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This volume provides a comprehensive account of basic Lie theory, a subject at the center of mathematics. It is designed to be a text for a year's graduate course in Lie theory, bringing the student to the point of being able to embark on research in this subject and can also serve as a reference work for professional mathematicians specializing in other subjects. It covers, among other things, the structure of Lie algebras, Lie groups and their homogeneous spaces, Haar measure, symmetric spaces of non-compact type, and lattices. Hossein Abbaspour, a recent alumnus of the Ph.D. program in mathematics at the Graduate Center is currently an assistant professor at the University of Nantes, France. Martin Moskowitz is professor emeritus of mathematics at the Graduate Center.

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Christa Davis Acampora and Angela L. Cotton, eds.
Unmaking Race, Remaking Soul: Transformative Aesthetics and the Practice of Freedom
(SUNY Press, 2007)

This book explores innovative approaches to analyzing cultural productions through which women of color have challenged and undermined social and political forces that work to oppress them. Emphasizing art-making practices that emerge out of the experience of women of color, leading contributors to the fields of contemporary psychoanalytic literary analysis, Latin American studies, feminist theory, Native women’s studies, Africana studies, philosophy, and art history examine the relationship between the aesthetic and the political. The book focuses on the idea of aesthetic agency through which one develops different modes of expression and creative practices that facilitate personal and social transformation. Aesthetic agency is liberating—it not only frees our creative capacities but also expands our capacity for joy and our abilities to know, to judge, and to act. Artists considered include Nadema Agard, Julia Alvarez, Ana Castillo, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and Carrie Mae Weems. Christa Davis Acampora is an assistant professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center.

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Angela L. Cotton and Christa Davis Acampora, eds.
Cultural Sites of Critical Insight: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and African American and Native American Women’s Writings
(SUNY Press, 2007)

African American and Native American women writers are subjects of the essays in this volume, people such as Toni Morrison, Leslie Silko, Alice Walker, Linda Hogan, Paula Gunn Allen, Luci Tapahonso, Phillis Wheatley, and Sherley Anne Williams. The contributors, drawing on interdisciplinary, feminist, and comparative methods in examining their works, offer fresh perspectives on art and beauty, truth, justice, community, and the creating of a good and happy life. They make the writers more accessible for critical consideration in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, and critical theory. They also formulate unique frameworks for interpreting the multiple levels of complex, cultural play between Native American and African American women writers in America, and pave the way for innovative hermeneutic possibilities for reassessing writers of both traditions. Christa Davis Acampora is an associate professor of philosophy at Hunter College and the Graduate Center.

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André Aciman
Call Me by Your Name
(Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007)

Call Me by Your Name, a frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion, is the unforgettable story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks’ duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. André Aciman is a professor of comparative literature and French at The Graduate Center.

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Jonathan E. Adler and Catherine Z. Elgin, eds.
Philosophical Inquiry: Classic and Contemporary Readings
(Hackett Publishing Co, Inc., 2007)

This meticulously edited anthology—with introductions by the editors—provides a comprehensive, problems-oriented entrée to philosophy. Substantial readings from major classical and contemporary thinkers—featuring many of Hackett's widely acclaimed translations—are supported by a general introduction, engaging introductions to each major topic, and a glossary of important philosophical terms. Jonathan Adler is a professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center.

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Ammiel Alcalay
Scrapmetal
(Factory School, 2007. Heretical Texts, Vol. 3:5.)

Between a Cadillac and a Valiant sitting idly in the snow, Scrapmetal takes a provisional journey through the experience of work and the untangling of vampiric forces that sever life from our record of it. Part primer and part example, Scrapmetal offers a method of attacking the "inflationary poetics" that deafen us in the "steady hum of overproduction." Ammiel Alcalay is a professor of English and comparative literature at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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Ammiel Alcalay and Oz Shelach, translators
Outcast by Shimon Ballas
(City Lights Publishers, 2007)

Shimon Ballas was born in Baghdad in 1930 and immigrated to Israel in 1951. Before retirement, he taught Arab Literature there, and now spends part of the year in Paris, where he does most of his writing. Outcast is narrated by Haroun Soussan, a Jewish convert to Islam. The character is based on a historical figure, Ahmad (Nissim) Soussa, who converted to Islam in the 1930s and whose work ended up being used as propaganda during the era of Saddam Hussein. Soussan is a civil engineer and historian who has just completed his life’s work, The Jews and History. The book opens with his getting an award from the President (Saddam Hussein) during the period of the Iran-Iraq War. The text we are reading, the novel, is his autobiography, written at the age of seventy, where he explores his own personal and political history, including his relationship with his daughter and his friends, among them a militant communist in political exile in Eastern Europe. Ammiel Alcalay is a professor of English and comparative literature at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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Harriet Hyman Alonso
Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War
(Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2007)

One of the nation's first film critics, an acclaimed speechwriter on his own and for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a propagandist during World War II, and a leading producer on Broadway, Robert E. Sherwood scripted some of the most popular plays and films of his day, including Waterloo Bridge, The Best Years of Our Lives, Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and Rebecca. His work brought him four Pulitzer Prizes and an Oscar. In this interdisciplinary political biography, which relies largely on correspondence, diaries, plays, films, and essays, the author traces Sherwood's obsession with the world of politics and its effects on his life and art. She also describes his participation in the Algonquin Round Table, his friendships and working relationships with notable actors and political figures, his two marriages, and his leadership role in the Broadway community. In the process, she illuminates major currents in U.S. foreign policy, society, and culture over the sixty years of Sherwood’s life, 1896–1955. Harriet Alonso is a professor of history at City College and the Graduate Center.

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Christa Altenstetter
Medical Devices: European Union Policymaking and the Implementation of Health and Patient Safety in France
(Transaction Publishers, 2007)

Medical devices and medical technology are used for patient care, genetic testing, clinical trials, and experimental clinical investigations. This volume on the regulation of medical devices in the European Union, with a focus on France, will be of interdisciplinary interest and significance for policymakers in countries around the globe. The EU regulatory regime is one of three global regional regimes, and medical products manufactured in EU countries are sold worldwide. As countries confront an aging population on a global scale, there will inevitably be an increase in the demand for health services and, concomitantly, the use of medical devices in medical and surgical procedures. Medical technologies and devices are used ethically most of the time; yet they have the potential for unethical use when scientific medicine is elevated over human life and death. Understanding how to effectively regulate medical devices is essential to people throughout the world. Christa Altenstetter is professor of political science at Queens College and the Graduate Center.

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Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Virgil are the official Advanced Placement Program Latin authors as well as standard reading for college and advanced secondary students of Latin. This volume provides accessible information about recent scholarship on these authors to show how an awareness of current academic debates can enhance the teaching of their work. Contributions by established authorities on each author combine theoretical material with Latin passages so that instructors can see how practically to apply these methods to specific texts. Instructors will also appreciate how many and varied are the ways of approaching the reading and study of Latin texts while conveying the excitement of recent scholarship. This is a practical sourcebook for busy teachers who wish to keep abreast of recent developments in Latin scholarship so that they can broaden students’ appreciation of timeless classics. Ronnie Ancona is a professor of classics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center.

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Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin, with Thurston Domina and Tania Levey
Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?
(American Sociological Association Rose Series. Russell Sage Foundation, 2007)

Many of the policies that broadened access to higher education have come under attack in recent years by critics alleging that schools are admitting unqualified students who are unlikely to benefit from a college education. In Passing the Torch, the authors follow students admitted under the City University of New York’s “open admissions” policy, to find out whether widening college access can accelerate social mobility across generations. Comparing the record of the CUNY alumnae to peers nationwide, the authors find that when women from underprivileged backgrounds go to college, their children are more likely to succeed in school and earn college degrees themselves. Their evidence reaffirms the American ideal of upward mobility through education and makes a powerful argument in favor of college for all. Paul Attewell, professor of sociology and urban education and David Lavin, professor of educational psychology and sociology, are both at the Graduate Center. Thurston Domina and Tania Levey are graduates of the Graduate Center’s doctoral program in sociology.

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Lewis S. Nelson, Richard D. Shih, Michael J. Balick
Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants, 2nd edition
(Springer and The New York Botanical Garden, 2007)

A useful, portable guidebook to the toxic plants we encounter everywhere, both in the home and outdoors. The handbook is a must-have for gardeners, parents of small children, pet owners, naturalists, physicians, nurses, veterinarians—and all plant enthusiasts. The authors of this completely revised edition (first published by the American Medical Association in 1985) include the Garden's own Michael Balick, a recognized authority on toxic plants. Filled with full-color photographs and illustrations that highlight distinguishing characteristics, the book contains vital information on hundreds of poisonous plants, including common names, descriptions, species distribution, and the toxic part of each plant. It also provides the latest medical information on symptoms and their management, along with an easy-to-use glossary of botanical terms. Michael Balick is Vice President for Botanical Science, Director and Philecology Curator, at the Institute of Economic Botany, The New York Botanical Garden, and an adjunct professor of biology at the Graduate Center.

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Geoffrey Batchen
Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography
(MIT Press, 1999)
Spanish Edition: Arder en deseos: la concepción de la fotografía. Translator, Antonio Fernández Lera.
(Editorial Gustavo Gili, SA, Barcelona, 2004)
Korean edition
(Imagine Books, Seoul, 2007)

In this book, first published in English in 1999, and now available in Spanish and Korean, Geoffrey Batchen analyzes the desire to photograph as it emerged within the philosophical and scientific milieus that preceded the actual invention of photography. Recent accounts of photography's identity tend to divide between the postmodern view that all identity is determined by context and a formalist effort to define the fundamental characteristics of photography as a medium. The author critiques both approaches by way of a detailed discussion of photography's conception in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He examines the output of the various nominees for "first photographer," then incorporates this information into a mode of historical criticism informed by the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. The result is a way of thinking about photography that persuasively accords with the medium’s undeniable conceptual, political, and historical complexity. Geoffrey Batchen is a professor of art history at The Graduate Center.

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Laird W. Bergad
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)

This book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas that is also the first work to systemically survey slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the U.S. from comparative perspectives. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local culture and society. In all three nations, slavery spread to nearly every region, and in many areas it was the principal labor system utilized by rural and urban elites. Chapters focus on slave narratives, demography, economy, culture, resistance and rebellions, and the causes of abolition. Laird W. Bergad is director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies and a professor of history at Lehman College and the Graduate Center.

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Marshall Berman and Brian Berger, eds.
New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg
(Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press, 2007)

New York City in the 1970s was a setting for all manner of public spectacle, a time when musicians, artists, writers, and immigrants could subsist even in Manhattan. Today the City seems a glamorous metropolis where real estate prices have soared. But is this fresh-scrubbed, affluent city really an improvement on its grittier predecessor? Taking us back to the streets where eccentricity and anomie were pervasive, this book explores the City's five boroughs with a love unclouded by romance yet undimmed by cynicism. Among the topics of a stellar group of writers and photographers are: Uptown’s take over of Downtown; the mayors and would-be mayors who have presided over the transformation; the homeless; gay culture and the devastating impact of AIDS; the New York world of art, rock and jazz; African-American culture and civil rights; the ethnic enclaves; city walks and subway rides. Marshall Berman is a distinguished professor of political science at City College and the Graduate Center.

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Joel Blau, with Mimi Abramovitz
The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy, 2nd rev. edition
(Oxford University Press, 2007)

The first edition of The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy reinvented the standard social welfare policy text to speak to students in a vital new way. This second edition builds on its strengths, with a thorough update of the effects of recent political and legislative changes on social welfare programs. Highlights from this edition include: revised data in text, charts, and graphs that show how government policies are proving the points made throughout the chapters; exhaustive statistics about every major social program's budget, benefits, and participants; an underlying policy model updated in response to the evolving political environment; more graphics and an attractive new two-color interior design that make debates easier to grasp and the book easier to navigate. One can visit www.oup.com/us/dynamics for access to the instructor's manual and test bank. Joel Blau is a professor of social policy at the School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University. Mimi Abramovitz is a professor of social welfare at Hunter College and the Graduate Center.

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David C. Bloomfield
American Public Education Law
(Peter Lang, 2007)

This readable introduction to American public education law is designed to assist practicing educators, college and graduate students, parents, and the public in acting on everyday legal issues such as student expression, church/state separation, student and teacher discipline, curriculum, legislating and lobbying, parent associations, discrimination, special education, No Child Left Behind, student privacy, and more. Unique features include practical situations, the "Facts and Find" research method, and the "Cascade" approach to understanding the American legal system. David Bloomfield is an associate professor of urban education at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center.

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John Brenkman
The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought since September 11
(Princeton University Press, 2007)

Looking back to the original assumptions and contradictions that animate democratic thought, John Brenkman attempts to resuscitate the language of liberty and give political debate a fresh basis amid the present global turmoil. He picks apart the intellectual design and messianic ambitions of the neoconservative American foreign policy articulated by figures such as Robert Kagan and Paul Berman; casts the same critical eye on a wide range of liberal and leftist thinkers, including Noam Chomsky and Jürgen Habermas; and probes the severe crisis that afflicts progressive political thought. He draws on the contrary visions of Hobbes, Kant, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and Isaiah Berlin in order to disclose the new contours of conflict in the age of geo-civil war, and to illuminate the challenges and risks of contemporary democracy. John Brenkman is a distinguished professor of comparative literature and English at Baruch College at the Graduate Center.

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David C. Brotherton and Louis Kontos, eds.
Encyclopedia of Gangs
(Greenwood Press, 2007)

This encyclopedia seeks to illuminate the world of gangs, including gang formations, routine gang activities, aberrations, and current developments. One hundred essay entries related to gangs in the U.S. and worldwide provide a diffuse overview of the gang phenomenon. Each entry defines and explains the term, provides an historical overview, and explains its significance today. The entries assert that gangs are part of the fabric of American society, not only in our communities but also our schools and other social institutions and that an understanding the world of gangs is necessary to understand American society. Entries include: Bikers, Bloods, Cholas, Crips, gang mythology, gang warfare, graffiti, Hell's Angels, Hong Kong Triads, Latin Kings, law enforcement, occultic gangs, mafia, media, prison gangs, rites, Skinheads, Streetgang Terrorism Omnibus Prevention Act, tattoos, trafficking, Wanna-bes, West Side Story, Witness Protection programs, and youth gangs. David Brotherton is a professor of criminal justice, sociology, and urban education at the Graduate Center and John Jay College.

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Royal S. Brown
Film Musings: A Selected Anthology from Fanfare Magazine
(Scarecrow Press, 2007)

For nearly twenty years, scholar and critic Royal S. Brown contributed a regular column, "Film Musings," to Fanfare magazine. Film Musings assembles the material from these columns and presents Brown's reviews of significant recordings of movie scores. Although many of the reviews are of "original soundtrack recordings" for films released during the column's run, a number of the reviews also cover reissues of earlier recordings, as well as newly recorded versions of "classic" scores. In certain instances, Brown was even able to include in his column interviews with composers such as David Raksin (Laura) and Howard Shore (The Silence of the Lambs) concerning new recordings of their music. His perceptions are presented in an accessible style that will lead even readers who are new to the subject to discover many of the treasures of what once was a neglected art. Royal S. Brown, chair of the Department of European Languages and Literatures at Queens College, is a professor of French and music at the Graduate Center.

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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present
(Routledge, 2007)

Gloria Browne-Marshall traces the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, analyzing the key court cases that established America’s racial system and showing their impact on American society. Throughout, she places advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for physical freedom in the slavery era to more recent battles for equal rights and economic equality; she examines education, property ownership, voting rights, criminal justice, and the military, as well as internationalism and civil liberties. The book is highly accessible and thorough in its depiction of the role race has played, with the sanction of the U.S. Supreme Court, in shaping virtually every major American social institution. Foreword by Derrick Bell. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an assistant professor of criminal justice at John Jay College and The Graduate Center.

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Alberto M. Bursztyn, ed.
The Praeger Handbook of Special Education
(Praeger Books, 2007)

Since the mid 1970s, special education has steadily grown to reach fully twelve percent of the U.S. student population in grades K–12, and millions of children from birth to age five. Despite its promise of equal access, special education has become a controversial field. Critics point to its high cost, questionable pedagogical effectiveness, and differential outcomes across localities, family income levels, and ethnicities. This handbook departs from the traditional books in this field by focusing on the ways that special education policies and practices are enacted, rather than highlighting only their intended outcomes. Contributors focus on defining commonly used terms and professional jargon in order to give interested readers access and insight into the field of special education and its associated practices. Some of the subjects included are the history of special education, disability and society, law and special education, pedagogy, policies and practices, and research in special education. Alberto M. Bursztyn is a professor of urban education at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center.

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E. D. Klemke and Steven M. Cahn, eds.
The Meaning of Life: A Reader, 3rd edition
(Oxford University Press, 2007)

Featuring nine new articles chosen by coeditor Steven M. Cahn, this third edition of The Meaning of Life offers twenty-two insightful selections that explore this fascinating topic. The essays are primarily by philosophers but also include materials from literary figures and religious thinkers. As in previous editions, the readings are organized around three themes. In Part I the articles defend the view that without faith in God, life has no meaning or purpose. In Part II the selections oppose this claim, defending instead a nontheistic, humanistic alternative—that life can have meaning even in the absence of theistic commitment. In Part III the contributors ask whether the question of the meaning of life is itself meaningful. This unique anthology is ideal for students and the general reader who is looking for an accessible and stimulating introduction to the subject. Steven Cahn is a professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center.

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Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano, eds.
Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings in Philosophy
(Oxford University Press, 2007)

Happiness has long been a focus of attention for philosophers as well as psychologists. This volume, the only collection devoted to the subject from the standpoint of philosophy, offers twenty-seven classic and contemporary readings exploring the nature of happiness. Part I, a survey of the ways happiness has been treated throughout the history of ethics, includes writings by Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Seneca, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, Joseph Butler, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Part II explores the work of contemporary ethical theorists, including Julia Annas, John Kekes, Richard Kraut, Robert Nozick, and Richard Taylor. The volume also includes an introduction by psychologist Daniel Nettle, headnotes for each selection, and essays by the editors. Ideal for ethics courses, Happiness: Classic and Contemporary Readings can also be used in introductory courses in philosophy and positive psychology. Steven Cahn is a professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center.

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Tamar Szabo Gendler, Susanna Siegel, and Steven M. Cahn, eds.
The Elements of Philosophy: Readings from Past and Present
(Oxford University Press, 2007)

This introductory anthology is a comprehensive collection of historical and contemporary readings across the major fields of philosophy, from two thousand five-hundred years ago to just a few years ago. The editors offer an extensive and expansive selection of readings that includes whole works or excerpts from such classic thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Blaise Pascal, John Locke, and John Stuart Mill and such contemporary thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, and Hilary Putnam. The selections are organized topically into five parts: Religion and Belief, Moral and Political Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Language, and Life and Death. The product of the collaboration of three highly respected scholars in their fields, The Elements of Philosophy also includes introductions from the editors, explanatory footnotes, and a glossary. Steven Cahn is a professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center.

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Todd R. Clear
Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Places Worse
(Oxford University Press, 2007)

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled to such capacity than in the U.S. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged—and primarily minority—neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the first detailed, empirical exploration of the effects of mass incarceration on poor areas, Clear makes the counterintuitive point that when incarceration concentrates at high levels, crime rates will go up. Removal, in other words, has exactly the opposite of its intended effect: it destabilizes the community, reduces public safety, widens racial disparities, and diminishes life chances for youths. He argues that we cannot overcome the problem of mass incarceration concentrated in poor places without incorporating an idea of community justice into our failing correctional and criminal justice systems. Todd Clear is a distinguished professor of criminal justice at John Jay College and the Graduate Center.

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Patricia Ticineto Clough, ed., with Jean Halley
The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social
(Duke University Press, 2007)

In the mid-1990s, scholars turned their attention toward the ways that ongoing political, economic, and cultural transformations were changing the realm of the social. Focusing on this turn in scholarship, this set of essay looks specifically at the relationship of governance and economy through the lens of new configurations of affect, emotion, bodies, new media, and technoscience. Scholars based in sociology, cultural studies, science studies, and women’s studies illuminate this turn in thought and the essays taken together suggest that attending to the affective turn is necessary to theorizing the social. The book includes chapters by graduate and former graduate students at the Graduate Center. Patricia Clough is a professor of sociology and women's studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center.

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Forrest D. Colburn with Arturo Cruz S.
Varieties of Liberalism in Central America: Nation-States as Works in Progress
(University of Texas Press, 2007)

Offering an elegant defense of empiricism, the authors explore the roles of geography and political choice in constructing nations and states in Central America— Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica—over the last twenty-five years. Countries are shown to be unique: there are a daunting number of variables. There is causality, but not the kind that can be revealed in the laboratory or on the blackboard. Liberalism—today defined as democracy and unfettered markets—may be in vogue, but it has no inherent determinants. Democracy and market economies, when welded to the messy realities of individual countries, are compatible with many different outcomes. The world is more pluralistic in both causes and effects than either academic theories or political rhetoric suggest. Forrest D. Colburn and Arturo Cruz S. teach at INCAE, the premier graduate school of management in Latin America. Colburn is also a professor of political science at Lehman College and the Graduate Center. Cruz has been selected by newly elected President Daniel Ortega to serve as Nicaragua's ambassador to the United States.

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Steven C. Cowin and Stephen B. Doty
Tissue Mechanics, 2nd edition
(Springer, 2007)

Tissues transmit mechanical loads just like bridges and building structures but, unlike the latter, they also adapt their own structures to transmit the mechanical loads more effectively. The structures of living tissues are continually changing due to growth and response to the tissue environment, including the mechanical environment. The objective of this text is to describe the nature of the composite components of a tissue, the cellular processes that produce these constituents, the assembly of the constituents into a hierarchical structure, and the behavior of the tissues composite structure in the adaptation to its mechanical environment. A tissues mechanical environment is the history of mechanical loading experienced by the tissue in some reference time period, like a day. The textbook is aimed at advanced undergraduate students or above, provides a fresh perspective on older material issues, and includes new research results. Stephen Cowin is a distinguished professor of biology and engineering at City College at the Graduate Center.

Drawing on oral histories and new archival material, Danto reveals that analysts such as Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Erik Erikson, Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, and Helene Deutsch envisioned themselves as brokers of social change and viewed psychoanalysis as a challenge to conventional political and social traditions and created outpatient centers that provided free mental health care to help restore people to their inherently good and productive selves. Danto explores the successes, failures, and challenges faced by these free institutes and discusses the 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. Her work illuminates the importance of the social environment and the idea of community to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. Elizabeth Ann Danto is an associate professor of social welfare at the Hunter College School of Social Work and the Graduate Center.

Working at the juncture of cultural studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial theory, Mongrel Nation surveys the history of the United Kingdom's African, Asian, and Caribbean populations from 1948 to the present. Ashley Dawson argues that during the past fifty years Asian and black intellectuals from Sam Selvon to Zadie Smith have continually challenged the United Kingdom's exclusionary definitions of citizenship, using innovative forms of cultural expression to reconfigure definitions of belonging in the postcolonial age. By examining popular culture and exploring topics such as the nexus of race and gender, the growth of transnational politics, and the clash between first- and second-generation immigrants, Dawson broadens and enlivens the field of postcolonial studies. At a time when the contradictions of expansionist braggadocio again dominate the world stage, Mongrel Nation usefully illuminates the legacy of imperialism and suggests that creative voices of resistance can never be silenced. Ashley Dawson is an associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center.

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The contributors in Exceptional State analyze the connections between contemporary manifestations of U.S. imperialism and culture. The latter is defined broadly to include a range of media, literature, and political discourse. The essays include a surprising reading of the ostensibly liberal movies Wag the Dog and Three Kings, an exploration of the rhetoric surrounding the plan to remake the military into a high-tech force less dependent on human bodies, a look at the significance of the popular Left Behind series of novels, and an interpretation of the Abu Ghraib prison photos. They scrutinize the national narrative created to justify the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the ways that women in those countries have responded to the invasions, the contradictions underlying calls for U.S. humanitarian interventions, and the role of Africa in the U.S. imperial imagination. The volume concludes on a hopeful note, with a look at an emerging anti-imperialist public sphere. Contributors. Ashley Dawson is an associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center.

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José del Valle, ed.
La lengua, ¿patria común? Ideas e ideologías del español
(Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2007)

What is the true nature of disputes over the symbolic status of Spanish? This book, written in Spanish, offers a partial response to this question through the analysis of language-promotion policies and associated discourses of legitimization. It focuses on Spain’s efforts to consolidate a pan-Hispanic community (mainly by mobilizing the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language) and promote the spread of Spanish beyond the Spanish-speaking world, e.g. in Brazil and the U.S. (mainly through the actions of the Cervantes Institute). The relationship between these language policies and Spain’s geopolitical interests after the country’s early-nineties economic take-off is examined and read against the theoretical backdrop provided by linguistic ideologies and the tensions that characterize the co-existence of nationalist and globalist paradigms. José del Valle is a professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at the Graduate Center.



Morris Dickstein, ed.
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham. Introduction and Notes by Morris Dickstein
(Barnes & Noble Classics Series. Barnes & Noble, 2007)

After the Civil War, rapid industrialization created a new crop of American multimillionaires. These nouveaux riches were rejected by the guardians of traditional society because of their "uneducated" tastes and uncouth styles. This class conflict is at the core of The Rise of Silas Lapham, one of the first American novels of manners, one of the first to look at the American businessman and self-made millionaire, and one of the first to employ realism—a style that would come to dominate twentieth-century American fiction. A devoted husband and father, fairly decent employer, and mostly honest businessman, Silas Lapham has amassed a large fortune. But he yearns for the Boston Brahmins to accept him and his two daughters. This new edition has an introduction and notes by Morris Dickstein, a distinguished professor of English at the Graduate Center.

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Mario DiGangi, ed.
David Scott Kastan, series ed.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Barnes & Noble, Shakespeare Series, 2007)

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Mario DiGangi, ed.
David Scott Kastan, series ed.
Romeo and Juliet
(Barnes & Noble, Shakespeare Series, 2007)

Barnes & Noble’s Shakespeare Series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote, providing contemporary scholarship, contextualizing essays, better notes, and an annotated bibliography of titles for further reading. When Romeo and Juliet was first performed, its two title characters would have seemed like very unlikely tragic heroes, since they possess no historical importance or political status. The editor, Mario DiGangi, restores the play to its original context, demonstrating in detail how Shakespeare elevated his teenage characters’ plight to make them the most famous tragic couple in literature. Mario DiGangi is a associate professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center.

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John Patrick Diggins
Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy
(University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Though derided by critics during Eugene O’Neill’s lifetime, O’Neill’s plays resonated with audiences, won him the Nobel Prize and four Pulitzers, and continue to grip theatergoers today. Noted historian John Patrick Diggins paints a richly detailed portrait of the playwright’s life: his Irish roots, his troubled family relationships, his time at sea, and his years as a young Greenwich Village radical who attempted to understand the disjunction between the sunny public face of American life and the rage that he knew was simmering beneath. According to Diggins, O’Neill’s characters burn with longing for an idealized future composed of equal parts material success and individual freedom, but repeatedly they fall back to earth, pulled by the tendrils of family and the insatiability of desire; drawing on thinkers from Emerson to Nietzsche, O’Neill viewed this endlessly frustrated desire as the problematic core of American democracy, one that simultaneously propelled and undermined American ideals of progress, success, and individual freedom. Jack Diggins is a distinguished professor of history at The Graduate Center.

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Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman
Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)

In this work, the authors focus on social-democratic regimes in the developing world that have, to varying degrees, reconciled the need of achieving growth through globalized markets with extensions of political, social and economic rights. The book shows that opportunities exist to achieve significant social progress, despite a global economic order that favors core industrial countries. Their findings derive from a comparative analysis of four exemplary cases: Kerala (India), Costa Rica, Mauritius and Chile (since 1990). Though unusual, the social and political conditions from which these developing-world social democracies arose are not unique; indeed, pragmatic and proactive social-democratic movements helped create these favorable conditions. The four exemplars have preserved or even improved their social achievements since neoliberalism emerged as hegemonic in the 1980s. Marc Edelman is a professor of anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center.

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Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, this book uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and such as fiction writers as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using what he calls an "aesthetic of astonishment"—startling, graphic images of pain, injury, and prejudice—to shock middle-class audiences into new ways of seeing the nation's impoverished and outcast populations. Joseph Entin is an assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College and teaches in the M.A. program in liberal studies at the Graduate Center.

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Gertrude Ezorsky
Freedom in the Workplace?
(Cornell University Press, 2007)

Gertrude Ezorsky shows that the notions of freedom held by most contemporary social scientists and philosophers are far too limited to account for the reality of the workplace, where workers are illegally coerced not to organize unions that could improve their wages and older, and sick workers are forced to stay in exhausting jobs to be eligible for pensions. The author takes real cases to illustrate this lack of freedom in the workplace and develops a concept of freedom to replace concepts which are widely accepted today. In addition to her philosophical investigations Ezorsky provides valuable information on the specifics of labor relations, including employment at will; the NLRA and NLRB; OSHA; outsourcing; and the distinctions among closed, union, and agency shops. Readers interested in moral philosophy, applied ethics, and labor relations will find Ezorsky's arguments clear, forceful, and compelling. Gertrude Ezorsky is a professor emerita of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center.

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Melvin Fitting
Incompleteness in the Land of Sets
(College Publications, 2007)

This book gives a full presentation of the basic incompleteness and undecidability theorems of mathematical logic in the framework of set theory. Corresponding results for arithmetic follow easily, and are also given. Gödel numbering is generally avoided, except when an explicit connection is made between set theory and arithmetic. The book assumes little technical background from the reader. One needs mathematical ability, a general familiarity with formal logic, and an understanding of the completeness theorem, though not its proof. All else is developed and formally proved, from Tarski's Theorem to Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem. Exercises are scattered throughout. Melvin Fitting is a professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at Lehman College and the Graduate Center.

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Jane Brodsky Fitzpatrick
Mrs. Magavero: A History Based on the Career of an Academic Librarian
(Library Juice Press, 2007)

Filomena Magavero worked for fifty years at the Stephen B. Luce Library at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx. For twenty five of those years she was the only professional woman on the campus. Through the placement of Megavero’s oral history of her career in the context of what was occurring in the library profession at the time, the reader sees that women librarians were in fact a "Disadvantaged Majority" during this time period. Neither the library profession nor society as a whole, offered any encouragement or support for equal pay or better status during her first two decades at the college. A very useful review of the library literature relating to the status of women from 1949 to 2003 and a brief history of the Maritime College itself, part of a unique group of institutions, are also included. Jane Brodsky Fitzpatrick is a member of the Graduate Center library faculty.

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This represents the first anthology of new Romanian drama published in the United States and introduces American readers to compelling playwrights and plays that address resonant issues of a post-totalitarian society on its way toward democracy and a new European identity. The playwrights included are Gianina Carbunariu, Bogdan Georgescu, Vera Ion, Peca Stefan, and Saviana Stanescu. The book also contains forewords by Daniel Gerould and Saviana Stanescu, contributions from Randy Gener, Cristina Modreanu, Nicolae Mandea, and Roberta Levitow, and a selected bibliography of books and articles in English on modern Romanian drama. Saviana Stanescu is a Romanian playwright living in New York. Daniel Gerould is a distinguished professor of theatre and comparative literature at the Graduate Center and executive director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.

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Édouard Glissant
Mémoires des esclavages : La fondation d'un centre national pour la mémoire des esclavages et de leurs abolitions (Broché)
(Gallimard/Documentation Française, 2007)

In France, May 10 is a national holiday that memorializes the transatlantic slave trade and the abolition of slavery. This short treatise, a militant manifesto for the “Remembrance of Slavery” proposed by Édouard Glissant to Dominique de Villepin and to all French people, urges us to reflect on the idea of shared memories, within France, of different forms of slavery, as well as on the future French “National Center for the Remembrance of Slavery and its Abolition.” His reflections contribute philosophically to the basic design of this center as he strives to study the difficulties that can occur, the differences of opinion that will manifest themselves, on the occasion of its creation. A theoretical introduction followed by four chapters allows him to develop his thoughts. The treatise is aimed at revealing the processes of “creolization” in today’s world and the principles of non-aggression that flow from that creolization. Édouard Glissant is a distinguished professor of French at the Graduate Center.

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Édouard Glissant et Patrick Chamoiseau
Quand Les Murs tombent. L’identité nationale hors la loi?
(Paris: Editions Galaade; Institut du Tout-Monde, 2007)

At the very moment when the French ministry of Immigration, Integration, National Identity, and Co-Development is being inaugurated, Édouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau issue in the pages of this politically engaged book, a call against “the walls” that threaten our relationship with the Other. Édouard Glissant is a distinguished professor of French at the Graduate Center.

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Édouard Glissant, in collaboration with Sylvie Séma
La Terre Magnétique: Les errances de Rapa Nui, l’île de Pâques
(Paris: Seuil, 2007)

Sylvie and Édouard Glissant’s intention was not to add hypotheses to those many that have attempted to pierce the mystery of Easter island. They wanted to touch imaginatively the stirring of a place that is both primordial and yet so contemporary, tormented and yet liberated, solitary and yet not alone, whose population, descended from a unique and legendary stock, today enjoys a peaceful existence based on its very diversity and its relationship with the world. Sylvie Glissant, during her stay there, assembled notes, drawings, photos, films, which she then discussed with Édouard Glissant. The volume presents what is essential in their collaboration. Édouard Glissant is a distinguished professor of French at the Graduate Center.

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Jean Graham-Jones, ed. and trans.
BAiT: Buenos Aires in Translation
(TCG / Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 2007)

This volume includes four plays staged in English translation in November 2006 at Performing Space 122, New York City. The edition includes a foreword by Shoshana Polanco, Buenos Aires in Translation (BAiT) creative producer, as well as introductions to each play by the editor/translator Jean Graham-Jones, a professor of theatre and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at Hunter College and the Graduate Center.

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Maria R. Haberfeld and Ibrahim Cerrah, eds.
Comparative Policing: The Struggle for Democratization
(Sage Publishing, 2007)

This analysis of police forces in twelve countries uses a “Continuum of Democracy” scale to assess the stages of democratization of their operations and responses, and five basic themes to rank and evaluate where each country falls on the continuum: their history of having a democratic form of government; the level of corruption within governmental organizations and the oversight mechanisms; the scope of and response to civil disobedience; the organizational structures of police departments; and the operational responses to terrorism and organized crime. This is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative criminal justice, police studies, policing and society, and terrorism in departments of criminal justice, criminology, sociology, and government. Maria Haberfeld is an associate professor of criminal justice at John Jay College and the Graduate Center. Ibrahim Cerrah teaches and does research in both Turkey, where he was with the national police force, and at John Jay.

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Marilyn Hacker, ed. and trans.
Guy Goffette, Charlestown Blues: Selected Poems
(University of Chicago, 2007)

Readers who denounce most contemporary French poetry as self-referential experimentation, word games, exercises in deconstruction, or other kinds of incomprehensible writing disconnected from everyday life—brace yourselves for a revelation. Erotic and urbane, distinguished by formal skill yet marked by the subtlest shades of feeling, Guy Goffette’s unabashedly lyrical poems pay homage to both Verlaine and Rimbaud, whom he counts as his important forbears, with echoes of Auden and Pound, Pavese and Borges. In Charlestown Blues, poet and translator Marilyn Hacker has chosen a tightly thematic selection of poems, all centering around the notion of “blue”—the color and the emotion, as well as that quintessentially American style of musical performance. Hacker’s crystalline and musical English renderings will show Anglophones why Goffette is considered one of the most important poets writing in French today. Marilyn Hacker is a professor of French at City College and the Graduate Center.

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N. John Hall
Belief: A Memoir
(Frederic C. Beil, 2007)

This is the story of a young man who became enthralled with Catholicism around 1950, went on to become a priest, served in three northern New Jersey parishes, and left the priesthood in 1967. Hall's memoir chronicles an intellectual, emotional, and "spiritual" journey. Along the way it offers an insider's picture of Catholic life and Catholic education in the 1950s and 1960s. Additionally, it sets forth and elucidates issues that confront (or should confront) all religious believers. This book is a voice for skepticism, presented not in the form of a treatise or argument, but through a personal story, a story by turns sad and funny, but also compelling. It culminates in the delight and exhilaration that come with intellectual freedom. N. John Hall is a distinguished professor of English at Bronx Community College and the Graduate Center.

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Dagmar Herzog
Intimacy and Exclusion: Religious Politics in Pre-Revolutionary Baden
(Transaction Publishers, 2007)

In this path-breaking work, Dagmar Herzog situates the birth of German liberalism in the religious conflicts of the nineteenth century. Using insights drawn from Jewish and women's studies, she demonstrates how profoundly liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the pre-revolutionary years was shaped by Christianity's problematic relationships to both Judaism and sexuality. In particular, she reveals how often conflicts over the private sphere and the "politics of the personal" determined larger political matters. She also documents the unexpected rise of a politically sophisticated religious right led by conservative Catholics, and explores liberals' ensuing eagerness to advance a humanist version of Christianity. She examines the limitations at the heart of the liberal project, as well as the difficulties encountered by philo-Semitic and feminist radicals as they strove to reconceptualize both classical liberalism and Christianity in order to make room for the claims of Jews and women. Dagmar Herzog is Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar and a professor of history at the Graduate Center.

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Günter Bischof, Anton Pelinka, and Dagmar Herzog, eds.
Sexuality in Austria: Contemporary Austrian Studies
(Transaction Publishers, 2007)

Scholars have increasingly been investigating human sexuality as an important field of social history in particular national cultures. This book reflects the broad variety of such recent research and will be of interest to cultural studies specialists, historians, psychologists, and sociologists. Topics include sex counseling organizations in interwar Vienna; “foreign encounters” between Austrian women and occupation soldiers during the postwar quadripartite Austrian occupation regime; the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s; the legal penalties for homosexuality in postwar Austria and the liberation of the gay movement after Austria joined the European Union; an analysis of the major influence of the Catholic Church on Austrian sexuality; recent gay and sex abuse scandals in the church hierarchy; and foreign workers (gastarbeiter) in postwar Austria and their sexual contacts with natives. Also included are review essays, book reviews, and the annual review of Austrian politics. Dagmar Herzog is Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar and a professor of history at the Graduate Center.

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Stuart Taylor, Jr. and K.C. Johnson
Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
(New York: Thomas Dunne, 2007)

The story of this ever-deepening American tragedy harbors multiple dramas, including the actions of a DA running for office; the inappropriate charges that should have been apparent to academics at Duke many months before; the local and national media, who were so slow to take account of the publicly available evidence; and the appalling reactions of law enforcement, academia, and many black leaders. Until Proven Innocent is the only book that covers all five aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and media) in a comprehensive fashion. Based on interviews with key members of the defense team, many of the unindicted lacrosse players, and Duke officials, it is also the only book to include interviews with all three of the defendants, their families, and their legal teams. The context of the Duke case has vast import and contains likable heroes, unfortunate victims, and memorable villains—and in its full telling, it is captivating nonfiction with broad political, racial, and cultural relevance to our times. K.C. Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center.

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Roger Karapin
Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s
(Penn State University Press, 2007)

In the immediate postwar period, West Germany’s citizenry was largely passive. In the late 1960s, however, Germany experienced waves of left-wing protest that expanded the political agenda and broadened political participation. After unification, the country was confronted by new challenges from right-wing groups, which often engaged in violence during the early 1990s. Roger Karapin looks at the growth of these protest movements and the reasons why protesters in different conflicts used quite different methods (ranging from conventional participation to nonviolent disruption to violent militancy). His study of nine cases includes leftist opposition to urban-renewal and nuclear-energy policies in the 1970s and 1980s and rightist opposition to immigration policy in the 1990s. Comparisons of contrasting cases reveal the crucial role played by strategic interaction among protesters, party politicians, and government officials—rather than socioeconomic factors or political institutions—in determining the paths that the movements took. Roger Karapin is associate professor of political science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center.

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Bettina Knapp
Marie Dorval: France’s theatrical wonder. A Book for Actors
(Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007)

To trace the life of Marie Dorval through her turbulent times is to engage with a rare theatrical genius and the teeming literary, emotional, economic, and material dramas in which she was embroiled. Dumas, Vigny, Hugo, Sand, Gautier and many others mingle their creative and affective energies with Dorval's in a ceaseless dynamic interplay. This story also discloses the life in Marie Dorval's times: the poverty, the need to will one's survival, and the unimaginably trying circumstances in which theatre was performed, whether in the provinces or in Paris. The author also seeks to give us some real insight into the uniqueness of Dorval's acting techniques, simultaneously instinctive, viscerally natural, and studied, though more from life than instruction. A book for actors, yes; but a book, too, for lovers of the theatre and, beyond that, of the sheer improbable drama of existence. Bettina Knapp is a professor emerita of French at the Graduate Center and Hunter College.

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Lawrence Kobilinsky, Louis Levine, and Henrietta Margolis-Nunno
Forensic DNA Analysis
(Chelsea House Publishers, 2007)

As scientists have unraveled the code of DNA, new fields have opened up in forensics. DNA can be used for many applications, from figuring out whether someone is the father of a baby to determining whether a particular person was present at a crime scene. Forensic DNA Analysis, part of a six-volume series entitled Inside Forensic Science, takes readers through the analysis process and explains the possible results. The book has full-color photographs and illustrations, sidebars, suggestions for further reading, a list of helpful web sites, references, and a glossary. Series editor and author Lawrence Kobilinsky, a professor of forensics at John Jay College, has been actively involved in introducing the study of forensics to NYC school system's criminal justice program. Louis Levine, Ph.D., has specialized in forensic genetics consulting for fifteen years and is an expert panel member of the Assigned Counsel Plan of the City of New York. Henrietta Margolis-Nunno, Ph.D., J.D., is an assistant professor of biology at John Jay College and the Graduate Center.

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Wayne Koestenbaum
Hotel Theory
(Soft Skull Press, 2007)

Hotel Theory is actually two books in one: a meditation on the meaning of a hotels, and a dime-novel (Hotel Women), featuring Lana Turner and Liberace. (In the novel, the articles “a,” “an,” and “the” never appear.) The two books, fiction and nonfiction, run concurrently, in twin columns. The nonfiction ruminations on hotels are divided into eight dossiers, composed of short takes on the presence of hotels in the author's dreams, in literature, in film, and in history. Guest-stars in the nonfiction portion of the book include poets, philosophers, writers, and film stars. Hotel Theory is an oblique manifesto for a philosophy of being-here, being-anywhere. It is also a book about the disappearance of writing; in particular, of Walter Benjamin's suicide in a hotel room in Portbou, Spain. Hotel Theory is the place where writing disappears; it is also the locale where a new mode of theorizing (in fiction, in fragment, through quotation and palimpsest) makes itself felt. Wayne Koestenbaum is a distinguished professor of English at the Graduate Center.

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William Kornblum
Sociology in a Changing World, 8th edition
(Wadsworth Publishing, 2007)

Challenging, comprehensive, and student friendly, the eighth edition of Sociology in a Changing World takes a thematic approach that emphasizes the reality of social change and its impact on individuals, groups, and societies throughout the world. This unique emphasis on social change helps students understand our similarities, our differences, and society as a whole and will help them think like sociologists long after their college experience. The text carefully balances contemporary and classic theory and research, with special attention to the works of female and minority social scientists and cross-cultural studies. Kornblum applies all the major perspectives of sociology without giving undue emphasis to any single approach. The book is the chosen text for “Exploring Society: Introduction to Sociology,” a Telecourse from Dallas TeleLearning. William Kornblum is a professor of psychology and sociology at the Graduate Center.

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Roman Kossak, James Schmerl
The Structure of Model of Peano Arithmetic
(Oxford University Press, 2006; Oxford Scholarship Online, 2007)

These authors give an account of the present state of research on lattices of elementary substructures and automorphisms of nonstandard models of arithmetic. Major representation theorems are proved, and the important particular case of countable recursively saturated models is discussed in detail. All necessary technical tools are developed. The list includes: constructions of elementary simple extensions; a partial classification of arithmetic types, in particular Gaifman's theory of definable types; forcing in arithmetic; elements of the Kirby-Paris combinatorial theory of cuts; Lascar's generic automorphisms; and applications of Abramson and Harrington's generalization of Ramsey's theorem. There are also chapters discussing ω1-like models with interesting second order properties, and a chapter on order types of nonstandard models. Roman Kossak is a professor of mathematics at Bronx Community College and the Graduate Center.

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Sheila H. Akabas and Paul A. Kurzman
Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice
(NY: Columbia University Press, 2007)

Akabas and Kurzman, acknowledge leaders in their field, offer an invaluable and comprehensive look at the innovative ways in which management, labor organizations, government, and the social welfare system can better respond to the needs of workers, their families, and communities. They analyze the barriers to entry into the workforce; the tension between work and family obligations; the sometimes unsupportive nature of many jobs and settings; and work implications for persons with chronic or acute illnesses. In the concluding chapter, they assess current trends as they offer an optimistic review of the possibilities and positive future potential represented by career counseling, pre-retirement preparation, disability management, executive coaching, manpower programming, and managed care. Throughout the book, they include case studies to illustrate innovative practice and provide study questions for each chapter. Paul A. Kurzman is a professor of social welfare at Hunter College and the Graduate Center.

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Gail Levin
Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artist
(Harmony Books/Random House, 2007)

Judy Chicago, artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans four decades, radically changed our understanding of women’s contributions to art and to society. Although once disparaged and misunderstood by the critics, Chicago’s innovative works, such as The Dinner Party (1974-79), have become icons of the feminist art movement, earning her a place amongst the most influential artists of her time. Gail Levin draws upon Chicago’s personal letters and diaries, her published and unpublished writings, and more than 250 new interviews with her friends, family, admirers, and critics, to give a richly detailed story of a great artist, a leader of the women’s movement, a tireless crusader for equal rights, and a complicated, vital woman who has dared to express her own sexuality in her art and demand recognition from a male-dominated culture. Gail Levin is a professor of art history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.

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Gail Levin
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, expanded 2nd edition
(Rizzoli Books, 2007)

Essential reading for anyone interested in the world-famous realist artist, this biography, now in a second, expanded edition, doubles the number of illustrations, and includes a section of paintings in color as well as a section on Hopper's international influence on culture, especially on contemporary art, poetry, and cinema. The original biography (Knopf, 1995) has long been considered the seminal review of Edward Hopper's life and work. The biography's focus is the laconic, introverted painter's stormy forty-three-year marriage to outspoken and gregarious Josephine ("Jo") Nivison, herself an artist, and draws extensively on Jo Hopper's intimate diaries, which she kept from the early 1930s until shortly before her death in 1968 (just ten months after her husband died). Gail Levin is a professor of art history at Baruch College and The Graduate Center.

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Stuart Liebman, ed.
Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Key Essays
(Oxford University Press, 2007)

Claude Lanzmann's monumental Shoah is the most celebrated film about the Holocaust ever made. Vivid accounts of the destruction of European Jewry by those who witnessed the slaughter at first hand make the film a compelling meditation on a defining catastrophe of the twentieth century. This collection offers the best writing on this remarkable cinematic achievement and brings together a range of appreciations, analyses, and critiques by leading American, French, and Polish critics and commentators. Their essays examine Shoah from its inception through its reception in France, Europe, and the U.S. New in English are translations of some of Lanzmann's key texts and interviews. Stuart Liebman is a professor of art history, Germanic languages and literatures, and theatre at Queens College and the Graduate Center.

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This comprehensive handbook offers a beautifully balanced view of the emerging field of multicultural school psychology. Theory, research, and practice are integrated throughout. 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. Distinguishing features of the book are the interdisciplinary perspectives of the contributors, its scientist-practitioner focus, its focus on multicultural and bilingual assessment issues, and its focus on the needs of special populations such as culturally different parents, gifted and talented children, preschool children, migrant families, and children with low and high incidence learning disabilities. The handbook is appropriate for graduate courses and seminars dealing with multicultural school psychology. It is also a useful reference for researchers and practicing school psychologists and the libraries serving them. Emilia C. Lopez is a professor of educational psychology at Queens College and the Graduate Center.

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This study is concerned with the discussion of the phenomena pointing to the underlying or approximate deep structure of the modern Persian verb. It considers some aspects of morphology with the emphasis on the syntax and structure of the verb. The author, John Moyne, has written over seventy-two essays on Rumi for the Web and for books. Rumi was a thirteenth-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, and theologian. Moyne is a professor emeritus of linguistics and was executive officer of the doctoral program in linguistics at the Graduate Center.

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