2006 Book Descriptions (G - Q)

"Comedy has been particularly unpropitious to definers," declared the great dictionary maker Dr. Johnson. The German novelist and aesthetician Jean Paul quipped, "Definitions of the comic serve the sole purpose of being themselves comic." Accepting the challenge, the keenest minds have been drawn to the debate about the nature of comedy and attracted to speculation about its theory and practice. For all lovers of comedy, Comedy: A Bibliography is an essential guide and resource, providing authors, titles, and publication data for over a thousand books and articles devoted to this most elusive of genres. Meghan Duffy is a doctoral student in the Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Theatre; Daniel Gerould is Lucille Lortel Chair in Comparative Literature and Theatre at The Graduate Center.

Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the “born” criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical, scholarly translation of Criminal Man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written, and a text that laid the groundwork for all subsequent biological theories of crime, including contemporary genetic explanations. Mary Gibson is a professor of criminal justice and history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

Crime is one of the major challenges to any new democracy. Violence often increases after the lifting of authoritarian control, or in the aftermath of regime change. But how can a fledgling democracy fight crime without violating the fragile rights of its citizens? In Transformation and Trouble, accomplished theorist and criminal justice scholar Diana Gordon critically examines South Africa's efforts to strike the perilous balance between democratic participation and social control. Although South Africa has made great progress in pursuing the Western ideals of participatory justice and due process, Gordon finds that popular concerns about crime have fostered the growth of a punitive criminal justice system that undermines the country's rights-oriented political culture. She calls for South Africa to reaffirm its commitment to public empowerment by reforming its criminal justice system—an approach, she argues, that would strengthen the country's new democracy. Diana Gordon is a professor emerita of political science at City College and The Graduate Center.

This book clarifies common confusions in macroeconomics. It does not use equations, graphs, diagrams or footnotes. The book is designed to focus on a number of macroeconomic subjects that are so often unclear in public discussion of policy, in the press, and in economics textbooks. The book also presents information on U.S. income distribution, as well as historical data on inflation rates, on real GDP per capita growth rates and on population growth rates. It covers a series of important topics, including "surplus of savings"; effects of the import surplus; steep and shallow yield curves; capital movements and interest rates; overvaluation of the dollar; deficits and debt; world income redistribution and petroleum prices; the decline in assessment of risk; bubbles; the "twin deficits"; the Achilles heel of the US economy; and more. Peter Gutmann is a professor of business and economics at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.

Police Leadership explores leadership theories through the real life experiences of well-known police chiefs. It provides a template for police leaders—from street-level officers to the highest ranking police chiefs—on how to look at a given situation, adopt an informed perspective, and make the right leadership decision. Maria Haberfeld is an associate professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

The book, aptly named, is offered as a supplement to the author's lectures in the popular dinosaur course he has given at Queens College for the last ten years, a course intended for undergraduate students who take it out of interest and not to satisfy some requirement of their major. Topics covered include stratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, unconformities and faults, geologic time scale, skeletal anatomy, dinosaurs and their anatomy, evolution, phylogeny and cladistics, mass extinctions, earth in the solar system—by the numbers, dinosaur evolution, theropod dinosaurs, modern birds, fossil birds, sauropods, ornithischia, and mammals. Dr. Habib brings to bear what he learns, as a member of the New York Paleontological Society, about current research in the metropolitan region and elsewhere, and the text is replete with fascinating illustrations, photographs, and tables. Daniel Habib is a professor in earth and environmental sciences at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

This collection of over fifty previously unpublished variety sketches by actor-author Eduardo Migliaccio (1882-1946) provides a mirror to the life of Italian immigrants in New York as they searched for a fresh identity in their new world in the first half of the twentieth century. Recurring themes include hope and disillusionment with regard to the struggle for work, amorous passion, the more open and thus unsettling society of their new home, the attractions of Broadway and popular sites, and, the loss of their native dialects. Apropos of the latter, Migliaccio’s renditions of immigrant characters yield invaluable insights into Italian immigrants’ use of language, which ranges from the great diversity of spoken dialects—especially Neapolitan—to popular Italian, and broken English. The annotated volume, introduced by Hermann Haller, includes Italian American and Neapolitan dialect glossaries. Hermann Haller is a professor of comparative literature and French at Queens College and The Graduate Center and head of the doctoral specialization in Italian at The Graduate Center.

This book presents a comprehensive sociological portrayal of children and childhood from birth to the beginning of adolescence. A major theme is the tension between children’s active agency and the socializing influences of the family, school, peer groups, and mass media. The book incorporates the most recent research and theories of childhood socialization. Its theoretical perspective is primarily symbolic interactionism which emphasizes the development of the self. The volume features research that documents cultural variations within American society shaped by social class, race and ethnicity, and gender. The volume is organized into four parts, each with an introduction: “Understanding Childhood Socialization,” “Agencies of Socialization,” “Diversities of Socialization,” and “Looking Back and Looking Ahead.” Gerald Handel is a professor emeritus of sociology at City College and The Graduate Center.

Samuel Heilman’s latest book offers a snapshot of Orthodox Judaism in the United States by considering how the community has evolved in the years since World War II and where it is headed in the future. Incorporating rich details of everyday life, fine-grained observations of cultural practices, descriptions of educational institutions, and more, Professor Heilman delineates the varieties of Jewish Orthodox groups. He focuses in particular on the contest between the proudly parochial, contra-acculturative haredi Orthodoxy and the accommodating modern Orthodoxy over the future of this religious community. What emerges overall is a picture of an Orthodox Jewry that has gained both in numbers and intensity and that has moved farther to the religious right as it struggles to define itself and to maintain age-old traditions in the midst of modernity, secularization, technological advances, and the pervasiveness of contemporary American culture. Samuel C. Heilman is a distinguished professor of sociology at Queens College and The Graduate Center and holds the Harold M. Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at The Graduate Center.

The ethics of care is relevant to global and political matters as well as to the personal relations that can most clearly exemplify care. This book clarifies just what the ethics of care is: what its characteristics are, what it holds, and what it enables us to do. It discusses the feminist roots of this moral approach and why the ethics of care can be a morality with universal appeal. Where other moral theories demand impartiality above all, the ethics of care understands the moral import of our ties to our families and groups. It evaluates such ties, focusing on caring relations rather than simply on the virtues of individuals. The book proposes how such values as justice, equality, and individual rights can "fit together" with such values as care, trust, mutual consideration, and solidarity. Virginia Held is a distinguished professor emerita of philosophy at Hunter and The Graduate Center.

The authors trace the evolution of the international humanitarian system from its inception in the 1860s through the challenges of "new wars" and non-state actors, including those of recent U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq. By bringing historical perspective to bear on the mechanics of war and humanitarian action, Sword & Salve provides an invaluable analytical framework for grasping the nature of contemporary crises and how aid agencies can respond strategically to change. The book provides a powerful tool for understanding a wide variety of actors in international relations as well as the panopoly of means and ends encompassed by contemporary humanitarianism. Peter J. Hoffman is research associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center. Thomas G. Weiss is presidential professor of political science and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center.

This volume offers one of the most comprehensive, objective, and well-researched accounts available on society's crime victims. In this update of earlier editions, the author, a leading authority in the field of victimology, adds Internet sites on crime statistics, laws, and victim services. Chapters include trend graphs, discussion questions, and boxed key points (e.g. Supreme Court decisions directly affecting victims). To illustrate various concepts and themes, many real-life cases and various opinions of preeminent researchers in the field are presented. An exceptional resource for anyone seeking to better understand victims and their plight, this volume covers all major subject areas, including the origins of the discipline; government statistics revealing trends and patterns; victim blaming versus victim defending; the treatment of victims by the criminal justice system; the movement for victim's rights and the promise of offender restitution and mediation as a basis for reconciliation; and the impulse toward vigilantism. Andrew Karmen is a professor of sociology at John Jay College and The Graduate Center.

This book gathers contributions from prominent people in this burgeoning field. Topics range from the philosophy of punishment to ethical appraisals of incarceration, professional responsibilities of prison personnel, and formative work in restorative justice. In addition, it provides an annotated research agenda to help shape the development of a comprehensive correctional ethic. For those working in correctional ethics, this collection provides an essential resource. John Kleinig is a professor of criminal justice and philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

Trial by jury is one of the most important aspects of the U.S. legal system. A reflective look at how juries actually function brings out a number of ethical questions surrounding juror conduct and jury dynamics: Do citizens have a duty to serve as jurors? Might they seek exemptions? Is it acceptable for jurors to engage in after-hours research? Might a juror legitimately seek to “nullify” the outcome to express disapproval of the law? After trial, are there problems with entering into publishing contracts? This book revives attention to these and other issues of jury ethics by collecting new and insightful essays along with responses from leading scholars in the field of jury studies. John Kleinig is a professor of criminal justice and philosophy at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

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Ethical Challenges for Intervening in Drug Use: Policy, Research, and Treatment Issues. The Uncertainty Series: Vol. 7
(OICJ Press, 2006)

This volume was initiated to meet the challenges of the increasing contemporary trend to “treat” substance users (in the broadest sense of this concept), whether in institutional settings, ambulatory programs, or even controlled environments such as prisons. Although several essays concentrate more particularly on some of the ethico-moral problems encountered by juridico-moral interventions—problems relating to criminalization, decriminalization, legalization, and interdiction—the main focus is on broadly medical or therapeutic responses to drug use, and in particular on problems encountered within the domain of drug user counseling. The volume, which comprises twenty-eight essays, is divided into three sections: policy issues, research issues; and treatment issues. Codes of ethics for drug user counselors can be found as an appendix. John Kleinig is a professor of criminal justice and philosophy at John Jay College and The Graduate Center.

Dennis Cooper said of this collection: "These latest poems reach swoony, unforeseen heights of mental raucousness and worshipful style." And Eileen Myles remarked: "Tight, brash—deftly produced like a brilliant radio station that manages to hold everything for a moment... I almost think of Wayne as some kind of Roman poet. I mean a really old one. His poems have this enduring lightness about them that quietly works the gap between Ovid and La Dolce Vita. Would that be Jewish Porn? And for the cautious reader Wayne's poems claim a stylish decency, they sway with the timeless verve of a pair of really great breasts. Let's love them now." Wayne Koestenbaum is a professor of English at The Graduate Center.

The emphasis in this volume is on understanding the "why" and the "how" of smoothly integrating physical agents into a treatment program. More than a simplistic how-to guide, Integrating Physical Agents in Rehabilitation will challenge its readers to think critically when mapping out the best treatment options with optimal use of agents such as traction, compression, thermal agents, electromagnetic radiation, hydrotherapy, ultrasound, and electrical currents. The book also examines all the most current physical agents and techniques highlighted in The Guide to Physical Therapy Practice of the American Physical Therapy Association; provides new chapters on physical agents dealing with management of wounds and pelvic floor dysfunction; covers case studies aimed at sharpening readers’ clinical decision-making skills and at illustrating techniques of applying physical agents. Gary Krasilovsky, a consulting editor, is associate professor of physical therapy at Hunter College and The Graduate Center and co-director of the clinical doctoral program in physical therapy.

This comprehensive volume is the most recent addition to the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Professional Practice Series, and presents state-of-the-art ideas and guidance from top experts in the field on how to get action from organizational surveys. Edited by organizational survey pioneer Allen I. Kraut and containing contributions by leading-edge practitioners, the book shows new methods of collecting and delivering results, new applications to various organizational situations, and new perspectives on how to look at and understand surveys and their place within organizations. Each of the bookÕs four sections showcases survey developments in a thoughtful and far-reaching exposition and includes an overview and introduction to the topic. The text provides industrial/organizational psychologists and human resource professionals with information necessary to put survey results into action. Allen I. Kraut is a professor of business at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.

This book reveals the interdependence of medieval Jewish and Christian identities. Medieval European culture encompassed Judaic, Christian, Muslim, and pagan societies, forming a complex matrix of religious belief, identity, and imagination. Through incisive readings of a broad range of medieval texts, and informed by poststructuralist, queer, and feminist theories, the author traces the Jewish presence in Western Europe to show how the body, gender, and sexuality were at the root of the construction of medieval religious anxieties, inconsistencies, and instabilities. Looking closely at how medieval Jewish and Christian identities are distinguished from each other, yet intimately intertwined, he demonstrates how Jews were often corporealized in ways that posited them as inferior to Christians—archaic and incapable of change—even as the two mutually shaped each other. Steven Kruger is professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

In attempting to track the factors of capitalist development, the author, who is theoretically based in the Marxian and historical materialist tradition, asks the questions: Does history have a direction? Are there principles that unify our experience and show connections among diverse places, times, and cultures? In his answers, he utilizes some of the best insights in economics and economic history, sociology, political science, anthropology, history, and philosophy to construct a new framework for understanding the most general aspects of social evolution while thinking grandly about the human condition. He then applies this framework to modern era capitalist societies and, projecting it on a post-capitalist or socialist future, captures an understanding of the core momentum that has characterized our lived experience, a momentum considerate of diversity, contingency, and the role of human consciousness over time. David Laibman is a professor of economics at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center.

Fishes, the most abundant and diverse group among all vertebrates, exploit the largest number of communication channels. These volumes explore how fishes use hearing and vision, as well as the vibrational, electric, and chemical modalities in their interactions with one another. Peter Moller is professor of biology and psychology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

There are four forms of traditional Japanese theatre: nô, kyôgen, bunraku, and kabuki. International tours by each have become commonplace, allowing audiences everywhere to broaden their understanding of theatre's possibilities and inspiring artists to infuse their works with ideas sparked by Japanese theatre's conventions. Because of the great interest generated by increasing familiarity with these theatre traditions, there has developed a serious need for a work that allows for immediate access to specific information regarding many concepts, terms, and individuals. This encyclopedic dictionary covers all four genres, providing information on nearly every aspect, including actors, theatres, companies, history, makeup, costumes, masks, biographies, theories, training, music, religion, criticism, and many more. Samuel Leiter is a distinguished professor of theatre at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center.

In its exploration of the dark side of the arts, this timely anthology is sure to spark discussion and debate. The nineteen diverse essays by distinguished authors—including Eric Fischl, Suzanne Boettger, Stephen Weil, Richard Serra, and others—cover a broad range of urgent topics facing today’s artists, policy makers, art lawyers, galleries, museum professionals, and many others. Readers will find expert insights to matters such as preserving Iraqi heritage in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion; the role of new media; art and censorship; the impact of 9/11 on artists; authenticity and forgeries; cultural globalization; fair use; the ways tax laws encourage donations of art to museums; where people buy art, from online sources to art galleries and auction houses; how art critics function and their differing ethical codes. Gail Levin is a professor of art history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.

This book provides the first systematic examination of the relationship of hegemony and power. Nine essays delve into the diverse analytical aspects of the two concepts, and an introduction and conclusion by the editors, respectively, forge a synthesis of their theoretical coherence. Hegemony has long existed as a term in political science, international relations, and social theory, but its meaning varies across these fields. While each has developed its own "local" language games for treating the idea, they all conceptualize hegemony as a form of power. Building on the recent rigorous exposition of power, this book subjects hegemony to a clarifying debate. In doing so, it advances the power debate. Components of the literature assume a relationship between power and hegemony, but no previous work has performed a concentrated and consistent analytical examination of them until now. Howard Lentner is a professor emeritus of political science at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.

This comprehensive handbook offers a beautifully balanced view of the emerging field of multicultural school psychology. The opening section provides an historical overview of how the field has developed, and succeeding sections discuss multicultural issues related to consultation, instructional interventions, alternative assessment, academic assessment, vocational assessment, culturally sensitive counseling models, and working with families and special populations. Theory, research, and practice are integrated throughout. Emilia Lopez is an associate professor of educational psychology at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

The human body can be viewed not just as a product of nature but as a social production, shaped and controlled by the norms and expectations of gendered social orders, intersected by racial, class, religious, and age norms and expectations. The result is a gendered body produced for a gendered social world. In this concise text with readings, designed for undergraduate students, Lorber and Moore present feminist contributions to social and cultural studies of the human body. They cover a broad range of topics, such as men's bodies and masculinity norms, third-wave feminist menstrual activism, transgender and intersex issues, the male pill, the controversies over male circumcision and ritual genital cutting of girls, disabilities, war wounds in Iraq, torture, and suicide bombers. Each chapter includes a list of key concepts, three readings, recommended books and articles, and Internet sources. For the instructor, the book includes class exercises and a list of films with somatic themes. Judith Lorber is a professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center.

This volume is a useful introduction to gender theory and an exciting starting-point for fresh debates. It presents a comprehensive and engaging review of the most recent developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the ‘cultural turn’, and globalization. The authors review current research and offer critical analyses of women's and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war, and feminist global politics. With three leading academics from Europe and the United States as editors, and with 25 chapters written by scholars based throughout the world, the handbook situates the most important debates in the field within a uniquely international and interdisciplinary context. Judith Lorber is a professor emerita of sociology at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center.

In this collection of essays, the contributors examine the consequences of the disappearance of public space as increased privatization through private/public partnerships changes public environments from forums for public dissent and conflict resolution in civil society into centers of commerce and consumption, and even surveillance and police control. Setha Low is a professor of anthropology and psychology and director of the Public Space Research Group at The Graduate Center. Neil Smith is a distinguished professor of anthropology and earth and environmental sciences at Hunter College and The Graduate Center and director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.

This introduction to urban planning applications and problem solving with the Geographic Information System (GIS) is appropriate for students and professionals in the fields of geography, urban studies, urban planning, urban public health, urban environmental assessment, and hazard and emergency management. Technical jargon is minimized while the analytical concepts are fully described, enabling full use and understanding of GIS techniques. Infused in the included laboratory exercises are real-world activities that are often required in urban GIS projects but rarely included in prepared lab work, such as data acquisition, integrating data into the GIS, and manipulation of real data. Project design and analysis methodologies are also demonstrated with real examples of urban GIS projects. Juliana Maantay is an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Lehman College and The Graduate Center.

Despite the fact that his name has been linked with luminism since the term was first coined, the American landscapist James A. Suydam (1819–1865) has not received the scholarly attention he deserves. Using approximately 180 reproductions (80 in color), this first monograph on the painter, which accompanied an exhibition at the National Academy Museum in New York in September 2006, considers his work in tandem with that of fellow Hudson River School artists such as Asher B. Durant, Frederic E. Church, and John F. Kensett and therefore contributes an important chapter to the history of American landscape painting. Suydam’s passionate commitment to art motivated his encouragement of emerging artists and his purchase of their paintings, and when he died he bequeathed 92 contemporary American and European paintings to the National Academy Museum, a gift that forms the nucleus of its permanent collection. Katherine E. Manthorne is a professor of art history at The Graduate Center. Mark D. Mitchell is assistant curator of nineteenth-century art at the Academy.

The book begins with an examination of the experiences of local New York officials who were the first responders to 9/11 and follows them as events unfolded and as state and national authorities arrived. It goes on to analyze how various states dealt with changing federal funding for a variety of public health services. Using oral histories of CDC and other federal officials, the book then focuses on the federal reaction to 9/11 and anthrax. What emerges is a picture of dedicated public servants who were overcome by the emotions of the moment yet who were able to react in ways that significantly reduced the public anxiety and public health threat. Well-reasoned and well-researched, the book presents compelling evidence that few with hands-on experience with disease and emergency preparedness believe that an adequate response to terrorism—whether biological, chemical, or radiological—is possible without a strong and vibrant infrastructure to provide everyday services as well as emergency responses. Gerald Markowitz is a distinguished professor of history at John Jay College and The Graduate Center.

La dificultad de avanzar por la apretada jungla del lascasismo no quita la necesidad de publicar otra vez su más famosa obra, en una nueva edición que sirva de estímulo y base a nuevas lecturas de este indudable clásico de la cultura hispánica. Un clásico poco común, que sigue siendo editado y leído como la primera vez que salió de las prensas de Sebastián Trujillo: por motivos políticos. El gran dedo acusador del fraile, su uña hurgando en los sentimientos de culpa, siguen siendo puntos de referencia del pensamiento contemporáneo ahora que la figura de Las Casas, evocada a menudo como un monolito más o menos identificado con la Brevísima, es bandera del rechazo del colonialismo europeo. Por otra parte, los apologetas de la conquista de América, viendo la Brevísima como un panfleto, se apresuran a desacreditar la obra por el camino del desprestigio de su autor: todo es falso, invento, locura, delirio. Ambas son lecturas rápidas, aceleradas, parciales, al margen del contexto en que se produjo la obra y de los muchos estudios que se han consagrado a reconstruir e interpretar ese contexto. Esta edición pretende articular el primer texto crítico de la Brevísima con el caudal de información publicado hasta hoy acerca de la conquista y las polémicas doctrinales que se originaron en ella. Dr. Martínez Torrejón is an associate professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health. The authors systematically apply social and behavioral science to inspect how these dimensions intersect to influence health and health care in the United States. This examination brings into sharp focus the potential for influencing policy to improve health through a more complete understanding of the structural nature of race, gender, and class disparities in health. As useful as it is readable, this book is ideal for students and professionals in public health, sociology, anthropology, and women’s studies. Leith Mullings is Presidential Professor of anthropology and urban education at The Graduate Center.

Best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel, Andrew Carnegie was born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835 and moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. He pulled himself out of poverty to become the richest man in the world; but by the time of his death in 1919, he had given most of his fortune away. Using a trove of new material—unpublished chapters of Carnegie's autobiography; personal letters between Carnegie and his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends; his applications for citizenship; his extensive correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and dozens of private letters to and from presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British prime ministers Gladstone and Balfour, as well as friends Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain—Nasaw plumbs the core of this fascinating and complex man. David Nasaw is a distinguished professor of history at The Graduate Center.

In Visiones Mayas, a Spanish translation of the 2001 edition published by Routledge Press, June Nash shows us the rise of new indigenous social movements in Chiapas, Mexico, and analyzes the challenges they confront in the harsh atmosphere of globalization. The volume provides a detailed history based on observation and participation in indigenous pueblos in the past half century and permits us to understand the social and cultural bases of the Zapatista uprising of 1994. Nash analyzes with clarity the profound social, economic, and cultural transformations of the local Mayan populations that fought for autonomous spaces and freedom at the same time that they resisted the tremendous consequences of neoliberal policies imposed in the region. June Nash is a distinguished professor emerita of anthropology at City College and The Graduate Center.

This volume draws upon ethnographic approaches the author has used in five decades of fieldwork on three continents. These encounters took her from Mayan villages in Guatemala and Mexico resisting European acculturation and now mobilizing regionally for autonomy, to Mandalay rice cultivators engaging spirit animism as they accommodate to national independence, to Bolivian mining communities confronting the International Monetary Fund conditions for remaining in global markets, and to a U.S. industrial city that once served the military-industrial complex producing Polaris and Nikon missiles and is now a recruitment depot for foot soldiers in a preemptive war. These experiences provide an excellent guide for what to do and not to do as young anthropologists prepare to go into the field. June Nash is a distinguished professor emerita of anthropology at the Graduate Center.

Blei and Odian's text for the general, organic, and biochemistry course was praised for the way it gave students the tools they need to develop a working understanding of chemical principles. The new second edition of General, Organic, and Biochemistry (“GOB”) brings forward the same clear explanations, quality problem-solving support, helpful pedagogy, and applications coverage, adding new features and content to make the text even more accessible, effective, and relevant to its student audience. The second edition is published in three versions: General, Organic, and Biochemistry (“GOB”), a hardback text of 26 chapters; Organic and Biochemistry, a paperback text containing all organic and biochemistry chapters, plus two general chemistry chapters not included in the GOB version; and Introduction to General Chemistry, a paperback text containing all ten general chemistry chapters. George Odian is professor emeritus of chemistry at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center.

Interdisciplinary in nature, the book examines Italian fashion in early modernity. The volume focuses on the manifestation of fashion, its practices of production and consumption, and its development into an institution of modernity able to inluence lifestyles and behavior. The seven chapters, authored by experts in the field from the US, Canada and Italy, trace the complex paths that fashion and dress took in early modernity. The volume underscores how fashion, desire for newness and change, are at the core of economic, social, and cultural transformations in the age of geographical explorations and the technological revolution following the invention of printing. Eugenia Paulicelli is a professor of comparative literature at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

This is a valuable core textbook or a supplement for any creative writing or composition course with an emphasis on creative nonfiction. It teaches students how to write informative and engaging nonfiction that emphasizes voice and creativity and incorporates observation, research, memory, and point of view, and shows how to be true to capturing the real world with integrity and creativity. The first part of the book, "Writing Creative Nonfiction," offers ten chapters of practical guidance, skill-building exercises, and ideas to help writers develop their creativity. The second part of the book, "Reading Creative Nonfiction," contains an anthology divided into memoir, personal essay, portrait, essay of place, and literary journalism. Selections include works by well-known masters of the creative nonfiction genre. Sondra Perl is a professor English and urban education at Lehman College and The Graduate Center.

A brief supplement for K-12 educational administration courses and in-service teachers (especially those served by ASCD), this book explores the role of data in making effective instructional, financial, and administrative decisions in schools.  This is a significant issue in educational administration, and, in today's standards-based testing environment in K-12 education, it is growing. The book covers concepts and foundations of data-driven decision making, basic applications, and basic statistical concepts.
Anthony G. Picciano is a professor of urban education at Hunter College and The Graduate Center.

This novel by Gerardo Piña-Rosales, native of La Línea de la Concepción in Cádiz, Spain, but currently a resident of New York, narrates the story of a Spanish photographer forced into exile in Mexico after the Civil War, where he discovers a whole new world and encounters great Spanish intellectuals and individuals from the artistic and journalistic fields, also in exile, whom he portrays and scrutinizes through his camera’s lens. Years later, he relocates to New York, where he develops into a renowned photographer and essayist. In the 1960s, Life Magazine sends him to Spain on a photojournalistic assignment on the subject of Andalucía. It is not long before the protagonist realizes that the Spain that he remembers from childhood is not the same country anymore. He is, and will forever be, an outcast from his motherland, an exile. Gerardo Piña-Rosales is an associate professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at Lehman College and The Graduate Center.

The American Revolution, the Abolitionist movement, the labor movement, and the Vietnam antiwar movement are all examples of profound moments in American history when ordinary Americans collectively and persuasively told the government, “Enough!” Challenging Authority argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in American history, the author shows that it is in fact precisely at these seismic moments, when people act outside of self-restricting political norms, that they become empowered to their full democratic potential. Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at The Graduate Center.

Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was one of the most important song collectors of the 20th century. In 1952 he visited Spain in order to record the extant folk traditions of the country in a fieldtrip sponsored by the BBC. TThe materials compiled during his fieldtrips around Spain were used in the Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music issued in the 1950s on LPs and reissued more recently on CDs by Rounder Records. Alan Lomax: Mirades Miradas Glances presents the first compilation of Alan Lomax’s beatiful photographs of musicians taken during his 1952 trip to Barcelona, Mallorca and Ibiza. The book includes transcriptions of his personal diaries and a a CD with selections from his field trips. Antoni Pizà is director of the Foundation for Iberian Music, Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, and adjunct assistant professor of music at The Graduate Center.