; ISBN 9780804788847 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required In 2001, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act) was introduced in the US Senate. This legislative proposal provided conditional permanent ☐ Recommended residency to undocumented youths. Sociologist Nicholls (Univ. of Amsterdam) tells the story of the DREAMers, the undocumented youths in the US. More specifically, he investigates how the undocumented youths seized political opportunities, became mobilized, got united, formed a political group, crafted an effective discursive strategy, made their claims, entered the national political stage, and initiated an immigrant rights movement whose impact has been felt across the globe, all within the span of approximately ten years. Although "illegal immigration" has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, very little is known 55 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 about the immigrants themselves. The rich stories told in this book, particularly of the struggle and courage of the youths, will make readers ponder and question the effectiveness of existing immigration policies. An eye-opening and incredible story in its own right, this book also contributes to the literature on social movements, especially the formation of movement groups and the issue-framing process. It deserves a wide readership. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Chander, Anupam. The electronic silk road: how the Web binds the world in commerce. Yale, Click here to enter text. 2013. 278p index afp ISBN 9780300154597, $28.00 ☐ Required In the age of Google, Twitter, WikiLeaks, and Edward Snowden, the legal dilemmas of the Internet are compelling. This volume focuses narrowly on the provision of "information ☐ Recommended services delivered remotely through electronic communication systems" to businesses or consumers. Whether back-office firms in Bangalore, India, or a popular site like Facebook offers these services, they are handled unevenly by a patchwork of territorial-based state laws and international law. Chander (Univ. of California, Davis, School of Law) not only describes the types of legal problems emerging from cyber-trade, but also prescribes principles for a regime that would both free up trade and maintain the rule of law. After a general overview and introduction, he provides chapter-long case studies of Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Internet "pirates," and "Facebookistan." In his final three chapters, he proposes a legal approach based on the principles of "dematerialization," "glocalization," "harmonization," and "do no evil." A useful glossary of terms is added for nonspecialists. Chander's prose is clear, and his evenhanded approach is compelling. This is a timely book that brings erudite legal scholarship to bear upon concrete problems. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above. Faculty Member: Fassin, Didier. Enforcing order: an ethnography of urban policing. [English ed.]. Polity, 2013. Click here to enter text. 287p bibl index ISBN 9780745664798, $69.95; ISBN 9780745664804 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required Fassin's scholarly, insightful ethnography of police response and treatment to minority youth in the racially troubled projects around Paris, France, directly confronts the complex ☐ Recommended questions surrounding the mutual animosity that exists between the police and the young men of African lineage. Most perplexing is the idea that Parisian law enforcement officers appear to have a perception and response toward these youth more consistent with US policing, rather than that of their immediate neighbors, the English Bobbies. A host of conditions and perceptions compound the general atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion. Significant among these are how a "warlike" condition came to be manifest between the police and citizens in the projects and, most specifically, the abundant feeling that each envisions the other as "the enemy." Fassin (Princeton) uses a multitude of dialogic exchanges between teenagers and law enforcement officers in contact situations, including arrest sequences, to reinforce the point. This work explores the contributing, interacting social issues of high unemployment, poverty, segregation, and discrimination--as well as the injustice resulting from police use of unnecessary or excessive force--that trigger racial civil disorder. Fassin's work is exceptional, and highly encouraged for advanced undergraduate or graduate social science collections, especially in sociology or social work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Experimental criminology: prospects for advancing science and public policy, ed. by Brandon Click here to enter text. C. Welsh, Anthony A. Braga, and Gerben J. N. Bruinsma. Cambridge, 2013. 309p bibl index ISBN 9781107032231, $95.00; ISBN 9781107614130 pbk, $32.99 ☐ Required Editors Welsh, Braga, and Bruinsma bring readers an excellent collection of writings that justify, and strongly advocate for, the use of scientific method in criminology. Identifying ☐ Recommended experimental criminology as "part of a larger and increasingly expanding scientific research and evidence-based movement in social policy," the editors have selected chapters that indicate a broad range of application of scientific method. Chapters include the application of method to the development and assessment of theory, the application of method to assess crime prevention measures and research, and the use of research results in guiding an 56 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 evidence-based way forward in understanding crime and developing public policy. The contributors emphasize the use of established scientific method to test, assess, and set up a protocol for the development of policy, because a reliance on generalization, the abstract, and intuition have not resulted in an adequate understanding of crime. This comprehensive and very well-organized work would be an excellent volume for academic use in research methods courses in criminology; it would also clearly illustrate the complexities of crime policy for the policy maker. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Bloch, Susan Low. Federalism: a reference guide to the United States Constitution, by Susan Click here to enter text. Low Bloch and Vicki C. Jackson. Praeger, 2013. 315p index afp ISBN 9780313318849, $95.00; ISBN 9781440829963 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This is the latest in a series titled "Reference Guides to the United States Constitution." Dubbed as a reference guide, it is really a comprehensive treatise on the development of ☐ Recommended federalism as seen through Supreme Court decisions. Bloch (Georgetown Univ.) and Jackson (Harvard Law School) provide a chronological look at the federalism concept in the Constitution and how it has been interpreted over the years. Chapter 1 covers the founding of the nation through the Civil War, and lays the foundations of the complex structure of the new nation. Chapter 2 covers the Civil War and its aftermath. This era was important because the country experienced a major crisis in the balance between states' rights and federal supremacy. The last three chapters cover the 20th century to the present. The book tracks several facets of the topic, including the scope of Congress's powers under the Commerce Clause; the principle of supremacy and the law of preemption; obligations of state courts to enforce federal law; and states' authority to regulate commercial and economic matters not addressed by Congress. Each chapter ends with copious footnotes referencing court cases. The work includes a table of cases, and concludes with a bibliographic essay on the theories of federalism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Abrams, Floyd. Friend of the Court: on the front lines with the First Amendment. Yale, 2013. Click here to enter text. 473p index afp ISBN 9780300190878, $32.50 ☐ Required As Abrams reminds readers at the beginning of this outstanding volume, "The world of law, including First Amendment law, begins with a client with a problem and a lawyer who ☐ Recommended represents that client." Abrams has brought together speeches, editorials, short articles, and interviews covering four decades of his work as one of the nation's foremost free speech litigators. Where necessary, he provides invaluable footnotes informing the reader of subsequent legal developments. The result is a highly accessible, page-turning collection that demonstrates that ultimately the most important client passionately defended across the years by Abrams is the expressive freedom clause of the First Amendment. Indeed, an important theme of this volume is that this provision has continuously needed defending from attacks by liberals and conservatives alike. The readers for whom this volume will be useful and informative will be as diverse as the myriad audiences for whom the original materials were intended. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Tushnet, Mark. In the balance: law and politics on the Roberts Court. W. W. Norton, 2013. Click here to enter text. 324p index ISBN 9780393073447, $28.95 ☐ Required For much of the last decade, scholars of the US Supreme Court have spoken of the "Kennedy Court." They increasingly focused their attention on Justice Kennedy's centrist jurisprudence ☐ Recommended after the retirement of Justice O'Connor in 2006. On numerous occasions in this highly accessible volume, Tushnet (Harvard Univ. Law) presents supporting evidence for his intriguing observation that, in the not too distant future, Court watchers might instead be employing a "Kagan Court" appellation. Tushnet covers ground that will be familiar to many students of the contemporary Court. However, unlike some scholars he provides analysis that is refreshingly objective. He draws upon insights from both law and politics, and he avoids popular, reductionist tendencies that settle for easy (and oftentimes partisan) labels such as 57 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 "conservative" and "liberal." In the Balance will be a valuable and well-received addition to reading lists for undergraduate courses about the Supreme Court and judicial decision making. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; undergraduate students, all levels. Faculty Member: Ruskola, Teemu. Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and modern law. Harvard, 2013. Click here to enter text. 338p index afp ISBN 9780674073067, $39.95 ☐ Required This well-researched, thought-provoking book applies the analytical framework of Orientalism to the study of Chinese law. The book is much more than a study of the Chinese ☐ Recommended legal system. It provides a commentary on how an Orientalist interpretation denied the existence of law in China and provided the basis for the development of an American philosophy of empire that has influenced not only US interactions with China but also America's relations with much of the non-European world. Ruskola (law, Emory Univ.) asks: "Where is China in law's world? Why is the US an important part of the answer to that question?" The book is a welcome addition to the growing literature in comparative legal studies and is a must read not only for students of Chinese and US law but also for those interested in the larger questions concerning relations between the West and the non- European world. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate and research collections. Faculty Member: Poser, Norman S. Lord Mansfield: justice in the age of reason. McGill-Queen's, 2013. 532 bibl Click here to enter text. index ISBN 9780773541832, $39.95; ISBN 9780773589803 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Wise, perspicacious, and witty, William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield (1705-93), remains one of the most influential figures in British, Canadian, and US legal history. According to Poser ☐ Recommended (emer., Brooklyn Law School), Mansfield was the architect of modern commercial law, and his decisions have been cited hundreds of times by the US Supreme Court. His judgments in mercantile lawsuits created a reliable set of principles that fostered the expansion of British trade and industry, while contemporaries and his glittering clientele considered him to be one of the finest orators and advocates of the period. Mansfield served George II and George III as attorney general for England and Wales, privy counsellor, and lord chief justice of the King's Bench. Always more lawyer than politician, Mansfield had a reputation for opportunism in his loyalties, but his analytical and legal skills supported the government's policies against the colonists during the American Revolution, and his decision in the 1772 Somerset case ultimately helped to fuel the abolition of the British slave trade. With meticulous research in sources including the Mansfield archives in Scotland, Poser has produced a brilliantly readable history. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Gunnison, Elaine. Offender reentry: beyond crime & punishment, by Elaine Gunnison and Click here to enter text. Jacqueline B. Helfgott. L. Rienner, 2013. 239p bibl index afp ISBN 9781588269126, $58.00 ☐ Required This book should be required reading for all advocates for the "culture of control," as it offers considerable support for recent moves within the community corrections systems toward ☐ Recommended giving offenders the benefit of the doubt. The authors (both, Seattle Univ.) should be congratulated for bringing together and making clear the rich range of statistical data that clearly establishes the perennial difficulties involved in achieving "successful reintegration." They identify barriers consistently applied according to class, race, and gender, and are especially good in discussing the invisible punishment people are likely to endure post- release. Of course, their object in describing the revolving-door syndrome is the laudable one of suggesting policies that might block it a little. Hence, there is positive reference to providing basic needs such as housing and employment, and ensuring appropriate and targeted treatment. Arguably, however, the authors fail to acknowledge that an alternative way of understanding criminal justice is to focus on the ideological implications of the outcomes they describe so powerfully, outcomes that reproduce the exclusion of already marginalized groups. While it may be rewarding to find ways for individuals to be reintegrated, the next generation of social scapegoats is on its way. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All social science students, professionals, practitioners, and general readers. 58 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Abbas, Shemeem Burney. Pakistan's blasphemy laws: from Islamic empires to the Taliban. Click here to enter text. Texas, 2013. 204p bibl index afp ISBN 9780292745308, $55.00 ☐ Required This book by Abbas (State Univ. of New York at Purchase College) is part personal narrative, part scholarly exploration. The first highlights her passion and courage, the second her sound ☐ Recommended research and keen analysis. The synthesis is both engaging and powerful. Abbas examines the issue of "blasphemy laws" that are being advanced (and in some instances implemented) by hypersensitive and aggressive Islamists in some Muslim majority countries as a way to secure the supremacy of Islam and protect it from any criticisms or challenges. She argues that such laws are not sanctioned by prophetic example nor supported by textual stipulations, and actually contradict the tolerance exemplified by Prophet Muhammad and inherent in the Quran. She traces the evolution of these laws under later Muslim rulers as tools to secure their regimes, intimidate their critics, and oppress "others." She is particularly energetic in exposing the political motivations behind enacting these laws in Pakistan and the human rights abuses that have resulted as a consequence (which also affected her). This timely, thoughtful counterpoint to the appropriation of the Islamist discourse by extremist groups discusses Islam and Shari'a law from within reasonable and humanistic perspectives. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Clear, Todd R. The punishment imperative: the rise and failure of mass incarceration in Click here to enter text. America, by Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost. New York University, 2014. 258p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814717196, $30.00 ☐ Required For the last 40 years, mass incarceration has been the cornerstone of penal policy. More than two million people are behind bars (in both prisons and jails) in the US. Criminal justice ☐ Recommended professors Clear (Rutgers) and Frost (Northeastern Univ.) clearly examine the history and politics of punishment over the last four decades. The authors note the economic costs and the costs to individuals and communities as a whole of this punitive approach. They point to a surge of interest in the last few years of reversing this course and taking a more rehabilitative and pragmatic approach with criminal offenders. Much of this renewed interest is due to financial considerations, which are constricting many state budgets. The book points out that it will be difficult to move away from the legacy of the past 40 years. But the authors feel that the US is on the threshold of a new era of penal philosophy, and they offer some practical policy solutions to enable the country to move away from a reliance on mass incarceration. It is too soon to tell if a sea change is upon the US penal system, but the authors make their cogent argument in this well-written book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Kimport, Katrina. Queering marriage: challenging family formation in the United States. Click here to enter text. Rutgers, 2013. 199p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813562223, $80.00; ISBN 9780813562216 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9780813562230 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required The national debate involving gay and lesbian marriage changing the definition of marriage in the US is not limited to heterosexual couples. Kimport (Univ. of California, San Francisco) has ☐ Recommended interviewed many gay and lesbian couples and discovered this topic is just as much a discussion within this population as well. Not only are gays and lesbians marrying for love and to cement long-term relationships, they are also marrying to protest the exclusiveness of heterosexual marriages. Of course, social recognition and legal rights are of vital importance, but so are the people who are making the decisions to fight for their rights. The conceptualization of marriage as a deterministic institution is undergoing changes, and as the author has discovered, no one really knows what the consequences will be in the future, or how marriage will evolve in meaning. This very interesting, informative, and well-written book presents many fascinating interviews, and provides a window on one of the most contested subjects in the US today. For anyone searching for more information on the subject. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Rivers, Daniel Winunwe. Radical relations: lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and their children in Click here to enter text. the United States since World War II. North Carolina, 2013. 296p bibl index afp ISBN 59 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 9781469607184, $32.50 ☐ Required In this deeply researched social history of six decades (1945-2003) of gay fathers, lesbian mothers, and their children, Rivers (Princeton) seamlessly blends legal materials, oral ☐ Recommended histories, personal correspondence, and archival materials of grassroots organizations. He reveals the historical context for the current spotlight on the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender struggle for family and domestic rights. Rivers begins in the era before gay liberation (1945-1969) when, because of social pressure and legal harassment, lesbian mothers and gay fathers often chose sham marriages. Living under the constant threat of losing custody of their children if their true sexuality was discovered, lesbian and gay parents began to organize. Subsequent chapters focus on custody struggles as increasing numbers of lesbian mothers and gay fathers left heterosexual marriages and openly fought for parental rights through the legal system, the creation in the 1970s of a nationwide grassroots network of lesbian mothers, and the subsequent national organizations of gay fathers. The book concludes with a dazzling chapter on the ongoing history of lesbian and gay activism during the last two decades of the 20th century, focusing on insemination, adoption, surrogacy, donor paternity cases, and lesbian co-mother custody cases. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Hockett, Jeffrey D. A storm over this court: law, politics, and Supreme Court decision making Click here to enter text. in Brown v. Board of Education. Virginia, 2013. 267p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813933740, $39.50; ISBN 9780813933757 ebook, $39.50 ☐ Required Hockett (Univ. of Tulsa) notes that if scholars wish to "explain the votes of nine justices in one Supreme Court ruling, then methodological diversity is a necessity." In this work, he examines ☐ Recommended the landmark desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) through a number of methodological lenses in order to increase the accuracy of the understanding of the factors behind the justices' votes in this unanimous decision. Along the way, Hockett applies instrumental factors as exemplified in the attitudinal model, as well as non-instrumental factors including strategic decision making and the effects of the executive branch and foreign and domestic policy considerations. In the course of his analysis, it becomes clear that some factors weigh more heavily in the decision of some justices, while other factors weigh more heavily for others. This is a truly comprehensive work that is of interest not only to Brown scholars but also to those who seek to understand the process of judicial decision making. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Collins, Paul M., Jr. Supreme Court confirmation hearings and constitutional change, by Paul Click here to enter text. M. Collins Jr. and Lori A. Ringhand. Cambridge, 2013. 296p index ISBN 9781107039704, $99.00 ☐ Required Conventional wisdom suggests that confirmation hearings of Supreme Court justices before the Senate Judiciary Committee are broken, but Collins (Univ. of North Texas) and Ringhand ☐ Recommended (Univ. of Georgia School of Law) present a sophisticated, empirically grounded argument that suggests that they are not. Indeed, Collins and Ringhand celebrate the process for conveying to nominees evolving constitutional understandings. The authors argue that the Senate did not refuse to confirm Robert Bork because of what he refused to say but because what he did say strayed from the existing consensus. The writers further deny that nominees who followed Bork have engaged in greater stonewalling. Through quantitative analysis of hearings from 1939 through 2010, the authors trace the rising acceptance of certain once- controversial precedents related to rights of women and minorities, the right to bear arms, and the like, while suggesting that other established precedents have begun to fray. Accompanying vignettes from committee hearings effectively illustrate general arguments. Explaining three apparent exceptions, the authors conclude that nominees who are confirmed as justices generally adhere to what they have said during hearings. This book is a game changer. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. 60 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Stretesky, Paul B. The treadmill of crime: political economy and green criminology, by Paul B. Click here to enter text. Stretesky, Michael A. Long, and Michael J. Lynch. Routledge, 2014. 187p bibl index ISBN 9780415657358, $145.00; ISBN 9780415657365 pbk, $42.95 ☐ Required Stretesky (public affairs, Univ. of Colorado, Denver), Long (sociology, Oklahoma State Univ.), and Lynch (criminology, Univ. of South Florida) seek to develop a new direction for the ☐ Recommended loosely defined, emergent perspective that lies within or is adjacent to critical and radical criminology, known as green criminology. They define green crimes as "acts that cause or that have the potential to cause significant harm to ecological systems for the purposes of increasing or supporting production." They argue that harmful forms of production lead to social disorganization, which is generally exploited by dominant economic classes, encouraged and maintained by the state, and experienced adversely by racial minorities and the poor. The authors explain and illustrate their focus on harmful economic production (the core aspect of the "treadmill" of crime, a concept originally developed in Allan Schnaiberg's The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity, CH, Jul'80), with numerous examples from the globalized world economy, including hugely harmful acts such as greenhouse gas emissions, toxic spills, mining, and factory farming. It remains to be seen whether this book will actually reorient green criminology, as its authors intend. This reviewer is not convinced by its steadfast economism. Nevertheless, the book deserves a secure place on green criminology bookshelves. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Spoo, Robert. Without copyrights: piracy, publishing, and the public domain. Oxford, 2013. Click here to enter text. 355p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199927876, $35.00 ☐ Required Spoo (Tulsa College of Law) does a masterful job of exploring the intersection between European and American publishing, economics, and copyright law in the late 19th and early ☐ Recommended 20th centuries. Early American copyright law was deliberately protectionist; foreign works were denied statutory copyright protection. As a result, American publishers filled their catalogs with foreign works in the American public domain, much to the displeasure of European authors. Against this backdrop arose the practice of trade courtesy, an unwritten, voluntary system of norms by which publishers had a "duty '[n]ot to jump another publisher's claim,'" as Spoo quotes Henry Holt saying in 1893. Spoo demonstrates that trade courtesy survived on a "quiet, subterranean" level; American publishers continued to rely on it well into the 20th century despite changes in American copyright law granting copyright protection to foreign works if certain onerous requirements were met. Two important writers of the time, Ezra Pound and James Joyce, play a significant role in the book. Spoo devotes several chapters to the copyright dispute surrounding Joyce's Ulysses and Pound's proposed copyright revisions. Spoo's book is a must for anyone interested in the history of copyright law or the publishing industry. His clear writing style makes the book accessible to every audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.

61 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Economics Faculty Member: Tormey, Simon. Anti-capitalism: a beginner's guide. Oneworld, 2013. 190p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9781780742502 pbk, $14.95; ISBN 9781780742519 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Anti-Capitalism is a terrific little book that offers an entertaining beginners' guide to the full spectrum of anti-capitalist ideas and politics, starting with a critique of capitalism, which ☐ Recommended takes the subject to its latest neoliberal incarnation. Like any good guidebook, this one celebrates the diversity of the tour--and diversity is there in abundance. The protest groups Tormey (Univ. of Sydney, Australia) discusses (including anarchists, Marxists, environmentalists, and Seattle protesters) exhibit varying degrees of militancy and creativity, and of joy and sorrow in their response to the varying degrees of cruelty, inefficiency, and absurdities of capitalism. This book is not just accessible; it manages to be informative as well as fun to read. In short, Tormey has compiled a most unusual volume--unusual in a good sense. Librarians can feel comfortable that this book will not gather much dust once people discover its presence on the shelf. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels of undergraduate students; general readers. Faculty Member: Sabin, Paul. The bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and our gamble over Earth's future. Yale, Click here to enter text. 2013. 304p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300176483, $28.50 ☐ Required In 1980 Paul Ehrlich, well-known Stanford biologist, activist, and author of The Population Bomb (CH, Jan'69), and Julian Simon, longtime University of Illinois professor and author of ☐ Recommended The Ultimate Resource (CH, Jan'82; The Ultimate Resource 2, CH, Mar'97, 34-3989), wagered $1,000 on the future prices of five precious metals. Spoiler alert: Simon won. In his carefully researched and engaging volume, Yale historian Sabin sets the scene for this protagonist- antagonist intersection with the rollout of the environmental movement--including perceived population pressures--in the 1960s-70s, as well as the continuing political, economic, and scientific debates surrounding these and complementary themes over the subsequent 25 years. Chapter titles--"Biologist to the Rescue," "Dreams and Fears of Growth," "Listening to Cassandra," "The Triumph of Optimism," and "Polarizing Politics"—will whet any reader's appetite, and the 70 pages of excellent notes and bibliography will benefit scholars. The Bet is remarkably evenhanded in its treatment; only the subtitle Our Gamble over Earth's Future (instead of, for example, "... over Humanity's Future") betrays the author's implicit thumb on the scale. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections and readership levels Faculty Member: Raghavan, Anita. The billionaire's apprentice: the rise of the Indian-American elite and the fall Click here to enter text. of the Galleon hedge fund. Business Plus, 2013. 491p index ISBN 9781455504022, $29.00 ☐ Required The success of South Asians in American executive suites has been disproportionate to the number of books about them. Now, award-winning journalist Raghavan (Forbes and Wall ☐ Recommended Street Journal) offers insights on this topic in this well-researched volume. She alludes to the positive achievements of Indian Americans leading major corporations, such as PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi and former Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit. However, this work is really about the dark side of the South Asian elite. As stated in the subtitle, it is the story of the "Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund." Readers of the business press know of the illegal insider trading activities of Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, and his accomplice, Rajat Kumar Gupta, board member at Goldman Sachs and other leading US corporations. Author Raghavan has done in-depth research on this case, which pitted Indian American prosecutors against Indian American and Sri Lankan perpetrators. The prosecution won. Gupta is serving 2 years and Rajaratnam 11 years in federal penitentiaries. Well written, this book will hold the reader's interest in following the fall of the Galleon hedge fund. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, graduate students, and professionals. Faculty Member: Trinder, Barrie. Britain's industrial revolution: the making of a manufacturing people, 1700- Click here to enter text. 1870. Carnegie Publishing, 2013. 676p bibl index ISBN 9781859361757, $38.95 ☐ Required Historian Trinder (independent scholar) has produced a magnum opus of scholarly synthesis based on decades of scholarship regarding the first industrial nation. The book is divided into 62 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Recommended three parts: human invention and application of technology; industrial production, from mining to metals to textiles to paper; and industrial communities, from villages to towns to cities to London. The book emphasizes the physical changes of industrialization, and human changes are placed in the context of the built environment. But Trinder never neglects the human element of industrialization, from inventors to laborers. Lavishly illustrated and scrupulously well written and edited, Trinder's book includes too often overlooked aspects of industrialization, including marginalized industries and peripheral locations. Scholars will be delighted to find extensive coverage of industrialization beyond England, including Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Trinder and the publishers deserve the thanks of generations of scholars of industrialization for the accomplishment of this book. Trinder's volume should occupy a prominent place in libraries and bookshelves for its exceptional comprehensiveness and accessibility, and is a must for collections on the Industrial Revolution. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; all levels of students; faculty; researchers. Faculty Member: Nordhaus, William. The climate casino: risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world. Click here to enter text. Yale, 2013. 378p index afp ISBN 9780300189773, $30.00 ☐ Required Nordhaus (Yale Univ.) is a world leader in developing economic models to analyze climate change policy. This volume goes further than any previous book in detailing why economics ☐ Recommended and abatement costs are of first-order importance in the development of climate mitigation policies and in the setting of climate policy targets. Nordhaus illustrates that the climate change problem is unique but still amenable to the application of standard economic tools that may, for example, link climate change mitigation to the act of purchasing the right to tilt a roulette wheel to decrease the probability of disastrous outcomes. Nordhaus argues that reducing carbon emissions is equivalent to purchasing insurance against future losses and that the near-term decision for policy makers is to determine the optimal amount of insurance to purchase. He concludes that harmonization around carbon taxes is the first-best and perhaps only option to avoid a global temperature increase of 3ŶC or more. Akin to David Archer's The Global Carbon Cycle (CH, Jul'11, 48-6298), which educated the public about the global carbon cycle in geological time, this evenhanded volume will educate undergraduate students and general readers about climate change economics. Summing Up: Essential. Public, academic, and professional library collections. Faculty Member: The Creative class goes global, ed. by Charlotta Mellander et al. Routledge, 2014. 319p bibl Click here to enter text. index ISBN 9780415633604, $160.00; ISBN 9780415633611 pbk, $42.95; ISBN 9780203094945 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class (CH, Dec'02, 40-2276) generated much response and further research on the creative class. This important new volume, to which ☐ Recommended Florida serves as a coeditor and contributor, reviews the creative class as it is manifested in 12 industrialized countries. The conclusions of the international group of contributors modify some of the understanding from the literature on urban development. First, contributors differentiate between their approach and that of human capital, stating that the latter refers to education attainment whereas the creative class may consist of at least 40 percent of individuals with no college education. Second, the three occupational clusters with the greatest impact on development are science, business, and arts and media--they stress the importance of the last. Third, national differences do matter. Fourth, so does size, but creativity can occur in smaller cities with good universities. Finally, the contributors raise the question of the social compact that will be appropriate for an economy of creative workers rather than manual laborers, and ask what must be done to bring a greater portion of the workforce into the creative economy. A must read for anyone interested in urban studies and economic development. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. Faculty Member: Economics and youth violence: crime, disadvantage, and community, ed. by Richard Click here to enter text. Rosenfeld et al. New York University, 2013. 334p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814789308, $79.00; ISBN 9780814760598 pbk, $26.00 63 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Violent crime is usually attributed to micro-level, individual causes such as family background and individual personal traits that apparently make some people more prone to violent ☐ Recommended crimes than others. Editors Rosenfeld (Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis), Edberg (George Washington Univ.), Fang (China Agricultural Univ., China), and Florence (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control) revolutionize the economics of youth and violence literature by bringing together expertly written contributions that focus on the relationship between macroeconomic factors (inflation, unemployment, poverty rate, income inequality) and the propensity of youth for violent crime. Attention is shifted from blaming the individual to the much needed analysis of how socioeconomic inequality can drive violent crime rates among youth, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Apart from this major shift in thinking, this volume is also important in providing economic perspectives on why youth from racial minority backgrounds are unfairly profiled as being more prone to violent crime, without assessing the underlying causal inequalities that are meted to them by various institutions. A timely, must-read volume for students, faculty, and policy makers whose focus is sociology, the economics of inequality, public policy, and related disciplines. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduate through professional collections. Faculty Member: Hirschman, Albert O. The essential Hirschman, ed. by Jeremy Adelman. Princeton, 2013. 384p Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780691159904, $29.95 ☐ Required Albert Hirschman is a unique figure among economists. He was knowledgable about not only a wide range of economic literature, ranging politically from Marx to Hayek, but also ☐ Recommended economists from the 17th century to his contemporaries. Moreover, Hirschman's fields of knowledge, as well as his publications, extended across the social sciences, although he is best known for his works in and critiques of development economics. Hirschman was critical of all overarching theories, yet he could find value in a broad spectrum of sources ranging from conservatives to Marx, including those subjected to his criticism. Adelman, author of an outstanding biography of Hirschman (Worldly Philosopher, CH, Oct'13, 51-0978), has done an excellent job of bringing together articles that express Hirschman's skepticism, as well as brilliant observation, often consisting of brilliant juxtapositions of unlikely sources. The collection fails to convey the breadth of Hirschman's work but nonetheless is a treasure chest that deserves a place in all serious libraries. It might seem like too much for some undergraduate students, but those who do sink their teeth into this work will be highly rewarded. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections. Faculty Member: Pressman, Steven. Fifty major economists. 3rd ed. Routledge, 2014. 320p bibl ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780415645089, $120.00; ISBN 9780415645096 pbk, $34.95 ☐ Required In this gem of a reference book, Pressman (economics, Monmouth Univ.) summarizes the contributions of 50 key economists. The third edition adds new entries on Hyman Minsky and ☐ Recommended Paul Krugman and updates other essays with references to recent economic events. The selection is historic, including nine economists born before 1800 as well as nine living economists. Economists from diverse political perspectives are included, all presented in a balanced manner. Coverage is more complete than in Robert L. Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (7th ed., 1999) or Todd Buchholz's New Ideas from Dead Economists (rev. ed., 1999; 1st ed., CH, Jun'90, 27- 5842). Each entry includes a brief biography, a summary of the economist's contributions, and a list of references. Especially instructive are connections to each economist's contemporaries as well as the influence on later economic thinking. Such coverage is a welcome addition to textbook and popular treatments of economics that typically omit the history of economic thought. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Public and academic library collections at all levels. Faculty Member: Le Blanc, Paul. A freedom budget for all Americans: recapturing the promise of the civil rights Click here to enter text. movement in the struggle for economic justice today, by Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates. Monthly Review, 2013. 303p index afp ISBN 9781583673614, $69.00; ISBN 9781583673607 64 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 pbk, $16.95 ☐ Required In fall 1966, not long after the 1963 March on Washington, the A. Philip Randolph Institute issued "A Freedom Budget for All Americans," which went well beyond Lyndon Johnson's war ☐ Recommended on poverty and well beyond a call for civil rights for blacks. The Freedom Budget instead laid out an expansive Marshall Plan for the disadvantaged. Le Blanc (history, La Roche College) and Yates (associate editor, Monthly Review) do an outstanding job of recapturing the development, as well as the social and political context, of this mostly forgotten chapter of American history. The stories of the movement's leading figures take this book even further in bringing the account of the Freedom Budget back to life. The authors use this historical analysis to frame a valuable overview of current social and economic deficiencies of the contemporary US, making a convincing case that the time has come to resurrect the promise of a renewed Freedom Budget. Such a project risks falling into a formulaic treatment, but this book does nothing of the kind. Instead, it is perceptive as well as lively, accessible to typical undergraduates yet valuable for specialists in the subject. This inexpensive book is a must for virtually any library. Summing Up: Essential. All collections and readership levels. Faculty Member: Getting to scale: how to bring development solutions to millions of poor people, ed. by Click here to enter text. Laurence Chandy et al. Brookings, 2013. 383p bibl index afp ISBN 9780815724193 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required This is a seminal volume on bringing development interventions to scale--creating development solutions that "reach poor people everywhere," which is critical to conquering ☐ Recommended extreme poverty in our lifetime. However, this work points out that understanding how to design scalable projects is still quite limited. Thus, the overview chapters and case studies presented on the challenges, opportunities, risks, and rewards of pursuing an agenda for scaling up are quite valuable. In chapter 3, editor Chandy reviews a decade of rising foreign aid and concludes that official aid is now perceived as catalyst, rather than a driver, of the development process. Other chapters discuss the importance of key elements to scaling up: business models, vertical funds and innovative governance, incentives and accountability, and angel investment. Case studies of scaling up are presented in the second half of the book. These include mobile money in Kenya; Sumitomo Chemical's story of making insecticide- treated bed nets available to the poor; Microfinance International Corporation's financial services to immigrant workers from Latin America; the Japanese experience in triangular cooperation; school-based management in Niger; and public-private partnerships. This volume is required reading for development practitioners, academicians, and students interested in economic development. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels and collections. Faculty Member: Silvia, Stephen J. Holding the shop together: German industrial relations in the postwar era. Click here to enter text. ILR Press, 2013. 280p index afp ISBN 9780801452215, $79.95; ISBN 9780801478970 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required In this wide-ranging, thoroughly researched study of industrial relations in Germany, Silvia (School of International Service, American Univ.) examines the evolution of trade unions, ☐ Recommended employers' associations, and collective bargaining in various economic sectors since the end of WW II, as well as the development of "codetermination," i.e., the role of works councils and of employee representatives on supervisory boards. Early on, the author discusses the extent to which pre-Nazi legal and social developments were revived after 1945. For the postwar period, he distinguishes between two phases of union development, the first one ending with Germany's reunification in 1989, and the second covering the years since then, which have seen significant declines in union membership, especially more recently. Silvia's overall assessment is that Germany's industrial relations contributed significantly to the long- term growth of the economy, especially during the "economic miracle" period of the 1950s- 60s. There are some tables and graphs; extensive documentation, i.e., 38 pages of endnotes, most of which are citations of German publications, but no bibliography. This volume will be of value to economists as well as political scientists interested in collective bargaining and the postwar German economy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division 65 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 undergraduate through research collections. Faculty Member: Ma, Damien. In line behind a billion people: how scarcity will define China's ascent in the next Click here to enter text. decade, by Damien Ma and William Adams. FT Press, 2013. 330p index ISBN 9780133133899, $39.99 ☐ Required China experts Ma (The Paulson Institute) and Adams (PNC Financial Group) approach the rise of China from a unique perspective: scarcity. Over the past three decades, some dramatic ☐ Recommended changes have occurred in the global economy; they include sharply rising commodity and food prices, partly a result of the economic growth of some developing countries, including China. The authors argue that scarcity will determine the ascent (or the demise) of China in the 21st century. They discuss economic scarcity (including resources, food, and labor); social scarcity (including welfare, education, and housing); and political scarcity (including ideology, values, and freedom). The authors contend that this scarcity, and the country's responses to it, will decide whether and how China will rise to be a global power in this century. So far, the Chinese government has successfully convinced its people to trade their political freedom for economic prosperity. Given the unequivocal challenges President Xi Jinping faces in the next decade, the authors argue that changes in all areas of China's society and economy are necessary and that the responses to scarcity will define China and the world. The book is accessible to readers at all levels and is valuable for anyone interested in China. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections and readership levels. Faculty Member: Smil, Vaclav. Made in the USA: the rise and retreat of American manufacturing. MIT, 2013. Click here to enter text. 263p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780262019385 pbk, $27.95 ☐ Required Smil (emer., Univ. of Manitoba, Canada) forcefully argues that manufacturing has played an essential role in producing economic growth and widespread prosperity throughout American ☐ Recommended history--and that future US prosperity depends on the vitality of this sector. Smil is the author of more than 30 books on energy, the environment, and the history of technology. The breadth of his knowledge is truly astounding. He is very pessimistic, arguing that much of American manufacturing has lost its edge, exemplified by massive trade deficits and huge job losses, and that the damaging consequences of these developments will continue to significantly weaken the entire economy in coming decades. He offers some thoughtful policy advice, some of it easy to implement (such as reducing corporate income tax rates), and he considers Germany as an economy worth emulating. Unfortunately, Smil edges toward seeing trade as a zero-sum game and tends to equate Americans' low savings rate and penchant for living beyond their means with being unproductive and lacking the capacity to innovate. Readers of this book will not be disappointed if they are seeking a concise, fact-filled overview of the history of American manufacturing and its prospects for the future. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections and readership levels. Faculty Member: Phelps, Edmund. Mass flourishing: how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and Click here to enter text. change. Princeton, 2013. 378p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691158983, $29.95; ISBN 9781400848294 ebook, $29.95 ☐ Required Mass Flourishing offers a brilliant dissection of the origins, causes, and eventual decline of modern capitalism--an inclusive economy characterized by the complex unfettered ☐ Recommended interactions among diverse indigenous innovators, entrepreneurs, financiers, and consumers. Nobel laureate Phelps argues that modern capitalism is responsible for much of the phenomenal sustained growth in material and nonmaterial well-being experienced by Western economies between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries. Motivated by the work of Mises, Hayek, Sen, and Rawls, Phelps successfully distinguishes and establishes his central thesis that a causal link runs from modern capitalism to sustained economic growth and the pursuit of a good life. He employs microeconomic foundations of uncertainty, incentives, and managerial principal-agent problems to explain how the post-1960 macroeconomic policies in the US and other Western nations stymied economic dynamism, resulting in a significant economic slowdown since and a rise in corporatism. The author also debunks myths about how the very poor fare under modern capitalism, socialism, and corporatism. This book 66 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 should be accessible to general readers and is especially stimulating for graduate students and those interested in economics, sociology, history, political science, and psychology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students at all levels, faculty, researchers, general readers. Faculty Member: Surdam, David George. Run to glory & profits: the economic rise of the NFL during the 1950s. Click here to enter text. Nebraska, 2013. 433p bibl index afp ISBN 9780803246966, $55.00 ☐ Required Run to Glory and Profits is a terrific addition to the sports economics literature. Drawing on his training as an economic historian, Surdam (Univ. of Northern Iowa) provides in-depth ☐ Recommended analysis of the decade that witnessed the transformation of the National Football League from a regional professional sports league into a league with a passionate, national fan base. The entire book is well written and expertly researched, but a few chapters are likely to be of special interest to sports economists (as well as NFL fans). The chapter titled "Prosperity and Its Drawbacks" examines the challenges the NFL faced from the Canadian Football League and the American Football League. Later chapters on competitive balance and gate sharing give the reader a solid understanding of how the NFL created the foundation for the success it enjoys today. Surdam also includes a terrific chapter on the integration of the NFL. Finally, the book's appendixes contain data that both sports economists and casual readers will find fascinating. (For example, the Chicago Cardinals were truly Chicago's second team, for they lagged well behind the Bears in gate revenue, attendance, and administrative salaries.) Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections and readership levels. Faculty Member: Stretching the higher education dollar: how innovation can improve access, equity, and Click here to enter text. affordability, ed. by Andrew P. Kelly and Kevin Carey. Harvard Education Press, 2013. 260p index ISBN 9781612505954, $60.00; ISBN 9781612505947 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Higher education is a very hot topic nationally these days. Major issues include escalating sticker prices and prospects for cost containment, concerns about student indebtedness, the ☐ Recommended financial return from going to college, access to this alleged key to economic advancement, structural issues within the university and entire system, new options from recent technological advances, and prospects for change and reform. With ten stand-alone chapters sandwiched between the editors' introduction and conclusion, Kelly (American Enterprise Institute) and Carey (New American Foundation) and their band of merry economists, educational entrepreneurs, higher education writers, industry insiders, and public policy gurus confront these issues and other challenges head on. While certainly not by any means providing "the last word," the authors do offer valuable perspectives and suggestions on many topics, including how to think about costs, efficiencies, and constraints in higher education; the roles of faculty, management structures, student services, and the college experience; the alternatives and complementary initiatives in terms of efficiencies made possible via the Internet; and the role of public policy in these debates. These thoughtful, informative, well-written, and documented essays deserve a wide, varied audience and a part in any conversation on higher education. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels and collections. Faculty Member: Katz, Michael B. The undeserving poor: America's enduring confrontation with poverty. Click here to enter text. Oxford, 2013. 353p index afp ISBN 9780199933952 pbk, $19.95 ☐ Required Katz (Univ. of Pennsylvania) has written a provocative, insightful, and much-needed update to the first edition of his The Undeserving Poor (1990). Like the first edition, this gives a ☐ Recommended comprehensive and well-thought-out interpretation of the history of how the poor have been dealt with in the US, based largely on the Poor Laws in Europe. However, in this edition Katz goes several steps further by discussing the framework that defines the ongoing contention among those concerned with policy making regarding the poor: how to draw boundaries between those who deserve to be helped and those who do not; how to provide help without creating more dependence on social aid; and what we owe the poor. Challenging centuries- long debate surrounding these questions, Katz convincingly argues that the interaction among political economy, resources, and power offer clues to addressing these questions, 67 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 and that ad hoc deliberation, rather than ineffective consistency that has dogged past efforts to combat poverty, must be the order of the day. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Academic audiences, upper-division undergraduate and up; researchers; professionals; general readers. Faculty Member: Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Press. Variation in health care spending: Click here to enter text. target decision making, not geography, ed. by Joseph P. Newhouse. National Academies Press, 2013. 180p bibl ISBN 9780309288699, $55.00 ☐ Required This excellent monograph is the well-written, thorough, and thoughtful report of a commission established to examine whether or not Medicare or other governmental health ☐ Recommended insurance programs should consider paying for medical quality and efficiency on the basis of geographic areas (MSAs, HSAs, or HRRs). The distinguished panel answers with a resounding "no," based on the lack of correlation between costs and payments by provider type within geographic area, and the fact that appropriate payment should be based on the decision- making unit (e.g., a hospital, clinic, group practice HMO, or ACO) rather than any definable geographic area. The most notable finding in the report is that three-fourths of the systematic variation in costs between areas is due to post-acute long-term care, with some attributable to hospital costs. Only a little is due to average numbers of procedures or pharmacy and diagnostic costs, and virtually none is due to difference in emergency room utilization (see p. 70 of the report). This monograph, available free as a download from the National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18393, should be read by anyone wishing to see a contemporary health policy study done right. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional audiences as well as general readers. Faculty Member: Gneezy, Uri. The why axis: hidden motives and the undiscovered economics of everyday life, Click here to enter text. by Uri Gneezy and John A. List. PublicAffairs, 2013. 267p index ISBN 9781610393119, $26.99; ISBN 9781610393126 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required The title of this work may lead readers to believe that it is another work in behavioral economics. It is that and more. The major contribution Gneezy (Univ. of California, San Diego) ☐ Recommended and List (Univ. of Chicago) make is to describe field experiments and what they can reveal about what drives behavior. Through their field experiments, the authors provide insights into such issues as the wage gap between women and men, the achievement gap in education, discrimination, and charitable giving. In that regard, this work will interest those in other social sciences beyond economics, business, and education. The ultimate goal is to challenge assumptions and learn through observation which incentives (or disincentives) apply in specified situations. The authors contend that gaining such understanding may facilitate policy being better crafted and conducted. As the authors state, "Without understanding that life really is a laboratory, and that we must all learn from our discoveries, we cannot hope to make headway in crucial areas." Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels of undergraduate students; general readers; professionals.

68 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Education Faculty Member: Aesthetics, empathy, and education, ed. by Boyd White and Tracie Costantino. Peter Lang, Click here to enter text. 2013. 252p bibl afp ISBN 9781433120114, $149.95; ISBN 9781433120107 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781453910412 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This second collaboration by the editors of Essays in Aesthetic Education for the 21st Century (2010) aims to build a literature to support David Swanger's idea in Essays in Aesthetic ☐ Recommended Education (1990) that knowledge without empathy is incomplete. Their invitation for contributors hoped to find "perspectives across the curriculum," but, with one exception, all the writers represent some aspect of arts education. The book is organized in four sections: one sets forth several "differing perspectives" of research methodology; a second focuses on "the self as research subject"; in the third, two contributors develop more explicit philosophical underpinnings; and a final section examines approaches to classroom practice. These contributions are insightful. The final section might interest undergraduate students, while the earlier sections would interest graduate students and researchers. White (McGill Univ., Canada) and Costantino (Univ. of Georgia) think of the sections more as "emphases rather than boundaries," not "divisions" but "links" to each other. Given that, it is unfortunate that no final, concluding chapter attempts to summarize a general understanding from the various perspectives. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. Faculty Member: Mehta, Jal. The allure of order: high hopes, dashed expectations, and the troubled quest to Click here to enter text. remake American schooling. Oxford, 2013. 396p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199942060, $29.95 ☐ Required Mehta (Harvard Graduate School of Education) argues that efforts over the last century to reform American schools have failed. The author believes this failure is due to repeated ☐ Recommended efforts to "order" schools from above. His review of current and past school reform movements describes top-down attempts that utilized a paradigm reflective of rationalized administration. This paradigm focused on the scientific management of schools and applying techniques of American industry to make schools more like factories. According to the author, experience and research have revealed that teaching is not like factory work; however, policy makers persist in the illusion that the science of a machine-like bureaucracy can fix schools. Finally, based on hard lessons from the past, he recommends that the "romance" of rationalized administration be abandoned. Mehta believes reformers should "seek not to control but to empower" schools while creating a new infrastructure in which "talented practitioners can create good schools for the future." Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: Anytime, anywhere: student-centered learning for schools and teachers, ed. by Rebecca E. Click here to enter text. Wolfe, Adria Steinberg, and Nancy Hoffman. Harvard Education Press, 2013. 254p index ISBN 9781612505701, $49.95; ISBN 9781612505695 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Nicholas Donohue, president and CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, introduces this collection of research papers commissioned by the Boston-based Jobs for the Future by ☐ Recommended noting that student-centered approaches to learning and "the systems necessary to nurture and manage them constitute the most promising route to achieving equity and excellences for all students." These essays present core practices in student-centered learning and assessment, applications of digital media and the science of learning, formation of identity and literacy instruction for African American males, making mathematics matter for Latin/a and black students, and prioritizing motivation and engagement. Barbara Cervone and Kathleen Cushman conclude that the core elements for student-centered learning include "strong relationships with students; personalization and choice in curricular and instructional tasks; appropriate challenge levels for each learner; support for students' social and emotional growth and identity development; anytime, anywhere and real-world learning; technology that is integral to teaching and learning; clear, timely assessment and support; and practices that foster autonomy and lifelong learning." Eric Toshalis and Michael Nakkula 69 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 add that "to build student-centered classrooms, we need to build schools and school cultures that are teacher-centered." Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: The Arts and emergent bilingual youth: building culturally responsive, critical, and creative Click here to enter text. education in school and community contexts, [ed.] by Sharon Verner Chappell and Christian J. Faltis. Routledge, 2013. 220p bibl index ISBN 9780415509732, $135.00; ISBN 9780415509749 pbk, $44.95 ☐ Required Arguing for the vital role of the arts in the academic development of bilingual youth, Chappell (California State Univ., Fullerton) and Faltis (Univ. of California, Davis) make the link between ☐ Recommended second language acquisition theory and arts education. Using the lens of critical pedagogy, the authors showcase school-based vignettes in each chapter. The heart of the book is the suggestion that bilingual children be provided with the opportunity to tell their own stories through traditional and technological media. Artists' projects and statements are thoughtfully described and supported by useful photographs. The authors make explicit connections between arts-based teaching and culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy. Through an asset-based, responsive community perspective, they show how schools often perpetuate the very problems they seek to remedy. Advocates of bilingual education, the authors make a compelling case for native language use and maintenance for English-language learners. Readers seeking to understand the academic achievement gap will appreciate the original perspective presented but may find some of the language tedious. In light of the recent adoption of the common core standards in most states, this book represents an important perspective and provides strategies for engaging bilingual youth in rigorous and evidence- based reflection centered on the arts. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Shyman, Eric. Beyond equality in the American classroom: the case for inclusive education. Click here to enter text. Lexington Books, 2013. 361p bibl index afp ISBN 9780739177495, $90.00; ISBN 9780739177501 ebook, $89.99 ☐ Required This wonderful book provides a compelling narrative of the historical and philosophical roots of inclusive education and contextualizes that history in a framework of social justice and ☐ Recommended critical pedagogy. Part 1 provides a historical perspective on exceptionality, including a nice chapter describing conceptions of exceptionality during biblical times and additional chapters focusing on legal developments and the genesis of exceptionality as a legitimate academic discipline. Part 2 begins with an overview of Western philosophical thought and its various connections to the study of exceptionality. Two important chapters focus on the study of exceptionality within a framework of social justice and the author's recommendations for utilizing that framework to advance the discipline and improve practice. Curiously, Shyman (Dowling College) makes only brief mention of how critical theory has been and continues to be employed in the theoretical study of exceptionality as well as applied innovations to improve practice. Readers would benefit from some foundational knowledge of critical theory concepts such as hegemony and the hidden curriculum. Overall, this is a wonderful book of great value to scholars of exceptionality as well as advanced practitioners. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Closing the opportunity gap: what America must do to give every child an even chance, ed. by Click here to enter text. Prudence L. Carter and Kevin G. Welner. Oxford, 2013. 320p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199982981, $99.00; ISBN 9780199982998 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required This edited collection provides a foundational discussion of key societal factors that have a direct impact on education, including poverty, teacher quality, English-language acquisition, ☐ Recommended housing segregation, unequal funding, and the controversial topic of school privatization. Each section presents the reader with clear, organized discussions of societal conditions that inhibit academic success for various student groups, thus positioning minimized factors (e.g., poverty) front and center for reader consideration. Moreover, aside from raising the 70 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 significance of such factors, the book incorporates strong and practical recommendations. Perhaps the most notable accomplishment of this book is the strong cohesion of multiple contributing authors into a fair, balanced voice advocating for a truly comprehensive effort to reform US education. While many other books offer discussions of and recommendations to close the achievement gap between white middle-class students and disenfranchised ethnic minorities, this book forces the necessary, often uncomfortable discussion of intangible factors that affect the academic performance of all students. This book is recommended for readers in teacher preparation and school administration programs, and practitioners of ancillary school services. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Morrell, Ernest. Critical media pedagogy: teaching for achievement in city schools, by Ernest Click here to enter text. Morrell et al. Teachers College Press, 2013. 182p bibl index afp ISBN 9780807754399, $72.00; ISBN 9780807754382 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required There is no question but that critical media pedagogy should be central to all forms of contemporary schooling. That it is not--that critical media pedagogy remains marginalized-- ☐ Recommended underscores the importance of this new, collaboratively written book. Here Morrell et al. synthesize a variety approaches to engaging youth in media study, for the value that inheres in such study in addition to its positive resonance to other core disciplines. Students are to be taught not only how to critically examine the media messages to which they are ubiquitously subjected, but to craft their own empowering narratives as well. Traditional forms of literacy are conjoined with digital and other literacies and are celebrated in kind. There is sound practical advice and insight, based on work at two Los Angeles high schools, grounded in a theory of critical emancipatory education that transcends time and place. Perhaps most importantly, the teacher/authors refuse to be constrained by the multiple standards and standardization schemes imposed on them, but rather use critical media pedagogy to animate (and perhaps subvert) these standards in truly creative ways. Highly recommended for general readers, teachers, and pre-service teachers, especially in social studies and English. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and professionals. Faculty Member: Deconstructing privilege: teaching and learning as allies in the classroom, ed. by Kim A. Case. Click here to enter text. Routledge, 2013. 243p bibl index ISBN 9780415641456, $150.00; ISBN 9780415641463 pbk, $42.95 ☐ Required This edited volume displays a strong desire to carefully explore a difficult and controversial topic. The very idea that US society systematically perpetuates white privilege typically yields ☐ Recommended heated debate among scholars, media pundits, and everyday people. The perspectives presented in this book allow the reader to deconstruct the conceptual underpinnings of white privilege in the US through the exploration of various identities (e.g., African American, Hispanic, female, and gay) and how these identities offer drastically different life activities and access to opportunities. Case (psychology and women's studies, Univ. of Houston, Clear Lake) has organized the essays as a sequential process of laying foundational ideas and using personal experiences (as told by contributing authors) to assist the reader in understanding the implicit (though sometimes explicit) tiers within society. Aside from conceptual discussions, the contributed essays provide educators with a suggested road map to assist students in developing a greater sense of their own identities, access, and privilege in relation to the greater whole. This book would significantly assist future helping professionals (e.g., teachers, social workers, counselors, and psychologists) in developing their own cultural competencies to assist individuals from different backgrounds. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Rogers, Rebecca. Designing critical literacy education through critical discourse analysis: Click here to enter text. pedagogical and research tools for teacher researchers, by Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley Wetzel. Routledge, 2014. 173p bibl index ISBN 9780415810593, $135.00; ISBN 9780415810616 pbk, $41.95 71 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Not much is known about how pre-service teachers can learn to use discourse analysis in their classrooms. Most research until now has focused on K-12 students and classroom ☐ Recommended literary practices. Rogers (Univ. of Missouri, St. Louis) and Wetzel (Univ. of Texas, Austin) believe that if critical literacy is to influence current pedagogy, "more and better research" is needed to define what teachers should learn and know how to do. They emphasize four approaches: narrative analysis, building tasks analysis, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis. Their book is brief (105 pages), but the central chapters (3 through 6) have detailed appendixes to guide doing "critically oriented discourse analysis" in educational settings. The authors thus offer a "multi-layered text": if readers are interested in critical literacy or teacher research they should "read the book"; if readers are "short on time" to learn how to do critical discourse analysis they should "read the appendices." This blend of theory and practice should be welcomed by new teachers, who always want to know what to do and how to do it, as well as veteran teachers, who realize the necessity of theory to understanding. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: De-testing and de-grading schools: authentic alternatives to accountability and Click here to enter text. standardization, ed. by Joe Bower and P. L. Thomas. Peter Lang, 2013. 282p bibl afp (Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education, 451) ISBN 9781433122408, $139.95; ISBN 9781433122392 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781453910818 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Bower and Thomas have edited a powerful volume that criticizes testing and the quantification of education. A selection of contributors with wide-ranging experiences in both ☐ Recommended K-12 and higher education settings offer diverse perspectives on the dangers of standardized testing and the utilization of grades to sort, classify, and compare students. The varied accounts push readers to reconsider the purpose of giving grades and reflect upon the difference between assessment and measurement. With the increasing number of state assessments and the elaborate systems of accountability in education, this volume inspires readers to focus on the primary goal of learning and how that can be achieved, beginning in kindergarten and going all the way through graduate school studies. Contributors offer alternatives to traditional assessments in the form of authentic tasks where the emphasis is on learning and recognizing growth and development. A must read for anyone in the field of education, including parents, teachers, administrators, and policy makers. Recommended for general readers, undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Pierce, Clayton. Education in the age of biocapitalism: optimizing educational life for a flat Click here to enter text. world. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 211p bibl index ISBN 9781137027818, $85.00; ISBN 9781137027825 pbk, $29.00 ☐ Required Pierce (Univ. of Utah) offers one of the most important and unique recent analyses of key education policy initiatives, including so-called value-added models (VAM) for evaluating ☐ Recommended teachers; the curricular emphasis on science, technology, mathematics, and engineering; and the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in school-age children. Pierce brings together social and cultural studies of science, studies of neoliberalism, and a critical understanding of human capital theory to apply a "biopolitical" analysis to contemporary education practices. His analysis is penetrating, original, and troubling. The few books focusing on value-added measures for evaluating teachers tend to focus on their purported ability to improve education. Pierce shows how VAMs are derived from human capital theory and in particular agribusiness. He links the development of these models to human capital advocates who rewrite the history of slavery in the US as having educationally benefited slaves, and how VAMs position education as "value extraction" akin to the extraction of natural resources from the earth. The book is a deep theoretical probe into the agenda and assumptions of current education policy initiatives and an important practical means for developing alternatives. This is a must have for all collections serving the social sciences, education, and 72 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 education-related related fields. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Henig, Jeffrey R. The end of exceptionalism in American education: the changing politics of Click here to enter text. school reform. Harvard Education Press, 2013. 235p bibl index ISBN 9781612505121, $49.95; ISBN 9781612505114 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781612505138 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Political scientist Henig (Teachers College, Columbia Univ.) argues that the "exceptional" status of US education governance by "single purpose" agencies, such as local school boards ☐ Recommended and professional groups distinct from "general purpose" government units, is disappearing. This shift is more significant than either "the tension between public and private" or debates concerning increased centralization of authority. Separate chapters document the rise of the new education executives, who have included several southern governors (especially in the 1970s-80s) and big city mayors (e.g., Boston and New York). "An Expanded Role for Legislators and the Courts" details how legislators and courts address education issues once thought to be too contentious for the politicians in general purpose branches of government; "Changing Actors, Issues and Policy Ideas" documents the changes that emerge from this infusion of nonprofessional educators into the education policy arena. The final summary chapter points out that this major (and inevitable) political shift has benefits and disadvantages, but everyone interested in educational policy needs to accept it and adapt to the consequences. Henig writes in an accessible style and, although sometimes repetitive, buttresses his argument with a wealth of academic citations as well as references to relevant examples. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: Bentley, Dana Frantz. Everyday artists: inquiry and creativity in the early childhood classroom. Click here to enter text. Teachers College Press, 2013. 143p bibl index afp ISBN 9780807754405, $70.00; ISBN 9780807754412 pbk, $33.95 ☐ Required Bentley, an early-childhood teacher in child-centered emerging curriculum classrooms, has an advantage over most teachers in the US--she can listen to children and follow up on their ☐ Recommended interests. She offers a model of a teacher learning along with and from the children whom she teaches. There are vivid anecdotes of the children's thinking and of her responses to their ideas. The examples she provides of children's "thinking about thinking," challenge the simplistic dismissal of young children's ideas. As children construct their ideas about the world, they demonstrate the vitality of inquiry that is too often lost in the traditional educational system. Seeing the world as the children do and helping them develop their ideas through strategic questioning is part of the research Bentley records. She supports her work with references to the most respected and authoritative educational thinkers. Each chapter ends with questions for the reader to contemplate. This short book has much to offer, as Bentley considers art a way of thinking, not a separate part of the curriculum. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: The Founding Fathers, education, and "The Great Contest": the American Philosophical Click here to enter text. Society Prize of 1797, ed. by Benjamin Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 279p index ISBN 9781137271013, $90.00 ☐ Required The papers in this volume are products of a mentoring session held during the 2009 conference of the US History of Education Society. Six graduate students and their mentors ☐ Recommended visited the American Philosophical Society (APS) archives seeking information about the contest the APS held from 1795 to 1797 that judged essays describing appropriate systems of education. Part 1 of this book contains two chapters in which graduate students explain the methods they used to determine the names of authors who remained anonymous. Part 2 contains a chapter by a graduate student and six chapters by established historians of education describing how the original essays illuminate the educational concerns of people in the 1790s. The final section contains reproductions of six of the essays that citizens submitted to the contest and notes about the seventh, which is lost. Readers interested in historians' use of archival materials might consult Francis X. Blouin Jr. and William G. Rosenberg's Processing the Past (2011). Readers interested in educational arrangements might consult 73 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Nancy Beadie's Education and the Creation of Capital in the Early American Republic (CH, May'11, 48-5276). Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Martinez, Michael E. Future bright: a transforming vision of human intelligence. Oxford, 2013. Click here to enter text. 303p index afp ISBN 9780199781843, $34.95 ☐ Required This book, published posthumously, can be described in one word: fascinating. Martinez (Univ. of California, Irvine) provides both historical and contemporary perspectives on what ☐ Recommended "intelligence" is and is not. He then takes the reader on an intriguing journey about what IQ means, what intelligence means, how the brain constructs the intellect, and ultimately provides simplistic strategies to enhance one's intelligence. The book explores some of the more controversial issues regarding IQ/intelligence, such as the ongoing nature-nurture debate, race and intelligence, and whether "intelligence" is a unitary construct or one composed of multiple factors and dimensions. This well-researched volume is easy to read, and concepts are presented replete with examples and graphics. The first several chapters are the most interesting in that the several concepts of intelligence are presented, compared and contrasted, and discussed in a non-judgmental fashion. The role of education and its effect on the intellect is explored in a way that makes delightful reading rather than laborious examination of tables, facts, and figures. The final chapter, "Ten Strategies to Enhance Intelligence," brings the book together and is, again, fascinating. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Halvorsen, Anne-Lise. A history of elementary social studies: romance and reality. Peter Lang, Click here to enter text. 2013. 240p index afp ISBN 9781433122866, 9781433122866; ISBN 9781433106477 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9781453909218 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This is a propitious book. Current emphasis in education on STEM subjects and high-stakes testing make a review of social studies critically needed. For instance, Jere Brophy, Janet ☐ Recommended Alleman, and Anne-Lise Halvorsen note in Powerful Social Studies for Elementary Students (2012) that No Child Left Behind legislation largely ignores social studies. The book is a chronology of elementary social studies from the 19th century to the present. Social studies grew out of teaching history and geography in common schools and added other subjects, such as economics and politics, to its concerns. The purpose of social studies was to teach democratic citizenship and social responsibility. Other chapters focus on social studies between the two world wars and today's emphasis on excellence and accountability. Paul Hanna's approach is a touchstone for the analysis in "Expanding Communities." In conclusion Halvorsen (Michigan State Univ.) notes opportunities for improving 21st-century elementary social studies: more interdisciplinary cooperation, intellectual and financial resources, innovation in textbook selection, pedagogical experimentation, and cross-disciplinary integration. This account of the evolution of social studies education is admirably clear and revealing. Anyone in teacher education should benefit from this fine study. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Moll, Luis C. L. S. Vygotsky and education. Routledge, 2014. 173p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780415899482, $125.00; ISBN 9780415899499 pbk, $33.95 ☐ Required Vygotsky was an important pioneering Russian psychologist. While he wrote on a variety of topics in psychology, education, philosophy, and science, he is most known for his emphasis ☐ Recommended on psychology, learning, and thinking as the sociocultural genesis on human thinking and learning. His writings still have a significant impact on psychology and education theory as well as on education praxis. Moll (Univ. of Arizona) is an internationally known scholar on Vygotsky, and this very well-written book is theoretical and practical. Moll's discussion of Vygotsky's theories and applications is lucid and easy to understand. This book is focused on the ideas and practical applications surrounding cultural mediation of thinking and learning and the profound impact that culture (environment) has on psychological development. Vygotsky's theories speak to the issue of diversity today. This excellent book will be of interest to upper-division and graduate students in psychology, educational psychology, 74 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 curriculum theory, and philosophy as well as to faculty, researchers, and practitioners in those areas. It includes a fine reference section for further study and an analysis of Vygotsky's theories. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Schwartz, Daniel L. Measuring what matters most: choice-based assessments for the digital Click here to enter text. age, by Daniel L. Schwartz and Dylan Arena. MIT, 2013. 181p bibl afp ISBN 9780262518376 pbk, $14.00 ☐ Required Thirty years ago reaction to A Nation at Risk (1983) prompted educators to narrow most elementary and secondary school curricula to emphasize what would be tested. There have ☐ Recommended been a number of reactions to "measurement-driven instruction." "Authentic assessment" argued that traditional paper-and-pencil testing emphasized skills that have little value once formal schooling ends. Schwartz (Stanford Univ.) and Arena (co-founder, Kidapt Inc.) have developed this criticism further by suggesting that assessment procedures focusing on knowledge reference a static and, inevitably at some point, obsolete objective. The goal should be to assess the choices that students make since it is their choices that will define what they will learn, how they will proceed, and how persistent they will be in the learning activity. In common with other champions of authentic assessment, they shun that "dark priesthood of assessment makers who pray at the altar of psychometrics." In the process of democratizing assessment, however, they fail to address the questions that psychometrics emerged to deal with; how does one demonstrate that measures of students' choices in fact measure students' choice, for example. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above. Faculty Member: Quinn, Timothy. On grades and grading: supporting student learning through a more Click here to enter text. transparent and purposeful use of grades. Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013. 123p bibl index afp ISBN 9781610489119, $45.00; ISBN 9781610489126 pbk, $20.95 ☐ Required While discussions related to grading in the media, state legislatures, and elsewhere are frequent and passionate, few definitions of the concept are the same. Quinn (Univ. School of ☐ Recommended Milwaukee) examines the theoretical ways in which grades are defined, explores some of the many complicated issues devoted to grading, and builds the case that students would be better served if teachers focused on learning rather than grading. Organized into three sections that discuss each of these areas, the book discusses a variety of pertinent issues. These include the pedagogical purposes of grading, grade inflation, the forms of grades, formative and summative assessment, and inconsistency among grades from different individuals and institutions. Quinn also discusses some of the lesser publicized issues regarding grading, including the importance of failure for a child's development, the assessment of collaborative work, the reporting of grades, and the merits of rubrics. Although practical advice is provided for those interested in improving their grading practices, the book also provides ample grist for vigorous discussions related to the topic. A marvelous complement for Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom (2007). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Public education under siege, ed. by Michael B. Katz and Mike Rose. Pennsylvania, 2013. 245p Click here to enter text. afp ISBN 9780812245271, $55.00 ☐ Required High-stakes testing became national education policy with the No Child Left Behind legislation. It expanded the federal role in education by ramping up federal education ☐ Recommended spending, promising to hold schools accountable for student achievement by requiring states to design and administer tests to all students in grades three through eight, and ensuring the presence of qualified teachers in all classrooms. Public Education under Siege grew out of articles commissioned by the editors of Dissent magazine, who asked Katz (history, Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Rose (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) to edit a series on public education. Part 1 deals with the "Perils of Technocratic Educational Reform"; part 2 focuses on the intersection of "Education, Race, and Poverty"; part 3 proposes "Alternatives to Technocratic 75 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Reform." The final chapter is a letter to aspiring teachers, a kind of graduation speech that the editors want aspiring teachers to hear, knowing they never will. Rose, the author of this chapter, writes that he is most interested in the way aspiring teachers think about what they have to do and what happens on Monday mornings in their classrooms and that their larger goal should be developing a "mindfulness about materials and techniques" that will work in their classrooms. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Mitsikopoulou, Bessie. Rethinking online education: media, ideologies, and identities. Click here to enter text. Paradigm Publishers, 2013. 214p bibl index afp ISBN 9781594519666, $96.00; ISBN 9781612051710 ebook, $96.00 ☐ Required The title of this book suggests a discussion of the reform of online education in general. Instead, the primary purpose appears to be more pointed--comparing and contrasting ☐ Recommended different pedagogies by analyzing two websites. The websites and their complementary resources, both specifically related to the Iraq War, maintain different political ideologies and educational methodologies. Following a comprehensive introduction, Mitsikopoulou (English studies, Univ. of Athens, Greece) uses the first two chapters to thoroughly analyze each website and its correlating activities next to one of the pedagogies. Chapter 3 ends the book's first part with a discussion of the two political ideologies represented. The second part begins with a history of the genre of the lesson plan. The author categorizes the lesson plans provided by the websites as traditional or reflective and analyzes their divergent roles. Additionally, she discusses the differences between print lesson plans and hypermodal ones and how the form of textuality affects the instructional and learning processes. This book presents excellent information and arguments important to the analysis of Internet resources. It would prove particularly beneficial to all educators who use or are considering using Internet technology. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Dunn, Alyssa Hadley. Teachers without borders?: the hidden consequences of international Click here to enter text. teachers in U.S. schools. Teachers College Press, 2013. 201p bibl index afp ISBN 9780807754337, $88.00; ISBN 9780807754115 pbk, $41.95 ☐ Required Teachers without Borders? is a volume in the "Multicultural Education" series edited by James Banks. In this volume, Dunn (Georgia State Univ.) examines the trends, benefits, and ☐ Recommended challenges of international teacher recruitment, paying close attention to current educational policies that push globalization and neoliberal reforms. Recruitment agencies for international teachers contend that foreign teachers will serve as effective cultural ambassadors who will enrich the cultural literacy of US students by helping them learn about foreign cultures. However, Dunn's case study of four female teachers from India who were placed in urban, mainly African American schools in Georgia, systematically debunks these claims. Dunn found that while these teachers have the content knowledge and desire to succeed, they are overwhelmed by classroom management issues, student complaints of heavily accented English, and being away from their families. Dunn recommends several strategies for reforming the ways in which international teachers are recruited, in-serviced, and supported. This eye-opening look at a lesser-known educational reform policy can help researchers, policy makers, and practicing educators formulate more effectively what culturally relevant pedagogy is and is not. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Nygreen, Kysa. These kids: identity, agency, and social justice at a last chance high school. Click here to enter text. Chicago, 2013. 217p bibl index afp ISBN 9780226031569 pbk, $25.00 ☐ Required Nygreen (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) has written a theoretically and methodologically sound model of action research that tackles issues facing the education of students attending ☐ Recommended an alternative (read "last chance") high school in California in this highly engaging book. The "kids" of the title were the kids with whom the author worked, initially as her students, and later as her research partners. The author uses ethnographic and participatory action research methods to get at three key issues: identifying common social problems affecting 76 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 the lives of the students; designing research to critically investigate these problems; and engaging in collective action based on the research in order to advance changes in the conditions that led to the students' being sent (involuntarily) to the school in the first place-- something the author refers to as the "consequence gap." In doing so, she smartly debunks the notion that the students themselves are "the problem" that educators and politicians are so determined to "fix." Highly recommended for graduate students, researchers, and anyone interested in change agency. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate and research collections. Faculty Member: Farris-Berg, Kim. Trusting teachers with school success: what happens when teachers call the Click here to enter text. shots, by Kim Farris-Berg and Edward Dirkswager with Amy Junge. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 227p bibl afp ISBN 9781610485098, $70.00; ISBN 9781610485104 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781610485111 ebook, $26.99 ☐ Required While school reform has proceeded seemingly unabated for the last 50 years, the most recent proposals have, for the most part, excluded classroom practitioners from the discussion. ☐ Recommended Farris-Berg and Dirkswager (fellows, Center for Policy Studies, St. Paul, Minnesota) examine the results at schools that trust the teachers who work there to make the important educational decisions affecting the children they serve. While exploring how best to encourage autonomous teachers, the book also reviews how much independence teachers need, how educators respond to this autonomy, and how the results of their decisions can be assessed and evaluated. A large part of the work looks at eight practices that autonomous teachers embrace and that the authors suggest are necessary for a high-performing organization. These practices are explained through the use of vignettes, examples, photographs, and graphics that deepen understanding of the concepts undergirding each practice. Each of these chapters examining effective practices concludes with a series of questions and challenges related to implementation as identified by teachers assuming increased responsibility in school governance. These questions and challenges would provide ideal starting places for discussions related to these issues. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. Faculty Member: Kaufman, Scott Barry. Ungifted: intelligence redefined: the truth about talent, practice, Click here to enter text. creativity, and the many paths to greatness. Basic Books, 2013. 397p index ISBN 9780465025541, $29.99; ISBN 9780465037896 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Kaufman (psychology, New York Univ.) has written a thorough study of human intelligence. His information is historically accurate and includes the theories of several authors, including ☐ Recommended Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg. Kaufman himself was labeled with a learning disability, and this experience helped focus his educational studies. His book provides an overview of the effect of standardized testing on the individual. The discussion is divided into stages; origins, or the foundation and history of IQ testing; labels, which considers the effect of labels on abilities; the rules of engagement; and finally, how ability develops. Both individuals with disabilities and those labeled gifted are discussed. Physical, social, and emotional characteristics are considered in addition to cognitive components. In the final chapter, Kaufman provides his own theory, which could be expanded. The personal anecdotes make this book interesting and easy to read. Some background knowledge of the subject is useful and would benefit the reader's understanding, but is not necessary. Current topics include response to intervention and neuroscience. Kaufman agrees that "the ideal learning environment is one that supports active engagement in learning and facilitates a sense of agency and self-efficacy in the school environment." Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Halpern, Robert. Youth, education, and the role of society: rethinking learning in the high Click here to enter text. school years. Harvard Education Press, 2013. 253p index ISBN 9781612505374, $49.95; ISBN 9781612505367 pbk, $29.95 77 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Halpern's subtitle, "Rethinking Learning in the High School Years," captures the essence of this reform-minded book. The core of the book's critique of US high schools is that they have ☐ Recommended not kept up with changes in adolescent development and changes in the social and employment world into which young people must go. Halpern (Erikson Institute for Graduate Study in Childhood Study) laments that educators have responded to the recent social and employment changes by "doubling down" and focusing teacher and student energies on traditional academic areas, such as the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects. Instead he advocates a curriculum that is future oriented, focused on the real world students are entering, a school curriculum with much more linkage between school and workplaces. In addition, methods of teaching and learning that currently work with a relatively narrow range of students need to be replaced with more hands-on, experiential methods. The book is a persuasive guide to rethinking how high schools must be restructured to ensure students an effective pathway into adulthood. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and graduate students.

78 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 English Faculty Member: Rankine, Patrice D. Aristotle and black drama: a theater of civil disobedience. Baylor, 2013. Click here to enter text. 254p bibl index afp ISBN 9781602584525, $59.95 ☐ Required Rankine (classics, Hope College) takes on an ambitious and little-studied subject: the connection between the classical theory of drama and what he describes as the theater of ☐ Recommended civil disobedience that came out of the civil rights movement. He organizes his book in six chapters (and a useful introduction)--a structure that loosely mirrors the six parts of drama set forth by Aristotle in his Poetics: character, story, thought, sight, music, and diction. The subjects of the book are many and varied. Avant-garde black writers like Adrienne Kennedy and Suzan-Lori Parks are included, but so are more traditional black authors such as Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson--as are white writers, like Eugene O'Neill and David Mamet, who write about black life. The result is a complex, at times dense work that provides unexpected and enlightening observations. Perhaps this is best revealed in the chapter on Rita Dove's little-studied play The Darker Face of the Earth and its connection with Sophocles's Oedipus story. A challenging but illuminating read, this book will be thought provoking and richly rewarding for specialists in classical and/or black literature. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Faculty Member: Schuler, Stephen J. The Augustinian theology of W. H. Auden. South Carolina, 2013. 213p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9781611172430, $49.95 ☐ Required This is the most important book on Auden and religion in a generation. Schuler (Univ. of Mobile) follows Nathan O. Scott Jr. and Alan Jacobs in seeing Auden as both a Christian and a ☐ Recommended civic poet, but Schuler's vision is more expansive, noting Auden's reluctance to ban books (as a sinful reading will be in the reader, not the text). Though Auden never converted "erotic desire into divine love," his homosexuality is explicitly analyzed by Schuler in the context of Eros and Agape, selfish and unselfish love. Though J. R. R. Tolkien is, curiously, unmentioned, his fellow Inkling, Charles Williams, is credited with the idea of "double-focus," which Auden used to see poetry as both playful and morally probative. Schuler details Auden's theological influences, including C. N. Cochrane, whose intellectual history of the fourth century helped Auden to compare his own faith-trajectory with that of Augustine, and Denis de Rougemont, whose discernment of Augustine's old bugbear, Manichean mysticism, in medieval courtly love catalyzed Auden's sense of the superiority of divine over human love, laced with an Augustinian awareness that, through sin, humankind is stuck in the human for the time being. Summing Up: Essential. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; faculty and researchers. Faculty Member: MacKenzie, Scott R. Be it ever so humble: poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle- Click here to enter text. class home. Virginia, 2013. 292p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813933412, $49.50; ISBN 9780813933429 ebook, $49.50 ☐ Required This erudite book combines the theoretical schools of Foucault and Gramsci to explain the emergence of the concept of "home" as a response to the poor and the laboring classes. ☐ Recommended Through engagement with works by Henry Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth, John Galt, Elizabeth Hamilton, Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Frances Burney, James Hogg, and others, MacKenzie (Univ. of British Columbia) demonstrates the evolution of a complex idea linking home, nation, and self in ways that reverberate in today's public and private spaces. MacKenzie's argument is valuable for the manner in which it demonstrates that 19th-century middle-class appropriation of the ideal of home and family is rooted in the 18th-century response to poverty and vagrancy. MacKenzie looks at the manner in which parish paternalism of 18th-century England evolved into the ideal of the British family home. MacKenzie's deconstructive analysis of this ideal in terms of its regulatory function is particularly compelling. Clearly written and carefully researched, this book makes an important and transformative argument. Through a lens trained on the image of "home," MacKenzie elaborates the relationship between novels and writers not usually placed in conversation with one another. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division 79 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 undergraduates through faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan. Carmilla, ed. and introd. by Kathleen Costello-Sullivan. Syracuse, Click here to enter text. 2013. 168p bibl afp ISBN 9780815633112 pbk, $19.95 ☐ Required Scholarship on vampiric literature has long recognized the significance of Le Fanu's 1872 story "Carmilla," which both supplements and challenges traditional views of the vampire in ☐ Recommended literature. Costello-Sullivan's critical edition of "Carmilla" is particularly welcome as a text for undergraduates. In addition to offering an annotated text of the work, Costello-Sullivan (Le Moyne College) provides a useful, concise introduction to the story, including an overview of major critical approaches. This new edition includes three engravings that appeared in the original serial publication of the story. In the second section of the book, Costello-Sullivan (Mother/Country: Politics of the Personal in the Fiction of Colm Tóibín, 2012) offers four critical analyses written by diverse hands. None of the analyses is particularly long, and none is so critically dense that undergraduates cannot glean some important ideas from it. Yet these critical essays contextualize this important narrative from perspectives ranging from Irish studies, to gothic studies, to film studies. One of the most accessible and enjoyable critical treatments is Nancy West's analysis of the various film versions of the story. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers. Faculty Member: Chaim Potok: confronting modernity through the lens of tradition, ed. by Daniel Walden. Click here to enter text. Pennsylvania State, 2013. 184p index afp ISBN 9780271059815, $59.95 ☐ Required These critical essays and personal reflections on Potok's work and life will go far in solidifying his reputation as a leading American writer of fiction. Potok (1929-2002) took the closed ☐ Recommended worlds of Hasidism and ultra-orthodoxy and, using language in the style of Hemingway (as one contributor to this collection notes), opened these highly inflected Jewish experiences to a mass reading audience. Potok's entire oeuvre is covered here, with a particular focus on the novels, including The Chosen, The Promise, My Name Is Asher Lev, and The Gift of Asher Lev. Walden (Penn State) speaks of the "core-to-core cultural confrontation" evident in Potok's best work. The core of Judaism is in conflict within the protagonist and his personal growth, while simultaneously the protagonist must come to terms with broader American culture and society. Put simply, as a question explored by many of the contributors to this volume, how does a religious Jew come to terms with Western civilization and yet remain true to the core values of the religion? The concept of covenant, in its many problematic guises, receives much attention. The last third of the volume comprises personal reflections, eulogies, and interviews (with Potok, in 1982, and with his wife, Adema Potok). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic readers. Faculty Member: A Companion to Australian aboriginal literature, ed. by Belinda Wheeler. Camden House, Click here to enter text. 2013. 216p bibl index afp ISBN 9781571135216, $75.00; ISBN 9781571138620 ebook, $75.00 ☐ Required This comprehensive anthology gives students and beginning researchers a clear overview of the issues at play in indigenous Australian literature today. Wheeler (Paine College) has ☐ Recommended assembled a transnational set of scholars, with as many American and European as Australian contributors. Focusing on movements and genres rather than individual authors--such a pivotal contemporary author as Alexis Wright receives barely a handful of mentions--this book is more valuable as background than as commentary. But the background provided is excellent, and perhaps this approach has an intellectual warrant in Jennifer Jones's argument that "indigenized narrative forms" have a "communal focus" different from the individual- centered paradigm that has prevailed in the West since Romanticism. Andrew King's essay on popular music shows how rap and R&B have become part of "black subcultural expression" and have also flourished commercially. Jeanine Leane, herself an indigenous (Wiradjuri) woman, addresses liminality and "disequilibrium" as tropes expressing a dissident perspective with regard to mainstream Australian norms. Other able contributors--Paula Farca on humor, Theodore Sheckels on film, Maryrose Casey on drama--round out the book. Handsomely produced and well indexed, this volume is a substantial contribution to the literature. 80 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Thoreau, Henry David. The correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau, ed. by Robert N. Hudspeth. Click here to enter text. Princeton, 2013. 520p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691158921, $99.50 ☐ Required Teacher, handyman, surveyor, naturalist, lecturer, social critic, transcendental philosopher, and one of America's foremost writers, Thoreau has been blessed these past four decades, ☐ Recommended his reputation greatly enhanced by a monumental publishing project--Princeton University Press's multivolume scholarly edition of his complete writings. Hudspeth's book, the first of a projected three-volume edition of Thoreau's correspondence, is the latest contribution to this project. It contains 163 letters, 96 written by Thoreau, 67 to him by his correspondents. Spanning the years 1834 through 1848, the letters chart Thoreau's progress from Harvard student to fledgling professional author. Among his principal correspondents were his sisters (Helen, Sophia), brother (John Jr.), parents (Cynthia and John Sr.), friends (Charles Stearns Wheeler, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lidian Emerson, H. G. O. Blake), and professional acquaintances (Evert Duyckinck, Horace Greeley). Illuminating the letters are a "General Introduction," "Historical Introduction," and "Textual Introduction." Equally informative are the detailed annotations on correspondents, persons and places mentioned, books cited, and current events that follow each letter. Thoreau's letters unquestionably enlarge understanding of his character. The personality who emerges is not just cold, impassive, and stoic but also witty, playful, and sociable, not just reclusive and idealistic but also engaged and practical. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Schmidt, Tyler T. Desegregating desire: race and sexuality in Cold War American literature. Click here to enter text. University Press of Mississippi, 2013. 279p bibl index afp ISBN 9781617037832, $55.00; ISBN 9781617037849 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Schmidt (Lehman College) should first and foremost be commended for attempting something that is not only clever and innovative but also patently necessary for enhancing ☐ Recommended the cultural history of the Cold War. He uses the Cold War not as geopolitical or ideological context; rather he uses its ancillary effects on the American zeitgeist in the realms of race and sexuality to inform his readings of a diverse and relatively noncanonical set of writers and texts. Schmidt argues that the eight writers on whom he focuses--Elizabeth Bishop, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwin Denby, Ann Petry, William Demby, Jo Sinclair, and Carl Offord--collectively express the rich complexities of desegregation as a cultural process during a period in which any forms of divergence from cultural norms made an individual inherently suspicious or even "un-American." Schmidt skillfully interweaves discussion of the more visible process of racial desegregation with the relatively more clandestine and intimate process of legitimizing ostensibly "deviant" sexual identity, ultimately arguing that both push back against the Cold War's driving effort to "contain" forces that threatened the status quo. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Dickens's style, ed. by Daniel Tyler. Cambridge, 2013. 279p bibl index ISBN 9781107028432, Click here to enter text. $95.00 ☐ Required Comprising 12 essays along with Tyler's substantial introduction, this volume is an engaging, original, consequential contribution to the global Dickens retrospective. The diversity, range, ☐ Recommended and precision of the collection is evident in analyses of novels, stories, essays, and letters from the entirety of Dickens's career. Before and since G. L. Brook's The Language of Dickens (1970), virtually all serious Dickens critics have addressed the question of style one way or another. Variously addressing what Tyler (Univ. of Oxford, UK) calls "language's abundant provision" in Dickens, each essay reveals, again quoting Tyler, the "submerged logic of [Dickens's] verbal play." Dickens's extravagant use of dialect and neologism to generate satire and sentiment reveal the capacity of trope and anthropomorphism to re-envision the natural as unnatural, and vice versa. Style lies at the intersection of grammar, logic, imagination, and rhetoric--pushing language to its limits. One finds in this book an undercurrent about the spectrality of language and existence. From the Christmas books to Our Mutual Friend, there 81 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 is what Garrett Stewart calls the "forking of reference" between life and death. From John Bowen's remarkable "Dickens's Umbrellas" to Jennifer Gribble's unfolding of the primeval in Bleak House, this book offers Dickens readers unprecedented insights. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Hairston, Eric Ashley. The ebony column: classics, civilization, and the African American Click here to enter text. reclamation of the West. Tennessee, 2013. 262p bibl index ISBN 9781572339422, $48.00 ☐ Required Hairston (Elon Univ.) zestfully probes classicism's impact on Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Examining poetry, speeches, ☐ Recommended autobiographies, and essays, the author contends that overlooking these individuals' forays in antiquity's archives limits one's understanding of America. His close readings illuminate Wheatley's poetics, Douglass's authorial persona, Cooper's feminism, and Du Bois's sociopolitical strategies. When he analyzes piety, virtue, femininity, and culture, Hairston not only reshapes debates about these authors, but he also attacks theories that link classical education to white elitism. His research suggests that black writers used epics, oratorical treatises, and curricular philosophies both to critique racial injustice and to claim a stake in national identity. Stressing this fusion, he challenges allegations of inherent racism in ancient civilizations and reveals how intimately some blacks depended on classics as they plotted personal and collective liberty. This study complicates the reader's grasp of American cultural syncretism. Although Hairston occasionally romanticizes antiquity's prejudices and oversimplifies oppositional reasoning, his apologetics benefit from copious support and cogent thinking. His insistence that black voice absorbs classical tones must be heeded. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Brantley, Richard E. Emily Dickinson's rich conversation: poetry, philosophy, science. Palgrave Click here to enter text. Macmillan, 2013. 272p bibl index afp ISBN 9780230340633, $85.00 ☐ Required Expanding on ideas he first explored in Experience and Faith: The Late-Romantic Imagination of Emily Dickinson (CH, Sep'05, 43-0150), Brantley (emer., Univ. of Florida) argues that ☐ Recommended Dickinson's poetry is best understood as a "rich conversation"--as the poet herself claimed--a dialogue between herself and fellow writers, especially Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Carlyle, Tennyson, and Emerson. The dialogue also includes several philosophers, clerics, and scientists, notably John Locke, John Wesley, Charles Wadsworth, and Charles Darwin. Dickinson's partners in discussion, Brantley maintains, are manifested in her various personae, her "multitudinous voices." Brantley's emphasis on Dickinson's "dialogical aesthetic" makes this book a significant contribution to scholarship. Other valuable aspects of the book include situating the poet in an Anglo-American rather than a strictly New England context; locating her in an empirical tradition in which experience and experiment tend to eclipse faith; and revealing her as a poet who is less an eccentric recluse than she is an individual mentally interacting with a community of authors and intellectuals. Although his focus is on the history of ideas, Brantley also comments on numerous poems, most interestingly, to this reviewer, those displaying the poet's knowledge of astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, and steam technology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Faculty Member: Eudora Welty, whiteness, and race, ed. by Harriet Pollack. Georgia, 2013. 275p bibl index afp Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780820344324, $69.95; ISBN 9780820344331 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required In her introductory essay on portrayals of African Americans in Welty's fiction, nonfiction, and photographs, Pollack (Bucknell Univ.) reviews previous scholars' widely varying views, starting ☐ Recommended with Diana Trilling's 1946 "misreading" of Delta Wedding. Contributors Sarah Ford, Jean Griffith, and Donnie McMahand offer correctives by studying black laughter, "interracial male intimacy," and suffering black bodies in the novel. Suzanne Marrs (Eudora Welty: A Biography, CH, Dec'05, 43-2049) concludes that "irony or role-playing is involved" in the "puzzling" use of a racist pejorative in four 1940s letters. In contrast, Susan Donaldson compares "racial trauma" in works by Welty and Richard Wright. Empathetic photographs are a focus of Keri Watson's "Eudora Welty's 'Making a Date, Grenada, Mississippi'" and Mae 82 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Miller Claxton's "'The Little Store' in the Segregated South." David McWhirter, Patricia Yaeger, and Rebecca Mark reflect on black "secret agents"; a baroque mirror with "black men dressed in gold"; and a trio of "ice picks, guinea pigs, and dead birds." Surveying Welty's "changing view of the color line" between the 1940s and the 1960s, Julia Eichelberger glimpses "the possibility of a transformed society" in the 1972 Optimist's Daughter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Kilcup, Karen L. Fallen forests: emotion, embodiment, and ethics in American women's Click here to enter text. environmental writing, 1781-1924. Georgia, 2013. 504p bibl index afp ISBN 9780820332864, $69.95; ISBN 9780820345000 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9780820345710 ebook, $26.95 ☐ Required In this wide-ranging, deeply insightful book, Kilcup (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro) both extends and challenges current thinking about American women's writings about the ☐ Recommended environment in the long 19th century. By addressing various time periods, genres, and ethnicities, the author claims that 19th-century women writers interested in the environment demonstrate what she calls "literary emotional intelligence"--that is, various affective literary approaches to rally for environmental consciousness and change. Adding to the field of rhetorica, or women's rhetoric, this book makes a valuable contribution to making "audible" many now-forgotten women's voices. Grounded in eco-feminist theory, the book is particularly strong in its close readings of writers such as Lorenza Stevens Berbineau, Cherokee women, Freeman, Jacobs, Mary Jemison, Jewett, Kirkland, Larcom, Ruiz de Burton, Sigourney, Thaxter, and Winnemucca. The study is also valuable for the way it forces the reader to question the disjuncture of such terms as "nature writing," "environmental literature," pastoral, jeremiad, and activism. The conclusion is particularly noteworthy for the way it argues that "many contemporary women writers connect the domination of nature with colonialism, imperialism, and the exploitation of women, working-class and rural people, and people of color" and discusses Kingsolver, Kincaid, Dillard, and Winona LaDuke. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Fear, loathing, and Victorian xenophobia, ed. by Marlene Tromp, Maria K. Bachman, and Click here to enter text. Heidi Kaufman. Ohio State, 2013. 380p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814211953, $69.95; ISBN 9780814292969 CD, $14.95 ☐ Required Tromp (Arizona State Univ.), Bachman (Coastal Carolina Univ.), and Kaufman (Univ. of Oregon) have compiled an impressive collection of essays on the phenomenon of ☐ Recommended xenophobia, a term coined in 1909. Not counting the introduction and the afterword, the book includes 14 essays, divided into three parts: "Epidemic Fear," "Xenophobic Panic," and "The Foreign Invasion." Each of the editors contributes an essay. In the opening essay, "The Pollution of the East," Tromp discusses the British Empire's ironic distrust of its own wealth as this wariness manifests in novels like Dickens's Little Dorrit and Edwin Drood. Bachman reminds readers of Dickens's suspicious view of foreign alterity, contrasting it with the more balanced approach of Wilkie Collins, collaborator in Household Words. Kaufman examines George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and its depiction of Jewish identity. Patrick Brantlinger's "Terrible Turks" bears reading both for its astute tracing of the mercurial Victorian posture toward Islam and for the implications of the present tortured view of Islamic cultures. And Joy Sperling examines the "real mandate" of the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Written by established scholars, all of the essays, as Anne Kershen observes in the afterword, address the need "to overcome the negativity" of xenophobia and racism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: McCrea, Brian. Frances Burney and narrative prior to ideology. Delaware, 2013. 193p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9781611494815, $75.00; ISBN 9781611494822 ebook, $74.99 ☐ Required This quirky, personal, deeply satisfying book seeks to rescue Burney from the fashionable critical "-isms" that have recently clouded, rather than elucidated, her accomplishment. ☐ Recommended Though McCrea (emer., Univ. of Florida) says he drew inspiration from Frederick Crew's Postmodern Pooh (2001), McCrea's volume is far more historically nuanced than such a comparison suggests. McCrea observes that Burney's novels were written outside the 83 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 modern critical straitjacket through which scholars have interpreted her. Perhaps the best chapter is "No Jacobins Here: Burney's Perplexing (Non)Politics." Contemporary critics, e.g., Margaret Doody (who argued that "the personal is political"), have presumed that Burney's novels reinforce a politics that aligns with their tastes, namely, the Jacobinism of those who hoped that French Revolutionary ideals would spread to England. Using Burney's nonfictional writings, McCrea convincingly argues that Burney's politics were exactly the opposite. He observes that to Burney, "the personal is the personal" and that this resistance to ideology helps explain the failure of Burney's last novel, The Wanderer. McCrea is equally good on the way Burney does not fit into an Ian-Watt-like picture of "the rise of the novel." Criticism written against the grain has rarely been so accessible or so much fun. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Orwell, George. George Orwell: a life in letters, selected and annot. by Peter Davison. 1st US Click here to enter text. ed. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2013. 542p bibl index ISBN 9780871404626, $35.00 ☐ Required As various forms of digital communication have altered the frequency, length, and often substance of interpersonal communication, it is valuable to have compelling reminders of the ☐ Recommended insights that can be gleaned from personal correspondence during a time when the letter was still the predominant mode of long-distance communication. Such insight is all the more palpable when it arises from the correspondence of a writer as engaged with--possibly obsessed by--the nuances of the English language as Orwell. Esteemed Orwell scholar Peter Davison (emer., Glyndwr Univ., UK) has further enhanced readers' access to this complex, idiosyncratic author's mind by editing an expansive selection of letters that span Orwell's life from his childhood years at boarding school through his myriad experiences in Burma, France, Spain, Morocco, and Great Britain. Davison's editorial hand is relatively light in the letters themselves, confined mostly to explanatory and contextual footnotes. He also adds a brief biographical introduction at the volume's front and a chronology and biographical details concerning Orwell's correspondents at the rear. A massive epistolary archive such as this is no picnic, but it is a potential goldmine for the intensely curious reader. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Haiku in English: the first hundred years, ed. by Jim Kacian with Philip Rowland and Allan Click here to enter text. Burns; historical overview by Jim Kacian. W. W. Norton, 2013. 424p index ISBN 9780393239478, $23.95 ☐ Required Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years is a splendid collection. It operates on several levels. In its purest form, haiku startles readers into an awareness of their presence in a world of ☐ Recommended flux. The poems collected here achieve this level of satisfaction and more. The English language has proven to be both amenable and resistant to the Japanese verse form and its syllabic construction. The arrangement of the poems in this gathering provides a history of the form in English, demonstrating how the language bent the form without breaking it. Billy Collins provides an insightful introduction, and Kacian gives a lucid analysis of the transformation of the genre as it entered English language literature with Ezra Pound and the modernists and continues to the present. Collins's opening and Kacian's closing provide fitting bookends to the collection and become apt metaphors for the genre. As both the opening and closing make clear, haiku registers on an intensely personal level in readers (and writers) yet is rigorous in its delicate construction. This collection works for novice readers of poetry and for experienced readers/practitioners alike. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Leavell, Linda. Holding on upside down: the life and work of Marianne Moore. Farrar, Straus Click here to enter text. and Giroux, 2013. 455p index ISBN 9780374107291, $30.00 ☐ Required As Moore's authorized biographer, Leavell (Oklahoma State Univ.) had unlimited access to the poet's papers, including family documents. In the first chapter, Leavell focuses on the ☐ Recommended year 1915, when Moore traveled to New York City and entered the world of modernism, meeting photographer Alfred Stieglitz and editor Alfred Kreymborg. Subsequent chapters are arranged chronologically, focusing first on Moore's childhood, including her absent father and 84 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 her ever-present mother, then on the poet's literary relationship with Scofield Thayer and James Watson, publishers of The Dial. These two influential men promoted Moore's work, presented her with the Dial Award, and in 1925 appointed her editor of the prestigious journal, a position that allowed her, during her four-year tenure, to reject authors such as Hemingway and Joyce, but publish Pound, Yeats, and Stein. Throughout this biography, Leavell provides insightful analyses of Moore's poetry, which was precise, sentimental, witty, ironic, and accessible--qualities that Moore encouraged in young poets, Elizabeth Bishop among them. In her final years, as a literary celebrity, Moore appeared on talk shows and at sporting events, throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium. Like Moore and her poetry, this biography is honest, elegant, and circumspect, not controversial or confessional. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Homans, Margaret. The imprint of another life: adoption narratives and human possibility. Click here to enter text. Michigan, 2013. 300p index afp ISBN 9780472118885, $60.00; ISBN 9780472029310 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required The adoption narrative has long been established in fiction--Homans (Yale) cites the Oedipus story--but its outlines have changed since the 1970s. She attributes this to "the emergence of ☐ Recommended the adoptee rights and open adoption movements, with the contested practice of placing minority children out of their birth communities, with newer practices of transnational adoptions ... and with broad international acceptance of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption ... which promises parentless children the right to the formation of an identity linked to their culture of origin." Well versed in the literature of adoption and with special sensitivity to the struggles of adoptees and their parents or guardians, Homans uses a rich variety of biographical and fictional accounts to illustrate the often harsh impact of contemporary, often transnational, adoption. She finally and optimistically argues that although an adoptee's "actual, much- desired origins cannot be recovered ... origins can be satisfactorily invented," even as Maisie Farange (in Henry James's What Maisie Knew) "takes possession of her story at the novel's end" and so "'profits' by becoming the narrator of her own life." A fascinating study that offers rich literary insights. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: O'Toole, Tina. The Irish new woman. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 204p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780230313910, $80.00 ☐ Required Nineteenth- and early-20th-century new woman scholarship is abundant, but noticeably absent are critical discussions of Irish new woman literature. Much Irish writing of the period ☐ Recommended focuses on the legacy of colonialism, "The Famine," and the dominant paternalism of the Roman Catholic Church. Equally trenchant, argues O'Toole (Univ. of Limerick), was the Irish woman's quest for an autonomous, legally accepted, and respected self in Irish society. Focusing on works by Sarah Grand (chapters 1 and 5), L. T. Meade (chapter 2), Anna Parnell, Hannah Lynch, George Moore, Rosa Mullholland (chapter 3), George Egerton (chapters 4 and 5), and Katherine Cecil Thurston (chapter 5), O'Toole demonstrates that these writers were invested in issues of gender equality, gender and sexual identification and orientation, and expanding the prevalent Irish discussion of social justice to include women. Exciting for its discussion of works not typically included in the Irish studies canon, like Anna Parnell"s The Land League: Tale of a Great Sham (1907) and Katherine Cecil Thurston's Max (1910), O'Toole's book is a critical addition to new woman scholarship. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Labor, Earle. Jack London: an American life. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. 461p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780374178482, $30.00 ☐ Required Though it is academic hero worship, Labor's book is a detailed, almost page-turning biography of London's life, from birth to death. But Labor (emer., Centenary College of Louisiana) offers ☐ Recommended much more than straight biography: he depicts London's writing habits, which jibe with the 85 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 autobiographical fiction (Martin Eden). The main challenge in London criticism has been negotiating his reputation as a writer of boy stories, adventure stories, and stories of primitive peoples, some of which has been justified by literary naturalism. The mature reader can find much satisfaction in London's work. Labor's details--London in elementary school, London drinking alcohol, London at sea, and so on--reveal the writer in life asserting his life as a writer. Labor verifies what happened, blow by blow, and what happened in London's life became the fiction that only he could write. Labor disputes the stories of London's death, as suggested in Irving Stone's Sailor on Horseback (1938)--i.e., Stone's pronouncement of drug use and suicide besmirched London's reputation. Comprehensive bibliography and documentation in endnotes, but this reviewer would have appreciated a list of the short stories and their dates. This is a minor complaint about an otherwise excellent treatment. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: James Joyce in the nineteenth century, ed. by John Nash. Cambridge, 2013. 259p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781107021884, $99.00 ☐ Required Also author of James Joyce and the Act of Reception: Reading, Ireland, Modernism (CH, Jun'07, 44-5507) and editor of Joyce's Audiences (2002), Nash (director of research, ☐ Recommended department of English studies, Durham Univ., UK) has assembled a collection of 13 essays that connect James Joyce to the 19th century. Whereas most scholarship tends to contextualize Joyce and his work in terms of literary modernism--which is to say, looking forward--this book looks backward and considers Joyce in the context of the culture, politics, economics, and literature of the previous century. Nash divides the essays into two sections: "The Politics of Form in Ireland" and "Public and Private Economies." Contributors to the volume include many seasoned Joyce scholars and also some newer voices. Many of the essays Nash includes offer interesting perspectives and will be accessible to those relatively new to Joyce's work. Among these essays are Helen O'Connell's "'Food Values': Joyce and Dietary Revival" and Scarlett Baron's "Joyce, Darwin, and Literary Evolution." Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty. Faculty Member: Mason, Nicholas. Literary advertising and the shaping of British Romanticism. Johns Hopkins, Click here to enter text. 2013. 202p bibl index afp ISBN 9781421409986, $49.95; ISBN 9781421410715 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required A book that has an entire chapter on Lord Byron and "branding"--who would not be intrigued? Mason (English, Brigham Young Univ.) explores the integration of marketing and ☐ Recommended literature from 1750 to 1850. These "entangled histories"--his words--encompass the birth of advertising alongside Romantic literature, the rise of the middle-class voracious reader, and the "commodification" of literature as a natural symbiosis between complementary facets of print culture. Mason provides an illuminating comparison of the Blackwood's circle and the founders of Amazon.com, pointing out how each group, in its own way and beginning with the best intentions, was soon enough dealing with authors' reviewing their own work. (At least the Blackwood's authors got paid for their reviews.) Mason's remark that attacks on Keats in Blackwood's resulted in part from the "puffery" in other publications to which the poet had acquiesced should spark further study. Book history is a solid and growing humanities discipline today. Publishers and booksellers who, after much experience, can discern a value proposition through the mist of their ideals may become profitable enough to be remembered and one day written about by scholars. Mason sets a fine example here. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Dodds, Lara. The literary invention of Margaret Cavendish. Duquesne, 2013. 317p bibl index Click here to enter text. afp ISBN 9780820704654, $58.00 ☐ Required Dodds (Mississippi State Univ.) situates Cavendish (1623-73) more fully within the literary landscape of her time. Cavendish's claim that she read very little and created her writings ☐ Recommended outside the literary conversation of her peers is often accepted at face value, and she is then easily painted as an eccentric. Dodds argues that Cavendish did, in fact, read a great deal and 86 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 borrowed many ideas and conventions, which she then adapted to her own ends in her writing. Cavendish is here placed as a reader of her time; she worked at the fringes of, but still within, the literary conventions of the era. Dodds takes full advantage of Cavendish's writings and personal letters in illustrating this point, and provides examples of the many genres within which she worked. Dodds's mastery both of Cavendish and of the other great writers of her time comes across clearly--though that mastery leads to prose that will sometimes be too dense for more casual readers. Several chapters have appeared earlier in different form. The book includes a detailed bibliography and extensive notes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Faculty Member: New York School collaborations: the color of vowels, ed. by Mark Silverberg. Palgrave Click here to enter text. Macmillan, 2013. 268p bibl index afp ISBN 9781137280565 pbk, $85.00 ☐ Required This book joins David Lehman's The Last-Avant Garde (CH, Nov'99, 37-1399); Maggie Nelson's Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (CH, May'08, 45-4835); ☐ Recommended Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, ed. by Terence Diggory (CH, Dec'09, 47-1753); and Silverberg's own The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde (CH, Sep'10, 48-0137). All this sprang from two seminal anthologies: The Poets of the New York School, comp. by John Bernard Myers (1969), and An Anthology of New York Poets, ed. by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro (1970). By the time these two anthologies were published, the work of Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler et al. had cohered into a movement characterized by a particular urban stylistics and frequent, important collaborations between the poets and visual artists. Each essay deals with a different aspect of these collaborations. The topics are diverse--e.g., Terence Diggory considers "ballet, basketball, and ... erotics," Kimberly Lamm, "restraint in Barbara Guest's collaborations." The movement continues to influence contemporary aesthetics, and Silverberg introduces readers to the second generation and beyond of NY School poets and artists. The book is enriched with illustrations by NY School artists (Joe Brainard, June Fuller, Laurie Reid). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Floyd-Wilson, Mary. Occult knowledge, science, and gender on the Shakespearean stage. Click here to enter text. Cambridge, 2013. 236p bibl index ISBN 9781107036321, $99.00 ☐ Required In this impressive and richly researched book, Floyd-Wilson (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) explores early modern beliefs in occult forces, arguing that hidden sympathies and ☐ Recommended antipathies were widely understood as shaping relationships between bodies and their surrounding environments. Engaging with historical approaches to science and emotion, she suggests that widespread assumptions about the period's emerging secular and scientific thought have prevented recognition of the pervasiveness and significance of these beliefs. In readings of early modern plays, the author demonstrates their attention to the workings of sympathetic responses, with an emphasis on the hidden powers emanating from female bodies. In All's Well That Ends Well, Helena's miraculous triumphs grow out of secret knowledge rooted in her own body. Mysterious phenomena in Arden of Faversham reflect Alice Arden's uncanny power over her husband, lover, and servants. Twelfth Night and The Changeling depict the fallout of the uncontrollable sympathies and antipathies that govern sexual attraction. In The Duchess of Malfi, Ferdinand's insistence on discovering his sister's secrets reflects broader curiosity about hidden knowledge, and his fate reflects the dangers of probing too deeply into forbidden matters. This valuable book illuminates underexplored aspects of early modern thought, with important consequences for understanding the period's plays. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Goodby, John. The poetry of Dylan Thomas: under the spelling wall. Liverpool University Click here to enter text. Press, 2013. 492p bibl index ISBN 9781846318764, $99.95 87 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required The preeminent modern Welsh poet has suffered from critical neglect and abuse in the past few decades, largely due to the diversity and popularity of his work, the ambiguity of his ☐ Recommended political and national identity, and his incompatibility with contemporary critical preoccupations. Goodby (Swansea Univ., UK) documents this stormy critical weather, seldom directly opposing commentators who, as he notes, often had little to say about the oeuvre itself. Rather than taking on the overall thematic impact of this oeuvre, Goodby anatomizes aspects of it that have proved problematic for critics. The analysis is particularly impressive when focused on formal issues: the emphasis on process in Thomas's "mannerist" modernism; the subtle manipulation of sounds that characterizes his poetic speech (with its echoes of dialect); the coexistence of Romantic and avant-garde poetics in his work. Somewhat fraught questions such as Thomas's relationship to "colonialist" ideas and his struggle with sexual compulsions are explored in a lucid, evidence-based manner with the dual purpose of redeeming a great poet and improving understanding of his poetry. Aimed equally at the scholarly community and the poet's devoted readers, this study is authoritative, detailed, and insightful. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Neill, Anna. Primitive minds: evolution and spiritual experience in the Victorian novel. Ohio Click here to enter text. State, 2013. 246p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814212257, $59.95; ISBN 9780814293270 CD, $14.95 ☐ Required Neill (Univ. of Kansas) has written a highly informed examination of the Victorian fascination with residual "primitive" mental states and their influence on aberrations of consciousness ☐ Recommended and spiritual phenomena. These exotic conditions and experiences, including somnambulism, clairvoyance, spectral events, intuition, and other "dreamy states," to name a few, simultaneously represented in the ambivalent understanding of many Victorian novelists and some scientists both the archaisms and the potentiality of the mind. These Victorians, despite their confused understanding of evolution (many of them still clung to Lamarckian approaches to the topic), often produced more compelling and original speculation on the putative relationship between the psychological and the psychic than the silly drivel manufactured by most new age mystics today. In the context of Victorian conceptions of evolution, Neill lucidly explores Charlotte Brontë's treatment of hypochondriasis, Dickens's "hallucinogenic" use of ghosts and epilepsy, Eliot's utilization of precognition and catalepsy, Doyle's interest in spiritualism and "savage intuition and scientific discovery," and Hardy's handling of "visions and moments of dreamy relief." Hence, the book represents the full span of the Victorian period. Though Neill acknowledges the extent of prior research in this area, she nonetheless delivers fresh insight into scientific, psychological, and literary history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Kuskin, William. Recursive origins: writing at the transition to modernity. Notre Dame, 2013. Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780268033255 pbk, $95.00 ☐ Required Kuskin (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) has written a timely, important book. Literary historians and scholars often wrangle over literary periods and periodization--specifically, over who ☐ Recommended decides what constitutes an end of one literary period and the inception of a new one. As one of the leading authorities on the English printer, editor, and translator William Caxton, Kuskin clearly establishes the need for those in English studies to look at the texts of the 15th century. There one will find the origins of the texts of the so-called early modern period and the canonical authors who wrote them: Shakespeare and Spenser, especially. For Kuskin, the texts of the English Renaissance are "recursive"; that is, they refer back to earlier works, mostly texts from the 15th century that were then exceedingly popular but are now decidedly noncanonical. The reader who decides to search out these foundational texts--many of which were Caxton's works, and others the work of Chaucer, Lydgate, Hoccleve, Holinshed, and various anonymous authors--will be rewarded through what best can be described as a totalizing reading experience, a continuum and also a matrix of shared texts, themes, sources, and cultural and historical topoi. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. 88 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Vine, Steven. Reinventing the sublime: post-Romantic literature and theory. Sussex Academic, Click here to enter text. 2013. 201p index ISBN 9781845191771, $74.95 ☐ Required Studies of the aesthetic category of the "sublime," as embodied in post-Romantic literature, commonly bristle with jargon, do not engage in sustained literary interpretation, and fail to ☐ Recommended convince. Vine (Swansea Univ., UK) does not stint on theory: Burke and Kant appear here of course, alongside heady doses of Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, and Jean-François Lyotard. But here the commonalities end. Vine writes with admirable, even astonishing, clarity. More important, all the theory actually pays off, perhaps most brilliantly in a chapter on T. S. Eliot (in which Vine argues that though Eliot eschews the kind of transcendence--the vision of order--characteristic of the Romantic sublime, he makes up for the loss with a "sublime of intensity"), but also in deeply persuasive chapters on Mary Shelley's obsession with the body and on Virginia Woolf's notion of a "social system" fatally compromised by WW I. One may not be convinced that Vine's various examples deserve to be classed under the single label "sublime," but that does not detract from the value of his thoughtful, persuasive readings. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Ambitious upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty. Faculty Member: Pierpont, Claudia Roth. Roth unbound: a writer and his books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Click here to enter text. 2013. 353p index ISBN 9780374280512, $27.00; ISBN 9780374710446 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This remarkable book will be invaluable for those interested in Philip Roth—be they students, scholars and general readers. A prize-winning staff writer for The New Yorker, Claudia Roth ☐ Recommended Pierpont (no relation) has produced an exploration of Roth that traces his entire body of work to date and situates his creative achievements within his life story. It is clear from the text that Roth was a generous collaborator in Pierpont's enterprise. She provides perhaps the fullest account to date of Roth's personal life. Because the biographical detail is so clearly in the service of understanding the trajectory of Roth's long and productive history, there is no aroma of sensationalism, even when the story is titillating. A beautifully written hybrid of biography and penetrating critical analysis, this book--though it lacks a bibliography--will surely be a key resource for readers of Philip Roth from now on. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Gopinath, Praseeda. Scarecrows of chivalry: English masculinities after empire. Virginia, 2013. Click here to enter text. 274p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813933818, $59.50; ISBN 9780813933825 pbk, $29.50; ISBN 9780813933832 ebook, $59.50 ☐ Required This book, a revision of the author's 2007 dissertation, balances theoretical perspectives not often present together in a single study: men's studies, feminism, and postcolonialism. ☐ Recommended Gopinath (Binghamton Univ., SUNY) "argues that the stylization of English masculinity becomes the central theme, focal lens, and formal conceit for many literary texts that represent the 'condition of Britain' in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era," as typified by George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) and Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954). But she does much more than that. Most studies of English masculinity treat one genre; Gopinath includes Philip Larkin's poetry (in which she locates the "scarecrow of masculinity" of her title). Most masculinity studies cover only high modernist texts; Gopinath includes Ian Fleming's Bond books (as "threshold masculinity"). Most treat only books by men; Gopinath has a chapter on women writers, such as A. S. Byatt. Most treat white men native to Britain; Gopinath investigates the "postcolonial gentleman" (e.g., Salman Rushdie). In short, this study of empire and its aftermath is challenging and groundbreaking, a model of sophistication and readability for advanced students of 20th-century British literature and culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Austen, Jane. Sense and sensibility: an annotated edition, ed. by Patricia Meyer Spacks. Click here to enter text. Belknap, Cambridge, 2013. 431p bibl afp ISBN 9780674724556, $35.00 89 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Spacks (emer., Univ. of Virginia) has a history of editing and teaching the classics of literature. She has edited several Norton anthologies, as well as other novels by Austen. This annotated ☐ Recommended edition posits that the sisters, Marianne and Elinor, are not opposites as they are often portrayed, but rather are both composed of imperfect combinations of sense and sensibility, an imbalance that diminishes, but does not resolve, by the end of the novel. Spacks also suggests that the men they marry are not truly providing a happy ending for the sisters, but merely allowing them to make the best of a bad situation, trapped as they are by want of money and power. Extensive footnotes provide definitions of words; explanations of money, history, and culture at the time of writing and original publication; popular cultural perception and interpretations of the novel; and current trends in academic discourse. The volume includes gorgeous color photos--movie stills, contemporaneous works of art, and sketches from earlier illustrated editions. Clearly a masterwork of Austen scholarship, this edition of Sense and Sensibility is based on a great deal of knowledge and love of the topic. Summing Up: Essential. All readers. Faculty Member: Einhaus, Ann-Marie. The short story and the First World War. Cambridge, 2013. 219p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9781107038431, $90.00 ☐ Required Einhaus (Northumbria Univ.) excavates and examines noncanonical texts of the Great War, short stories in particular. By juxtaposing them against canonical works, e.g., the poetry of ☐ Recommended Wilfred Owen, she demonstrates that a much more rounded picture of British sentiment toward the war, both during and after, is achievable. Her theoretical framework concerning the difference between archival memory (lost works, likened to the contents of an attic) and active memory (canon) comes courtesy of Aleida Assmann. Einhaus is careful to distinguish between popular and modernist short stories as found in, respectively, The Strand and English Review; one of her key comparisons involves Ben Ray Redman's "The Enduring Image" and Katherine Mansfield's "The Fly." The modernist short story about war (e.g., Mansfield's), typically a character-driven slice of life expressing horror and futility, has until now, Einhaus argues, undergirded the dominant myth. However, popular fiction, though plot driven and occasionally melodramatic (and thus unpopular with scholars), often allowed fleshed-out protagonists for a broader reading public. Such short stories show that many in England believed the war to be a necessary, if painful, part of life. Einhaus's meticulous study undercuts the myth and rounds out history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Faculty Member: Wilson-Okamura, David Scott. Spenser's international style. Cambridge, 2013. 235p index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781107038202, $95.00 ☐ Required The structure of Wilson-Okamura's argument is reminiscent of the approach he used in his superb Virgil in the Renaissance (CH, Apr'11, 48-4321), which began with a deceptively simple ☐ Recommended question that led, step by step, to a broad reassessment of Renaissance literary practice. The question this time is why, given the Renaissance understanding that the primary model for epic was Virgil's Aeneid, would Spenser use stanzas when writing The Faerie Queene. Focusing on classical rhetoric and literary concepts that were current in the Renaissance, Wilson- Okamura (East Carolina Univ.) shows that Spenser's style reflected international trends and argues that elements of style such as stanzas, lyricism, and ornament, which current readers would judge as nonclassical, were widely perceived as functional equivalents of Virgil's hexameters and poetics. Scholars will be most appreciative of this first analysis of Spenser's style in several decades, and advanced undergraduates will find it eminently readable and understandable, even though they will not have read much of the literature to which it refers. Full bibliographic details are provided in the footnotes, and there is a lengthy index of names, subjects, and sources. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Gibson, Andrew. The strong spirit: history, politics, and aesthetics in the writings of James Click here to enter text. Joyce, 1898-1912. Oxford, 2013. 275p bibl index ISBN 9780199642502, $99.00 90 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required The "strong spirit" in the title of this provocative, well-researched book refers to an almost Romantic nationalism (hitherto little discussed) that characterized Joyce's writing prior to his ☐ Recommended beginning work on Ulysses. Joyce's call for "strong spirit" is a call for a metaphysically and intellectually robust sense of national culture, a stance he developed by closely following debates surrounding Home Rule. Gibson (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London, UK) meticulously historicizes and explicates Joyce's early essays, his Triestine writings, Dubliners, Stephen Hero, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Exiles; the chapter on Portrait is the most extensive and brings together the connections Gibson convincingly makes throughout between Joyce's political thinking and his cultural criticism and literary writing. Gibson proves that Joyce's political engagement was deep, and deeply influenced by early-20th-century nationalist movements throughout Europe and in Ireland (Parnellism in particular). This is a much-needed intervention into thinking about Joyce's politics, and no Joycean, or scholar of Irish studies generally, should neglect it. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Johnston, Kenneth R. Unusual suspects: Pitt's reign of alarm and the lost generation of the Click here to enter text. 1790s. Oxford, 2013. 376p bibl index ISBN 9780199657803, $45.00 ☐ Required Johnston's comparison between the McCarthy era in US history and the oppressive Pitt government of the 1790s in England is provocative and enlightening. Reacting--and, this study ☐ Recommended argues, overreacting--to the disruptive energies of the French Revolution, William Pitt the Younger defined many liberal writers as dangerous and their efforts at promoting reform as seditious. Johnston (Indiana Univ.) surveys the cost of Pitt's policies to literary and intellectual history. Many talented individuals found themselves caught in Pitt's net, and the author goes to some lengths to give each of them due attention, demonstrating the various ways in which writers found their careers stalled, sidetracked, interrupted, or even destroyed by the repressive policies of the 1790s. Written in highly accessible prose and with energetic engagement in terms of applicability to later eras of suppression and oppression, this book rights many wrongs and encourages readers to view heretofore neglected works as well as works and authors who seem all too familiar as possible victims of politics and fear. Illustrated with portraits of the authors, satirical prints from the times, and four images from Blake. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Lycett, Andrew. Wilkie Collins: a life of sensation. Hutchinson, 2013. 525p bibl index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780091937096, $45.00 ☐ Required Lycett's book joins an already crowded field of Collins biographies: four have appeared since 2005, among them Peter Ackroyd's Wilkie Collins (2012). Lycett is able to draw on the Collins ☐ Recommended letters (The Public Face of Wilkie Collins, ed. by William Baker et al., CH, Feb'06, 43-3252; The Letters of Wilkie Collins, ed. by Baker and William Clark, CH, Jan'00, 37-2626) and on Baker's A Wilkie Collins Chronology (CH, May'08, 45-4718). He illuminates the lives of those close to Collins--e.g., Frank Beard, the writer's doctor, who did not hesitate to supply laudanum to his patients and served as a trustee for Collins's will. Lycett throws light too on Collins's first employer, tea broker Edward Antrobus, who cast a blind eye on his employee's writing activities at work. The book includes useful information on Nina Lehmann, the wife of a close friend, and Edward Smyth Pigott, with whom Collins went yachting. Lycett is very good on the religious obsession of Collins's father, William John Thomas, the distinguished landscape painter. Well written and creating narrative suspense, the book includes interesting color and black-and-white illustrations and is sturdily bound and well indexed. The typesetting is easy on the eye. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Smith, Chloe Wigston. Women, work, and clothes in the eighteenth-century novel. Click here to enter text. Cambridge, 2013. 260p bibl index ISBN 9781107035003, $95.00 ☐ Required This intriguing study joins Bill Brown's A Sense of Things (CH, Sep'03, 41-0141) and Elaine Freedgood's The Ideas in Things (CH, Jun'07, 44-5494) in exploring the narrative functions of 91 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Recommended "things"--here, paper, textiles, and clothing. Smith (Univ. of Georgia) is not interested in simply representations of changing fashions (copiously illustrated here). She argues that representations of clothes do not "reflect" their material context but instead "redefine" what such objects meant and how they functioned discursively. Thus, Samuel Richardson's Pamela undoes traditional critiques of rhetorical "ornament" as feminized overdressing, making Pamela's clothes testify to their "use-value" instead of their "expressive" potential. Similarly, Jonathan Swift and Jane Barker insist that ornamentation can be functional, not excessive. In the book's second half, Smith unpacks links between women's bodies and women's labor as makers of clothes, cloth, and paper. Daniel Defoe's novels warn that such work cannot keep women out of crime, and his nonfiction joins contemporary debates about female servants as dangerously eroticized consumers, especially of imported calico. The final main chapter contrasts Mary Robinson's self-fashioning through clothing to the failure of this strategy in Frances Burney's The Wanderer. A book for collections strong in 18th-century studies, fashion history, and material culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

92 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Health Administration Faculty Member: Advance care planning: communicating about matters of life and death, ed. by Leah Rogne Click here to enter text. and Susana Lauraine McCune. Springer Publishing, 2014. 383p bibl index ISBN 9780826110213 pbk, $65.00 ☐ Required This book explores advanced care planning (ACP) and why it has not been as successful in end-of-life (EOL) decision-making as experts had hoped with the passage of the Patient Self- ☐ Recommended Determination Act of 1990. International contributors with diverse backgrounds discuss various aspects of ACP in the book's 21 chapters: issues/concerns, best practices, implementation, and changes needed. ACP is more than the traditional advanced directive approach with the completion of legal documents. The American health care system has been driven by a rescue-based ideology, perpetuating a system more focused on managing acute illness rather than on prevention, rehabilitation, long-term care, and mental and public health. The attendant cost of this rescue-based system is making health care unaffordable. It has interfered with discussions about what people want at EOL and has led people to view death as medical failure. Real change begins with the simple act of people talking about what they care about. The book makes a case for promoting public policy that supports health and well-being at EOL through community communication and death education--a process involving a series of conversations, often over years, about one's beliefs, values, fears, and wishes about EOL care. Summing Up: Recommended. All health sciences students, researchers/faculty, health professionals/practitioners, and health care consumers. Faculty Member: Faguet, Guy B. The Affordable Care Act: a missed opportunity, a better way forward. Algora, Click here to enter text. 2013. 236p index afp ISBN 9780875869766, $32.95; ISBN 9780875869759 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780875869773 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) has resulted in a plethora of books praising it, teaching about it, or complaining about it. Faguet's book is a bit of all three. ACA, notes Faguet ☐ Recommended (retired, Georgia Health Sciences Univ.), will achieve notable policy goals as it ensures that more Americans will have access to health care. He describes ACA's several parts, indicates when they go into force, and wonders about their benign or not so benign effects on Americans. His chief argument is that ACA is a flawed solution to the real problems inherent in American health care. Beyond repairing the health insurance market, a universal, quality- driven system must be created. Faguet proposes three policy initiatives: a redesigned system structure and revised delivery of care methods and payment incentives for this care. To achieve these goals, a federal health board--similar to the Federal Reserve Board--needs to be established. Faguet hopes this board will be more immune to political intrusion than Congress is when it comes to reform. Policy professionals will be familiar with the argument and the solution. The book is written, however, for the public, and for them, it will prove a most useful book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate students and general readers. Faculty Member: Hornblum, Allen M. Against their will: the secret history of medical experimentation on Click here to enter text. children in Cold War America, by Allen M. Hornblum, Judith L. Newman, and Gregory J. Dober. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 266p bibl index ISBN 9780230341715, $27.00 ☐ Required This well-researched, thought-provoking book tells the unsettling story of the exploited children who were unwilling medical research subjects throughout much of the 20th century. ☐ Recommended The children, considered "feebleminded" and confined to orphanages and state-controlled institutions, became guinea pigs for vaccine testing and a wide spectrum of medical experiments. Researchers selected these children because they believed that they did not need permission from parents and that the children would at least "make some type of contribution to society." Hornblum (writer; Sentenced to Science, CH, May'08, 45-5027), Newman (human development, Penn State), and Dober (medical journalist) detail the grim reality of the unregulated use of these defenseless subjects, explaining researchers' motivations and related societal influences. Medical researchers, dentists, and psychologists 93 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 operated in an atmosphere where the medical establishment turned a blind eye to their experiments. This very revealing work should give readers an extra incentive to maintain high vigilance that these sins are never repeated. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general biomedical ethics collections. Faculty Member: Zhavoronkov, Alex. The ageless generation: how advances in biomedicine will transform the Click here to enter text. global economy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 233p index ISBN 9780230342200, $27.00 ☐ Required This book's goal is to promote research in antiaging and regenerative medicine. Russian scientist Zhavoronkov (director, Biogerontology Research Foundation) contends these areas ☐ Recommended require newer emphases, especially increased funding in the US. The author advocates modifying current retirement and health care programs in light of the exorbitant, economically catastrophic costs of Social Security and Medicare, and addresses related sociopolitical implications. The book contains 13 chapters in four parts: "The Era of Longer Lifespans," "Understanding Aging," "The Need to Reform Medical Research," and "The Retirement Culture." The last seven chapters are most relevant. The intended outcome is more humans will enjoy healthy lives well beyond the age of 100. According to the author, these citizens will provide a productive, continual work force, although it is unclear what work they can perform and whether there will be popular acceptance of this concept. Zhavoronkov does not comment on the impact of this prolonged living on world population growth, excessive consumption of nonrenewable natural resources, energy and food security, and any potentially evolving diseases. The book includes informative figures and extensive chapter endnotes, although there are some redundancies in the text. May be useful as a case study in appropriate educational settings. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Torrey, E. Fuller. American psychosis: how the federal government destroyed the mental Click here to enter text. illness treatment system. Oxford, 2013. 204p index afp ISBN 9780199988716, $27.95 ☐ Required The federal mental health care system began in the Kennedy administration. The mental health issues of Kennedy's sister, Rosemary, and their effects on the Kennedy family were ☐ Recommended clearly a motivating factor in the president's desire to reform/improve the system. Up to the 1960s, dealing with individuals who were mentally ill was largely a state responsibility, and patients were treated in state mental hospitals. The quality of care in these institutions was generally uneven and less than desirable; however, these hospitals were good at keeping individuals with serious impairments off the streets. Here, Torrey (executive director, Stanley Medical Research Institute) draws on his personal experience at the National Institute of Mental Health when the federal mental health program was being developed to discuss the program's strategy and implementation. He examines how mental health ideology, politics, underfunding, and outright neglect has prevented this program from reaching its potential and has actually caused harm. Torrey connects the closing of state mental hospitals with increased community violence, homelessness, and incarceration of the mentally ill. He does provide a chapter on suggested solutions, but it is clear that unless the public better understands the issues confronting the mental health system, improvement will be slow and limited. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Best care at lower cost: the path to continuously learning health care in America, ed. by Mark Click here to enter text. Smith et al. and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. National Academies Press, 2013. 416p bibl ISBN 9780309260732, $68.95 ☐ Required According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a learning health system "is one in which science, informatics, incentives, and culture are aligned for continuous improvement and ☐ Recommended innovation, with best practices seamlessly embedded in the care process, patients and families active participants in all elements, and new knowledge captured as an integral by- product of the care experience." Or will the US develop a health care system that learns from each medical experience and thereby continuously modifies the system as a whole in order to deliver the best possible care? In this report, IOM committee members discussed three key 94 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 reasons for needed change and made several recommendations, realizing that the complexity of their proposed solutions makes them hard to achieve. The material is intricate and difficult, but because of the provenance of the idea, continuously learning systems will frame policy debates. However, these systems are not always congruent with other strong policy models, such as Donald Berwick's "triple aim" of better care, better health, and lower cost (Health Affairs, 27[May 2008]: 759-769). The committee claims that a learning health system leads to best care at lower cost. Where is better health? Overall, a thought-provoking read. The report is free online http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13444. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: Campbell, Alastair V. Bioethics: the basics. Routledge, 2013. 188p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780415504096, $95.00; ISBN 9780415504089 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9780203703960 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This work is part of Routledge's "The Basics" series, a growing collection of titles on a range of topics. Before this reviewer finished reading it, she had already decided to recommend it to a ☐ Recommended team developing her university's first interprofessional graduate ethics course in the health sciences as a way to focus curriculum design and to serve as a student textbook. This concise, precise, and inexpensive book contains a trove of information useful for both general health sciences audiences and laypersons wanting a clear introduction to ethical issues in health. Campbell (National Univ. of Singapore) frames the field well with an introduction that provides the cultural and historical context of bioethics along with the relationship between bioethics and the law. The author also offers an intelligent summary of ethical theory. Chapters include "Clinical Ethics"; "Research," an important discussion of research integrity; and "Justice," which discusses population and public health ethics. Each of these chapters is relevant to any health profession, not only medicine. The appendix of oaths would have been better had it included oaths from other health professions, although generally the oaths can easily be adapted to these other fields. A glossary of common terms and apt references end the book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All library collections. Faculty Member: Koerber, Amy. Breast or bottle?: contemporary controversies in infant feeding policy and Click here to enter text. practice. South Carolina, 2013. 190p bibl index afp ISBN 9781611172416 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Acknowledging the scientific evidence for breast-feeding up front, Koerber (communication and rhetoric, Texas Tech Univ.) aims to broaden the feminist discursive space for the breast ☐ Recommended versus bottle debate. The author moves beyond the debate itself, exploring instead the historical contribution rhetoric has played in the dialogue. This history is presented as a "kairology" in which marketing, politics, the media, professional policy making, and other influences have contributed to the "rhetorical pendulum," often invoking the same scientific evidence to further individual agendas in these areas in the debate. Qualitative data from interviews and focus groups conducted with women who had either breast-fed or served as lactation consultants to breast-feeding women are used to contextualize the current rhetorical climate. Their experiences illustrate the ongoing challenges posed by the resulting rhetorical disembodiment of breast milk from women's own bodies and the experience of breast-feeding. This multifaceted examination of the breast versus bottle discourse engages the reader on an interdisciplinary level and asks where the debate will go from here. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. Faculty Member: Parry, Manon. Broadcasting birth control: mass media and family planning. Rutgers, 2013. Click here to enter text. 192p index afp ISBN 9780813561523, $75.00; ISBN 9780813561516 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required Should public service media campaigns inform or persuade? To examine the broadcasting of birth control information from the silent film era to the Internet, Parry (public history, Univ. ☐ Recommended of Amsterdam, Netherlands) thoroughly researched extensive media archives, including the personal papers of Margaret Sanger; Planned Parenthood records; film, radio, and television scripts; advertisements; reviews; and other materials. She explores the impact of censorship from the anti-obscenity Comstock Act (1873) that restricted the mail, the strong influence of 95 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 the Catholic Church and right-wing conservatives, and the "global gag rule" that limited access to abortion, contraceptives, and other reproductive services worldwide. She discusses concerns about overpopulation, racial and paternalistic viewpoints, economic pressures of large families, and also changing attitudes. International public health education incorporated local folk traditions, e.g., songs, dance, storytelling, puppet shows, drama, and soap operas, rather than question-and-answer forums or lectures; Parry gives examples of programs developed in India, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, etc. The author also discusses the work of communication experts, who were consulted for social marketing techniques to promote healthy behaviors and family planning. Illustrative black-and-white photographs and detailed chapter notes support the text. This revised dissertation is part of Rutgers' "Critical Issues in Health and Medicine" series. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Building partnerships in the Americas: a guide for global health workers, ed. by Margo J. Click here to enter text. Krasnoff. Dartmouth College Press, 2013. 265p index afp ISBN 9781611684209 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781611684094 ebook, $34.99 ☐ Required A brief overview of the historical and sociopolitical background of Central America and the Caribbean, together with a short review of humanitarian and global health aid efforts, ☐ Recommended introduces this work. The book focuses on seven countries: Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Chapter contributors (volunteers and current and former employees from a variety of organizations) highlight prominent health problems in each country and provide relevant examples of current health-related intervention efforts. Each chapter provides an excellent general account of a country's cultural, sociopolitical, geographical, and historical context of disease as well as information on the country's health system. Most chapters also provide suggested readings and websites for the reader who prefers a more in-depth analysis of the country or region. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students interested in global health, international development, and humanitarian aid will gain a clear understanding of the context of disease in these populations and how health-related aid efforts must be tailored to the population being served. A must read for anyone interested in volunteer work in the seven Central American and Caribbean countries highlighted here. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Adler, Rich. Cholera in Detroit: a history. McFarland, 2013. 220p bibl index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780786474790 pbk, $45.00 ☐ Required This book is a model of what a local history study should be; it is extensively researched and well written, and it places its topic within an expansive sphere. Cholera is a disease most ☐ Recommended Americans have forgotten, but it continues to make its presence felt internationally--most recently as an epidemic following the Haitian earthquake of 2010. Surprisingly, as recently as the 1990s, there have been outbreaks in the US, with cases numbering in the hundreds. For a historical understanding of the nationwide effects of the disease, one can do no better than to read Charles Rosenberg's classic The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (1987). Adler's work continues through the 19th century and, of course, concentrates on the upper Midwest. Most interesting, Adler (Univ. of Michigan, Dearborn) explains that the 1832 epidemic in the region was triggered by the Black Hawk War, when American troops sent to quell Native American uprisings in Illinois inadvertently carried the disease with them as they passed through cholera-affected regions of the eastern US. Students of the history of epidemiology and regional historians will enjoy this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Ashton, Carol M. Comparative effectiveness research: evidence, medicine, and policy, by Click here to enter text. Carol M. Ashton and Nelda P. Wray. Oxford, 2013. 290p index afp ISBN 9780199968565, $55.00 ☐ Required In medicine, it is important that practitioners seek the best evidence. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) aids in this endeavor by providing evidence on the effectiveness, 96 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Recommended benefits, and harms of different treatment options to help clinicians and patients make informed decisions and health systems improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of delivering care. The Affordable Care Act includes CER as part of its provisions. Physicians Ashton and Wray (The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston) explore this federal policy in this three-part volume. Part 1 examines the concept of evidence in scientific medical research, while part 2 chronicles how CER became federal law. In part 3, the authors describe the effects of federal policy on CER. An epilogue discusses the implementation of CER provisions from 2010 to 2012, including the creation of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Drawing on interviews, various documents, newspapers, reports, and peer review literature, the authors have made an inclusive inspection of CER's promise to improve health outcomes. This comprehensive work illustrates quite clearly the marked need for research that tells practitioners what does and does not work in medicine. Though the text contains several acronyms, the writing is clear. Includes numerous chapter notes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through health professionals/practitioners, especially those in health policy. Faculty Member: Complementary & alternative therapies in nursing, [ed.] by Ruth Lindquist, Mariah Snyder, Click here to enter text. and Mary Fran Tracy. 7th ed. Springer Publishing, 2014. 556p bibl index afp ISBN 9780826196125 pbk, $75.00 ☐ Required This expertly referenced, well-organized book provides insight into prevalent, though less understood, science-based methods of healing. The book's appeal is the recognition of the ☐ Recommended importance of alternative health care options and wellness treatments on their own; they are not simply diverting paths from politically influenced and regulated health care, but are part of an encompassing total human experience of self-direction and choice. The book emphasizes a heightened awareness of meeting patient needs, while recognizing patient- centered priorities for health restoration. Inasmuch as disruptions in health are experienced individually, the book's contributors suggest healing opportunities as diverse as individuals themselves. Like its predecessor, this updated edition (6th ed., CH, Jun'10, 47-5678) is divided into six parts and 31 chapters. While the chapters are authored separately, they flow easily, providing a smooth, continuous reading experience. The suggestions for future research are unique for this format and include valuable insight for expanding nursing research and promoting professional responsibility in ensuring the delivery of competent, compassionate, and holistic care. Overall, a valuable resource for community health care students, professional caregivers, and enlightened scholars. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Comrades in health: U.S. health internationalists, abroad and at home, ed. by Anne- Click here to enter text. Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown. Rutgers, 2013. 349p index afp ISBN 9780813561219, $85.00; ISBN 9780813561202 pbk, 9780813561202; ISBN 9780813561226 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Comrades in Health will be an interesting read for more advanced students of public health and political science. Birn (Univ. of Toronto) and Brown (Univ. of Rochester) use the first ☐ Recommended section to set the tone, describing the history of international efforts to improve the health of vulnerable populations as an inherently sociopolitical, leftist, and often communist, endeavor. The book is organized by generations of international health workers, with the second section presenting a historical account of the efforts of those workers born between the 1870s and the 1910s. Sections 3 through 5 consist of chapters contributed by individuals born in the 1920s through the 1970s who were engaged in efforts to improve the health care access and sociopolitical power of vulnerable peoples in the US and in underdeveloped countries, largely in Central/South America and in China. Unfortunately, the overarching lessons in their journeys are not always immediately clear. This problem is remedied in the final chapter in part 6, where the editors provide a summary that creates a coherent picture of the development of international health efforts. This book will be a good addition to already well-developed academic library collections in public health and political science. 97 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Offit, Paul A. Do you believe in magic?: the sense and nonsense of alternative medicine. Click here to enter text. HarperCollins, 2013. 322p bibl index ISBN 9780062222961, $26.99 ☐ Required Physician/vaccine specialist Offit (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) presents a biting critique of alternative medicine, primarily nutritional supplements and vitamins, used in ☐ Recommended treating diseases, often of a serious nature. Despite the lack of evidence demonstrating therapeutic effectiveness, alternative medicine has been endorsed by practitioners and well- known, highly influential people including television personalities and politicians, who tout the success of these treatments. For some, the use of alternative medicine comes at a high cost both financially (insurance typically does not cover these treatments) and physically (people delay treatment with conventional medicine, leading to a worsening of their illness and at times, death). Powerful political allies have blocked legislative attempts to regulate these therapies, especially nutritional supplements and vitamins, thus posing further risks to users of alternative medicine. While Offit's evaluation raises critical issues and serious concerns, he tends to collapse under one umbrella all alternate medicine approaches. He concludes that, with few exceptions, most are costly, no more effective than placebos, and in some cases harmful. He indicts all alternative medicine, although the evidence he provides addresses primarily nutritional supplements and vitamins. From this more limited perspective, he makes a convincing argument. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and general readers. Faculty Member: Mosher, Clayton J. Drugs and drug policy: the control of consciousness alteration, by Clatyon Click here to enter text. J. Mosher and Scott M. Akins. 2nd ed. SAGE Publications, 2014. 661p bibl index afp ISBN 9781452242392 pbk, $84.00 ☐ Required This is not a typical drug use behavior text. Of the book's 12 chapters, only 3 focus on the pharmacology of the drugs; the remaining chapters address theories of use, patterns of illegal ☐ Recommended and legal drug use, prevention, treatment, US policies regulating legal and illegal drugs, and US influence on policies in other countries. Given the diversity and breadth of topics, Mosher (Washington State Univ., Vancouver) and Akins (Oregon State) have authored a fairly comprehensive, single-volume work examining drug abuse issues. The preface identifies two major issues that guided the authors in developing their text: first, both scientific and popular information regarding drug use needs to be carefully considered, since both are subject to misinformation or misinterpretation; second, there is a pressing need for drug law reform. The authors have done a very good job of addressing both of these concerns. This new edition (1st ed., CH, Jul'07, 44-6267) has been updated to include information on new policies and trends; it is organized like its predecessor, but it is more than 150 pages longer and contains some 500 new references. A useful resource for a single-course format or as an integral part of a degree series. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students. Faculty Member: Biltekoff, Charlotte. Eating right in America: the cultural politics of food and health. Duke, Click here to enter text. 2013. 208p bibl index afp ISBN 9780822355441, $79.95; ISBN 9780822355595 pbk, $22.95 ☐ Required This is not another diet book, as the title might suggest. Instead, Biltekoff (Univ. of California at Davis) explains and analyzes the four "dietary reform movements" of the last 150 years ☐ Recommended that have confronted Americans with advice on food and eating. For ages, mothers and grandmothers traditionally managed the flow of edible materials into kitchens and onto tables. Then, through discoveries and advances in physiology and food analysis, consumers received an increasing amount of science-based information on food and eating. Credit for that cultural innovation of disseminating scientific insights and teaching laypersons about kitchen skills, food literacy, and sensible eating goes to county home economists, organized by the USDA Extension Service at land-grant universities. Since then, three major forces have greatly impinged on the public's view of food consumption. A war economy brought about changes in eating habits through supply shortages and appeals to patriotism. The 1960s 98 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 added ethics to a consumer's mind under the banners of "alternative," "green," and many others. The last dietary reform movement addresses health, with obesity the major target. People should read food package labels to assess the information provided. But one should also read this excellent book to gain insight into the forces that help people in "eating right." Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Perlman, Robert L. Evolution and medicine. Oxford, 2013. 162p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780199661718, $98.50; ISBN 9780199661725 pbk, $49.95 ☐ Required This book informs readers about the movement to place Western medicine in an evolutionary framework, starting with the pioneering work of George Williams, Randolph Nesse, and ☐ Recommended Margaret Profet, begun in the 1990s. As a primer, it does a nice job of providing a set of evolutionary, genetic, and ecological principles in the first three chapters; this content is necessary for understanding the medical issues that Perlman (emer., pediatrics, Univ. of Chicago) addresses in the subsequent eight chapters. The overarching argument is that what has shaped humans over the long past is differential success in reproduction driven by natural selections, rather than adaptations, to maximize health and longevity. The author uses this perspective to help readers better understand disease, both communicable and human induced, along with aging and other trade-offs. The last chapter addresses "man-made diseases" (old genes, new environments) resulting from the cultural/technological nature of the present industrial environment (e.g., sedentary lifestyles combined with excessive high- calorie food, rich in salt, refined sugars, starches, and fats). The well-researched and documented work includes key up-to-date papers. It makes a nice introduction to this timely topic. Physicians will then want to read S. Stearns and J. Koella's more expansive treatment, Evolution in Health and Disease (2008). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Wolf, Zane Robinson. Exploring rituals in nursing: joining art and science. Springer Publishing, Click here to enter text. 2014. 193p bibl index ISBN 9780826196620 pbk, $55.00; ISBN 9780826196637 ebook, $54.99 ☐ Required Evidence-based research is the foundation for contemporary nursing practice. It demonstrates the science associated with providing direct care to patients by focusing on ☐ Recommended facts and data. Rituals are rooted in traditional nursing practice, providing a human approach "to the complexities of tumultuous care." This is the art of nursing. This book demonstrates how art and science work together from a traditional perspective. Wolf (emer., LaSalle Univ.) picks up where fundamental nursing textbooks stop by merging value-based rituals with science-based knowledge, reminding nurses of their history in an effort to enhance and preserve today's nursing practice. The book is divided into two sections. The first section discusses interpersonal care rituals, e.g., bathing, postmortem care, and medication administration and error prevention, always emphasizing traditions and beliefs as they relate to current research. The second section discusses socialization rituals related to shift-to-shift communication between nursing staff, and transitions, celebrations, and ceremonies in the profession. A very interesting read, this book reaffirms why and how nurses provide care and incorporate ethical values and respect for human dignity into professional practice. A useful supplemental resource for nursing curricula. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students. Faculty Member: Handbook of health behavior change, ed. by Kristin A. Riekert, Judith K. Ockene, and Lori Click here to enter text. Pbert. 4th ed. Springer Publishing, 2014. 507p bibl index ISBN 9780826199355 pbk, $90.00; ISBN 9780826199362 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This book offers a comprehensive, holistic, and in-depth look at the art and science of health behavior change. The fourth edition (3rd ed., CH, Jul'09, 46-6233) has been thoroughly ☐ Recommended updated and revised to reduce duplicate content; it is some 300 pages shorter than its predecessor and contains 24 chapters, divided into six sections. (The third edition contained 40 chapters divided into seven sections.) Chapters cover a myriad of health issues such as alcohol abuse, obesity, and chronic disease, focusing on behavior and lifestyle challenges and research-based intervention and management strategies. Each expertly prepared chapter 99 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 begins with "Learning Objectives" to facilitate a meaningful educational experience. Perhaps one of the unique aspects of the book is the way the authors are able to connect epidemiological and environmental influences to management behaviors. The authors give timely consideration to health care system challenges and the need for a team-based approach to support interventions. Students and professionals will return to this valuable reference when seeking to unravel the complex, driving forces that shape health behavior and to understand the tools needed for health promotion. Truly, the book is a pleasure to read and a joy to recommend. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: Handbook of minority aging, ed. by Keith E. Whitfield and Tamara A. Baker with Cleopatra M. Click here to enter text. Abdou et al. Springer Publishing, 2014. 570p bibl index ISBN 9780826109637 pbk, $95.00 ☐ Required Editors Whitfield (Duke Univ.) and Baker (Univ. of South Florida) and eight associate editors collaborated as mentors and mentees to publish this comprehensive volume on emergent ☐ Recommended issues related to the aging process across four major racial and ethnic groups. Chapter contributors are mainly from the fields of psychology, sociology, social work, and medicine. The array of topics covered is amazing, making this book a valuable, significant resource for many disciplines. The volume's 33 chapters are divided into four parts: "Psychology of Minority Aging," "Public Health/Biology of Minority Aging," "Social Work and Minority Aging," and "Sociology of Minority Aging." Each section begins with a brief overview chapter that provides an essential demographic perspective. This multidisciplinary review of the literature on minority aging presents the scholarship related to public health, and "social, behavioral, and biological concerns" of aged minorities like no other publication. Graduate students would certainly be well served by this book, as would faculty teaching aging at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Berlinger, Nancy. The Hastings Center guidelines for decisions on life-sustaining treatment Click here to enter text. and care near the end of life, by Nancy Berlinger, Bruce Jennings, and Susan M. Wolf. 2nd ed. The Hastings Center, 2013. 240p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199974566, $99.00; ISBN 9780199974559 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780199974573 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This comprehensive guidebook updates and expands on the earlier Guidelines on the Termination of Life-sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying (1987). Intended primarily ☐ Recommended for nurses, physicians, and chaplains as well as other professionals working with families facing end-of-life decisions, the book is filled with both ethical insight and practical wisdom. It will help practitioners think about what questions to ask and what processes to employ when doing clinical work. Berlinger (Hastings Center and Yale Univ.), Jennings (Yale), and Wolf (Univ. of Minnesota) begin with a discussion of ethical principles that inform end-of-life care. The next section addresses advanced care planning with various populations, including adults, children, adolescents, and those with limited decision-making capacities. This is followed by a section on decision-making processes, and a very helpful section on communication. The book also examines questions raised by the continuation of specific treatments such as dialysis, nutrition and hydration, and chemotherapy at the end of life. The authors caution that this is not a how-to guide, but it does present helpful guidelines and points for health care professionals to ponder as they work with patients and their families during this difficult period. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Brown, Candy Gunther. The healing gods: complementary and alternative medicine in Click here to enter text. Christian America. Oxford, 2013. 322p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199985784, $29.95 ☐ Required Brown (religious studies, Indiana Univ., Testing Prayer: Science and Healing, CH, Nov'12, 50- 1402) takes a unique perspective in her review of complementary and alternative medicine ☐ Recommended (CAM) practices in the US. Moving beyond the questions of who uses CAM and if CAM practices are effective, she examines the underlying assumptions, rooted in Eastern and metaphysical theological beliefs, about how CAM works. The author raises an interesting albeit controversial argument that CAM practices should be placed in the same category as 100 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 other religious healing practices because of their theological underpinnings. Thus, CAM should be subjected to the same legal, constitutional, and medical-ethical regulations as other religions. Because CAM's theological foundations often are concealed, Brown questions whether consumers are making free and informed choices in their use of these therapies. Further, the author questions whether the use of public funds for CAM research violates constitutional law requiring the separation of church and state. The author's arguments, while informed and logical, do have a conspiratorial edge to them at times. In targeting CAM, Brown fails to note that many of today's medical paradigms have evolved from philosophical, theological, and sociological tenets of disease. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Byrne, Joseph P. Health and wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Greenwood, Click here to enter text. 2013. 268p bibl index afp ISBN 9780313381362, $58.00 ☐ Required This third volume in the "Health and Wellness in Daily Life" series, authored by the series editor, Byrne (humanities, Belmont Univ.), provides an overview of health care practices and ☐ Recommended beliefs among the Aztecs, the Chinese, the Europeans, the Muslims, and Caribbean slaves who lived during the period from 1500 to 1800. The book is structured similarly to the first two volumes in the series, Health and Wellness in Antiquity through the Middle Ages, by W. York (CH, Feb'13, 50-3305), and Health and Wellness in Colonial America, by R. Tannenbaum (CH, Feb'13, 50-3305a). There are chapters focused on the interrelationship between medicine and religion, women and children's health issues, and mental illness and emotional health. Additional chapters cover infectious diseases, war, and surgery. The well-written text contains black-and-white illustrations, easy-to-navigate section headings, and detailed notes for readers to consult as desired. In addition, a brief glossary and an extensive bibliography are included for further study. As with the earlier series volumes, this one is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in the place of medicine during this time period. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate and general collections in history, women's history, and history of medicine. Faculty Member: Aldwin, Carolyn M. Health, illness, and optimal aging: biological and psychosocial Click here to enter text. perspectives, by Carolyn M. Aldwin and Diane Fox Gilmer. 2nd ed. Springer Publishing, 2013. 395p bibl index ISBN 9780826193469 pbk, $90.00 ☐ Required Publications on aging should continue to proliferate, especially as baby boomers increasingly move into that developmental stage. In this second edition (1st ed., 2004) of Health, Illness, ☐ Recommended and Optimal Aging, Aldwin (Oregon State Univ., Corvallis) and Gilmer (retired, Univ. of California, Davis) concisely and effectively update what they describe as a "huge wave of information on aging." The 14-chapter, four-part book covers an array of topics on health and gerontology: demographics, biological changes for each body system, psychosocial concerns, and a full range of issues related to retirement. Particularly helpful to novice readers is a chapter on the basics of research design and analysis. Throughout the book, the authors discuss the seminal theories on aging and health and provide updates on current thinking and research. Each chapter provides a concise description of its subject, and a section on gerotechnology is a timely addition. A 68-page reference list allows readers to conduct more in-depth study. Clearly written at a level for college students, this is an excellent resource on aging. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Taylor, Michael Alan. Hippocrates cried: the decline of American psychiatry. Oxford, 2013. Click here to enter text. 272p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199948062, $60.00 ☐ Required In his treatise On the Physician, Hippocrates wrote that healers should be honest, understanding, and, most important, professional. Taylor (Univ. of Michigan) explores how ☐ Recommended modern psychiatric practice has overlooked these basic principles. He begins his discussion with a brief overview of Hippocrates and his standards of practice, but Hippocrates is largely absent in the chapters that follow. Using vignettes and data from his 45 years of practice, Taylor argues that patients with mental illness are no longer receiving the care they need; psychiatrists rely too heavily on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and ignore the 101 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 basic tenets of medical practice put forth by the ancient healer. In relying too heavily on the DSM, the author argues, psychiatrists fail to properly identify patients with mental illness. Taylor's previous writings have appeared mostly in peer-reviewed professional journals; Hippocrates Cried is written for a general audience. The language is conversational and accessible for nonpractitioners. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; professionals; general readers. Faculty Member: Thomas, Adrian M. K. The history of radiology, by Adrian M. K. Thomas and Arpan K. Click here to enter text. Banerjee. Oxford, 2013. 222p bibl index ISBN 9780199639977, $79.95 ☐ Required Radiologists/historians Thomas and Banerjee provide a highly accessible account of the history of medical imaging, from classical radiology to modern CT (computed tomography) ☐ Recommended scans, MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging) and ultrasounds, to cutting-edge PET (positron emission tomography) and SPECT (single-photon emission computed tomography) imaging. The authors highlight the main breakthroughs in medical imaging, and show how each new technique, from X-rays to SPECT, made its way into mainstream clinical practice remarkably quickly. (Roentgen published his paper on the rays he called X-rays in December 1895, and six months later radiography was establishing itself as the new diagnostic standard.) The book contains interesting accounts of the life and work of the early pioneers of radiology, including their efforts to organize themselves into societies that would give the field the status enjoyed by clinical and surgical specialties, and establish much-needed interpretation standards for this nascent specialty. This is not a detailed, historiographic description of the science of radiology and its evolving place in medicine. But the historic incidents are telling and well chosen, and anyone working in radiology will enjoy learning more about the work and struggles of their early predecessors. Summing Up: Recommended. History of medicine collections, upper-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: The Human microbiome: ethical, legal, and social concerns, ed. by Rosamond Rhodes, Nada Click here to enter text. Gligorov, and Abraham Paul Schwab. Oxford, 2013. 266p index afp ISBN 9780199829415, $55.00 ☐ Required As was true with the Human Genome Project more than two decades ago, the new techniques of human microbiome research and related knowledge bring with them new ☐ Recommended challenges, obstacles, and dilemmas. Research on the human microbiome is already impacting wide-ranging areas of society, most notably medicine. Discoveries of the microbiome's effects on human health and disease are resulting in radical new medical treatments such as fecal transplants of colon bacteria into patients with life-threatening gastrointestinal disease. Due to the rapid development and deployment of these types of treatments and the burgeoning research in this area, the editors and contributing authors of this collection of essays felt compelled to address the social, ethical, and legal aspects of microbiome research. They address various concerns, including specimen collection, property, and confidentiality issues. The authors, all members of the Microbiome Working Group, have brought their many years of experience and varied areas of expertise to bear on these questions, with an eye toward formulating guidelines and public policy recommendations that should prove useful as microbiome research ventures into increasingly uncharted territory in the coming years. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. Faculty Member: Inequalities in health: concepts, measures, and ethics, ed. by Nir Eyal et al. Oxford, 2013. Click here to enter text. 335p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199931392, $59.95 ☐ Required This edited volume, based on a seminar on the topic held in 2010, is part of the "Population- Level Bioethics" series. More than two dozen expert contributors from diverse backgrounds ☐ Recommended explore various philosophical ideas to expand the conversation about health inequalities and how to address them. The book's main contribution is that it raises questions about complex issues that have no easy or obvious answers. For example, is it better for a population to have an average life expectancy of 70 years, with half living to 50 and the rest to 90, or to have everyone live about 65 years? Does it matter if those halves occur randomly, or is the 102 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 disparity only a concern if the socioeconomically disadvantaged group dies younger? What if those who die young do so at least partly because of their personal behaviors? If a life- extending intervention could be offered to half of the population that would otherwise die young, who should receive the benefit? Would those priorities change if the outcomes of the intervention were uncertain? The book does not and cannot provide the answers, but it does ask readers to think more deeply about the assumptions that underlie health programs, policies, and decisions. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Loke, Y. W. Life's vital link: the astonishing role of the placenta. Oxford, 2013. 264p index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780199694518, $29.95 ☐ Required This fine book brings attention to an often-overlooked and discarded body organ, the placenta--a complicated gateway for the active passage of oxygen and nutrients and ☐ Recommended elimination of wastes. Retired reproductive immunologist Loke (emer., Univ. of Cambridge, UK) shares his expertise as a researcher in embryology, endocrinology, genetics, and biochemical cellular physiology. He also incorporates information on evolutionary developments, compares plant and animal reproduction and various placental types, and discusses cultural values related to the placenta throughout the world. He describes the ingenious battles and balances between the changing systems of the mother and the growing semiforeign fetus (half of the genetic code is from the father). Difficult terms (e.g., "syncytiotrophoblast") are defined, acronyms are spelled out, and the author reviews and summarizes. However, aside from the first and last chapters, this work is still too advanced for general readers or lower-level undergraduates. Popular and/or controversial topics briefly discussed include surrogacy, DES (diethylstilbestrol), preeclampsia, pregnancy and prenatal testing, donating and freezing eggs, stem cell therapies, in vitro fertilization, organ transplants, and use of placenta extracts in cosmetics. Very helpful illustrative figures, a glossary, and chapter endnotes support the text. Valuable for upper-level biology majors as supplementary reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Mapping "race": critical approaches to health disparities research, ed. by Laura E. Gómez and Click here to enter text. Nancy López. Rutgers, 2013. 226p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813561363 pbk, $27.95 ☐ Required The essays from various disciplines in this collection thoughtfully examine how conceptions of race (or ethnicity) create disparities in health care and its outcomes. Topics cover research ☐ Recommended issues and case studies of various groups and diseases. This work has a point of view: "race" is minimally biological; the authors contend that it is socially constructed. They make salient points. People with the same skin color don't have the same health effects. Diseases involve context: environmental, social class, historical period, and individual situations. By focusing on "race" in individuals, health care providers are likely to ignore the macro-level factors that facilitate illness, such as diabetes. Stereotype threats and hidden assumptions are likely to influence people's behavior, including that of medical personnel. Some case studies are intriguing. Arabic women in California experienced more birth difficulties after 9/11 than before. The authors argue for greater awareness, multiple measures, and considering how race/gender is lived; i.e., "pregnant while black." They also suggest helping patients feel more secure in medical settings. The essays vary greatly; unfortunately, most are written in academic jargon. Summing Up: Recommended. Only for professionals to think about the consequences of their assumptions. Faculty Member: Dickenson, Donna. Me medicine vs. we medicine: reclaiming biotechnology for the common Click here to enter text. good. Columbia, 2013. 278p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231159746, $29.95 ☐ Required Award-winning bioethicist Dickenson (emer., Univ. of London; research associate, Centre for Health, Law, and Emerging Technologies, Univ. of Oxford; Body Shopping, CH, Dec'08, 46- ☐ Recommended 2115) takes a critical look at the emerging technologies that are grouped under the name of personalized medicine, or what she calls "me medicine." In concentrating on "me medicine," humans could lose both their individual and collective well-being that could be advanced by 103 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 medical biotechnology--what Dickenson calls "we medicine," which is basically the public health paradigm. Though personalizing cancer and depression treatments according to one's genetic makeup, for example, may yield positive results, the author argues that many more claims that biotechnologists make are scientifically spurious and instead are motivated by the tremendous economic incentives to do so. Economics more than science better explains the explosion of private umbilical cord banks and retail genetic testing, she says. With chapters on controlling genetic information, pharmacogenomics, umbilical cord banking, neuroenhancement technologies, and the vaccine debate, this is a timely, easy-to-read, and important book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general readers. Faculty Member: Franklin, Delia Marie. Nursing homes explained. Algora, 2013. 226p index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780875869674, $32.95; ISBN 9780875869667 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780875869681 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Nursing homes will become increasingly necessary as the population lives ever longer, and the need for these facilities has resulted in seemingly labyrinthine regulations. Franklin, a ☐ Recommended nursing director in a long-term care facility, addresses various aspects of this topic for general readers. The book begins with a loose review of the structure and responsible parties in nursing homes. Following chapters discuss the roles of staff members, e.g., nurses, nursing assistants, physicians, and dietary specialists. The "customer" is not mentioned until halfway through the book, and then only in the context of family management and payment options. However, the regulatory processes in these institutions, a very important issue, receive ample mention. The author candidly assesses elder abuse and dealing with Alzheimer's patients, but she develops the former subject far more than the latter. Pairing chapters on rehabilitation and on death/dying respectfully acknowledges the terminal realities of nursing homes. The additional resources section is limited, listing only eight organization websites and no articles or books. While charts are clearly labeled and readable, photographs are so badly pixelated that the subjects are almost unrecognizable. This book may be useful for health care consumers and students considering careers in the long-term care profession. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. General readers and lower-division undergraduates. Faculty Member: Scrinis, Gyorgy. Nutritionism: the science and politics of dietary advice. Columbia, 2013. 352p Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780231156561, $32.95; ISBN 9780231527149 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Nutritionism, according to Scrinis (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia), the originator of the term, focuses on nutrients as the basis of most nutrition research and much of the dietary advice ☐ Recommended that is promulgated by the academic field of nutrition science, with support from the food industry. Seeing food as a delivery system for known nutrients tends to ignore the issue of food quality, which emphasizes whole foods in place of the highly processed foods that most Americans eat. "Real food" can be thought of as locally and/or organically grown without synthetic fertilizers, hormones, pesticides, and antibiotics; this food is eaten fresh or with minimal processing and no added chemicals, even if the chemicals are essential nutrients. The margarine versus butter debate is used as an illustrative example. Many have championed margarine since it (unlike butter) is low in saturated fat and usually lacks cholesterol; however, as the author argues, it is artificially processed and contains additives. Low-quality food, i.e., highly processed, may be consumed more quickly and easily, but is less satiating and thus more likely to be eaten in excess. Scrinis's well-researched and documented scholarship will stimulate debate, inviting readers to seriously reconsider what is best to consume to promote optimal health. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Doherty, Peter C. Pandemics: what everyone needs to know. Oxford, 2013. 227p bibl index Click here to enter text. afp ISBN 9780199898107, $74.00; ISBN 9780199898121 pbk, $16.95 104 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Nobel Prize winner Doherty (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) concisely describes the nature of pandemics, routes of infectious disease transmission, and ways to avoid exposure. ☐ Recommended The text covers a wide range of topics, provides a basic understanding of the interrelationships between humans and microorganisms, and highlights the factors and mechanisms that govern the spread of disease within a population. The author is not an alarmist, writing in a "calm, clear, and authoritative" style as he describes the problems scientists and physicians face in controlling worldwide epidemics. The first 12 chapters present historical information; highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the present health care system; and delve into ways that people can protect themselves in the future. The narrative is arranged in a question-and-answer format. A concluding chapter ties together the major topics developed in the text. A "Further Reading" section at the end rounds out the work. Overall, this is a balanced, honest view of the infectious disease threat and how individuals, as members of their communities, can prepare and protect themselves and others during a pandemic event. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Williams, Gareth. Paralysed with fear: the story of polio. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 354p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9781137299758, $29.99 ☐ Required Williams (Univ. of Bristol, UK; Angel of Death, CH, Jan'11, 48-2719) presents a well-organized, carefully written narrative history of polio, from its first identification as a disease to its ☐ Recommended almost worldwide elimination resulting from the development and use of a very effective, safe vaccine. The story is not tied to the chronology; instead it follows the major advances, sidetracks, and setbacks in the stages of development and details the positive and negative contributions of the scientists and others involved. It is very informative in explaining how the individual scientists were either led or misled by their interpretation of their own experimental results. Williams makes clear to nonscientist readers that science does not progress from one positive result to another, and that the interpretations of results are highly influenced by the preformed prejudices of the involved scientist. This is particularly notable in terms of the time it took to recognize a virus as the causative agent of polio, even after the facts were established. This work can easily serve as a historical document, containing important dates, names, and contributions of key scientists, as well as numerous illustrations. Includes an extensive list of notes for each of the 13 chapters. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Han, Sallie. Pregnancy in practice: expectation and experience in the contemporary US. Click here to enter text. Berghahn Books, 2013. 195p bibl index afp (Fertility, reproduction and sexuality, 25) ISBN 9780857459879, $70.00; ISBN 9780857459886 ebook, $70.00 ☐ Required "Babies (and mothers) are not simply born. They are made through cultural and social practices and the experiences of everyday life," writes anthropologist Han (SUNY Oneonta) in ☐ Recommended her revised dissertation, an ethnographic account of "ordinary" pregnancy. The author considers the importance and meaning of "everyday experiences" through six thematic chapters organized chronologically throughout the pregnancy and birth experience. Topics include reading books on pregnancy, viewing and sharing ultrasound images of the fetus, planning the baby's nursery, baby showers, and more. Han constructs her argument by drawing on interviews with pregnant women and their friends, family, and partners, and birth professionals in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition to conducting personal interviews, Han observed office visits and childbirth education classes, and she even completed a doula training course. Based on this ethnographic research, Han describes routine pregnancies of American middle-class women, essentially reorienting anthropological study of birth and reproduction, which previously focused on the medical and technical aspects of giving birth. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic and professional health sciences and anthropology collections Faculty Member: Mattern, Susan P. The prince of medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire. Oxford, 2013. 334p Click here to enter text. bibl index afp ISBN 9780199767670, $29.95 105 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Mattern (history, Univ. of Georgia; Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing, CH, Jul'09, 46-6361) provides a well-written, well-documented biography of the single physician who dominated ☐ Recommended Western medicine for 1,300 years. Galen (129-217 CE) joined Ptolemy, Euclid, and the Bible as an unquestioned authority until the Renaissance. Andreas Vesalius finally identified Galen's anatomical errors in his De Fabrica Corporis Humani in 1543. Mattern traces Galen's career and life from his birthplace in Pergamum to his peripatetic medical education, his service as a doctor to the gladiators in Pergamum, and finally his time as physician to the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE). Galen was a voluminous writer; his writings constitute "one- eighth of all the classical Greek literature that survives." An observant diagnostician, Galen used pulse and temperature as significant indicators of health or illness. Further, he was a skilled animal anatomist, but he did not perform human dissection, which was infrequently practiced in antiquity. The vivid descriptions of the competitiveness among doctors in imperial Rome add interest to the narrative. A valuable resource for classics and history of medicine collections. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic, general, and professional readers. Faculty Member: Taylor, Beverley. Qualitative research in the health sciences: methodologies, methods, and Click here to enter text. processes, by Beverley Taylor and Karen Francis. Routledge, 2013. 297p bibl index ISBN 9780415682602, $160.00; ISBN 9780415682619 pbk, $43.95; ISBN 9780203777176 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Australian academics Taylor (Monash Univ.) and Francis (Charles Sturt Univ.) have authored a well-written guide to the basics of qualitative research methodologies and the process of ☐ Recommended data collection and analysis. Those wanting a nuts-and-bolts overview of qualitative research and how it can be utilized in the health sciences will be pleased with this logical, clear introduction to the subject. The book contains 17 chapters, divided into two parts. Part 1 is an overview of qualitative methodologies in chapters titled "Grounded Theory," "Historical Research," "Ethnography," "Phenomenology," "Narrative Inquiry," "Case Study Research," "Feminisms," "Action Research," and "Mixed Methods Research." The authors define each methodology, including the classic theories and approaches to the methodology, along with strengths and limitations. Part 2 discusses the process of data collection and analysis. A helpful chapter focuses on writing a qualitative research proposal, discussing what sections should be included, and providing examples of how sections could be written. Data collection and analysis is covered, with emphasis placed on interviewing both individuals and groups. While the book is straightforward and concise in terms of the differing methodologies, those wanting a more thorough discourse on analyzing qualitative data will need to supplement it with other sources. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic and professional libraries. Faculty Member: Abrams, Jeanne E. Revolutionary medicine: the Founding Fathers and mothers in sickness and Click here to enter text. in health. New York University, 2013. 306p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814789193, $30.00 ☐ Required There's nothing "revolutionary" in this spiritedly written, intensively researched book by historian Abrams (Univ. of Denver). However, readers learn that Thomas Jefferson was the ☐ Recommended healthiest of the Founding Fathers. He, along with Benjamin Franklin, also took informed scientific interest in health issues. A pioneer, Jefferson was among the first Americans to have his entire family, including slaves at Monticello, vaccinated against smallpox, employing Edward Jenner's most up-to-date technique. Franklin, before him, had become a convert to the more dangerous inoculation after the death of his young son to the disease. Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison were constantly dealing with illness--their own and their families'--and death was a common visitor. It is amazing how much they accomplished, beset by ill health and bereavement. George Washington, for example, was a smallpox survivor whose face was badly pitted; Martha, who had her own ailments, not only lost her first husband to an infectious disease but outlived her four children as well. Magnificently indexed, this is not a specialist's book, but rather one of special value to undergraduates. It also deserves a wide audience of general readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates and general readers. 106 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Frances, Allen. Saving normal: an insider's revolt against out-of-control psychiatric diagnosis, Click here to enter text. DSM-5, big pharma, and the medicalization of ordinary life. W. Morrow, 2013. 314p index ISBN 9780062229250, $27.99 ☐ Required In Saving Normal, Frances (emer., Duke Univ.), a recognized expert in psychiatric diagnoses and key contributor to DSM-IV and DSM-III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental ☐ Recommended Disorders), argues that labeling life problems as mental illness has serious long-term implications. It is a well-accepted notion (see Charles Rosenberg's Framing Illness, 1992) that disease does not exist until society agrees it does by perceiving, naming, and responding to it. Yet Frances criticizes the proliferation of mental diseases in DSM-5 (2013) and explores the social and personal consequences. He begins with a terse historical review of how "normal" has been defined, but ignores the legal profession's significant contributions to the debate. Most of the book focuses on how the idea of normal remains elusive and argues that the medicalization of behavior leads to polypharmacy, misallocation of medical resources, multibillion-dollar profits for drug companies, and a lapse of personal and internal accountability for behavior. Frances offers case studies that illustrate how psychiatric diagnoses can both help and hurt individuals. He asserts that transforming human behavior into the newly invented mental diseases (as identified in DSM-5) may diminish human adaptability, diversity, and humanity. The well-documented book will appeal to a wide audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: Crawford, Dorothy H. Virus hunt: the search for the origin of HIV. Oxford, 2013. 244p bibl Click here to enter text. index ISBN 9780199641147, $27.95 ☐ Required Crawford (emer., Univ. of Edinburgh, UK), a virologist and writer (e.g., Viruses, CH, Jul'12, 49- 6265), provides a contemporary summary of what is known about the origins of HIV and its ☐ Recommended movement from chimpanzees and mangabeys to humans. As the author notes, the book emphasizes when and how the virus infected humans; it does not focus on describing the disease itself. The account begins with the discovery of a formerly unknown virus, now classified in two major categories, HIV-1 and HIV-2, and traces the origins of HIV-1 and HIV-2 to central and western Africa. The association of HIV with AIDS was not without controversy. Koch's postulates, the series of experiments applied in linking an etiological agent with a disease, was a poor fit when applied to HIV. Some, most notably retrovirologist Peter Duesberg, refused to accept the association. Despite the presence of the disease in some hemophiliacs, exposed only through HIV-contaminated factor VIII, Duesberg remains skeptical. Crawford describes alternate theories of initial human infection, including the now- debunked argument of contaminated polio vaccines. Her writing is crisp and clear. This reviewer has only one minor quibble: the book states that reverse transcriptase converts the RNA genome--the genome is copied, not converted. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic and professional audiences.

107 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 History Faculty Member: Richards, Michael. After the civil war: making memory and re-making Spain since 1936. Click here to enter text. Cambridge, 2013. 393p bibl index ISBN 9780521899345, $99.00; ISBN 9780521728188 pbk, $34.99 ☐ Required This short review can only fail to do justice to this impressive, brilliant monograph, an essential book for any university library's collection. In 365 pages, Richards (European history, ☐ Recommended Univ. of the West of England) demonstrates how collective memories of cataclysmic political and social events--such as the Spanish Civil War, repression and executions in the war's aftermath, and the quotidian difficulties of the Franco dictatorship's autarkic phase--serve as windows to show how the Spaniards navigated through the trauma they experienced over the course of the 20th century, and also how they made sense of rapid societal and economic changes after the war. Richards is both painstakingly diligent with his research (he mines both primary and secondary, published and unpublished sources) and remarkably sensitive as he explores the competing collective memories of the victors and the vanquished, not to pick a side but to historicize those memories and the persistent tension and conflict they generate even in the Spain of today. This will no doubt be a highly decorated, prize-winning book that has something to offer all students and scholars of modern European, and specifically Spanish, history. Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries. Faculty Member: The Aftermath of suffrage: women, gender, and politics in Britain, 1918-1945, ed. by Julie V. Click here to enter text. Gottlieb and Richard Toye. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 254p bibl index ISBN 9781137015334, $92.00; ISBN 9781137015341 pbk, $30.00 ☐ Required By focusing on the years 1918-45, this volume addresses a major gap in the literature on women's suffrage in Britain. The essays collected under the editorship of Gottlieb (Univ. of ☐ Recommended Sheffield, UK) and Toye (Univ. of Exeter, UK) deepen the understanding of the immediate political, social, and cultural impact of legislation that extended the franchise to women in 1918 and 1928, and allowed women to enter Parliament. These essays act as important interventions, examining traditional party politics and Westminster, but crucially extend the frame of politics to encompass the local, everyday political activity of women, as well as non- party associational participation. Further explored in the volume is the way in which the media and political parties responded to the new electorate. Other essays consider the activities of both suffragists and anti-suffragists after winning the vote. The editors have arrayed an impressive group of respected scholars to offer an important historical intervention. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Varon, Elizabeth R. Appomattox: victory, defeat, and freedom at the end of the Civil War. Click here to enter text. Oxford, 2014. 305p index afp ISBN 9780199751716, $20.79 ☐ Required Varon (Virginia) reexamines the meaning of the surrender at Appomattox and explores how the conflict over that meaning shaped Reconstruction and beyond. She convincingly shows ☐ Recommended that Grant believed his generous terms of surrender demonstrated the moral superiority of the North's cause and the need for the nation to look forward. Varon contrasts these beliefs with those of Lee, who held that the still morally superior South was merely overwhelmed by the North's resources. These contrasting views of the surrender itself drove each man throughout the rest of his life, with Grant becoming solidly allied with Radical Republicans, and Lee's testimony before Congress still reflecting the old paternalistic narrative of a defiant slave owner. Varon is effective in dispelling the various myths that have sprung up over the surrender itself, including the fabled meeting under an apple tree, which never happened. Using a wealth of primary and secondary sources, the work is excellent in never treating either North or South as monolithic. The author thoroughly discusses the roles of African Americans in both sections, and gives the political opponents in both regions their say. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Asian Americans in Dixie: race and migration in the South, ed. by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Click here to enter text. Desai. Illinois, 2013. 299p index afp ISBN 9780252037832, $95.00; ISBN 9780252079382 pbk, 108 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 $28.00; ISBN 9780252095955 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This collection brings valuable attention to the largely overlooked experiences of Asian Americans in the southern US. In an introductory chapter, the editors situate Asian American ☐ Recommended studies within the broader literature related to race, the "imagined South," and transnational connections between the region and other parts of the world. Individual chapters discuss experiences of Asian American ethnic groups in the South from the 1880s through recent decades. Among the topics contributing authors discuss are Bengali Muslim peddlers in New Orleans from 1880 to 1920, Chinese communities in Georgia from the 1880s through the 1940s, Vietnamese in Houston after 1975, the contemporary experiences of Hindus in the Atlanta area, and Vietnamese and African Americans in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Segregation, exclusion, comparative racialization, and relationships with other minority groups in the South are issues addressed by many of the volume's authors. An important contribution to Asian American studies. Summing Up: Essential. Students and scholars of ethnic studies, immigration history, and regional southern history, all levels. Faculty Member: Stratton, Billy J. Buried in shades of night: contested voices, Indian captivity, and the legacy of Click here to enter text. King Philip's war. Arizona, 2013. 203p bibl index afp ISBN 9780816530281, $45.00 ☐ Required Some scholars may call this reading of Mary Rowlandson's The Soveraignty and Goodness of God (1682) relentless and reliant on circumstantial evidence, but Stratton (English, Univ. of ☐ Recommended Denver) unpacks this canonical Native American captivity narrative with unprecedented scrutiny. Taking a new historicist approach, he interprets the book's narrative and religious milieu in the context of its status as an ur text for the captivity narrative genre. Stratton finds the Mathers exercising intertextual and editorial agency in the book's narratology, and he peruses the typesetting errors in the title, among other publication details. This keen scholarship refreshes Eastern Algonquian and English settlement culture studies, and one cannot unlatch the captivity narrative genre from influential portrayals of gratuitous violence attributed to Barbary and Turk pirates. As Stratton makes clear, the negativity of the European imagination vis-à-vis indigenous peoples, couched in scripture and travelogues, compounded such fear that the shaping of language for Rowlandson's narrative by patriarchal authorities lasted and even imprinted the "rescue" of Jessica Lynch in the Iraq War. This is an extremely well-researched study, with a succinct, powerful argument. Stratton may affirm the suspicions of those who have found Rowlandson to be contradictory. He cautions readings of the narrative by recent esteemed critics. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Pavone, Claudio. A civil war: a history of the Italian resistance, ed. and introd. by Stanislao G. Click here to enter text. Pugliese; tr. by Peter Levy with David Broder. Verso, 2013. 744p index afp ISBN 9781844677504, $55.00 ☐ Required This is one of the most important and fundamental books about Italian history written in the last two decades. After appearing in Italian in 1991, it is now available for the first time in ☐ Recommended English. The book is responsible for changing the discourse about Fascism and resistance. Adopting a term previously employed mainly by Fascist apologists, Pavone (co-founder and current vice president of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History, former professor at the University of Pisa, and once a member of the resistance) combines three struggles together into the concept of a "civil war" in Italy between 1943 and 1945. A "patriotic war," a "civil war," and a "class war" raged simultaneously and interconnectedly. Pavone's decades as an archivist acquainted him with all essential official and semi-official sources, which he complements with literary and journalistic accounts. Peter Levy's translation is fluid and accessible. Indispensable for study and research concerning WW II in Italy, the fall of Fascism, and the birth of the First Italian Republic. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Miller, Mark Edwin. Claiming tribal identity: the Five Tribes and the politics of federal Click here to enter text. acknowledgment. Oklahoma, 2013. 475p bibl index afp ISBN 9780806143781 pbk, $29.95 109 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required This is a refreshing look at the intricate politics not just of federal acknowledgment of unrecognized tribes (in the Southeast, primarily), but of the process of negotiating identity ☐ Recommended within these groups. Miller (history, Southern Utah Univ., Cedar City) focuses on the advocacy for or against recognition of some of these tribes by the federally recognized "Five Tribes." In particular, he spends a great deal of time on the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma's efforts against recognition of remnant groups, mainly because there are more such groups claiming Cherokee ancestry than for any other tribe. The author also illustrates the sometimes arbitrary ways in which the Office of Federal Acknowledgment determines the status of a petitioning group. While much is made of the "Westernized" emphasis on written documentation, especially elaborate genealogies, Miller is fair in noting that written documentation on the progenitors of federal tribes is often also rare. Historical recognition by neighboring communities figured largely in the US decision to accord recognition to the federal tribes, a facet of many modern petitions that doesn't seem so convincing to current officials. Engaging, enlightening, and provocative, this is bound to become canonical in this field. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Riello, Giorgio. Cotton: the fabric that made the modern world. Cambridge, 2013. 407p bibl Click here to enter text. index ISBN 9781107000223, $35.00 ☐ Required This is a brilliant study of two periods of globalization, centered and driven first by 12th-17th- century Indian production of cotton textiles, and second by the gradual triumph of Europe, ☐ Recommended particularly Britain, beginning in the 18th century. Riello (global history, Univ. of Warwick, UK) has coedited several studies on the topic (e.g., The Spinning World: A Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850, 2009; How India Clothed the World, 2009), making him a preeminent expert on cotton in the global system of capitalism, communication, trade, and industrialization. He explains that because of Indian textiles' superior quality in design and colors, Indians "accounted for a quarter of the world's industrial output" before about 1750. India lost its dominance to Britain because of British technological innovations, opportunism, control of cotton production, quasi-slave labor in textile mills, and political change in India, including British control, which contributed to the deindustrialization of India. Because of cotton textiles, Britain took the lead in the process of industrialization in modern times and became the core of the new global system by the 19th century. The data, Riello's analysis, gorgeous color plates, high-quality paper, and a rich bibliography make this book a must read for economic historians and specialists in international relations. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Bourke, John Gregory. Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: v.5: May 23, 1881-August 26, 1881, Click here to enter text. ed. by Charles M. Robinson III. University of North Texas Press, 2013. 482p bibl index afp ISBN 9781574414684, $55.00; ISBN 9781574414813 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Historians are familiar with the high quality of the initial four volumes in this series (e.g., vol. 1, CH, Dec'03, 41-2363), and they will be happy to see that the editor has maintained the ☐ Recommended same impeccable research standards and useful formatting for this fifth volume. Robinson (South Texas College) transcribed the original handwritten diaries, provided explanatory footnotes to elucidate key points, and composed a 30-page section of biographies of important people mentioned in the diaries. His unifying character, Captain John Bourke, earned an enviable reputation for his service during the fabled Indian wars of the 1870s-80s, and especially as aide-de-camp to General George Crook. But this fifth volume proves that he also was a capable ethnologist who spent considerable time among Native American peoples. His classic publications about the Hopi Snake Dance, Apache medicine men, and Sioux participation in the sun dance earned him honors among anthropologists of the late 19th century. Although Bourke's publications remain crucial to scholarly research efforts even today, he let his cultural biases and personal feelings color his interpretations. In short, he was sympathetic to Indians and their diverse cultures, but he sometimes relegated aboriginal ways that he could not understand to the judgmental categorization of "superstitious." Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. 110 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Lower, Wendy. Hitler's furies: German women in the Nazi killing fields. Houghton Mifflin Click here to enter text. Harcourt, 2013. 270p index ISBN 9780547863382, $26.00 ☐ Required Focusing on the role of German women in the Nazi genocide, Lower (Claremont McKenna College) draws on years of archival research, interviews, and fieldwork across Europe, the US, ☐ Recommended and Israel to demolish the myth of German women holding down the home front as Germany embarked on its ideological objective of conquering the Slavic peoples of the east and murdering Jews. The author notes that more than a half-million German women witnessed and contributed to the genocidal war in the east as the Wehrmacht and the murderous Einsatzgruppen death squads hunted down and murdered Jewish men, women, and children in their determination to fulfill Hitler's prophecy of annihilating European Jewry. Dividing her chapters to describe the role of female witnesses, accomplices, and perpetrators of the Holocaust, Lower provides case studies of nurses who murdered children through lethal injections; secretaries who compiled lists of Jews targeted for murder; perpetrators who joined their male counterparts in the destruction process by euthanizing the disabled, resettling abducted children, and plundering Jewish property; and wives of SS officers who looted and shot Jews in the ghettos of Ukraine and used whips to brutalize helpless Jews. Must reading on a virtually ignored aspect of the Holocaust. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Giuliani, Luca. Image and myth: a history of pictorial narration in Greek art, by Luca Giuliani; Click here to enter text. tr. by Joseph O'Donnell. Chicago, 2013. 335p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780226297651, $65.00 ☐ Required Reading images--the relationship between art and depiction, narration and text, and the development of narrative--is the subject of this masterful analysis by Giuliani (Humboldt ☐ Recommended Univ., Germany). A benchmark for iconographic studies, this skillful translation updates the original German text of 2003. Giuliani lays out his thesis over eight chapters and treats the visual culture of the eighth to second centuries BCE, primarily through the medium of decorated pottery. He charts the development of imagery from generic depiction to increasingly specific narration. Initially informed by a tradition of orality, images become ever more dictated by textual sources. While the emergence of narrative elements in the eighth century and its consolidation in the seventh is descriptive and open to multiple renderings, over the course of the sixth and fifth centuries, particularly with the advent of painted inscriptions accompanying imagery, depictions become progressively concretized in conformance with an emerging written canon. This trajectory culminates in the Late Classical and Hellenistic periods when images become illustrations, not only based on textual sources, but also informed by readers themselves. Photographs and drawings accompany the text, as do copious notes, bibliography, and indexes. Summing Up: Essential. Research collections, upper-level students, and professionals. Faculty Member: Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition, ed. by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and Click here to enter text. David W. Blight. Yale, 2013. 253p index afp ISBN 9780300163872 pbk, $30.00 ☐ Required The British Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in March 1807 set the path toward the gradual abolition of slavery itself in the transatlantic world. Meanwhile, on the other side of ☐ Recommended Africa, both the slave trade and slavery expanded in the Indian Ocean region, helped along by many factors, including a boom in British purchases of cloves and ivory. The vast western "Indian Ocean World," stretching from the coast of East Africa to the South China Sea, long had been a competing commercial imperial system with the transatlantic trade, but it took on a particularly important character in the age of abolition. The dhow, a traditional Arab ocean- sailing vessel, carried the cargo along routes heavily favored by monsoon winds, pushing ships from East Africa across the ocean and back in remarkably short times. This volume of essays considers this world from economic, social, legal, and religious angles, noting both its resemblance to and difference from the better-known transatlantic world of slavery. This indispensable volume should introduce readers to relatively unknown worlds, and to some outstanding scholarship about those worlds. Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries. 111 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Hotta, Eri. Japan 1941: countdown to infamy. Knopf, 2013. 320p index ISBN 9780307594013, Click here to enter text. $27.95 ☐ Required Despite the volume of literature examining the outbreak of the great Pacific War in 1941, almost all of it published in the US concentrates on politics and decisions in Washington, DC. ☐ Recommended Now, Hotta provides a riveting account of the simultaneous process in Tokyo. Her book is not an attempt to justify or whitewash Japan's responsibility for the war. Rather, it recounts the discouraging story of a dysfunctional government continuously stumbling, miscalculating, and blustering its way toward a war that almost all its leaders knew was unwinnable. Japanese diplomats, military leaders, and politicians remained too focused on their own ideological misconceptions and superficial awareness of the outside world to halt the drift toward war. As the inertia increased late in 1941, anyone urging caution or attempting to find a way out was likely to be accused of cowardice and defeatism. Hotta concludes that in Japan, "none of the top leaders, their occasional protestations notwithstanding, had sufficient will, desire, or courage to stop the momentum toward war." This important book should be in every major library. It will interest anyone attempting to make sense of Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, or bureaucratic dysfunction and its possibly tragic consequences. Summing Up: Essential. All public and academic levels/libraries. Faculty Member: The Landscapes of 9/11: a photographer's journey, ed. by Edward T. Linenthal, Jonathan Click here to enter text. Hyman, and Christiane Gruber; photographs by Jonathan Hyman. Texas, 2013. 194p bibl index afp ISBN 9780292726642, $55.00; ISBN 9780292749085 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required This first-rate collection of essays documents and interprets freelance photographer Jonathan Hyman's unique photographic archive of visual memorials created by ordinary Americans ☐ Recommended about the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US. Hyman's informative essay about finding and photographing fast-disappearing memorials on commercial buildings, storefronts, garages, homes, and vehicles testifies to his extraordinary personal commitment and professional achievement. Hyman's photographs of memorials rendered in tattoo designs required great personal diplomacy and sensitivity. The photographs and stories of individuals' tattoos in honor of dead relatives, friends, or co-workers transport readers, however briefly, into the private lives of people directly affected by 9/11. In addition, thought-provoking essays explore the meaning and legacy of Hyman's project from different points of view: older examples of documentary projects dating back as far as two centuries; the making of a museum exhibit of Hyman's archive; the ability of vernacular images about 9/11 to foster meaningful public discussion of democratic ideals and practice; and the meaning of 9/11 memorial projects as compared with those in Northern Ireland, the Palestinian West Bank, and Iran. Well produced and carefully edited, this volume deserves a wide readership and availability in print and electronic format. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Fletcher, Anthony. Life, death and growing up on the western front. Yale, 2013. 328p index Click here to enter text. afp ISBN 9780300195538, $35.00 ☐ Required The predominant vision of the Great War was created by bystanders, building on the powerful denunciations of a minority of participants--most famously, Britain's "war poets." ☐ Recommended Historian Fletcher has provided a vital corrective based on some 2,000 letters from 15 soldiers; 11 of these men, including his grandfather, died at the front. The volume treats the British experience of war from mobilization to basic training to life and death in the trenches. Readers will search here in vain for cries of despair, for overpowering fear, for distrust of higher authority--in short, for the sentiments that are today most associated with the experience of the western front. Scholars will long debate whether these men's heroic endurance saved Western civilization or illustrated its attempted suicide--along with the death of a culture of deference that underpinned it. Fletcher's wonderful book makes clear, however, that modern scholars will never really understand the Great War until they examine it as much through the perceptions of its participants as from the perspectives of the postwar generation. Bottom line: an important acquisition for all modern history collections. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. 112 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Poser, Norman S. Lord Mansfield: justice in the age of reason. McGill-Queen's, 2013. 532 bibl Click here to enter text. index ISBN 9780773541832, $39.95; ISBN 9780773589803 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Wise, perspicacious, and witty, William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield (1705-93), remains one of the most influential figures in British, Canadian, and US legal history. According to Poser ☐ Recommended (emer., Brooklyn Law School), Mansfield was the architect of modern commercial law, and his decisions have been cited hundreds of times by the US Supreme Court. His judgments in mercantile lawsuits created a reliable set of principles that fostered the expansion of British trade and industry, while contemporaries and his glittering clientele considered him to be one of the finest orators and advocates of the period. Mansfield served George II and George III as attorney general for England and Wales, privy counsellor, and lord chief justice of the King's Bench. Always more lawyer than politician, Mansfield had a reputation for opportunism in his loyalties, but his analytical and legal skills supported the government's policies against the colonists during the American Revolution, and his decision in the 1772 Somerset case ultimately helped to fuel the abolition of the British slave trade. With meticulous research in sources including the Mansfield archives in Scotland, Poser has produced a brilliantly readable history. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Hinsch, Bret. Masculinities in Chinese history. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 199p bibl index afp Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781442222335, $75.00; ISBN 9781442222342 pbk, $27.95 ☐ Required Historian Hinsch (Foguang Univ., Taiwan) chronicles changing ideals of manhood in China from the 11th century BCE to the present, viewing the evolution of Chinese masculinities as a ☐ Recommended continuous historical process sustained and characterized by men's relationships with familial ideologies, the state, economic conditions, and cultural others. Hinsch employs the concept "hegemonic masculinity" to come to terms with masculine paragons invented by both mainstream society and marginal men. He argues that hegemonic masculine values in Chinese history were not fixed values or behaviors of certain groups of men, but rather discursive positions open for tapping by men of different social standings. Hinsch develops the bipartite model of wen (civil) and wu (martial) into a complex and mutable system encompassing educated and refined scholar-officials, the male honor culture encouraging vengeance and violence, and variants. The author draws on hagiographical and popular representations to document the development of manhood over the centuries. The nature of the sources restricts his analysis largely to Han Chinese visions. Comparable to Susan Mann's Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History (CH, Nov'12, 50-1627), Hinsch's book is indispensable for teaching gender and manhood in China. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Joseph, Gilbert M. Mexico's once and future revolution: social upheaval and the challenge of Click here to enter text. rule since the late nineteenth century, by Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau. Duke, 2013. 252p bibl index afp ISBN 9780822355175, $84.95; ISBN 9780822355328 pbk, $23.95 ☐ Required Though many historians are conversant with the major elements of the Mexican Revolution and its impact on the country's subsequent history, full comprehension of the entirety of ☐ Recommended Mexico's 20th century is a more challenging proposition. Two prominent historians of modern Mexico offer the solution for those looking to move beyond predictable references to the nationalization of the oil industry under Lazaro Cardenas or the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968. Moving from a brief introduction to Mexico under the rule of Porfirio Díaz, the authors cover the revolution and then, with the question of what the legacy of this revolution meant, the country's subsequent history until the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) lost the presidency. This survey is particularly useful for those who have struggled to explain the dynamics of PRI's control over public life over 70 years, despite pronounced fluctuations in politics and economic policy. Joseph and Buchenau present this story in all of its complexity, with accounts of individuals' experiences, considerations of scholarly production and popular culture, and Mexico's place in a tumultuous world. The book includes an account of the aftermath of the 2000 election, though only passing references to the rise of drug trafficking and violence. Includes a useful bibliographic essay. Summing Up: Essential. All 113 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 collections/libraries. Faculty Member: Spores, Ronald. The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: ancient times to the present, by Ronald Spores and Click here to enter text. Andrew K. Balkansky. Oklahoma, 2013. 311p bibl index afp (The civilization of the American Indian series, 267) ISBN 9780806143811, $45.00 ☐ Required The Mixtec are one of the larger indigenous groups of Mexico, inhabiting western Oaxaca and parts of the neighboring states of Guerrero and Puebla. Mixtec migrants are also numerous in ☐ Recommended Mexico City and the northern Mexican frontier, and in the farmlands and towns of the Pacific coast of the US. This ambitious volume coauthored by anthropologist Spores (emer., Vanderbilt) and archaeologist Balkansky (Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale) surveys what is known of Mixtec society and culture over more than three thousand years. The work is multidisciplinary, drawing upon archaeological evidence, archival research, and personal familiarity with the region in modern times. The authors place due emphasis on describing the rise and proliferation of small Mixtec kingdoms, the impact of the Spanish conquest and adaptation of the Mixtec to centuries of colonization, and the endurance of a typical, very localized Mixtec identification with their traditional communities even in times of great national and international migration. The well-written, profusely illustrated book is an important and unique volume. There is no other comparable source in English that provides so comprehensive an introduction to this often-overlooked corner of the indigenous Americas. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Galbert, de Bruges. The murder, betrayal, and slaughter of the glorious Charles, Count of Click here to enter text. Flanders, by Galbert de Bruges; tr. and introd. by Jeff Rider. Yale, 2013. 220p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300152302 pbk, $30.00 ☐ Required This new English translation by Rider (Romance languages, Wesleyan Univ.) of Galbert of Bruges's chronicle about the murder of Charles the Good of Flanders in 1127 is a triumph of ☐ Recommended scholarship. The text is highly readable and supplemented by a clear introduction, maps, and charts clearly designed to bring students and general readers into the fascinating world of medieval Flanders in the 12th century. Scholars also will find much to love in this book, as the extensive notes provide access to many insights derived from the author's definitive critical Latin edition of the chronicle. Faithful to the language of Galbert both in meaning and in style, Rider's translation also seeks clarity in English and is highly consistent in its treatment of key Latin words. This translation prompts a reconsideration of the chronicle even for those who thought they were familiar with Galbert. Rider's work will replace the classic but now outdated J. B. Ross translation (The Murder of Charles the Good, 1982), and should be widely adopted by instructors and read by their students. It will also appeal to general readers seeking access to the thoughts of one of the most extraordinary medieval people. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Hartmann, Christian. Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany's war in the East, 1941-1945. Click here to enter text. Oxford, 2013. 184p bibl index ISBN 9780199660780, $21.95 ☐ Required Skepticism would be a natural reaction when confronted by this slim volume. At 184 pages, the book initially does not seem to be up to the task of analyzing Operation Barbarossa. More ☐ Recommended traditional strategic and operational studies of the German invasion, like those by Alan Clark (Barbarossa, CH, Sep'65), John Erickson (The Road to Stalingrad, CH, Feb'76), David Glantz (Barbarossa, CH, Mar'02, 39-4144), and Albert Seaton (The Russo-German War 1941-45, CH, Sep'71), appear to offer more to readers--that is, until one opens Hartmann's book and begins reading. This book packs a punch. Hartmann (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich) skillfully blends political, economic, and social history to provide an excellent introduction to the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. He makes up for a lack of operational history with a mastery of the political and ideological context of the fighting on both sides and the social and economic consequences of the German occupation and Soviet victory. Hartmann is at his best when examining German war crimes and atrocities against Jews, POWs, civilians, and partisans, yet he does not ignore the brutality exhibited by the Soviets. This balanced, well-written account is the best brief introduction to the eastern front in WW 114 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 II. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Somerset, Anne. Queen Anne: the politics of passion. Knopf, 2013, (c2012). 621p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780307962881, $35.00 ☐ Required Winner of the 2013 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, Somerset is without a doubt one of the best biographers of English royalty writing today. As with her Elizabeth I ☐ Recommended (1991), this page-turner about Queen Anne is both compelling and absorbing. The fast-paced, engagingly written narrative tells a fascinating story full of rich detail that makes palpable the various political complexities of England's first imperial age. From the awkwardness of her birth from parents who almost did not marry, to the partisan battles that expedited her death, Anne's life was full of personal intrigues that came to have public consequences and weighed on her heavily. Somerset relies on the usual published and manuscript sources, but blends them together in telling fashion. Centering on the queen's tempestuous friendships with her longtime favorite, Sarah Churchill, and then Abigail Masham, the author nicely conveys the backdrop of war, party politics, and the struggles to maintain the Protestant succession that dominated the age and were at the forefront of all of Anne's relationships and policies. Since this is a biography for scholar and lay reader alike, whatever broader historiographical awareness it may lack can certainly be forgiven, especially considering its wonderful capacity to bring this often-forgotten royal to life. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Rivers, Daniel Winunwe. Radical relations: lesbian mothers, gay fathers, and their children in Click here to enter text. the United States since World War II. North Carolina, 2013. 296p bibl index afp ISBN 9781469607184, $32.50 ☐ Required In this deeply researched social history of six decades (1945-2003) of gay fathers, lesbian mothers, and their children, Rivers (Princeton) seamlessly blends legal materials, oral ☐ Recommended histories, personal correspondence, and archival materials of grassroots organizations. He reveals the historical context for the current spotlight on the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender struggle for family and domestic rights. Rivers begins in the era before gay liberation (1945-1969) when, because of social pressure and legal harassment, lesbian mothers and gay fathers often chose sham marriages. Living under the constant threat of losing custody of their children if their true sexuality was discovered, lesbian and gay parents began to organize. Subsequent chapters focus on custody struggles as increasing numbers of lesbian mothers and gay fathers left heterosexual marriages and openly fought for parental rights through the legal system, the creation in the 1970s of a nationwide grassroots network of lesbian mothers, and the subsequent national organizations of gay fathers. The book concludes with a dazzling chapter on the ongoing history of lesbian and gay activism during the last two decades of the 20th century, focusing on insemination, adoption, surrogacy, donor paternity cases, and lesbian co-mother custody cases. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Axworthy, Michael. Revolutionary Iran: a history of the Islamic republic. Oxford, 2013. 496p Click here to enter text. bibl index afp ISBN 9780199322268, $34.95 ☐ Required Axworthy (Univ. of Exeter, UK) has written a comprehensive and excellent narrative of the events in Iran, particularly since the 1960s, that brought about the end of monarchy in 1979 ☐ Recommended and caused the take-over of the government by the ayatollahs. The author brilliantly explains the causes and consequences of the so-called Islamic Revolution in Iran, and provides the most accurate analysis of the course of the almost decade-long war between Iran and Iraq and how it has affected every aspect of Iranian history since then. Axworthy recalls the reformist attempts after Khomeini led by such religious leaders as Muhammad Khatami, and explains the causes of their failures. He concludes that the legitimacy of the Islamic regime in Iran was damaged by the "stolen" election of June 2009, but then, he argues, "when the regime still commands the loyalty of the security apparatus ... how much does it matter.... The stolen election ... may have taken Iranians closer to totalitarianism, but they are still not there yet." The book is well researched, well written, and informative, and should be 115 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 considered as an indispensable resource for any one--scholar or otherwise--seriously interested in contemporary Iran. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Burleigh, Michael. Small wars, faraway places: global insurrection and the making of the Click here to enter text. modern world, 1945-1965. Viking, 2013. 587p bibl index ISBN 9780670025459, $36.00 ☐ Required Those who initially might have set this book aside after a cursory glance at the title and contents, judging it to be only another study of "small wars," would do well to give it second ☐ Recommended look. In 18 well-ordered and engaging chapters, Burleigh offers new insights into an era of "global insurrection," when Western empires unraveled against the backdrop of the Cold War. Burleigh's genius is evident in his ability to dissect a select number of these conflicts (professedly, those that interested him) with admirable analytical precision while ensuring the reader's engagement with lively, sometimes humorous, prose. Equally useful and enlightening are his intriguing biographical sketches of many of the major players, ranging from a clearly declining Churchill to the famously peripatetic Ho Chi Minh. Burleigh's ability to clarify astonishingly intricate events in crisp and clear fashion is evident throughout but especially in his recounting of the Algerian conflict and the Suez Crisis. Elsewhere, he turns his talents to developments as far afield as Palestine, Kenya, Cuba, Malaya, and Vietnam, among others. Anyone desiring a clear understanding of these critical 20th-century wars will benefit greatly from this commendably comprehensive yet compact study of two crucial decades. Summing Up: Essential. All public and academic collections. Faculty Member: Smithsonian Civil War: inside the national collection, ed. by Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hysop Click here to enter text. with James G. Barber et al. Smithsonian Books, 2013. 368p index ISBN 9781588343895, $40.00 ☐ Required This outstanding hardback pictorial history opens the Civil War collections of the Smithsonian and presents them in a remarkably accessible, artistic, and informative fashion. The ☐ Recommended exceptional strength of this work is anchored on the astonishing Civil War collection of artifacts that the Smithsonian has within its vaults and on display, and subsequently reproduced in this volume. Though the emphasis is on the visual experience, the narrative overviews and item descriptions provide exceptional background and historical context for each chapter and component on display. While the book can be viewed as either a reference volume or a coffee-table pictorial history, anyone with an interest in the Civil War, from university professor to elementary school student, will be drawn in and able to utilize this unique masterpiece for projects ranging from a school report to assembling a manuscript for publication; all objects and images contain their respective Smithsonian catalog identification. Quite frankly, every home and every library in the US should own a copy of this timeless masterpiece. Most highly recommended. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries of all types. Faculty Member: King, William S. To raise up a nation: John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and the making of a Click here to enter text. free country. Westholme, 2013. 679p bibl index ISBN 9781594161919, $35.00 ☐ Required Histories of the Civil War have encompassed any number of ancillary issues that arose during the era, including the abolition of slavery. Independent scholar King, however, places ☐ Recommended abolitionism front and center in his book. Instead of identifying the crusade to end slavery as merely a cause and consequence of the larger Civil War, King weaves a narrative of abolitionism with the military conflict as the conclusion to a larger social goal. Instead of a milestone in the process, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents the culmination of a progression toward freedom that began decades earlier. Through the lives of key figures, such as the radical Brown and the charismatic Douglass, King describes the Civil War as a conflict that brought both a resolution to a divisive national issue when Lee surrendered at Appomattox, and the ending of a national moral offense with the demise of slavery in the Thirteenth Amendment. Well written and thoroughly researched, this book deserves a place as one of the great "big" histories of the Civil War. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. 116 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Ferguson, Karen. Top down: the Ford Foundation, black power, and the reinvention of racial Click here to enter text. liberalism. Pennsylvania, 2013. 323p index afp ISBN 9780812245264, $45.00 ☐ Required This is a nicely researched and strongly argued account of the relationship of McGeorge Bundy's Ford Foundation to the Black Power movement of the 1960s. Ferguson (Simon Fraser ☐ Recommended Univ., Canada) has done extensive research in the newly accessible foundation records at the Rockefeller Archive Center. She is particularly interested in the attitude of establishment liberalism to emergent black power, and she argues that Bundy's initial strategy of seeing "fundamental institutional reform" through the actual redistribution of power in the ghetto, which failed in the debacle of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville schools controversy, was replaced by an urgent attempt to "foster individual minority leadership." In her account, Franklin Thomas, whom Ford recruited to run the Bedford-Stuyvesant community development corporation, and then to be the foundation's first black president, is the personification of this process. Overgeneralizations about the narrowness of liberal leadership in the racial conflicts of the era weaken Ferguson's account to some extent, and she underestimates the competence and vision of the social professionals who ran the foundation's urban programs in those years. But this book is a significant scholarly accomplishment and a must read for those interested in the impact of large foundations on public policy. Summing Up: Essential. Most levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Mitchell, Arthur H. Understanding the Korean War: the participants, the tactics and the Click here to enter text. course of conflict. McFarland, 2013. 300p bibl index afp ISBN 9780786468577 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9781476601335 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Of the many works on the Korean Conflict, this may be among the most balanced, at least politically. Mitchell (Univ. of South Carolina) is highly critical of the Truman administration for ☐ Recommended huge military cuts following WW II and for failing to make clear that the US would defend South Korea. Had Truman made the latter point manifest, the author maintains the war would not have occurred. He is equally devastating in his attack on Republicans, including Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower. MacArthur failed to train his troops in Japan for combat, failed to predict either the North's attack or China's intervention, and failed to equip his troops with winter clothing. Eisenhower's claim--"If elected, I will go to Korea"--and veiled threats to use atomic weapons did not end the conflict; it was Stalin's death that did. Matthew Ridgeway earns high praise both for his military ability and for his role in the successful racial integration of the army in Korea. High praise must also go to Mitchell for his analyses. A lucid writing style, thorough documentation, and a superb up-to-date bibliography make this a required purchase for university and college libraries. Community colleges will find this a desirable but not a required purchase. Summing Up: Essential. Upper- division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: McFarlane, Anthony. War and independence in Spanish America. Routledge, 2014. 452p bibl Click here to enter text. index ISBN 9781857287820, $130.00; ISBN 9781857287837 pbk, $54.95 ☐ Required Historian McFarlane (emer., Univ. of Warwick, UK) examines the relationship of war and the advent of politically independent states in Spanish America. While no consideration of the ☐ Recommended independence era can omit all discussion of military conflict, this broad study emphasizes the importance of war for political and social changes that made lasting independence possible. The author divides his examination into three parts: "War and the Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy," "Theaters of War in Spanish America, 1810-15," and "Reconquest and Liberation, 1815-25." The second and third parts provide detailed, region-by-region examinations of rebellion, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and formal military campaigns as appropriate from Mexico to present-day Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Particularly useful is the treatment of campaigns in the region that became Bolivia. Drawing upon archival and printed primary sources as well as a broad array of secondary literature, McFarlane's thoughtful, detailed, and clearly written work will appeal to both specialists and general readers. A valuable complement to Jaime E. Rodríguez's stress on political revolution in The Independence of Spanish America (CH, Dec'98, 36-2319), McFarlane's book belongs in all 117 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 academic and major public libraries. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Raz, Mical. What's wrong with the poor?: psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty. North Click here to enter text. Carolina, 2013. 242p index afp ISBN 9781469608877, $39.95 ☐ Required This is a fascinating and disturbing study of how psychology created an unflattering and close to insulting picture of the poor. Basing their work on "deprivation" theories dating from the ☐ Recommended 1940s and 1950s, psychiatrists measured poverty along the arbitrary lines of newly minted, middle-class standards. Suddenly, households dominated by women--an unmistakable slap at African American mothers--were somehow anti-male. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's famous report in 1965 reflected those opinions and inadvertently created a more benignly phrased racism. Stimuli were now the "intellectual vitamins" to lift up "socially deprived" poor people. Not only that, some black dialects were often seen as a form of retardation. At a time when northern liberals were denouncing southern voting registrars for asking African voters arcane questions as a precondition for registration, northern social workers were engaged in practices that served to "re-segregate" blacks. A superb, groundbreaking study. Excellent. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Kallander, Amy Aisen. Women, gender, and the palace households in Ottoman Tunisia. Texas, Click here to enter text. 2013. 269p bibl index afp ISBN 9780292748385, $55.00 ☐ Required This is a beautifully crafted book. Drawing on extensive archival material, literary sources, correspondence, and images, Kallander (Syracuse Univ.) makes a compelling case for the ☐ Recommended political relevance of the family in early modern Ottoman Tunisia. In the process, she reveals the key role that upper-class women as family members played both in legitimizing 18th- and early-19th-century political structures and in the day-to-day administration of provincial as well as imperial governance. The Tunisian case study on which Kallander rests her argument will be of considerable interest to historians and political theorists of Ottoman North Africa. In addition, however, the author draws a series of deft comparisons between Tunisia and other early modern Asian and European states. Finally, Kallander makes thoughtful use of feminist theory throughout the study. As a result, the book should appeal to scholars and students of gender and politics quite broadly defined as well as to feminists seeking a mode of inquiry that eludes the assumptions underlying work that takes liberal individualism as its model of empowerment. A brilliant addition to the field. Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries.

118 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Hospitality & Tourism Management Faculty Member: Dawkins, Richard. An appetite for wonder: the making of a scientist: a memoir. [1st U.S. ed.]. Click here to enter text. ECCO, 2013. 308p index ISBN 9780062225795, $27.99 ☐ Required Richard Dawkins (Oxford Univ., UK) is a brilliant, provocative thinker, scholar, and prolific writer. This memoir encompasses the first half of his life; a second memoir is planned for the ☐ Recommended remainder. Dawkins, a product of the British cultural world of the mid-20th century, provides information and insights into his genealogy and comfortable childhood. He describes in detail and with occasional humor a life of extensive travel and learning privileges. In his intellectual journey, he was fortunate to have several encouraging mentors at Oxford and Berkeley, California, including a Nobel laureate. Via innovative tutorial methodologies, they nurtured his skepticism, curiosity, and inquisitiveness. Their involvement created opportunities for him to become an independent learner. Dawkins became a unique researcher who created new paradigms about genes and evolution, and their interconnectedness (see The Selfish Gene, CH, May'77). He is especially respectful of and praises Charles Darwin's discoveries and biological interpretations. The clarity and analysis of his comprehensive perspectives and writing helped to dispel prevalent myths, though his announced atheism created some controversy (see The God Delusion, CH, May'07, 44-4994). Overall, Dawkins has written an insightful narrative, but readers will not gain a deeper understanding of the genesis of his intellectual approaches or creative accomplishments. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic students and general readers. Faculty Member: Pai, Hyung Il. Heritage management in Korea and Japan: the politics of antiquity and identity. Click here to enter text. Washington, 2013. 258p bibl index ISBN 9780295993041, $75.00; ISBN 9780295993058 pbk, $30.00 ☐ Required The selection and valorization of heritage sites and themes is never neutral, but is packed with judgments derived from the worldviews and values of the choosers. This book's aim is to ☐ Recommended expose in great detail this known process in a relatively unexamined geographic sphere--that of East Asia and specifically the regions colonized by Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The subject lands are now the Koreas, but the frame of reference for the initial listing and inscribing of heritage sites was Japanese. The selection process was "driven by overlapping and competing political, social and economic imperatives," including national legitimacy and the promotion of trade. Pai (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) examines primary sources from the records of the major cultural institutions and decision-making bodies regarding cultural heritage, critically assesses the documentation process, reviews key collection agendas, and assesses the role of tourism and heritage promotion in creating a market for Korean cultural experiences. At the close, the author assesses contested ownership of Korean heritage, including discussion of the repatriation of material patrimony to Korea. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, specialists. Faculty Member: Chapman, William. A heritage of ruins: the ancient sites of Southeast Asia and their Click here to enter text. conservation. Hawai'i, 2013. 340p bibl index afp ISBN 9780824836313, $59.00 ☐ Required Chapman (Hawai'i) provides a fascinating history of how the archaeological sites of Southeast Asia have been transformed from places of religious devotion, folk memory, and symbols of ☐ Recommended decay to commercialized artifacts of global tourism and international heritage ideologies. He examines the distinctive political history of ruins in Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Burma, and Malaysia, and his nuanced analysis demonstrates that archaeological conservation differs significantly throughout the region. A product of individual colonial and local histories, ruins play central but diverse roles in national identity politics and heritage practices. Chapman examines how European notions of authenticity and the picturesque planted the seed of later heritage movements. However, he also considers the place of ruins in indigenous aesthetics, social memory, and literary traditions. The study reveals that the absorption of archaeological sites into national or international conservation programs has often led to the historical decontextualization of archaeological ruins and the alienation of 119 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 local communities from meaningful cultural landscapes. Of interest to archaeologists and conservationists working in Southeast Asia; should appeal widely to scholars pursuing research in the burgeoning world of heritage studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Fischer, Steven Roger. A history of the Pacific Islands. 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 331p Click here to enter text. bibl index ISBN 9780230362680, $90.00; ISBN 9780230362697 pbk, $30.00 ☐ Required Updating the first edition (2002) of his book, independent scholar Fischer follows Pacific history up to 2012. His account adds to the relatively few historical overviews of the region. ☐ Recommended Earlier summaries include Deryck Scarr's A History of the Pacific Islands (CH, Sep'02, 40-0467); I. C. Campbell's Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands (2nd ed., 2011); and Matt Matsuda's Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples, and Cultures (CH, Sep'12, 50-0430). Fisher divides the terrain, as usual, into Polynesia (including Aotearoa/New Zealand and Hawai'i), Melanesia (including Indonesian Papua), and Micronesia, but omits Australia and Southeast Asia. Pacific history is more broad than deep. Given that the region today comprises more than two-dozen political entities of various sorts, inclusive history demands selection and synopsis. The text circles from place to place and bombards readers with facts. Its structure is chronological: it begins with prehistory, then proceeds to traditional culture, explorers, traders, missionaries, colonialists, WW II, and, finally, episodic stories of a mixed record of independent state formation, postcolonialism, and new concerns including tourism, migration, and global warming. Without much justification, Fischer concludes with a prediction of a federated Pacific to come. Summing Up: Recommended. All college/university students/libraries. Faculty Member: O'Kane, Finola. Ireland and the picturesque: design, landscape painting and tourism, 1700- Click here to enter text. 1840. Yale, 2013. 229p bibl index afp ISBN 9780300185386, $85.00 ☐ Required One of the popular aesthetic theories of the 18th century was "the picturesque." William Gilpin, its greatest proponent, found Ireland a fertile source for picturesque vistas that ☐ Recommended "would look well in a picture." Landscape variety, ruined churches, and country houses built for tasteful display, and adjacent towns planned as a testament to a proprietor's commitment to improvement, were fashioned to please owners and visitors alike and to provide a worthy subject for art. Artists and writers encouraged travelers to sample Ireland's natural and manufactured beauties--from distant Killarney to County Wicklow, convenient to Dublin. While O'Kane (University College Dublin) offers an attractive and learned discussion of Ireland's place in the picturesque "project," her narrative sometimes obscures the interconnections between landscape schemes, tourism, and the fine arts. Artists who worked in Ireland, like Jonathan Fisher and William Ashford, receive appropriate attention, but an appendix with brief biographies of other key (but less familiar) figures would have been helpful. Over 160 good, mostly color illustrations of art and historic maps are included, supplemented with period and contemporary photographs. This is a useful volume for specialists in the art and culture of Georgian Ireland. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper- level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Walker, Lawrence R. Landslide ecology, by Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels. Click here to enter text. Cambridge, 2013. 300p bibl index ISBN 9780521190527, $120.00; ISBN 9780521178402 pbk, $60.00 ☐ Required Landslide Ecology, part of the "Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation" series, is a tour de force. It is the first published work that provides a systematic combination of geological and ☐ Recommended ecological approaches to assessing the relevance of landsliding to environmental management and associated problems and opportunities. In the first part of the book, Walker (plant ecology, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Shiels (USDA National Wildlife Research Center) discuss where landslides are most likely to occur. Chapters titled "Physical Causes and Consequences" and "Biological Consequences" follow. The latter chapter includes a discussion of the recolonization of disturbed surfaces by both native and invasive species. Chapter 6, "Living with Landslides," addresses human responsibility for landslides as a result 120 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 of construction, urbanization, forestry and agriculture practices, fire, and tourism, and landslide management through prediction, mitigation, and restoration efforts. The final chapter includes sections on the interactions between humans and landslides, climate change, and the rehabilitation of landscapes, concluding with "Lessons Learned" and "Future Directions." The coverage is virtually worldwide. Diagrams, maps, and photographs are numerous, excellent, and highly relevant. The book is well documented with an impressive 43-page bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: Frank, Jerry J. Making Rocky Mountain National Park: the environmental history of an Click here to enter text. American treasure. University Press of Kansas, 2013. 253p bibl index ISBN 9780700619320, $34.95 ☐ Required This book joins an ever-expanding body of environmentally based scholarship that examines the history of US national parks. The federal government created Rocky Mountain National ☐ Recommended Park in 1915 at the dawn of the automobile age and the related modern tourism industry, and at a point when nearby Denver was rapidly expanding into a major western metropolis. In increasing comfort and safety, tourists could now visit previously inaccessible and remote reaches in the western US, like Colorado's high country. The National Park Service was charged with managing the park, and similar to the experiences of other western national parks, scientific naiveté about lasting human impact on the natural world and attempts to control natural forces for the benefit of tourists often had serious and lasting environmental consequences. Controlling and managing elk, fish, and insect populations have, variously, created more long-term environmental conundrums in the park than they have "solved." As historian Frank (Univ. of Missouri) states, "A good deal of the park's history can be understood as a contest between the fluid forces of tourism and ecology, each vying to re- create the park in its own likeness." Photographs. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper- division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Alexander, Mike. Management planning for nature conservation: a theoretical basis & Click here to enter text. practical guide. 2nd ed. Springer, 2013. 508p bibl index afp ISBN 9789400751156 pbk, $109.00; ISBN 9789400751163 ebook, $79.95 ☐ Required This second edition (1st ed., CH, Jun'08, 45-5563) comes with improved typography and layout, the addition of color to flow diagrams, color photographs appropriate to the topic ☐ Recommended under discussion, an expanded chapter 6 introducing the most important planning concepts, and a new chapter on an ecosystem approach to planning, all greatly improving the usefulness of this book. In the first 10 chapters, Alexander (Conservation Management System Consortium, UK), a conservation management specialist with extensive worldwide experience, focuses on the conceptual basis of management: the structure of management planning, central issues involved in a plan, important planning concepts, conservation ethics, and various approaches to nature conservation and management. Chapters 11 through 19 provide a practical guide to planning from initial stages to implementation. Users can choose those chapters most appropriate to their project. The book concludes with five case studies, each with a different objective. Although strongly European in approach, the planning principles are applicable to any global geographical location to be managed wholly or in part for wildlife or as nature-oriented parks for tourism/recreation. Like its predecessor, this book is essential for nature conservation planners and managers from academia and various governmental and private agencies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. Faculty Member: NIAAA's guide to interscholastic athletic administration, [ed.] by Michael L. Blackburn et al. Click here to enter text. Human Kinetics, 2013. 392p bibl index afp ISBN 9781450432771, $49.00 ☐ Required by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA), this guidebook provides unique insight into and comprehensive overview of the issues and challenges ☐ Recommended confronting today's high school athletic administrators. It covers all facets of high school athletic administration, including asset control, facility management, budgetary control, fund 121 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 raising, program marketing, personnel and human resources, professional ethics, travel and transportation, program design, and compliance with contemporary legislation and regulations. Written by high school sport administrators in the US, the book's 16 chapters are divided into four parts: "Leadership Orientation," "Operational Process," "Financial Matters," and "Physical Assets." Throughout, the reader will find useful general knowledge, helpful contemporary strategies, and best practices to assist in understanding the multidisciplinary expertise and multifaceted demands and responsibilities inherent in the athletic director's role. Excellent examples and commentaries enhance the text. The book's epilogue provides an interesting perspective on future issues that will face interscholastic athletic administrators. This book is a valuable resource for both the aspiring athletic administrator and the seasoned professional. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, technical programs, professionals. Faculty Member: Griffis, Roger. Oceans and marine resources in a changing climate: a technical input to the Click here to enter text. 2013 National Climate Assessment, [by] Roger Griffis and Jennifer Howard. Island Press, 2013. 249p bibl afp ISBN 9781610914345 pbk, $39.95 ☐ Required This book documents the impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems and marine resources. It is one of a series of reports supporting the most recent National Climate ☐ Recommended Assessment; other reports in the series focus on specific geographic regions in the US. Many experts from various fields have contributed to provide the rich content. However, readers will easily be able to follow the text thanks to the superb editorial work of Griffis and Howard (both, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service). The format and organization are consistent throughout, weaving the chapters into one grand theme: the impact of climate change. Chapters begin with sections titled "Executive Summary," "Key Findings" and "Key Science Gaps/Knowledge Needs." This introductory content along with the inserts of several specific case studies makes the book very readable. Chapter 4, "Impacts of Climate Change on Human Uses of the Ocean and Ocean Services," is particularly noteworthy, as it addresses important questions that the US cannot avoid, focusing on areas such as fisheries/aquaculture, energy, tourism, and human health. This chapter also emphasizes the role of "social scientific assessments" for future planning to deal with climate change. Low resolution of the illustrations is the only drawback. Full text is available at http://cakex.org/virtual- library/oceans-and-marine-resources-changing-climate-technical-input-2013-national- climate-a. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: Ryan, James R. Photography and exploration. Reaktion Books, 2013. 192p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9781780231006 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Ryan (Univ. of Exeter, UK) investigates mid-19th through early-21st-century photography by European and American explorers. Following a brief history of travel photography, he ☐ Recommended discusses early state-sponsored scientific photography, survey photography, early-20th- century explorations of the North and South Poles, and space and underwater images. He emphasizes three themes: how photographs were made and in what context, form and aesthetics, and reception and circulation. This book demonstrates how, besides their avowed purpose, scientific photographs serve as symbolic carriers of other narratives, national and imperial power, and manly force conquering nature through traits of endurance, knowledge, and control. After surveying major expeditions (chapter 1) and the sublime and picturesque (chapter 2), Ryan addresses the typical absence of indigenous populations in most survey images. Inclusion of local people complicated Western ideas about discovery and shaped Western ideas about the "other" and the "exotic." Nineteenth-century photography of indigenous people tended toward the ethnographic documentation of "vanishing races." By the early 20th century, more local people appeared both as subjects and as photographers. Finally, Ryan discusses how images could be arranged in presentations to carry different messages. As he indicates, this book is intended to launch further investigation into a little- studied area of photography. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates 122 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Reader, Ian. Pilgrimage in the marketplace. Routledge, 2014. 228p bibl index (Routledge Click here to enter text. studies in religion, travel, and tourism, 2) ISBN 9780415709194 pbk, $39.95 ☐ Required Since the 1980s, Reader (Lancaster Univ., UK) has published many works on pilgrimages in Japan, above all the famous 88-temple pilgrimage on Shikoku Island. He embeds this detailed ☐ Recommended knowledge now within a wider experience and study of pilgrimages the world over, including Amarnath in Kashmir, Bodh Gaya in northern India, Knock in Ireland, Lourdes in France, Santiago de Compostela in Spain, and Mecca in Arabia. The author refutes a dichotomy between the sacred and the profane, renowned from the work of Mircea Eliade, mid-20th- century phenomenologist of religion at the University of Chicago. Whatever the pilgrim wishes to experience is rooted in the profane, Reader contends, like a lotus in the mud of a pond. Invention of holy sites, their commercialization, and promotion for such nonreligious purposes as entertainment, cultural tourism, and hiking for health are and always have been, he suggests, essential dimensions of pilgrimages. To condemn concocted holy stories, souvenir sales, ersatz sites in department stores and airport malls, and the provision of easy access, air-conditioned buses, nice restaurants, and luxurious accommodations is to miss the point, says Reader. These factors inspire pilgrimages and allow them to survive. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Gonzalez, Vernadette Vicuña. Securing paradise: tourism and militarism in Hawai'i and the Click here to enter text. Philippines. Duke, 2013. 284p bibl index afp ISBN 9780822353553, $89.95; ISBN 978082235370, $24.95 ☐ Required Gonzalez (American studies, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa) provides a carefully documented view of the relationships between tourism and the historical and current US military presence in ☐ Recommended the Pacific. The geopolitics of conflict and colonialism underscores the book's content. Of particular interest is the erudite drawing of parallels between militarism and tourism, with soldiers playing the part of agents of tourism, and other manifestations of US imperialism. The author's treatment of US imperialism and its aftereffects in the context of tourism is enlightening and the book's main highlight. One focus in this regard is the notion of development (Hawai'i and Japan) and underdevelopment (the Philippines), and some of the causal effects of this in tourism and military terms. The evolution of relationships between the US, Hawai'i, and the Philippines is nicely unpacked using a conceptual framework of feminist thought and masculinity. Other crucial topics include the marginalization of native peoples in both locations, and historical and current activism against a strong US presence in the Philippines. This engaging tome is a welcome addition to the literature, because it demonstrates a simultaneity of peace and conflict through tourism and militarism in paradise. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Stocker, Karen. Tourism and cultural change in Costa Rica: pitfalls and possibilities. ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780739140215, $80.00; ISBN 9780739140239 ebook, $79.99 ☐ Required This superb book is both a portrayal of the host society and a perceptive assessment of its current tourist scene. Tourism in Costa Rica is based not on massive resorts, but rather on the ☐ Recommended natural environment and the attraction of relatively small shore and mountain communities. Anthropologist Stocker (California State Univ., Fullerton) discusses four substantially different sites. Relations between tourists, resident foreigners, and locals are generally good. Montañosa, a rainforest community founded by US Quakers, has become a prosperous ecotourism destination with a mix of locals, visitors, and expats in a country with renowned environmental and public health policies ... and no army. Stocker takes a balanced approach to tourism, noting that it provides employment, has been helpful to indigenous people and their identity in many cases, and has been an important factor in the struggle for gender equality. Among the principal negative effects are drug use, prostitution and sex tourism, and environmental damage, all of these most evident in the beach towns. The author's methodology addresses a globalized context for localized research. She sees her two decades of Costa Rican research "as an invitation to see life as those who live it, experience it," 123 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 without thinking she has become one of them. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Keshodkar, Akbar. Tourism and social change in post-socialist Zanzibar: struggles for identity, Click here to enter text. movement, and civilization. Lexington Books, 2013. 235p bibl index afp ISBN 9780739175439, $80.00; ISBN 9780739175446 ebooks, $79.99 ☐ Required Keshodkar (Zayed Univ., Dubai) delivers a wonderful anthropological volume highlighting Zanzibaris' struggle for identity as the country embraces change in a postsocialist government ☐ Recommended and economy. Since the 1980s, Zanzibar has focused its economic development efforts on establishing tourism, which has resulted in unsustainable numbers of tourists and migrants flooding in from Tanzania, Kenya, and other mainland African countries. Through case study analyses and numerous narratives among stakeholders, Keshodkar points out that with a diverse population in Zanzibar, the local landscape has been modified and has impacted local constructions of belonging, whereby residents feel a sense of strangeness. Topics include movement, Islamic religion, politics, work and prosperity, consumption, mobility, gender, dress, family relations, and marriage. Needless to say, this text touches on many social aspects of community, and would be most appropriate for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level collections focusing on the impacts of tourism, tourism planning, community tourism, and the anthropology of tourism. Readers will not be disappointed, especially as they read the eye-opening stories of struggle and courage among the Zanzibari people. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Philpott, William. Vacationland: tourism and environment in the Colorado High Country. Click here to enter text. Washington, 2013. 497p bibl index afp ISBN 9780295992730, $39.95 ☐ Required Philpott (Univ. of Denver) charts the development of Colorado's high country as one of the premier tourist destinations in the US during the mid- to late-20th century. Above all else, ☐ Recommended this is a story of how post-WW II mass consumerism commodified the land itself by turning the interior of Colorado into "products: manufactured, packaged, branded and marketed like so many consumer goods." This intermountain area became a packaged place, marketed to Americans as a safe, scenic, alpine adventure with all of the conveniences of the modern suburban US. Understanding in microcosm how the ultra-tony ski resorts of Breckenridge, Vail, and Aspen developed reveals a great deal about postwar suburban sprawl into formerly wild and environmentally fragile western American spaces, the enormous impact of automobility on US tourism, the influence of mass marketing and modern advertising, and the corresponding environmental concern about the long-term effect the tourism industry has had on the natural environment. The creation of this vacationland mecca also has sparked enormous economic shifts in both the regional and national postwar economies. The author utilizes a bevy of archival and public documents. Photographs, maps, charts, and a substantial bibliography support the book. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

124 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Human Services Faculty Member: Supporting families experiencing homelessness: current practices and future directions, ed. Click here to enter text. by Mary E. Haskett, Staci Perlman, and Beryl Ann Cowan. Springer, 2014. 243p bibl index afp ISBN 9781461487173, $59.99 ☐ Required This edited volume provides a comprehensive look at the needs of homeless families, the human service system's responses to those needs, and the effectiveness of those ☐ Recommended interventions. The first chapter sets the stage with an explanation of family homelessness that focuses on structural factors, especially the shortage of affordable housing. Although each of the remaining chapters explores family homelessness through a different lens, several common themes emerge. They include the potentially detrimental impact of homelessness on child development, the need for culturally competent and trauma-informed services, and the challenges to parenting that homelessness creates. The last section of the book highlights the lack of methodologically sound empirical research on interventions that address the needs of homeless parents and their children, as well as the negative effects on homeless families of sometimes-contradictory federal policies. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Faguet, Guy B. The Affordable Care Act: a missed opportunity, a better way forward. Algora, Click here to enter text. 2013. 236p index afp ISBN 9780875869766, $32.95; ISBN 9780875869759 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780875869773 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) has resulted in a plethora of books praising it, teaching about it, or complaining about it. Faguet's book is a bit of all three. ACA, notes Faguet ☐ Recommended (retired, Georgia Health Sciences Univ.), will achieve notable policy goals as it ensures that more Americans will have access to health care. He describes ACA's several parts, indicates when they go into force, and wonders about their benign or not so benign effects on Americans. His chief argument is that ACA is a flawed solution to the real problems inherent in American health care. Beyond repairing the health insurance market, a universal, quality- driven system must be created. Faguet proposes three policy initiatives: a redesigned system structure and revised delivery of care methods and payment incentives for this care. To achieve these goals, a federal health board--similar to the Federal Reserve Board--needs to be established. Faguet hopes this board will be more immune to political intrusion than Congress is when it comes to reform. Policy professionals will be familiar with the argument and the solution. The book is written, however, for the public, and for them, it will prove a most useful book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate students and general readers. Faculty Member: Pelto, Pertti. Applied ethnography: guidelines for field research. Left Coast, 2013. 351p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp (Developing qualitative inquiry, 12) ISBN 9781611322071, $94.00; ISBN 9781611322088 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781611326505 ebook, $34.95 ☐ Required Techniques, approaches, and rationales for conducting ethnographic research have evolved greatly from the 20th-century paradigm of long-term, embedded participant observation. ☐ Recommended Today's ethnography increasingly employs a qualitative/quantitative mix and collaboration across disciplines ranging from health to environmental studies. Short-term, focused research is becoming the norm as contracted ethnographers meet deadlines for NGOs and agencies looking to make informed program changes. In-depth interviews, still an important tool, are transcribed, coded, and analyzed. Multidisciplinary teams commonly train local community members to assist with quick data collection. Pelto (emer., Univ. of Connecticut) does an outstanding job of covering a wide range of applied techniques, and providing contextualized examples from many countries. Clearly described methodologies like RAP (rapid assessment procedures), FES (focused ethnographic studies), social mapping, sampling, sketch mapping, free lists, pile sorting, and diaries are useful at all levels. Likewise, Pelto provides understandable guidelines for basic skills like gaining entry, training research teams, recording and organizing data, data coding and analysis, and writing the final report. Other 125 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 authors have tended to focus on a particular specialized method (e.g., autoethnography), a particular context (e.g., education), or a particular skill (e.g., writing field notes). Unlike Han Blommaert and Dong Jie's Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide (CH, Jan'11, 48-2441), which only gives examples of linguistic fieldwork only, this volume is a guide to conducting applied ethnographic research in a multitude of contexts and employing one or more methodologies from the large repertoire outlined. Helpful illustrations, text boxes highlighting key concepts, and extensive references add value. Equally excellent as a course text or in the field for tackling a thorny research challenge. Summing Up: Essential. Lower- division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Gnaulati, Enrico. Back to normal: why ordinary childhood behavior Is mistaken for ADHD, Click here to enter text. bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. Beacon Press, 2013. 239p index afp ISBN 9780807073346, $26.95; ISBN 9780807073353 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This book will likely hit many nerves. A clinical psychologist who specializes in children and mental health, Gnaulati is not shy about stating strong opinions, most of which he backed up ☐ Recommended with his reading of the scholarly literature. The book is well documented and, if taken with several grains of salt, offers many reasons to question and consider the process and results of psychiatric diagnoses of ADHD, autism, and bipolar disorder in children. Gnaulati argues that due to a combination of familial, technical, economic, medical, and educational factors, children are being diagnosed and medicated at an alarming rate, and that a lot of mistakes are being made--to the real detriment of children. Though the author goes to some questionable extremes (speculation about gender differences and evolution), the major point of the book is that all parties involved at any point in the process of diagnosis and prescription for a child should be looking hard, making this step a later one and certainly not a first attempt to help. Clear, engaging, and persuasive, this book provides an excellent look at the issues involved in diagnosis and medication, regardless of one's position. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers Faculty Member: Campbell, Alastair V. Bioethics: the basics. Routledge, 2013. 188p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780415504096, $95.00; ISBN 9780415504089 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9780203703960 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This work is part of Routledge's "The Basics" series, a growing collection of titles on a range of topics. Before this reviewer finished reading it, she had already decided to recommend it to a ☐ Recommended team developing her university's first interprofessional graduate ethics course in the health sciences as a way to focus curriculum design and to serve as a student textbook. This concise, precise, and inexpensive book contains a trove of information useful for both general health sciences audiences and laypersons wanting a clear introduction to ethical issues in health. Campbell (National Univ. of Singapore) frames the field well with an introduction that provides the cultural and historical context of bioethics along with the relationship between bioethics and the law. The author also offers an intelligent summary of ethical theory. Chapters include "Clinical Ethics"; "Research," an important discussion of research integrity; and "Justice," which discusses population and public health ethics. Each of these chapters is relevant to any health profession, not only medicine. The appendix of oaths would have been better had it included oaths from other health professions, although generally the oaths can easily be adapted to these other fields. A glossary of common terms and apt references end the book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All library collections. Faculty Member: Parry, Manon. Broadcasting birth control: mass media and family planning. Rutgers, 2013. Click here to enter text. 192p index afp ISBN 9780813561523, $75.00; ISBN 9780813561516 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required Should public service media campaigns inform or persuade? To examine the broadcasting of birth control information from the silent film era to the Internet, Parry (public history, Univ. ☐ Recommended of Amsterdam, Netherlands) thoroughly researched extensive media archives, including the personal papers of Margaret Sanger; Planned Parenthood records; film, radio, and television scripts; advertisements; reviews; and other materials. She explores the impact of censorship from the anti-obscenity Comstock Act (1873) that restricted the mail, the strong influence of 126 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 the Catholic Church and right-wing conservatives, and the "global gag rule" that limited access to abortion, contraceptives, and other reproductive services worldwide. She discusses concerns about overpopulation, racial and paternalistic viewpoints, economic pressures of large families, and also changing attitudes. International public health education incorporated local folk traditions, e.g., songs, dance, storytelling, puppet shows, drama, and soap operas, rather than question-and-answer forums or lectures; Parry gives examples of programs developed in India, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, etc. The author also discusses the work of communication experts, who were consulted for social marketing techniques to promote healthy behaviors and family planning. Illustrative black-and-white photographs and detailed chapter notes support the text. This revised dissertation is part of Rutgers' "Critical Issues in Health and Medicine" series. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Building partnerships in the Americas: a guide for global health workers, ed. by Margo J. Click here to enter text. Krasnoff. Dartmouth College Press, 2013. 265p index afp ISBN 9781611684209 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781611684094 ebook, $34.99 ☐ Required A brief overview of the historical and sociopolitical background of Central America and the Caribbean, together with a short review of humanitarian and global health aid efforts, ☐ Recommended introduces this work. The book focuses on seven countries: Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Chapter contributors (volunteers and current and former employees from a variety of organizations) highlight prominent health problems in each country and provide relevant examples of current health-related intervention efforts. Each chapter provides an excellent general account of a country's cultural, sociopolitical, geographical, and historical context of disease as well as information on the country's health system. Most chapters also provide suggested readings and websites for the reader who prefers a more in-depth analysis of the country or region. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students interested in global health, international development, and humanitarian aid will gain a clear understanding of the context of disease in these populations and how health-related aid efforts must be tailored to the population being served. A must read for anyone interested in volunteer work in the seven Central American and Caribbean countries highlighted here. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Ashton, Carol M. Comparative effectiveness research: evidence, medicine, and policy, by Click here to enter text. Carol M. Ashton and Nelda P. Wray. Oxford, 2013. 290p index afp ISBN 9780199968565, $55.00 ☐ Required In medicine, it is important that practitioners seek the best evidence. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) aids in this endeavor by providing evidence on the effectiveness, ☐ Recommended benefits, and harms of different treatment options to help clinicians and patients make informed decisions and health systems improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of delivering care. The Affordable Care Act includes CER as part of its provisions. Physicians Ashton and Wray (The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston) explore this federal policy in this three-part volume. Part 1 examines the concept of evidence in scientific medical research, while part 2 chronicles how CER became federal law. In part 3, the authors describe the effects of federal policy on CER. An epilogue discusses the implementation of CER provisions from 2010 to 2012, including the creation of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Drawing on interviews, various documents, newspapers, reports, and peer review literature, the authors have made an inclusive inspection of CER's promise to improve health outcomes. This comprehensive work illustrates quite clearly the marked need for research that tells practitioners what does and does not work in medicine. Though the text contains several acronyms, the writing is clear. Includes numerous chapter notes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through health professionals/practitioners, especially those in health policy. 127 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Complementary & alternative therapies in nursing, [ed.] by Ruth Lindquist, Mariah Snyder, Click here to enter text. and Mary Fran Tracy. 7th ed. Springer Publishing, 2014. 556p bibl index afp ISBN 9780826196125 pbk, $75.00 ☐ Required This expertly referenced, well-organized book provides insight into prevalent, though less understood, science-based methods of healing. The book's appeal is the recognition of the ☐ Recommended importance of alternative health care options and wellness treatments on their own; they are not simply diverting paths from politically influenced and regulated health care, but are part of an encompassing total human experience of self-direction and choice. The book emphasizes a heightened awareness of meeting patient needs, while recognizing patient- centered priorities for health restoration. Inasmuch as disruptions in health are experienced individually, the book's contributors suggest healing opportunities as diverse as individuals themselves. Like its predecessor, this updated edition (6th ed., CH, Jun'10, 47-5678) is divided into six parts and 31 chapters. While the chapters are authored separately, they flow easily, providing a smooth, continuous reading experience. The suggestions for future research are unique for this format and include valuable insight for expanding nursing research and promoting professional responsibility in ensuring the delivery of competent, compassionate, and holistic care. Overall, a valuable resource for community health care students, professional caregivers, and enlightened scholars. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners Faculty Member: Linos, Katerina. The democratic foundations of policy diffusion: how health, family and Click here to enter text. employment laws spread across countries. Oxford, 2013. 231p index afp ISBN 9780199967865, $99.00; ISBN 9780199967872 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Linos (Univ. of California at Berkeley Law School) brings an impressive mixed-method analysis to bear on the phenomenon of cross-national policy diffusion. The focus, and the important ☐ Recommended contribution, is on the democratic nature of the policy diffusion process. Linos's main argument is that citizens in democracies (even in America) give special weight to the experiences of other countries (and the stated policies of international organizations) when deciding whether to adopt a particular policy. This is in contrast to a more technocratic approach, wherein policy elites gather information from abroad and repackage it for consumption by the domestic voting audience. This book is written in an engaging, accessible style, but its rigor shines through. Linos uses carefully designed analyses to parse out the effects of technocrats and voters on policy diffusion. By isolating the contributing factors in this manner, she shows in a way that is more sophisticated than most others have envisioned that voters are able to gain from the experiences of other countries. This work has important consequences for the understanding of the influence of international organizations--policies need not be binding to be persuasive. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above Faculty Member: Handbook of health behavior change, ed. by Kristin A. Riekert, Judith K. Ockene, and Lori Click here to enter text. Pbert. 4th ed. Springer Publishing, 2014. 507p bibl index ISBN 9780826199355 pbk, $90.00; ISBN 9780826199362 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This book offers a comprehensive, holistic, and in-depth look at the art and science of health behavior change. The fourth edition (3rd ed., CH, Jul'09, 46-6233) has been thoroughly ☐ Recommended updated and revised to reduce duplicate content; it is some 300 pages shorter than its predecessor and contains 24 chapters, divided into six sections. (The third edition contained 40 chapters divided into seven sections.) Chapters cover a myriad of health issues such as alcohol abuse, obesity, and chronic disease, focusing on behavior and lifestyle challenges and research-based intervention and management strategies. Each expertly prepared chapter begins with "Learning Objectives" to facilitate a meaningful educational experience. Perhaps one of the unique aspects of the book is the way the authors are able to connect epidemiological and environmental influences to management behaviors. The authors give timely consideration to health care system challenges and the need for a team-based approach to support interventions. Students and professionals will return to this valuable 128 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 reference when seeking to unravel the complex, driving forces that shape health behavior and to understand the tools needed for health promotion. Truly, the book is a pleasure to read and a joy to recommend. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals Faculty Member: Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality, ed. by Raymond F. Paloutzian and Click here to enter text. Crystal L. Park. 2nd ed. Guilford, 2013. 698p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9781462510061, $95.00; ISBN 9781462510139 ebook, $95.00 ☐ Required The second edition of this handbook is a significant extension of the first (CH, Jun'06, 43- 5845). The approach throughout is on the empirical, scientific study of "the physical ☐ Recommended implications of spiritual and religious phenomena on the psychological health and stability of the individual." Most chapters are new or significantly revised, and organized into the same five sections as the first edition (with the fourth modified from "The Construction and Definition of Religion" to "The Construction and Expression of Religion and Spirituality"), followed by a conclusion. There is movement beyond the Western monotheistic traditions, with greater sensitivity to cross-cultural psychology of religion. The editors also advance an argument that careful application of the conceptual models of religious meaning systems and the multilevel interdisciplinary paradigms (especially in chapters 1 and 33) allows them to "recast how we conceptualize this field theoretically and expand the character and reach of our research." To conclude, the editors have done an exceptional job of demonstrating the growth of the field, its multidisciplinarity, its contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge, and its utility for addressing important religious and spiritual concerns, both individual and collective. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Aldwin, Carolyn M. Health, illness, and optimal aging: biological and psychosocial Click here to enter text. perspectives, by Carolyn M. Aldwin and Diane Fox Gilmer. 2nd ed. Springer Publishing, 2013. 395p bibl index ISBN 9780826193469 pbk, $90.00 ☐ Required Publications on aging should continue to proliferate, especially as baby boomers increasingly move into that developmental stage. In this second edition (1st ed., 2004) of Health, Illness, ☐ Recommended and Optimal Aging, Aldwin (Oregon State Univ., Corvallis) and Gilmer (retired, Univ. of California, Davis) concisely and effectively update what they describe as a "huge wave of information on aging." The 14-chapter, four-part book covers an array of topics on health and gerontology: demographics, biological changes for each body system, psychosocial concerns, and a full range of issues related to retirement. Particularly helpful to novice readers is a chapter on the basics of research design and analysis. Throughout the book, the authors discuss the seminal theories on aging and health and provide updates on current thinking and research. Each chapter provides a concise description of its subject, and a section on gerotechnology is a timely addition. A 68-page reference list allows readers to conduct more in-depth study. Clearly written at a level for college students, this is an excellent resource on aging. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Hansen, Randall. Sterilized by the state: eugenics, race, and the population scare in Click here to enter text. twentieth-century North America, by Randall Hansen and Desmond King. Cambridge, 2013. 303p bibl index ISBN 9781107032927, $85.00; ISBN 9781107659704 pbk, $29.99 ☐ Required Students and novices of history may not be surprised by much omitted from texts and professors' lectures; read this book, however, and anyone with empathy will be shocked at ☐ Recommended what has taken place in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. Hansen (political science, Univ. of Toronto; Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain, 2000) and King (American government, Oxford; The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation, CH, Nov'05, 43- 1789) combine efforts to provide an insightful history of eugenics and coerced (sometimes voluntary) sterilization of those deemed to be unfit because of heredity (feeblemindedness), class, race, poverty, or what some felt was below average intelligence. Many progressive- minded individuals along with foundations, superintendents of asylums, and, of course, politicians were involved in this sad effort. Although some trace eugenics to Germany's Nazi 129 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 era, the movement occurred in the US and Canada far in advance of Hitler's rise to power. This book is a must for historians, sociologists, and those in the field of family planning. Consider Johanna Schoen's Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (CH, Jan'06, 43-3102) as a companion read. Summing Up: Highly recommended. An acceptable read for all levels Faculty Member: Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Press. Variation in health care spending: Click here to enter text. target decision making, not geography, ed. by Joseph P. Newhouse. National Academies Press, 2013. 180p bibl ISBN 9780309288699, $55.00 ☐ Required This excellent monograph is the well-written, thorough, and thoughtful report of a commission established to examine whether or not Medicare or other governmental health ☐ Recommended insurance programs should consider paying for medical quality and efficiency on the basis of geographic areas (MSAs, HSAs, or HRRs). The distinguished panel answers with a resounding "no," based on the lack of correlation between costs and payments by provider type within geographic area, and the fact that appropriate payment should be based on the decision- making unit (e.g., a hospital, clinic, group practice HMO, or ACO) rather than any definable geographic area. The most notable finding in the report is that three-fourths of the systematic variation in costs between areas is due to post-acute long-term care, with some attributable to hospital costs. Only a little is due to average numbers of procedures or pharmacy and diagnostic costs, and virtually none is due to difference in emergency room utilization (see p. 70 of the report). This monograph, available free as a download from the National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18393, should be read by anyone wishing to see a contemporary health policy study done right. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional audiences as well as general readers

130 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Journalism & New Media Studies Faculty Member: Loxton, Daniel. Abominable science!: origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other famous cryptids, by Click here to enter text. Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero. Columbia, 2013. 411p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231153201, $29.95 ☐ Required There is no end to nonsense presented in the guise of science, and thus there will always be a need for sensible, comprehensive books like this. Writer/journalist Loxton and noted ☐ Recommended paleontologist Prothero (formerly, Occidental College) have written the best and most useful book yet on the phenomenon of illusory "cryptids" like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Cryptozoology will always be, at least conceptually, caught between real exploratory science and myth mongering. Abominable Science! not only explores this boundary zone with authority, but delves deep into the historical origins of the most famous monsters and then addresses why so many people are convinced they really exist. The illustrations are spectacular, and the book is very well referenced and up-to-date. The prose combines scientific rigor with journalistic flash. One of the best chapters, especially to jaded skeptics, is on the evolution of the sea serpent meme, which is complexly intertwined with the world's growing maritime experience. This reviewer suspects a new edition might even include mythic fossil sea monsters like the recently proposed "Triassic kraken." This book is valuable for all libraries because interest in this topic is high in virtually all age and scholarship groups. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Felton, George. Advertising: concept and copy. 3rd ed. W. W. Norton, 2013. 320p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780393733860 pbk, $65.00 ☐ Required Building on the strengths of previous editions (2nd ed., CH, Dec'06, 44-2200), this new edition places more emphasis on social media and the importance of creating a unique brand ☐ Recommended identity. Felton (Columbus College of Art and Design) has also added a chapter titled "Telling Stories," which focuses on the need for copywriters to develop "narratives" about what a brand represents, its history, and core values. These story lines are what enable a company to connect with consumers and gain long-term loyalty. An excellent resource for advertising professionals and students alike, the book is divided into three parts: "Strategy," "Execution," and a creative "Toolbox." Anyone stumped for an idea will want to look into the toolbox for inspiration. Delving into the reasons why ads do or do not work, Felton looks at FedEx, Gibson guitars, Volvo, Volkswagen, Nike, Hoover, Corona beer, and many other products. With numerous color illustrations, writing examples, suggestions, and a "StudySpace" website where students can access advertising materials, this book has everything needed to empower one to create innovative ads. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division and graduate advertising and design students, faculty, and practitioner Faculty Member: Parry, Manon. Broadcasting birth control: mass media and family planning. Rutgers, 2013. Click here to enter text. 192p index afp ISBN 9780813561523, $75.00; ISBN 9780813561516 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required Should public service media campaigns inform or persuade? To examine the broadcasting of birth control information from the silent film era to the Internet, Parry (public history, Univ. ☐ Recommended of Amsterdam, Netherlands) thoroughly researched extensive media archives, including the personal papers of Margaret Sanger; Planned Parenthood records; film, radio, and television scripts; advertisements; reviews; and other materials. She explores the impact of censorship from the anti-obscenity Comstock Act (1873) that restricted the mail, the strong influence of the Catholic Church and right-wing conservatives, and the "global gag rule" that limited access to abortion, contraceptives, and other reproductive services worldwide. She discusses concerns about overpopulation, racial and paternalistic viewpoints, economic pressures of large families, and also changing attitudes. International public health education incorporated local folk traditions, e.g., songs, dance, storytelling, puppet shows, drama, and soap operas, rather than question-and-answer forums or lectures; Parry gives examples of programs developed in India, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, etc. The author also discusses the work of communication experts, who were consulted for social marketing techniques to promote 131 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 healthy behaviors and family planning. Illustrative black-and-white photographs and detailed chapter notes support the text. This revised dissertation is part of Rutgers' "Critical Issues in Health and Medicine" series. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Harris, Richard Jackson. A cognitive psychology of mass communication, by Richard Jackson Click here to enter text. Harris and Fred W. Sanborn. 6th ed. Routledge, 2014. 544p bibl indexes ISBN 9780415537049, $180.00; ISBN 9780415537056 pbk, $69.95; ISBN 9780203110904 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This title presents one of the most accessible and comprehensive looks at the subject. Offering a diverse, current snapshot of several areas of mass communication, Harris and ☐ Recommended Sanborn cite studies from several continents and highlight past and contemporary work to cover classic approaches to mass communication, such as the requisite discussion of sexual media, media violence, and the role of news media in contemporary society. In addition, the authors demonstrate great acumen with more contemporary approaches to media research, such as discussions of media's role in sparking insight (eudaimonia) as well as pleasure (hedonism). A closer read of the book at times reveals the authors' own notes and fears about media and society (including subtle references to gun-control laws and childhood obesity, among others), but these points are made not as pontifications but rather as contextualized provocations. That is, they are efforts to push the reader beyond the litany of citations so that they can understand the implications of research rather than the findings in isolation. A must-read for anyone with professional or even passing interest in the psychological impact of mass communication; the margins of this reviewer's copy are already full of lecture and research notes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Morrell, Ernest. Critical media pedagogy: teaching for achievement in city schools, by Ernest Click here to enter text. Morrell et al. Teachers College Press, 2013. 182p bibl index afp ISBN 9780807754399, $72.00; ISBN 9780807754382 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required There is no question but that critical media pedagogy should be central to all forms of contemporary schooling. That it is not--that critical media pedagogy remains marginalized-- ☐ Recommended underscores the importance of this new, collaboratively written book. Here Morrell et al. synthesize a variety approaches to engaging youth in media study, for the value that inheres in such study in addition to its positive resonance to other core disciplines. Students are to be taught not only how to critically examine the media messages to which they are ubiquitously subjected, but to craft their own empowering narratives as well. Traditional forms of literacy are conjoined with digital and other literacies and are celebrated in kind. There is sound practical advice and insight, based on work at two Los Angeles high schools, grounded in a theory of critical emancipatory education that transcends time and place. Perhaps most importantly, the teacher/authors refuse to be constrained by the multiple standards and standardization schemes imposed on them, but rather use critical media pedagogy to animate (and perhaps subvert) these standards in truly creative ways. Highly recommended for general readers, teachers, and pre-service teachers, especially in social studies and English. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and professionals Faculty Member: Nuechterlein, Jonathan E. Digital crossroads: telecommunications law and policy in the Click here to enter text. Internet age, by Jonathan E. Nuechterlein and Philip J. Weiser. 2nd ed. MIT, 2013. 506p index afp ISBN 9780262519601 pbk, $35.00 ☐ Required For anyone teaching or just interested in the background and complexities of telecommunications policy, this revised edition (1st ed., CH, Sep'05, 43-0440) is close to ☐ Recommended invaluable. Nuechterlein (chair, telecommunications practice, WilmerHale law firm) and Weiser (dean of the Law School, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) address the wide range of issues relevant to this sector, including the pertinent fundamentals in law, engineering, history, politics, and economics. Among the issues covered are competition among wireline providers 132 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 (telephone versus cable), and spectrum management--including the current thorny issue of how to induce television broadcasters to cede some airwaves to mobile broadband providers. Separate chapters are also devoted to net neutrality, perhaps the hottest recent hot potato; intercarrier compensation; and universal funding. Distinctive features of this book are sensitivity to nuance and scrupulous non-advocacy. Consequently, it is ideal as a professional reference and for courses in media, the Internet, or telecommunications policy. The volume's only drawback is the widespread but necessary use of the phrase "at press time," since law, regulation, and engineering do not stand still. The only improvement one could wish for is annual supplements. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections Faculty Member: Rogers, Richard. Digital methods. MIT, 2013. 274p bibl index ISBN 9780262018838, $35.00 Click here to enter text. ☐ Required Rogers's preparation for writing a book on the development and status of digital methods ranges from a professorship in new media at the University of Amsterdam to projects ☐ Recommended launched under the auspices of Govcom.org and the Digital Methods Initiative http://www.digitalmethods.net/Digitalmethods/WebHome. The "digital methods" in the title refers to methods applied to web data. While his ideas emerge from projects, Rogers shows how to think about these methods rather than how to do them. Digital Methods extends Internet studies in many significant respects. Rogers's core ideas revolve around the idea of "online groundedness," meaning that web studies are social studies. He repurposes Internet studies by showing how its focus can be shifted from the new world of "cyberspace" to the use of web-based tools and data to make claims about societal and cultural conditions. This is a very useful volume for collections supporting research and teaching in new media or digital humanities. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Lavine, Matthew. The first atomic age: scientists, radiations, and the American public, 1895- Click here to enter text. 1945. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 247p index afp ISBN 9781137307217, $85.00 ☐ Required No cultural marker is as intuitively recognized as the atomic age--but which atomic age? The first atomic age spans 50 years from Roentgen and radioactivity to Hiroshima and Nagasaki; ☐ Recommended how different that beguiling beginning was from the bedeviled ending. After that, a second atomic age, marked by nuclear fear mirrored in popular culture (e.g., movies such as The China Syndrome, Dr. Strangelove, and On the Beach), made cowards of everyone. Here, in five chapters, Lavine (Mississippi State Univ.) takes readers through crazes and crazies and the wholesale commodification arising from the ubiquity of these atomic emanations. Using crisp, stylish prose, the author debunks Blondlot and illuminates the contributions of the Curies. He also discusses fluoroscopes for fitting shoes; radium, the new snake oil; Barnumesque quackery; and journalistic views of the brave new world. This literate and literary tour de force, part of the series "Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology," deserves a wider audience than it is likely to receive. See also The Nuclear Age in Popular Media, edited by Dick van Lente (CH, Jul'13, 50-6157). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Doherty, Thomas. Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. Columbia, 2013. 429p index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780231163927, $35.00 ☐ Required Doherty (American studies, Brandeis Univ.) has written an important contribution to the history of Hollywood's response to the Nazi efforts to censor US films targeted for export to ☐ Recommended Germany, as well as the groups and organizations that sought to alert the public to the threat the Nazis represented to the American way of life. The book describes, for example, the efforts of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and Henry Luce's "March of Times" news documentaries to expose Nazi violent excesses and anti-Semitism, 1933-39. Unlike Ben Urwand's controversial The Collaboration (CH, Jan'14, 51-2868), which centers primarily on the capitulation of Hollywood's mostly Jewish-owned film studios to Nazi censorship, Doherty focuses more generally on foreign and independent films as well as the Warner Brothers series of short anti-Nazi films as illustrative of efforts to alert the public to the danger of Nazi 133 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 fascism on the eve of WW II. He also presents a picture of Hollywood's moguls more concerned with maintaining their market in Germany than in cutting ties with the Nazis. Doherty suggests that greed rather than "collaboration" characterizes the response of the Hollywood studios to Hitler's Germany. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Carr, Gina. Klout matters: how to engage customers, boost your digital influence--and raise Click here to enter text. your Klout score for success, by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. McGraw-Hill, 2014. 221p index ISBN 9780071827317 pbk, $18.00 ☐ Required Carr and Brock, marketing specialists, present a practical framework for anyone wanting to use the social media to influence others. In the crowded and often chaotic universe of social ☐ Recommended media, thought leaders are faced with the daunting task of "getting through" and effectively engaging people whose behavior they want to shape. The authors present a compelling case for thought leaders to use a highly acclaimed social scoring system called Klout to develop and measure their online and offline influence. Organizations and thought leaders are interested in Klout because it can be used to identify true opinion leaders who have exceptional ability to influence others. The authors do a fine job describing the techniques individuals can use to build a social media presence and cultivate and grow their Klout score on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other social media platforms. The book's appendix contains a wide assortment of recommended podcasts, videos, and blogs that will help people in connecting meaningfully with others. In sum, this book provides great insight on how thought leaders can increase their digital influence with the aid of a social scoring system that has proven effective. See also, Mark Schaefer's Return on Influence (CH, Sep'12, 50-0387). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students at all levels; researchers; practitioners; general readers. Faculty Member: Voltmer, Katrin. The media in transitional democracies. Polity, 2013. 275p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780745644585, $69.95; ISBN 9780745644592 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required Voltmer's work addresses the role of media in states undergoing political transitions. It is broad and comparative in scope, focusing on normative issues, the role of media in ☐ Recommended transitions, and how media are transformed during this process. Part 1 argues that "democracy and press freedom are both contested concepts that are socially constructed through public discourse." The importance of history and context are highlighted. Readers will appreciate the nuance provided as Voltmer (Univ. of Leeds, UK) notes the complexity and mutually constituted nature of change. Media is analyzed "as a force that promotes or inhibits transitions to democracy." The last section of the book notes how political, economic, social, and professional factors affect the development of the press. The world's new media environment is a central focus, as the author argues that "political decision-making and democratic participation are inextricably intertwined with, and dependent on, the media of mass communication, both traditional and new." Overall, this is an excellent theoretical contribution to the study of political communication. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: Brock, George. Out of print: newspapers, journalism and the business of news in the digital Click here to enter text. age. Kogan Page, 2013. 242p index ISBN 9780749466510 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780749466527 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Brock (City Univ. of London, UK) examines some of the history, current challenges, and future directions of the news business. He provides an overview of the unraveling of the business ☐ Recommended model that underpinned many news organizations in the late 20th century. He cites international examples and notes how recent developments, including efforts by news organizations to find new revenue streams, vary within and among nations. Although Brock focuses on the business of journalism, he does not ignore recent changes and challenges in news ethics and practices. He emphasizes that the future of news reporting is to provide a context about events and information, be an eyewitness to events, verify, and investigate concealed public affairs issues. The book includes abundant insights about the global impact 134 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 of media technology. For example, the author notes that in a developing nation anyone with a smartphone has better access to information about that nation than Bill Clinton had when he was president. Commendably well written and annotated, this volume will be valuable to anyone interested in journalism, mass communication, or digital media. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. Faculty Member: Manovich, Lev. Software takes command: extending the language of new media. Bloomsbury, Click here to enter text. 2013. 357p index afp ISBN 9781623568177, $100.00; ISBN 9781623567453 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781623562618 ebook, $29.95 ☐ Required Manovich (CUNY) critically examines modern software media authoring/creation tools in Software Takes Command. The three-part book covers early history and development ☐ Recommended ("Inventing Media Software"), foundational technologies and early experimentation ("Hybridization and Evolution"), and current status and future developments ("Software in Action"). The book does not reveal just the origin of these pervasive tools, e.g., Photoshop or Auto-Tune, but also what the algorithmic DNA within the code shares with the analysis techniques used in the intelligence community and how this "cross-pollination" resulted. One of the most critical points made is how the evolution of the personal computer coupled with the efforts of early software/interface pioneers at Xerox PARC and MIT provided the necessary foundation to even make these software tools possible. This formative period was a key factor in the development of what Manovich terms "metamedia," the melding of standard media within a software environment. The result is the mashable data representations increasingly seen today, e.g., Google Maps and its varying informational overlays. Development of this software over time has made what was once reserved for experts accessible to increasing numbers of laypersons, abolishing the distinction between passive observers and creators. This thoroughly researched, beautifully written book should satisfy even the most curious readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Understanding machinima: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds, ed. by Jenna Ng. Click here to enter text. Bloomsbury, 2013. 265p index ISBN 9781441140524, $120.00; ISBN 9781441104489 pbk, $34.95 ☐ Required As machinima has evolved and intersected with many different media, the study of machinima has become increasingly interdisciplinary. With this study, Ng (Univ. of York, UK) ☐ Recommended erases many of the boundaries that existed around the study of this art form to explore machinima as "less a discrete, distinguishable media form than a fluid dialogue of and between media." The second major theme of the collection is "the diversity of this machinima world and how it stands against all other realities--physical, animated, virtual, blended, hybrid, augmented." The collection gives equal attention to the theoretical and the practical, offering readers a diverse selection of perspectives on machinima and related media. Some chapters take a fairly standard approach and examine machinima in the context of traditional media studies; other chapters explore unique topics such as machinima as digital puppetry and machinima in a First Nations context. This title would make an excellent complement to introductory texts on machinima because it offers a timely exploration of many aspects of machinima that will not be found in most other works on the subject. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty Faculty Member: Gardner, Martin. Undiluted hocus-pocus: the autobiography of Martin Gardner. Princeton, Click here to enter text. 2013. 233p index afp ISBN 9780691159911, $24.95 ☐ Required This book describes some of the pivotal moments in the life of prolific author/journalist Martin Gardner (1914-2010), who is best known for his illuminating and entertaining ☐ Recommended contributions to Scientific American magazine from 1956 to 1981. Fans of Martin Gardner will find this posthumously published autobiography fascinating and will forgive the sometimes rambling, less polished style of the prose. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus describes in some detail Gardner's upbringing and schooling through college at the University of Chicago and a tour of duty in the Navy. There is less space given to the second half of Gardner's life, though the chapter devoted to his time with Scientific American is fascinating. Gardner includes several 135 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 chapters describing his views on philosophy and what might be described as his religious beliefs. Readers unfamiliar with philosophy may find those chapters a bit dense. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: War of words: culture and the mass media in the making of the Cold War in Europe, ed. by Click here to enter text. Judith Devlin and Christoph Hendrik Müller. University College Dublin Press, 2013. 226p index afp ISBN 9781906359379, $99.95 ☐ Required For all the horror of murderous revenge, expulsions and ethnic cleansing, and brutal repression around the end of WW II, and the ever-present fear of a nuclear holocaust ☐ Recommended unleashed at any moment by the superpowers, the actual Cold War in Europe essentially turned into a noisy cultural war of ideologies. With the exception of the Greek Civil War, violence appeared almost exclusively in defensive or aggressive enforcement of the respective ideologies. These 17 essays capture this defining aspect of the Cold War splendidly in case studies from a wide range of countries in Eastern and Western Europe, including three chapters from the core country of the European Cold War--Germany East and West. The editors made no attempt at full coverage, but clearly selected the best essays from all the major aspects of the topic from the original 42 papers presented at a conference in Dublin. The perspectives include propaganda methods, institutions, samples, and the politics behind it. Particular attention is deservedly on the classic carrier of propaganda of the time--the radio. This collection belongs in any good collection of Cold War history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.

136 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Modern Languages Faculty Member: Migraine-George, Thérèse. From Francophonie to world literature in French: ethics, poetics, Click here to enter text. and politics. Nebraska, 2013. 237p bibl index afp ISBN 9780803246362, $50.00 ☐ Required Migraine-George (Univ. of Cincinnati) examines French-language literature following the 2007 publication of the manifesto "Toward a 'World Literature' in French," which was signed by 44 ☐ Recommended French-speaking writers, many from former French colonies. The aim of the manifesto was to undermine the entrenched center-periphery relationship between "French" literature (usually used to describe writing in French by white authors from France) and "Francophone" literature (the label assigned to writing in French by usually non-white others). The author studies the work of six authors--Tierno Monénembo, Nina Bouraoui, Hélène Cixous, Marie NDiaye, Maryse Condé, and Lyonel Trouillot, all of whom have expressed publicly a resistance to the label "Francophone." Her intent is to reveal how their writing embraces the decentering project of littérature-monde en français through foregrounding diversity and ambiguity, not limited to but especially in matters of cultural, ethnic, or national identity. The introduction and conclusion are well crafted and informative, especially for readers who may not be familiar with the background aims of littérature-monde and how it distinguishes itself from Francophone literature. Migraine-George's analysis of her primary authors is also well supported; the extensive notes will be quite useful to readers less familiar with the subject matter or the authors presented in this study. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty Faculty Member: Césaire, Aim'e. The original 1939 notebook of A return to the native land: bilingual edition, Click here to enter text. ed. and tr. by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman. Wesleyan, 2013. 73p bibl ISBN 9780819573704, $24.95 ☐ Required The most notable translation of Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal prior to this translation was a bilingual edition published in 1971. That translation of the 1956 rendering ☐ Recommended included the 1947 preface by André Breton. Marveling at the power of Césaire's expressive language, Breton touts Césaire's lengthy poem as "the greatest lyrical moment of our times." Of the four published renditions of the Cahier, this translation into English by Césaire scholars Arnold (emer., Eastern Michigan Univ.) and Eshleman (emer., Univ. of Virginia) is the first of the original 1939 poem. Unlike the other translations, this version offers, among other differences, opening strophes not included in subsequent publications. As the translators assert, the purpose of this new translation is not "to reveal what the poem ultimately means but rather how it was meant to be read in 1939." And unlike other translators who sought to capture the essence of the revolutionary spirit of the text, Arnold and Eshleman remain faithful to the rhythmic and incantatory power of the original text. A rare gift in translated poetry, this authentic rendering of the text makes the poem's mesmerizing effect accessible to those without French. The volume includes introductory remarks, an appendix, and a chronology of Césaire's work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Redefining Latin American historical fiction: the impact of feminism and postcolonialism, ed. Click here to enter text. by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 263p bibl index afp ISBN 9781137277565, $85.00 ☐ Required This collection examines the ways in which feminism and postcolonialism have influenced the creation of the Latin American historical novel in the late 20th and 21st centuries. In her ☐ Recommended useful introduction, Weldt-Basson (Michigan State Univ.) provides background on theories regarding historical fiction, feminism, and postcolonialism, and outlines four major categories of the historical novel as developed in Latin America: those that investigate national identity; those that mix history and myth (including magical realism); those that employ intertextuality; and those that are considered symbolic historical novels (she provides examples of each). Weldt-Basson grounds her work in the theories of Homi Bhabha, Seymour Menton, and Edward Said. The essays treat a wide variety of works: of particular interest are Weldt-Basson's interesting analysis of Mario Vargas Llosa's El sueño del celta; Patricia Vara's 137 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 examination of Claribel Alegría's Cenizas de Itzalco as an example of women's strategies for opening up the realm of history and historiography to what had been marginalized; and Fernando Burgos's discussion of Reinaldo Arenas's El mundo alucinante and Cristina Peri Rossi's El nave de los locos and their refutation of history. As Weldt-Basson argues, the contemporary Latin American novel is both influenced by and influences postmodern theories of postcolonialism and feminism. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Santiáñez, Nil. Topographies of fascism: habitus, space, and writing in twentieth-century Click here to enter text. Spain. Toronto, 2013. 411p bibl index afp ISBN 9781442645790, $85.00 ☐ Required Based on scholarly research of fascism in Spain, Santiáñez's book provides an intellectual and literary history of fascism and its cultural production. His research uncovers unknown texts ☐ Recommended from articles, essays, speeches, poems, and memoirs on Francoist propaganda from 1920 until 1950. The author presents the notion of building a fascist state and architecture in Spain through careful research of the symbols of the Franco regime engraved in public places by the victors of the war. From buildings and public rituals to military events, the author approaches fascism topographically, presenting Spanish architecture based on fascist aesthetics. The book shows history through the lens of space, drawing from different texts focused on space and key works, not only by leading Spanish fascists, but also by Italian, German, and French fascists. One chapter is dedicated to the creation and the Hispanization of Morocco and the interconnection between Spanish colonialism and fascism, analyzing spatial practices and spaces of representation. The book concludes with extensive notes, a well-documented bibliography, and a concise index. This is a good tool for writers and researchers interested in the Spanish Civil War, fascist politics, and literature. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper- division undergraduates through faculty. Faculty Member: Cousineau, Thomas J. An unwritten novel: Fernando Pessoa's The book of disquiet. Dalkey Click here to enter text. Archive, 2013. 170p bibl afp ISBN 9781564788856 pbk, $35.00 ☐ Required In this clearly written, well-documented book, Cousineau (Washington College) analyzes Pessoa's major work in prose--the unfinished, unordered, and "unwritten" Book of Disquiet ☐ Recommended attributed to heteronym Bernardo Soares, the self-confessed "character of an unwritten novel." Pessoa wrote fragments of his famous nonbook at all stages of his literary life, but left it unorganized. Cousineau shows how The Book resulted from different kinds of shattering, as a ruin or purposefully incomplete construction, even a failed project, which is now being recognized for that as one of the masterpieces of modernist writing. High points of the book include comparisons to Eliot and Borges and discussion of Ulysses's voyage, the Hamlet complex, presence of Shakespeare, Daedalus and the labyrinth, and surrogate forms of suffering. Poeticizing of prose is thoroughly described through forms of amplification, contradiction, and comparison. Cousineau describes how metaphors transmute Soares's insignificance into universal dispersal, allowing him to find validity in writing outside the self or its circumstances; by disassembling normal parts of the novel, Pessoa/Soares posits indeterminacy of writing and being as his supreme, crowning achievement. This is required reading for those who wish to understand Pessoa. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers

138 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Music Faculty Member: Treece, Dave. Brazilian jive: from samba to bossa and rap. Reaktion Books, 2013. 232p bibl Click here to enter text. discography filmography index ISBN 9781780230856 pbk, $25.00 ☐ Required This book treats a daring topic that covers more than one genre of popular music. Brazil's samba variants are based on one single rhythmic pattern and differ from one another only by ☐ Recommended the tempo. As a style of popular music, rap has cast a wide net of influence around the world, and the samba has not escaped its grip. Treece (Portuguese, King's College London, UK) builds his arguments step by step, beginning with the linguistic roots of popular music and culminating with the language-based rap. In the book's six chapters, he covers a wide range of topics--language, music, and politics, documented in music. A chronology reveals how political and social events in Brazil have been recorded in song. This feature alone will stimulate the curiosity of those interested in Brazilian culture. Written in clear, jargon-free prose, the book includes a glossary as well as a helpful discography and filmography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates and graduate students Faculty Member: Bauer, Karen Tillotson. The essentials of beautiful singing: a three-step kinesthetic approach. Click here to enter text. Scarecrow, 2013. 149p index afp ISBN 9780810886872, $75.00; ISBN 9780810886889 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9780810886896 ebook, $39.99 ☐ Required This is a how-to manual in the truest sense. Bauer, an experienced voice teacher, eschews the technical information and jargon currently found in most vocal pedagogy books and ☐ Recommended concentrates instead on the physical experience of singing. Her kinesthetic approach espouses a mind-body coordination supported by sound technical principles imparted and recalled by simple language prompts. The explanations provided for each of the three steps of her method are uncomplicated and adaptable to a wide variety of teaching styles. Though she cultivates simplicity in style and terminology, the author reveals a keen understanding of the vocal mechanism and also familiarity with modern advances in vocal science and pedagogy. The omission of any extended discussion of phonation as one of the key elements of classical vocal technique, however, may well lead to charges of oversimplification. The opposite is true when Bauer addresses musical skills: her overly detailed analysis of musical/textual syntax and legato risks inhibiting a student's natural musical inclinations. Experienced singers and novices should still find the vast majority of the book enlightening and refreshing in its ease of use and practicality. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Deruchie, Andrew. The French symphony at the fin de siècle: style, culture, and the Click here to enter text. symphonic tradition. Rochester, 2013. 294p bibl index afp (Eastman studies in music, 100) ISBN 9781580463829, $85.00 ☐ Required There is no shortage of writings on the symphony in the classical era and in 19th-century Romanticism, particularly on the work of Beethoven and other German-influenced ☐ Recommended composers. But such close studies or analysis of the French symphony after Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which was first performed in 1830, are relatively few. Thus, this contribution by Deruchie (Univ. of Otago, New Zealand) is particularly important. Looking at seven late-Romantic symphonies by French composers, the book begins with a survey of the French symphonic landscape--from performance organizations to the ever-looming influence of Beethoven to the sociocultural factors affecting compositional decisions--the idea of "ad astra per aspera" that pervades so much Romantic music and French nationalism of the time. Each of Deruchie's analyses is replete with musical examples and formal diagrams; discussion of each symphony is tailored to the unique features of that work, whether they be cyclical elements, motivic elements, influence of the sublime, or mysticism, just to name a few such ideas. Destined to become a standard resource for anyone interested in the symphony, late Romanticism, or French music, the book is sufficiently detailed to engage professionals and scholars, but accessible enough for the interested novice. Summing Up: Essential. All readers 139 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Inventing the American guitar: the pre-Civil War innovations of C. F. Martin and his Click here to enter text. contemporaries, ed. by Robert Shaw and Peter Szego. Hal Leonard, 2013. 289p bibl index ISBN 9781458405760, $50.00 ☐ Required This sumptuously illustrated volume contains hundreds of color photographs showing all details of about 40 instruments that the authors used to reconstruct the history of the ☐ Recommended development of a distinctly American guitar. Meticulously researched with a team of experts, the book is organized into three large sections with several chapters in each: "Austro-German Style," "Spanish Style," and "American Style." Essays are not limited to guitar-making details, but include well-rounded observations on the culture of the guitar at different times in history. C. F. Martin's period of innovation spans only 30 years from his immigration to New York in 1833, but the final chapter by Richard Johnston brings the history of the Martin guitar to the present, with notes on different sizes, prices, and a later period of innovation from 1920 to 1940, when the mandolin, ukulele, and Dreadnought and arch-top guitars were introduced. Many line drawings of internal details, such as Martin's famous X-bracing, plus two three-panel foldout measured drawings, round out this extraordinary book, which is written for general readers but of enormous scholarly and technical interest. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers Faculty Member: Bomberger, E. Douglas. MacDowell. Oxford, 2013. 349p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199899296, Click here to enter text. $39.95 ☐ Required Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) was the first American composer to establish an international reputation and is thus a worthy subject for a volume in Oxford's "Master ☐ Recommended Musicians" series. Bomberger (Elizabethtown College) has written a well-researched, eminently readable biography that makes excellent use of primary documents (especially family letters, professional correspondence, and concert reviews). As he relates the most significant features of MacDowell's early life, musical development, training in Europe, and increasingly successful career, Bomberger provides appropriately detailed summaries of 19th- century musical education, performance traditions, publication practices, and musical journalism. Furthermore, he explores MacDowell's often-impatient personality and uncompromising aesthetic positions; the tendency of both to lead to damaged professional relationships and counter-productive career decisions; his life-long efforts to balance the demands of teaching, performing, and composing; and his most important musical works. These are among the book's most valuable recurring subtopics. The closing chapters on MacDowell's years as a faculty member at Columbia University, his final illness, and his legacy are particularly compelling. Notated musical examples, photographs, a calendar of the composer's life, and a list of his works support Bomberger's outstanding volume. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. Faculty Member: Kelly, Barbara L. Music and ultra-modernism in France: a fragile consensus, 1913-1939. Click here to enter text. Boydell & Brewer, 2013. 257p bibl index ISBN 9781843838104, $95.00 ☐ Required French music of the first half of the 20th century has been defined by its big-name, bookend composers--Claude Debussy on one end, Pierre Boulez on the other--without much rigorous ☐ Recommended musical activity in between. In this newest addition to her already robust list of musicological contributions to French music, Kelly (Keele Univ., UK) upends this view. Kelly's writing is clear, almost narrative in style, and her research is detailed. She structures the book in seven major chapters, and in subsections discusses the influence of Debussy's legacy on later generations and focuses on groups (and individuals therein)--La société musicale indepéndante, Les Six, and Jeune France. The author considers not only the music produced during this time but also the interrelations of critic and composer, who both worked to shape opinions, legacies, theories, and what was to be considered true musical art of the time. The book includes musical examples, copious quotations from letters and articles, and exhaustive footnotes. Kelly's scholarship and engaging prose are of the highest order, and she successfully addresses a previous deficiency in 20th-century French musicological studies. Summing Up: 140 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty Faculty Member: Brooks, Jeanice. The musical work of Nadia Boulanger: performing past and future between Click here to enter text. the wars. Cambridge, 2013. 289p bibl index ISBN 9781107009141, $99.00 ☐ Required Grounded in broad cultural understanding and detailed research, this book presents a fascinating account of Boulanger's teaching and performing lives. Focusing on the interwar ☐ Recommended years, Brooks (Univ. of Southampton, UK) utilizes Boulanger's many published reviews of major performers, letters, score annotations, reviews of her performances as conductor and at the keyboard, and extensive analysis of Boulanger's recordings to show the unity of Boulanger's approach to performance and teaching. Brooks observes that these approaches originated with Boulanger's understanding of the musical work in terms of architecture and its unfolding in performance ("la grande ligne"), ideas resonating with contemporary French aesthetics and philosophy. The importance of formal design ("symmetry rather than continuous narrative," as the author writes) informed Boulanger's composition teaching, score analysis, and performance style, e.g., by suppressing local fluctuations of tempo in favor of structural clarity and continuity. Fauré's Requiem held special meaning for Boulanger, and likewise has a prominent position in this study, demonstrating how music theory and musicology informed and shaped Boulanger's performances. The "audacious juxtapositions" of Boulanger's concert programs--showing similarities, not differences across time--also presented her view of history: she tried not to re-create the past, but to reinvigorate past repertoires with new, modern compositions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper- division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. Faculty Member: Hess, Carol A. Representing the good neighbor: music, difference, and the Pan American Click here to enter text. dream. Oxford, 2013. 303p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199919994, $49.95 ☐ Required This brilliant book offers the first critical analysis of the reception of Latin American art music in the US during and after the Cold War. Using music as a departure point, Hess (musicology, ☐ Recommended Univ. of California, Davis) reveals the fallout of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Good Neighbor Policy." She addresses this question: "What do we in the United States know about Latin American art music, and how do we know it?" The author describes the cultural implementation of the Good Neighbor Policy and underscores cultural similarities between composers from Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Each of the book's seven chapters is devoted to the prevailing concept of sameness between art music styles by composers in the various countries. Challenging readers to ponder a remark by Frederic Jameson, the author writes: "Even in the face of huge political differences, we can let [quoting Jameson] ‘differences ... be measured against each other and as well as against ourselves.'" Written in clear, accessible language, the book closes with an epilogue and lengthy endnotes. This book is for those interested in the cultural history of Latin America and its relations with the US. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Rethinking Britten, ed. by Philip Rupprecht. Oxford, 2013. 312p bibl index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780199794805, $99.00; ISBN 9780199794812 pbk, $45.00 ☐ Required Rethinking Britten brings a new perspective to one of the most frequently performed and studied composers of the 20th century. Rupprecht (Duke) has gathered an eclectic cadre of ☐ Recommended writers to examine Benjamin Britten's aesthetic. The 12 essays contained in the volume offer both genre-specific explications of Britten's compositional ethos and biographical exegesis of personal experience and process. Britten's aesthetic requires understanding of the events and characters in his life, as his work is so closely informed by his relationships. Toward that end, several of the essays ask new questions: What were his responses to his international reputation? How did he interpret gender in his stage works? (Paul Kildea and Arved Ashby focus particularly on this question.) What about the relationship of his work to television (examined by Danielle Ward-Griffin)? Rethinking Britten masterfully blends multiple modes of inquiry and reestablishes Britten as a seminal composer of modernist and postmodern artistic accomplishment. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers 141 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Williams, Justin A. Rhymin' and stealin': musical borrowing in hip-hop. Michigan, 2013. 256p Click here to enter text. bibl index afp ISBN 9780472118922, $60.00; ISBN 9780472029396 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Williams (Univ. of Bristol, UK) has written the ultimate history of the art of sampling, intertextuality, and recycling in the various waves and styles of rap music. Williams's five ☐ Recommended chapters (in addition to an introduction and conclusion) are rooted in the accurate premise that the fundamental element of hip-hop culture and aesthetics is the overt use of preexisting material to new ends. The chapters are organized around the pillars of musical borrowings in hip-hop: the break beat and the notion of authenticity, and jazz rap (or hip-hop for highbrows), which are treated in the first two chapters. The remaining chapters provide concrete applications/atmospheres from some of rap music's heavyweights: Dr. Dre (or musical borrowings for the Automotive Space); Tupac Shakur and Biggie with Nas and Jay-Z (the martyrs of postmodern sampling); and Eminem and 50 Cent (lineage and tradition). The book's strengths are the numerous illustrations and the inserted musical partitions as examples of transcriptions. Useful bibliography and index. Summing Up: Essential. Upper- division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Chusid, Martin. Schubert's dances: for family, friends, and posterity. Pendragon Press, 2013. Click here to enter text. 262p bibl indexes (Monographs in musicology, 16) ISBN 9781576472392 pbk, $48.00 ☐ Required Fans of classical music may not know that prolific Franz Schubert (1797-1828), famed for songs, symphonies, sonatas, and chamber works, also composed hundreds of dances. Though ☐ Recommended no dancer himself, he often improvised at the piano for his friends' dancing pleasure. The resulting pieces were later written down and published, bearing descriptions such as waltz, ländler, and ecossaise. Usually short and deceptively simple, many of these works exemplify Schubert's expressiveness and harmonic innovation at their best. Well-known Schubert scholars such as Maurice J. E. Brown and Otto Erich Deutsch did groundbreaking research on Schubert's dances years ago, but this book is probably the most comprehensive scholarly study to date. Chusid (emer., NYU), a respected Schubert scholar himself, researched all of Schubert's dances, not just those for solo piano, and provides representative, detailed analyses of harmony, form, and other style features from the whole repertory. Unfortunately, musical examples are few; instead readers are referred to good editions in sources such as the Neue Schubert Ausgabe, but this will not likely be a problem in academic music libraries, where this book belongs. It is an important contribution to Schubert scholarship. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, professionals Faculty Member: Allen, Tony. Tony Allen: an autobiography of the master drummer of Afrobeat, by Tony Allen Click here to enter text. with Michael E. Veal. Duke, 2013. 199p bibl index afp ISBN 9780822355779, $84.95; ISBN 9780822355915 pbk, $23.95 ☐ Required This book is both a fascinating memoir and a compelling historical snapshot of West African culture and politics seen through the lens of Nigerian popular music. The stories herein stem ☐ Recommended from hundreds of hours of interviews between Allen and musician/scholar Veal (music and African American studies, Yale), who helped Allen piece together his thoughts, musical and otherwise. The most significant thread throughout this autobiography is Allen's personal and musical relationship with Fela Kuti, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and leader of Africa 70, a musical group in which Allen drummed. Theirs was a tumultuous and musically prolific relationship that helped forge Afrobeat music in West Africa. Allen's drumming in Africa 70 was fresh, innovative, and engaging; his style synthesized the feel of dance and groove music with jazz-inspired drum-set techniques and independence vocabulary. (Fela is known to have observed that without Allen "there would be no Afrobeat.") The book features an extensive bibliography and discography. Numerous black-and-white photos also help weave the tapestry of Allen's career. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, general readers.

142 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Natural Sciences: Chemistry/Physics Faculty Member: Lederman, Leon. Beyond the god particle, by Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill. Click here to enter text. Prometheus Books, 2013. 325p index ISBN 9781616148010, $24.95; ISBN 9781616148027 ebook, $12.99 ☐ Required Most people interested in physics, at the technical or popular level, have heard of Lederman's The God Particle (CH, Sep'93, 31-0360). This sequel is equally informative and entertaining. ☐ Recommended Lederman and Hill (both, Fermilab; coauthors, Quantum Physics for Poets, CH, Aug'11, 48- 6968) review some basic physics, summarize the history of 20th-century high-energy physics, and stress the importance for funding basic research so that the US can regain and maintain its preeminence in the field. Aside from this national emphasis, the book is a good read for non-Americans for its discussions of the Large Hadron Collider, Muon Collider, Project X, Higgs boson, etc. The introduction relates a telling incident that took place at an open house at Fermilab. A visitor asked if there was a "Satan particle" (corresponding to the God particle), and if the mass of the particle had something to do with the Catholic mass. This inquiry symbolizes the unbridgeable gap, not between science and religion, but between the scientifically unschooled (the majority in any population) and those who toy with ToE (theory of everything) and Higgs. Books like this will clarify matters to those with some acquaintance with physics, but it will not educate those who have none. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic, general, and professional readers. Faculty Member: Williams, D. A. The cosmic-chemical bond: chemistry from the big bang to planet formation, Click here to enter text. by D. A. Williams and T. W. Hartquist. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013. 225p bibl index ISBN 9781849736091 pbk, $42.00 ☐ Required UK academics Williams (Univ. College London) and Hartquist (Univ. of Leeds) present an authoritative though skimpily documented account of the universe's evolution, from the ☐ Recommended prechemical times--shortly after the big bang--of isolated elementary particles and hyperenergetic photons, through the formation of atoms, to more complex molecules and dust particles, and finally to stars, planets, and galaxies. The emphasis is heavily chemical, with relatively brief focus on the physical dynamics of stellar formation and energy. The text is also unsparingly technical, though nonmathematical. The authors stipulate that the intended audience is "anyone with a general interest in chemistry, from students to professional scientists." However, students will need a good background in chemistry and physics to follow the text. The presentation is adorned with strikingly good color illustrations of deep-space objects in the throes of processes described. Unfortunately, bibliographic aids are limited to brief "Further Reading" lists, dominated by the authors' and their students' contributions. The relatively terse index largely references individual scientists. There is no discussion (perhaps wisely; no one really understands it) of the "dark matter" and "dark energy" that may or may not, depending on cosmologists, dominate the evolution of galaxies and the universe. Is there a "dark chemistry"? Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. Faculty Member: Stone, A. Douglas. Einstein and the quantum: the quest of the valiant Swabian. Princeton, Click here to enter text. 2013. 332p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691139685, $29.95 ☐ Required Einstein is famously quoted as saying "God does not play dice with the universe." This is sometimes interpreted as Einstein rejecting quantum theory. This engaging book shows that ☐ Recommended Einstein spent more of his career on quantum physics than on relativity theory and was deeply involved in discussions that shaped current understanding of the subject. Stone (Yale) is a well-known physicist who has made significant contributions to mesoscopic physics and nonlinear optics. These are both areas where quantum and classical theory intersect, and his research makes him well qualified to bring the perspective of a working scientist on the contributions of Einstein and others to quantum theory. For example, he says of a Nobel Prize winner: "De Broglie, [himself] having completed his thesis by age thirty-one, never again made a fundamental contribution to physics ... it is [now] widely acknowledged that his 143 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 influence was not very positive for the development of theoretical physics in France." His well-written book makes often-trod history fresh, with new perspectives and unfamiliar quotations from Einstein and his peers. Anyone with an interest in the subject, from scholars to laypersons, can read and enjoy this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general audiences. Faculty Member: Gribbin, John. Erwin Schrödinger and the quantum revolution. Wiley, 2013. 321p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781118299265, $27.95; ISBN 9781118334119 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Prolific science author Gribbin has written several popular accounts of quantum mechanics, including In Search of Schrödinger's Cat (1984), Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for ☐ Recommended Reality (1996), and In Search of the Multiverse (2009). Here, Gribbin provides a nontechnical biography of the Austrian physicist, who was a pivotal contributor to the study of early quantum mechanics. Schrödinger fully explained wave mechanics and derived the foundational Schrödinger equation in several papers published in 1926. Gribbin suggests that Schrödinger was the first to describe the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics in the paper "Are There Quantum Jumps," published in the The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science in 1952. Like Einstein, Schrödinger did not favor the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Besides physics, he contributed to biology with his popular book What Is Life? (1944). Gribbin's account is very readable, and readers do not need a physics background to enjoy and appreciate this fine portrait of Schrödinger. He rightly depends on Walter Moore's scientific biography Schrödinger, Life and Thought (CH, Mar'90 27-3865) as support. However, Gribbin too often directs readers to his earlier books for further elucidation; including this information in the current volume would have enhanced the experience. Summing Up: Recommended. All undergraduate and general library collections Faculty Member: Baggott, Jim. Farewell to reality: how modern physics has betrayed the search for scientific Click here to enter text. truth. Pegasus Books, 2013. 338p bibl index ISBN 9781605984728, $26.95 ☐ Required Farewell to Reality is a broad and detailed examination of the current state of theoretical physics, which shares a dismayed viewpoint with two relatively recent books, Lee Smolin's ☐ Recommended The Trouble with Physics (CH, May'07, 44-5107) and Peter Woit's Not Even Wrong (2006). These two books, both written by professional physicists, provide an insider's view and focus primarily on string theory. Baggott, a prolific science writer (e.g., The Quantum Story, CH, Oct'11, 49-0924) trained as a chemist, constructs a much more comprehensive indictment. Following an introductory chapter addressing what science is and is not, Baggott surveys the aspects of modern physical theory he considers resting on solid foundations: quantum theory, the standard model, special and general relativity, and big bang cosmology. The final portion of the book sets out his case for theoretical physics' descent into fantasy: supersymmetry, grand unification, string theory, M-theory, the multiverse, the holographic principle, and the anthropic cosmological principle. The book ends with a warning about the damage done to science by a wide program of speculation untethered to experiment and observation. Whether or not one agrees with his view of contemporary theoretical physics, readers will be treated to very clear explications of the topics considered. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; general audience Faculty Member: Lavine, Matthew. The first atomic age: scientists, radiations, and the American public, 1895- Click here to enter text. 1945. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 247p index afp ISBN 9781137307217, $85.00 ☐ Required No cultural marker is as intuitively recognized as the atomic age--but which atomic age? The first atomic age spans 50 years from Roentgen and radioactivity to Hiroshima and Nagasaki; ☐ Recommended how different that beguiling beginning was from the bedeviled ending. After that, a second atomic age, marked by nuclear fear mirrored in popular culture (e.g., movies such as The China Syndrome, Dr. Strangelove, and On the Beach), made cowards of everyone. Here, in five chapters, Lavine (Mississippi State Univ.) takes readers through crazes and crazies and the wholesale commodification arising from the ubiquity of these atomic emanations. Using crisp, stylish prose, the author debunks Blondlot and illuminates the contributions of the Curies. He 144 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 also discusses fluoroscopes for fitting shoes; radium, the new snake oil; Barnumesque quackery; and journalistic views of the brave new world. This literate and literary tour de force, part of the series "Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology," deserves a wider audience than it is likely to receive. See also The Nuclear Age in Popular Media, edited by Dick van Lente (CH, Jul'13, 50-6157). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Stewart, Ian. The handy chemistry answer book, by Ian Stewart and Justin Lomont. Visible Ink, Click here to enter text. 2014. 388p bibl index ISBN 9781578593743 pbk, $21.95 ☐ Required This book is part of Visible Ink's "The Handy Answer Book Series," which covers numerous subject areas. The volume consists of questions and answers grouped in 19 chapters, ☐ Recommended supported by illustrations/photos and chemical formulas and structures. It begins with the history of the field, progresses through the various disciplines of chemistry, and concludes with kitchen chemistry and chemical experiments for the home. Stewart (ExxonMobil) and Lomont (research fellow, National Science Foundation) attribute some questions to college students, especially science students, but other questions seem typical of those posed by students of all ages/levels/backgrounds and laypersons. Answers appear accurate, and topics range from fairly simple to fairly complex, including some that refute common myths, such as sleepiness induced by eating turkey, coffee as a hangover antidote, and the concept of "artificial" compared to "natural." Discussions of toxicity and some controversial toxins are lacking. The book concludes with lists of physical constants, a glossary, a chemistry time line, winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a brief bibliography, and additional reading suggestions (textbooks organized by chapter). Extensive exclamation marks and a few typos appear in the text. Overall, a readable, entertaining work on various chemical concepts and subjects. Summing Up: Recommended. High school students, undergraduate students, and general readers. Faculty Member: Wilk, Stephen R. How the ray gun got its zap: odd excursions into optics. Oxford, 2013. 263p Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780199948017, $34.95 ☐ Required This is a wonderful, very entertaining collection of essays on optics-related topics, sometimes esoteric, grouped in three broad sections: "History," "Weird Science," and "Pop Culture." ☐ Recommended There are 45 essays in the collection, with 20 devoted to historical aspects. Each essay is 3-12 pages long, including an up-to-date citation list and critical footnotes. Physicist/journalist Wilk originally wrote the essays in briefer form for Optics and Photonics News, the lay publication of the Optical Society of America, and The Spectrograph, an in-house publication of MIT's spectroscopy laboratory. The expanded essays are often humorous and can easily be read and enjoyed by anyone who has some interest in the science and history of optics and a good, fundamental grasp of optics and physics. The collection reminds this reviewer of Stephen Jay Gould's essays on natural selection. Just like in Gould's essays, the science in Wilk's writings can be intense and profound, but most of each essay is understandable to readers with the appropriate background. Having taught a course on the history of mechanics and optics in antiquity, this reviewer greatly applauds the author for making these essays easily accessible and simply enlightening reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Pask, Colin. Magnificent Principia: exploring Isaac Newton's masterpiece. Prometheus Books, Click here to enter text. 2013. 528p index ISBN 9781616147457, $26.00 ☐ Required Most contemporary scientists recognize that all of physics (and hence all of science) rests on the foundation created by Isaac Newton, both his results and the methods he created to ☐ Recommended achieve these results. Fewer are aware that Newton's Principia is still the core of modern classical mechanics and all of the technology and astronomy derived therefrom. In fact, this exploration of the Principia, with some explanatory additions, could very well serve as a current textbook in mechanics. This is the point that Pask (emer., Univ. of New South Wales, Australia; Math for the Frightened, CH, May'12, 49-5117) makes in his exploration, covering the entire three books in considerable detail, with many quotations--short and long--from the first, 18th-century translation into English from the original Latin. Unfortunately, much of the 145 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 18th-century English is very foreign to modern speakers, so much is lost to contemporary scientists, even with Pask's short summaries. Also missing are most of Newton's proofs: how did he actually obtain (and convince his contemporary readers, of whom there were very many) his fantastic science-founding results? Given these shortcomings, the book is a difficult but very worthwhile read. It contains a very extensive and useful bibliography and notes. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Carbajo, Rodrigo J. NMR for chemists and biologists, by Rodrigo J. Carbajo adn José Luis Neira. Click here to enter text. Springer, 2013. 115p bibl afp ISBN 9789400769755, $49.99; ISBN 9789400769762 ebook, $39.99 ☐ Required This interesting book is part of the "SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology" series. In a little more than 100 pages and four chapters, Carbajo (Centro de Investigación ☐ Recommended Princípe Felipe, Spain) and Neira (Univ. Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain) attempt to cover not only the principles of NMR spectroscopy, but also its application to the determination of chemical and biological structures. As an introduction for the novice, the book does a fairly good job. However, any user would want to know much more, considering the large variety of techniques not covered in this small work, as well as the quirks common to many of the individual experiments. The book would be particularly valuable for students who are beginning to conduct research involving NMR spectroscopy. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Phosphorus, food, and our future, ed. by Karl A. Wyant, Jessica R. Corman and Jim J. Elser. Click here to enter text. Oxford, 2013. 224p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199916832, $98.50 ☐ Required Phosphorus (chemical symbol P) is the chemical element most scarce in relation to its use in supporting agriculture and other biospheric activities. Unlike nitrogen (cf. H. S. Gorman's The ☐ Recommended Story of N, CH, Sep'13, 51-0242), which is abundantly available in Earth's environment, P must be weathered or mined from relatively rare phosphate rocks. This odd little book, based on the results of an international conference, "Sustainable Phosphorus Summit," held in Arizona in 2011, presents the economic and environmental cycles of P. Its ten brief chapters are written at a level appropriate for undergraduate students of environmental sciences, with each chapter decorated with a sketchy bit of "art" meant to introduce or summarize its content. Refreshingly, phosphorus is not cast, as in many environmental screeds, as purely a nuisance; too much of it in the wrong places causes eutrophication of natural waters, but too little in agricultural settings limits and stunts crops. Properly, the goal is careful control of P flows toward sustainable closed cycles. Conclusions are bolstered by reasonable quantitative arguments. The editing is uniform but shaky; e.g., Garrett Hardin is called "Harding," and Gro Harlem Brundtland goes as "H. Brundtland." Good bibliographies. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates in environmental studies programs Faculty Member: Clery, Daniel. A piece of the sun: the quest for fusion energy. Overlook Duckworth, 2013. Click here to enter text. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781468304930, $27.95 ☐ Required This book examines thermonuclear fusion as a source of energy to supply the needs of Earth's expanding population. Clery, an experienced science writer with a background in theoretical ☐ Recommended physics, accomplishes the task of explaining complex scientific and technical topics clearly and with easily accessible examples. The author traces the history of nuclear fusion from the recognition in the early 1930s that fusing two light nuclei, such as deuterium and tritium, can produce large amounts of energy. This was shown to be at the core of energy production in the sun and furthermore required starting products with almost limitless availability on Earth. These facts provided the inspiration for the first experiments in the 1950s for confining and heating fusion nuclei to the 150 million degrees needed for practical fusion. During the past 60 years of fusion research, each major advance has been accompanied by an unanticipated difficulty that required the experiments to grow in size and cost. The evolution from university research to national and international collaborations is well documented with a journalistic style that includes names and personalities of participating scientists, 146 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 administrators, and politicians, and reference to contemporary world events. This reviewer found one glaring error: Harold Urey, not Gilbert Lewis, discovered deuterium. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Ford, Ian. Statistical physics: an entropic approach. Wiley, 2013. 266p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9781119975311, $145.00; ISBN 9781119975304 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9781118597491 ebook, $47.99 ☐ Required This is an undergraduate text that assumes completion of an introductory physics sequence, corresponding mathematics, and a rudimentary introduction to quantum mechanics. Some ☐ Recommended statistical physics texts choose to build the subject from the ground up by starting with fundamental statistical concepts, constructing microstates, and then defining macroscopic quantities. Here, Ford (Univ. College London, UK) takes the top-down approach of starting with the familiar thermodynamic quantities, rigorously studying them, and then making the connection to the microscopic. However, this book is distinguished in its central theme of entropy. More than just focusing on the second law, Ford works to give a clear understanding of entropy as uncertainty, not disorder. This approach is appealing and convincing. The author is able to avoid the common misunderstandings that arise from a definition of entropy through disorder and better captures the reductive connection to accessible states. This is a short text. Though it has the proper breadth for an undergraduate course, it may need supplemental explanations and additional chapter problems. Other than the emphasis on entropy, the plus for this book is its currency, both in terms of pedagogy and content. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Faculty Member: Dawid, Richard. String theory and the scientific method. Cambridge, 2013. 202p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781107029712, $95.00 ☐ Required Dawid (PhD, theoretical particle physics; philosopher of science, Univ. of Vienna, Austria) explores how the development of string theories over recent decades has changed the way ☐ Recommended some physicists think about the relation between theory development and empirical evidence. He investigates strategies of nonempirical theory confirmation, which is based on the idea of "scientific underdetermination." Since string theories have not been supported by confirmation of experimental prediction, many believe that far too much attention is given to them and that string theories are speculation, not theory. Empirical tests of string theories would require accelerator energies 13 orders of magnitude greater than what is now available. Yet string theory has engaged many theoretical physicists for decades and seems to be the only viable theory that solves the problems of infinities arising from point particles and that includes gravity. The book also discusses and compares other theories such as GUTs (grand unified theories). Although the text explains particle physics and string theory, much of it will be comprehensible only to particle physicists or philosophers of physics. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. Faculty Member: Scerri, Eric. A tale of seven elements. Oxford, 2013. 270p bibl index afp ISBN 9780195391312, Click here to enter text. $19.95 ☐ Required Scerri (UCLA), a pioneer in the modern movement to describe chemistry through the lens of world history, complements his previous works, The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its ☐ Recommended Significance (CH, Sep'07, 45-0289) and The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction (CH, Sep'12, 50-0289), with A Tale of Seven Elements. This new book offers an exclusive focus on the protracted discoveries of the seven most elusive elements, despite their conspicuous presence predicted by De Chancourtois, Newlands, Odling, Hinrichs, (Lothar) Meyer, and Mendeleev. Scerri's yarns of the many spurious and nonreproducible claims that plagued each element's discovery entertainingly underscore the urgency yet seeming impossibility of such an undertaking. Unique to this book are original quotes and photographs, transporting readers to an era when research and professional notoriety were profoundly influenced by religious bigotry; aptly, each chapter dedicated to elemental discovery concludes by returning to the 21st century with discussions of current applications. Unfortunately, the target audience is often incongruous, as Scerri uses pages to explain atomic orbitals and quantum 147 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 numbers, yet presumes the audience has implicit knowledge of isotopes, radioactive decay, and spectroscopy, thereby disregarding the colossal importance of these tools in elemental discovery. Still, Seven Elements offers an enjoyable reflection into chemical history. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and general readers. Faculty Member: Labinger, Jay A. Up from generality: how inorganic chemistry finally became a respectable Click here to enter text. field. Springer, 2013. 77p bibl afp ISBN 9783642401190 pbk, $54.99 ☐ Required Labinger (California Institute of Technology), an inorganic chemist and historian of chemistry, has written a brief and sometimes breezy account of the rise of the subfield of inorganic ☐ Recommended chemistry to respectability and significance during the 20th century. Early sections cover a broad sweep of the subject, including development of the discipline in European institutions, but much of the book is US- and even Caltech-centric. Labinger uses an impressive array of quantitative data on publications, presentations, and degrees granted to support his thesis. Part of the "SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science: History of Chemistry" series, the book contains many illustrations of inorganic chemists and is fully referenced, but lacks an index. Summing Up: Recommended. History of chemistry collections serving upper-division undergraduates and above.

148 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Nursing Faculty Member: Faguet, Guy B. The Affordable Care Act: a missed opportunity, a better way forward. Algora, Click here to enter text. 2013. 236p index afp ISBN 9780875869766, $32.95; ISBN 9780875869759 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780875869773 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) has resulted in a plethora of books praising it, teaching about it, or complaining about it. Faguet's book is a bit of all three. ACA, notes Faguet ☐ Recommended (retired, Georgia Health Sciences Univ.), will achieve notable policy goals as it ensures that more Americans will have access to health care. He describes ACA's several parts, indicates when they go into force, and wonders about their benign or not so benign effects on Americans. His chief argument is that ACA is a flawed solution to the real problems inherent in American health care. Beyond repairing the health insurance market, a universal, quality- driven system must be created. Faguet proposes three policy initiatives: a redesigned system structure and revised delivery of care methods and payment incentives for this care. To achieve these goals, a federal health board--similar to the Federal Reserve Board--needs to be established. Faguet hopes this board will be more immune to political intrusion than Congress is when it comes to reform. Policy professionals will be familiar with the argument and the solution. The book is written, however, for the public, and for them, it will prove a most useful book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate students and general readers. Faculty Member: Ageing, ritual and social change: comparing the secular and religious in Eastern and Western Click here to enter text. Europe, ed. by Peter Coleman, Daniela Koleva, and Joanna Bornat. Ashgate, 2013. 283p bibl index ISBN 9781409452140, $99.95; ISBN 9781409452157 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781409452164 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This important book explores the enduring role of rituals and religion in the lives of older people in the UK, Bulgaria, and Romania. The 12 chapters organized into five sections based ☐ Recommended on oral history interviews present comparative analyses of how ritual links to major events in the life of the individual, family, and community; the emergence of religiosity and nonreligiosity; personal explanations for engagement in ritual practice; and how religious identity is embedded in national identity. The authors show the differences and common trends between communist and noncommunist political systems and examine the meanings, motives, beliefs, and practices regarding rituals. The focus is on death and bereavement, personal visions of the final years of life, and how these are influenced by religion, culture, and secular worldviews. Highlighted are the impact of social change on mental health and the role of religion in relation to aging. Other papers discuss the significance of rituals in later life (85+) and the social-psychological benefits, especially of prayer. The final chapter reflects on the complexities of cross-national comparative research and its implications for future research. The editors and contributors deserve appreciation for undertaking this challenging comparative project. A significant multidisciplinary contribution to the literature on aging, religion/ritual, comparative oral history, and social change. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Pelto, Pertti. Applied ethnography: guidelines for field research. Left Coast, 2013. 351p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp (Developing qualitative inquiry, 12) ISBN 9781611322071, $94.00; ISBN 9781611322088 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781611326505 ebook, $34.95 ☐ Required Techniques, approaches, and rationales for conducting ethnographic research have evolved greatly from the 20th-century paradigm of long-term, embedded participant observation. ☐ Recommended Today's ethnography increasingly employs a qualitative/quantitative mix and collaboration across disciplines ranging from health to environmental studies. Short-term, focused research is becoming the norm as contracted ethnographers meet deadlines for NGOs and agencies looking to make informed program changes. In-depth interviews, still an important tool, are transcribed, coded, and analyzed. Multidisciplinary teams commonly train local community members to assist with quick data collection. Pelto (emer., Univ. of Connecticut) does an 149 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 outstanding job of covering a wide range of applied techniques, and providing contextualized examples from many countries. Clearly described methodologies like RAP (rapid assessment procedures), FES (focused ethnographic studies), social mapping, sampling, sketch mapping, free lists, pile sorting, and diaries are useful at all levels. Likewise, Pelto provides understandable guidelines for basic skills like gaining entry, training research teams, recording and organizing data, data coding and analysis, and writing the final report. Other authors have tended to focus on a particular specialized method (e.g., autoethnography), a particular context (e.g., education), or a particular skill (e.g., writing field notes). Unlike Han Blommaert and Dong Jie's Ethnographic Fieldwork: A Beginner's Guide (CH, Jan'11, 48-2441), which only gives examples of linguistic fieldwork only, this volume is a guide to conducting applied ethnographic research in a multitude of contexts and employing one or more methodologies from the large repertoire outlined. Helpful illustrations, text boxes highlighting key concepts, and extensive references add value. Equally excellent as a course text or in the field for tackling a thorny research challenge. Summing Up: Essential. Lower- division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Gnaulati, Enrico. Back to normal: why ordinary childhood behavior Is mistaken for ADHD, Click here to enter text. bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. Beacon Press, 2013. 239p index afp ISBN 9780807073346, $26.95; ISBN 9780807073353 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This book will likely hit many nerves. A clinical psychologist who specializes in children and mental health, Gnaulati is not shy about stating strong opinions, most of which he backed up ☐ Recommended with his reading of the scholarly literature. The book is well documented and, if taken with several grains of salt, offers many reasons to question and consider the process and results of psychiatric diagnoses of ADHD, autism, and bipolar disorder in children. Gnaulati argues that due to a combination of familial, technical, economic, medical, and educational factors, children are being diagnosed and medicated at an alarming rate, and that a lot of mistakes are being made--to the real detriment of children. Though the author goes to some questionable extremes (speculation about gender differences and evolution), the major point of the book is that all parties involved at any point in the process of diagnosis and prescription for a child should be looking hard, making this step a later one and certainly not a first attempt to help. Clear, engaging, and persuasive, this book provides an excellent look at the issues involved in diagnosis and medication, regardless of one's position. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. Faculty Member: Campbell, Alastair V. Bioethics: the basics. Routledge, 2013. 188p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780415504096, $95.00; ISBN 9780415504089 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9780203703960 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This work is part of Routledge's "The Basics" series, a growing collection of titles on a range of topics. Before this reviewer finished reading it, she had already decided to recommend it to a ☐ Recommended team developing her university's first interprofessional graduate ethics course in the health sciences as a way to focus curriculum design and to serve as a student textbook. This concise, precise, and inexpensive book contains a trove of information useful for both general health sciences audiences and laypersons wanting a clear introduction to ethical issues in health. Campbell (National Univ. of Singapore) frames the field well with an introduction that provides the cultural and historical context of bioethics along with the relationship between bioethics and the law. The author also offers an intelligent summary of ethical theory. Chapters include "Clinical Ethics"; "Research," an important discussion of research integrity; and "Justice," which discusses population and public health ethics. Each of these chapters is relevant to any health profession, not only medicine. The appendix of oaths would have been better had it included oaths from other health professions, although generally the oaths can easily be adapted to these other fields. A glossary of common terms and apt references end the book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All library collections Faculty Member: Parry, Manon. Broadcasting birth control: mass media and family planning. Rutgers, 2013. Click here to enter text. 192p index afp ISBN 9780813561523, $75.00; ISBN 9780813561516 pbk, $24.95 150 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Should public service media campaigns inform or persuade? To examine the broadcasting of birth control information from the silent film era to the Internet, Parry (public history, Univ. ☐ Recommended of Amsterdam, Netherlands) thoroughly researched extensive media archives, including the personal papers of Margaret Sanger; Planned Parenthood records; film, radio, and television scripts; advertisements; reviews; and other materials. She explores the impact of censorship from the anti-obscenity Comstock Act (1873) that restricted the mail, the strong influence of the Catholic Church and right-wing conservatives, and the "global gag rule" that limited access to abortion, contraceptives, and other reproductive services worldwide. She discusses concerns about overpopulation, racial and paternalistic viewpoints, economic pressures of large families, and also changing attitudes. International public health education incorporated local folk traditions, e.g., songs, dance, storytelling, puppet shows, drama, and soap operas, rather than question-and-answer forums or lectures; Parry gives examples of programs developed in India, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, etc. The author also discusses the work of communication experts, who were consulted for social marketing techniques to promote healthy behaviors and family planning. Illustrative black-and-white photographs and detailed chapter notes support the text. This revised dissertation is part of Rutgers' "Critical Issues in Health and Medicine" series. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Building partnerships in the Americas: a guide for global health workers, ed. by Margo J. Click here to enter text. Krasnoff. Dartmouth College Press, 2013. 265p index afp ISBN 9781611684209 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781611684094 ebook, $34.99 ☐ Required A brief overview of the historical and sociopolitical background of Central America and the Caribbean, together with a short review of humanitarian and global health aid efforts, ☐ Recommended introduces this work. The book focuses on seven countries: Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Chapter contributors (volunteers and current and former employees from a variety of organizations) highlight prominent health problems in each country and provide relevant examples of current health-related intervention efforts. Each chapter provides an excellent general account of a country's cultural, sociopolitical, geographical, and historical context of disease as well as information on the country's health system. Most chapters also provide suggested readings and websites for the reader who prefers a more in-depth analysis of the country or region. Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students interested in global health, international development, and humanitarian aid will gain a clear understanding of the context of disease in these populations and how health-related aid efforts must be tailored to the population being served. A must read for anyone interested in volunteer work in the seven Central American and Caribbean countries highlighted here. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Ashton, Carol M. Comparative effectiveness research: evidence, medicine, and policy, by Click here to enter text. Carol M. Ashton and Nelda P. Wray. Oxford, 2013. 290p index afp ISBN 9780199968565, $55.00 ☐ Required In medicine, it is important that practitioners seek the best evidence. Comparative effectiveness research (CER) aids in this endeavor by providing evidence on the effectiveness, ☐ Recommended benefits, and harms of different treatment options to help clinicians and patients make informed decisions and health systems improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of delivering care. The Affordable Care Act includes CER as part of its provisions. Physicians Ashton and Wray (The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston) explore this federal policy in this three-part volume. Part 1 examines the concept of evidence in scientific medical research, while part 2 chronicles how CER became federal law. In part 3, the authors describe the effects of federal policy on CER. An epilogue discusses the implementation of CER provisions from 2010 to 2012, including the creation of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Drawing on interviews, various documents, newspapers, reports, and peer review literature, the authors have made an inclusive inspection of CER's promise to improve 151 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 health outcomes. This comprehensive work illustrates quite clearly the marked need for research that tells practitioners what does and does not work in medicine. Though the text contains several acronyms, the writing is clear. Includes numerous chapter notes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through health professionals/practitioners, especially those in health policy. Faculty Member: Complementary & alternative therapies in nursing, [ed.] by Ruth Lindquist, Mariah Snyder, Click here to enter text. and Mary Fran Tracy. 7th ed. Springer Publishing, 2014. 556p bibl index afp ISBN 9780826196125 pbk, $75.00 ☐ Required This expertly referenced, well-organized book provides insight into prevalent, though less understood, science-based methods of healing. The book's appeal is the recognition of the ☐ Recommended importance of alternative health care options and wellness treatments on their own; they are not simply diverting paths from politically influenced and regulated health care, but are part of an encompassing total human experience of self-direction and choice. The book emphasizes a heightened awareness of meeting patient needs, while recognizing patient- centered priorities for health restoration. Inasmuch as disruptions in health are experienced individually, the book's contributors suggest healing opportunities as diverse as individuals themselves. Like its predecessor, this updated edition (6th ed., CH, Jun'10, 47-5678) is divided into six parts and 31 chapters. While the chapters are authored separately, they flow easily, providing a smooth, continuous reading experience. The suggestions for future research are unique for this format and include valuable insight for expanding nursing research and promoting professional responsibility in ensuring the delivery of competent, compassionate, and holistic care. Overall, a valuable resource for community health care students, professional caregivers, and enlightened scholars. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners Faculty Member: Linos, Katerina. The democratic foundations of policy diffusion: how health, family and Click here to enter text. employment laws spread across countries. Oxford, 2013. 231p index afp ISBN 9780199967865, $99.00; ISBN 9780199967872 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Linos (Univ. of California at Berkeley Law School) brings an impressive mixed-method analysis to bear on the phenomenon of cross-national policy diffusion. The focus, and the important ☐ Recommended contribution, is on the democratic nature of the policy diffusion process. Linos's main argument is that citizens in democracies (even in America) give special weight to the experiences of other countries (and the stated policies of international organizations) when deciding whether to adopt a particular policy. This is in contrast to a more technocratic approach, wherein policy elites gather information from abroad and repackage it for consumption by the domestic voting audience. This book is written in an engaging, accessible style, but its rigor shines through. Linos uses carefully designed analyses to parse out the effects of technocrats and voters on policy diffusion. By isolating the contributing factors in this manner, she shows in a way that is more sophisticated than most others have envisioned that voters are able to gain from the experiences of other countries. This work has important consequences for the understanding of the influence of international organizations--policies need not be binding to be persuasive. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above Faculty Member: Perlman, Robert L. Evolution and medicine. Oxford, 2013. 162p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780199661718, $98.50; ISBN 9780199661725 pbk, $49.95 ☐ Required This book informs readers about the movement to place Western medicine in an evolutionary framework, starting with the pioneering work of George Williams, Randolph Nesse, and ☐ Recommended Margaret Profet, begun in the 1990s. As a primer, it does a nice job of providing a set of evolutionary, genetic, and ecological principles in the first three chapters; this content is necessary for understanding the medical issues that Perlman (emer., pediatrics, Univ. of Chicago) addresses in the subsequent eight chapters. The overarching argument is that what has shaped humans over the long past is differential success in reproduction driven by natural selections, rather than adaptations, to maximize health and longevity. The author uses this 152 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 perspective to help readers better understand disease, both communicable and human induced, along with aging and other trade-offs. The last chapter addresses "man-made diseases" (old genes, new environments) resulting from the cultural/technological nature of the present industrial environment (e.g., sedentary lifestyles combined with excessive high- calorie food, rich in salt, refined sugars, starches, and fats). The well-researched and documented work includes key up-to-date papers. It makes a nice introduction to this timely topic. Physicians will then want to read S. Stearns and J. Koella's more expansive treatment, Evolution in Health and Disease (2008). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Handbook of health behavior change, ed. by Kristin A. Riekert, Judith K. Ockene, and Lori Click here to enter text. Pbert. 4th ed. Springer Publishing, 2014. 507p bibl index ISBN 9780826199355 pbk, $90.00; ISBN 9780826199362 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This book offers a comprehensive, holistic, and in-depth look at the art and science of health behavior change. The fourth edition (3rd ed., CH, Jul'09, 46-6233) has been thoroughly ☐ Recommended updated and revised to reduce duplicate content; it is some 300 pages shorter than its predecessor and contains 24 chapters, divided into six sections. (The third edition contained 40 chapters divided into seven sections.) Chapters cover a myriad of health issues such as alcohol abuse, obesity, and chronic disease, focusing on behavior and lifestyle challenges and research-based intervention and management strategies. Each expertly prepared chapter begins with "Learning Objectives" to facilitate a meaningful educational experience. Perhaps one of the unique aspects of the book is the way the authors are able to connect epidemiological and environmental influences to management behaviors. The authors give timely consideration to health care system challenges and the need for a team-based approach to support interventions. Students and professionals will return to this valuable reference when seeking to unravel the complex, driving forces that shape health behavior and to understand the tools needed for health promotion. Truly, the book is a pleasure to read and a joy to recommend. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals Faculty Member: Handbook of minority aging, ed. by Keith E. Whitfield and Tamara A. Baker with Cleopatra M. Click here to enter text. Abdou et al. Springer Publishing, 2014. 570p bibl index ISBN 9780826109637 pbk, $95.00 ☐ Required Editors Whitfield (Duke Univ.) and Baker (Univ. of South Florida) and eight associate editors collaborated as mentors and mentees to publish this comprehensive volume on emergent ☐ Recommended issues related to the aging process across four major racial and ethnic groups. Chapter contributors are mainly from the fields of psychology, sociology, social work, and medicine. The array of topics covered is amazing, making this book a valuable, significant resource for many disciplines. The volume's 33 chapters are divided into four parts: "Psychology of Minority Aging," "Public Health/Biology of Minority Aging," "Social Work and Minority Aging," and "Sociology of Minority Aging." Each section begins with a brief overview chapter that provides an essential demographic perspective. This multidisciplinary review of the literature on minority aging presents the scholarship related to public health, and "social, behavioral, and biological concerns" of aged minorities like no other publication. Graduate students would certainly be well served by this book, as would faculty teaching aging at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners Faculty Member: Aldwin, Carolyn M. Health, illness, and optimal aging: biological and psychosocial Click here to enter text. perspectives, by Carolyn M. Aldwin and Diane Fox Gilmer. 2nd ed. Springer Publishing, 2013. 395p bibl index ISBN 9780826193469 pbk, $90.00 ☐ Required Publications on aging should continue to proliferate, especially as baby boomers increasingly move into that developmental stage. In this second edition (1st ed., 2004) of Health, Illness, ☐ Recommended and Optimal Aging, Aldwin (Oregon State Univ., Corvallis) and Gilmer (retired, Univ. of California, Davis) concisely and effectively update what they describe as a "huge wave of information on aging." The 14-chapter, four-part book covers an array of topics on health and 153 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 gerontology: demographics, biological changes for each body system, psychosocial concerns, and a full range of issues related to retirement. Particularly helpful to novice readers is a chapter on the basics of research design and analysis. Throughout the book, the authors discuss the seminal theories on aging and health and provide updates on current thinking and research. Each chapter provides a concise description of its subject, and a section on gerotechnology is a timely addition. A 68-page reference list allows readers to conduct more in-depth study. Clearly written at a level for college students, this is an excellent resource on aging. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Gray, Virginia. Interest groups and health care reform across the United States, by Virginia Click here to enter text. Gray, David Lowery, and Jennifer K. Benz. Georgetown University, 2013. 236p bibl index afp ISBN 9781589019898 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Gray (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Lowery (Pennsylvania State Univ.), and Benz (Univ. of Chicago) provide a valuable addition to the very timely debate on health care policy in the ☐ Recommended US. The main focus is on the impact of interest groups in whether or not state governments choose to enact a wide range of health care reforms. These facts underline the major benefits of the book--the state governments have proven to be much more likely to enact reforms over the last several years than the national government was until 2010, and the authors' results show that the role of interest groups is much more complex than some tend to believe. The book is clearly best suited for the so-called "policy wonks" rather than general readers because it is incredibly comprehensive in its scope (which is a credit to the author); provides huge amounts of data; and is filled with exhaustive terminology and advanced statistics so that it is very easy to get lost in the details. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections Faculty Member: Dickenson, Donna. Me medicine vs. we medicine: reclaiming biotechnology for the common Click here to enter text. good. Columbia, 2013. 278p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231159746, $29.95 ☐ Required Award-winning bioethicist Dickenson (emer., Univ. of London; research associate, Centre for Health, Law, and Emerging Technologies, Univ. of Oxford; Body Shopping, CH, Dec'08, 46- ☐ Recommended 2115) takes a critical look at the emerging technologies that are grouped under the name of personalized medicine, or what she calls "me medicine." In concentrating on "me medicine," humans could lose both their individual and collective well-being that could be advanced by medical biotechnology--what Dickenson calls "we medicine," which is basically the public health paradigm. Though personalizing cancer and depression treatments according to one's genetic makeup, for example, may yield positive results, the author argues that many more claims that biotechnologists make are scientifically spurious and instead are motivated by the tremendous economic incentives to do so. Economics more than science better explains the explosion of private umbilical cord banks and retail genetic testing, she says. With chapters on controlling genetic information, pharmacogenomics, umbilical cord banking, neuroenhancement technologies, and the vaccine debate, this is a timely, easy-to-read, and important book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic, professional, and general readers Faculty Member: Mindfulness and psychotherapy, ed. by Christopher K. Germer, Ronald D. Siegel, and Paul R. Click here to enter text. Fulton. 2nd ed. Guilford, 2013. 382p bibl index afp ISBN 9781462511372, $45.00 ☐ Required When the first edition of this collection appeared in 2005, it marked a monumental shift in the approach of psychotherapy toward mindfulness-based interventions and teachings. In the ☐ Recommended last eight years, there has been an explosion of interest in mindfulness and its healing capacities, an interest attested to by the mountains of new research and the burgeoning opportunities to learn about mindfulness at professional workshops and seminars. In this second edition, Germer, Siegel, and Fulton (all, Harvard Medical School) again offer what is arguably the definitive cluster of essays concerning the field of mindfulness-based psychotherapies. The authors of the essays include US-based academics and practitioners, whose expertise on the uses to which mindfulness can be put guides the reader through the meaning of mindfulness (including the relation of Buddhist and Western psychologies); the 154 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 therapy relationship (the book includes a new chapter on ethics); clinical applications (new chapters on trauma and addictions); and the past, present, and future of mindfulness (an updated chapter on neurobiological research). This impressive volume is an invaluable resource in psychology, medicine, social work, nursing, and related fields, and for laypersons interested in the development and history of psychotherapy. Summing Up: Essential. Lower- division undergraduates through faculty; professionals and general readers Faculty Member: Veit, Helen Zoe. Modern food, moral food: self-control, science, and the rise of modern Click here to enter text. American eating in the early twentieth century. North Carolina, 2013. 300p bibl index afp ISBN 9781469607702, $39.95 ☐ Required Modern Food, Moral Food will ensure that US citizens never forget the origins of the modern American diet, and how the US became the breadbasket of the world. In matter-of-fact, well- ☐ Recommended researched prose, Veit (history, Michigan State Univ.) unveils the relationships among evolving nutrition theories, industrialization, eugenics, and racism in the early 20th century. With more than 100 pages of references in the notes and biobliography sections, this book (the author's revised dissertation) provides the necessary documentation to support the provocative historical narrative. Veit's research breathes new life into the study of US history in general; it is proof that food history is a serious academic discipline that can stand alone or interweave with women's studies, ethnic studies, sociology, economics, or health sciences. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic and large public library collections Faculty Member: Despommier, Dickson D. People, parasites, and plowshares: learning from our body's most Click here to enter text. terrifying invaders. Columbia, 2013. 213p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231161947, $28.95; ISBN 9780231535267 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Despommier (emer., public health and microbiology, Columbia Univ.) presents an informative and entertaining view of parasitic life cycles and resulting human diseases, but it is the ☐ Recommended author's addition of a "plowshare" concept that makes his book unique. He uses this concept to give specific examples of how studying parasites and their survival mechanisms can help scientists and physicians find ways to treat nonparasitic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, immune-related disorders, and others. The book is intended for a wider readership than academics and medical professionals, and Despommier definitely succeeds in his goal. His writing style makes the subject matter interesting, avoiding the dryness often seen when books on scientific subjects are written for a general audience. The use of illustrations, examples, and stories, combined with limited use of technical terms, works well to connect and engage the reader. A glossary of scientific terminology and a four-page "Further Reading" list supports the text. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic and general audiences Faculty Member: Abrams, Jeanne E. Revolutionary medicine: the Founding Fathers and mothers in sickness and Click here to enter text. in health. New York University, 2013. 306p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814789193, $30.00 ☐ Required There's nothing "revolutionary" in this spiritedly written, intensively researched book by historian Abrams (Univ. of Denver). However, readers learn that Thomas Jefferson was the ☐ Recommended healthiest of the Founding Fathers. He, along with Benjamin Franklin, also took informed scientific interest in health issues. A pioneer, Jefferson was among the first Americans to have his entire family, including slaves at Monticello, vaccinated against smallpox, employing Edward Jenner's most up-to-date technique. Franklin, before him, had become a convert to the more dangerous inoculation after the death of his young son to the disease. Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison were constantly dealing with illness--their own and their families'--and death was a common visitor. It is amazing how much they accomplished, beset by ill health and bereavement. George Washington, for example, was a smallpox survivor whose face was badly pitted; Martha, who had her own ailments, not only lost her first husband to an infectious disease but outlived her four children as well. Magnificently indexed, this is not a specialist's book, but rather one of special value to undergraduates. It also deserves a wide audience of general readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates and general readers 155 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Hansen, Randall. Sterilized by the state: eugenics, race, and the population scare in Click here to enter text. twentieth-century North America, by Randall Hansen and Desmond King. Cambridge, 2013. 303p bibl index ISBN 9781107032927, $85.00; ISBN 9781107659704 pbk, $29.99 ☐ Required Students and novices of history may not be surprised by much omitted from texts and professors' lectures; read this book, however, and anyone with empathy will be shocked at ☐ Recommended what has taken place in the US, Canada, and elsewhere. Hansen (political science, Univ. of Toronto; Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain, 2000) and King (American government, Oxford; The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation, CH, Nov'05, 43- 1789) combine efforts to provide an insightful history of eugenics and coerced (sometimes voluntary) sterilization of those deemed to be unfit because of heredity (feeblemindedness), class, race, poverty, or what some felt was below average intelligence. Many progressive- minded individuals along with foundations, superintendents of asylums, and, of course, politicians were involved in this sad effort. Although some trace eugenics to Germany's Nazi era, the movement occurred in the US and Canada far in advance of Hitler's rise to power. This book is a must for historians, sociologists, and those in the field of family planning. Consider Johanna Schoen's Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (CH, Jan'06, 43-3102) as a companion read. Summing Up: Highly recommended. An acceptable read for all levels Faculty Member: Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Press. Variation in health care spending: Click here to enter text. target decision making, not geography, ed. by Joseph P. Newhouse. National Academies Press, 2013. 180p bibl ISBN 9780309288699, $55.00 ☐ Required This excellent monograph is the well-written, thorough, and thoughtful report of a commission established to examine whether or not Medicare or other governmental health ☐ Recommended insurance programs should consider paying for medical quality and efficiency on the basis of geographic areas (MSAs, HSAs, or HRRs). The distinguished panel answers with a resounding "no," based on the lack of correlation between costs and payments by provider type within geographic area, and the fact that appropriate payment should be based on the decision- making unit (e.g., a hospital, clinic, group practice HMO, or ACO) rather than any definable geographic area. The most notable finding in the report is that three-fourths of the systematic variation in costs between areas is due to post-acute long-term care, with some attributable to hospital costs. Only a little is due to average numbers of procedures or pharmacy and diagnostic costs, and virtually none is due to difference in emergency room utilization (see p. 70 of the report). This monograph, available free as a download from the National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=18393, should be read by anyone wishing to see a contemporary health policy study done right. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional audiences as well as general readers

156 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Organizational Management Faculty Member: Felton, George. Advertising: concept and copy. 3rd ed. W. W. Norton, 2013. 320p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780393733860 pbk, $65.00 ☐ Required Building on the strengths of previous editions (2nd ed., CH, Dec'06, 44-2200), this new edition places more emphasis on social media and the importance of creating a unique brand ☐ Recommended identity. Felton (Columbus College of Art and Design) has also added a chapter titled "Telling Stories," which focuses on the need for copywriters to develop "narratives" about what a brand represents, its history, and core values. These story lines are what enable a company to connect with consumers and gain long-term loyalty. An excellent resource for advertising professionals and students alike, the book is divided into three parts: "Strategy," "Execution," and a creative "Toolbox." Anyone stumped for an idea will want to look into the toolbox for inspiration. Delving into the reasons why ads do or do not work, Felton looks at FedEx, Gibson guitars, Volvo, Volkswagen, Nike, Hoover, Corona beer, and many other products. With numerous color illustrations, writing examples, suggestions, and a "StudySpace" website where students can access advertising materials, this book has everything needed to empower one to create innovative ads. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division and graduate advertising and design students, faculty, and practitioners. Faculty Member: Kumar, Nirmalya. Brand breakout: how emerging market brands will go global, by Nirmalya Click here to enter text. Kumar and Jan-Benedict E. M. Steenkamp. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 256p index ISBN 9781137276612, $28.00 ☐ Required There has been a dramatic shift in world trade in the recent past and also a significant increase in the number of brands from emerging markets that have achieved global success. ☐ Recommended Kumar (London Business School) and Steenkamp (Univ. of North Carolina) suggest several routes for brands from emerging markets to achieve global market positions. The strategies they present include migrating to higher-quality and premium brands; leveraging B2B strength in B2C markets; buying global brands from Western multinationals to expand rapidly and aggressively into new markets; overcoming negative country-of-origin associations; positioning on positive cultural myths; branding commodities; and leveraging the power of the state by gaining subsidies or some sort of preferential treatment or barriers to entry for competitors. The authors provide an abundance of detailed examples. Clearly, there are exciting possibilities as more and more firms from emerging markets become less obsessed with manufacturing and supply chain considerations and shift to strategies and tactics to build strong brands and brand equity to compete with more established firms and brands. Building successful brands requires great ingenuity and attention to detail; this book offers excellent guidance for making it happen. It is very readable, logically organized, well documented, and compelling in its arguments. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, practitioners. Faculty Member: Clikeman, Paul M. Called to account: financial frauds that shaped the accounting profession. Click here to enter text. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2013. 371p bibl index afp ISBN 9780415630245, $200.00; ISBN 9780415630252 pbk, $60.70; ISBN 9780203097946 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required If one were to write a history of the accounting profession in the US, a historian might compile a chronological record of key events, persons, legislation, and the like. Some within ☐ Recommended the profession might relate it to the economic history of the country, as Gary John Previts and Barbara Dubis Merino did with A History of Accounting in America (CH, Nov'98, 36-1669). Most modern accountants, however, perceive the evolution of the profession, at least in part, in light of its difficulties and failures. Clikeman has done a superb job of presenting this evolution through the masterfully told accounts of 16 of the most famous financial frauds. Starting with the Ivar Kreuger matchstick fraud of the early 20th century, Clikeman takes the reader through the major eras of the profession's history, revealing how specific financial scandals provided the stimulus for many key professional, legislative, and regulatory developments. This second edition (1st ed., CH, Aug'09, 46-6897) includes a new section 157 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 dealing with recent events, including Parmalat, Satyam, and the recession. The book is extensively documented and includes suggested discussion questions and a full index. Summing Up: Essential. Accounting collections, upper-division undergraduate through professional. Faculty Member: Stone, Brad. The everything store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon. Little, Brown, 2013. Click here to enter text. 372p index ISBN 9780316219266, $28.00 ☐ Required Arguably, there are three great stories that have emerged from the current age of technological innovation: Steve Jobs, the "Google fellows," and Jeff Bezos. Bloomberg ☐ Recommended Businessweek writer Stone employs a historian's approach in presenting Amazon in relentless detail flowing from the personality and focus of founder Jeff Bezos. This can lead to insights as well as mind-numbing detail: "Christopher Smith, a twenty-three-year-old warehouse temp with tattoos of Chinese characters on his forearms...." Amazon is presented as a triumph of small things done well in creating a global organization that is potentially on the threshold of even more exponential growth. Bezos is presented as a driven, detailed-oriented innovator focused on improving the customer experience at Amazon, which has grown as a function of Bezos's personality. Neither Steve Jobs, as presented by Walter Isaacson in Steve Jobs (CH, Apr'12, 49-4500), nor Bezos comes off as an average nice guy. How could they? The real lesson is that the "heroic entrepreneur" is captive to his/her vision and that most other things are secondary. Anyone wanting to learn about Jeff Bezos's remarkable development of Amazon and his ambition to make it "the everything store" will want to read this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels and collections. Faculty Member: DeLong, David. Graduate to a great job: make your college degree pay off in today's market. Click here to enter text. Longstone Press, 2013. 271p bibl index ISBN 9780988868601 pbk, $15.00 ☐ Required DeLong, whose experience includes being a career-planning researcher at Harvard Business School, has produced an outstanding overview of the process of securing employment as a ☐ Recommended recent or soon-to-be graduate. The author showcases tactics and advice from recent college grads who found success in their own job search strategies. DeLong's writing style carries a casual yet wise tone that works well for a young generation of educated readers facing the incredible challenges of landing their first professional jobs. Chapters are brief, but references to current sources offering in-depth guidance appear throughout the book. "Checklists for Action" are provided to assist job seekers in incorporating specific tasks into their job search. Networking is a constant theme throughout the work; other strategies emphasized are securing a useful internship and utilizing university career service departments. Tips are offered for formatting a resumé for applicant tracking systems, as well as for the proper use of LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in the job search. Similar titles worth examining are Mary Ghilani's Working in Your Major: How to Find a Job When You Graduate (CH, Mar'13, 50- 3939) and Tori Randolph Terhune and Betsy Hays's Land Your Dream Career: Eleven Steps to Take in College (CH, Oct'13, 51-0976). Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate students and career services professionals. Faculty Member: Judgment and decision making at work, ed. by Scott Highhouse, Reeshad S. Dalal, and Click here to enter text. Eduardo Salas. Routledge, 2014. 386p bibl indexes ISBN 9780415886864, $95.00; ISBN 9780203767054 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Highhouse (Bowling Green State Univ.), Dalal (George Mason Univ.), and Salas (Univ. of Central Florida) have done an exceptional job of providing expertly presented perspectives on ☐ Recommended the broad field of judgment and decision making as applied to the workplace. The outstanding set of well-written, cutting-edge, scholarly chapters provide a great description of, and also push forward, the science of judgment and decision making. The editors and chapter authors provide research-based perspectives relying on scholarly research from a wide variety of theoretical foundations, models, and literatures. The decision-making process is examined from three main perspectives, as reflected in the book's three parts: "Personnel Decision Making," "Organizational Decision Making," and "Decision Making in Action." Offering enlightening commentary on a wide range of important issues, this rigorous work 158 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 will be a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in organizational behavior and industrial psychology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through research collections. Faculty Member: Carr, Gina. Klout matters: how to engage customers, boost your digital influence--and raise Click here to enter text. your Klout score for success, by Gina Carr and Terry Brock. McGraw-Hill, 2014. 221p index ISBN 9780071827317 pbk, $18.00 ☐ Required Carr and Brock, marketing specialists, present a practical framework for anyone wanting to use the social media to influence others. In the crowded and often chaotic universe of social ☐ Recommended media, thought leaders are faced with the daunting task of "getting through" and effectively engaging people whose behavior they want to shape. The authors present a compelling case for thought leaders to use a highly acclaimed social scoring system called Klout to develop and measure their online and offline influence. Organizations and thought leaders are interested in Klout because it can be used to identify true opinion leaders who have exceptional ability to influence others. The authors do a fine job describing the techniques individuals can use to build a social media presence and cultivate and grow their Klout score on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other social media platforms. The book's appendix contains a wide assortment of recommended podcasts, videos, and blogs that will help people in connecting meaningfully with others. In sum, this book provides great insight on how thought leaders can increase their digital influence with the aid of a social scoring system that has proven effective. See also, Mark Schaefer's Return on Influence (CH, Sep'12, 50-0387). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students at all levels; researchers; practitioners; general readers. Faculty Member: Cohen, William A. The practical Drucker: applying the wisdom of the world's greatest Click here to enter text. management thinker. AMACOM, 2014. 277p index ISBN 9780814433492, $25.00 ☐ Required Cohen (Institute of Leader Arts) is a former student and colleague of Peter Drucker, who is regarded as the "father of modern management." In this important book, Cohen explains ☐ Recommended Drucker's many management ideas that are applicable to current and future management problems. This work should be required reading for all managers of profit as well as nonprofit organizations and all students and professors in business schools. It is very clearly written with short chapters and examples for each idea discussed. Cohen shares Drucker's insights on key topics, including the importance of marketing and innovation for success; why leadership is a marketing job; where the best innovations come from; the importance of ethical behavior and social responsibility; what quality is; how to measure performance and productivity; why controls are important; how to handle crises; how to predict the future; how to adapt to change; why profit maximization is bad for society and for the success of an organization; why an organization needs optimal profits to support marketing and innovation; and why Drucker's most valuable idea is to think and ask questions. See also Cohen's other books on Drucker, including Drucker on Leadership (2009) and A Class with Drucker (CH, May'08, 45- 5078). Summing Up: Essential. Business collections, lower-division undergraduate through professional. Faculty Member: Fortunato, John A. Sports sponsorship: principles and practices. McFarland, 2013. 214p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780786474318 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476602905 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Companies engage in sports sponsorships for many reasons, such as to increase brand loyalty, drive sales/retail traffic, showcase community responsibility, and achieve competitive ☐ Recommended differentiation. However, sponsorships often fail because the sponsor lacks the knowledge to execute a successful sponsorship experience. In his very readable book, Fortunato (Fordham Univ.) offers valuable insights and abundant examples regarding the key building blocks and challenges of designing and maintaining a successful sports sponsorship program. He does an excellent job demonstrating that marketing through sports can give a company a differential advantage over its competition. Important topics discussed include the negotiation process between sponsor and property; key components of a sponsorship deal, i.e., the assets or 159 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 rights being purchased by the sponsor (e.g., category exclusivity, hospitality, signage, special events, tickets); and sponsorship of individuals (versus events, teams, venues, etc.). The chapter on activation is also strong. Acquiring a collection of rights is only the beginning for a sponsor; Fortunato shows how to effectively leverage the rights purchased. He also discusses the importance of a carefully designed measurement and evaluation program for the sponsorship. More attention might be given to fulfillment, a formal report by the property to the sponsor verifying that promised components were delivered. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Practitioners, researchers, students at all levels. Faculty Member: Cohen, Brian S. What every angel investor wants you to know: an insider reveals how to get Click here to enter text. smart funding for your billion-dollar idea, by Brian S. Cohen and John Kador. McGraw-Hill, 2013. 228p index afp ISBN 9780071800716, $30.00 ☐ Required Business angel investors are largely an understudied group relative to venture capitalists, even though both annually invest roughly the same amount of money in start-ups. Because ☐ Recommended this group is understudied, business founders often do not know how to approach business angels for investment or understand what these individuals seek in an investment. Cohen (chairman, New York Angels) and Kador (business writer) seek to change that. While their book is anecdotal, they discuss in depth how angels view a potential investment as well as how they evaluate its prospects. This is the book's strength. Although some advice is generic, there are numerous excellent insights that will surprise those who are not angel investors. The authors argue, for example, that founders should not request a nondisclosure agreement before pitching, and that founders should learn what an angel will think is a reasonable valuation before making their pitch. This work differs from Susan Preston's Angel Financing for Entrepreneurs (2007) in that it focuses more on what angels are thinking as they evaluate the pitch. The concluding chapter offers five useful sources for entrepreneurs seeking angel funding. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels of students, entrepreneurs, practitioners Faculty Member: Kaplan, Robert Steven. What you're really meant to do: a road map for reaching your unique Click here to enter text. potential. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. 219p index afp ISBN 9781422189900, $25.00 ☐ Required Kaplan (Harvard Business School; author of What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, 2011) provides excellent advice and self-assessment guidance for anyone interested in professional ☐ Recommended growth and achievement of their "unique potential." The book is easy to digest, written in a conversational manner, and made more readable by the text's organization into smaller sections with descriptive headers. To provide context and perspective to the many valuable points made throughout the book, Kaplan gives many examples of real interactions and anecdotes with those he has coached over the years--from job seekers to employers and from recent graduates to seasoned professionals. The book also offers interactive components throughout; for example, in chapter 2 Kaplan asks the reader to create a "skills checklist" and offers detailed examples of what this list would look like. Additionally, after each chapter, suggested follow-up steps allow readers to continue to assess and identify their next course of action. Overall, Kaplan uses his corporate and academic expertise to provide excellent advice for readers at all stages of their careers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels and collections. Faculty Member: Reich, Steven A. Working people: a history of African American workers since emancipation. Click here to enter text. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 231p bibl index afp ISBN 9781442203327, $35.00; ISBN 9781442203334 ebook, $34.99 ☐ Required The title and subtitle of this book say it all. This concisely written history of African American workers recounts the slow progress and many reversals of a people willing to work but ☐ Recommended consistently denied access to decent working conditions, decent remuneration, vocational education, and the opportunity to advance on the job. In short, it is the story of a people denied the American Dream. Reich (James Madison Univ.; author of Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration, 2006) divides the time line for his work into the post-Civil War era; the introduction of Jim Crow and the resurgence of white supremacy; the migration from the 160 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 agrarian South to the industrial North; the Depression and WW II; post-WW II and Korea: and the trials and struggles of the civil rights era. A subtheme of the book is the rise and diminution of the economic rights of America's working class. Nothing of note is lacking from Reich's account. This work is a perfect supplement for classes in race and ethnicity, labor history, and diversity. Of special interest is the "Documents" section, which contains contemporaneous narratives and interviews of those who watched these events transpire. Excellent notes and a selected bibliography. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels of undergraduate students; general readers.

161 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Philosophy Faculty Member: Natali, Carlo. Aristotle: his life and school, ed. by D. S. Hutchinson. Princeton, 2013. 219p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780691096537, $29.95 ☐ Required Natali (Univ. of Venice) assembles all of the relevant ancient sources for the life of Aristotle and offers judicious assessments of their reliability and significance. The result, when it comes ☐ Recommended to the life of Aristotle, is that Natali's work is now the standard biography. Here are some of the questions he answers. Was Aristotle a Macedonian? Why did he leave Athens shortly after Plato's death? What was his relationship to Alexander the Great (whom he tutored)? In addition, Natali examines the evidence for the purposes and methodology of the school in Athens that Aristotle founded, the Lyceum. In the course of doing so, he presents a compelling account of the sort of life that Aristotle believed to be the best for humankind, and links it to the activities of those teaching at and attending the Lyceum. His conclusion is that Aristotle was one of the first to conceive of and practice the life of the scholarly researcher. This book both satisfies the highest standards of scholarship and is accessible to any intelligent reader. Every college and university library should have it. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers Faculty Member: Sneddon, Andrew. Autonomy. Bloomsbury, 2013. 219p bibl index ISBN 9781441152312, Click here to enter text. $100.00; ISBN 9781441165015 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Since the 1970s, philosophers have explored the conceptual foundations of "personal autonomy"--humans' capacity to "run their own lives." Not all humans possess this capacity; ☐ Recommended thus, philosophers (and psychologists) debate the nature of autonomous persons and choices, especially in medical ethics and political philosophy. This important contribution to the debate is also an extremely useful philosophy textbook. It aims to outline autonomy's conceptual foundations and to present a new theory. However, the latter tends to get overshadowed by the foundations discussion, since Sneddon (Univ. of Ottawa) never really brings his own theory's various strands to the forefront. Scientists might quibble over the relative paucity of psychological, sociological, and biological content. Nevertheless, this is by far the most articulate and complete analysis available of the philosophical foundations of autonomy, including the requirements of any cogent theory of autonomy, and why that theory is important philosophically and practically. As a textbook, it teems with well-crafted philosophical prose; it is rife with simple examples drawn from ordinary life, useful distinctions, and rigorous explanations. Rather than bog students down with copious footnotes/endnotes, each chapter includes an annotated reading guide and a short, useful bibliography. This is an outstanding example of how to do and write contemporary philosophy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Bardon, Adrian. A brief history of the philosophy of time. Oxford, 2013. 185p index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780199976454, $74.00; ISBN 9780199301089 pbk, $19.95 ☐ Required Bardon (Wake Forest Univ.) has written a superb little book on the philosophy of time. Following an introduction, he begins with the pre-Socratic philosophers' arguments on the ☐ Recommended nature of change. He then covers the salient points in the history of the philosophy of time in Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Newton, Einstein, and McTaggart. The book ends with an epilogue titled "Is 'What Is Time?' the Wrong Question?" Though this book is, as its title states, a brief history, it is packed with marvelously lucid explanations of the central problems and issues relevant to the subject, including philosophy, physics, and phenomenology. The closest comparison to this work is Paul Halpern's Time Journeys: A Search for Cosmic Destiny and Meaning (CH, Mar'91, 28-3822). Bardon's book, however, is more philosophical. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Paul, L. A. Causation: a user's guide, by L. A. Paul and Ned Hall. Oxford, 2013. 277p bibl Click here to enter text. indexes ISBN 9780199673445, $99.00; ISBN 9780199673452 pbk, $35.00 ☐ Required The import of this study goes well beyond the significance of the metaphysics of causality. An understanding of the causal relation is essential not only in the disciplines of philosophy of 162 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Recommended science, epistemology, and ethics, but also in the fields of semantics, decision theory, and the social and physical sciences. Despite intensive interest in this problem over the last 30 years, no significant progress toward a common understanding of causality has been attained. Paul (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Hall (Harvard) skillfully organize and clarify salient problems inherent in recent deterministic accounts of causation in a clear and discerning exposition appealing to beginner and expert alike. They aspire to construct a precise theory of the causal relation by emphasizing counterfactual analyses in the explication of a variety of related problems involving redundant causation, comissive causes and effects, and transitivity of causation. Although a consistent theory is not forthcoming, their account yields deep insight and understanding of a wide variety of problems in the investigation of causality. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections in the philosophy of science supporting upper-level undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Lampert, Laurence. The enduring importance of Leo Strauss. Chicago, 2013. 345p bibl index Click here to enter text. afp ISBN 9780226039480, $55.00; ISBN 9780226039510 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Lampert (emer., Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis) hopes to measure the significance of Leo Strauss, one of the giants of 20th-century political thought. This is a difficult task ☐ Recommended inasmuch as Strauss's unique achievement was the recovery (and practice) of the classical art of exoteric writing. According to Strauss, the masterworks of philosophy, from Plato through Nietzsche, hold a double teaching--an "exoteric," politically safe doctrine for public consumption, and a private, "esoteric" position addressed to genuine students. Lampert reads Strauss as Strauss read Plato: he subjects every comma and every question to interpretation. His conclusion will shock many students of Strauss. He argues that, though Strauss publically dismissed Nietzsche as a proto-fascist, he not only embraced his teaching but considered Nietzsche the final installment in a long line of Platonic political philosophers. Though Lampert (whose passion for Nietzsche approaches an almost evangelical fervor) offers some provocative insights into Strauss, his argument is not quite convincing. Strauss's work retains an openness towards revelation that is not found in Nietzsche's writings. Moreover, Lampert's study suffers from a tendency toward overinterpretation; one is tempted to remind the author that sometimes an editorial dash is just an editorial dash. A valuable book for students of political philosophy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students Faculty Member: Human rights: the hard questions, ed. by Cindy Holder and David Reidy. Cambridge, 2013. Click here to enter text. 472p bibl index ISBN 9781107003064 pbk, $99.00 ☐ Required In this superb book, editors Holder (Univ. of Victoria, British Columbia) and Reidy (Univ. of Tennessee) bring together 23 timely and substantive papers, organized around seven ☐ Recommended pressing yet perennial questions. These are reflected in the titles of the seven parts: (1) "What Are Human Rights?" (2) "How Do Human Rights Relate to Group Rights and Culture?" (3) "What Do Human Rights Require of the Global Economy?" (4) "How Do Human Rights Relate to Environmental Policy?" (5) "Is There a Human Right to Democracy?" (6) "What Are the Limits of Rights Enforcement?" and (7) "Are Human Rights Progressive?" A 20-page introduction and a 9-page afterword provide an excellent overview and scaffolding for these papers. The editors weave together abstract philosophical theory about the nature of human rights (e.g., Rex Martin's "Are Human Rights Universal?") with social and political practical issues (e.g., Carol Gould's "The Human Right to Democracy and Its Global Import"), as well as policy concerns (e.g., Larry May's "Conflicting Responsibilities to Protect Human Rights"). The readability of Holder and Reidy's introduction, along with their perspicacious selection and grouping of readings, make this an ideal teaching text and also a valuable research volume. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Lippitt, John. Kierkegaard and the problem of self-love. Cambridge, 2013. 208p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781107035614, $99.00 ☐ Required Kierkegaard suggests in Works of Love (1847) that friendship is a preferential form of self- love, and that in friendship one treats the friend as just an extension of oneself. Lippitt (Univ. 163 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Recommended of Hertfordshire, UK) offers a detailed examination of Kierkegaard on self-love, with an eye toward providing an approach that improves on Kierkegaard's at some points. He identifies the importance of distinguishing between proper and improper forms of self-love, and he takes exception to the view that in friendship one automatically treats the friend as just an extension of oneself. The project offers a treatment of friendship that can include proper love of one's neighbor and thereby avoid improper self-love. Lippitt takes Kierkegaard's overall view to call for such a treatment of friendship. In addition, he explains the bearing of his approach on such special relationships as those with one's spouse or closest friends. The author develops his account in connection with the relations of self-love to self-denial, trust, hope, self-forgiveness, self-respect, and pride. The book is lucid, well organized, and carefully attentive to the relevant contemporary literature. It will be an excellent acquisition for all libraries supporting work on Kierkegaard, the nature of love, or the philosophy of religion. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Bearn, Gordon C. F. Life drawing: a Deleuzean aesthetics of existence. Fordham, 2013. 342p Click here to enter text. bibl index ISBN 9780823244805, $95.00; ISBN 9780823244812 pbk, $30.00 ☐ Required Bearn (Lehigh Univ.), appropriately considering the book's title, recounts personal engagement in the unwavering, lifelong pursuit of the meaning of life, as only a philosopher ☐ Recommended can do it. His broad-reaching adventure enlists Wittgenstein, Cavell, Nietzsche, Whitehead, Derrida, and others--all in one lyrical, synthesizing, exploratory discourse. Mostly though, the point of departure--by way of conceptual inspiration, by way of emulation of incidental incorporation of myriad allusions from all over the realms of art, music, literature, and philosophy, and also by way of the rhizomatic organization of the whole text--derives from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (1987). Significant adjunct influences include Milan Kundera, John Cage, Gertrude Stein, and Jackson Pollock. Essential conceptual confrontations--with vivacious slowness, pointlessness, forsaking the philosopher's urge to settle on foundational standpoints, desire positively experienced, Deleuzean becoming, and Diotima's speech in Plato's Symposium--provide important junctures in the journey. This is a valuable resource for students and scholars in philosophy and the humanities, and for all intellectuals who appreciate a wonderfully composed and trenchant encounter with what matters most. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and abov Faculty Member: Vitrano, Christine. The nature and value of happiness. Westview Press, 2014. 151p index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780813347271, $24.00; ISBN 9780813347288 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Vitrano (Brooklyn College, CUNY) provides readers with a clearly structured, well-argued introduction to the many questions surrounding contemporary discussions of happiness. ☐ Recommended After considering and arguing against hedonism, virtue accounts, and desire satisfaction views of various sorts, the author turns to her own favored account. She suggests that a form of life satisfaction view provides the best understanding of happiness, and she closes with brief considerations of whether one must be good to be happy and of how to pursue happiness. Vitrano is admirably clear about why she chooses her account, urging that the best account of happiness must match common usage of the term, must match people's intuitions about happiness, and must be theoretically rich enough to explain people's motivations and behaviors as they try to achieve happiness in their own lives. While few of her arguments are new and none will convince her opponents, this clear book is a valuable introduction that will be useful in ethics courses and classes that explore happiness. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers Faculty Member: Philosophy and its history: aims and methods in the study of early modern philosophy, ed. by Click here to enter text. Mogens Lærke, Justin E. H. Smith, and Eric Schliesser. Oxford, 2013. 362p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199857142, $99.00; ISBN 9780199857166 pbk, $35.00 ☐ Required Making history of philosophy exciting philosophically requires disarming "practices that insulate philosophers from the activity of history of philosophy that have deep roots in ☐ Recommended analytic philosophy," reasons coeditor Schliesser (Ghent Univ., Belgium; coeditor, Interpreting Newton, 2012). Most of the 15 contributors to this quality collection are committed to the 164 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 value for contemporary philosophy of thorough, historically situated studies of earlier thinkers' philosophies. Their clear, persuasive articles confront Anglo-American philosophy's tendency to mine earlier philosophical works for precious argumentative nuggets that may be applied to current philosophical problems. Contributors trace this tendency in analytic philosophy's own 20th-century history, as in the nuanced critique of the analytic affection for the method of intuition proffered by Michael Della Rocca (Yale Univ.; Spinoza, 2008). Other contributions, such as those of Justin Smith (Concordia Univ.; Divine Machines, CH, Nov'11, 49-1421) and Koen Vermeir (CNRS, Paris), are methodological. Still others exemplify the fruitfulness of deeply contextual readings of early modern philosophers, such as Ursula Goldenbaum (Emory Univ.; coeditor, Infinitesimal Differences, 2008) on Kant's "What Is Enlightenment?" and Julie Klein (Villanova Univ.) on Spinoza's reception, among others. This text should be required reading for all philosophers who think mere analysis of textual meaning is sufficient for philosophical analysis. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper- division undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Childers, Timothy. Philosophy and probability. Oxford, 2013. 194p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780199661824, $65.00; ISBN 9780199661831 pbk, $27.95 ☐ Required At last, beginning students in philosophy have a careful, informed, and useful introductory survey of the philosophical meaning and arguments of the main interpretations of the ☐ Recommended probability calculus. Childers (member, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) focuses on four family-related theories: relative frequency, championed by Richard von Mises; propensity theory, introduced by Karl Popper; subjectivism, often viewed in terms of degrees of belief by Thomas Bayes; and the classical and logical approaches, based on symmetrical probabilities originating with Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, and extended by John Maynard Keynes and Rudolf Carnap. Each chapter commences with a vignette involving the misadventures of Prokop, a fictional character confronted with everyday practical difficulties in risky situations. The work as a whole is written at the introductory level and accessible to anyone with some experience in symbolic logic. Nevertheless, Childers provides not only an account of the Maximum Entropy Principle in the final chapter, but also at the work's end thorough references and extensive appendixes for anyone wishing to study beyond these basics. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- division undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Badiou, Alain. Philosophy and the event, by Alain Badiou with Fabien Tarby; tr. by Louise Click here to enter text. Burchill. Polity, 2013. 154p ISBN 9780745653945, $54.95; ISBN 9780745653952 pbk, $14.95 ☐ Required Published in French in 2010, this timely translation may be the best introduction yet to Badiou's thought. Responding to pointed and well-informed questions from philosopher ☐ Recommended Fabien Tarby, Badiou clearly and concisely addresses the five themes that have guided his work: the four conditions of philosophy--politics, love, art, science--and philosophy itself. The conversational tone of the volume allows Badiou (emer., École Normale Supérieure, Paris) to make use of concrete examples to help clarify how he understands the emergence of an event as "something that brings to light a possibility that was invisible or even unthinkable." His comments on 20th-century communism, and on the revolutionary transformations that took place in the span of a few years at the dawning of the 20th century in music, painting, poetry, science, and mathematics, will engage newcomers to his thought. His comments on a projected third volume of Being and Event--The Immanence of Truths--will be of great interest to those already familiar with his previous works (English translations, v.1, 2005; v.2, 2009). Ably translated and with a concluding essay by Tarby, this volume belongs in any library with holdings in contemporary European philosophy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Vasalou, Sophia. Schopenhauer and the aesthetic standpoint: philosophy as a practice of the Click here to enter text. sublime. Cambridge, 2013. 237p bibl index afp ISBN 9781107024403, $90.00 ☐ Required For years, Schopenhauer's philosophy has vexed readers, being regarded as too literary for the serious philosopher and too philosophical for the purely literary reader. In placing the 165 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Recommended aesthetic character of Schopenhauer's thought at the heart of her study and in presenting his philosophy as enacting the sublime, Vasalou (King's College London) has found a way to reconcile Schopenhauer's literary and philosophical dimensions. She thus opens a valuable philosophical space for a deeper appreciation of his work. In the detailed introduction and six elegantly presented chapters of her study, Vasalou provides a compelling account of why one should still be reading Schopenhauer and of how one should read him. Her work joins a growing body of excellent literature that has redeemed Schopenhauer's standing within philosophy. Vasalou's own method in this study is hard to categorize; it combines historical rigor (excellent detail on both ancient views of virtue and on contemporary ethical theories) with poetic suggestiveness. Using the concept of wonder to frame her study, Vasalou succeeds most impressively in making her case for the enduring relevance of Schopenhauer as a philosopher who presented wonder as an ethical and aesthetic vehicle for self- knowledge. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty; general readers. Faculty Member: Ravven, Heidi M. The self beyond itself: an alternative history of ethics, the new brain Click here to enter text. sciences, and the myth of free will. Free Press, 2013. 507p index afp ISBN 9781595585370 pbk, $31.95 ☐ Required This book's title indicates the content's broad scope. Moreover, Ravven (Hamilton College) writes in the tradition of the great public intellectual. The scope and rich exposition is ☐ Recommended reminiscent of earlier public intellectuals such as John Dewey or, more recently, Carl Sagan or Stephen J. Gould. Ravven's aim "is to expose the free will account of moral agency as a mere cultural assumption" and "an idiosyncrasy of the particular religio-cultural trajectory of the Latin West." She believes that "moral agency came to be defined in terms of the individual standing beyond belonging--willing and choosing ... from a locus of self that could free itself from determination by group, context, world, and natural endowment and act." As an alternative, Ravven invites readers to consider the works of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish philosophers in the eastern Mediterranean world. She considers closely the works of Maimonides and Spinoza, but also endorses an "ethics on the ground." That is, she gathers evidence for her conclusion via a study of the history of moral education in the US, the Holocaust, several key experiments in social psychology, and perhaps most importantly, by careful attention to the dawning of a "naturalized ethics" via studies in the neurosciences. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Churchland, Patricia S. Touching a nerve: the self as brain. W. W. Norton, 2013. 304p index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780393058321, $26.95 ☐ Required Many would agree that neurophilosophy began with Churchland's Neurophilosophy (1986), and continued with such other highly regarded works as Brain-wise (CH, Sep'03, 41-0268) and ☐ Recommended Braintrust (CH, Aug'12, 49-6805). For 15-plus years, Churchland (emer., Univ. of California, San Diego) has focused on both the philosophy of neuroscience and the neuroscience of philosophy. The former domain, like that of philosophy of science, focuses on questions of historical and contemporary importance to the discipline itself. What is the nature of successful description and explanation? What underlying presuppositions about causation, prediction, and method drive a given science? In contrast, the latter domain focuses on a neuroscientific explanation of central philosophical concepts: free will, moral agency, a sense of self, and consciousness. Touching a Nerve continues the themes of Churchland's previous work, but with a twist. Churchland embeds weighty neuroscientific issues in personal stories. Her aim "to interweave the science with the stories" has the effect of providing high-level discussions of traditional neuroscientific topics that are accessible to a much broader audience. None of her usual rigor is diminished, but the field itself opens up to all readers with an interest in the nature of neurophilosophy and its implications for living. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. 166 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Edmonds, David. Would you kill the fat man?: the trolley problem and what your answer tells Click here to enter text. us about right and wrong. Princeton, 2013. 220p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691154022, $19.95 ☐ Required This is a witty and informative discussion of the trolley problem in philosophical ethics by Oxford University researcher Edmonds (coauthor, with John Eidinow, of Wittgenstein's Poker, ☐ Recommended 2001). Roughly, the trolley problem is a thought experiment. The basic form of the problem involves a runaway train heading toward five innocents who have been tied to the track. Someone could save them by flipping a switch that will turn the train onto another track, but a person is tied to that track, too. The question then becomes, what is the moral or ethical thing to do? Edmonds tracks the development of the trolley problem from its first formulation through current psychology and cognitive science. Through a highly informed yet not technical discussion, readers get an excellent introduction to some main lines of 20th- century moral philosophy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers.

167 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Political Science Faculty Member: Kaiser, Robert G. Act of Congress: how America's essential institution works, and how it Click here to enter text. doesn't. Knopf, 2013. 417p index ISBN 9780307700162, $27.95 ☐ Required Kaiser (Washington Post) uses passage of the Dodd-Frank Act to illustrate the complexity of the congressional process. Moving from White House pleas for action, he examines in depth ☐ Recommended the backgrounds of the leaders and staff who were key players in this congressional drama. Kaiser begins with Congressman Barney Frank, chair of the Financial Services Committee, and his staff, who spent thousands of hours in meetings with administration officials and lobbyists. He then explains how successful navigation of the hearings, the committee mark- up, the Rules Committee, and the Committee of the Whole required an exceptional amount of political skill. Success became even more difficult for Senator Christopher Dodd, chair of the Banking Committee, because of the Senate's enhanced deference to the minority. Kaiser closes with the machinations involved in the conference committee proceedings. Throughout he shows how the huge amounts of money that organized interests were able to bring into play and the narrow partisanship complicated even further the task of obtaining and holding majorities. This is an exceptionally informative, candid, evenhanded description of the congressional process. It would be a valuable addition to any course on Congress or on public policy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Rotberg, Robert I. Africa emerges: consummate challenges, abundant opportunities. Polity, Click here to enter text. 2013. 269p bibl index ISBN 9780745661629, $69.95; ISBN 9780745661636 pbk, $26.95 ☐ Required For over 35 years Rotberg (Harvard Univ.) has been an influential voice on state conflict and state development, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. This volume aims to provide a virtual ☐ Recommended "white paper" outlining the challenges (six chapters) and opportunities (four chapters) confronting contemporary Africa. Even with an avalanche of well selected and cited data inclusive of all sub-Saharan states, the work is well organized, clear, and readable. Despite the festering challenges of the coming "demographic explosion, education scarcity, persistent disease, energy shortfalls, widespread corruption, civil war, food scarcity, job shortages," Rotberg remains optimistic. The mobile telephone revolution, Chinese investment and merchantilism, the rise of an aspirational middle class, and a recognition of the need for good governance feed this optimism. Driving the continued emergence of Africa will be educational advancement, continued Chinese engagement, and above all an emergence of transformational leadership. Quick case studies throughout drive the narrative. One would be hard-pressed to find a better and more useful review of contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: MacNeil, Neil. The American Senate: an insider's history, by Neil MacNeil and Richard A. Click here to enter text. Baker. Oxford, 2013. 455p bibl index afp ISBN 9780195367614, $29.95 ☐ Required This first-rate comprehensive study is likely to set the standard for historical scholarship on the US Senate. Chock-full of fascinating stories from insiders' perspectives, The American ☐ Recommended Senate is entertaining and engaging. Organized thematically rather than chronologically, chapters are dedicated to the evolution of the Senate, elections and campaign finance, power struggles with the president, the Senate's investigative and watchdog role over the executive branch, the Senate's relationship with the House of Representatives, the rise of Senate leaders in the 20th century, and the internal partisan battles that breed gridlock and eventual compromise. While contemporary critics may whine about the "dysfunction" in Washington, The American Senate reveals that not much is new with US politics. Although the US may be going through a "cycle" of party divisiveness, the authors conclude that "the Senate is a functioning, if awkward, institution in need of regular revision." The American Senate is a must read for any serious historian or political scientist, yet still accessible to the general public. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. 168 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Pangle, Thomas L. Aristotle's teaching in the Politics. Chicago, 2013. 343p bibl index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780226016030, $35.00; ISBN 9780226016177 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required In recent decades, there has been an extraordinary wave of fine scholarship on Aristotle. It has therefore become increasingly difficult to write a new book on Aristotle's Politics that is ☐ Recommended both original and good. Pangle's commentary succeeds admirably. Through a careful exegesis, Pangle (Univ. of Texas, Austin) unpacks Aristotle's text and illuminates the work's multilayered rhetorical structure. He lays out the argument of the book and brings to light Aristotle's intention or "teaching." Aristotle's teaching is to be understood in terms of both how he wrote or taught and what his work teaches. Understanding the literary character of the work allows readers to clearly understand its substance. Pangle brilliantly demonstrates that Aristotle was a "political" philosopher; he was guided by his understanding of the deep essential tension that necessarily exists between politics and philosophy. Anyone with a serious interest in understanding Aristotle and political philosophy will benefit from, and enjoy, reading this book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. Faculty Member: Greer, Christina M. Black ethnics: race, immigration, and the pursuit of the American dream. Click here to enter text. Oxford, 2013. 212p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199989300, $99.00; ISBN 9780199989317 pbk, $27.95 ☐ Required This study of black ethnicity in the US breaks new ground in research on the rapidly diversifying African-ancestry population. Greer (Fordham Univ.) compares all three major ☐ Recommended black ethnic groups in the US: those whose families have often been in the US for centuries, those whose families came from the Caribbean, and those who have emigrated from Africa in recent decades. Although her comparative data is largely limited to a survey of a New York City union, her findings will help guide future research in this area. Greer argues that the Afro-Caribbean and African immigrants and their offspring are "elevated minorities," perceived as superior to the long-established African American population. An intriguing finding is that Afro-Caribbeans are the most pessimistic about opportunity in the US, in contrast to what Mary Waters found in Black Identities (2001) (although Waters did suggest that the second generation might lose its optimism). One drawback is the lack of discussion of Philip Kasinitzet et al.'s important study Inheriting the City (CH, Dec'08, 46-2392), which offers a different perspective on some similar populations. Overall, though, this is a substantial contribution that will appeal to anyone interested in racial politics in the US. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: De Waal, Thomas. Black garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through peace and war. 10th ed., Click here to enter text. rev. and updated. New York University, 2013. 386p bibl index ISBN 9780814760321 pbk, $25.00 ☐ Required The disintegration of the Soviet Union engendered a number of regional conflicts in the former Soviet republics. Some of these conflicts were resolved amicably, while others have ☐ Recommended either petered out or have been kept at bay. One major exception to this pattern has been the unresolved territorial conflict in Nagorno Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This book provides a highly informative and evenhanded analysis of the history of the current conflict in Nagorno Karabakh and a portrait of the modern Caucasus republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan. De Waal (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), who is a British journalist and currently a senior associate in the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has relied on his field research as well as on Russian- language and Western sources. He explains how the Nagorno Karabakh conflict developed in the late 1980s in the waning era of the Soviet Union and describes the conflict's different phases as well as the different factors that have turned Nagorno Karabakh into a powder keg with dangerous implications for the South Caucasus and beyond. The book also contains a useful chronology of important events. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. 169 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Gibson, Edward L. Boundary control: subnational authoritarianism in federal democracies. Click here to enter text. Cambridge, 2012. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780521192231, $85.00; ISBN 9780521127332 pbk, $29.99 ☐ Required Gibson (Northwestern Univ.) takes on the under-studied, under-theorized problem of regional authoritarianism (and its perpetuation) in the context of a nationally democratic ☐ Recommended polity: What explains the persistence of subnational authoritarianism in a democratic national polity? How can scholars explain the coexistence of both democratizing and authoritarian subnational regional governments in the same national context? "Boundary control" actions are taken by local governments to prevent local and national political actors and dynamics from influencing one another, as it is the political insulation of local authoritarianism that helps to preserve its effective hold on power. When successful, boundary control activities protect the concentration of power and authority in often personalistic or single-party subnational polities. Yet national-level factors also play a role: the territorial regime of federalism, and its definition in the national context, can permit the persistence or dissipation of local authoritarianism. After laying out the theoretic construct, Gibson builds inductively from case studies: the US (the "Solid South"), Argentina, and Mexico. By opening up the black box of subnational politics, and problematizing the interaction between national and territorial regimes, Gibson provides an important contribution to the comparative study of democratization. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections Faculty Member: Glaser, James M. Changing minds, if not hearts: political remedies for racial conflict, by James Click here to enter text. M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan. Pennsylvania, 2013. 182p bibl index afp ISBN 9780812245288, $59.95 ☐ Required Despite the numerous books that have been published on racial prejudice, this book by Glaser (Tufts Univ.) and Ryan (PhD candidate, Univ. of Michigan) is a welcome addition, as it ☐ Recommended focuses on the political question of how framing the issue can affect the outcome, or what William Riker called "heresthetics." This leads to the title, since the authors find evidence that race-related issues in the US can be diffused through such reframing, but they do not show how to change the underlying racial attitudes. Perhaps the accumulation of these heresthetic techniques could slowly lessen the salience of race, but this is not discussed here. Throughout the book, they describe recent racially charged problems and attempt to show how changing the question can alter the outcome. For example, public school funding in areas with large minority populations usually lacks broad support among whites, but they analyze a Mississippi example in which changing the ballot question to several items on funding for specific public school needs led to the passage of some proposals. In each of their examples, the authors use effective, targeted survey techniques, such as asking sub-samples different questions or changing the survey question in different iterations of the poll. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: Ramos, Jennifer M. Changing norms through actions: the evolution of sovereignty. Oxford, Click here to enter text. 2013. 200p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199924844, $99.00; ISBN 9780199924868 pbk, $27.95 ☐ Required Sovereignty is perhaps the most important set of norms at the core of international relations, and it is a concept in the process of change. This book takes a structurationist approach ☐ Recommended combined with insights on cognitive dissonance to provide an exploration of how actions--in particular, military interventions--significantly shape those norms. Ramos (Loyola Marymount Univ.) examines the movement to a concept of contingent sovereignty through three cases: Afghanistan (counterterrorism), Somalia (human rights), and Iraq (WMD). Except for the intervention in Iraq, she finds that the more costly the intervention, the more the concept of contingent sovereignty was reinforced. Ramos shows how the justification for self-interested behavior can have the unintended consequence of strengthening the ideas used to justify involvement. This work deserves to be in the library of anyone with an interest in how international relations is changing, and how it might change in the future. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional 170 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 collections Faculty Member: Della Porta, Donatella. Clandestine political violence. Cambridge, 2013. 326p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780521195744, $99.00; ISBN 9780521146166 pbk, $36.99 ☐ Required Della Porta (sociology, European Univ. Institute, Italy), one of the foremost scholars of social movements, turns her attention in this new work to the question of why groups resort to ☐ Recommended terrorism, or what she terms clandestine political violence. The book examines a range of left- wing, right-wing, ethno-nationalist, and religious movements that have resorted to these tactics, drawing on case studies of al Qaeda, the Basque separatists in Spain, and underground political movements in Italy and Germany in the 1970s-80s. The aim of the work is to develop a new understanding of the various causal mechanisms behind the onset, persistence, and demise of this type of violence. While the sociological approach will be too technical for general audiences, this is a necessary addition to any academic collection on terrorism, political violence, or social movements. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections Faculty Member: Phillips, Nickie D. Comic book crime: truth, justice, and the American way, by Nickie D. Phillips Click here to enter text. and Staci Strobl. New York University, 2013. 289p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814767870, $75.00; ISBN 9780814767887 pbk, $24.00 ☐ Required Innovative, exciting, and truly interdisciplinary, Phillips (sociology and criminal justice, St. Francis College) and Strobl (John Jay College) pen a wonderful book on the iconic cultural ☐ Recommended figures in contemporary American comic books. Phillips and Strobl use criminal justice, criminology, law, history, sociology, and related social sciences to argue that comic books and the characters that inhabit those spaces constitute a rather comprehensive understanding of crime and justice in America. Phillips and Strobl's book is made up of 10 succinct chapters, all edgy and creative. The book's most persuasive component may be the final substantive chapter in which Phillips and Strobl present the impact of this attention to crime fighting, which has led to astronomical numbers of Americans incarcerated. If readers were to only read one chapter of the book, it should be the final chapter. Phillips and Strobl remind the reader that producers must be mindful that comic books can act as a "sleeper cell for conservative, tough-on-crime American nostalgia and retributive brinkmanship." Comic Book Crime is an essential book for anyone interested in truth, justice, and the American way, but more importantly who defines those notions and how. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels Faculty Member: Turner, Thomas. Congo. Polity, 2013. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780745648439, $64.95; ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780745648446 pbk, $22.95 ☐ Required The Democratic Republic of Congo, in size and population (estimated 70 million) one of Africa's largest countries, has suffered multiple cycles and forms of conflict since precolonial ☐ Recommended times. Turner, the Congo specialist at Amnesty International USA, is one of several well- known academic and policy experts who have written extensively on the country. Polity's "Hot Spots in Global Politics" series aims to provide authoritative, accessible overviews of troubled regions, but perhaps none is as complex as Congo, for which Turner lists 80 abbreviations/acronyms! His approach and writing style are engaging. The seven chapters (including the introduction) focus on the changing cast of local and foreign characters in this human tragedy; the politics of identity; the impact of war and sexual violence on women; the curse of plundered natural resources; and the failures of international actors, including the US, to live up to their responsibilities. A worthy addition to the literature on Congo, this book is highly recommended for college, university, and public libraries, and collections specializing in international or African studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels. Faculty Member: Waltman, Jerold. Congress, the Supreme Court, and religious liberty: the case of City of Click here to enter text. Boerne v. Flores. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 199p bibl index afp ISBN 9781137300638, $90.00 ☐ Required City of Boerne v. Flores, the 1997 US Supreme Court decision invalidating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, is a complicated case. What began as a local dispute over a Texas ☐ Recommended church's desire to redevelop its main building turned into a broad dispute that centered on a 171 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 series of major constitutional themes: the free exercise of religion, separation of powers, federalism, and judicial supremacy. Because of its unusually variegated nature, the case can be difficult to explain. However, Waltman (Baylor Univ.) has written a superb monograph on the decision. Waltman weaves together the legal issues, constitutional history, and political backdrop of the case into a highly readable narrative that is a worthy addition to the personal library of undergraduates as well as senior scholars. The book has many virtues, but perhaps its most attractive feature is the comprehensive nature of Waltman's project. He chronicles not only the complex jurisprudential dynamics of the case, but also the personal stories of the parishioners who found themselves wrenchingly divided over the fate of their church. The end result is one of the finest accounts of a single Supreme Court case that has been written in many years. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty. Faculty Member: Constructing democratic governance in Latin America, ed. by Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Click here to enter text. Shifter. 4th ed. Johns Hopkins, 2013. 377p bibl index afp ISBN 9781421409795 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781421409801 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required In the latest edition of this work edited by Domínguez (Harvard Univ.) and Shifter (Georgetown Univ.), the focus is on Latin America during a period of increasing economic ☐ Recommended prosperity, especially in the two largest countries of Brazil and Mexico. The book maintains its standard format. First, there are thematic chapters, in this case on constitutional rewriting, mass media and politics, crime and security, and the political effects of the natural resources boom. Then there are eight country chapters concentrating on the contemporary situation of the last decade or so. Finally, there is a concluding chapter by Domínguez that could easily be read first, given how well it lays out the successes and challenges of democratization in the region. All of the chapters are insightful with useful references. What is particularly striking in this edition is the limited concern with Latin American militaries, given how quiescent they have become, and the detailed treatment of party politics. Indeed, the book provides specific analysis and comparisons of party system collapse, dealignment, realignment, and "partyarchy." It is thus required reading not just for students of Latin America but also for those interested in party system change. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. Faculty Member: The Culture of immodesty in American life and politics: the modest republic, ed. by Michael P. Click here to enter text. Federici, Richard M. Gamble, and Mark T. Mitchell. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 228p index afp ISBN 9780230340770, $85.00 ☐ Required The editors of this volume explain that the "general diagnosis" made by the essays in this collection is that "the cultural and political scene is thoroughly conditioned by immodest ☐ Recommended aspirations and desires that are the product of the imperial imagination and a loss of ethical self-control." What the authors seek by way of a treatment for this plight is the "hard and difficult road" of restoring "a sense of limits" and reducing America's hubris syndrome. The program here is based on Irving Babbitt's contention that sooner or later economics, politics, philosophy, and religion all run into one another. The various essays in the collection cover such topics as Messianism, neo-Jacobinism, judicial usurpation, executive power, the limits of Reaganism, contemporary banking, the ideology of growth, American spatio-temporality, the therapeutic state, the art of Bruce Springsteen, the state of the universities, the crisis in public education, and currents in Protestant political theology. All essays are the product of thoughtfulness and care; those who follow the factionalism that pervades the politics of contemporary conservatism will find much to reflect upon here. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels, undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: Walker, Ignacio. Democracy in Latin America: between hope and despair, tr. by Krystin Click here to enter text. Krause, Holly Bird, and Scott Mainwarning. Notre Dame, 2013. 262p bibl index afp ISBN 9780268019723 pbk, $38.00 ☐ Required Walker (senator, Republic of Chile) combines the perspectives of college professor, political officer holder, and on-site observer of the transition from democracy to dictatorship and back 172 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Recommended to democracy in his native country, Chile. He observes that Latin America is experiencing the most widespread presence of democracy in its history, but notes that these democracies are fragile due to the remnants of a traditional oligarchic order and the personalization of power under populist regimes. He contends that the breakdown of democratic government in the 1960s was due to a combination of economic problems, the impact of the Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, and strong political polarization. Although he expresses some hope that stable democracies will develop in Latin American countries to take them beyond electoral democracy to authentic liberal or representative democracy, he is troubled by growing public disenchantment with new democracies due to the weakness of the states and vulnerability of existing institutions. Currently, charismatic leaders overshadow political parties and organized interest groups, and sometimes undermine the rule of law. He also finds that democracies are weakened by great inequalities among social classes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: Linos, Katerina. The democratic foundations of policy diffusion: how health, family and Click here to enter text. employment laws spread across countries. Oxford, 2013. 231p index afp ISBN 9780199967865, $99.00; ISBN 9780199967872 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Linos (Univ. of California at Berkeley Law School) brings an impressive mixed-method analysis to bear on the phenomenon of cross-national policy diffusion. The focus, and the important ☐ Recommended contribution, is on the democratic nature of the policy diffusion process. Linos's main argument is that citizens in democracies (even in America) give special weight to the experiences of other countries (and the stated policies of international organizations) when deciding whether to adopt a particular policy. This is in contrast to a more technocratic approach, wherein policy elites gather information from abroad and repackage it for consumption by the domestic voting audience. This book is written in an engaging, accessible style, but its rigor shines through. Linos uses carefully designed analyses to parse out the effects of technocrats and voters on policy diffusion. By isolating the contributing factors in this manner, she shows in a way that is more sophisticated than most others have envisioned that voters are able to gain from the experiences of other countries. This work has important consequences for the understanding of the influence of international organizations--policies need not be binding to be persuasive. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above Faculty Member: Stampnitzky, Lisa. Disciplining terror: how experts invented "terrorism." Cambridge, 2013. Click here to enter text. 232p bibl index ISBN 9781107026636, $95.00 ☐ Required In this excellent and highly readable book, Stampnitzky (social studies, Harvard Univ.) traces the origin of terrorism studies as a discipline (though she is clear about the enduring ☐ Recommended definitional problems, the subtitle "How Experts Invented 'Terrorism'" is a bit misleading). The study of terrorism as a policy issue and scholarly subdiscipline is relatively new, having originated in the 1960s. But, as Stampnitzky points out, its evolution has been problematic. Over time politics and moral lenses have infected the subfield from outside. Terrorists came to be viewed simply as evil and irrational, and considerations of motivations became suspect and deemed irrelevant to the study of terrorism from the perspective of politically influential outsiders especially in the US Congress in the 1970s-80s. This "politics of anti-knowledge," as Stampnitzky characterizes it, however, is not new. The book does an admirable job of tracing the origins of terrorism studies from the 1960s--when it was a more conventional if nascent endeavor focused mainly on insurgencies and terrorism as a tactic--to the current post-9/11 state of affairs. This excellent work employs an array of primary and secondary sources and is a corrective that should be read by US foreign policy elites especially. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels Faculty Member: Goldin, Ian. Divided nations: why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it. Click here to enter text. Oxford, 2013. 207p bibl index ISBN 9780199693900, $21.95 173 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required Goldin (director, Oxford Martin School, Oxford Univ.) brings a wealth of experience as a practitioner with a variety of international organizations along with solid academic ☐ Recommended credentials to this thoughtful and clearly written study of global governance. He argues that the global community is at a crossroads. Hyperconnectivity means that local hazards (including local miscreants) have the potential to blossom into global catastrophes (as with the 2008 financial meltdown)--hence the clear need for greater international cooperation. Focusing on the areas of climate change, cybersecurity, pandemics, migration, and finance, Goldin finds the current global architecture, largely designed in the wake of WW II, woefully inadequate to the task. Emphasizing the need to balance legitimacy and effectiveness, Goldin recommends specific reforms for existing institutions, along with the expansion of functionally focused transgovernmental networks; civil society groups; and private sector initiatives, including those of empowered individuals. While the recommendations are left at a fairly general level, this thoughtful, well-informed work provides very helpful guidance through the crowded terrain of global governance issues today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels Faculty Member: The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr: Clarence B. Jones, right-wing conservatism, and Click here to enter text. the manipulation of the King legacy, ed. by Lewis V. Baldwin and Rufus Burrow Jr. Cascade Books, 2013. 267p index ISBN 9781610979542, $26.40 ☐ Required In answering the question "What is the proper interpretation of Martin Luther King Jr. and his work?" Baldwin (Vanderbilt Univ.) and Burrow (Christian Theological Seminary) offer up ☐ Recommended incisive critiques of popular conservative readings of King in this edited volume. The authors analyze the flaws in superficial readings or selective quoting of King, and the scholars assembled in this collection take the time to establish the context of the intellectual environment, moral dilemmas, and political strategies of King and his social movement. It is only in this way, the authors argue, that readers can understand why King engaged in politics in the way that he did and, therefore, it is the only way they can also develop insights into how King might comment on contemporary political issues. This is a valuable interpretation that illuminates modern intellectual and political debates of King and his legacy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. Faculty Member: Chander, Anupam. The electronic silk road: how the Web binds the world in commerce. Yale, Click here to enter text. 2013. 278p index afp ISBN 9780300154597, $28.00 ☐ Required In the age of Google, Twitter, WikiLeaks, and Edward Snowden, the legal dilemmas of the Internet are compelling. This volume focuses narrowly on the provision of "information ☐ Recommended services delivered remotely through electronic communication systems" to businesses or consumers. Whether back-office firms in Bangalore, India, or a popular site like Facebook offers these services, they are handled unevenly by a patchwork of territorial-based state laws and international law. Chander (Univ. of California, Davis, School of Law) not only describes the types of legal problems emerging from cyber-trade, but also prescribes principles for a regime that would both free up trade and maintain the rule of law. After a general overview and introduction, he provides chapter-long case studies of Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Internet "pirates," and "Facebookistan." In his final three chapters, he proposes a legal approach based on the principles of "dematerialization," "glocalization," "harmonization," and "do no evil." A useful glossary of terms is added for nonspecialists. Chander's prose is clear, and his evenhanded approach is compelling. This is a timely book that brings erudite legal scholarship to bear upon concrete problems. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above Faculty Member: Levy, David. Eros and Socratic political philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 202p bibl index Click here to enter text. afp ISBN 9781137345387, $90.00 ☐ Required Levy's first book establishes him as a profound interpreter of Plato. Through an analysis of selections from the Republic and Symposium and all of the Phaedrus, he overturns two widely ☐ Recommended accepted scholarly views about the Platonic view of erōs, namely, that philosophy itself is erotic and that the religious imagery in these dialogues, especially the Phaedrus, is merely 174 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 allegorical. To dispel the former view, Levy (St. John's College) engages in precise, careful readings that reveal, for example, such important clues as that the Greek term erōs ceases to be used in the Symposium once one ascends the so-called ladder of love beyond the love of human individuals. Although philosophy is not erotic in the precise sense, erotic experience can play a decisive role in philosophic development by highlighting some of the most important and conflicting motives in human experience. That the religious imagery surrounding erōs is not merely allegorical (which if it were would render philosophy itself quasi-religious) is made evident by Levy's success in uncovering the erotic bases of religious belief, especially the human longing for immortality that only divine beings could guarantee. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: Saleh, Alam. Ethnic identity and the state in Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 233p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781137310866, $90.00 ☐ Required This very good sociological study tackles the thorny question of ethnic identity and its impact on Iran's foreign policy under radical Islamic rule since 1979. Saleh (Univ. of Bradford, UK) ☐ Recommended systematically interviewed 53 individuals from various ethic-religious groups within Iran and expatriate Iranians in Europe to examine the levels and depths of political belief and involvement. His conclusions are not surprising, but they definitely suggest that Iran's religious rulers have not gained the support of the various ethnic groups. Moreover, the coercive means of assimilation used by the Islamic Republic, instead of easing these groups' fears, is making matters worse. For those interested in Iran's future, this will be very provocative and interesting reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections Faculty Member: The Everyday life of the state: a state-in-society approach, ed. by Adam White. Center for Click here to enter text. Global Studies, Jackson School of International Studies/Washington, 2013. 251p bibl index afp ISBN 9780295992556, $70.00; ISBN 9780295992563 pbk, $35.00 ☐ Required The Everyday Life of the State presents research from the University of Washington's 2007 conference "Policy from the Grassroots: How Social Forces Shackle and Transform ☐ Recommended Policymakers." This accessible, lively, and engaging work features 12 essays by American, British, and Canadian political science professors. Migdal's introductory essay describes the genesis and issues of the "state in society" movement within international relations, which argues for the existence of a weak state/strong society paradigm, in which social forces can serve to resist or undermine state authority. Then a diverse group of case studies explore the phenomenon in Japan, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, and western Europe, drawing upon both current developments and historical precedents. Each essay works individually to illustrate and interrogate the theoretical argument by providing specific examples, and could thus work well as an introduction to this literature for undergraduate or graduate students as well as policy makers. Although essays do not address current developments in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Egypt, the volume can make a significant contribution to understanding resistance to state authority as it has occurred in these places and may well impact future theorizing in this area. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduate collections and above Faculty Member: Abrams, Floyd. Friend of the Court: on the front lines with the First Amendment. Yale, 2013. Click here to enter text. 473p index afp ISBN 9780300190878, $32.50 ☐ Required As Abrams reminds readers at the beginning of this outstanding volume, "The world of law, including First Amendment law, begins with a client with a problem and a lawyer who ☐ Recommended represents that client." Abrams has brought together speeches, editorials, short articles, and interviews covering four decades of his work as one of the nation's foremost free speech litigators. Where necessary, he provides invaluable footnotes informing the reader of subsequent legal developments. The result is a highly accessible, page-turning collection that demonstrates that ultimately the most important client passionately defended across the years by Abrams is the expressive freedom clause of the First Amendment. Indeed, an important theme of this volume is that this provision has continuously needed defending 175 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 from attacks by liberals and conservatives alike. The readers for whom this volume will be useful and informative will be as diverse as the myriad audiences for whom the original materials were intended. Summing Up: Essential. All readership levels Faculty Member: Mitoma, Glenn. Human rights and the negotiation of American power. Pennsylvania, 2013. Click here to enter text. 223p index afp ISBN 9780812245066, $55.00 ☐ Required This book examines the rise and institutionalization of the idea of human rights in the US in the early postwar era. To illustrate how the notion of human rights developed in the US, ☐ Recommended Mitoma (Univ. of Connecticut) focuses on the conceptual contribution of three civil society organizations: the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the American Bar Association. Mitoma also examines how international negotiations led to the UN's adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To illustrate the role of foreign leaders on the development of the human rights idea, he focuses on the contribution of two diplomats, Carlos Romulo of the Philippines and Charles Malik of Lebanon, both of whom were charter members of the UN Commission on Human Rights. Finally, the book illuminates the ambiguities and contradictions that emerged from the tension between America's role as a global power and its declared commitment to human rights. This well-written book, which provides an illuminating account of the domestic and transnational sources of the idea of human rights, is strongly recommended, especially for specialized collections on international politics, American foreign policy, and international human rights. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; undergraduate students and above Faculty Member: The Impacts of lasting occupation: lessons from Israeli society, ed. by Daniel Bar-Tal and Izhak Click here to enter text. Schnell. Oxford, 2013. 576p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199862184, $99.99 ☐ Required This is an ambitious assessment of the detrimental effects on Israel of its 45-year occupation of Palestinian territories. In his foreword, Michael Walzer appropriately calls the book's 24 ☐ Recommended contributors "enemies of the occupation" for their harshly critical analysis of the blowback of Israeli rule on all aspects of the country's public life. Editors Bar-Tal and Schnell see a Gordian knot between the collective lives of the occupying and occupied societies, which can be broken only when the occupation ends. While the occupied society is deeply harmed by the occupation, it cannot escape paying a heavy price. Negative consequences include legal hypocrisy as a system of control; double-standard morality; legitimation of occupation as liberated parts of Jewish homeland, damaging Israeli democracy and international legitimacy; radical rightist parties promoting settlements; marginalization of Israeli Palestinians; an information wall between Jews and Arabs; escalating costs of settlements and control; increasing gender discrimination; rising violence within Israel and toward Palestinians by soldiers and settlers; human rights violations; and the growing discourse of reluctance to forsake the territories. The contributors make a strong case that ending the occupation is in Israel's self-interest. This profoundly thoughtful book is must reading for scholars, politicians, diplomats, and readers seeking peace. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels Faculty Member: Integrating regions: Asia in comparative context, ed. by Miles Kahler and Andrew MacIntyre. Click here to enter text. Stanford, 2013. 320p bibl index afp ISBN 9780804783644, $65.00 ☐ Required Editors Kahler (Univ. of California, San Diego) and MacIntyre (Australian National Univ.) have assembled a distinguished panel of international academics to evaluate recent development ☐ Recommended in Asian regionalism and to compare that development with the processes undertaken earlier in Europe and the Americas. They put forth a rigorous template that puts the focus on decision rules, commitment devices, and membership rules. The volume devotes three chapters to "designs" of regional institutions, three chapters to comparing Asia with Europe and the Americas, three chapters assessing Asian regional institutions, and a final chapter on the future of Asian integration. In addition, there is an extensive bibliography. They conclude that Asia's explosion of regional institution building in the last 15 years has created a patchwork of trade agreements, mechanisms for regional cooperation, and a pan-regional 176 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 umbrella framework that can facilitate high-level political collaboration among different combinations of countries. This has been done with a minimum of international secretariats. A valuable research work that contributes significantly to the ongoing study of the process of regional integration, it belongs in academic libraries with serious holdings in international organization. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: International relations since the end of the Cold War: new and old dimensions, ed. by Geir Click here to enter text. Lundestad. Oxford, 2013. 318p index ISBN 9780199666430, $99.00 ☐ Required Lundestad brings together an insightful array of perspectives focusing on the various elements of international relations theory and practice. Despite the lack of definitive so- ☐ Recommended called answers, the 14 chapters address seminal issues such as liberal-realist theory, the role of the state, conceptualizations of war and peace, and democratic peace, as well as the rise and decline of superpowers, without negating the importance of what one scholar calls the "rise of the rest." As editor, Lundestad moves beyond the mundane naming of the era to expertly group the chapters into four major areas of consideration: international system reorientation; Cold War legacy; nuclear weapon consideration; and power player status. This is a genuinely useful collection generating dialogue, debate, and numerous essay questions for those teaching international relations, foreign policy, and comparative politics at all levels. Each scholarly presentation provides insight into the transformative nature of increasing interdependence while remaining wedded to the conceptualization of the statist system. The collection leaves the reader assured of such concepts as sovereignty, declining hegemony, enhanced institutionalism, and increased democratization, though not necessarily Westernization. In his own inimitable manner, Lundestad reminds everyone that history remains full of surprises. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Katouzian, Homa. Iran: a beginner's guide. Oneworld, 2013. 248p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9781780742724 pbk, $14.95 ☐ Required The Iranian Revolution of 1979 transformed the country's internal dynamics. It also brought about a highly tense and conflictual relationship between Iran and the US and much of ☐ Recommended Europe. As a result, much of what has been published in the West on Iran in the past 30 years has been affected by a combination of fear, paranoia, and an exaggerated sense of the "Iranian threat." One casualty of this state of affairs has been sound scholarship on this ancient country. This highly engaging and informative book is an antidote to the politically skewed writings on Iran. Katouzian (St. Antony's College, Univ. of Oxford, UK), a respected cultural and economic historian of Iran, places contemporary Iran in its proper historical context. He describes the evolution of the country's history from the ancient times through the present and provides a coherent analysis and a panoramic picture of the cultural, political, and historical dynamics of this complex multinational land. Beginning students of Iran will find this book invaluable. This volume is one of the few comprehensive books on Iran that can also be used as a textbook in a variety of undergraduate courses. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduate collections, all levels Faculty Member: Southall, Roger. Liberation movements in power: party and state in southern Africa. James Click here to enter text. Currey, 2013. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781847010667, $80.00 ☐ Required Southall (emer., sociology, Univ. of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) writes extensively on Southern Africa and is editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. This work ☐ Recommended comparatively chronicles the progress of liberation movements in South Africa (African National Congress), Namibia (South West Africa People's Organization), and Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe African National Union--Patriotic Front, ZANU-PF) from challengers. Southall argues that following the collapse of the settler regimes, the liberation movements gained power through democratic elections only to establish "political machine" type of governance and, in the case of ZANU-PF, through the increased use of coercive means. He then explores the use of electoral politics, the penetration of the party mechanisms into the structures of the state and of civil society, and their relation to economic developments. He sees the 177 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 socialist ideology of the early movements giving way to modern neoliberal capitalism. With meticulous detail and extensive documentation, Southall analyzes the theoretical and political environment of Southern Africa and the growth and development of the liberation movements. The thesis of the work is that the liberation movements are slowly succumbing to the complexities of the societies they have tried to mold and their own corruption. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections Faculty Member: Voltmer, Katrin. The media in transitional democracies. Polity, 2013. 275p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780745644585, $69.95; ISBN 9780745644592 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required Voltmer's work addresses the role of media in states undergoing political transitions. It is broad and comparative in scope, focusing on normative issues, the role of media in ☐ Recommended transitions, and how media are transformed during this process. Part 1 argues that "democracy and press freedom are both contested concepts that are socially constructed through public discourse." The importance of history and context are highlighted. Readers will appreciate the nuance provided as Voltmer (Univ. of Leeds, UK) notes the complexity and mutually constituted nature of change. Media is analyzed "as a force that promotes or inhibits transitions to democracy." The last section of the book notes how political, economic, social, and professional factors affect the development of the press. The world's new media environment is a central focus, as the author argues that "political decision-making and democratic participation are inextricably intertwined with, and dependent on, the media of mass communication, both traditional and new." Overall, this is an excellent theoretical contribution to the study of political communication. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections Faculty Member: Mirror for the Muslim prince: Islam and the theory of statecraft, ed. by Mehrzad Boroujerdi. Click here to enter text. Syracuse, 2013. 465p bibl index afp ISBN 9780815632894, $49.95 ☐ Required Boroujerdi (Syracuse Univ.), the series editor for the "Modern Intellectual History of the Middle East," presents an exemplary edited collection. Nearly every chapter is superb, and ☐ Recommended the collection as a whole is even better. Mirror challenges the received scholarly notions that Islamic political thought is ultimately derivative from the Quran and all of it that deserves the name has been written in Arabic. In the final chapter, Ali al-Azmeh argues convincingly that for far too long scholars of Islamic political thought have become stuck in repeating misleading truisms about the primitive egalitarianism of the original political community in Islam against which the long, complex history of the caliphate and multifarious forms of kingship have been presented as foreign and doomed to decline from the beginning. Of the four parts into which Boroujerdi divides the book, the second (chapters 3-7) offers the most striking series of studies of mirrors for princes, which give the lie to this received narrative. These contributors show that Persian political thought was not the foreign agent dooming Islam to decline that scholars, Islamists, and Salafists would have people believe. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: Abbas, Shemeem Burney. Pakistan's blasphemy laws: from Islamic empires to the Taliban. Click here to enter text. Texas, 2013. 204p bibl index afp ISBN 9780292745308, $55.00 ☐ Required This book by Abbas (State Univ. of New York at Purchase College) is part personal narrative, part scholarly exploration. The first highlights her passion and courage, the second her sound ☐ Recommended research and keen analysis. The synthesis is both engaging and powerful. Abbas examines the issue of "blasphemy laws" that are being advanced (and in some instances implemented) by hypersensitive and aggressive Islamists in some Muslim majority countries as a way to secure the supremacy of Islam and protect it from any criticisms or challenges. She argues that such laws are not sanctioned by prophetic example nor supported by textual stipulations, and actually contradict the tolerance exemplified by Prophet Muhammad and inherent in the Quran. She traces the evolution of these laws under later Muslim rulers as tools to secure their regimes, intimidate their critics, and oppress "others." She is particularly energetic in exposing the political motivations behind enacting these laws in Pakistan and the human 178 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 rights abuses that have resulted as a consequence (which also affected her). This timely, thoughtful counterpoint to the appropriation of the Islamist discourse by extremist groups discusses Islam and Shari'a law from within reasonable and humanistic perspectives. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels Faculty Member: Moore, Adam. Peacebuilding in practice: local experience in two Bosnian towns. Cornell, Click here to enter text. 2013. 225p bibl index afp ISBN 9780801451997, $45.00 ☐ Required Whether to intervene in bloody internal conflicts is among the more constant questions before the international community. The answer requires a consideration not only of ☐ Recommended "doability," but also whether the intervention would end the conflict and lead to peaceful reconstruction. By comparing two cases in Bosnia--Mostar, where ethnic conflict still flares intermittently, and Brcko, where public institutions are models of effective multiethnic functioning--Moore (geography, Univ. of California, Los Angeles) identifies an interrelated set of four factors that explain the success and failure of peace building. These four factors are the structure and organization of political institutions, sequencing of political and economic reforms, legacy of the war, and the approach of international peace-building efforts. On the basis of his research, Moore argues that peace-building practices need to be reconceptualized. Most importantly, he urges, there should be a shift from the ethno- territorial political framework of peace building adopted for Mostar in favor of the integrative political framework that was established in Brcko. The book is strongly recommended for those interested in peace building in the wake of international intervention, as well as those interested in applicable research methodology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: McCarty, Nolan. Political bubbles: financial crises and the failure of American democracy, by Click here to enter text. Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. Princeton, 2013. 356p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780691145013, $29.95 ☐ Required McCarty (Princeton Univ.), Poole (Univ. of Georgia), and Rosenthal (New York Univ.) have crafted a masterful analysis of the 2008 financial crisis. Their central thesis is that the ☐ Recommended underlying cause of the Great Recession was the "political bubble." In economics or finance, a bubble happens when an asset exceeds its true value. Political bubbles are mixtures of ideology, institutions, and special interests that exacerbate other "bubbles." The authors explore historical and statistical data to make the case that when given the choice to enact needed regulation, the political system in the US did not and, to date, has not. The "bubble" protecting the interests of the financial sector at the expense of the rest of society is still intact. The analysis is compelling but provides little insight into how to predict when political bubbles will occur or how to deflate them. The warnings for the US political system are dire, and the authors make the case for political courage in dealing with wealth inequalities. This book would be an excellent addition to the library of any student of political economy and an excellent start in generating policy proposals on how to deal with future crises. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above Faculty Member: Winter, Jay. René Cassin and human rights: from the Great War to the Universal Declaration, Click here to enter text. by Jay Winter and Antoine Prost. Cambridge, 2013. 376p bibl index ISBN 9781107032569, $99.00; ISBN 9781107655706 pbk, $32.99 ☐ Required Winter (Yale Univ.) and Prost (Univ. of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) have written a thorough, engaging, and informative account of the life of René Cassin--advisor to de Gaulle during and ☐ Recommended after WW II, contributor to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the UN, and major figure in French Jewish circles. The authors' central theme is that Cassin always saw state sovereignty as limited by personal rights. In their account, Cassin's early views on law and rights were much shaped by his concern for WW I veterans; in his view they had the right to assistance and not just charitable policies. Later he became a champion of human rights from a global perspective. Cassin was not originally a Zionist, but the German Holocaust (which claimed family members) made him a champion of immigration to Israel, although he himself believed in a Diaspora Jewry that could indeed be assimilated into various nations. This 179 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 balanced study notes that his support for Israel blinded him to the nationalistic aspirations of Palestinians and their rights. Well researched and written, this book shows why Cassin's mortal remains now rest in the Pantheon, the ultimate French honor to the country's major figures. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: Allen, Lori. The rise and fall of human rights: cynicism and politics in occupied Palestine. ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780804784702, $85.00; ISBN 9780804784719 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780804785518 ebook, $24.95 ☐ Required Allen (Asian and Middle Eastern studies, Univ. of Cambridge, UK) provides a critical analysis of Arab human rights organizations and institutions based in the occupied Palestinian territories ☐ Recommended in this, her first book. She covers the development of human rights organizations in the Palestinian territories since 1979, based on fieldwork completed during the second intifada up to the present, focusing on a few selected groups. The book is readable and relies on thorough secondary research and interviews and anecdotes from the author's time in the territories. It profiles Palestinian NGOs as well as the Palestinian Authority's Independent Commission on Human Rights, and concludes with a chapter assessing the Hamas movement's approach to human rights. Allen describes the culture of human rights as a means of legitimating proto-state institutions and a focal point of foreign aid in the territories. The political and economic manipulation of the human rights discourse fuels public cynicism and undermines the intended function of human rights organizations. This book is a nuanced corrective helpful to those interested in supporting civil society advocacy among Palestinians. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections Faculty Member: Sisk, Timothy D. Statebuilding. Polity, 2013. 215p bibl index ISBN 9780745661582, $59.95; Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780745661599 pbk, $19.95 ☐ Required Sisk (Univ. of Denver) takes a comprehensive look at the rebuilding of states torn by civil war. In doing so, he brings together in one work a vast amount of literature illustrating key points ☐ Recommended with case examples. His focus is on three key elements of state building (authority, capacity, and legitimacy) and how these factors must be nurtured by external actors and developed and ultimately embraced from within. These factors help explain the tumultuous nature of postwar reconstruction. Steering clear of a one-size-fits-all model of state building, Sisk presents the various ways that states and supportive external actors have been able to achieve the three necessary elements of state building; he also provides lessons from others that have failed. Where other books on the topic take a more narrow view focusing intently on one aspect of postwar state building, Sisk captures the issue in its entirety, making this an ideal book for undergraduates and graduate students studying contemporary war. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels Faculty Member: Hockett, Jeffrey D. A storm over this court: law, politics, and Supreme Court decision making Click here to enter text. in Brown v. Board of Education. Virginia, 2013. 267p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813933740, $39.50; ISBN 9780813933757 ebook, $39.50 ☐ Required Hockett (Univ. of Tulsa) notes that if scholars wish to "explain the votes of nine justices in one Supreme Court ruling, then methodological diversity is a necessity." In this work, he examines ☐ Recommended the landmark desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) through a number of methodological lenses in order to increase the accuracy of the understanding of the factors behind the justices' votes in this unanimous decision. Along the way, Hockett applies instrumental factors as exemplified in the attitudinal model, as well as non-instrumental factors including strategic decision making and the effects of the executive branch and foreign and domestic policy considerations. In the course of his analysis, it becomes clear that some factors weigh more heavily in the decision of some justices, while other factors weigh more heavily for others. This is a truly comprehensive work that is of interest not only to Brown scholars but also to those who seek to understand the process of judicial decision making. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, 180 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 research, and professional collections Faculty Member: Collins, Paul M., Jr. Supreme Court confirmation hearings and constitutional change, by Paul Click here to enter text. M. Collins Jr. and Lori A. Ringhand. Cambridge, 2013. 296p index ISBN 9781107039704, $99.00 ☐ Required Conventional wisdom suggests that confirmation hearings of Supreme Court justices before the Senate Judiciary Committee are broken, but Collins (Univ. of North Texas) and Ringhand ☐ Recommended (Univ. of Georgia School of Law) present a sophisticated, empirically grounded argument that suggests that they are not. Indeed, Collins and Ringhand celebrate the process for conveying to nominees evolving constitutional understandings. The authors argue that the Senate did not refuse to confirm Robert Bork because of what he refused to say but because what he did say strayed from the existing consensus. The writers further deny that nominees who followed Bork have engaged in greater stonewalling. Through quantitative analysis of hearings from 1939 through 2010, the authors trace the rising acceptance of certain once- controversial precedents related to rights of women and minorities, the right to bear arms, and the like, while suggesting that other established precedents have begun to fray. Accompanying vignettes from committee hearings effectively illustrate general arguments. Explaining three apparent exceptions, the authors conclude that nominees who are confirmed as justices generally adhere to what they have said during hearings. This book is a game changer. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections Faculty Member: Newell, Waller R. Tyranny: a new interpretation. Cambridge, 2013. 544p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9781107010321, $95.00; ISBN 9781107610736 pbk, $29.99 ☐ Required In the early 21st century, tyrannical governments and the threat of tyranny continue to haunt the human race. Although tyranny is deplorable from any point of view, however, tyranny ☐ Recommended may only be the logical extension of the conviction that politics is power. Newell (Carleton Univ.) masterfully explores the phenomenon of modern tyranny, and contemporary confusion about it, with an extensive historical, philosophical, and psychological examination of older views of tyranny that were abandoned in the early-modern West. By reminding readers of the classical view of political life, Newell exposes a stunning tension within modern political thought--human beings can be liberated if they admit that "nature does not support either classical or Christian hopes for virtue and offers no prospect for lasting peace, justice, and decency," but this awful truth means that the only difference between the people and the tyrant is one of degree. This engaging and comprehensive study of tyranny also serves as a provocative and sometimes original history of political thought through the epochs of classical antiquity, Christianity, and modernity. Newell's argument will provoke disagreement, but it cannot be dismissed. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers, upper- division undergraduate students, graduate students, and research faculty Faculty Member: Cashman, Greg. What causes war?: an introduction to theories of international conflict. 2nd Click here to enter text. ed. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 605p bibl index afp ISBN 9780742566507, $85.00; ISBN 9780742566514 pbk, $59.95; ISBN 9780742566521 ebook, $57.99 ☐ Required Cashman (Salisbury State Univ.) takes a comprehensive look at the various factors thought to contribute to the outbreak of war. Using a levels of analysis approach, he presents an ☐ Recommended exhaustive set of theories at the individual, substate, state, dyadic, and international levels. Following the explanation of each theory, Cashman presents the empirical record supporting and/or refuting the theories. In this second edition, the book has been expanded to include the growing body of literature examining the causes of war. Further, Cashman has added more depth to the theoretical discussions by including throughout the book case illustrations that should help pique the interest of students. He has also added a chapter on constructivism reflecting an evolving field of study. This book presents a most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of literature surrounding the causes of war. It is ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduates studying contemporary war. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional 181 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 collections Faculty Member: Spoo, Robert. Without copyrights: piracy, publishing, and the public domain. Oxford, 2013. Click here to enter text. 355p bibl index afp ISBN 9780199927876, $35.00 ☐ Required Spoo (Tulsa College of Law) does a masterful job of exploring the intersection between European and American publishing, economics, and copyright law in the late 19th and early ☐ Recommended 20th centuries. Early American copyright law was deliberately protectionist; foreign works were denied statutory copyright protection. As a result, American publishers filled their catalogs with foreign works in the American public domain, much to the displeasure of European authors. Against this backdrop arose the practice of trade courtesy, an unwritten, voluntary system of norms by which publishers had a "duty '[n]ot to jump another publisher's claim,'" as Spoo quotes Henry Holt saying in 1893. Spoo demonstrates that trade courtesy survived on a "quiet, subterranean" level; American publishers continued to rely on it well into the 20th century despite changes in American copyright law granting copyright protection to foreign works if certain onerous requirements were met. Two important writers of the time, Ezra Pound and James Joyce, play a significant role in the book. Spoo devotes several chapters to the copyright dispute surrounding Joyce's Ulysses and Pound's proposed copyright revisions. Spoo's book is a must for anyone interested in the history of copyright law or the publishing industry. His clear writing style makes the book accessible to every audience. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers Faculty Member: Telhami, Shibley. The world through Arab eyes: Arab public opinion and the reshaping of the Click here to enter text. Middle East. Basic Books, 2013. 228p index ISBN 9780465029839, $27.99 ☐ Required This important study of Arab opinion by Telhami (Univ. of Maryland) is based mainly on polls conducted from 2003 to 2012. While the findings generally will not surprise most students of ☐ Recommended the region, the sophisticated polling methods and adept analysis provide solid grounds for rebutting persistent deniers. The findings relate to such matters as identity both with countries and as Arabs and Muslims; the importance of the Palestine issue (called "the Arab prism of pain"); and distrust of the US because of its policies, notably regarding Palestine, not because of any clash of values. The book also provides valuable findings on Arab attitudes toward Iran, making the often-overlooked distinction between people and regimes. The author considers the perception that authoritarian rulers are in cahoots with "Western masters" to be part of the reason for recent revolts, and stresses the renewed importance of taking public opinion into account at a time when transnational television and the Internet further limit government control over information. An essential work for students of Middle Eastern politics, this volume also will prove valuable to those focusing more broadly on identity and political culture. Summing Up: Essential. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above

182 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Psychology Faculty Member: Gnaulati, Enrico. Back to normal: why ordinary childhood behavior Is mistaken for ADHD, Click here to enter text. bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. Beacon Press, 2013. 239p index afp ISBN 9780807073346, $26.95; ISBN 9780807073353 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This book will likely hit many nerves. A clinical psychologist who specializes in children and mental health, Gnaulati is not shy about stating strong opinions, most of which he backed up ☐ Recommended with his reading of the scholarly literature. The book is well documented and, if taken with several grains of salt, offers many reasons to question and consider the process and results of psychiatric diagnoses of ADHD, autism, and bipolar disorder in children. Gnaulati argues that due to a combination of familial, technical, economic, medical, and educational factors, children are being diagnosed and medicated at an alarming rate, and that a lot of mistakes are being made--to the real detriment of children. Though the author goes to some questionable extremes (speculation about gender differences and evolution), the major point of the book is that all parties involved at any point in the process of diagnosis and prescription for a child should be looking hard, making this step a later one and certainly not a first attempt to help. Clear, engaging, and persuasive, this book provides an excellent look at the issues involved in diagnosis and medication, regardless of one's position. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers Faculty Member: The Circle of security intervention: enhancing attachment in early parent-child relationships, Click here to enter text. by Bert Powell et al. Guilford, 2014. 396p bibl index afp ISBN 9781593853143, $45.00; ISBN 9781462512126 ebook, $45.00 ☐ Required "Circle of Security" (COS) intervention is a highly regarded, evidence-based program that brings John Bowlby's attachment theory to a new audience. COS focuses on the caregiver's ☐ Recommended internal working models of both caregiver and child, and on changing the caregiver's behaviors in a manner that is appropriate to the child's needs. The core constructs of COS are Mary Ainsworth's ideas of a secure base and a haven of safety. COS aims to present these ideas to parents in a user-friendly, commonsense fashion that can be understood cognitively and emotionally. The goals of COS are threefold: to increase the caregiver's sensitivity and appropriate responsiveness to the child's signals as the child moves away from the base to explore and moves back to the haven for comfort and soothing; to increase caregiver awareness of his/her own and the child's behaviors, thoughts, and feelings regarding attachment/caregiving interactions; and to assist the caregiver in reflecting on personal history that affects his/her current caregiving behaviors. The summary of attachment theory presented through this new framework is insightful and accessible. The discussion of the intervention itself and case studies make this book a must read. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers Faculty Member: Goleman, Daniel. Focus: the hidden driver of excellence. HarperCollins, 2013. 311p index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780062114860, $28.99 ☐ Required The ubiquitous reality of technological tools and gadgets in contemporary society can seem to impede the development of a conscious awareness of the world. Goleman, author of ☐ Recommended several works, including the acclaimed Emotional Intelligence (1995) and Social Intelligence (CH, Oct'07, 45-0941), explores here the issues this loss of awareness can create on an individual and global scale. He looks at the physiology of the brain and the way in which information, experiences, and emotions are tracked and processed. A storyteller at heart, Goleman makes complex scientific material accessible and captivating. He moves from personal to organizational to global in evaluating the need to strengthen "systems awareness" through three kinds of focus--inner, other, and outer--all of which are required for "a well-lived life." Drawing on work with children and adults in multinational corporations and small inner-city schools, Goleman explores the dynamics of attention training. He draws the reader into a dialogue with critical long- and short-term dilemmas that will require a new 183 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 type of systems focus if they are to be resolved. Realism is tempered by a positive optimism in this engaging work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All collections and readership levels Faculty Member: Clack, Beverley. Freud on the couch: a critical introduction to the father of psychoanalysis. Click here to enter text. Oneworld, 2013. 197p bibl index afp ISBN 9781780742625 pbk, $18.95; ISBN 9781780742632 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Clack (Oxford Brookes Univ., UK) has added a fine exposition of psychoanalysis to the still- growing critical literature on the ideas that animated classical psychoanalysis during Freud's ☐ Recommended lifetime. Less-experienced readers will find much to be pleased with: clear, jargon-free explanations of key ideas such as hysteria, Oedipal sexuality, dreams, and religion; judiciously chosen suggestions for further reading; and an overarching argument concerning philosophical influences on Freud. Clark focuses on Freud and his writings, and readers will find connections to contemporary psychoanalysis in the suggestions for further reading. One of this book's strengths is its balanced account of how the conceptual ground that Freud marked remains relevant to how "big" ideas such as belief, fate, and sexuality will be continuously worked through. This makes the book particularly valuable for beginning scholars and clinicians who otherwise may be caught in the anti-Freudianism that marks many contemporary accounts of the father of psychoanalysis. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; beginning clinicians Faculty Member: Watkins, Philip C. Gratitude and the good life: toward a psychology of appreciation. Springer, Click here to enter text. 2014. 259p bibl index afp ISBN 9789400772526, $129.00; ISBN 9789400772533 ebook, $99.99 ☐ Required Showing appreciation for and returning kindness provides psychological benefits. Watkins (Eastern Washington Univ.) has written a comprehensive, well-organized, engaging book on ☐ Recommended gratitude as essential emotion, trait, and mood state. The work's strength lies in the author's skill at relating empirical work--his own work and that conducted by others, including luminaries from positive psychology--on gratitude, appreciation, and the good life. This 14- chapter book has three sections. The sole chapter in the first establishes gratitude as a topic for psychological science, the chapters in the second explore the "what" of gratitude (e.g., measurement issues, causes, the emotion's utility), and those in the third examine issues of "how" (e.g., what gratitude enhances, links to coping and preventing negative affect, creating interventions). What sets this fine book apart is Watkins's scholarly generosity--he is a truly gracious person as well as a skilled writer: in virtually every chapter, he highlights the informing work done by others while also indicating issues, areas, and questions ripe for exploration by motivated readers. Note to graduate students in emotion or positive psychology--the proverbial breadcrumbs are here to assist in following Watkins's leads. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals Faculty Member: Hallucination: philosophy and psychology, ed. by Fiona Macpherson and Dimitris Platchias. Click here to enter text. MIT, 2013. 421p bibl index afp ISBN 9780262019200, $45.00 ☐ Required Hallucination is a topic of perennial interest in both science and the humanities, and study of hallucination has taken a new turn due to the development of neuro-imaging devices. This ☐ Recommended volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to these phenomena. Macpherson and Platchias, both philosophy scholars based in the UK, have collected essays that explore reported perceptual experiences that lack a consensual referent. Placing chapters by philosophers and neuroscientists in the same volume provides edification for both. The latter will learn the role that hallucination plays in "theory of mind," while the former will be challenged by the comparison of psychotic hallucinations and hallucinations appearing regularly in nighttime dreams. Many readers may be surprised to learn that hallucinations may be auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory as well as visual. Acknowledgment is given to the pioneering work of late-19th-century English psychical researchers, but the sophistication of their contributions is not credited. Hallucinations challenge simplistic 184 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 concepts of memory, illusions, visions, and reality itself. As one contributor to this volume eloquently states, "A single neurophilosophical account of hallucinations will not suffice; we need a family of theories." This collection lays the cornerstone for this ambitious quest. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals Faculty Member: Mindfulness and psychotherapy, ed. by Christopher K. Germer, Ronald D. Siegel, and Paul R. Click here to enter text. Fulton. 2nd ed. Guilford, 2013. 382p bibl index afp ISBN 9781462511372, $45.00 ☐ Required When the first edition of this collection appeared in 2005, it marked a monumental shift in the approach of psychotherapy toward mindfulness-based interventions and teachings. In the ☐ Recommended last eight years, there has been an explosion of interest in mindfulness and its healing capacities, an interest attested to by the mountains of new research and the burgeoning opportunities to learn about mindfulness at professional workshops and seminars. In this second edition, Germer, Siegel, and Fulton (all, Harvard Medical School) again offer what is arguably the definitive cluster of essays concerning the field of mindfulness-based psychotherapies. The authors of the essays include US-based academics and practitioners, whose expertise on the uses to which mindfulness can be put guides the reader through the meaning of mindfulness (including the relation of Buddhist and Western psychologies); the therapy relationship (the book includes a new chapter on ethics); clinical applications (new chapters on trauma and addictions); and the past, present, and future of mindfulness (an updated chapter on neurobiological research). This impressive volume is an invaluable resource in psychology, medicine, social work, nursing, and related fields, and for laypersons interested in the development and history of psychotherapy. Summing Up: Essential. Lower- division undergraduates through faculty; professionals and general readers Faculty Member: Goodale, Melvyn. Sight unseen: an exploration of conscious and unconscious vision, by Click here to enter text. Melvyn Goodale and David Milner. 2nd ed. Oxford, 2013. 218p bibl index ISBN 9780199596966, $59.95 ☐ Required A decade ago, this reviewer observed, in a review of the first edition of this volume (CH, Jul'04, 41-6516), that those who would like to bring themselves up to date on rapid ☐ Recommended developments occurring in visual science would want to read Goodale and Milner's book. This recommendation applies to this new edition as well. The riveting case histories, brain-imaging studies, and behavioral experiments are still here. Equally important, the clear, jargon-free writing remains. Two things distinguish this second edition from the first. For one thing, Goodale and Milner discuss the advances of the last nine years in knowledge about the neurophysiology of the visual system, and their suggested readings include many books published since 2004. The other distinction has to do with readability and convenience. In the first edition, all color illustrations and photos were in a color plate section, so the reader had to search through this section to find the corresponding figure. Now the plates accompany the text. Also, there are many more figures, and some of the original figures have been refined to illustrate points more clearly. This is a fun and informative book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers Faculty Member: Trauma and substance abuse: causes, consequences, and treatment of comorbid disorders, Click here to enter text. ed. by Paige Ouimette and Jennifer P. Read. 2nd ed. American Psychological Association, 2014. 350p bibl index ISBN 9781433815232, $69.95 ☐ Required This second edition of a 2003 book provides a comprehensive overview of the most up-to- date research, treatment, and clinical implications of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) ☐ Recommended and co-occurring substance use disorders (SUDs). A logical sequence consisting of foundations, special issues and populations, and innovations in research and treatment presents a framework and context for understanding the complex relationships between PTSD and SUDs. New to this edition is a much-needed focus on special issues and populations in the changing face of PTSD-SUDs. Research and literature on military PTSD-SUD links, tobacco, and lifespan implications are included, as are the psychological consequences of disaster. Absent from this special section is any mention of PTSD-SUD links or current clinical 185 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 considerations related to the changing political landscape of sexual orientation. In a rapidly changing climate of a deepening knowledge base of the complexity of PTSD-SUD, this updated work reflects cutting-edge treatments, technologies, and improved diagnostics. Researchers, practitioners, and administrators alike will find a wealth of translational science at their fingertips for immediate use in clinical and research settings. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above

186 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Recreation Faculty Member: Zarnowski, Frank. American work-sports: a history of competitions for cornhuskers, Click here to enter text. lumberjacks, firemen and others. McFarland, 2013. 230p bibl index afp ISBN 9780786467846 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780786491261 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Zarnowski (visiting professor, economics, Dartmouth; The Pentathlon of the Ancient World, 2013) has written a study of a neglected topic: athletic competitions that largely replicate ☐ Recommended identical working activities outside the place of employment, as distinguished from mainstream sports played by workers. He divides work sports into two categories: games that reflect a service provided by laborers, and contests in which resources are retrieved or products manufactured. Workers engage in these contests for fun, to gain personal prestige, and to make money from bets or prizes. Zarnowski begins his narrative in the 1840s. There are chapters on rock breaking, firemen musters, certain slave competitions, setting type, circus leapers, laying railroad track, cowboys, lumberjacks, rock and steel drillers, corn huskers, and speed writers and typists. He does not deal with hunting sports or professional boatmen. Zarnowski argues, not totally convincingly, that many of the sports are "modern" in their organization, rules, and record keeping. The author did a lot of primary research in 19th- century sports newspapers, and he includes ample illustrations. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. Faculty Member: A Locker room of her own: celebrity, sexuality, and female athletes, ed. by David C. Ogden Click here to enter text. and Joel Nathan Rosen. University Press of Mississippi, 2013. 209p index afp ISBN 9781617038136, $55.00 ☐ Required Ogden (communication, Univ. of Nebraska, Omaha) and Rosen (sociology and Africana studies, Moravian College) envisioned this collection as the third part of their series ☐ Recommended examining sport and celebrity. But since here they look almost exclusively through the lens of women in sport, this volume is independent of the two previous edited volumes (Reconstructing Fame, CH, Apr'09, 46-4514; Fame to Infamy, CH, Jul'11, 48-6349). The contributors are US-based and range from professors and high school teachers to nonprofit leaders. Their subjects are US athletes, some of whom, such as Billie Jean King, have been closely studied, and others, including Florence Griffith Joyner, have been slighted. For the knowledgeable women's sport historian, the strongest essays are those that introduce those slighted figures--for example, the essay on Roberta Gibb, Kathrine Switzer, and women's marathoning. That said, some of the essays examining better-known figures offer a unique perspective: as an example, the essay on Babe Didrikson Zaharias offers an interesting reading of interpretations of the athlete and her own part in the folklore surrounding her life. In sum, many of these essays are innovative contributions to the field of women in sport. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers Faculty Member: NIAAA's guide to interscholastic athletic administration, [ed.] by Michael L. Blackburn et al. Click here to enter text. Human Kinetics, 2013. 392p bibl index afp ISBN 9781450432771, $49.00 ☐ Required Offered by the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAAA), this guidebook provides unique insight into and comprehensive overview of the issues and ☐ Recommended challenges confronting today's high school athletic administrators. It covers all facets of high school athletic administration, including asset control, facility management, budgetary control, fund raising, program marketing, personnel and human resources, professional ethics, travel and transportation, program design, and compliance with contemporary legislation and regulations. Written by high school sport administrators in the US, the book's 16 chapters are divided into four parts: "Leadership Orientation," "Operational Process," "Financial Matters," and "Physical Assets." Throughout, the reader will find useful general knowledge, helpful contemporary strategies, and best practices to assist in understanding the multidisciplinary expertise and multifaceted demands and responsibilities inherent in the athletic director's role. Excellent examples and commentaries enhance the text. The book's 187 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 epilogue provides an interesting perspective on future issues that will face interscholastic athletic administrators. This book is a valuable resource for both the aspiring athletic administrator and the seasoned professional. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, technical programs, professionals Faculty Member: Abrams, Roger I. Playing tough: the world of sports and politics. Northeastern University, Click here to enter text. 2013. 258p bibl index afp ISBN 9781555537531, $32.95; ISBN 9781555538156 ebook, $31.99 ☐ Required Sports have never been just fun and games. At the highest (and occasionally the lowest) level they have always been intensely political. Politics intruded in the ancient Olympic Games, ☐ Recommended inspired the revival of the Olympics in the 19th century, and have played a role in sporting contests that match national teams or have strong racial or ethnic overtones. Abrams (law, Northeastern Univ.) accepts that premise and focuses on the historical relationship between sports and politics, primarily from the late 19th century onward. He approaches the subject through eight test cases, ranging from sports and machine politics during the Gilded Age, the 1936 Olympics, and the Central American "futbol war" to Muhammad Ali, Olympic boycotts, the use and misuse of sports in South Africa, and financing modern stadiums. Each chapter tells a distinct, compelling story of the relationship between sports and politics, and the whole strips away any illusion that sports can exist without political implications. Abrams writes for a general audience, and the book will be welcome by anyone interested in sports history. Some may suggest certain other political/sports episodes, but few can argue with the legitimacy of Abrams's claim. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers Faculty Member: Pruter, Robert. The rise of American high school sports and the search for control, 1880-1930. Click here to enter text. Syracuse, 2013. 417p bibl index afp ISBN 9780815633143, $49.95 ☐ Required Pruter (librarian, Lewis Univ.) describes the development and governance of high school sports during a period of their great expansion. He focuses on Chicago and Cook County, IL, ☐ Recommended but includes information about Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia, with less from other areas. Early on, private schools enrolled more students and provided more sports and interscholastic leagues; after 1900 public schools became dominant and sponsored most sport activity. Most early school sport competition was organized and managed by students, with adults beginning to take control after the turn of the century. A number of colleges organized tournaments for high school students. Early competitions often included private and public schools, but with time private schools were eliminated from state associations and formed their own leagues. In the 1920s, school sport expanded, especially in big cities, but opposition arose to girls' competitive sport, which decreased significantly. Sectional and "national" high school tournaments increased, many sponsored by universities, and more state athletic associations were established. African American students in many parts of the country attended segregated schools, and athletic associations were established to provide their interscholastic competitions. An epilogue comments on racial integration, Title IX, and commercialization of school sport. Extensive notes and bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty Faculty Member: Rooting for the home team: sport, community, and identity, ed. by Daniel A. Nathan. Illinois, Click here to enter text. 2013. 237p index afp ISBN 9780252037610, $85.00; ISBN 9780252079146 pbk, $25.00 ☐ Required Nathan (American studies, Skidmore College), author of Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal (2003), has collected 14 essays that explore the ways in which people ☐ Recommended define themselves and their communities through sports. Though the focus is limited to sports in the US, the range is quite broad and includes professional and amateur sports played in different parts of the country, by different groups of people, during different time periods (1920s-present). Nathan's introductory chapter presents social and anthropological conceptualizations of community and identity (Victor Turner's notion of communitas and Benedict Anderson's imagined community among them) that underscore both the integrative and the exclusionary potential of sports as activities and as representations of class, gender, ethnicity, and geography. These accessible, illustrative essays--written by scholars of sport 188 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 studies, American studies, and history--are stories about teams and times, voices and victories, pride and privilege. In sum, the book emphasizes the functional aspects of sports-- the fact that through sports people feel connected to one another. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. Faculty Member: Strength and conditioning for young athletes: science and application, ed. by Rhodri S. Lloyd Click here to enter text. and Jon L. Oliver. Routledge, 2014. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780415694872, $155.00; ISBN 9780415694896 pbk, $53.95; ISBN 9780203147498 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Specifically targeting coaches, this book is geared primarily toward providing scientific and research background relative to resistance training for children/youth. It does a very good job ☐ Recommended of providing an overall background. The editors structure the book in three main sections: "Fundamental Concepts of Youth Development," "Development of Physical Fitness Qualities in Youths," and "Contemporary Issues in Youth Strength and Conditioning." The last of these includes chapters on nutrition and prevention of overuse injuries. These chapters are useful, but some of the other chapters would benefit from inclusion of more actual exercises and/or training programs. One exception is the chapter on strength development, which provides a number of exercises and some suggested training programs. There is repeated reference to various models of youth development, and figures illustrate different physical qualities and training applications relative to chronological and developmental ages. This is helpful in reminding readers how youth are different from adults in their training response. In general this concise text fulfills its purpose of supplying background for the professional dealing with youth athletes. Summing Up: Recommended. Technical programs, professionals, general readers

189 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Religious Studies Faculty Member: Barrera, Albino. Biblical economic ethics: sacred scripture's teachings on economic life. Click here to enter text. Lexington Books, 2013. 353p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780739182291, $95.00; ISBN 9780739182307 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Barrera (Providence College) offers an account of biblical teachings on the economy that is characterized by thorough and clear presentation of the ancient texts, fair and thoughtful ☐ Recommended analysis of passages within their biblical context, and sensible and reasonable discussions of how to apply this material to the contemporary world. He begins forthrightly with a well- conceived presentation of methodological issues, thereby allowing his readers to experience the range of deliberations in which he himself necessarily engaged in the process of research and writing. This prologue, if you will, gives readers an appropriate context in which to evaluate Barrera's forays into the Old Testament (including the Apocrypha) and the New Testament. Readers are also in a position to appreciate, even if they do not fully accept, the perspective from which Barrera constructs the concluding chapters of his book (part 3) under the rubric, "Toward a Biblical Theology of Economic Life." This book should be required reading for everyone who takes seriously the role of the Bible in the assessment of current economic policies that, for better or worse, are determinative in how people live their lives at the micro- and the macro-level. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers Faculty Member: Contemporary Hinduism, ed. by P. Pratap Kumar. Acumen, 2013. 301p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9781844656899, $99.95; ISBN 9781844656905 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required Contemporary Hinduism is from the "Religions in Focus" series, which blends the study of religion and anthropology and examines religions as they are lived throughout the ☐ Recommended contemporary world. Organized into three sections, this volume offers essays that express the lived tradition of Hinduism within specific cultural contexts. The first section addresses Hinduism in diaspora, with essays looking at both first-generation and culturally embedded Hindus in Europe and the Americas. Section 2 discusses contemporary Hindus in northern India and Nepal, and section 3 looks at Hindus in southern India and Sri Lanka. With essays written by renowned scholars, this collection is a wonderful resource for exploring the multifaceted and incredibly diverse religious experiences of practicing Hindus throughout the modern world. The volume is very scholarly, yet because of the narrative format of the essays, the book remains accessible to lower-level academic readers. It will be very valuable for any religious studies program and indispensable for any scholar interested in Hinduism as it is expressed in the modern world. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Hart, David Bentley. The experience of God: being, consciousness, bliss. Yale, 2013. 365p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780300166842, $25.00; ISBN 9780300199000 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This volume is a brilliant treatment of the theology of God by respected Eastern Orthodox theologian and philosopher Hart (most recently a visiting professor at Providence College). It ☐ Recommended will appeal to professional philosophers and theologians and to other readers who are personally curious about the common reality underlying the great world religions. The author of Atheist Delusions (CH, Aug'09, 46-6740), Hart writes in an erudite style that sometimes borders on the arcane; however, this is one of his less intimidating books. In it, Hart explores all the major theistic religions of the world, focusing on the most fundamental concepts that they use to describe God (being, consciousness, and bliss). The book's organization, enigmatic at first glance, seems to move thorough the internal steps of a discursive argument that locates a common ground behind these traditions. A very helpful bibliographical postscript points readers to further literature. Within the Christian tradition, this unique book might be used to supplement W. Norris Clarke's The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics (2001). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates 190 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 through researchers/faculty; general readers Faculty Member: Eskridge, Larry. God's forever family: the Jesus People movement in America. Oxford, 2013. Click here to enter text. 386p index afp ISBN 9780195326451, $35.00 ☐ Required In this substantial contribution to American social history, Eskridge (Wheaton College, IL) delineates local, regional, and national leaders, groups, and institutions that together ☐ Recommended inaugurated a revolution in attitudes toward the world held by large numbers of evangelical Protestant Christians. He makes a cogent case for the continuing relevance of the youth- oriented Jesus movement that peaked in the 1970s, was largely neglected by scholars in subsequent decades, and is given definitive treatment here. Eskridge follows the course of the movement's early years in the Bay Area and southern California, then through the American Midwest, where he became aware of it in his youth. He profiles church pastors, street preachers, and communal living experiments. He acknowledges competition and conflict among leaders--embodied dramatically in David "Moses" Berg and his radical "Children of God" group, which later transformed into The Family International. Berg aside, Eskridge rightly credits the movement with changing attitudes of evangelicals from separatism to engagement in the world, and specifically with the development of a Christian- themed popular culture in music and the arts. A fine comparable study is Shaul Magid's American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society (CH, Dec'13, 51-2032). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. Faculty Member: Handbook of the psychology of religion and spirituality, ed. by Raymond F. Paloutzian and Click here to enter text. Crystal L. Park. 2nd ed. Guilford, 2013. 698p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9781462510061, $95.00; ISBN 9781462510139 ebook, $95.00 ☐ Required The second edition of this handbook is a significant extension of the first (CH, Jun'06, 43- 5845). The approach throughout is on the empirical, scientific study of "the physical ☐ Recommended implications of spiritual and religious phenomena on the psychological health and stability of the individual." Most chapters are new or significantly revised, and organized into the same five sections as the first edition (with the fourth modified from "The Construction and Definition of Religion" to "The Construction and Expression of Religion and Spirituality"), followed by a conclusion. There is movement beyond the Western monotheistic traditions, with greater sensitivity to cross-cultural psychology of religion. The editors also advance an argument that careful application of the conceptual models of religious meaning systems and the multilevel interdisciplinary paradigms (especially in chapters 1 and 33) allows them to "recast how we conceptualize this field theoretically and expand the character and reach of our research." To conclude, the editors have done an exceptional job of demonstrating the growth of the field, its multidisciplinarity, its contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge, and its utility for addressing important religious and spiritual concerns, both individual and collective. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Powell, Mark Allan. Jesus as a figure in history: how modern historians view the man from Click here to enter text. Galilee. 2nd ed. Westminster John Knox, 2013. 358p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780664234478 pbk, $40.00 ☐ Required Powell (Trinity Lutheran Seminary) presents a newly revised edition of his 1998 overview of the quest for the historical Jesus. This second edition includes updates on the latest research, ☐ Recommended and appendixes on debates over the very existence of Jesus, Christian apologetics, and psychological interpretations of Jesus. As in the first edition, Powell offers a scholarly yet accessible tour of the basic sources and tools of historical Jesus research and the history of that research from Hermann Reimarus's work to the new 20th-century quests. The heart of the book remains Powell's succinct survey and comparison of six modern scholars whose methods, conclusions, and images of Jesus vary widely. Powell's judicious summaries likely would win their approval, and readers will appreciate the author's substantial critique of the strengths and weaknesses of their approaches. Powell excels at navigating the complicated 191 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 questions and methodologies surrounding the figure of Jesus in history and as an object of religious devotion. This resource will be very useful in undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in both secular and religious academic institutions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty Faculty Member: Stern, Josef. The matter and form of Maimonides' guide. Harvard, 2013. 431p bibl index afp Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780674051607, $49.95 ☐ Required Scholars long have debated Maimonides's announcement, in The Guide of the Perplexed, that he has not openly revealed the truth about the work's two ostensible subjects--physics and ☐ Recommended metaphysics. Stern (Univ. of Chicago) believes the perplexity in Maimonides's title is not the conflict between philosophy and the Bible, but the intrinsic conflict between the human intellect (form) and the body (matter), the latter an insurmountable obstacle to the intellect's attaining knowledge of metaphysics. Stern argues that Maimonides embraces the notion that skepticism engenders tranquility in the soul. He sees matter--also an obstacle to knowledge of physics--as capable of being overcome through observing biblical commandments understood as "spiritual exercises." These exercises aim to undermine matter's influence and thereby promote an intellectual life that is--so far as possible--devoid of feeling. Stern closely examines Maimonides's interpretations of biblical parables, and the parables Maimonides himself constructed. Following Jewish interpretative tradition, he identifies four layers of meaning. Specific interpretations are not always convincing. Moreover, Stern makes too much of the conflict of matter and form in the Aristotelian tradition, and his Maimonides is too close to Augustine. Nonetheless, this linking of parables with other parables, and with biblical and Talmudic passages, is invaluable. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Harris, Mark. The nature of creation: examining the Bible and science. Acumen, 2013. 213p Click here to enter text. bibl indexes ISBN 9781844657247, $90.00; ISBN 9781844657254 pbk, $29.95 ☐ Required With academic credentials in both experimental physics and theology, Harris (theology, Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland) discusses both biblical and modern scientific ideas regarding creation. ☐ Recommended Insisting that science has not disproved the Bible, he approaches the Bible by rejecting the literalism of creationism and fundamentalism in favor of contemporary critical biblical scholarship. This approach leads to the judgment that no single theology of creation pertains in the Bible. Instead, a variety of complementary and sometimes contradictory theologies and a variety of levels of meaning are present, which are best held together through a Trinitarian view of creation. Unwilling to limit his investigation to the Genesis narratives, Harris examines and compares creation narratives found in various Hebrew and Christian biblical texts. Though some biblical texts reflect contemporaneous scientific notions that now are firmly rejected, others, in their diverse levels of meaning, complement the views of modern science. Consequently, Harris suggests, modern science may lead to renewed appreciation of biblical texts of creation. This careful analysis of biblical materials regarding creation in relationship to the views of modern science should be of great interest and value to anyone concerned with the topic. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Dailey, Patricia. Promised bodies: time, language & corporeality in medieval women's Click here to enter text. mystical texts. Columbia, 2013. 260p bibl index afp ISBN 9780231161206, $55.00 ☐ Required In this insightful book, Dailey (English/comparative literature, Columbia Univ.) centers her attention on the Beguine Hadewijch Brabant and her writings, which reflect her theological ☐ Recommended context in the 12th and 13th centuries. The author connects Hadewijch's written works to those of other mystics, such as Julian of Norwich and Hildegard of Bingen. Dailey argues that "a fuller theological understanding of the embodiments of inner and outer persons and their relation to reading, time, interpretation, and practice enables new ways of thinking about and across gender, genre, and period." She does not concentrate on female mystics as separate from male mystics. Rather, she shows that "many women's mystical texts can be read as an extension of and development on theological and hermeneutic traditions--but in a way 192 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 particular to how these traditions are transmitted to and articulated by women." Hadewijch's mystical works express their meaning in the smaller community of Beguines as well as the larger social community. In this unique volume, Dailey successfully shows how "letter and body are interconnected" in medieval mystical writings. Excellent and very full notes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. Faculty Member: Kane, Paula M. Sister Thorn and Catholic mysticism in modern America. North Carolina, 2013. Click here to enter text. 313p index ISBN 9781469607603, $39.95 ☐ Required Kane (Univ. of Pittsburgh) recovers the unique biography of an American stigmatic, Margaret Reilly (1884-1937). Raised in Manhattan to an Irish Catholic family, Reilly's body began ☐ Recommended bearing the marks of Christ in 1921, while she was on a spiritual retreat at a convent run by the Good Shepherd sisters in Peekskill, NY. Reilly soon joined the convent and assumed the name "Sister Mary of the Crown of Thorns." Some fellow sisters were suspicious of both her wounds and her supposed divine revelations from Jesus. But as word of Sister Thorn spread, she gained a following of lay and clerical Catholics. Her spiritual reputation expanded further as she embroidered Sacred Heart badges for friends and petitioners. Attempts to canonize Sister Thorn ultimately failed. And questions linger as to the authenticity of her mystical wounds. But Kane's rendering of Sister Thorn's life and afterlife brings into sharp focus the story of American Catholicism in the interwar years, while foregrounding themes such as modernity, ethnicity, gender, authority, urbanization, and assimilation. The clarity and accessibility of the writing is exceeded only by Kane's expert analysis. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: McDonald, Lee Martin. The story of Jesus in history and faith. Baker Academic, 2013. 393p Click here to enter text. bibl indexes ISBN 9780801039874, $29.99 ☐ Required Although books on the historical study of Jesus have flooded the market over the past 10 to 20 years, relatively few have been written by scholars specifically to help nonspecialists ☐ Recommended understand the issues in historical Jesus research. Some of the volumes that fit this category have a dry textbook feel that makes persevering to the end difficult for all but very committed laypeople (or students who lack a choice). This new three-part volume by McDonald (formerly, Acadia Divinity College) is informed by deep scholarship. It is also very readable and understandable, even for nonspecialists. Part 1 discusses issues of historiography, e.g., the nature of historical research in relation to faith, criteria for authenticity, and the quests for the historical Jesus. Part 2 discusses ancient historical sources, including not only New Testament ones, but also Jewish sources, Greco-Roman ones, the "lost gospels," and even archaeological sources. Part 3 focuses on historical verification of specific major events in the life of Jesus. The book is fair, well written, well researched, and arguably one of the best of its kind. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers Faculty Member: Ariel, Yaakov. An unusual relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews. New York University, Click here to enter text. 2013. 307p index afp ISBN 9780814770689, $39.00 ☐ Required Ariel (UNC Chapel Hill) addresses a deeply complicated dynamic--the relationship between Evangelical Christians and Jews--and its scant treatment until recently. He notes Evangelicals' ☐ Recommended seemingly contradictory attitudes toward Jews; at times they are critical and treat Jews as objects of conversion, and at other times they make friendly statements about Jews and the modern state of Israel. Journalists' and academics' growing interest in Evangelical engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is evident. Some of the treatments of this subject examine political implications, and others note the complicating layer of Evangelical eschatology. Ariel's important contribution to the larger discussion focuses on Evangelical engagement with Jewish communities and Evangelical interest in influencing the course of Jewish history. He considers the influences of Messianic faith, Evangelical readings of scripture, and theological positions that lead to Evangelical interest in the Jews. Thus, Ariel's work has a significant breadth that many other topical treatments lack. Importantly, Ariel 193 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 does an excellent job of defining which Evangelicals are relevant to the discussion. He points out something that academic treatments of Evangelicalism sometimes miss: Evangelicals are not monolithic in their outlook. This accessible work of stellar scholarship will be valuable in both academic and adult education settings. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers

194 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Sociology, Human Relations & Anthropology Faculty Member: Carrillo Rowe, Aimee. Answer the call: virtual migration in Indian call centers, by Aimee Click here to enter text. Carrillo Rowe, Sheena Malhotra, and Kimberlee Perez. Minnesota, 2013. 242p bibl index afp ISBN 9780816689385, $75.00; ISBN 9780816689392 pbk, $25.00 ☐ Required Although this is not the first scholarly book on call center labor or US outsourcing of such labor to India, this work is valuable due to the authors' ethnographic interviews taking place ☐ Recommended over the span of nearly 10 years, between 2003 and 2012. The interviewees include call center workers, agents, trainers, managers, and CEOs. Simultaneously, the book is well founded on pertinent theoretical frameworks, such as those of Arjun Appadurai, Manuel Castells, and Zigmunt Bauman. The authors argue that outsourcing creates workers' virtual migration to the US, in which workers are required to speak English with American accents, be knowledgeable about US sports and culture, and follow the US calendar while missing Indian holidays and events. Those involved in this industry experience a sense of in- betweenness. Although some workers become more economically and socially powerful thanks to this transnational labor system, their lives embody US hegemony and colonialism. Workers are exposed to US class mobility and consumption, while such opportunities in India might be limited. A very relevant and timely work that addresses the issues of inclusion and exclusion in relation to globalization. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels/libraries Faculty Member: Perry, Keisha-Khan Y. Black women against the land grab: the fight for racial justice in Brazil. Click here to enter text. Minnesota, 2013. 213p bibl index afp ISBN 9780816683239, $75.00; ISBN 9780816683246 pbk, $25.00 ☐ Required In this concise and highly original monograph, Jamaican-born scholar and activist Perry (Africana studies, Brown) provides rare insight into the lives of poor women of color in Bahia, ☐ Recommended Brazil. She argues that these women have historically been discriminated against not only on the basis of race, but on gender as well. And yet, as she superbly demonstrates in the case of the poor, sea-level community of Gamboa de Baixo, Bahia (located just below the modern apartment houses of the well-to-do), women residents have been able to resist land grabs by exerting unexpected political muscle far more effectively than their male counterparts. Perry attributes this success to the tenacity of the women occupants and to the experience they have had as domestics in negotiating on a daily basis between the worlds of the rich and powerful and the poor and voiceless. Where men have failed, the women of Gamboa have managed to hold on to their land and their homes as well, although there is a constant need for vigilance. Powerfully argued, this intimate glimpse into the lives of black women of Brazil benefits from the author's personal commitment to their cause. Important reading. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Crime and networks, ed. by Carlo Morselli. Routledge, 2014. 336p bibl index ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780415644532, $195.00; ISBN 9780415710503 pbk, $69.95; ISBN 9780315885018 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required This edited volume of social network research in criminology has been a long time coming within social network analysis (SNA). Save the omission of more extensive discussion of ☐ Recommended white-collar crime networks (largely due to the dearth of scholarship in this niche), the book is complete enough to shape a curriculum around crime networks, either as a special topics course in a generalist sociology department or as a core course within a criminology/criminal justice degree program. As a resource book, it is priceless, not only for the thoroughness of topics, but also for the invaluable bibliographies included in each entry. There is comfort in finding contemporary criminological theory (e.g., Hagan, in McGloin and Nguyen's chapter 1 contribution) as well as familiar names in social network analysis (e.g., Mark Granovetter in a number of the chapters). For those interested in extending their SNA inquiries to crime, most chapters offer comprehensive methodological road maps. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above 195 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Hauptman, Samantha. The criminalization of immigration: the post 9/11 moral panic. LFB Click here to enter text. Scholarly, 2013. 169p bibl index afp ISBN 9781593326166, $67.00 ☐ Required Immigration in the US has been a racially polarizing subject. Since postwar immigrants were marked out by their salient cultural identity, their "otherification" came in handy, and some ☐ Recommended scholars presented them as a threat to the "American way of life" and the "political order." Since 9/11, the "racialization" of immigration has given way to what Hauptman (sociology and criminal justice, Univ. of South Carolina Union) calls the "criminalization" of immigration, which has led to associating immigration with national security. Moral entrepreneurs (legislators and opinion makers) played on social concerns for public safety to take such sweeping legislative initiatives as the USA PATRIOT Act, which made even lawful immigrants suspect. Informal social control methods legitimized and reinforced formal social control (the criminal justice system) and helped institutionalize it in such architectures as homeland security. The state accumulated more power to strengthen its hand at the expense of civil liberties. Grounded in sociological perspectives, this study offers an evolutionary trajectory from moral panics, moral entrepreneurs, legislative agenda, and social control to the state's gain in elevating immigration to the level of national security, and security over liberty. In such an environment, Hauptman concludes, immigration becomes criminalized. Summing Up: Essential. All collections in immigration studies, criminal justice, criminology, deviance, and social control. Faculty Member: Abu-Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim women need saving?. Harvard, 2013. 324p bibl index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780674725164, $35.00 ☐ Required "This book is my attempt to figure out how we should think about the question of Muslim women and their rights." Abu-Lughod (Columbia), an anthropologist who has worked for ☐ Recommended decades in rural Egypt, is concerned with the representation of Muslim women in Western political, literary, and journalistic discourse as oppressed and lacking in basic human rights. She argues that the lives of Muslim women are too diversified and too imbedded in their specific communities to allow simplistic and misguided generalizations, which are often used to justify unwanted and unwarranted intervention by military, missionary, and humanitarian Western organizations. Who has the right to act as the rescuer of Muslim women? How does one assess, interpret, and intervene in highly complex and readily misperceived human situations? How do Muslim women deal with the different constraints that define their lives? These are some of the questions that the author poses and attempts to answer. She presents a personal and convincing argument that any assessment of Muslim women's lack of rights can only be done after "careful analysis, critical self-reflection, and constant recognition of our common humanity." Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Nicholls, Walter J. The DREAMers: how the undocumented youth movement transformed the Click here to enter text. immigrant rights debate. Stanford, 2013. 226p bibl index afp ISBN 9780804787031, $85.00; ISBN 9780804788847 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required In 2001, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act) was introduced in the US Senate. This legislative proposal provided conditional permanent ☐ Recommended residency to undocumented youths. Sociologist Nicholls (Univ. of Amsterdam) tells the story of the DREAMers, the undocumented youths in the US. More specifically, he investigates how the undocumented youths seized political opportunities, became mobilized, got united, formed a political group, crafted an effective discursive strategy, made their claims, entered the national political stage, and initiated an immigrant rights movement whose impact has been felt across the globe, all within the span of approximately ten years. Although "illegal immigration" has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, very little is known about the immigrants themselves. The rich stories told in this book, particularly of the struggle and courage of the youths, will make readers ponder and question the effectiveness of existing immigration policies. An eye-opening and incredible story in its own right, this book also contributes to the literature on social movements, especially the formation of movement groups and the issue-framing process. It deserves a wide readership. Summing 196 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Up: Essential. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Fassin, Didier. Enforcing order: an ethnography of urban policing. [English ed.]. Polity, 2013. Click here to enter text. 287p bibl index ISBN 9780745664798, $69.95; ISBN 9780745664804 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required Fassin's scholarly, insightful ethnography of police response and treatment to minority youth in the racially troubled projects around Paris, France, directly confronts the complex ☐ Recommended questions surrounding the mutual animosity that exists between the police and the young men of African lineage. Most perplexing is the idea that Parisian law enforcement officers appear to have a perception and response toward these youth more consistent with US policing, rather than that of their immediate neighbors, the English Bobbies. A host of conditions and perceptions compound the general atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion. Significant among these are how a "warlike" condition came to be manifest between the police and citizens in the projects and, most specifically, the abundant feeling that each envisions the other as "the enemy." Fassin (Princeton) uses a multitude of dialogic exchanges between teenagers and law enforcement officers in contact situations, including arrest sequences, to reinforce the point. This work explores the contributing, interacting social issues of high unemployment, poverty, segregation, and discrimination--as well as the injustice resulting from police use of unnecessary or excessive force--that trigger racial civil disorder. Fassin's work is exceptional, and highly encouraged for advanced undergraduate or graduate social science collections, especially in sociology or social work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: The Equality of the sexes: three feminist texts of the seventeenth century, tr. and introd. by Click here to enter text. Desmond M. Clarke. Oxford, 2013. 220p bibl index ISBN 9780199673506, $99.00; ISBN 9780199673513 pbk, $35.00 ☐ Required Women participated only marginally in the Latin culture of the Middle Ages. But with the emergence of the vernacular languages, written as well as spoken, at roughly the same time ☐ Recommended as the invention of the printing press, women began to join the conversation about the equality of the sexes. This book presents some of the central texts in that debate, all on the side of women against justifications of inequality penned by men. In contemporary parlance, the period of "Reason" was morphing into the "Enlightenment." The three authors represented here wrote in French (Marie de Gournay, d. 1645, and François Poulain de la Barre, d. l723) or Dutch (Anna Maria van Schurman, d. 1678). Neither Gournay nor van Schurman appealed to Descartes, but Poulain used Descartes to argue, as the two women did, about gender and mind. The "debate" as presented by these authors is still refreshing today, an attack on misogyny more contemporary than readers of these reviews might believe. The editor-translator is a philosopher whose commentary is clarifying. It will keep students awake and arguing, hopefully in edifying ways. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All college (and some high school) libraries. Faculty Member: Experimental criminology: prospects for advancing science and public policy, ed. by Brandon Click here to enter text. C. Welsh, Anthony A. Braga, and Gerben J. N. Bruinsma. Cambridge, 2013. 309p bibl index ISBN 9781107032231, $95.00; ISBN 9781107614130 pbk, $32.99 ☐ Required Editors Welsh, Braga, and Bruinsma bring readers an excellent collection of writings that justify, and strongly advocate for, the use of scientific method in criminology. Identifying ☐ Recommended experimental criminology as "part of a larger and increasingly expanding scientific research and evidence-based movement in social policy," the editors have selected chapters that indicate a broad range of application of scientific method. Chapters include the application of method to the development and assessment of theory, the application of method to assess crime prevention measures and research, and the use of research results in guiding an evidence-based way forward in understanding crime and developing public policy. The contributors emphasize the use of established scientific method to test, assess, and set up a protocol for the development of policy, because a reliance on generalization, the abstract, and intuition have not resulted in an adequate understanding of crime. This comprehensive and very well-organized work would be an excellent volume for academic use in research 197 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 methods courses in criminology; it would also clearly illustrate the complexities of crime policy for the policy maker. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Hesford, Victoria. Feeling women's liberation. Duke, 2013. 339p bibl index afp ISBN Click here to enter text. 9780822353768, $94.95; ISBN 9780822353904 pbk, $26.95 ☐ Required Hesford's Feeling Women's Liberation rereads the history of the feminist second wave, emphasizing the changing valences of lesbian as feminist. The written history of the ☐ Recommended movement, Hesford (women's and gender studies, Stony Brook Univ.) contends, has rendered both the figure of the lesbian and the lived historical period static and homogenous, while in reality both were fluid, contingent, and heterogeneous. To make her argument, she traces the lesbian's emergence and subsequent transformation, from the 1960s to the 1980s, from a sexual deviant to a kind of sex maniac to an asexual being. In her most fascinating chapter, she reads Kate Millett's Flying (1974) as Millett's exploration of a woman's sexuality that is not straight, or lesbian, or monogamous. Hersford contends with this book Millett prepares the way for the essential questions of queer theory while simultaneously attempting to understand the self as historically specific, at least in terms of class, gender, and sexuality, though not in the terms of race. Hesford has written a tour de force that should be read by anyone interested in the history of the women's movement, feminist theory, or queer theory. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty Faculty Member: The Future of social movement research: dynamics, mechanisms, and processes, ed. by Click here to enter text. Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, and Bert Klandermans. Minnesota, 2013. 469p bibl index (Social movements, protest, and contention, 39) ISBN 9780816686513, $90.00; ISBN 9780816686544 pbk, $30.00 ☐ Required Most of the authors of these essays compiled from a 2009 symposium on the future of social movement research are among the long-standing giants of the subject, complemented by ☐ Recommended more junior scholars. The chapters trace theoretical, practical, and changing aspects of the field. Many of the early articles examine in great detail the theoretical history of social movement research, along with its controversies; the latter address directly the challenges to such by social changes in technology, communications, globalization, and new forms of organization, as well as identities. The editors organize the papers by main themes: grievances and identities, dynamics of demand; organizations and networks, dynamics of supply; dynamics of mobilization; and the changing context of contention. An integrative essay usefully concludes each of the four sections. The first three sections are complex theoretical debates of past and current views of social movement dynamics. The final section, which specifically examines new trends, identities (individual and collective), meaning and saliency, boundaries, participation, and commitment, is the most useful. Coverage of meaning and commitment, blended and changing identities, transitions (including migration) and blurred boundaries in the future of the globalized world are fascinating and thought provoking. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Choy, Catherine Ceniza. Global families: a history of Asian international adoption in America. Click here to enter text. New York University, 2013. 229p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814717226, $75.00; ISBN 9781479892174 pbk, $23.00 ☐ Required The importance of this book is that historian Choy (ethnic studies, Berkeley) found a great archive, and knows how to use it. Her book is based almost completely on the vast archive of ☐ Recommended the International Social Service, USA Branch--an international organization that facilitated migration, adoption, and other social services at the international level. Choy joins many recent scholars in aiming to move the adoption debate past the binaries in which it is lodged, at least in popular discourse: either "a progressive form of US multiculturalism" or "an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism." She also attempts to link adoption to histories of race, foreign relations, immigration, and labor. The analytical ground here is not new. Her book's strength is in the stories themselves, which Choy narrates with skill and sympathy. As a straight-up social history of adoption from the perspective of case files and 198 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 other documents generated by the vast apparatus of social work, this book tells some painful, remarkable stories. A useful corrective to one-dimensional, romantic portraits of adoption that saturate popular culture today. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Flores, Edward Orozco. God's gangs: barrio ministry, masculinity, and gang recovery. New Click here to enter text. York University, 2014. 230p bibl index ISBN 9781479850099, $99.00; ISBN 9781479878123 pbk, $24.00 ☐ Required Sociologist Flores (Loyola Univ.) explores the subject of gangs and gang proliferation from the complex perspective of individual recovery and social marginality. While the topic is ☐ Recommended generalizes most to the larger urban areas across the US, the author applies much of the text and data to the greater Latino areas of Los Angeles. His scholarly, thoughtful approach provides an infusion of spirituality and masculinity as essential variables from which each gang member may reach toward enlightenment, and a foundation on which one may build citizenship. Flores quite accurately identifies and discusses the critical variable of the historic treatment, interpretation, and labeling of Hispanics and their relationship to economic limitations and class creation, which is so glaring in Los Angeles. The author explains that within the barrio communities, the lawlessness that seems to have become one of the most resilient defining characterizations is the result of male resistance and struggle for respect and status. The redirecting of that masculinity and respected identity in the community, in concert with a spiritually based effort to escape gang life, is the essence of this well- developed work. Strongly encouraged for sociology and social work collections. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Ambrosini, Maurizio. Irregular migration and invisible welfare. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Click here to enter text. 247p bibl index ISBN 9780230343160, $90.00 ☐ Required This timely, well researched, and clearly written study of "irregular" (undocumented or illegal) migration to Italy and southern Europe more generally is both conceptually rich and ☐ Recommended highly informative. Sociologist Ambrosini (Univ. of Milan, Italy) provides a clutch of concepts that capture an informal economy carved in the niche between an increasingly policed and punitive state system discouraging immigration to countries of the European Union, and the shrinking social safety net that necessitates nonofficial solutions to the need for at-home care of the elderly. Though weak on policy proposals and discussion of the methodologies used in this study, the book is based on the author's familiarity with the extensive literature, previously published surveys (including some quantitative data), and fieldwork involving biographical accounts provided by immigrants. The "invisible welfare" workers are women who are usually mothers themselves, making this a study in labor as well as migration. Emphasizing the "interaction between agency and structure," Ambrosini contributes to research on caregivers, offering a much-appreciated analysis of their efforts at family reunification in their host country, and a useful typology of transnational families. This is "globalization from below," with implications for understanding immigration everywhere. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: It's a living: work and life in Vietnam today, ed. by Gerard Sasges. National University of Click here to enter text. Singapore Press, 2013. 313p ISBN 9789971696986 pbk, $24.00 ☐ Required It's a Living gives voice to 67 Vietnamese workers from all walks of life. The respondents paint vivid pictures of their daily routines and the particular rewards and challenges of each career ☐ Recommended path. The short chapters are balanced between people who take pleasure in their work and those who are mostly there for the paycheck. Apparently ordinary jobs, such as factory worker, farmer, and bank employee, are interspersed with more offbeat occupations, from grey hair plucker to rat catcher. Interviews touch on issues of corruption and arbitrary enforcement of regulations; they also reveal the importance of education and aspirations of the Vietnamese for their children. A short introduction sets out the book's major themes, but readers would benefit from more about Vietnamese socialism and how much workers have to pay toward the costs of education, health care, and retirement. Reading Bill Hayton's Vietnam: Rising Dragon (2010) can provide more context about the country's economic 199 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 system. This book is a wonderful, evocative read for undergraduates or anyone with an interest in the people of Vietnam. Beautiful photos allow many of the book's personalities to shine through. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Ghannam, Farha. Live and die like a man: gender dynamics in urban Egypt. Stanford, 2013. Click here to enter text. 222p bibl index afp ISBN 9780804783286, $85.00; ISBN 9780804783293 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780804787918 ebook, $24.95 ☐ Required In a book that lives up to its name, anthropologist Ghannam explores what it means to be a man in the working-class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra. She utilizes the social theory of ☐ Recommended Pierre Bourdieu with a healthy dose of feminist theory to analyze how boys become men, how men seek brides, how they create and sustain families, and how men linger in the memories of their families after their death. Her thick descriptions, amassed over 20 years of research, will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp at the lives of these individuals. Ghannam's work does not focus solely on men. Indeed, she argues that women, "especially mothers and sisters, work to help ensure that male relatives master or perfect existing norms that define the proper man." Her work takes her to barber shops, weddings, and circumcisions, and to Egypt in revolution. She sees a parallel in the raising of a "proper man" and the creation of a proper government, which should support, protect, and provision its citizens. By examining the construct of manhood, Ghannam is charting new territory in Middle Eastern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries Faculty Member: Gunnison, Elaine. Offender reentry: beyond crime & punishment, by Elaine Gunnison and Click here to enter text. Jacqueline B. Helfgott. L. Rienner, 2013. 239p bibl index afp ISBN 9781588269126, $58.00 ☐ Required This book should be required reading for all advocates for the "culture of control," as it offers considerable support for recent moves within the community corrections systems toward ☐ Recommended giving offenders the benefit of the doubt. The authors (both, Seattle Univ.) should be congratulated for bringing together and making clear the rich range of statistical data that clearly establishes the perennial difficulties involved in achieving "successful reintegration." They identify barriers consistently applied according to class, race, and gender, and are especially good in discussing the invisible punishment people are likely to endure post- release. Of course, their object in describing the revolving-door syndrome is the laudable one of suggesting policies that might block it a little. Hence, there is positive reference to providing basic needs such as housing and employment, and ensuring appropriate and targeted treatment. Arguably, however, the authors fail to acknowledge that an alternative way of understanding criminal justice is to focus on the ideological implications of the outcomes they describe so powerfully, outcomes that reproduce the exclusion of already marginalized groups. While it may be rewarding to find ways for individuals to be reintegrated, the next generation of social scapegoats is on its way. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All social science students, professionals, practitioners, and general readers Faculty Member: Wakin, Michele. Otherwise homeless: vehicle living and the culture of homelessness. First Click here to enter text. Forum Press, 2014. 189p bibl index afp ISBN 9781935049876, $59.95 ☐ Required This book is an ethnographic study of homeless persons living in their RVs, trucks, and cars in Santa Barbara, California. Included is a historical overview of vehicle living, in-depth accounts ☐ Recommended of survival strategies and regulation of vehicle living, and the ways in which homeless people resist and/or evade such regulation. The author outlines policy options for this population and provides a comparative analysis of the Santa Cruz and Sonoma County unsheltered homeless populations. She puts findings in the context of "Point in Time" counts of homeless persons and "Ten Year Plans" to end homelessness. Wakin (Bridgewater State Univ.) makes the useful point that vehicle living is often preferable to living in highly regulated shelters or on very risky streets. It allows for safety, autonomy, privacy, and mobility not afforded to sheltered or street homeless persons. Government officials generally try to prevent or severely limit vehicle living. In fighting these efforts in Santa Barbara, vehicle residents were able to gain a "Safe Parking Program" that, however, did come with "shelter like" regulations. An important contribution to understanding a little-studied homeless population. Summing 200 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Clear, Todd R. The punishment imperative: the rise and failure of mass incarceration in Click here to enter text. America, by Todd R. Clear and Natasha A. Frost. New York University, 2014. 258p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814717196, $30.00 ☐ Required For the last 40 years, mass incarceration has been the cornerstone of penal policy. More than two million people are behind bars (in both prisons and jails) in the US. Criminal justice ☐ Recommended professors Clear (Rutgers) and Frost (Northeastern Univ.) clearly examine the history and politics of punishment over the last four decades. The authors note the economic costs and the costs to individuals and communities as a whole of this punitive approach. They point to a surge of interest in the last few years of reversing this course and taking a more rehabilitative and pragmatic approach with criminal offenders. Much of this renewed interest is due to financial considerations, which are constricting many state budgets. The book points out that it will be difficult to move away from the legacy of the past 40 years. But the authors feel that the US is on the threshold of a new era of penal philosophy, and they offer some practical policy solutions to enable the country to move away from a reliance on mass incarceration. It is too soon to tell if a sea change is upon the US penal system, but the authors make their cogent argument in this well-written book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Kimport, Katrina. Queering marriage: challenging family formation in the United States. Click here to enter text. Rutgers, 2013. 199p bibl index afp ISBN 9780813562223, $80.00; ISBN 9780813562216 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9780813562230 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required The national debate involving gay and lesbian marriage changing the definition of marriage in the US is not limited to heterosexual couples. Kimport (Univ. of California, San Francisco) has ☐ Recommended interviewed many gay and lesbian couples and discovered this topic is just as much a discussion within this population as well. Not only are gays and lesbians marrying for love and to cement long-term relationships, they are also marrying to protest the exclusiveness of heterosexual marriages. Of course, social recognition and legal rights are of vital importance, but so are the people who are making the decisions to fight for their rights. The conceptualization of marriage as a deterministic institution is undergoing changes, and as the author has discovered, no one really knows what the consequences will be in the future, or how marriage will evolve in meaning. This very interesting, informative, and well-written book presents many fascinating interviews, and provides a window on one of the most contested subjects in the US today. For anyone searching for more information on the subject. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Donnermeyer, Joseph F. Rural criminology, by Joseph F. Donnermeyer and Walter S. Click here to enter text. DeKeseredy. Routledge, 2014. 175p bibl index afp ISBN 9780415634359, $145.00; ISBN 9780415634380 pbk, $42.95 ☐ Required Two distinguished scholars make the case that criminological theory has inadequately addressed the structural issues surrounding explanations and implications of crime. Arguing ☐ Recommended that theory has been urban-centric, they focus on rural areas, pulling together a tremendous amount of empirical evidence. The authors examine drug use and production/distribution, agricultural crime, and violence against intimate partners, and expose the myths that surround the idea that rural areas are relatively crime free. Although their writing wanders a bit at times, Donnermeyer (sociology, Ohio State Univ.) and DeKeseredy (social sciences, West Virginia Univ.) make a convincing case that critical criminology offers a theoretical frame that links macro-level issues to micro-level behaviors, and provide an important synthesis of conceptual and empirical studies of rural crime. The authors offer a counterpoint to traditional approaches to criminology but also construct an excellent argument for including ecological and structural factors to help understand crime in rural settings. Rural sociologists and criminologists will find this volume both relevant and challenging. Chapter endnotes and extensive bibliographies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above 201 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Guterl, Matthew Pratt. Seeing race in modern America. North Carolina, 2013. 224p index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9781469610689, $34.95 ☐ Required In the US, race is both ubiquitous and highly visible. Guterl's splendid treatment of racialized imagery in popular culture--film, commercial advertisements, and literature--reveals that ☐ Recommended dominant interpretations of racial images are remarkably resistant to change over time. That media moguls and filmmakers continue to rely on this visual shorthand suggests its deep cultural power. Contemporary racial imagery repackages earlier racial sightlines and serves through daily repetition to ensure the durability of racial hierarchies. Guterl (Brown) examines three classes of images. The single body, whether Michael Jordan selling Hanes underwear or the shape of a nose in a silhouette, demarks boundaries and reinforces classifications of white, brown, and black. Multiethnic collages, images of multiracial adoptive families, or platoon films initially appear to blur racial boundaries in pursuit of a common good, but too often replicate the idea of dominant white leadership. Racially confusing images--mixed race, superficially indeterminate, or deliberately concealed--compel multiple observations to interpret what is seen, subtly enhancing racial acuity. Observation operates on culturally conditioned mental templates impacting how one interprets what one sees; this persistence of seeing race impeaches hopeful claims of a post-racial US. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Social resilience in the neoliberal era, ed. by Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont. Cambridge, Click here to enter text. 2013. 395p bibl index ISBN 9781107659841 pbk, $34.99 ☐ Required These diverse essays from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) support CIFAR's mission of allowing experts in varied disciplines to cross traditional boundaries and ☐ Recommended approach important research questions with fresh points of view. An example of this approach is this edited collection of responses to the capitalist, free-market ideology that the US has spread across the world in recent decades. The product of 10 years of collaborative research across multiple disciplines, the essays ask the questions, "How have three decades of intensified market competition changed people's life situations, group identities, and concepts of themselves?" and "How has their capacity for social resilience allowed them to respond to new policy regimes based on neoliberal ideals?" Well cited and researched, each chapter explores the socially disruptive effects of neoliberal policies and unpredictable, grassroots-level responses to such policies in countries across the world. The book's interdisciplinary nature gives it a fresh perspective. A worthwhile read for students of international, social, and economic policy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper- division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Levitas, Ruth. Utopia as method: the imaginary reconstitution of society. Palgrave Macmillan, Click here to enter text. 2013. 268p bibl index ISBN 9780230231962, $90.00; ISBN 9780230231979 pbk, $32.00 ☐ Required This book is an elegant and deeply felt plea for utopian thinking. Levitas (Univ. of Bristol, UK) insists that everyone, sociologists in particular, has been caged institutionally and ☐ Recommended imaginatively by current social arrangements. Rethinking options is essential now because of the recent financial crisis and still more because of the horrors that may come through climate change. Levitas buttresses her call for utopian thinking by examining utopian thinkers from all eras (most notably, Ernest Bloch), and with particular reference to the aesthetic dimension that encourages transcendence of current social patterning. The writing is clear, the thought deep, and the case persuasive. The book is less successful when it comes to suggesting options that can be realized. One senses hopes and desires based on solid critique, but there is a lack of awareness of social structures that is disappointing in a sociological author. There are options, but constraints need to be better understood to understand them. Nonetheless, an attractive, thought-provoking book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. Faculty Member: Stephen, Lynn. We are the face of Oaxaca: testimony and social movements. Duke, 2013. Click here to enter text. 344p bibl index afp ISBN 9780822355199, $94.95; ISBN 9780822355342 pbk, $25.95 202 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 ☐ Required In June 2006, hundreds of organizations in Oaxaca, Mexico, joined under the umbrella group the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) to protest the repressive state ☐ Recommended government. In a detailed study based on long-term ethnographic research with social activists in Oaxaca, anthropologist Stephen (Univ. of Oregon) explores oral testimony's role in constructing human rights claims and political agency. Situating the 2006 movement within the decades-long history of social movements in Oaxaca--including the teachers, student, indigenous, migrant, women's, and peasant movements--Stephen centers the book around the knowledge, leadership, and agency of indigenous communities and women, groups that are still marginalized in dominant political narratives. The book explores the multiple spaces in which people demanded the right to speak and be heard, including public art and a women's media takeover. The analysis of testimony and human rights is valuable well beyond the case of Oaxaca. Woven throughout the text are segments of testimonies from the activists involved in the APPO, and links to a bilingual website containing video clips, maps, and photos, which will be particularly useful for university classes. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Foster, John D. White race discourse: preserving racial privilege in a post-racial society. Click here to enter text. Lexington Books, 2013. 207p bibl index afp ISBN 9780739175989, $65.00; ISBN 9780739175996 ebook, $64.99 ☐ Required Foster (Univ. of Arkansas at Pine Bluff) offers a rigorous analysis of white racial discourse today, producing a study that is noteworthy for both its theoretical sophistication and its ☐ Recommended clarity and approachability. In a series of well-crafted chapters, the author unpacks the fundamental features of race talk, shining a bright light on those elements that explain away, justify, and otherwise facilitate the reproduction of racial inequality. More than just another study of whiteness, this is a penetrating account of dominant uses and understandings of race and power. While some readers may find fault in Foster's limited sample (college students) or his technical presentation of interview material, such misgivings are quibbles that detract little from the book's contributions. The study offers a nice complement to Eduardo Bonilla- Silva's widely influential Racism without Racists (CH, Jan'04, 41-3121; 4th ed., CH, Jan'14, 51- 2955). Summing Up: Highly Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Browman, David L. Anthropology at Harvard: a biographical history, 1790-1940, by David L. Click here to enter text. Browman and Stephen Williams. Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 2013. 589p bibl index afp ISBN 9780873659130, $65.00 ☐ Required This massive work is the first in-depth study of the history of anthropology at Harvard University, and documents in great detail the significance of the programs there in the ☐ Recommended development of American anthropology. Browman (Washington Univ. in St. Louis) and Williams (emer., Harvard) effectively combine biographical sketches of several hundred relevant individuals with discussion of institutional and disciplinary histories, focusing not just on key figures but on cohorts, to provide a fuller sense of the whole than is often found in such works. Perhaps inevitably given the book's scope and size, there are some mistakes and missing sources that would be relevant (citations to works published since about 2003 are noticeably spotty), but it is nevertheless a valuable contribution to the literature. The writing is clear and accessible for any reader, although the sheer magnitude of the project may prove daunting to anyone without a standing interest in disciplinary or institutional history. The book will be particularly useful at the graduate and professional levels, but advanced undergraduates and others with a general interest will also find it useful both as a text and as a reference. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Chapman, William. A heritage of ruins: the ancient sites of Southeast Asia and their Click here to enter text. conservation. Hawai'i, 2013. 340p bibl index afp ISBN 9780824836313, $59.00 ☐ Required Chapman (Hawai'i) provides a fascinating history of how the archaeological sites of Southeast Asia have been transformed from places of religious devotion, folk memory, and symbols of ☐ Recommended decay to commercialized artifacts of global tourism and international heritage ideologies. He examines the distinctive political history of ruins in Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, 203 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Thailand, Burma, and Malaysia, and his nuanced analysis demonstrates that archaeological conservation differs significantly throughout the region. A product of individual colonial and local histories, ruins play central but diverse roles in national identity politics and heritage practices. Chapman examines how European notions of authenticity and the picturesque planted the seed of later heritage movements. However, he also considers the place of ruins in indigenous aesthetics, social memory, and literary traditions. The study reveals that the absorption of archaeological sites into national or international conservation programs has often led to the historical decontextualization of archaeological ruins and the alienation of local communities from meaningful cultural landscapes. Of interest to archaeologists and conservationists working in Southeast Asia; should appeal widely to scholars pursuing research in the burgeoning world of heritage studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Deeb, Lara. Leisurely Islam: negotiating geography and morality in Shi'ite South Beirut, by Click here to enter text. Lara Deeb and Mona Harb. Princeton, 2013. 286p bibl index afp ISBN 9780691153650, $75.00; ISBN 9780691153667 pbk, $24.95 ☐ Required This outstanding ethnography of contemporary urban Middle Eastern life focuses on Hezbollah young adults, about whom people are generally misinformed, an effort of critical ☐ Recommended value to scholars of religion and politics as well as anthropologists. Deeb (anthropology, Scripps College) and Harb (urban studies and politics, American Univ. of Beirut), who have published previously on Beirut Shi'ites, combine participant observation, interviews, and surveys in exploring leisure culture and café life in a neighborhood largely inhabited by lower- middle-class Hezbollah. Casual dining, flirting, and public physical contact (the latter practice among committed couples, mainly) are striking departures from normative traditional Islamic pietism. While many young informants considered themselves pious, most avail themselves of a more liberal interpretation of Shari'a law regarding modesty, public cross-gender contact, and intimacy. The authors brilliantly illustrate the variety and complexity of moral choice, ethnic insularity, and worldliness with respect to other neighborhoods and populations. This stress on individual choice differentiates Lebanese Shi'ism from its more authoritarian Iranian counterpart. An emerging, sophisticated acceptance of alternative lifestyle choices while committed to traditional values and behavior bodes well for the possible future social integration of diverse populations in a nation-state struggling to emerge. Engagingly written. Summing Up: Essential. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Wright, Robin M. Mysteries of the jaguar shamans of the northwest Amazon. Nebraska, 2013. Click here to enter text. 387p bibl index afp ISBN 9780803243941, $55.00 ☐ Required This book portrays the life of Mandu da Silva, the last living jaguar-shaman among the Baniwa people of the northwest Amazon, and constitutes the first "mapping" of the mythical ☐ Recommended landscape of a northern Arawakan people. Wright (religion and anthropology, Univ. of Florida-Gainesville) has worked with da Silva for over 30 years. Jaguar-shamans, Wright contends, link Baniwa religious specialists (healers, chanters, and dance leaders) with spirits of the Baniwa cosmos. The author underscores the roles ancestors play in Baniwa religion and suggests that Victor and Edith Turner's concepts of "liminality" and "multi-vocality" are useful tools for understanding the layers of meaning in the Baniwa cosmos. The book is organized around five major themes: biographical information about Mandu; problems of sorcery in Baniwa communities; interrelations among indigenous cosmology, ecology, and the metaphysics of shamanic knowledge; interconnections between sacred geography, petroglyphs, and myths; and recent attempts to revitalize Baniwa shamanism. Wright's final chapter documents Mandu da Silva's efforts in 2009 to restore Baniwa shamanism by constructing a "House of Shamans' Knowledge and Power." Wright's depictions of Baniwa cosmology are clear. His coverage is comprehensive. No ethnographer has ever written so extensively on a single shaman of the northwest Amazon. This is a monumental study! Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above 204 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Faculty Member: Negotiating culture: heritage, ownership, and intellectual property, ed. by Laetitia La Follette. Click here to enter text. Massachusetts, 2013. 207p index ISBN 9781625340078, $80.00; ISBN 9781625340085 pbk, $22.95 ☐ Required This volume brings together fresh perspectives on exciting new developments in the important (but often confusing) aspects of culture listed in the subtitle. The editor's ☐ Recommended introduction offers a succinct précis and sets the stage with the dramatic affirmation that "rival claims in the realm of culture represent some of the most contentious issues in the world today." Three parts neatly link the seven well-written, tightly documented papers' widely diverse subjects, methods, and conclusions. Part 1, "Contested Physical Culture," focuses on disputes over material objects and the implications of such disputes, such as Joe Watkins's ambivalence about being both a professional archaeologist and a member of an Indigenous community. Editor La Follette shows how and why many major museums recently tempered their counter-scientific acquisitive habits. The third paper chronicles the ongoing struggle over several Catalan documents confiscated during the Spanish Civil War. In "Shared Stewardship," different attitudes and beliefs about knowledge require negotiation between scientists and Indigenous populations. "Negotiating the Boundary" considers the need for major new efforts at truly transdisciplinary work with DNA and new collective models of ownership. Stephen Clingman's afterword rightly concludes that a preoccupation with different kinds of boundaries is requisite for anyone concerned with heritage, ownership, and/or intellectual property. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries Faculty Member: Novel approaches to anthropology: contributions to literary anthropology, ed. by Marilyn Click here to enter text. Cohen. Lexington Books, 2013. 258p bibl index afp ISBN 9780739175026, $75.00; ISBN 9780739175033 ebook, $74.99 ☐ Required The subfield of literary anthropology logically connects the study of culture shared by literary studies and humanistic anthropology. Cohen presents seven articles covering this nexus with ☐ Recommended topics from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. A common theme in the essays is how specific literature can provide, particularly to students, superb introductions to social and cultural customs, beliefs, artifacts, behavior, and roles. From literature, the seven contributors (six from the US) examine Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, William Defoe, Harriet Martineau, Mark Twain, the Jamaican author Jean Rhys, minor 20th-century Irish authors, and 20th- century Southeast Asian authors. In the Sterne article, Ray McDermott compares and contrasts Sterne's culturally rich presentation of 18th-century England with Charles Frake's 1964 ethnography of Subanun religious life in the Philippines, a fascinating treatment examining methodology, approach, and content. The other articles (by Mary-Elizabeth Reeve, Cohen, David Surrey, John W. Pulis, Helena Wulff, and Ward Keeler) are likewise fascinating, each with in-depth insights into cultural life and of cultural analysis. The level of scholarly writing suggests an intended audience of advanced undergraduates to professors. Cohen's introduction prepares readers for the dazzling display that follows. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Faculty Member: Clifford, James. Returns: becoming indigenous in the twenty-first century. Harvard, 2013. Click here to enter text. 366p bibl index ISBN 9780674724921, $39.95 ☐ Required Clifford (emer., history of consciousness, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) brings together processes and phenomena that are commonly regarded as antithetical--specifically, ☐ Recommended modernity and native peoples. His is a detailed analysis of the connections and multidimensional cultural relationships linking places and people far and near. To discuss and explain these connections, Clifford uses a grounded methodology that is simultaneously historical, ethnographic, and political. Although decolonization remains an unfinished task, much has changed in the last half century, and people and societies that were long destined to assimilation or even disappearance have "returned." While native societies have indeed suffered, many flourished in an increasingly interconnected world, a culturally and demographically positive trend. Global in scope and covering much ground, the book celebrates and explains the resurgence of subordinated societies ranging from Pacific 205 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Islanders to Native Americans, and discusses cultural renewal among the Maya as well as the cultural and political aspirations of Catalonia. The future is not without problems. The global system offers alternatives and models (many Maya are Jehovah's Witnesses), but global capital and the state remain key agents in controlling and managing change. However, adaptation is not inconsistent with cultural survival, and traditions and cultural memory articulate past and present. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above

206 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Speech & Communication Faculty Member: How to watch television, ed. by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell. New York University, Click here to enter text. 2013. 396p bibl index afp ISBN 9780814745311, $79.00; ISBN 9780814763988 pbk, $29.00 ☐ Required What happens when you give 40 smart television scholars ten pages each to write about a television show that interests them? You get a delightful book that is sure to become a ☐ Recommended favorite of television scholars and students alike. Thompson (Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi) and Mittell (Middlebury College) have brought together authors who provide thoughtful criticism in an engaging style and cover just about every genre, historical period, and lens of analysis. Each essay's combination of brevity and detailed analysis makes the book likely to work well as both a course reader for undergraduates in television studies and a reference resource for those wanting to dive into research on individual shows. Though every essay adds something valuable to the collection, essays on Mad Men, Glee, M*A*S*H, I Love Lucy, Modern Family, NYPD Blue, The Twilight Zone, and The Walking Dead are worth the price of this fun, informative, and useful book, even for seasoned television scholars. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers Faculty Member: Bernstein, William J. Masters of the word: how media shaped history from the alphabet to Click here to enter text. the Internet. Grove Press, 2013. 420p bibl index ISBN 9780802121387, $27.50 ☐ Required This is a well-researched, engagingly written overview not only of the "history" of writing, but also of the role technology played in the transformation from literate to aural to visual. That ☐ Recommended inveterate scholar and chronicler of change, Neil Postman, would probably love this book. Postman asked what is gained and what is lost with the shifts in technology. Bernstein, who previously wrote about the financial world, does not so much answer Postman as provide the context in some instances. Metaphorically speaking, Postman wrote the copy, and Bernstein wrote the explanatory footnotes. This book's first two chapters, "Origins" and "The ABCs of Democracy," are particularly worth reading for a good overview of the human urge to communicate despite the myths of where we found ourselves after the fall of the fabled Tower of Babel. As this generation tumbles headlong into an era when instantaneous communication is more and more seen as misinformation, this book is a good read to make one wonder why we ended up where we did since the start of it all was not so promising either. A particularly good book for those in media literacy classes. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; community college students; general readers Faculty Member: Woodward, Gary C. Rhetoric of intention in human affairs. Lexington Books, 2013. 144p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9780739179048, $80.00; ISBN 9780739179055 ebook, $79.99 ☐ Required Timely and important, this book focuses on the rhetorical and psychological habits of intention--an approach rarely taken. More often the subject of philosophy, intention is ☐ Recommended analyzed here as rhetoric and as part of lived experience offering an immediacy and a self- revelatory dimension that is outside the purview of a philosophical analysis. Woodward (communication studies, The College of New Jersey) also elucidates the enigmas, paradoxes, and fantasies that expressing intention--one's own, others', and "representations of intentions"--create about what one can and cannot know. Woodward draws on a wide variety of disciplines, scrutinizing their discourse in light of intention: e.g., motivation in theater, attribution in journalism, liability and culpability in law, and "reading" God in religion. He proposes that "intention talk is frequently anchored by discourse referencing internal states, external states, a role template, and a model of moral worth." He demonstrates that rhetorical acts concerning human intention perpetrate follies as well as truths, but he argues that it is human nature that leads one to grapple with intention. This is a fine resource for those interested in rhetoric, communication, law, politics, or psychology. For another perspective on this subject, note Arabella Lyon's Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored (1998). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through 207 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 faculty and professionals. Faculty Member: The Routledge handbook of language and intercultural communication, ed. by Jane Jackson. Click here to enter text. Routledge, 2014. 605p bibl index ISBN 9780415572545, $225.00; ISBN 9780415709828 pbk, $55.95; ISBN 9780203805640 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required Jackson (Chinese University of Hong Kong) has produced one of the most significant and comprehensive works connecting language and intercultural communication to date. Topics ☐ Recommended range from language, identity, and intercultural communication to second-language teacher education. The 35 essays are organized in four thematic sections: "Foundations of Language and Intercultural Communication," "Core Themes and Issues," "Theory into Practice," and "Language and Intercultural Communication in Context." The collection's primary contribution is its focus on, and nuanced representations of, the multidimensional influence of language in society. Noteworthy is the book's emphasis on communicative competence in the 21st century and language issues in contemporary education contexts. The diversity of the contributors also merits mention: they range from seasoned scholars (Stella Ting-Toomey, Judith Martin, Thomas Nakayama) to up-and-coming scholars (e.g., Douglas Bonilla and Rebecca Speer). Among the standout essays is Jane Wilkinson's "The Intercultural Speaker and the Acquisition of Intercultural/Global Competence." The importance of such work cannot be overemphasized as the world continues to become global. Though the collection would have benefited from the inclusion of works that engage language issues in interpersonal communication contexts, this is a must-have resource for those interested in intergroup communication, conflict management, linguistics, sociology, and psychology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals

208 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Theater Faculty Member: Ovadija, Mladen. Dramaturgy of sound in the avant-garde and postdramatic theatre. McGill- Click here to enter text. Queen's, 2013. 252p bibl index afp ISBN 9780773541733, $95.00 ☐ Required "When a cry, a moan, a chuckle, a cough, a mumble, or a stutter emerges from its secure place amid the lines of dramatic dialogue--when the voice springs from the dramatic ☐ Recommended character ... it is reborn as part of an evolving theatrical noise/sound pattern that has a life of its own"--so proclaims Ovadija (himself a dramaturg) in this meticulously researched history of how sound emerged as an independent dramaturgical element in postdramatic theater. He traces the genesis of sound performance to the historical avant-garde's experimental oral/aural works of futurist, Dadaist, and Russian zaum "word-as-such" poetry where language became liberated from its syntactic and signifying mandates. Ovadija traces the evolution and increasing sophistication of the "dramaturgy of sound"--when "mediated, recorded, instrumental, electronic, and digital extensions of sound flood the stage"--through the work of the Bauhaus, Merz, Robert Wilson, Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Peter Brook, the Living Theatre, and many others. He includes examples of sound poetry and theater dialogue and explains how each might be realized in performance. If any book can be described as deliciously noisy, this is it. Excellent notes and bibliography complete the volume. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. Faculty Member: McArthur, Ian. Henry Black: on stage in Meiji Japan. Monash University, 2013. 274p bibl index Click here to enter text. afp ISBN 9781921867507 pbk, $34.95 ☐ Required McArthur's Henry Black: Onstage in Meiji Japan provides a fascinating look at an Australia- born British man who became a well-known storyteller and rakugo (i.e., verbal ☐ Recommended entertainment) performer in 19th-century Tokyo. But the book is also the story of how Japan itself was evolving through a period of radical modernization of its social systems, business practices, and government organizations. Black worked in Tokyo vaudeville houses and gained renown through his adaptations of Western stories. His performances often emphasized social reform, and he used new technology and Western costuming and physicality. An award-winning scholar of Japanese studies, McArthur describes how Black became an authority on all things modern because of his British ancestry, and therefore had an impact on the social, political, and artistic life of Meiji Japan. McArthur also describes Black's performances of kabuki and his training with the great actor Ichikawa Danjūrō IX. Although Black capitalized on his exotic "foreigner" status, he was completely immersed in the culture of Japan. McArthur paints a portrait of a complex period in history and a complex man who was truly "a Japanese of European descent." Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, researchers Faculty Member: An ideal theater: founding visions for a new American art, ed. by Todd London. Theatre Click here to enter text. Communications Group, 2013. 564p bibl index ISBN 9781559364096 pbk, $24.00 ☐ Required London (Yale School of Drama) presents what the publisher's website calls "a wide-ranging, inspiring documentary history of the American theatre movement." The editor collected ☐ Recommended essays, speeches, book excerpts, and other pertinent documents that examine the development of the modern American theater over the past one hundred years. The companies London includes--The Barter Theatre, The Federal Theatre Project, The National Theatre of the Deaf, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, The Living Theatre, Bread and Puppet Theater, et al.--are an authentic barometer of the period. The materials offer a panoramic view of American theater from the perspectives of many important theatrical visionaries of the past century. Essay subjects range from the development of modern American theater after WW I to the theatrical experimentation of the 1930s to the growth of regional theater after WW II to the political theater movement of the late 1950s and 1960s to the present. London provides a brief introduction for each essay, and in these he places the piece in its historical context. Founding Visions is an excellent addition to American theatrical 209 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 scholarship. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers Faculty Member: Shakespeare beyond English: a global experiment, ed. by Susan Bennett and Christie Carson. Click here to enter text. Cambridge, 2013. 317p index ISBN 9781107674691 pbk, $27.99 ☐ Required The quirkiness and pleasures of London's 2012 Globe to Globe Festival--a cultural Olympiad within the World Shakespeare Festival paralleling the Olympic Games--are mirrored in these ☐ Recommended brief essays. Bennett and Carson include one for each of Shakespeare's plays as performed in a different language (Maori, Swahili, Gujarati, Urdu, to name some relatively exotic languages besides various European and Asian ones). Since few of the contributors understood the language of the performances they attended and few of the productions could be called traditional, many essays describe heightened moments on stage in a context of audience reception and postcolonial significations. The editors, both well published on staging Shakespeare, wisely allow the contributors' personalities to shine through their reporting. With a foreword by the Globe's artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, a chapter by Globe to Globe director Tom Bird, generous endnotes for the essays, a performance calendar (noting language, company size, and other data), 23 halftones and 16 color plates, the book serves as both a flavorful impression and a complete documentary record of the "big, simple, stupid idea" (as the editors describe it in their introduction) that piqued audiences with political and gender issues and at the same time exhilarated them as well as the performers. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.

210 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 Writer’s Foundry Faculty Member: Kerr, Douglas. Conan Doyle: writing, profession, and practice. Oxford, 2013. 273p bibl index Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780199674947, $55.00 ☐ Required Organized around what Kerr (Univ. of Hong Kong) calls "cultural domains," this well- documented biography combines history, biography, and literature to illuminate Doyle's ☐ Recommended recurring interest in the production of knowledge and the role of the amateur professional. Kerr analyzes each genre of Conan Doyle's works--detective fiction, historical fiction, stories of science, stories of sports, stories of empire--in terms of literary critics and historians who speak to common interpretations and historical perspectives. As he develops his cultural biography, the author sheds light on, for example, how The Lost World participates in the romance adventure of Professor Challenger's pugilistic science and how Rodney Stone reproduces the chivalric, individual fighter intertwined with supporters at times boasting a shared Englishness and at other times corrupted by a mob mentality. The stories of Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle's involvement in the cases of George Edalji and Oscar Slater also play a prominent role, demonstrating Conan Doyle's sense of social responsibility as a man of letters and his concern with the process of producing knowledge out of an accumulation of information. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Pask, Kevin. The fairy way of writing: Shakespeare to Tolkien. Johns Hopkins, 2013. 178p bibl Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9781421409825, $39.95; ISBN 9781421410746 ebook, contact publisher for price ☐ Required To this day, fantasy remains, for the most part, outside mainstream literature. Using John Dryden's definition of the "fairie way of writing," Pask (Concordia Univ.) seeks to trace ☐ Recommended fantasy's influence on English literature. Such writing derives mainly from the poet, i.e., the writer's "fancy," the imagination. The characters have no models in nature. Pask is interested in how the figures of low art (those from medieval tales, old superstitions, and other oral sources) meld with high art (Shakespeare is the prime example) to undergird an English national literature. From Shakespeare to Keats, the external magic of superstition and folktale is replaced by an internal magic of the imagination. The study traces paintings of Shakespeare's work, especially the eroticism of Puck. The work ends with a chapter on Tolkien and his "rescue" of fantasy as a genre. More important, for Pask's argument, Tolkien clearly represents the postmodern fusion of the medieval and the popular in culture, not in the work itself, but in its reception among readers. Ultimately, Pask argues, the "fairy way of writing" has contributed to a national literature aware of both its elite and its folk origins. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty Faculty Member: Kilcup, Karen L. Fallen forests: emotion, embodiment, and ethics in American women's Click here to enter text. environmental writing, 1781-1924. Georgia, 2013. 504p bibl index afp ISBN 9780820332864, $69.95; ISBN 9780820345000 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9780820345710 ebook, $26.95 ☐ Required In this wide-ranging, deeply insightful book, Kilcup (Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro) both extends and challenges current thinking about American women's writings about the ☐ Recommended environment in the long 19th century. By addressing various time periods, genres, and ethnicities, the author claims that 19th-century women writers interested in the environment demonstrate what she calls "literary emotional intelligence"--that is, various affective literary approaches to rally for environmental consciousness and change. Adding to the field of rhetorica, or women's rhetoric, this book makes a valuable contribution to making "audible" many now-forgotten women's voices. Grounded in eco-feminist theory, the book is particularly strong in its close readings of writers such as Lorenza Stevens Berbineau, Cherokee women, Freeman, Jacobs, Mary Jemison, Jewett, Kirkland, Larcom, Ruiz de Burton, Sigourney, Thaxter, and Winnemucca. The study is also valuable for the way it forces the reader to question the disjuncture of such terms as "nature writing," "environmental literature," pastoral, jeremiad, and activism. The conclusion is particularly noteworthy for the way it argues that "many contemporary women writers connect the domination of nature 211 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 with colonialism, imperialism, and the exploitation of women, working-class and rural people, and people of color" and discusses Kingsolver, Kincaid, Dillard, and Winona LaDuke. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above Faculty Member: Pomeroy, Sarah B. Pythagorean women: their history and writings. Johns Hopkins, 2013. 172p Click here to enter text. index afp ISBN 9781421409566, $49.95; ISBN 9781421409573 ebook, $49.95 ☐ Required Pomeroy (emer., classics and history, Hunter College and the Graduate School at CUNY) investigates a group of women scholarship has long neglected: women associated with the ☐ Recommended philosopher Pythagoras (c. 570-490 BCE). Some of these women were contemporaries of Pythagoras; others--neo-Pythagoreans living several centuries later--were his intellectual heirs. Both groups contributed significantly to the philosophy of Pythagoras and his other followers. One could hardly hope for a better guide to this subject: Pomeroy is one of the most accomplished historians of ancient Greece and a pioneer in the study of women in the ancient world. As she shows, the scattered and fragmented evidence for these women and their activities reveals much about history, philosophy, literature, and the roles of women in the ancient world. Each of Pomeroy's six chapters is a model of clarity and akribeia (accuracy, exactness). The last three are especially useful, for here Pomeroy has gathered, with translation and a valuable commentary, the surviving writings of neo-Pythagorean women (writings that are the earliest extant examples of literary Greek prose by women). The last (and equally valuable) chapter, by Vicki Lynn Harper, analyzes these writings from a philosophical point of view. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty/researchers Faculty Member: Kuskin, William. Recursive origins: writing at the transition to modernity. Notre Dame, 2013. Click here to enter text. ISBN 9780268033255 pbk, $95.00 ☐ Required Kuskin (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) has written a timely, important book. Literary historians and scholars often wrangle over literary periods and periodization--specifically, over who ☐ Recommended decides what constitutes an end of one literary period and the inception of a new one. As one of the leading authorities on the English printer, editor, and translator William Caxton, Kuskin clearly establishes the need for those in English studies to look at the texts of the 15th century. There one will find the origins of the texts of the so-called early modern period and the canonical authors who wrote them: Shakespeare and Spenser, especially. For Kuskin, the texts of the English Renaissance are "recursive"; that is, they refer back to earlier works, mostly texts from the 15th century that were then exceedingly popular but are now decidedly noncanonical. The reader who decides to search out these foundational texts--many of which were Caxton's works, and others the work of Chaucer, Lydgate, Hoccleve, Holinshed, and various anonymous authors--will be rewarded through what best can be described as a totalizing reading experience, a continuum and also a matrix of shared texts, themes, sources, and cultural and historical topoi. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty Faculty Member: Blake, Marc. Writing the horror movie, by Marc Blake and Sara Bailey. Bloomsbury, 2013. Click here to enter text. 259p bibl filmography index ISBN 9781441196187 pbk, $27.95 ☐ Required There are hundreds of books about screenwriting, but precious few aimed at the would-be horror film author; this volume is a noteworthy addition to the literature. Both Blake and ☐ Recommended Bailey have written horror films and teach the process at Southampton Solent University, UK. This volume covers horror films from the world over and is packed with examples. The breadth of the films noted makes this book almost a course in horror history. Through each chapter on structuring the screenplay, the reader is led through the succession of tropes: unease, dread, terror, horror, and finally disgust. The style is engaging, but the authors make no bones about the effort involved in all aspects of filmmaking--a fact reiterated in the appendix of interviews with writers, directors, and a producer. There are chapters on the international market; the ins and outs of the prequel, sequel, and franchise; and the trick of blending or crossing genre lines. The writing exercises are comprehensive, but beginners might profit from sharing their attempts with a trusted reader. The volume includes a 425- 212 Suggested Titles List April, 2014 item filmography and a tightly focused bibliography. A solid resource for film buffs and budding screenwriters. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; two-year program students; general readers