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Faculty Books, 2005

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2005 Book Descriptions

Syed V. Ahamed and Victor B. Lawrence
The Art of Scientific Innovation: Cases of Classical Creativity
(Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005; 274 pp.)

Ahamed and Lawrence argue for a return to the creativity, inventiveness, and research environment essential for discovery and scientific innovation. Their book first illuminates the scientific process, with an emphasis on inventions as disclosed in patents, as well as the philosophy and history of technical and scientific schemes. It then goes on to explore the need for a climate of creativity and excitement about in-depth research—the sort of climate that previously inspired so many great thinkers, inventors, engineers, and scientists of the past. Students of engineering and science, as well as working engineers and managers of technical organizations, will find it stimulating. Ahamed is a Professor of Computer Science at The Graduate Center.

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Ronnie Ancona and Ellen Greene, editors
Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry
(Arethusa Books, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005; 384 pp.)

In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture. This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. By complicating the views of gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, this exciting new scholarship will stimulate further debates in classical studies and literary criticism with its fresh perspectives. Ronnie Ancona is a professor of classics at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

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Jean Anyon
Radical Possiblilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement
(Routledge, 2005; 240 pp.)

This groundbreaking book reveals the influence of federal and metropolitan policies and practices—minimum wage, job availability, tax rates, federal transit, affordable housing—on the poverty that plagues schools and communities in American cities and segregated, low-income suburbs. Basing her analysis on new research in civil rights history and social movement theory, Anyon explains how the current moment offers serious possibilities for the creation of a force to bring about equitable public policies and urban school reform. She describes five social movements already under way in U.S. cities and offers readers a set of practical and theoretical insights into securing economic and educational justice for millions of America's poor families and students. Jean Anyon is a professor of urban education at The Graduate Center.

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Beth Baron
Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics
(University of California Press, 2005; 302 pp.)

In Egypt as a Woman, Beth Baron examines the influence of gender in shaping the Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the 1940s. Using rich historical detail, Baron illustrates the importance of women in mobilizing opposition to British authority and in early attempts at modernizing Egypt; she divides her book's compelling narrative into two strands, the first analyzing gendered language and images in the nation and the second considering the political activities of Egyptian women nationalists. Baron's research reveals that, although women were largely excluded from participating in the state in Egypt, they nevertheless pervaded the visual imagery of nationalism in that country. Baron juxtaposes the idealization of the family and the feminine in nationalist rhetoric with transformations in elite households and the work of women activists striving for national independence. Baron is a professor of history at The Graduate Center and City College, and co-director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center.

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Michael Blim
Equality and Economy: The Global Challenge
(AltaMira Press, 2005; 256 pp.)

In an in-depth discussion of issues concerning transnational economies, global anthropology, and the study of work and labor, anthropologist Michael Blim identifies equality as the key global issue of our time—and the value, above all others, that can improve human well-being. Blim demonstrates that using equality as a yardstick for making policy can change the way economies function, allowing them to provide greater well-being to citizens not only in the United States but also worldwide. Blim is an associate professor of anthropology at The Graduate Center.

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Peter Brass, William O.J. Moser, and János Pach, editors
Research Problems in Discrete Geometry
(Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005; 499 pp.)

Written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers in discrete geometry, this book provides an overview of the 150-year-old field and presents a collection of more than 500 attractive open problems in the field, some old, others new and never before published, and the most important partial results related to these problems. Intended as a source book for both professional mathematicians and graduate students who love beautiful mathematical questions, it provides a fine selection of research problems for graduate students looking for a dissertation topic. Brass is associate professor of computer science at City College and The Graduate Center; Moser is professor emeritus at McGill; and Pach is a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics at City College and The Graduate Center; Research Professor, Courant Institute, NYU; and Senior Research Fellow, Renyi Institute, Budapest.

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Eric Foner and Joshua Brown
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2005)

Drawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, one of our most distinguished historians, Eric Foner, places a new emphasis on the centrality of the black experience to an understanding of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in helping win the Civil War, and in shaping Reconstruction and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. He also shows that renewed acts of racial violence, including the birth of the Ku Klux Klan, were retaliation for the progress made by blacks. Joshua Brown’s illustrated commentary on the era’s graphic art and photographs complements the narrative and offers a unique portrait of how Americans envisioned their world and time. Joshua Brown is the executive director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at The Graduate Center.

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A. Suresh Canagarajah, editor
Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice
(Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2005)

bookcoverWhile the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. This book is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the communities affected by these changes. The majority of chapters are case studies of specific contexts and communities, focused on situations of language teaching. Beyond their local contexts these studies are important for initiating discussion of their relevance for other, different communities and contexts. Taken together, the chapters in this book approach the task of reclaiming and making space for the local by means of negotiating with the present and the global. A. Suresh Canagarajah is a professor of English at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.

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Marvin Carlson, editor
The Arab Oedipus: Four Plays
(Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 2005; 460 pp.)

bookcoverThe Greek myth of Oedipus has been the Greek myth most developed by leading Arab dramatists, who have found in it grounding for political commentary, philosophic and theological meditation, and cultural satire. The four treatments in this book are by leading dramatists of the modern Arabic theatre—from Egypt, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Ali Salim, and Ali Ahmed Bakathir; and from Syria, Walid Ikhlasi. The settings range in time from ancient Greek Thebes and ancient Egyptian Thebes to a contemporary computer laboratory, where a super computer replaces the Delphic oracle as the source of the fatal prophesy. Marvin Carlson is Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center.

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Mary Ann Caws
Jerome Hill: Living the Arts
(The Jerome Foundation, 2005)

bookcoverJerome Hill: Living the Arts describes the variegated interests and talents of this innovative filmmaker who funded the founding of the Anthology Film Archives and whose filmed autobiography influenced other filmmakers. He was a highly talented painter, known for his colorful and calm images of the Mediterranean and the south of France, and a photographer, as well as a composer. He was close to the Bloomsbury group when they were in Fontcreuse near Cassis, a seaside town where he initiated the Camargo Foundation for musicians, painters, and scholars. This is a heavily illustrated biography of Jerome Hill, published by the Jerome Foundation in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mary Ann Caws is a distinguished professor of comparative literature, English, and French at The Graduate Center.

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Mary Ann Caws
Pablo Picasso
(Reaktion Books, 2005)

bookcoverThis book is a concise and lively study of the enormously productive and varied life and art of one of the twentieth century’s most influential artistic figures. The author describes the artist’s life thematically and chronologically, and also takes as focal points Picasso’s relationships with his close friends and partners as they changed through the various periods of his life: in Barcelona, Paris, and Provence. She provides biographical context to Picasso’s work, focusing on the time around Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and then Guernica, as well as the changes and consistencies in his oeuvre over the twentieth century. Throughout, the author examines Picasso’s juggling of viewpoints, artistic strategies, loves, and friends, which she interprets as part of the expansion of the artist’s genius and personality, represented by the figures of the Harlequin, the clown, and the acrobat. Mary Ann Caws is a distinguished professor of comparative literature, English, and French at The Graduate Center.

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Mary Ann Caws, editor and translator
Surrealist Love Poems
(University of Chicago Press, 2002; paperback 2005)

bookcoverThis volume brings together sixty poems—many of them translated into English for the first time—by Surrealists whose work is charged with all forms of eroticism. Within these pages you will read the magnificent love poems of Desnos, which rank among the greatest in twentieth-century poetry, and hear the voices of lesser known “poets” such as Salvador Dalí and Frida Kahlo. Poems by familiar Surrealists such as Breton, the movement's leader, and Paul Eluard join work by Octavio Paz and Philippe Soupault. Interspersed with the poetry are photographs by Man Ray, Lee Miller, and Claude Cahun. Expertly and energetically translated by Mary Ann Caws, this collection seeks to demonstrate the truth of Breton's words: “the embrace of poetry like that of bodies/As long as it lasts/Shuts out all the woes of the world.” Mary Ann Caws is a distinguished professor of comparative literature, English, and French at The Graduate Center.

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Mary Ann Caws, translator and editor
Tristan Tzara, Approximate Man and Other Writings
(Black Widow Press, new edition, 2005)

bookcover‘Approximate Man’ and Other Writings is the only English language source for Tzara's majestic and powerful epic poem “The Approximate Man.” This updated edition, translated and edited by renowned Dada/Surrealist scholar Mary Ann Caws, also contains an extensive collection of other writings by Tzara not often found in other English-language titles. Mary Ann Caws also provides an essay new to this edition that helps set the context of “Approximate Man.” Originally published in 1973, the book has continued to be one of the true Tzara English-language rarities. Mary Ann Caws is a distinguished professor of comparative literature, English, and French at The Graduate Center.

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Raquel Chang-Rodríguez
La palabra y la pluma en 'Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno'
(Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, 2005; 205 pp.)

bookcoverIn her latest wide-ranging study, Chang-Rodríguez offers an intriguing, in-depth exploration of an illustrated chronicle completed by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala in 1615. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the author elucidates the text and stresses the unique ability of Guaman Poma de Ayala (a native Andean historian) to combine words and images to depict his legacy. Chang-Rodríguez explores such legal and social debates as the rights of conquest, the position of the native population, the clash of traditions, and the qualifications of colonial administrators in the viceroyalty of Peru. Raquel Chang-Rodriguez is a distinguished professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at City College and The Graduate Center.

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Howard Chernick, editor
Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11
(Russell Sage, 2005; 352 pp.)

bookcoverEconomic experts examine the City's economic recovery since 9/11. They provide authoritative assessments showing that New York's dynamic, flexible economy has absorbed the hardships inflicted by the attacks. Among the findings are that the value of New York-based companies did not fall relative to other firms, and that the decline in earnings and employment for low-income New York workers in 2002 was due more to the recession than to the effects of 9/11. Still, troubles remain: the attack cost the city about $3 billion in the first two years alone, a sum that the City must make up through large tax increases, spending cuts, and substantial additional borrowing, which will inevitably be a burden on future budgets. Howard Chernick is a professor of economics at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

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James R. Cowdery, editor
How to Write About Music: The RILM Manual of Style, 2nd Edition
(Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM), 2006)

bookcoverThis book addresses a multitude of special problems faced by writers on music—problems rarely solved by general writing guides. It applies an international perspective to matters often handled piecemeal and in ethnocentric fashion: work titles, manuscript sources, transliteration, non-Western theoretical systems, opus and catalogue numbers, and pitch and chord names, to name just a few. Detailed guidelines are provided for the bibliographic handling of standard print, audiovisual, and electronic sources, as well as specialized ones such as program notes, liner notes, and music videos. Throughout, abundant examples illustrate each point. Students, scholars, librarians, critics, performers, postmodernists, and premodernists will find this book indispensable. Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) has been working with writings about music since 1967, as the publisher of RILM abstracts of music literature, the foremost bibliography and abstracting service for current scholarly writings on music worldwide. James Cowdery is on the staff of the Barry S. Brook Center and an adjunct assistant professor of music at The Graduate Center.

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Elizabeth Ann Danto
Freud's Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918 - 1938
(Columbia University Press, 2005; 352 pp.)

Many histories do not capture the true record of Sigmund Freud's social activism, often viewing him as an elitist whose psychoanalytic treatment was reserved for the intellectually and financially advantaged. Danto's new work, however, recovers the neglected history of Freud and other analysts' social activism and their serious commitment to treating the poor and working classes. Newly located evidence reveals the wide range of the psychoanalysts' patient base, as well as Freud's commitment to social welfare and public advocacy. In addition to correspondence, personal papers, and financial statements, Danto draws on oral histories and new archival material to offer vivid portraits of the movement's central figures and their beliefs. She situates the efforts of psychoanalysts in the political and cultural contexts of Weimar and Vienna, as she examines important treatments and methods developed during this period including child analysis, short-term therapy, crisis intervention, task-centered treatment, active therapy, and clinical case presentations. Danto is associate professor of social work at Hunter College and a member of The Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare.

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M. Herbert Danzger
Returning to Tradition: The Contemporary Revival of Orthodox Judaism
(Yale University Press, 1989; re-issued in paperback, 2005)

In recent years, many young American and Israeli Jews raised in non-religious families have chosen to become practicing Orthodox Jews, eating only kosher food, honoring the Sabbath, and observing laws of family purity that require periods of sexual abstinence by husband and wife and modesty in dress and behavior. This book is based upon more than two hundred interviews with newly Orthodox Jews, their rabbis, teachers, and recruiters, and hundreds of hours in yeshivot (seminaries) and outreach programs in America and Israel. The data reveal why they became Orthodox Jews, how Orthodoxy was brought to their attention, how they were socialized into their new commitment, and what sort of life they entered, with what rewards and at what costs. It also describes how Orthodox Judaism is being reshaped by an unprecedented attempt to reach out to those who want to learn about it, and examines its organizational structures and recruitment techniques. M. Herbert Danzger is a professor of sociology at Lehman College and The Graduate Center.

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Joseph W. Dauben
Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis
(Beijing: Science Press, 2005; Chinese edition; Wang Qian, translator)

One of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century, Robinson discovered and developed nonstandard analysis, a rigorous theory of infinitesimals that he used to unite mathematical logic with the larger body of historic and modern mathematics. In this first biography of Robinson, out of print in the English edition (Princeton University Press, 1995) but now published in China, Joseph Dauben reveals the mathematician's personal life to have been a dramatic one: developing his talents in spite of war and ethnic repression, Robinson personally confronted some of the worst political troubles of our times. With the skill and expertise familiar to readers of Dauben's earlier works, the book combines an explanation of Robinson's revolutionary achievements in pure and applied mathematics with a description of his odyssey from Hitler's Germany to the United States via conflict-ridden Palestine and wartime Europe. Joseph W. Dauben is a distinguished professor of history at Lehman College and The Graduate Center.

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Marcel den Dikken and Christina M. Tortora, editors
The Function of Function Words and Functional Categories
(John Benjamins, 2005)

book cover imageThis volume brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the syntax of function words and functional categories in the Germanic languages. The works offered in this volume derive specifically from comparative studies of Germanic; at the same time they all bear directly on long-standing problems in syntactic theory and universal grammar. The contributions include novel theoretical and empirical approaches to infinitives, the syntax and acquisition of Verb Second, the structure and interpretation of present tense, the syntax and semantics of reflexives, the relationship between expletive syntax and the EPP, the syntax of possession, and the DP-internal syntax of pronouns. Some contributions present the results of experimental research which provide an entirely fresh perspective on previously unchallenged claims. Marcel den Dikken is an associate professor of linguistics at The Graduate Center; and Christina M. Tortora is an assistant professor of linguistics at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center.

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Ottavio DiCamillo and John O'Neill, editors
La Celestina 1499-1999: Selected Papers from the International Congress in Commemoration of the Quincentennial Anniversary of La Celestina, New York, November 17-19, 1999
(Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 2005)

book cover imageThis collection of essays by leading scholars from the United States and Europe explores various aspects of the Celestina. The papers, originally presented at the International Congress held at The Graduate Center, address a wide range of issues: from textual criticism to early transmission and reception of the Comedia, from theatrical drama to early narrative genre, from rhetorical composition to literary analysis, from the social world of the author or authors to the intellectual background of the evolving literary text. Of particular value are those studies concerning the 1499 Burgos edition that seek to provide answers to questions that have baffled critics for a long time. In fact, while a material reconstruction of its printing has led to the discovery that it was Fadrique de Basilea who first added the ‘arguments’ for each act, a careful examination of early texts has definitively concluded that it is the Burgos comedia that reproduces the earliest text of the work. Ottavio DiCamillo is a professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center.

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Morris Dickstein
Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
(Princeton University Press, 2005; 320 pp.)

book cover imageIn a series of lively essays directed to general readers as well as students of literature, Morris Dickstein, Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre at The Graduate Center, discusses the relationship between reality and fiction, and the different ways in which novelists synthesize, transform, and then refract reality in the fictional worlds they create on the page. He covers a wide array of twentieth-century writers, from realists like Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, through modernists like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, to wildly inventive postwar writers like Saul Bellow, Günter Grass, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Philip Roth, and Gabriel García Márquez.

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Marc Edelman
Campesinos contra la globalización: Movimientos sociales rurales en Costa Rica
(San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, Colección Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 2005)

bookcoverWhen the Latin American debt crisis struck Costa Rica in the 1980s it devastated one of the hemisphere’s most advanced social democracies, producing a wave of protest against cuts in welfare-state programs. Peasants were in the forefront of resistance, marching, blocking highways, and occupying government buildings. Rural activists combined class-bound politics with concerns about threatened peasant identities, practical analysis with sentimentality, grassroots democracy with conspiratorial secrecy, and selfless sacrifice with opportunism. The small farmers portrayed in this book are worldly, outspoken, future-oriented, and fiercely proud. They could hardly be less like the unsophisticated rustics so prominent in the development literature. The rural activism in Costa Rica in the 1980s and 1990s calls into question much current theory about collective action, peasantries, development, and ethnographic research. The book invites the reader to rethink debates about old and new social movements and to grapple with the ethical dilemmas of engaged ethnography. Marc Edelman is professor of anthropology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

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Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, editors
The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism
(Blackwell, 2005)

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This collection of readings, framed by an encyclopedic introduction that will prove indispensable to students and experts alike, provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field’s classical origins to today’s debates about the “magic” of the free market. It explores the foundations of the anthropology of development, a field newly animated by theories of globalization and transnationalism; includes readings ranging from Weber and Marx and Engels to contemporary works on the politics of development knowledge, consumption, environment, gender, international NGO networks, the IMF, campaigns to reform the World Bank, the collapse of socialism, and the limits of “post-developmentalism”; fills a crucial gap in the literature by mingling historical, cultural, political, and economic perspectives on development and globalization; and presents a wide range of theoretical approaches and topics. Marc Edelman is a professor of anthropology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

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Edmund L. Epstein, editor
Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake; edited with an introduction by Edmund L. Epstein
(New World Library, 2005)

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Since its original publication in 1939, countless would-be readers of Finnegans Wake—James Joyce’s masterwork, which consumed a third of his life—have given up after a few pages and dismissed James Joyce’s great work as a “perverse triumph of the unintelligible.” In 1944, a young professor of mythology and literature named Joseph Campbell, working with novelist and poet Henry Morton Robinson, wrote the first “key” or guide to entering the fascinating, disturbing, marvelously rich world of Finnegans Wake. They broke down Joyce’s “unintelligible” book, stripping the text of much of its obscurity, outlining the basic action, simplifying and clarifying the complex web of images and allusions, serving up thoughtful interpretations via footnotes and bracketed commentary, and providing an understandable, continuous narrative from which the reader can venture out on his or her own. Edmund Epstein has updated the references, and included a treatment of later books on Joyce's work. Edmund Epstein is a professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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Michael S. Foley, editor
Dear Dr. Spock: Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor
(New York University Press, 2005)

bookcover At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's pediatrician and a high-profile opponent of the war. Dear Dr. Spock collects the best of these letters and offers a window into the minds of ordinary Americans, providing an intriguing glimpse into the conflicts that took place over the dinner table as people wrestled with this divisive war and with their consciences. One mother of young children struggles to imagine how Vietnamese women could endure after their village was napalmed, while another chastises Spock for the "dark shadow" he had cast on the country and pledges to instill love of country in her sons. What emerges is a portrait of articulate Americans struggling mightily to understand government policies in Vietnam and how those policies did or did not reflect their own sense of themselves and their country. Michael Foley is an associate professor of history at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center.

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Nancy Foner
In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration
(New York University Press, 2005)

According to the 2000 census, more than ten percent of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies scholar, Nancy Foner, answers this question in her study of comparative immigration. Drawing on a wealth of historical and contemporary research, she focuses on the race and ethnicity, gender, and transnational connections of recent immigrants, and centers her analysis on the groups that have come through and significantly shaped New York City. She compares today's Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean newcomers with eastern and southern European immigrants a century ago and with immigrants in other major U.S. cities. Looking beyond this country, Foner compares West Indian immigrants in New York with those in London. More generally, the book views the process of immigrants' integration in New York against other recent immigrant destinations in Europe. Nancy Foner is a distinguished professor of sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

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Nancy Foner, editor
Wounded City: The Social Impact of 9/11
(Russell Sage, 2005; 348 pp.)

bookcoverThe book presents a unique look at the aftermath of a devastating day and the vitality of a diverse city. An accomplished group of scholars document how a broad range of communities—residential, ethnic, occupational, and civic—were affected and changed by the World Trade Center attacks. The communities include Tribeca and Battery Park City; a predominantly Irish, middle class community; Arab Muslims in Jersey City; psychotherapists attempting trying to help patients deal with a tragedy; securities traders who evacuated their downtown office and moved temporarily to New Jersey; and civic meetings to discuss what should be done to rebuild at ground zero. Nancy Foner is distinguished professor of sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

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Phil Gersmehl
Teaching Geography
(Guilford Press, 2005)

bookcover From leading geography educator Phil Gersmehl, this volume presents a complete conceptual framework and many hands-on ideas for effective geography instruction in today's middle and secondary classrooms. The focus is on the "whats" and "hows" of helping students develop spatial thinking skills while learning about the land, climate, economy, and culture of places around the world. Nearly one hundred engaging activities are provided in reproducible transparency masters that can be photocopied from the book or projected from the accompanying CD-ROM, which also contains information about national and state geography standards and animations that model the skills discussed. Featuring standards-based curriculum materials and assessments, this is an ideal pre-service or in-service text as well as a practical resource that teachers will want to bring back to their classrooms. Phil Gersmehl is a professor of earth and environmental sciences at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

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Édouard Glissant
The Collected Poems of Édouard Glissant
Translated and with an introduction by Jeff Humphries
(University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

bookcover Born in Martinique, influenced by the controversial Martinican poet/politician Aimé Césaire, and educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, Édouard Glissant has emerged as one of the most influential postcolonial theorists, novelists, playwrights, and poets not only in the Caribbean but also in contemporary French letters. He has twice been a finalist for the Nobel Prize in Literature as well as the recipient of both the Prix Renaudot and the Prix Charles Veillon in France. This volume collects and translates—most for the first time—his nine volumes of poetry. The poems bring to life what Glissant calls "an archipelago-like reality," partaking of the exchanges between Europe and its former colonies, between humans and their geographies, between the poet and the natural world. Reciting and re-creating histories of the African diaspora, Columbus's "discovery" of the New World, the slave trade, and the West Indies, Glissant underscores the role of poetic language in changing both past and present irrevocably. Glissant is Distinguished Professor of French at The Graduate Center.

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Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach, Emo Welz, editors
Combinatorial and Computational Geometry
(Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005; 528 pp.)

bookcoverDuring the past few decades, the gradual merger of discrete geometry and the newer discipline of computational geometry has provided enormous impetus to mathematicians and computer scientists interested in geometric problems. This volume, an outgrowth of that synergism, contains 32 papers on a broad range of topics by leaders in the field. There are points of contact with many applied areas such as mathematical programming, visibility problems, kinetic data structures, and biochemistry, as well as with algebraic topology, geometric probability, real algebraic geometry, and combinatorics. Goodman is a professor of mathematics at City College. Pach is a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics at City College and The Graduate Center; Research Professor, Courant Institute, NYU; and Senior Research Fellow, Renyi Institute, Budapest. Welz is at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich.

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David J. Gordon
Imagining the End of Life in Post-Enlightenment Poetry: Voices against the Void
(University Press of Florida, 2005)

bookcover The turn from Enlightenment to Romanticism introduced a new conception of individual death that we would now call existential. As the power of religion waned and with it the consoling belief in an afterlife, writers—especially poets—began to think of death as nothingness, as void. David Gordon studies the changing conception of one's own death by examining the work of some of the most important poets of the last two centuries. Drawing upon Wittgenstein, Freud, and Burke for his theoretical orientation, Gordon provides close readings of a score of poets from Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, and Dickinson through Yeats, Lawrence, and Stevens to Bishop, Larkin, and Graham. In the process he distinguishes between the familiar form of elegy and his own subject, a more circumscribed, self-reflective poem, and creates telling comparisons and connections across several centuries and cultures. David Gordon is a professor emeritus of English at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

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Michael Grossman and Björn Lindgren, editors
Substance Use: Individual Behavior, Social Interaction, Markets and Politics. Volume 16 of Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
(Amsterdam: JAI, an imprint of Elsevier Ltd., 2005)

bookcover The tremendous expansion in research in the economics of substance use and abuse since the early 1980s and the presence of many unresolved issues motivate this volume. While most of the papers are by economists, the disciplines of medicine, political science, and psychology also are represented. Any successful attempt to address substance use must adopt an interdisciplinary perspective. The aim of the volume—to cover issues pertaining to individual behavior, social interactions, markets, and politics—makes this all the more necessary. Some of the twenty papers in the volume contain new estimates of the price sensitivity of alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. Others focus on the effects of consumption on earnings, crime, suicide, and sexually transmitted diseases. Still others address the roles of psychobiology, social interaction, hyperbolic discounting, and peer effects in shaping decisions with regard to the use of harmfully addictive substances. Michael Grossman is a distinguished professor of business and economics at The Graduate Center.

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Gerald Handel, editor
Childhood Socialization
(Transaction Publishers, 1988, 2005)

In the years since publication of the first edition of this book in 1988, childhood has become a territory open to broader sociological investigation. In this revised edition, Gerald Handel has selected and gathered new contributions that analyze the agents of socialization and explore the influences of television and gender. The book is divided into nine parts: "Socialization, Individuation, and the Self"; "Historical Changes in Attitudes Toward Children"; "Families as Socialization Agents"; "Daycare and Nursery School as Socialization Agents"; "Schools as Socialization Agents"; "Peer Groups as Socialization Agents"; "Television and its Influence"; "Gender Socialization"; and "Social Stratification and Inequality in Socialization." While socialization continues on into the adolescent and adult years, childhood socialization is primary, and essential to shaping the identity, outlook, skills, and resources of the evolving person. This dynamic volume will be of continuing interest to students and scholars of family studies, sociology, psychology, and modern culture. Gerald Handel is a professor emeritus of sociology at The City College and The Graduate Center.

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David Harvey
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
(Oxford University Press, 2005)

Neoliberalism—the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action—has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. David Harvey here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex of forces, from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also played their part. In addition he explores the continuities and contrasts between neoliberalism of the Clinton sort and the recent turn towards neoconservative imperialism of George W. Bush. Finally, Harvey constructs a framework not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements. David Harvey is a distinguished professor of anthropology, earth and environmental sciences, and history at The Graduate Center.

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David Harvey
The New Imperialism
(Oxford University Press, 2003; new paperback edition, 2005)

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the U.S. has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? Is the war in Iraq all about oil and, if not, what else is involved? What difference does it make that neo-conservatives rather than neo-liberals are now in power? What exactly is the relationship between U.S. militarism abroad and domestic politics? These are some of the questions taken up in this compelling and original book. Closely argued but clearly written, The New Imperialism builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in U.S. policies and politics. This new paperback edition contains an Afterword written to coincide with the result of the 2004 American presidential election. David Harvey is a distinguished professor of anthropology, earth and environmental sciences, and history at The Graduate Center.

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David Harvey
Spaces of Neoliberalization: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (Hettner Lecture, 2004) (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005)
Reissued as Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development
(Verso, 2006)

The theory of uneven geographical development needs further examination: The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes across and between spaces of the world economy cries out for better historical-geographical analysis and theoretical interpretation. The political necessity is just as urgent since social inequalities have increased in recent decades. Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia, and Argentina. Simultaneously, the different oppositional movements to neoliberalism create both opportunities and barriers in the search for alternatives. In these essays, David Harvey searches for adequate conceptualizations of space and of uneven geographical development that will help to understand the new historical geography of global capitalism. David Harvey is a distinguished professor of anthropology, earth and environmental sciences, and history at The Graduate Center.

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Samuel Heilman, editor
Death, Bereavement, and Mourning: What We Have Learned after 9/11
(Transaction Publishers, 2005)

The contributions to this volume are based on a conference held in New York on the first anniversary of September 11, 2001. Contributors include Peter Metcalf, Robert Jay Lifton, Ilana Harlow, Robert A. Neimeyer, Samuel Heilman, and Neil Gillman. This sensitive and heartfelt volume relates specifically to issues of death, bereavement, and mourning in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center, but the applications to other individual and catastrophic events is obvious. The contributions do not simply explore how people deal with bereavement or are psychologically affected by extreme grief: they address how people can try to find meaning in tragedy and loss, and strive to help restore order in the wake of chaos. The multidisciplinary perspectives include those of anthropology, psychology, theology, social work, and art. Samuel Heilman is Harold M. Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center and a distinguished professor of sociology at Queens College.

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Ronald G. Hellman and Rodrigo Araya Dujisin, editors
Chile Litoral: Dialogo cientifico sobre los ecosistemas costeros
(FLACSO, 2005; 406 pp)

Chile Litoral brings the expertise of a number of authors in the field of comparative ecosystems and regional economies into a discussion of the role of science in economic, social, and government policy. The central focus of the book concentrates on the Chilean governing process in regard to science and ecosystem management and provides a comprehensive political context for Chile's coastal management policies. Chapters explore existing governing structures; environmental NGOs and community and citizen organizations with active input in policymaking; existing legal regimes, including environmental laws and regulations, marine law, water quality standards, ecological recuperation plans, and national parks; public-private partnerships in ecosystem management; and new trade and political alignments. Using a framework of analysis and data developed by Inter-American Comparative Ecosystems and Regional Economies (IACERE) at The Graduate Center's Americas Center on Science and Society (ACSS), the research takes a multi-disciplinary approach to these coastal/estuarine ecosystems and examines how they are being affected by human activity. Hellman is a member of the doctoral faculty in The Graduate Center's sociology department and director ACSS.

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Dagmar Herzog
Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany
(Princeton University Press, 2005; 368 pp.)
Also in German translation: Die Politisierung der Lust: Sexualitaet in der deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
(Siedler/Random House, 2005)

bookcoverWhat is the relationship between sexual and other kinds of politics? Few societies have posed this puzzle as urgently, or as disturbingly, as Nazi Germany. Beginning with a new interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's collapse, this book examines the intimately intertwined histories of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends. A history of sexual attitudes and practices in twentieth-century Germany—investigating such issues as contraception, pornography, and theories of sexual orientation—Sex after Fascism also demonstrates how Germans focused on sexuality in managing the memory and legacies of Nazism and the Holocaust. Dagmar Herzog is a professor of history and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at The Graduate Center.

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Charles Kadushin
The American Intellectual Elite
(Transaction Books, 2005; reprinted with a new introduction by the author)

bookcoverWith the possible exception of sports figures and film actors, intellectuals may be the most overpublicized people in America. While this classic study, originally published in 1974 and now in paperback, is very much about social circles and the networked “small world” of intellectuals defined by the institutions such as the journals and magazines around which they gathered, the uniqueness of this volume is the recognition that fact must come before theory. Thus, the author presents, in a straightforward and dispassionate manner, the collective attitude of leading intellectuals of the sixties on topics as diverse as the Vietnam War, race relations, foreign and domestic policy, and the place of intellectuals in the resolution of such issues. Charles Kadushin is professor emeritus of psychology and sociology at The Graduate Center; a distinguished scholar at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies; and a visiting research professor of sociology at Brandeis University.

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Lawrence Kobilinsky, Thomas F. Liotti, Jamel Oeser-Sweat, editors
DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications
(John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2005)

bookcover The process of collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting DNA evidence remains complex because a number of complicated steps and procedures are involved that are subject to both scientific and legal standards. Any procedural or documentary misstep can potentially render key evidence or testimony useless. To avoid such costly errors, scientists, law enforcement personnel, attorneys, and judges all must possess a detailed knowledge of how forensic DNA works, from the crime scene to the laboratory to the courtroom and beyond. In a unique combination of legal practice and scientific analysis, this book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to this important and increasingly prevalent legal tool, and presents forensic scientists, potential expert witnesses, and professionals in the criminal justice system with a definitive resource on the methods of DNA analysis as well as the handling, potential, and limitations of DNA evidence. Lawrence Kobilinsky is professor of biochemistry and criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

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Peter Kwong and Dusanka Miscevic
Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community
(The New Press, 2005)

bookcover Beginning with stories of Chinese frontiersmen who came to the West Coast by the thousands in the mid-nineteenth century and continuing to the high-tech transnationals who have helped spark the development of today's booming Chinese American "ethnoburbs," this engrossing narrative recounts stories of extraordinary hardship, discrimination, and success. Drawing on firsthand reporting in Asia and the U.S., the book offers a new picture of the country's development and provides the first comprehensive report on the suburban immigrant communities that are transforming America. Urban ghettos continue to host some of the country's poorest immigrants, but Chinese Americans now live in the suburbs in similar proportions to whites, and have brought with them Chinese supermarket chains, language schools, and growing clout in America and Asia. In exploring the burgeoning trade—and underlying conflicts—between China and the U.S., Chinese America also reveals the complex connections between immigration, globalization, and foreign policy in our time. Peter Kwong is professor of sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

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Isaías Lerner and C. S. de Cortázar, co-editors
Miguel de Cervantes. El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Prólogo de Marcos A. Morinigo, 2 volumes.
(EUDEBA, 2005; 2nd edition)

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Part I of Don Quixote in 1605, EUDEBA (The University of Buenos Aires Press) produced this second edition of the text of Cervantes's novel, which had appeared in a first edition in 1969 as edited and annotated by C. S. de Cortázar and I. Lerner. As Lerner explains in his Foreword, for this requested commemorative second edition, he corrected and reviewed the text, as well as the more than 3,000 notes that had been prepared for the first edition. An introduction written by Alicia Parody and Juan Diego Vila, professors of early modern Spanish literature at the University of Buenos Aires, places this edition in the context of its original publication, while highlighting the continuing interest of contemporary Latin American countries. Lerner is a distinguished professor of Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center.

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Isaías Lerner
Lecturas de Cervantes
(Universidad de Málaga, 2005 (Colección Thema, 43))

This volume contains thirty essays in which Lerner studies the work of three Spanish writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth century: Pedro Mexía, Alonso de Ercilla, and Miguel de Cervantes. Mexía (1497-1551) was the author of the first polyanthea written in a modern language, Silva de varia lección, which was published in Seville in 1540. This encylopedic work enjoyed immediate success. More than thirty editions of the Castilian text circulated in Spain, thus offering ample proof of its popularity. The work was soon translated into other European languages—Italian, French, English, German, and Dutch. We now know of the existence of at least seventy editions that confirm its influence outside Spain. Don Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (1533-1594), who was a very good reader of Mexía, wrote the most famous epic poem of the Spanish Renaissance: La Araucana, in which he told the story of the conquest of Chile. Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), the author of Don Quixote, the most universal work written in Spanish, was also a very careful reader of Mexía, and of Ercilla. By establishing a dialogue among the texts of these three authors, Lerner offers new views of early modern Spanish culture and literature, of humanists like Mexía, and of a poet and a novelist who would become central to the canon of the Spanish classics. Lerner is a distinguished professor of Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center.

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Judith Lorber
Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change
(W.W. Norton, 2005)

In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate de-gendering. Lorber argues that it is time to rebel against gender as a social institution—to challenge its basic processes and practices. Feminists have tried to restructure and change the dynamics of interaction between women and men, but they have not pushed their agenda to the point of calling for the abolition of gender boundaries and categories. Breaking the Bowls explores why undoing gender must be the ultimate feminist goal and how that goal can be reached. Judith Lorber is a professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center.

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Judith Lorber
Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics
(Roxbury, 2005; 3rd edition)

book cover image Is feminism dead, or has it gone mainstream? Are we into a third wave or still in the second wave? What did feminism accomplish in the past forty years? What still needs to be done about persistent gender inequality? Do we need a new feminism? Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics presents the variety of feminist theories developed to explain the sources of gender inequality, and how the various theories have diverged and converged in the second wave of feminism as a political movement. It describes feminism's significant contributions to redressing gender inequality, gives credit for its enormous accomplishments in the last forty years, documents ongoing political activism, and points to where feminism is heading in its postmodern and third-wave phases. Judith Lorber is a professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center.

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Setha Low, Dana Taplin, and Suzanne Scheld, editors
Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity
(University of Texas Press, 2005)

bookcover This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City's Prospect Park and Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, among others, the authors identify specific ways to promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks. They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park "restorations" that focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public. Setha Low is a professor of environmental psychology and anthropology and co-director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center; Dana Taplin is co-director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center.

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Kathleen D. McCarthy
American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865
(The University of Chicago Press, 2003; paperback, 2005)

bookcover In exploring the impact of philanthropy and volunteerism on America from 1700 to 1865, this book reveals the pivotal role they played in the search for and exercise of political and economic power. The author demonstrates how the idea of philanthropy became crucially wedded to social activism during the Jacksonian era; how charities and reform associations forged partnerships with government, provided important safety valves for popular discontent, and sparked much-needed economic development; and how acts of volunteerism and charity became involved with the abolitionist movement, educational patronage, the struggle against racism, and female social justice campaigns. What resulted, she contends, were heated political battles over the extent to which women and African Americans would occupy the public stage. This book will prove essential to anyone interested in American history and government. Kathleen D. McCarthy is a professor of history at The Graduate Center and director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society.

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Jerome Skolnick, Malcolm Feeley, and Candace McCoy, editors
Criminal Justice: Introductory Cases and Materials
(Foundation Press, 2005; 6th edition)

bookcover This book introduces the concept of crime and addresses key issues such as how we measure criminality, its variety, and the justifications we employ for punishing it. The book also discusses processing institutions: police, prosecutor, defense attorney, courts, sentencing, and corrections. The book defines the relationships among these institutions and illustrates the relationships with examples. Materials in the book include cases and statutes, the writings and commentary of legal scholars, articles by social scientists and humanists, newspaper editorials, and reports by criminal justice practitioners. Candace McCoy is a professor of criminal justice at The Graduate Center.

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Nicholas M. Michelli and David Lee Keiser, editors
Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice
(Routledge, 2005)

bookcover Democracy, social justice, and the development of well rounded individuals—these are among the historic purposes of public education. But what is becoming of these goals as federal- and state-mandated policies direct the curriculum more and more towards what is most easily measured in high-stakes testing? The contributors to this timely and informative collection aim to provide a deeper understanding of the meaning of education for democracy and social justice and to connect educators with a common vision for the schools and for teacher education. Nicholas Michelli is Presidential Professor of urban education at The Graduate Center.

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Pyong Gap Min, editor and contributor
Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues
(Sage Publications, 2005; 2nd edition)

bookcover Offering a broad overview of the Asian American experience, this book provides an accessible resource for all students interested in the expanding and important Asian American population. While historical information is provided for each group, the main focus is on the variables and issues that impact Asian American life today. The scholarly authors look at topics such as labor force participation, economic status, educational achievements, intermarriage, intergroup relations, and settlement patterns. Photo essays enhance the presentations. Pyong Gap Min is a professor of sociology at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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Pyong Gap Min, editor
Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States, 3 volumes
(Greenwood Press, 2005)

bookcover In more than 450 essay entries, this three-volume encyclopedia presents key terms, organizations, movements, incidents, forums, texts, individuals, legislation, theories, and the like, and includes all the groups discriminated against in the United States from Colonial times until today. The wide range of entries will facilitate cross-disciplinary reading and research for high school and higher education students and the general reader. As an authoritative ready-reference, it will be crucial for understanding of the minority groups and their experiences with the dominant culture. Most entries contain suggestions for further reading. A timeline, photos, and a host of primary documents complement the entries. It was selected by Booklist as one of the 23 best books published in 2005 for the reference category. Pyong Gap Min is a professor of sociology at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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John Mollenkopf, editor
Contentious City: The Politics of Recovery in New York City
(Russell Sage, 2005; 248 pp.)

bookcover A team of leading scholars analyzes the competing interests and demands of the numerous stakeholders who have sought to influence the direction of the recovery process after 9/11. Included are an analysis of the complicated institutional politics behind the rebuilding, profiles of five civic associations that sprouted up to voice public opinion about the redevelopment process, a discussion of the challenge of memorializing the tragic event, and an analysis of how the 9/11 terrorist attacks altered the course of politics in New York. John Mollenkopf is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology and director of the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center.

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Coleman Barks and John Moyne, translator
The Drowned Book: Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi
(HarperCollins, 2005)

bookcover This book presents the lost words of the Sufi master and father of Rumi, the great Sufi mystic poet. Bahauddin, Rumi's father, was not only a major force in the development of Islamic spirituality, but also a deeply influential force in his son's life. In this, the first substantial English version of a wonderful but virtually unknown book, Bahauddin proves to be a daring, spiritual genius. His voice comes through the delightful, passionate craft of Coleman Barks, who transforms the Persian translations of John Moyne into fresh spiritual literature. John Moyne is a professor emeritus of computer science and linguistics at The Graduate Center.

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Kevin D. Murphy
Radek Kurzaj, photography
The American Townhouse
(Harry N. Abrams, 2005; 275 illustrations, 200 in full color, 240 pp.)

bookcoverKevin Murphy, an expert in historic houses, tells a captivating story about the townhouse as cultural phenomenon, giving details about unique design peculiarities, construction records, and ownership histories. His text is complemented by Radek Kurzaj's fine photographs. The team covers 25 townhouses and row houses from Boston to Brooklyn, St. Louis to San Francisco, including the famed Nathaniel Russell House in Charleston; Teddy Roosevelt's New York birth house; the Payne and Helen Hay Whitney House in New York; and the Glenn and Ida Moore House in Rancho Santa Fe. This comprehensive volume makes a great primary reference. Kevin Murphy is an associate professor of art history at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College.

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Mangai Natarajan, editor
Women Police
(Ashgate Publishing, 2005)

bookcover The book serves as a 'wake up call' for police management to find ways to attract and retain women in the police force. While the law of equal representation should enable police of both sexes to be equally valued and rewarded for the work they perform, it has been repeatedly shown that women worldwide have been unable to fully integrate into this largely male profession. Gender stereotypes have impeded their progress and have played an unfortunate role in discriminating and devaluing their work. Thus, the recognition and nurturing of their skills presents an important challenge to police management. This volume reviews the status of women officers worldwide and the progress made to date in integrating them into policing, documents the need for women officers, and describes the many barriers they face in being fully assimilated. Mangai Natarajan is an associate professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

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Mangai Natarajan, editor
Introduction to International Criminal Justice
(McGraw-Hill Publishing, 2005)

bookcover International crime and justice is a new field that addresses the topic from a global perspective. It encompasses comparative studies of crime and justice, but covers a much broader set of topics, including: international crimes—including genocide, war crimes, terrorism, and crimes against humanity such as enslavement, torture, forced pregnancy, and sterilization; transnational crimes—including money laundering, computer hacking, and trafficking in humans and commodities (such as drugs, arts, firearms); organized crime's involvement in local and transnational crime; human rights issues; international criminal law and international relations; international law enforcement and criminal justice; rules of procedure and evidence of the International Criminal Court; and the role of the United Nations and other international agencies in preventing crime and establishing criminal justice standards. Mangai Natarajan is an associate professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

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Ruth O'Brien
Bodies in Revolt: Gender, Disability and an Alternative Ethic of Care
(Routledge, 2005; 256 pp.)

bookcoverBasing her ethics not on benevolence but on self-preservation, the author explores how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) could humanize capitalism by turning employers into care-givers, thus creating an ethic of care in the workplace. To instigate such a revolt, disability must be viewed as an integral part of life, an ever-evolving, indeed, almost universal aspect of the human condition. Thus the ADA is transformed from a narrow civil rights law into the most revolutionary labor/civil rights law that the United States has ever seen. Its employment provisions would do nothing less than undercut capitalism by making employers provide reasonable accommodations on the basis of human needs instead of profits. Ruth O'Brien is a professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

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János Pach, editor
Graph Drawing
(Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2005; 536 pp.)

book cover imageThis book contains the 39 revised full papers, 12 revised short papers, 4 posters, and a report on the graph drawing context that were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement after presentation at the 12th International Symposium on Graph Drawing, GD 2004, held in New York City in September/October 2004. All current aspects in graph drawing are addressed ranging from foundational and methodological issues to applications for various classes of graphs in a variety of fields. Janos Pach is a distinguished professor of computer science and mathematics at City College and The Graduate Center; Research Professor, Courant Institute, NYU; and Senior Research Fellow, Renyi Institute, Budapest.

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Sondra Perl
On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate
(State University of New York Press, 2005; 256 pp.)

book cover imageAn award-winning teacher, Perl journeys as an educator and a Jewish woman to Austria (Hitler's birthplace) and into the territory of her own hatred. In what Elie Wiesel has called "an absorbing narrative," Perl raises the question of history with her adult Austrian students—the descendants of Nazis. While many educators keep their teaching experiences to themselves, Sondra Perl opens up her classroom to reveal the struggles and successes she encounters as her students—teachers themselves—come face-to-face with questions about their responsibility not only to the past, but also to the future. Writing together, she and the students break lifelong silences—discovering along the way the power of dialogue to transform deeply held prejudices. Ultimately, On Austrian Soil is a brilliantly conceived teaching memoir that offers a pedagogy of hope. Perl is a professor of English and urban education at The Graduate Center and Lehman College.

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Anthony G. Picciano
Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology
(Pearson/Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 2005; 4th edition)

The fourth edition of this volume is designed to provide educators with both the theoretical and the practical considerations for planning and implementing technology, particularly computer applications, in schools. Basic concepts of technology and planning that use systems theory are presented. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the total application of technology as opposed to any individual component, be it hardware, software, facilities, personnel, or finances. The book is meant to form a foundation from which educators will provide leadership and become agents for realizing the powerful potential of technology in their schools. Anthony G. Picciano is a professor of urban education at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.
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Mauricio A. Font and Alfonso W. Quiroz, editors
Cuban Counterpoints: The Legacy of Fernando Ortiz
(Lexington Books, 2005)

book cover image While Fernando Ortiz's contribution to our understanding of Cuba and Latin America has been widely recognized since the 1940s, recently there has been renewed interest in this scholar and activist, and this book is the first work in English to reassess Ortiz's vast intellectual universe. Essays in this volume analyze and celebrate his contribution to scholarship in Cuban history, the social sciences—notably anthropology—and law, religion and national identity, literature and music. Presenting Ortiz's seminal thinking, including his profoundly influential concept of 'transculturation', Cuban Counterpoints explores the bold new perspectives that he brought to bear on Cuban society. Much of his most challenging and provocative thinking—which embraced simultaneity, conflict, inherent contradiction, and hybridity—has remarkable relevance for current debates about Latin America's complex and evolving societies. Mauricio A. Font is a professor of sociology at Queens College and The Graduate Center; Alfonso W. Quiroz is a professor of history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.
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Stanley A. Renshon
The 50% American: Immigration and National Identity in an Age of Terror
(Georgetown University Press, 2005; 240 pp.)

book cover imageThis study addresses the U.S. policy of allowing dual citizenship. Arguing that the glue that binds this country together is a psychological force—patriotism—Renshon asserts that powerful emotional attachments are critical to American civic process and make possible united action in times of crisis. In examining recent immigration trends and the assimilation process, he covers important issues such as language requirements, voting rights, schooling, multiculturalism, cultural conflict, and global citizenship, and he puts forth a comprehensive proposal for reforming dual citizenship and helping immigrants and citizens alike become more integrated into the American national community. Stanley A. Renshon is a professor of political science at The Graduate Center and Lehman College and coordinator of the interdisciplinary program in the psychology of political behavior at The Graduate Center.

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Tracey A. Revenson, Karen Kayser, and Guy Bodenmann, editors
Couples Coping With Stress: Emerging Perspectives on Dyadic Coping
(APA Books, 2005)

book cover image This book presents an in-depth look at recent theoretical perspectives and original research on how couples cope with stress, including acute and chronic stress, stresses within and outside of the family, and stress caused by physical and mental illnesses. The contributors, leading researchers and clinicians from North America and Western Europe, present their theoretical frameworks and the formative research that tests them. Most importantly, the authors translate their findings into practice principles, many of which are innovative therapeutic programs. Dyadic coping, the interplay between the stress signals of one partner and the coping reaction of the other, is introduced as an additional resource that adds to each partner's coping ability and becomes a new direction for marital therapy to move in. Tracey A. Revenson is a professor of psychology at The Graduate Center.
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David S. Reynolds
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2005; 578 pp.)

book cover imageJohn Brown (1800-59), the controversial rebel who was hanged for his raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in October of 1859, was a product of tumultuous times. In this new biography, Reynolds reveals a complex man who was consumed with the case of eliminating slavery but also repeatedly frustrated in his attempts to create a simple, back-to-the-land livelihood; and he makes known the true depth of Brown's achievement: not only did this Puritan abolitionist spark the war that ended slavery, but he planted the seeds of the civil rights movement by making a pioneering demand for complete social and political equality for America's ethnic minorities. David Reynolds is distinguished professor of English and American studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College.

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David S. Reynolds
Walt Whitman
(Oxford University Press, 2005; 144 pp.)

book cover imageIn this latest publication, timed to mark the 150th anniversary of Leaves of Grass, scholar Reynolds places one of America's most influential poets in historical context. Whitman, who once emphasized that the poet fails "if he does not flood himself with the immediate age as with vast oceanic tides...if he be not himself the age transfigured," tried to encompass all of America in his poetry, and in doing so, hoped to repair its deepening divisions. Appalled by incompetence among America's rulers and by the fragmentation of society on the eve of the Civil War, Whitman created a poetic persona that democratically reflected all aspects of society and culture: religion, art, music, science, social reform, and sexual mores. In his own time, appreciation of his work was postponed, largely due to its eroticism and stylistic innovations, but by the end of his life he had gained celebrity status and widespread influence. Reynolds is a distinguished professor of English and American studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College.

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David S. Reynolds
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
(Oxford University Press, 2005; 192 pp.)

book cover imageIn July 1855, the publication of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass became a landmark event in literary history. Everything about the book—the unusual jacket and title page, the exuberant preface, the twelve free-flowing untitled poems embracing every realm of experience—was new. The 1855 edition of the work broke new ground for its stylistic innovations, its daring sexual candor, in its images of racial bonding and democratic togetherness, and in the intensity of its affirmation of the physical world's sanctity. This special anniversary edition captures the typeface, design, and layout of the original edition, which was supervised by Whitman himself (before he made later revisions in format and style). In an afterword, Reynolds places this first edition in its social and cultural contexts, discussing the book's background, reception, and contributions to literary history. An appendix contains early responses to the volume: Emerson's letter, Whitman's three self-reviews, and the twenty other known reviews published in various newspapers and magazines. Reynolds is a distinguished professor of English and American studies at The Graduate Center and Baruch College.

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David Rosenthal
Consciousness and Mind
(Clarendon, 2005)

book cover image Central to David Rosenthal's work on the nature of consciousness is his higher-order-thought theory of consciousness, according to which a sensation, thought, or other mental state is conscious if one has a higher-order thought (HOT) that one is in that state. The first four essays develop various aspects of that theory. The next three essays present Rosenthal's homomorphism theory of mental qualities and qualitative consciousness, and show how that theory fits with and helps sustain the HOT theory. Six further essays build on the HOT theory to explain various important features of consciousness, among them the complex connections that hold in humans between consciousness and speech, the self-interpretative aspect of consciousness, and the compelling sense we have that consciousness is unified. There is also a substantive introduction, which draws out the connections between the essays and highlights their implications. David Rosenthal is a professor of philosophy and linguistics and coordinator of the concentration in cognitive science at The Graduate Center.

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Barbara Katz Rothman
Weaving A Family: Untangling Race and Adoption
(Beacon Press, 2005)

book cover image Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, this noted sociologist looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, race through the lens of adoption, and all—race, family, and adoption—within the context of the changing meanings of motherhood. Drawing on her own experience as the white mother of a black child, on historical research on white people raising black children, and on other research, she offers new insights for understanding the way that race and family are shaped in America today. This path-breaking study will be compelling reading not only for those interested in family and society, but also for anyone grappling with the myriad issues around raising a child of a different race—an estimated seven million American families in 2005. Barbara Katz Rothman is a professor of sociology at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.
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Lía Schwartz
De Fray Luis a Quevedo. Lecturas de los clásicos antiguos.
(Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2005, 338 pp. (THEMA, 37))

book cover imageDuring the past few decades, new strategies for reconstructing the interrelationship between early modern cultures and the Greek and Roman classics changed many scholars' understanding of the concept of tradition as it was conceived by historians of literature and literary critics during the twentieth century. The influence of innovative studies on material culture and on the history of the book, led specialists to examine early modern editions of the classics in the attempt to determine not only which texts were available in those centuries but also how their actual readers could understand such texts. Schwartz reconsiders Fray Luis de Leon's translations of Greek and Latin works from these and other related methodological perspectives; tackles the question of the transmission of ancient texts in early modern Spain, and their recovery by readers socialized in an encyclopedic culture; and revisits some rhetorical procedures of text production as practiced by poets such as Herrera and Barahona de Soto, Quevedo, Soto de Rojas, Villamediana, and Lope de Vega. Lía Schwartz is a distinguished professor of Spanish literature in the Ph.D. programs in comparative literature and Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center; and she is executive officer of the Ph.D. program in Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages.

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Robert A. Schwartz, John Aidan Byrne, and Antoinette Colaninno, editors
Coping with Institutional Order Flow
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2005)
book cover image The sequence of securities markets conferences at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business in New York City are recorded in this popular series. The conferences are hosted by the college for industry professionals, regulators, and academicians. These books are much more than historical documents. The transcripts from the conferences were carefully edited for clarity, perspective, and context. Materials were included from subsequent interviews with the panelists and speakers. Each book is focused on a well delineated topic, but all deliver broader insights into the quality and efficiency of the U.S. equity markets and the dynamic forces changing them. Robert Schwartz is a distinguished professor of business and economics at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.

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John Van Sickle
The Design of Virgil's Bucolics (Second Edition)
(Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 2005; 280 pp.)

book cover imageThis second edition of Van Sickle's groundbreaking work offers an extensive introduction and a comprehensive update of recent scholarly developments of the research being conducted on the Bucolics. Van Sickle was one of the first to argue that in designing his ten Eclogues, Virgil conceived of the Book of Bucolics as a cohesive whole. The author of many Virgilian studies, Van Sickle demonstrates a poetics of Virgil's Eclogues and what he terms an "ideological order" that among other achievements cast the poet as a prophet, and anticipated the Georgics and the Aeneid. Van Sickle's text set the stage and standards for studies of the Bucolics and became a key work central to scholarship on the classical world. Van Sickle is a professor of classics and comparative literature at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College.

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Susan McKinnon and Sydel Silverman, editors
Complexities: Beyond Nature and Nurture
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)

book cover image Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality—not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality—can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past. This book mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology—cultural, archaeological, linguistic, and biological—to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human biological and social life. It presents evidence to contest such theories and to provide a multifaceted account of the complexity and variability of the human condition. Charting a course that moves beyond any simple opposition between nature and nurture, Complexities argues that a nonreductive perspective has important implications for how we understand and develop human potential. Sydel Silverman is a professor emerita of anthropology at The Graduate Center.

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Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman
One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)

book cover image The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology—British, German, French, and American. It not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials. Barth reveals the repressive tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich articulates the development of German anthropology, paying particular attention to the rarely analyzed Nazi period. Parkin assesses the French tradition, in particular its separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World War II, and the "fault lines" and promises of contemporary anthropology in the United States. Sydel Silverman is a professor emerita of anthropology at The Graduate Center.

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Natalie J. Sokoloff and Christina Pratt, editors
Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender and Culture
(Rutgers University Press, 2005)

book cover image This anthology reorients the field of domestic violence research by bringing long-overdue attention to the structural forms of oppression in communities marginalized by race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, or social class. Reprints of the most influential recent work in the field as well as more than a dozen newly commissioned essays explore theoretical issues, current research, service provision, and activism among Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and lesbians. Together, the essays pose a compelling challenge to stereotypical images of battered women that are racist, homophobic, and xenophobic. The most up-to-date and comprehensive picture of domestic violence available, this anthology is an essential text for courses in sociology, criminology, social work, and women's studies. It also provides critical information and resources for professionals working in domestic violence services, advocacy, social work, and law enforcement. Sokoloff is a professor of criminal justice and sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

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Galen Strawson, editor
The Self?
(Blackwell, 2005)

book cover image This collection of philosophical papers reflects on key questions about the existence and nature of the self. It comprises contributions from leading authorities in the field: Barry Dainton, Ingmar Persson, Marya Schechtman, Galen Strawson, Bas van Fraassen, and Peter van Inwagen. Galen Strawson is a distinguished professor of philosophy at The Graduate Center.

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Susan Sullivan and Jeffrey Glanz
Supervision That Improves Teaching
(Corwin Press, Sage Publications, 2005; 2nd edition)

book cover image The authors have taken their reflective clinical supervision process to a new level, with the planning conference now the heart of the supervision cycle. Additions to this revised second edition include: strategies and observation tools for maintaining reflective supervision in a standards-based environment; twelve new instructional tools, for help with team teaching and working with diverse student bodies and English Language Learners, among other topics; emphasis on the planning conference as the beginning of professional development for teachers; and strategies for using the reflective clinical supervision model in distance learning and online educational leadership courses. The book continues to offer interpersonal tools for initiating and providing feedback on classroom observations, alternative approaches to common supervision practices, and the tools necessary for present and future educational leaders to develop dynamic conversations about learning between and among educators—the essence of what effective supervision is really about. Susan Sullivan is an assistant professor of urban education at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center.

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Yan Sun
Corruption and Market in Contemporary China
(Cornell University Press, 2005)

book cover image Is corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Using annual casebooks compiled and published by Chinese disciplinary offices, law enforcement agencies, and legal professionals, Yan Sun examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Republic of China have shaped corruption since 1978 and how corruption has in turn shaped those reforms. She suggests that recent corruption is largely a by-product of post-Mao reforms, spurred by economic incentives and structural opportunities in the emerging marketplace; and she finds that the steady retreat of the state has both increased mechanisms for cadre misconduct and reduced disincentives against it. Unintended and informal mechanisms arising from corruption may, she finds, take on a life of their own and undermine the central state's ability to implement its developmental policies, discipline its staff, enforce its regulatory infrastructure, and fundamentally transform the economy. Yan Sun is an associate professor of political science at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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Larissa Swedell
Strategies of Sex and Survival in Hamadryas Baboons: Through a Female Lens
(Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005)

book cover image This first book in the new Primate Field Studies Series, intended for upper-level undergraduate courses on primate behavior and ecology, describes the first field study focusing on the behavior of hamadryas females in the wild. In its attempt to rectify the male-biased view of hamadryas baboon behavior that has persisted over the decades, the book suggests that female behavior contributes more to hamadryas social organization than has previously been assumed and that females may, in fact, be acting in their own best interests after all. Larissa Swedell is an assistant professor of anthropology at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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Wolff-Michael Roth and Kenneth Tobin, editors
Teaching Together, Learning Together
(Peter Lang, 2005)

book cover image Coteaching and cogenerative dialoguing are ways of learning to teach that truly bridge the gap between theory and praxis, as new teachers learn to teach alongside peers and more experienced teachers. These practices also provide the means of overcoming teacher isolation and burnout. Through cogenerative dialogue sessions, new and experienced teachers, university supervisors, researchers, and administrators are able to create local theory for the purpose of improving teaching and learning. In this book, contributors from four countries report on how coteaching and cogenerative dialoguing worked in their situation. Kenneth Tobin is Presidential Professor of Urban Education at The Graduate Center.

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Kenneth Tobin, Rowhea Elmesky, and Gale Seiler, editors
Improving Urban Science Education: New Roles for Teachers, Students and Researchers
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)

book cover image This book strives to recognize and understand the successes that exist in urban science education by systematically documenting seven years of research into issues salient to teaching and learning in urban high school science classes. Grounded in the post structuralism of William Sewell—and brought to life through the experiences of different students, teachers, and school settings in Philadelphia—this book shows how teachers and students can work together to enact meaningful science education when social and cultural differences as well as inappropriate curricula often make the challenges seem insurmountable. The chapters contain rich images of urban youth and offer insights into problems as well as suggestions for resolving them. Most significant, the research offers hope and shows that fresh approaches to teaching and learning can lead students—some who have already been pronounced academic and even societal failures—to becoming avid science students. Kenneth Tobin is Presidential Professor of Urban Education at The Graduate Center.
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Paul Wachtel
Therapeutic Communication: Principles and effective practice
(Guilford Press, 1993; paperback 1998
Spanish translation, Bilbao, Spain: Desclee de Brouwer, 1996
Italian translation, Torino, Italy: Bollati Boringhieri, 2000
Japanese translation, Tokyo: Kongo-Shuppan, 2004
Greek translation, Athens: Savalas, 2005)

book cover image Rich in clinical detail, this book, originally published in English in 1993 and now available in Greek translation, examines the way psychic problems originate, persist, and evolve, and reviews therapeutic communication styles and their effect on the outcome of treatment. Wachtel illuminates the dynamic processes that perpetuate problematic relational patterns in the patient's history and suggests communication strategies that lead to their resolution. He presents examples of crucial moments in the therapeutic process and several things the therapist could say in response, each with different consequences and implications for the overall treatment. A concluding chapter by Ellen Wachtel, a couples therapist, extends the ideas presented in the book to work with couples. This volume will be very useful for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, counseling psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, pastoral counselors, and marital and family counselors. Paul Wachtel is a distinguished professor of psychology (clinical) at City College and The Graduate Center.
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Jeffrey S. Levinton and John Waldman, editors
The Hudson River Estuary
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)

book cover image This book gives a comprehensive look at the physical, chemical, biological, and environmental management issues that are important to our understanding of the Hudson River. Chapters cover the entire range of fields necessary to understanding the workings of the Hudson River estuary; the physics, bedrock geological setting, and sedimentological processes of the estuary; ecosystem-level processes and biological interactions; and environmental issues such as fisheries, toxic substances, and the effect of nutrient input from densely populated areas. The book places special emphasis on important issues specific to the Hudson, such as the effect of power plants and high concentrations of PCBs. The chapters are written by specialists at a level that is accessible to students, teachers, and the interested layperson. This unique scientific biography of a major estuary is relevant to the study of any similar natural system in the world. John Waldman is professor of biology and earth and environmental sciences at Queens College and The Graduate Center.
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Michele Wallace
Dark Designs and Visual Culture
(Duke University Press, 2005)

book cover image This collection charts the development of a singular, path-breaking black feminist consciousness by bringing together more than fifty of the articles Michele Wallace has written over the past fifteen years. Beginning with a new introduction in which Wallace reflects on her life and career, the volume includes other autobiographical essays; articles focused on popular culture, the arts, and literary theory; and explorations of issues in black visual culture. Whether discussing growing up in Harlem, dealing with the media attention and criticism she received for Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, her relationship with her family, the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, rap music, the Million Man March, Toshi Reagon, multiculturalism, Marlon Riggs, or a nativity play in Bedford Stuyvesant, Wallace is a bold, incisive critic. Dr. Wallace is a professor of English at City College and The Graduate Center.
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Thomas G. Weiss, editor, with Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij, and Richard Jolly
UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice; foreword by Emma Rothschild
(Indiana University Press, 2005)

book cover image Drawing from extensive interviews between 2000 and 2005, this book presents in their own words the experiences of seventy-three individuals from around the globe who have spent much of their professional lives engaged in United Nations affairs. We hear from secretaries-general and presidents, ministers and professors, social workers and field workers, as well as diplomats and executive heads of UN agencies. Among those interviewed are noted figures such as Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Alister McIntyre, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and Kurt Waldheim, as well as many less well known UN professional men and women who have made significant contributions to the international struggle for a better world. Their personal accounts also engage their contributions in dealing with such events and issues as the UN's founding, decolonization, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, human rights, the environment, and September 11, 2001. Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. Tatiana Carayannis is a research manager of The Graduate Center's United Nations Intellectual History Project; Louis Emmerij is a senior research fellow at The Graduate Center's Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies; Richard Jolly is a senior research fellow at The Graduate Center's Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and a professor emeritus at the University of Sussex.
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Esther Isabelle Wilder and William H. Walters
Voices from the Heartland: The Needs and Rights of Individuals with Disabilities
(Brookline Books, 2005)

book cover image Every year, billions of tax dollars are spent on programs and services for people with disabilities. But what's the point if those services fail to deliver? That is the underlying question of this book. The authors present firsthand accounts of Oklahoma residents whose daily lives are affected by the quality of disability-related programs and services. They reveal how basic needs have not always been met, how professionals in these programs are not always well-trained, and how families are penalized if their earnings rise above the poverty level. The resounding message is that current programs need a substantial overhaul. Esther Isabelle Wilder is an assistant professor of sociology at Lehman College and The Graduate Center.
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