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A program to celebrate the newly-published books of UC Davis faculty and academic appointees will take place on April 29, 2008, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Peter J. Shields Library. The event, co-sponsored by the UC Davis General Library and the UC Davis Bookstore, combines a reception, brief remarks by a representative number of the authors.
The event also includes a one-day display of over 100 newly published books by UC Davis faculty members and academic appointees, and all authors whose books were submitted for display at the event will be honored.
Campus Authors for 2008
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An
During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale—not to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. None of them ever guessed that he was also providing strategic intelligence to Hanoi, smuggling invisible ink messages into the jungle inside egg rolls. His early reports were so accurate that General Giap joked, "We are now in the U.S. war room." For more than twenty years, An lived a dangerous lie—and no one knew it because he was a master of both his jobs.
- Author: Larry Berman
- Binding: Paper
- Copyright: 2008
- Publisher: Harpercollins
Food-Borne Viruses: Progress and Challenges
Food-borne viruses are recognized as a major health concern, but their distribution, definition, and impact are poorly understood. The volume Food-Borne Viruses goes a long way in correcting that problem. Written by leading scientists in the field, it brings together the latest knowledge on these viral strains, their detection and control, and associated challenges.
- Author: Karl Van Brenk
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
Essential Clinical Procedures
This well-organized text presents the latest common diagnostic and treatment-related procedures. Its clear and concise guidance takes you step by step through the "how-to's" of more than 70 procedures. It also provides the background and rationale behind each procedure. Includes a host of supporting information in areas such as patient education, informed consent, billing, and delivering bad news. Features more than 200 illustrations depicting procedure steps and other important concepts.
- Author: Richard DehnDavid Asprey
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 2nd
- Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Slatter's Fundamentals of Veterinary Ophthalmology
This extensively revised and updated edition of a trusted resource provides a comprehensive, yet practically oriented, diagnostic guide to ophthalmic disease, covering structure and function, ocular development, pathology, examination and diagnosis, pharmacology, and emergency management for a wide variety of small and large animal species.
- Author: David J. Maggs Paul E. Miller Ron Ofri
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 4th
- Publisher: Saunders Elsevier
Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change
A comprehensive, integrative review of the research literature that has grown up around interpretations of human love (romantic, marital, parent-child, friendship) based on attachment theory.
- Author: Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Guilford Press
Gorilla Society. Conflict, Compromise, and Cooperation Between the Sexes.
Societies result from the often conflicting evolutionary goals of the sexes, and the tactics used to achieve the goals, which usually involve compromise, and sometimes even involve cooperation. Gorilla Society is written as a case study in the sorts of modern questions and answers that evolutionary biologists are producing as they try to understand the working of primate societies in particular, mammalian societies in general.
- Author: Alexander Harcourt Kelly Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Univ. Chicago Press
The Thalamus
Comprehensive monograph on the structure, connections, physiology, chemistry, development, comparative anatomy, evolution and pathology of the thalamus.
- Author: Edward G. Jones
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 2nd
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cancer Dance
Cancer Dance is the collection of weekly e-mail updates written by Catherine McClain during her year of breast cancer treatments and recovery. Beginning with medical information and continuing through new-found spiritual experiences, Catherine’s humorous and uplifting updates intertwine her cancer journey with an otherwise intriguing life.
The author is currently working as a sign language interpreter for a Deaf doctor at UC Davis Medical Center during his Internal Medicine residency.
- Author: Catherine Bain aka Catherine McClain
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Publish America
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th Edition
Its previous edition was hailed as "the best reference for the majority of practicing psychiatrists" (Doody's Book Reviews) and a book that "more than any other, provides an approach to how to think about psychiatry that integrates both the biological and psychological" (JAMA), The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry has been meticulously revised to maintain this preeminence as an accessible and authoritative educational reference and clinical compendium. It combines the strengths of its three editors-Robert Hales in clinical and community psychiatry, Stuart Yudofsky in neuropsychiatry, and new co-editor Glen Gabbard in psychotherapy-in recruiting outstanding authors to summarize the latest developments in psychiatry and features 101 contributors, 65 of whom are new to this edition.
- Author: Robert Hales
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 5th
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATION OF MOLECULAR IONS
Dissociative recombination (DR) of molecular ions with electrons is a complex, poorly understood molecular process. Its critical role as a neutralizing agent in the Earth’s upper atmosphere is now well established and its occurrence in many natural and laboratory produced plasmas has been a strong motivation for studying the event. The theoretical concepts, experimental methodology, and applications are united in this book, revealing the governing principles behind this reaction.
- Author: Ann E. Orel
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Structure-Based Study of Viral Replication
Emphasize the architectural aspects of cells, mediated by the entry and replications of viruses, innovative themes are illustrated with the membrane platforms of cellular compartments and intracellular networks. Novel pathways of virus infection are elucidated with recent time-resolved observations on the viral reactivity, based on structures from near-atomic resolution to various molecular or cellular levels of descriptors, through multi-modality microscopy, spectroscopy and scanning probe.
- Author: R Holland Cheng
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice
This volume deals with the subject matter and empirical evidence on how different forms of comparison can be comprehended in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. It is based on papers from the journal Comparative Studies in Society and History.
- Author: Aram A. Yengoyan
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Contemporary Latina/o Theater: Wrighting Ethnicity
In Contemporary Latina/o Theater, Jon D. Rossini explores the complex relationship between theater and the creation of ethnicity in an unprecedented examination of six Latina/o playwrights and their works: Miguel Piñero, Luis Valdez, Guillermo Reyes, Octavio Solis, José Rivera, and Cherríe Moraga. Rossini exposes how these writers use the genre as a tool to reveal and transform existing preconceptions about their culture. Through “wrighting”—the triplicate process of writing plays, righting misconceptions about ethnic identity, and creating an entirely new way of understanding Latina/o culture—these playwrights directly intervene in current conversations regarding ethnic identity, providing the tools for audiences to re-explore their previously held perspectives outside the theater.
- Author: Jon D. Rossini
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Science, Culture, and Modern State Formation
This book conceptualizes the scientific revolution as an integration of philosophy, mathematics, and engineering. This new "engine science" rests on practices/technologies for metering, graphing, scoping, and controlling. These practices/technologies network governance with science around the objects of land (and resources), people (bodies/populations), and built environment (e.g. sanitation). The result is a multi-century process of modern state formation in which the new science is integral.
- Author: Patrick Carroll
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: University of California Press
Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy
Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what—or who—must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? In Marriage and Violence, Frances E. Dolan reveals the contradiction that lies at the very heart of modern marriage. We have inherited from early modern England a model of marriage so flawed, she contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.
- Author: Frances Dolan
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Stress, Trauma, and Children's Memory Development
Few questions in psychology have generated as much debate as those concerning the impact of childhood trauma on memory. A lack of scientific research to constrain theory has helped fuel arguments about whether childhood trauma leads to deficits that result in conditions such as false memory or lost memory, and whether neurohormonal changes that are correlated with childhood trauma can be associated with changes in memory.
- Author: Mark Howe, Gail Goodman, Dante Cicchetti
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
WATER WAR IN THE KLAMATH BASIN: Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics
In 2001 the Bureau of Reclamation took the unprecedented step of closing the headgates of a federal irrigation project to protect endangered species. In Water War in the Klamath Basin, Holly Doremus and Dan Tarlock detail the genesis of and fallout from the Klamath conflict, highlighting common elements fundamental to natural resource conflicts and providing a wide-ranging look at a topic of great importance for anyone concerned with the management, use, or conservation of natural resources.
- Author: Holly Doremus and A. Dan Tarlock
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Publisher: Island Press
Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, and Applications
This volume includes contributions by 20 leading figures in sociolinguistics. It covers the relationship between sociolinguistic variation and formal linguistic theory, the range of methods used to research variation in language, and the applications of such research to a variety of social contexts including education and the law.
- Author: Robert BayleyCeil Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Study Guide to Psychiatry: A Companion to the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry
Study guide is a companion to the Textbook of Psychopharmacology, third edition, c2004, listed AP week 2003-51. Features 368 questions divided into 65 individual quizzes of 5-10 questions each, answers accompanied by a discussion that addresses the correct response, and more.
- Author: Robert Hales
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 5th
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Reforming Agricultural Trade for Developing Countries -(Vol 1): Key Issues for a Pro-Development Outcome for the Doha Round and (Vol2):Quantifying the Impact of Multilateral Trade Reform.
A 2-vol set of workshop papers sponsored by the World Bank, International Agricultural Trade Research Consortia and Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada. Vol.1 is issues-oriented with key questions in the negotiations setting the stage with an historical overview of the WRO Doha Development Agenda. Vol.2 addresses the question of how a development-friendly outcome to the talks would affect developing countries by quantifying the multilateral trade reform impact.(ISBN Vol2-0821367161)
- Author: Alex F. McCalla and John Nash, eds.
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: World Bank
Why Dissection? Animal Use in Education
Why do students continue to dissect animals in biology classes? Why, despite the excellence of teaching resources for veterinary and human medical education that substitute for dissection, do those provided for pre-college students fall short in convenience, flexibility, and coordination with the curriculum? Why Dissection? Animal Use in Education looks beyond the typical yes-or-no debate about dissection to understand how we came to our current practice of dissection in intermediate and high school biology, even as preparation of health professionals has moved away from dissection. Despite the many forces that support the continued use of dissection in pedagogy, teachers retain much autonomy in how they teach in the classroom, and legislation in many states provides specific requirements for what should and should not be taught in separated science and health curricula, offering students the option to not engage in dissection. Why Dissection? walks students, teachers, and parents through these options to help them make more informed choices regarding their science education options.
- Author: Lynette A. Hart, Mary W. Wood, Benjamin L. Hart
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Greenwood Press
Genetic Engineering of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (Hardcover)
This book describes mesenchymal stem cell isolation and genetic engineering methods and rationale, and initial results of clinical trials for disease correction and tissue repair.
- Author: Jan A. Nolta
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Springer
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method
Presenting a method of film studies in which films themselves are only one source of information among many, this volume brings together film histories that draw on primary sources including collections of personal papers, popular and trade journalism, fan magazines, studio publications, and industry records.
- Author: Eric Smoodin (co-editor)
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Duke University Press
Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems
This edited volume provides an integrated framework for understanding where diseases come from, what ecological factors influence their impacts, and how they in turn influence the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water purification. It provides conceptual underpinnings to understand and ameliorate epidemics, but also explores the vital role diseases play in functioning ecosystems.
- Author: Valerie T. Eviner
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
The story of three generations of Chinese women whose lives span the 19th century, based on their own writings.
- Author: Susan Mann
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: University of California Press
The American Publishing Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Comprehensive textbook of neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurosciences. This edition covers neuropsychiatric aspects of delirium, and more. For students and practitioners. Title changed from clinical neurosciences to behavioral, c2002. DNLM: Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders.
- Author: Robert Hales, Stuart Yudofsky
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 5th
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
Study Guide to Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Study guide to accompany Textbook of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, fifth edition, by Yudofsky, listed AP week 2007-42. Features questions and answers to evaluate mastery of the subject, an answer guide, and more. For students and practitioners. Previous author was Bourgeois, c2006. Softcover.
- Author: Robert Hales, James Bourgeois, Narriman Shahrokh
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 5th
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
Board Prep and Review Guide for Psychiatry
Covers basic and clinical sciences for psychiatrists and psychiatry residents preparing for Part 1 of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Examination in Psychiatry. Topics include normal child and adolescent development, neuranatomy and functional neuropathology, and more. Softcover. DNLM: Psychiatry-Examination Questions.
- Author: Robert Hales, James Bourgeois, Stuart Yudofsky
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
The Evolution of Biotechnology: From Natufians to Nanotechnology
The book traces the evolution of biotechnology in the broadest sense from prehistoric organismal manipulation by our first settled ancestors through to speculation about future directions for the technology as it increasingly intersects with other high technologies such as IT and Nanotech. The trajectory is demonstrated by various events throughout history that have intersected or built on one another to lead to the forward progression of a technology.
- Author: Martina Newell-McGloughlin and Edward Re
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Springer
Textbook of Suicide Assessment and Management
Comprehensive textbook with relative aspects of the evaluation and treatment of the suicidal patient.
- Author: Robert Hales
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: The American Psychiatric Publishing
Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society
This groundbreaking work is the first to provide an integrated, multidisciplinary, global exploration of the scientific, social, and economic dimensions of glacier retreat due to climate change. Bringing together contributors from five continents, Darkening Peaks discusses the ways that scientists have observed and modeled glaciers, tells how climate change is altering their size and distribution, and looks closely at their effect on human life.
- Author: Benjamin Orlove
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: University of California Press
Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages
Guynn offers an innovative new approach to the ethical, cultural, and ideological analysis of medieval allegory. Working between poststructuralism and historical materialism, he considers both the playfulness of allegory (its openness to multiple interpretations and perspectives) and its disciplinary force (the use of rhetoric to naturalize hegemonies and suppress difference and dissent).
- Author: Noah D Guynn
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
To What Ends and By What Means? The Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Theory and Policy
Contributors from the fields of philosophy, social sciences, public policy, and international studies initiate a dialogue to situate school finance policy within broader social change concerns. Offers frameworks that apply critical perspectives to conventional analytical approaches in school finance theory and policy. Ideal for courses in education, policy, applied critical theory, Ethnic Studies, and community development.
- Author: Gloria M. Rodriguez and R. Anthony Rolle (Co-editors)
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Publisher: Routledge, New York, NY
Mitochondrial Biology: New perspectives
The field of mitochondria research has experienced a renaissance in recent years encompassing a complete re-evaluation of mitochondrial biochemistry and physiology. It is now clear that mitochondria are not only involved in the business of ATP synthesis. but also intimately involved in cell signaling, and, particularly, in cell death.
- Author: Cecilia Giulivi
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Wiley
Advances in Catalysis Vol 51
Monograph; Gates is an editor
- Author: Bruce Gates
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Academic Press
Advances in Catalysis Vol. 50
This is a monograph. Gates is an editor.
- Author: Bruce Gates
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Academic Press
Chemical Process Performance Evaluation
The latest advances in process monitoring, data analysis, and control systems are increasingly useful for maintaining the safety, flexibility, and environmental compliance of industrial manufacturing operations.
Focusing on continuous, multivariate processes, Chemical Process Performance Evaluation introduces statistical methods and modeling techniques for process monitoring, performance evaluation, and fault diagnosis.
- Author: Ali Cinar, Ahmet Palazoglu and Ferhan Kayihan
Introduction to Process Control
Improvements in software, instrumentation, and feedback control as well as deepening linkages between fundamental aspects of process technology have vastly changed the practice of industrial process control. Newcomers to the field must have a strong understanding of the new demands and capabilities of modern process control operations.
- Author: Jose A. Romagnoli and Ahmet Palazoglu
Estates & Trusts, Cases & Materials
Co-author, 3rd edition of this well known Trusts and Estates casebook
- Author: Joel Dobris
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 3rd
- Publisher: Foundation Press
Engineering Applications of Dynamics
This book develops the physical principles of dynamics and demonstrates these principles using real engineering systems. Equation derivation and computer simulation of these systems is emphasized.
- Author: Donald Margolis, Dean Karnopp
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Wiley
Physics in D (Greater Than or Equal To) 4: Proceedings of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute i
This book contains write-ups of lectures from a summer school for advanced graduate students in elementary particle physics. Various aspects of the standard model of particle physics and beyond are covered including reviews of quantum chromodynamics, heavy quark effective theory, neutrinos, the Higgs boson, colliders, dynamical electroweak symmetry
breaking, "little" Higgs theories, supersymmetry, extra dimensions,
and astrophysics.
- Author: John Terning, Carlos E. M. Wagner, Dieter Zeppenfeld (eds)
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: World Scientific
The Human Resource Function in Educational Administration
This book focuses on the human resource activities performed by a public school district. It contains three sections with the first section having chapters devoted to strategic planning and staffing. Section two has chapters addressing recruitment, selection, orientation, performance appraisal, and compensation. The last section has chapters pertaining to employment continuity, development, and collective bargaining.
- Author: Ila Young
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 9th
- Publisher: Pearson
System Signatures and their Applications in Engineering Reliability
This monograph focuses on problems in structural reliability for engineered systems using system signatures as the primary tool. Its main themes include the comparative analysis of system designs, including stochastic comparisons of system performance, through a number of useful representation, closure and preservation theorems. Applications to Network Reliability and to optimization problems in Reliability-Economics frameworks are also treated.
- Author: Francisco J. Samaniego
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Springer
Management Practice in Dietetics
The primary purpose of this book is to merge all of the areas of management practice in dietetics and foodservice into a unified whole, looking a management from a conceptual perspective and then citing examples of how the concepts apply to the various specialty areas of dietetics practice.
- Author: Nancy Hudson
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 2
- Publisher: Thomson Wadsworth
Evolution
Evolution is a new textbook that synthesizes traditional evolutionary theories with contemporary concepts from genomics, developmental biology, human genetics, and other areas of molecular biology. Evolution is recommended as a primary textbook for undergraduate courses in evolution as well as for biologists seeking a clear, current, and comprehensive account of evolutionary theory and mechanisms.
- Author: Nicholas H. Barton, Derek E. G. Briggs, Jonathan Eisen, David B. Goldstein, Nipam H. Patel
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Sound Figures of Modernity: German Music and Philosophy
The rich conceptual relays between music and philosophy resonate with heightened intensity during the period that extends from German Idealism to the Frankfurt School. The volume traces political, historical, and philosophical trajectories in which thinkers take recourse to music as an aesthetic practice and as the object of speculative work. Writers discussed include Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, Mann, Adorno, and Lukács; composers include Beethoven, Wagner, Schönberg, and Eisler.
- Author: Gerhard Richter (co-editor)
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Continuum press in England is publishing a series of drama guides. Mine is supposed to be out this March. Kent earned an MA in the Drama dept. here; he contributed a chapter on directing. A series editor is Janelle Reinelt, who used to teach in the Drama dept.
- Author: Peter Hays, with Kent Nicholson
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Continuum
Nitric Oxide
Novel insight to the evolutionary and comparative aspects of nitric oxideas a central regulator in invertebrate and vertebrate homeostasis.
- Author: Cecilia Giulivi
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Elsevier
In Pursuit of Liberty: Coming of Age in the American Revolution
The voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the events that transformed the colonies to an independent nation have seldom been heard in historical accounts of the American Revolution. This book tells the story of the "forgotten" youngsters who engaged in the boycott of British goods and the battles that led up to the Declaration of Independence; the story of their courageous exploits in eight years of warfare on land and sea, and the story of the social forces that shaped and transformed their post-war lives. The Revolution challenged the notions of patriarchal authority. It introduced serious risks and disruptions in the lives of the young, but it also gave them an unprecedented degree of autonomy and a sense of responsibility that allowed them to seize the opportunities that they gained with their independence.
- Author: Emmy Werner
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Praeger
Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-First Century
Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? This groundbreaking book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the causes and effects of labor migration available, and it recommends sensible, sustainable migration policies that are fair to migrants and to the countries that open their doors to them.
- Author: Philip Martin, Manolo Abella and Christiane Kuptsch
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Publisher: Yale University Press
Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life
This landmark four-year study of college writers helps teachers and program leaders in any field understand how college students learn the methods and writing practices of their disciplines. Based on surveys and interviews of published scholars and students, plus analysis of student writing, the book recommends teaching strategies for faculty across the curriculum and program design models. Nominated for the Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book of 2006-2007 Award.
- Author: Chris Thaiss
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Boynton/Cook Heinemann
Ecology without Nature
Rigorous and unsettling, Timothy Morton's book is a vividly realized critique of the political and ethical meanings of "place" and "space." ... A more thoughtful reflection on the future of dwelling together in a vulnerable world would be hard to find.
--David L. Clark, Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
- Author: Timothy Morton
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
Watersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water
A practical guide to understanding basic principles of groundwater hydrology, watershed functioning, and the various processes by which water moves through the landscape. Includes several chapters that discuss the basic approaches to assessing and evaluating a watershed, taking water samples, identifying pollution sources, and establishing watershed programs. Comes with a great overview of the various legal and institutional aspects of water in California and the United States.
- Author: Thomas Harter and Larry Rollins
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
A Companion to Latin American History
This 544-page volume collects the work of 29 leading experts in the field to create a single-source overview of the diverse history and current trends in the study of Latin America, from earliest human migrations to today.
- Author: Thomas Holloway
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Chronic Disease Management
The burden of chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, and heart failure on patients, their families, and the healthcare system is increasing. Patients and physicians tend to feel overwhelmed in keeping the disease under control and preventing complications. This book is designed to help change the paradigm by which care is provided to patients with a chronic disease. The core of the paradigm shift is how we can more effectively support self-management activities.
- Author: James Nuovo
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Springer
Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory
This book examines the political, ethical and aesthetic implications of the diverse narrative forms Chilean artists have used to represent the memory of political violence under the Pinochet regime. By studying multiple "lenses of memory" through which truths about the past have been constructed, the study seeks to expose the complex intersections among trauma, subjectivity and literary genres, and to question the nature of trauma's artistic rendering.
- Author: Michael Lazzara
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945
The threat of biological weapons has never attracted as much public attention as in the past five years. Current concerns largely relate to the threat of weapons acquisition and use by rogue states or by terrorists. But the threat has deeper roots--it has been evident for fifty years that biological agents could be used to cause mass casualties and large-scale economic damage. Yet there has been little historical analysis of such weapons over the past half-century.
- Author: Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, and Malcolm Dando (Eds)
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
Locality, Mobility, and "Nation"
This interdisciplinary study of African colonial history synthesizes political, gender, and social history by documenting the contributions of rural-dwelling populations in anti-colonial struggles. Lawrance uses the Ewe nationalist movement of southern Togo as a case study in what he terms "periurban colonialism" - a historical paradigm that reunites the urban and rural experiences of post-World War I colonialism.
- Author: Benjamin Lawrance
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Univ. of Rochester Press
Writing Across Distances and Disciplines: Research and Pedagogy in Distributed Learning
This book addresses questions that cross borders between onsite, hybrid, and distributed learning environments, between higher education and the workplace, and between distance education and composition pedagogy. It raises critical issues, clarifies terms, reviews history and theory, analyzes research, reconsiders pedagogy, explores applications of WAC and WID in distributed environments, and considers what business and education might learn from one another.
- Author: Carl Whithaus, Joyce Neff
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
American Discovery of Europe
The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America’s Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus’s 1492 arrival in the “New World.”
- Author: Jack D. Forbes
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons: Promise or Peril
Incapacitating Biochemical Weapons examines the promise and peril behind weapons based on natural or synthetic biochemical compounds that are meant to cause rapid incapacitation but not to kill. An agent has yet to be found that can effectively incapacitate people without risk of death when used in a real-world military or law enforcement situation.
- Author: Alan M. Pearson, Marie Isabell Chevrier, and Mark Wheelis (Eds)
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Roman and Littlefield
Mentors in the Making: Developing New Leaders for New Teachers
This book challenges models of new teachers focused on self and survival, documenting induction and mentoring practices that focus new teachers on individual learners, equity-oriented curriculum and pedagogy, and reforming school culture. Original empirical research, practitioner action inquiry, and field-tested practices from induction programs help define a knowledge base for effective mentoring that maps onto and extends classic research on the knowledge base for effective teaching.
- Author: Betty Achinstein and Steven Athanases (Editors and Authors)
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Teachers College Press
The Human Face of Global Mobility
This book challenges widely held views about the elite characteristics of highly skilled global migrants, the costs and consequences of the brain drain said to follow from the migration of skilled workers, and the presumed "effortlessness" of professional mobility in an integrating world. Key differences between the regional contexts of this migration in Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific are emphasized.
- Author: Michael Peter Smith and Adrian Favell, eds.
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1st
Citizenship Across Borders
This book highlights the continuing significance of territorial identifications and state policies in cultivating and sustaining transnational connections and practices. The book demonstrates that, far from undermining loyalty and diminishing engagement in U.S. political life, the practice of dual citizenship by Mexican migrants actually provides a sense of empowerment that fosters migrants' active civic engagement in American as well as Mexican politics.
- Author: Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
Blood and Belief
Ranging from the Bible to the Twentieth Century, "Blood and Belief" examines the role of blood in Jewish culture and in the relations between Jews and Christians.
- Author: David Biale
- Copyright: 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
Some wounds Healing: Some Birds Singing
Work about the Northern Ireland peace process in 2007 from January to August.
- Author: Conrad Atkinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Belfast Media Group
Landescapes
Illustrated works by Conrad Atkinson of his landscape paintings/prints ceramics/drawings over past thirty years
- Author: Conrad Atkinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: John Isaacs
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION CLAUSE Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate
This book is an anthology of articles interpreting the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. )
- Author: Alan Brownstein
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Prometheus Books
Modeling and Interpreting Interactive Hypotheses in Regression Analysis
Social scientists study complex phenomena about which they often propose intricate hypotheses tested with linear-interactive or multiplicative terms. While interaction terms are hardly new to social science research, researchers have yet to develop a common methodology for using and interpreting them. Modeling and Interpreting Interactive Hypotheses in Regression Analysis provides step-by-step guidance on how to connect substantive theories to statistical models and how to interpret and present the results.
- Author: Cindy Kam
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press
The Fibrous Soft Matter Physics
It is a compilation of the papers published previously by the author on the subject related to fibrous materials, with added comments and elucidations. It covers the geometrical, structural issues in fibrous materials and deals with such physical properties as mechanics, interfacial and thermal and transport process.
- Author: Ning Pan
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Education and Culture Publishing, China
Thermal and moisture transport in fibrous
The transfer of heat and moisture through textiles is vital to the manufacture and
design of clothing, technical and protective textiles. Continued advances in textile
processing technology, the growth of manufactured nonwovens and the
application of nanotechnology have resulted in a wealth of research in order to
characterise the behaviour of these materials. This book provides a first comprehensive guide of the technological developments and scientific understanding in this area.
- Author: Ning Pan
- Binding: Hardback
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Limited,
Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru
Mendoza reveals the key role that early-twentieth-century "folklore" in Cuzco, Peru, had in shaping ethnic, regional and national identities. She argues that these practices were integral to, rather than only a reflection of, other processes underlying the development of "indigenismo." She demonstrates that Cuzco's folklore emerged from complex interactions between artists and intellectuals of different social classes challenging the idea that indigenismo was a project of the elites.
- Author: Zoila Mendoza
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Duke University Press
Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life
This book explores the aesthetic and political ramifications of the literary genre of the "Denkbild," or thought-image, as it was employed by four major German-Jewish writers and philosophers of the first half of the twentieth century: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, and Siegfried Kracauer. Richter’s careful analysis of the linguistic characteristics of this mode of writing sheds new light on pivotal concerns of modernity.
- Author: Gerhard Richter
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
Sociology Confronts the Holocaust: Memories and Identities in Jewish Diasporas
This volume expands the intellectual exchange between those working on the Holocaust and post-Holocaust Jewish life and sociologists focused on how identity interacts with collective memory, diaspora, transnationalism and immigration. The book reflects an attempt to bring the Holocaust into conversation with sociological and interdisciplinary discourses while enriching these analytical frameworks with the case of the Holocaust.
- Author: Judith M. Gerson and Diane L. Wolf (eds.)
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Duke University Press
Witness to Sovereignty. Essays on the Indian Movement in Latin America
From the back cover: "This book spans more than 30 years of history, the same three decades in which 'indigenous sovereignty' emerged from five centuries of banishment ... Varese is both the author of this fascinating chronicle and a key actor in the very process and transformation that he narrates... this book allows the reader to become a witness to sovereignty, by following Varese's 30-years odyssey of politically engaged scholarship on and with indigenous movement of Latin America."
- Author: Stefano Varese
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, Copenhagen
La Sal de los Cerros. Resistencia y utopía en la Amazonía Peruana
This updated 4th edition Varese' path-breaking book on Peru's Campa Ashaninka people includes a new prologue by Alberto Chirif, one the most renown scholars of Amazonian indigenous peoples, two new appendices, four new chapters on the current situation of the Native Peoples of Latin America and a commentary by scholar Federica Barclay Rey de Castro on the impact of Varese's book on Amazonian studies.
- Author: Stefano Varese
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 4th
- Publisher: Fondo Editorial del Congreso del Peru, Lima
Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions
Part of the popular CA Natural History Guide series, this book describes and provides a guide for identification of all the butterflies of the named regions, along with extensive coverage of butterfly biology, behavior, ecology, distribution and classification, and butterfly-related activities such as photography and gardening. With 31 original full-color plates by Timothy D. Manolis. It is also available in soft covers.
- Author: Arthur Shapiro
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: UC Press
The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen
In a study of contemporary Arab political poetry, Miller demonstrates the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language, religion, and culture. Confronting unrest on the Arabian Peninsula since 1990, people in southern areas of Yemen have experienced a resurgence of tribalism. With attention to several centuries of changing media ecology, Miller shows how tribalism becomes a cultural resource for morally evaluating political liberalism.
- Author: Flagg Miller
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 2007
- Publisher: Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Gender Play in Mark Twain: Cross-Dressing and Transgression
Gender Play explores the multiple ways Mark Twain "troubled" gender in his work through cross-dressing and other forms of gender transgression. It examines how Twain challenged fixed notions of gendered expectation, while tracing the degree to which gender disruptions interact with themes such as his critique of race, his concern with death in his classic "boys's books," and his career-long preoccupation with twins and twinning.
- Author: Linda Morris
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: University of Missouri
Forest Genetics
Trees continue to maintain a unique significance in the social, ecological and economic systems of the world - as large, long-lived perennials covering 30% of land on Earth; their very nature dictates their importance. An understanding of forest genetics is essential for providing insight into the evolution, conservation, management and sustainability of both natural and managed forests.
- Author: T. L. White
- Author: W.T. Adams
- Author: David Neale
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: CABI
The Birth of Novalis: Friedrich von Hardenberg's Journal of 1797, with Selected Letters and Documents
The book offers, for the first time, a reliable and lucid translation into English of the most important primary sources pertaining to the biography of the German Romantic poet-philosopher Novalis. It includes a thorough literary-critical introduction that contextualizes Novalis' other writings and his contributions to romanticism.
- Author: Bruce Donehower
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
Organizational Perception Management
This book examines how organizations and their leaders protect, promote, and manage how people perceive them. It uses current case studies (e.g., the National Rifle Association, the Augusta National Golf Club, Porsche) to illustrate how organizations can effectively (or ineffectively) respond to events that challenge their legitimacy, threaten their identity, or even enhance their reputations. The book has received positive reviews from a number of critical evaluators (e.g., PsychCritiques).
- Author: Kimberly Elsbach
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice
Noxious New York analyzes the culture, politics, and history of environmental justice activism in New York City within the larger context of privatization, deregulation, and globalization. It tracks urban planning and environmental health activism in four gritty New York neighborhoods in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing extensively on fieldwork and interviews with community members and activists, Sze illuminates the mix of local and global issues that fuels environmental justice activism.
- Author: Julie Sze
- Copyright: 2006
- Publisher: MIT Press
Historical Statistics of the United States: earliest times to the present
This five volume, edition of a canonical reference work, originally published in much smaller compass by the US Superintendent of Public Documents in several briefer versions is in a landmark event in academic publishing. It is by far the most definitive version of an essential reference tool for any researcher focused on the history of the United States. Has many tables, maps, and 100 expository and critical essays on the economic history of the United States.
- Author: Alan Olmstead (IGA and Economics), Scott Gartner (Political Science)
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2006
- Edition: Millennial
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Shelley
'This lively collection of essays banishes notions of Shelley the harmless "romantic" lyric poet, ... a chronological mapping of Shelley's brief and intense life and career is presented, providing the reader with a solid introduction to key events and themes of the poet's life. ... the book is easily navigable. ... Highly recommended for libraries supporting contemporary literature and poetry courses at undergraduate level and above.' Reference Reviews
- Author: Timothy Morton
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2006
- Publisher: Cambridge UP
The Better World Handbook: Small Changes That Make a Big Difference
A highly researched guide to sustainable global citizenship, this book summarizes our collective global challenges in the 21st century, discusses the socio-psychological blocks that stop people from engaging in more socially and environmentally responsible behaviors, and then organizes individual actions into a practical, intuitive format that allows the average person to make and integrate sustainable choices into his/her daily life - turning lofty ideals into easy, effective, everyday actions.
- Author: Ellis Jones, Ph.D., Ross Haenfler, Ph.D., Brett Johnson, Ph.D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 2nd
- Publisher: New Society Publishers
Women & Islamic Cultures
No other reference work offers this scale of contributions or depth and breadth of coverage.
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures is set to become an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.
This encyclopedia consists of six volumes (including an Index volume), published from 2003 to 2007.
- Author: Suad Joseph
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2003
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Brill
Authentication of Food and Wine
Presents latest research on food and beverage authentication using a variety of analytical techniques.
- Author: Susan Ebeler, Gary R. Takeoka, Peter Winterhalter
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: American Chemical Society/Oxford University Press
The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves
This book explores the two major reasons for hip-hop culture’s proliferation throughout the world: 1) the global centrality of African American popular culture and the transnational pop culture industry of record companies and entertainment conglomerates; and 2) “connective marginalities” that are extant social inequalities forming the foundation for an “underground” network of hip-hop communities.
- Author: Halifu Osumare
- Binding: Hardback
- Copyright: 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan