The American Library

Redesigning cities : principles, practice, implementation / Jonathan Barnett ; foreword by Lincoln Chafee. Planners Press, ©2003. 312 p. 307.1216 BAR    In Redesigning Cities, Jonathan Barnett explains the five essentials of urban design: fostering a sense of community, creating livable neighborhoods and workplaces, reducing traffic congestion and providing parking that complements rather than undermines urban living, encouraging social equity, and achieving sustainability by preserving and restoring the natural environment. Of course, to be influential, design must be incorporated into the everyday routines of urban development. Barnett explains how to create institutions - both inside and outside of government - that will help make the "designed metropolis" a reality. He also reveals techniques, materials, and technologies that should be known (but often aren't) to planners, public officials, concerned citizens, and others involved in the business of development.
ISBN 1884829716: $45.84; ISBN 1884829708 (pbk.) C/CH/ND

2. Bodnar, John E.

Blue-collar Hollywood : liberalism, democracy, and working people in American film / John Bodnar. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. 284 p. 791.43 BOD

Bodnar, in this work, describes and analyzes cinematic renderings of individualism, capitalism, and leadership - including women, unions, and minorities - among the working class from the 1930s to the 1990s. Basing his conclusions on viewings of many films (some famous, others hardly remembered or seriously critiqued) and drawing on a wealth of film and culture literature, Bodnar seems to posit that human nature is so unique that the common person's desires cannot be completely controlled, labeled, branded, or pigeonholed - as movie characters have so often demonstrated. "In a political world dominated as much by mass culture as by political parties themselves," he writes, "the biting commentary of the Sixties was sustained, but in a way that served neither the left nor the right. Yet what else could one expect from a liberal discourse preoccupied with surveying the landscape of the human spirit?" ISBN 0801871492: $40.00 C/CH (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

3. Dannenbaum, Jed.

Creative filmmaking : from the inside out : five keys to the art of making inspired movies and television / Jed Dannenbaum, Carroll Bodge and Doe Mayer. Simon & Schuster, 2003. 204 p. 791.43 DAN

Disputing a popular notion that creativity is an inherent gift that one either possesses or lacks, this ambitious manual attempts to provide practical instruction for developing and enhancing personal creativity in filmmaking and television production. Dannenbaum, Carroll Hodge, and Doe Mayer have involved more than a dozen practicing filmmakers as consultants, including director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) and film editor Lisa Fruchtman (Apocalypse Now). The result is a rich and varied exploration of the specific creative techniques used by successful professionals, together with specific exercises for the reader. Starting with the advice that one's passions, values, and idiosyncrasies should be relied on rather than suppressed, the text fleshes out the so-called five keys of introspection, inquiry, intuition, interaction, and impact with discussions by the consultants and a series of "limbering up" and "workout" routines. For example, it is suggested that the reader compose a "poetic script" by rewriting a scene from an existing film, using only a few words identifying the scene's sensory and tactile elements. Team building, the use of an "image wall," and people watching are among the many skills emphasized in this impressive course of study. ISBN 0743223195: $16.00 CH (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

4. Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey.

Performing whiteness : postmodern re/constructions in the cinema / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. State University of New York Press, 2003. 180 p. 791.43 FOS

Performing Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness. Drawing on such diverse critical methodologies as postcolonial studies, feminist film criticism, anthropology, and phenomenology, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster examines a wide variety of films from early cinema to the present day in order to explore the ways in which American cinema imposes whiteness as a cultural norm, even as it exposes its inherent instability. In discussions that range from The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Foster shows that, though American cinema is an all-white construct, there exists the possibility of a healthy resistance to cultural norms of race, gender, sexuality, and class. ISBN 0791456285 (pbk.): $21.50; ISBN 0791456277 C/CH

5. Godawa, Brian.

Hollywood worldviews : watching films with wisdom & discernment / Brian Godawa. InterVarsity Press, ©2002. 208 p. 791.43 GOD

An award-winning Christian Hollywood scriptwriter offers this book on how to watch movies discerningly as a faithful Christian. Godawa's purpose is not to help readers decide which films are worth seeing, but rather how to "read" a film for its messages as opposed to absorbing it only as entertainment. One of his main arguments is that Christians should engage the world of popular culture in order to reform it. Unfortunately, it is not always clear who he expects his audience to be. Sometimes he writes very simplistically, he ends his definition of "worldview" with the phrase "it is our view of the world" and details elements of stories and myths that many readers would be familiar with. But other sections use very academic prose about complex philosophies - like existentialism and postmodernism. He reveals a clearly defined, even narrow, view of Christianity by asserting the "correct" way one should live or interpret the Bible. "Rare is the movie that paints an accurate portrait of heaven and hell," he tells us. (Just what, exactly, would an "accurate" portrayal look like?). ISBN 0830823212: $14.00 CH (Adapted from Publisher's Weekly, ©2002)

6. Harker, Michael P.

Harker's barns : visions of an American icon / photographs by Michael P. Harker ; text by Jim Heynen. University of Iowa Press, ©2003. 89 p. REF 779 HAR

Michael Harker drove past old barns on gravel roads and blacktop highways for years. He generally dismissed them as obsolete outbuildings until November 1993, when he felt compelled to photograph a windmill in Clutier, Iowa. This single photograph launched him on a seven-and-a-half-year mission to document Iowa's barns and all they represent. The result is Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon. Each of the seventy-five black-and-white images featured in Harker's Barns beautifully and heartbreakingly captures the glory and impending demise of one of rural America's most enduring icons. From square to round, wood to brick, Dutch to Swedish, occupied or abandoned, the barns documented in this stunning collection are a testament to a passing way of life that was once the lifeblood of Iowa and the Midwest. Complementing Harker's photographs are vignettes by poet and writer Jim Heynen. Both whimsical and endearing, each vignette treats barns as organic and intelligent entities, reflecting the living history that can be found inside each rural structure. ISBN 0877458340: $24.95 (For use only in the AIRC) C/CH/M/ND

7. Homan, Sidney.

Staging modern playwrights : from director's concept to performance / Sidney Homan. Bucknell University Press, ©2003. 140 p. 792.0233 HOM

Himself both a scholar and a commercial actor and director, Homan shares what he has learned with colleagues in both fields, on how a director proceeds from figuring out what on earth the playwright had in mind, to accounting for different audiences for a performance. He cites specific plays and performances to illustrate the principles. ISBN 0838755631: $36.00 CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

8. Magistrale, Tony.

Hollywood's Stephen King / Tony Magistrale. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 233 p. 791 MAG

Stephen King has held his readers rapt for more than 30 years. For almost as long, Hollywood has been adapting those narratives for the big screen. Magistrale offers a unique perspective of the King novel/movie phenomenon. After an insightful interview with the author, she presents her text in chapters on recurring themes, character relationships, and how the filmmakers perceived the story. On the whole, King has been happy with the film interpretations; however, late director Stanley Kubrick did not portray The Shining as he had envisioned it. With Brian DePalma's Carrie, the author admits that he did not have a clear picture of what his protagonist should look like, only that she should be beautiful at the prom. DePalma brilliantly directed Sissy Spacek as Carrie, giving the story a visual life of which King approved. Magistrale's work is informative and well-written study for King enthusiasts. ISBN 0312293216 (pbk.): $17.95; ISBN 0312293208 C/CH (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

9. Sowell, David.

The masters : a hole-by-hole history of America's golf classic / David Sowell. Brassey's Inc., ©2003. 288 p. 796.352 SOW

Unequivocally, the Masters is one of professional golf's premier tournaments. From its beginning in 1934, when Bobby Jones hosted the first invitational on the new course at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, to the present exploits of Tiger Woods and others, no contest has captured the interest of spectators like the Masters. Sowell chronicles each hole's contribution to the excitement of the event, including the great moments and disasters as experienced by the game's best. The title provides the reader with a unique view of the course, illustrating the difficulties of each hole plus the strategies employed to try and overcome the challenges. Featured in the publication are black-and-white photographs, maps, and an appendix of former champions. This is an entertaining read that enthusiasts will enjoy. ISBN 1574885669: $26.95; ISBN 1574886738 (pbk.) C/CH/M/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

10. Belgard, William.

Shaping the future : a dynamic process for creating and achieving your company's strategic vision / William P. Belgard, Steven R. Rayner. AMACOM, ©2004. 224 p. 658.4 BEL

Shaping the Future offers a step-by-step process for determining strategic imperative - the focal point and originator of every element in the organization's transformation - and laying the groundwork for a future that will flow from it. Departing from classic theories of change strategy, this book gives profound insight. One learns about the fundamental shifts that now impel businesses everywhere to create equally deep change in their basic philosophies and practices. The authors call this new reality the emerging "megadigm," and they describe six powerful forces - from rapid technological and societal change to customers' ever-growing demand for value - that companies must take into account. "The best practices of today," state the authors, "are destined to become the common practices of tomorrow." Shaping the Future reveals how such practices are already in place at world leaders such as Microsoft, Boeing, Sun Micro-systems, Procter & Gamble, NEC, Wal-Mart, Quaker Oats, Harley-Davidson, and others. And it shows how an organization can - and must - position itself to ensure a bright future of its own design. ISBN 0814407773: $27.50 C/CH/M/ND

11. The emergence of entrepreneurship policy : governance, start-up, and growth in the U.S. knowledge economy / edited by David M. Hart. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 297 p. 338.04 EME

This book reveals how government and its allies (like business associations) can help people to start businesses that have the potential to grow rapidly and make major contributions to the economy. Although many entrepreneurs think of government as the enemy, and many policy-makers simply ignore entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs, this volume argues that the two groups should be allies, since their goals of building a vibrant economy and new businesses are interconnected. Contributors to the volume assert that mutual education and careful attention to the design of new policies will help this alliance to grow stronger. ISBN 0521826772: $34.00 C/CH/M

12. Haasen, Adolf.

New corporate cultures that motivate / Adolf Haasen and Gordon F. Shea. Praeger, 2003. 220 p. 658.3 HAA

This breakthrough analysis of several advanced, exceptionally productive, and motivating organizational cultures is based on interviews with employees - from shop floor workers to CEOs - to discover precisely what makes them so effective. These positive case studies, illuminated by the executive perspective in each situation, tell fascinating stories of how these exciting cultures were formed, developed, or evolved to meet the challenges created by the firms' growth and success. ISBN 1567206425: $48.00 M

13. Intelligent enterprises of the 21st century / Jatinder N.D. Gupta, Sushil K. Sharma, [editors]. Idea Group Pub., ©2004. 344 p. 658.4 INT

Business intelligence has always been considered an essential ingredient for success. However, it is not until recently that the technology has enabled organizations to generate and deploy intelligence for global competition. These technologies can be leveraged to create the intelligent enterprises of the 21st century that will not only provide excellent and customized services to their customers, but will also create business efficiency for building relationships with suppliers and other business partners on a long term basis. Creating such intelligent enterprises requires the understanding and integration of diverse enterprise components into cohesive intelligent systems. Anticipating that future enterprises need to become intelligent, Intelligent Enterprises of the 21st Century brings together the experiences and knowledge from many parts of the world to provide a compendium of high quality theoretical and applied concepts, methodologies, and techniques that help diffuse knowledge and skills required to create and manage intelligent enterprises of the 21st century for gaining sustainable competitive advantage in a global environment. This book is a comprehensive compilation of the state of the art vision and thought processes needed to design and manage globally competitive business organizations. ISBN 1591401607 : $70.00 M

14. Maxwell, John C.

Thinking for a change : 11 ways highly successful people approach life and work / John C. Maxwell. Warner Books, ©2003. 266 p. 650.1 MAX

Maxwell has written 30 other books, including The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and Running with the Giants. He is one of the many well-known leadership coaches who have built a franchise around mass distribution of advice on how to succeed in business and life. A straightforward exploration of 11 thinking skills that can help a person change from a conventional thinker to a leader and visionary, his latest book calls for a willingness to expand one's horizons, ask questions, challenge popular opinion, and be open to creativity and collaboration. The book does not represent new scholarship so much as a different way of organizing information, quotes, anecdotes, and the author's own wisdom. Throughout, he cites other authors of leadership titles, including Annette Moser-Wellman (The Five Faces of Genius). ISBN 0446529575: $22.95 C/M (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

United States entrepreneurs and the companies they built : an index to biographies in collected works / Wahib Nasrallah. Greenwood, 2003. 366 p. REF 338.0922 NAS

This pioneering work provides an index to over 1,700 biographies of prominent U.S. entrepreneurs, innovators and company executives published in over 120 biographical collected works which are identified, examined, and indexed here. These collected works cover a span of over 100 years and include men and women who shaped the history of American enterprise. In the past, collected works such as these have never been indexed but, finally, this book makes the biographies accessible to the general public. A large number of executive biographies are published in collected works that are rich with stories of American enterprise, male and female entrepreneurs of many ethnic backgrounds. ISBN 0313323321: $62.50 (For use only in the AIRC) C/CH

Profit-focused supplier management : how to identify risks and recognize opportunities / Pirkko Ostring. AMACOM, ©2004. 238 p. 658.72 OST

Managing suppliers can contribute enormous savings to a company's bottom line, and few companies have done it better than Nokia. In Profit-Focused Supplier Management, Ostring details for the first time the supplier management program that has helped make Nokia the world leader in mobile communications. Drawing from her experience at Nokia, Ostring reveals how to understand and maximize relationships with suppliers to help any company minimize risk and improve profitability in any industry. Profit-Focused Supplier Management will motivate top management to uncover more information about their suppliers, enable purchasing managers to select better suppliers, and give business controllers a tool for limiting risks and improving their companies' financial standing. Profit-Focused Supplier Management addresses suppliers as ongoing business management opportunities. The book uses factual examples from companies including Intel and Marconi that provide an easy and interesting way to adopt the theoretical frameworks into practical formats. Additionally, fictional cases, based on the author's findings, illustrate the importance of in-depth analyses. ISBN 0814471870: $39.50 C/CH/M/ND(Ref)

The right thing : conscience, profit and personal responsibility in today's business / by Jeffrey L. Seglin. Spiro Press USA, 2003. 156 p. 174.4 SEG

This new book on modern ethics and business is based on a regular column written for The New York Times by Seglin. His first column appeared in September 1998 when the U.S. economy was booming, unemployment was at an all-time low, and the stock market at an all-time high. Over the next four years, many changes and issues confronted the corporate world. Here, Seglin has organized his columns into the following topics: Ethics Policies and Life in the Corporation, Hiring, Bosses, Privacy; Lying, Cheating and Stealing; and Leading by Example. Each section has a brief introduction to the topic and raises issues and presents some options for action. Well-written and lucid, Seglin's work brings objectivity, honesty, and wisdom to business ethics and encourages an open dialog and honest questioning to the discussion of integrity in the workplace. ISBN 1904298974 (pbk.): $17.95 C/M (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

Smart financial management : the essential reference for the successful small business / William W. Sihler, Richard D. Crawford, Henry A. Davis. AMACOM, ©2004. 280 p. 658.15 SIH

Sihler explains essential financial measures that small business owners and managers need to know, concentrating on the three major concerns of the small business owner: not running out of money, allocating the company's financial resources, and getting out of the business with something to show for it. The book provides practical guidance for solving everyday financial problems. ISBN 0814407897: $22.50 C/CH/M/ND(Ref) (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

19. Dialogue : theorizing difference in communication studies / edited by Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, and Kenneth N. Cissna. Sage Publications, ©2004. 315 p. 302.3 DIA

This is an anthology of work on dialogic approaches to communication that offers a state-of-the-art collection of original essays in this emerging research area. Editors Rob Anderson, Leslie A. Baxter, and Kenneth N. Cissna have gathered the most respected scholars in the field to describe their research projects, discuss critical elements of dialogue, and anticipate the evolution of the study of dialogue. With a foreword by Julia T. Wood, contributors include James R. Taylor, Stanley Deetz and Jennifer Simpson, Sheila McNamee and John Shotter, and Mark McPhail. The contributors consider a wide range of settings - interpersonal, organizational, societal, and political - and look at the methodology as well as the research underpinning dialogic approaches to the study of communication. The core texts of dialogue studies, including Buber, Gadamer, Habermas, and Bakhtin, set the foundation in Part I, Exploring the Territories of Dialogue. In Part II, Personal Voices in Dialogue, the contributors survey one-on-one, small group, and organization dialogue. Part III, Public Voices in Dialogue, examines the spaces for discourse in more expansive public, intercultural, and mediated settings. The editors pull together disparate implications, connections, and new directions in a dialogue-inspired conclusion. Dialogue allows to frame different influential conceptions of dialogue, establishes the concepts' history in communication studies, and traces both common and unique threads that connect different theorists. ISBN 0761926712 (pbk.): $42.50; ISBN 0761926704 CH

20. Digital journalism : emerging media and the changing horizons of journalism / edited by Kevin Kawamoto. Rowman & Littlefield, ©2003. 189 p. 070.4 DIG

Communications scholar Kawamoto presents ten chapters examining portions of the world of digital journalism and written primarily by practitioners. Topics include the digital photography during the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the role of digital communications in journalist travel organization, the activist digital journalism institutions that were founded to cover the World Trade Organization protests of 1999, the use of online health information, and the idea of "digital government." ISBN 074252681X (pbk.): $24.50; ISBN 0742526801 CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

Digital disability : the social construction of disability in new media / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell. Rowman & Littlefield, ©2003. 183 p. 303.48 GOG

Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications - such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting - have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This engaging analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and the disabled themselves. ISBN 0742518442 (pbk.): $24.00; ISBN 0742518434 M

All the news that's fit to sell : how the market transforms information into news / James T. Hamilton. Princeton University Press, ©2004. 342 p. 070.1 HAM

In his previous book, Channeling Violence, Hamilton showed that the market dictates the amount of violence appearing on television. His new book discusses how economics affects the presentation of news and how market pressures have reduced the amount of hard news appearing in the media generally. He begins by offering different economic theories of news; goes on to discuss the rise of nonpartisan newspapers, which began in 1870; and then includes an analysis of the news audience, asking how much interest they actually have in hard news. The remainder of the book reviews the various methods used by audiences to access news, including newspapers, television (including cable and evening news programs), and the Internet. As Hamilton shows, news is now presented to specific audiences, depending on marketing decisions, with a resultant shift from political news to softer topics such as entertainment. He recommends ways to counteract this situation and increase the amount of hard news available to the consumer. Hamilton includes a wealth of supporting information, including many tables and graphs, and an extensive bibliography. ISBN 0691116806: $28.00 C/CH/M/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2004)

23. Bunting, Mark.

Making public transport work / Mark Bunting. McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004. 161 p. 388.4 BUN

Mark Bunting shows that transportation providers have failed to identify target customers or to organize transportation services efficiently. He argues that customer needs can best be served by private carriers offering door-to-door rather than station-to-station transportation. In contrast, public agencies can best support public transport by addressing not direct delivery of services but such matters as equitable safety and environmental regulation and effective, fair management of roads. ISBN 0773526072: $63.00 M

Marginal cost in the new economy : a proposal for uniform approach to policy evaluations / Roger L. Conkling. M.E. Sharpe, ©2004. 188 p. 338.5 CON

From extensive experience in corporate and governmental policy-making, Conkling proposes that a single standard, marginal cost methodology, replace the hodgepodge of methods now used for cost-benefit analyses of policy issues and applies it to debates over school vouchers, prescription drug pricing, and antitrust cases. In reviewing principles for the New Economy, he discusses Treasury Secretary Larry Summers' challenge in 2000 to traditional microeconomics and marginal cost pricing as promulgated by Alfred E. Kahn in his influential work, The Economics of Regulation. ISBN 0765608499: $64.95 M (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

Financial crisis, contagion, and containment : from Asia to Argentina / Padma Desai. Princeton University Press, ©2003. 303 p. 332 DES

This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and bold critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia's "Crisis Five" - Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand - Padma Desai argues that the region's imprudently fast-paced opening to the free flow of capital was pushed by determined advocates, official and private, in the global economy's U.S.-led developed center. Turmoil ensued in these peripheral economies, the Russian ruble faltered, and Brazil was eventually hit. The inequitable center - periphery relationship also extended to the policy measures that the crisis-swept economies implemented under International Monetary Fund bailouts, which intensified the downturns induced by the panic-driven outflows of short-term capital. Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment examines crisis origin and resolution in a comparative perspective by combing empirical evidence from the most robust economies to the least. Why is the U.S. relatively successful at weathering economic ups and downs? Why is Japan stuck in policy paralysis? Why is the European Central Bank unable to achieve both inflation control and stable growth? How can emerging markets avoid turbulence amid free-flowing speculative capital from private lenders of the developed center? Engaging and non-technical yet deeply insightful, this book appears at a time when the continuing turmoil in Argentina has revived policy debates for avoiding and addressing financial crises in emerging market economies. ISBN 0691113920: $24.44 C/M

26. Ecotourism policy and planning / edited by D. Fennell and Ross K. Dowling. CABI Pub., ©2003. 361 p. REF 338.4 ECO

A cross-pollination between the many works on tourism planning and policy and on environmental tourism. Academics in tourism, most from Oceana, highlight the importance of balancing social, ecological, and economic factors in developing policy for the ecotourism industry. Among the topics are regulation, accreditation, and interpretation of the biophysical environment so that stakeholders such as local communities, tourists, and businesses do not generate adverse impacts on it. This work provides thoughtful insights for students and professionals in tourism, local and regional planners, and policy makers. ISBN 0851996094: $92.50 (For use only in the AIRC) C (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2003)

27. Encyclopedia of American business / general editor, W. Davis Folsom ; associate editor, Rick Boulware. Facts On File, 2004. 516 p. 338 ENC

Encyclopedia of American Business is an easy-to-use guide to the nuts and bolts of business jargon, explaining difficult ideas in straightforward language. Designed especially for nonspecialists, students, and general readers, the encyclopedia helps novices understand the complex and sometimes confusing concepts and terms that are used in business. Five general areas of business are covered: accounting, banking, finance, marketing, and management. Terms, concepts, and associations that one is most likely to encounter in business are the focus of the volume, making it a great place to start learning about how businesses operate and what the primary and different features of the specific business-related functions or ideas mean. ISBN 0816046433: $88.00 (For use only in the AIRC) M

On Adam Smith's Wealth of nations : a philosophical companion / Samuel Fleischacker. Princeton University Press, ©2004. 329 p. 330.15 FLE

Adam Smith was a philosopher before he ever wrote about economics, yet until now there has never been a philosophical commentary on the Wealth of Nations. Samuel Fleischacker suggests that Smith's vastly influential treatise on economics can be better understood if placed in the light of his epistemology, philosophy of science, and moral theory. He lays out the relevance of these aspects of Smith's thought to specific themes in the Wealth of Nations, arguing, among other things, that Smith regards social science as an extension of common sense rather than as a discipline to be approached mathematically, that he has moral as well as pragmatic reasons for approving of capitalism, and that he has an unusually strong belief in human equality that leads him to anticipate, if not quite endorse, the modern doctrine of distributive justice. Fleischacker also places Smith's views in relation to the work of his contemporaries, especially his teacher Francis Hutcheson and friend David Hume, and draws out consequences of Smith's thought for present-day political and philosophical debates. The Companion is divided into five general sections, which can be read independently of one another. It contains an index that points to commentary on specific passages in Wealth of Nations. ISBN 0691115028: $36.50 C/CH

The greater good : how philanthropy drives the American economy and can save capitalism / Claire Gaudiani. Times Books/Henry Holt, 2003. 288 p. 330.973 GAU

Former Connecticut College president Gaudiani argues that philanthropy has always been vital to the growth of America. From Colonial times, Americans have always been willing to open their pockets for philanthropic appeals, which represent a form of "investment in our democracy and our economy." Whether it is a Rockefeller giving away millions or schoolchildren handing over pennies, Gaudiani feels that this spirit of generosity is something uniquely American and one of the country's great strengths. She points out that many institutions taken for granted today (e.g., the Smithsonian) would never have been established without a bequest from enlightened and generous donors. In addition, extending philanthropy to scholarships has enabled them to develop their "human capital," benefiting countless generations. But as companies lay off thousands and large-scale philanthropic contributions are scaled back, Gaudiani wonders if Americans are at a crossroads. If America's generosity dries up, how will our culture endure? As Gaudiana acknowledges, there are no easy answers. This is an eloquent and thoughtfully written work that sheds light on the cultural importance of American philanthropy. ISBN 0805071962: $25.00 C/CH (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

30. Greening the Americas : NAFTA's lessons for hemispheric trade / edited by Carolyn L. Deere and Daniel C. Esty. MIT Press, ©2002. 382 p. 333.7 GRE

Attention to environmental issues is vital if the full potential economic benefits of international trade are to be realized. Greening the Americas offers a number of analytically rigorous proposals to ensure that economic integration in the Western Hemisphere proceeds in an environmentally sustainable and politically sensible manner. The chapters review the history of the environmental negotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), explore the treaty's economic and environmental impacts, and draw lessons that can be applied to the ongoing Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations. Greening the Americas analyzes in detail NAFTA's environmental elements, highlighting those provisions that should be included in future agreements and those that should be amended or dropped. The book includes contributions from a diverse set of participants in the debate about how to link environmental policy and trade agreements. The perspectives range from the broadly optimistic about environmental effects of trade and trade liberalization to a more pessimistic view of the economic and social effects of open markets and economic integration. What unites all of the contributions is a commitment to engage constructively in the policy dialogue over how best to integrate trade and environmental policy making in the Americas. ISBN 0262541386 (pbk.): $24.00; ISBN 0262042126 ND

Understanding the markets / David Loader. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002. 186 p. 332.64 LOA

This book looks at the financial markets from the viewpoint of the person working in the operations functions that support the trading, dealing and investment processes, and as such is essential reading in order to fully understand the industry - an industry which has gone, and is still going through, much change. As the markets undergo change so too do the administration, clearing and settlement functions, as the clearing houses, securities depositories and custodians merge and diversify. This is going to impact on the operations teams that support the trading, sales and retail business. A failure to be aware of and to understand the impact of changes in the markets will create massive problems, greater risk and ultimately financial losses. And yet the sheer size and diversity of the global markets, together with the rapid pace of change and expansion, and the increasing volume of transactions needing to be processed, present a massive challenge to operations teams and managers. ISBN 0750654651: $40.00 ND

Tourism and the economy : understanding the economics of tourism / James Mak. University of Hawaii Press, ©2004. 267 p. 338.4 MAK

Mak presents his work in tourism studies and tourism economics and related fields, and for tourism professionals and policymakers. The coverage of this book includes a definition of tourism; the nature of the tourism product; the tourists themselves - how and why they travel, their spending behaviors at the destination location; tourism suppliers, both business and government; and the benefits, drawbacks, and issues of concern to the host communities. ISBN 0824827899: $24.50 CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

Globalization and social change : people and places in a divided world / Diane Perrons. Routledge, 2004. 366 p. 303.4 PER

Combining a theoretical approach with detailed comparative case studies, Perrons analyzes the effects of globalization and the new economy on people living and working in different places. She emphasizes socio-economic aspects of change, particularly the development of information and communication technologies and changes in working patterns and living arrangements. This refreshing new perspective on globalization and the new economy provides a coherent theoretical framework to explain how contemporary patterns of globalization are materialized at different spatial scales. ISBN 0415266963 (pbk.): $38.00; ISBN 0415266955 M (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

The economic effects of constitutions / Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini. MIT Press, 2003. 306 p. 338.9 PER

The authors of The Economic Effects of Constitutions use econometric tools to study what they call the "missing link" between constitutional systems and economic policy. Taking recent theoretical work as a point of departure, they ask which theoretical findings are supported and which are contradicted by the facts. The results are based on comparisons of political institutions across countries or time, in a large sample of contemporary democracies. They find that presidential/parliamentary and majoritarian/proportional dichotomies influence several economic variables: presidential regimes induce smaller public sectors, and proportional elections lead to greater and less-targeted government spending and larger budget deficits. Moreover, the details of the electoral system (such as district magnitude and ballot structure) influence corruption and structural policies toward economic growth. ISBN 0262162199: $29.50 M

In an uncertain world : tough choices from Wall Street to Washington / Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg. Random House, ©2003. 427 p. 336.73 RUB

From his early years in the storied arbitrage department at Goldman Sachs to his current position as chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, Robert Rubin has been a major figure at the center of the American financial system. He was a key player in the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. With In an Uncertain World, Rubin offers a shrewd, keen analysis of some of the most important events in recent American history and presents a clear, consistent approach to thinking about markets and dealing with the new risks of the global economy. With a compelling and candid voice and a sharp eye for detail, Rubin portrays the daily life of the White House - confronting matters both mighty and mundane - as astutely as he examine the challenges that lie ahead for the nation. Part political memoir, part prescriptive economic analysis, and part personal look at business problems, In an Uncertain World is a deep examination of Washington and Wall Street by a figure who for three decades has been at the center of both worlds. ISBN 0375505857: $35.00 C/CH

36. Better teaching and learning in the digital classroom / edited by David T. Gordon. Harvard Education Press, ©2003. 170 p. 371.334 BET

School spending on new computer technologies has mushroomed in recent years, as educators try to find every strategic advantage to improve teaching and learning in a high-stakes climate. But does the payout justify the payoff? Can such powerful new tools really make a difference in classroom practice? If so, what must teachers do to truly transform instruction with technology rather than simply dress up old practices in high-tech packaging? In this follow-up to the bestseller The Digital Classroom: How Technology Is Changing the Way We Teach and Learn, educators and researchers from the frontlines of technological and educational innovation explore fresh ways of harnessing the power of new technologies to improve teaching and learning. Rich examples from real classrooms give readers specific ideas of what works in today's classrooms, offered in a context of tougher standards and increased accountability pressures. ISBN 1891792172: $49.95; ISBN 1891792164 (pbk.) C/M/ND

37. Distance learning and university effectiveness : changing education paradigms for online learning / Caroline Howard, Karen Schenk, Richard Discenza, editor[s]. Information Science Publishing, ©2004. 352 p. 378.1 DIS

Distance Learning and University Effectiveness: Changing Educational Paradigms for Online Learning addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with information and communication technologies (ICTs) as related to education. From discussing new and innovative educational paradigms and learning models resulting from ICTs to addressing future student needs and international issues, this book provides comprehensive coverage of the paradigm, teaching, technology and other changes that may be required of universities to remain in the new competitive marketplace of online learning. ISBN 159140178X: $70.00; ISBN 1591402212 (pbk.); ISBN 1591401798 (ebook) (For use only in the AIRC) M

38. Globalization and higher education / Jaishree K. Odin and Peter T. Manicas, editors. University of Hawaii Press, ©2004. 265 p. 378 GOL

Containing a range of opposing viewpoints on future of higher education in the context of globalizing capitalism, 14 papers from a February 2002 conference of the same name are presented by Odin and Manicas. Papers by academics, university administrators, and entrepreneurs first set out the context of globalization and education before turning to questions of the impact of globalization on pedagogy, regional experiences in the Americans, and recommendations for the future. ISBN 0824828267 (pbk.): $26.00; ISBN 0824827821 CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

39. Handbook of learning disabilities / edited by H. Lee Swanson, Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham. Guilford Press, ©2003. 587 p. REF 371.92 HAN

This comprehensive handbook reviews the major theoretical, methodological, and instructional advances that have occurred in the field of learning disabilities over the last 20 years. With contributions from leading researchers, the volume synthesizes a vast body of knowledge on the nature of learning disabilities, their relationship to basic psychological and brain processes, and how students with these difficulties can best be identified and treated. Findings are reviewed on ways to support student performance in specific skill areas - including language arts, math, science, and social studies -as well as general principles of effective instruction that cut across academic domains. Authoritative and up to date, the book also examines the concepts and methods that guide learning disability research and identifies promising directions for future investigation. ISBN 1572308516: $65.00 (For use only in the AIRC) M

40. Online collaborative learning : theory and practice / Tim S. Roberts. Information Science Pub., ©2004. 321 p. 378.1 ONL

Online Collaborative Learning: Theory and Practice provides a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of online collaborative learning (also known as CSCL, computer - supported collaborative learning), particularly for those working within a tertiary education environment. It includes articles of relevance to those interested in both theory and practice in this area. It attempts to answer such important current questions as: how can groups with shared goals work collaboratively using the new technologies? What problems can be expected, and what are the benefits? In what ways does online group work differ from face-to-face group work? And what implications are there for both educators and students seeking to work in this area? ISBN 1591401747: $70.00; ISBN 1591402271 (pbk.) M

41. Twenty-first-century feminist classrooms : pedagogies of identity and difference / edited by Amie A. Macdonald and Susan Sanchez-Casal. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 312 p. 370.11 TWE

Twenty-First-Century Feminist Classrooms invigorates feminist education by reevaluating the pedagogical and political relevance of experience, identity, and difference. The authors generate supportive critiques of mainstream feminist pedagogies and articulate new methods for understanding and centralizing the epistemic function of experience in the antiracist feminist classroom. The Introduction proposes a new paradigm for feminist educators by reevaluating the significance and application of identity theory in feminist pedagogy. The essays that follow focus on a range of theoretical and identity-based issues in feminist pedagogy - from the impact of racism, white resistance, and nationalism on feminist teaching and learning, to the challenges of teaching Queer Theory, Black History, and Histories of Genocide in antiracist feminist classrooms. ISBN 0312295340 (pbk.): $22.65; ISBN 0312295332 C/CH/ND

42. Using benchmarking to inform practice in higher education / Barbara E. Bender, John H. Schuh, editors. Jossey-Bass, ©2002. 130 p. 378.73 USI

Declining confidence in the academy, combined with increasing scrutiny of higher education by funding agencies, legislators, and the public, is driving academic leaders to better demonstrate the extent to which their colleges and universities are meeting goals. Benchmarking, a tool that has been used for years in industry; is one approach higher education leaders can use to measure the extent to which institutional objectives are being met." This volume of New Directions for Higher Education provides different perspectives on the application of benchmarking in higher education. The authors present conceptual overviews and organizational examples of how benchmarking can be used in colleges and universities. Readers would develop an appreciation of benchmarking as an administrative tool, including a greater awareness of its strengths and limitations. Administrators or faculty members in higher education will be able to develop their own strategies for using benchmarking in their practice. ISBN 0787963313: $26.00 ND

43. Environmental governance reconsidered : challenges, choices, and opportunities / edited by Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Rosemary O'Leary. MIT Press, ©2004. 560 p. 333.72 ENV

This survey of current issues and controversies in environmental policy and management is unique in its thematic mix, broad coverage of key debates and approaches, and in-depth analysis of concepts treated less thoroughly in other texts. The contributing authors, all distinguished scholars or practitioners, offer a comprehensive examination of key topics in environmental governance today, including perspectives from environmental economics, democratic theory, public policy, law, political science, and public administration. This book integrates these wide-ranging topics and perspectives thematically in one volume. Many are calling for a change in the bureaucratic, adversarial, technology-based regulatory approach that is the basis for much environmental policy - a move from "rule-based" to "results-based" regulation. Each of the thirteen chapters critically examines one aspect of this "second generation" of environmental reform, assesses its promise-versus-performance to date, and points out future challenges and opportunities. The first section of the book discusses the concepts of sustainability, global interdependence, the precautionary principle, and common pool resource theory. The second section examines deliberative democracy, civic environmentalism, environmental justice, property rights and regulatory takings, and environmental conflict resolution. The final section analyzes devolution, regulatory flexibility, pollution prevention, and third-party environmental management systems auditing. This book provides insights for scholars, managers, natural resource specialists, policymakers, and reformers. ISBN 0262541742 (pbk.): $27.50; ISBN 0262042185 C/CH/ND

44. Environmental Peacemaking / edited by Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, © 2003. 244 p. 363.7 ENV

How can environmental cooperation be used to bolster regional peace? A large body of research suggests that environmental degradation may catalyze violent conflict. Environmental cooperation, in contrast, has gone almost unexplored as a means of peacemaking, even though it opens several effective channels: enhancing trust, establishing habits of cooperation, lengthening the time horizons of decisionmakers, forging cooperative trans-societal linkages, and creating shared regional norms and identities. This volume examines the case for environmental peacemaking by comparing progress, prospects, and problems related to environmental peacemaking initiatives in six regions South Asia, Central Asia, the Baltic, Southern Africa, the Caucasus, and the U.S.-Mexico border. The regions vary dramatically in terms of scale, interdependencies, history, and kinds of insecurity. But each is marked by a highly fluid, changing security order, creating a potential for environmental cooperation to have a catalytic effect on peacemaking. Among the volume's key findings are these: that substantial potential for environmental peacemaking exists in most regions; that significant tensions from narrower efforts to improve the strategic climate among mistrustful governments can impair broader trans-societal efforts to build environmental peace; and that the effects of environmental peacemaking initiatives are highly sensitive to the ways they are institutionalized. ISBN: 080187193X: $17.50 C/CH/M/ND

The long summer : how climate changed civilization / Brian Fagan. Basic Books, ©2004. 284 p. 551.6 FAG

Fagan, in his latest exploration of this subject, Fagan looks at the effect of rising temperatures over the past 15,000 years and how this has influenced human civilizations. While most of human evolution occurred during the Ice Age, it is only when glaciers started to recede and temperatures and sea levels started to rise that humans invented agricultural techniques, which led them to build permanent cities and communities. Recent analysis of climate records during this warm period (the Holocene) provides the framework against which historical transitions are now being studied. Fagan postulates that changes due to warming led to the cattle-herding culture among ancient Egyptians and the Masai; Middle Eastern droughts spawned plant cultivation; rising sea levels created the Persian Gulf and Fertile Crescent, which generated the rise of Mesopotamia. ISBN 0465022812: $26.00 C/CH/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2004)

Environmentalism unbound : exploring new pathways for change / Robert Gottlieb. MIT Press, ©2001. 396 p. 363.7 GOT

According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns. This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues. After tracing a history of environmental perspectives on land and resources, city and countryside, and work and industry, Gottlieb focuses on three compelling examples of this new approach to social and environmental change. The first involves a small industry (dry cleaning) and the debate over pollution prevention approaches; the second involves a set of products (janitorial cleaning supplies) that may be hazardous to workers; and the third explores the obstacles and opportunities presented by community or regional approaches to food supply in the face of an increasingly globalized food system. ISBN 0262072106: $19.95 C/CH

47. Our backyard : a quest for environmental justice / edited by Gerald Visgilio, Diane Whitelaw. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2003. 223 p. 363.7 OUR

Proponents of environmental justice argue that environmental risks and the benefits of environmental regulation are unequally distributed when it comes to racial minorities and the poor. Visgilio and Whitelaw present ten essays by academicians, environmental activists, government officials that explore the history and current controversies of the environmental justice movement. After discussing the development of ideas of environmental justice, papers review the empirical research regarding environmental inequities. Case studies of political mobilizations are then presented. ISBN 0742523632 (pbk.): $22.00; ISBN 0742523624 C/CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

48. Ambrosius, Lloyd E.

Wilsonianism : Woodrow Wilson and his legacy in American foreign relations / Lloyd E. Ambrosius. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. 233 p. 973.91 WIL

In Wilsonianism, American foreign relations specialist Lloyd E. Ambrosius has compiled his published and unpublished essays on Woodrow Wilson's liberal ideology and statecraft during and after World War One. Although the president failed in his pursuit of a new world order, his legacy of Wilsonianism - the principles of national self-determination, economic globalization, collective security, and progressive historicism continued to shape U.S. foreign relations throughout the American Century. Ambrosius examines the American roots of Wilson's liberal internationalism, the dilemmas and contradictions in his principles, and the problematic consequences of U.S. efforts to implement Wilsonian ideals without fully appreciating the world's cultural pluralism as well as its economic and political interdependence. ISBN 1403960097 (pbk.): $23.00; ISBN 1403960089 C/CH/ND

We will prevail : President George W. Bush on war, terrorism, and freedom / selected and edited by National Review ; foreword by Peggy Noonan ; introduction by Jay Nordlinger. Continuum, 2003. 265 p. 973.931 BUS

This volume presents a collection of excerpts from statements and speeches delivered by President George W. Bush since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Selected and edited by editors of the National Review, Bush's words address issues of war, terrorism, and freedom. Included are Bush's declarations on Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, excerpts from two State of the Union Addresses, and the Executive Decision to remove the regime of Saddam Hussein. The volume does not contain bibliographical references or an index. ISBN 0826415520: $24.95 C/CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

Big lies : the right-wing propaganda machine and how it distorts the truth / Joe Conason. Thomas Dunne Books, 2003. 245 p. 973.931 CON

Liberals are fighting back, and Conason, a columnist for the New York Observer and Salon, delivers what he hopes will be a knockout blow to Ann Coulter (whom he accuses of "manufacturing... sham outrage for personal gain and political advantage") and her liberal-bashing comrades on the right. He lands some fine punches as he turns what he terms their "lies" back on themselves, amassing evidence that it's conservatives who are the elitists, who hold sway in the media, who violate family values (though Conason's chapter on what he casts as the hypocrisy of Newt Gingrich and his cohorts, trotting out one sexual transgression after another, quickly becomes distasteful). Conason's case is substantial, especially in dismissing conservatives' espousal of the free market - arguing that what they really support is selfish crony capitalism (he indicts the Bushes at length) - and in reviewing of Clinton's strong anti-al-Qaida campaign to counter charges that he was "soft" on terrorism. (Liberals will find it particularly delicious that then senator John Ashcroft led the battle against Clinton's effort to get government control over encryption software on civil liberties grounds.) But most of Conason's points are already well rehearsed, though liberals may find it useful to have them gathered in one volume. Despite conservative Republican election victories, Conason argues, polls show that most Americans sympathize with liberal positions on issues from the tax system to the environment. Still, it's not clear that what eventually becomes a tiresome litany of the sins of the right is the best way to remind Americans of where their sympathies really lie. ISBN 0312315600: $24.95 CH (Adapted from Publisher's Weekly, ©2003)

51. The George W. Bush presidency : appraisals and prospects / edited by Colin Campbell and Bert A. Rockman. CQ Press, ©2004. 361 p. 973.931 BUS

Campbell and Rockman collect perspectives evaluating George W. Bush's presidency, focusing on the unusual circumstances of Bush's ascent to the presidency, the political success of his campaign to cut taxes, the events of 9/11, corporate corruption, and Middle East foreign policy. Academics in political science look at Bush and public opinion, Congress, federal judgeships, interest groups, and Bush and the politics of gender and race. ISBN 1568029098: $23.00 C/CH/ND (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

52. John Fitzgerald Kennedy : a life in pictures / by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac. Phaidon, 2003. 304 p. REF 973.922 KEN

A celebration, in photographs, of the life of John F. Kennedy (1917-63), the thirty-fifth president of the United States, this book to extensively illustrate the man as well as the icon, and to cover the glamour and success of his life from childhood and student days to congress, fatherhood, presidency and the tragedy of his untimely death. Iconic and unknown pictures offer a unique insight into the family man, as well as the world leader, who held firm when the country trembled on the brink of nuclear war and whose economic programs launched America on it's longest sustained expansion since World War I. This wide-ranging collection of photographs, personal notes and campaign memorabilia, many of which are previously unpublished, has been culled from an extensive number and range of sources. It tells the behind-the-scenes story of the youngest man to be elected president. These photographs, selected for their power and poignancy, pay an extraordinary tribute to one of the 20th century's most respected leaders. ISBN 0714843628: $39.95 (For use only in the AIRC) C/CH/M/ND

Profiles in courage / John F. Kennedy. HarperCollins, 2003. 245 p. 973 KEN

During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now featuring a new Introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well as Robert Kennedy's foreword written for the 1964 memorial edition - resounds with timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues and is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit. It is, as Robert Kennedy writes, "not just stories of the past but a book of hope and confidence for the future. What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us." ISBN 0060530626: $19.95 C/CH/ND

Pandita Ramabai's America : conditions of life in the United States / edited, with a biographical introduction by Robert Eric Frykenberg. William B. Eerdmans Pub., ©2003. 322 p. 917.304 RAM

Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922), renowned for her amazing learning in an age when most Indian women did not even learn to read, became a world-famous social reformer and speaker. When Ramabai's travels brought her to the United States, she decided to record her impressions of America and its citizens to share with her compatriots back home. This work can be compared with that of Alexis de Tocqueville. In these pages Ramabai describes and assesses American domestic conditions, education, religious life, government, and business. While upholding some aspects of American life, especially the improved status of women, as ideals for her own country, Ramabai also makes insightful criticisms of life in the United States. ISBN 0802812937: $47.50 M

55. Net effects : how librarians can manage the unintended consequences of the Internet / edited by Marylaine Block. Information Today,©2003. 380 p. 025.4 NET

Now that we have lived with the Internet for a while, the shine is wearing off even for the non-Luddites among us, and the ugly underside is more apparent. While many of the difficulties encountered in libraries by net access have been discussed ad nauseum, some others are only now coming to light. Managing the consequences of the Internet, both intended and unintended, will be with us for the foreseeable future. Editor Block has gathered some 50 articles by such leading librarians as Roy Tennant, Leigh Estabrook, Nancy Pearl, James Casey, Steven Bell, and Karen Schneider. The pieces are organized into thematic chapters ["Regaining Control Over Selection," "Rescuing the Book," "Making Them Adapt to Us: Training Our Users," "The Shifted Librarian: Adapting to the Changing Expectations of Our Wired (and Wireless) Users," "Access Issues," "The Techno-Economic Imperative," "Running To Stay in Place: Continuous Retraining," "Up to Our Ears in Lawyers: Legal Issues Posed by the Net," "Disappearing Data," "How To Avoid Getting Blind Sided"], and each chapter includes a recommended reading list. With so many difficulties to deal with, not every one has a simple solution, or a solution that is appropriate for every library. However, even if this book does not hold all the definitive answers, there are certainly a lot of good suggestions. And just being aware of possible problems helps stave off being blindsided by the unexpected. In this vein, there is also a section on identifying potential future threats. ISBN 1573871710: $39.50 (For use only in the AIRC) C/M/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

Creating cool Web sites with HTML, XHTML, and CSS / Dave Taylor. Wiley Publishers, ©2004. 405 p. 006.7 TAY

Thinking of launching a Web site or an e-business? Want to jazz up the site you already have? This book is jammed with secrets that entice Web wanderers to stop at your site and return again. You'll find out how to create a basic Web page, enhance it using CSS and JavaScript, morph it into a complete multi-page site, add forms, video, and animation, and get a top ranking from leading search engines. Here's the perfect mix of technology and creativity - the cool stuff you want to do, plus a thorough understanding of the tools that let you do it. ISBN 0764557386: $23.00 C/CH/M/ND(Ref)

57. Atkins, Stephen E.

Encyclopedia of modern American extremists and extremist groups / Stephen E. Atkins. Greenwood Press, 2002. 375 p. REF 320.53 ATK

The terrorists who struck on September 11 were not the first to try to bring down America, and, regrettably, they won't be the last. Atkins (Historical Encyclopedia of Atomic Energy) has put together a reference source that lists 275 of the most influential and significant domestic extremists, organized groups, and extreme events. (Foreigners committing terrorist acts on North American soil are not included.) Here they are divided into three categories: political, religious, and economic/social. While the book covers activities since the 1950s, three quarters of the entries focus on the period from 1980 to 2001. Each entry offers an in-depth article followed by a brief but strong bibliography. Although readers will recognize the subject of some entries, such as the Black Panthers, Heaven's Gate, The Unabomber, Operation Rescue, and the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), many are not well known, such as Gerald McLamb (a leading champion of the militia movement) and the Silver Spring Monkeys (the first major animal liberation group). Thus, this book gives readers insight into a wide range of viewpoints. ISBN 0313315027: $72.50 (For use only in the AIRC) M (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

Al-Qaeda : in search of the terror network that threatens the world / Jane Corbin. Thunder Mouth Press/National Books, ©2002. 315 p. 973.931 COR

In Al-Qaeda, Jane Corbin, crosses four continents in search of bin Laden's terror network. The result of four years research, reporting and travel throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe and America, she has conducted hundreds of interviews with key eyewitnesses, investigators, and intelligence officers around the world. Tracing al-Qaeda's roots back to the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, Corbin picks up the complicated trail that led to the collapse of the Twin Towers and beyond. Exploring the tradecraft of "The Base," she shows how they used the training drilled into them in the Afghan terror camps to stay below the radar of the world's most sophisticated intelligence agency. Here too are descriptions of the parallel deadly plots to kill hundreds in Europe, only uncovered in their final stages. Finally, as President Bush's "war on terror" in Afghanistan poses more questions than it answers, Corbin examines the West's response to the threat of al-Qaeda and declares it a failure. ISBN 1560254262: $24.95 C/CH/M

59. Crisis communications : lessons from September 11 / edited by A. Michael Noll. Rowman & Littlefield, ©2003. 231 p. 303.6 CRI

On September 11, 2001, AT&T's traffic was 40 percent greater than its previous busiest day. Wireless calls were made from the besieged airplanes and buildings - the human voice had a calming influence on people affected by the crisis. E-mail was used to overcome distance and time zones. Storytelling played an important role both in conveying information and in coping with the disaster. Building on the events of 9/11 and its lessons, Crisis Communications features an international cast of top contributors exploring emergency communications during times of crisis. Together, they evaluate the use, performance, and effects of traditional mass media (radio, TV, print), newer media (Internet, e-mail), conventional telecommunications (telephones, cell phones), and interpersonal communication in emergency situations. Applying what has been learned from the behavior of the mass media in past crises, the contributors clearly show the central role of communications on September 11. They establish how people learned of the tragedy and how they responded; examine the effects of media globalization on terrorism; and, in many cases, give specific advice for the future. ISBN 0742525430 (pbk.): $27.50; ISBN 0742525422 CH

60. Distance education : issues and concerns / Cleborne D. Maddux, Jacque Ewing-Taylor, D. LaMont Johnson, editors. Haworth Press, ©2002. 232 p. 371.3 DIS

This valuable collection looks at distance education through a varied set of critical lenses to examine how distance education classrooms can affect students' attitudes and behaviors, the use of and attitudes toward group projects in online courses, the effects that the use of technology has on the relationship between student and teacher, and a great deal more. Fifteen contributions evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of the online courses offered by an ever-increasing number of colleges. Topics include the use of collaborative groups in traditional and online courses, quality control for online graduate course delivery, a cost-income model for electronically delivered instruction, and hybrid online coursework for enhancing the technology competency of school principals. ISBN 0789020300: $47.00; ISBN 0789020319 (pbk.) C/M/ND (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2003)

Projections of power : framing news, public opinion, and U.S. foreign policy / Robert M. Entman. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 299 p. 327.73 ENT

To succeed in foreign policy, U.S. presidents have to sell their versions, or "framings," of political events to the news media and to the public. But since the end of the Cold War, journalists have increasingly resisted presidential views, even offering their own spin on events. What, then, determines whether the media will accept or reject the White House perspective? And what consequences does this new media environment have for policymaking and public opinion? To answer these questions, Robert M. Entman develops a powerful new model of how media framing works and suggests ways to more effectively encourage the exchange of ideas between the government and the media and between the media and the public. From the U.S. invasion of Grenada to the war in Iraq and its aftermath, Entman offers a comprehensive understanding of modern foreign policymaking that is sensitive to the changing historical context and to the ethical complexities facing the world's only superpower, its press, and its citizenry. His book will be an essential guide for political scientists, students of the media, and anyone interested in the increasingly influential role of the media in foreign policy. ISBN 0226210723 (pbk.): $15.50; ISBN 0226210715 C/CH/ND

A peace to end all peace : the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East / David Fromkin. 1st Owl Books ed. H. Holt, 2001. 635 p. 327.41056 FRO

The critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling account of how the modern Middle East came into being after World War I, and why it is in upheaval today. The Middle East has long been a battleground of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and dynasties. All of these conflicts - including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis that have flared up yet again - stem from its political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed upon the region by the Allies after the First World War. In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies came to remake the geography and politics of the Middle East, drawing lines on an empty map that eventually became the new countries of Iraq, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when everything - even an alliance between Arab nationalism and Zionism - seemed possible, Fromkin raises questions about what might have been done differently and answers questions about why things were done as they were. The current battle for a Palestinian homeland has its roots in these events of eighty-five years ago. ISBN 0805068848: $20.00 C/M

Talking terrorism : a dictionary of the loaded language of political violence / Philip Herbst. Greenwood Press, ©2003. 220 p. REF 303.6 HER

Cultural anthropologist Herbst has made a specialty of creating dictionaries that explore the loaded language surrounding various social and cultural phenomena. In The Color of Words, he took on race and ethnicity, while his Wimmin, Wimps and Wallflowers dealt with sex and gender. His latest work addresses the manipulation of language in the service of political violence worldwide. This is not a standard lexicographical work, with pronunciation guides and brief, neutral definitions. Rather, it is a dictionary with a social and political objective: to explore how supposedly civilized people, groups, and governments the world over use language to provide a moral justification for violence. Drawing on an extensive bibliography of print, Internet, and media sources from Left, Right, and Center, Herbst sticks to his bias - busting agenda without ever falling into the trap of political correctness or taking sides on an issue. The 150 A to Z entries range from one half to several pages in length and include definitions, an examination of the charged use of a term both historically and in the present, and numerous cross references. Since Herbst's focus is on exposing rhetorical chauvinism, the terms he selects are labels, libels, ideologies, and "government speak" rather than people, places, or events. Thus, readers will find entries for "infidel," "crackpot," "nihilism," and "homeland security" but not for "Timothy McVeigh," "Chechnya," or "World Trade Center bombing." The only surprise is the lack of entries dealing with the role and implications of cyberspace in molding the language of terrorism. ISBN 0313324867: $48.00 (For use only in the AIRC) C/M (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

64. Humanitarian intervention : ethical, legal, and political dilemmas / edited by J.L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 350 p. 341.584 HUM

This anthology should set a standard because of its comprehensive treatment of the subject - among the most current and most controversial in international law - and because of obstacles to agreeing about legitimate intervention. The contributors clearly explain why intervention remains an "imperfect duty." Responding to genocide in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Cambodia, among other venues, has exposed a gap between the legitimacy of preventing egregious violations of human rights and the norm of nonintervention present in positive law and the United Nations Charter. Thus, Allen Buchanan warns that one "cannot move directly from the commitment to the rule of law as an ideal to strict fidelity to existing law," and it is precisely this concern about "movement" that most of the writers share. Michael Byers and Simon Chesterman ask if an admission of "exceptional illegality" in intervention cannot in fact strengthen international law; Michael Ignatieff ironically notes how the idea of "Westphalian" sovereign nonintervention is accorded to collapsed or failed states; Jane Stromseth warns against the "drawbacks of a premature codification" of a right to intervene. The relevance of the book to the post-Communist international order is hard to understate, yet the level of treatment presumes a familiarity with international law that many undergraduates may not possess. ISBN 052152928X (pbk.): $23.00; ISBN 0521821983 C/CH/M (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

The democratic peace and territorial conflict in the twentieth century / Paul K. Huth and Todd L. Allee. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 488 p. 327.1 HUT

This book re-evaluates the foundations of the democratic peace literature and presents three distinct theoretical models of how domestic institutions can influence the foreign policy choices of state leaders - Political Accountability, Political Norms, and Political Affinity. Huth and Allee test their hypotheses against a new and original global data set of 348 territorial disputes from 1919 to 1995. Each territorial dispute is divided into three separate but related stages for empirical analysis: Challenge the Status quo Stage, Negotiation Stage, and Military Escalation Stage. The authors employ advanced statistical tests to compare the explanatory power of the three theoretical models across each stage of a territorial dispute. Their results provide strong support for the importance of democratic accountability and norms in shaping the diplomatic and military policies of incumbent leaders, and add new insights into understanding when and why democratic leaders engage in highly cooperative or confrontational foreign policies. ISBN 0521805082 (pbk.): $23.50; ISBN 052180115X CH

Fighting back : the war on terrorism from inside the Bush White House / Bill Sammon. Regnery Publishing, Inc., ©2002. 400 p. 973.931 SAM

In Washington Times correspondent Sammon's inside account of the Bush administration's reaction to 9-11 and the resultant war on terror, readers are tendered a breathless, highly complimentary portrait of the president and an overly simplistic moral tale about the great merit and unwavering moral vision of his inner circle. What could be an extremely interesting if one-sided account is often undercut by Sammon's penchant for editorializing and novelizing. Nor does Sammon seem to appreciate the irony of quoting some of the president's less eloquent statements, such as: "The role of a president is to seek great objectives for the country, big goals." Those more skeptical of the government's policies, however, will find his narrative more hagiography than history, and will want to wait for Bob Woodward's forthcoming Bush at War, which covers the same territory from a different angle. ISBN 0895261057 (pbk.): $17.95; ISBN 0895261499 C/CH/ND (Adapted from Publisher's Weekly, ©2003)

67. Understanding terrorism : psychosocial roots, consequences, and interventions / edited by Fathali M. Moghaddam and Anthony J. Marsella. American Psychological Association, 2004. 343 p. 303.6 UND

Understanding Terrorism: Psychosocial Roots, Consequences, and Interventions brings the powerful resources of psychological science to bear on the issue of terrorism. Terrorism by definition attempts to change the psychological state of its targets, so psychologists are well positioned to cast light on this phenomenon. In this volume, leading international experts conduct an incisive analysis of the psychosocial basis of terrorism and suggest ways to prevent it, including both strategies to eliminate the conditions that give rise to terrorism and effective ways to treat victims of terrorism. Social psychologists, therapists, and social workers as well as political scientists and lawmakers will find this volume very useful. ISBN 1591470323: $48.50 M

68. The United States and coercive diplomacy / edited by Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin. United States Institute of Peace Press, 2003. 442 p. 327.73 UNI

With increasing frequency, U.S. leaders look to achieve their foreign policy goals by marrying diplomacy to military muscle. Since the end of the Cold War, "coercive diplomacy" - the effort to change the behavior of a larger state or group through the threat or limited use of military force - has been used in no fewer than eight cases. "But what, exactly, has the concept of coercive diplomacy meant in recent practice? What are coercive diplomacy's objectives? How does it operate? And how well does it work?" "To answer these questions, Robert Art and Patrick Cronin have enlisted a distinguished cast of scholars and practitioners to investigate the record of the past twelve years. Each author focuses on one of coercive diplomacy's recent targets, a remarkably diverse group ranging from North Korea to Serbia to the Taliban, from warlords to terrorists to regional superpowers." As Robert Art makes clear in a groundbreaking conclusion, those results have been mixed at best. Art dissects the uneven performance of coercive diplomacy and explains why it has sometimes worked and why it has more often failed. ISBN 1929223455: $43.00; ISBN 1929223447 ND

69. Boyd, Valerie.

Wrapped in rainbows : the life of Zora Neale Hurston / Valerie Boyd. Scribner, ©2003. 527 p. 813.52 HUR

Wrapped in Rainbows - the first biography of Zora Neale Hurston in twenty-five years - illuminates the complexities of an extraordinary life. Born in Alabama in 1891, Hurston moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, when she was still a toddler. In this close-knit community - the first incorporated all-black town in America - she spent a pleasant childhood, happily imbibing the rich language and folk culture of the rural black South. When Hurston was still a girl, her mother died, and her father's swift remarriage led to the family's dispersal. Hurston spent the next decade wandering in search of parental figures, working menial jobs, and charting her own course into adulthood. Reinventing herself at the age of twenty-six, she entered high school in Baltimore by claiming to be ten years younger - a fiction she would maintain throughout her life. Hurston went on to attend Howard University and Barnard College, and during this time launched her writing career in the midst of the blossoming Harlem Renaissance. In New York, she developed relationships with luminaries such as Langston Hughes, Ethel Waters, Fannie Hurst, and Carl Van Vechten. Hurston periodically left New York to travel the country (and the world) collecting black music, poetry, and literature - becoming one of the most important folklore collectors of her time, as well as one of the most enduring writers of her century. Wrapped in Rainbows presents a full picture of Hurston as both a writer and a woman, shedding new light on her public and private lives. Drawing on meticulous research and a wealth of crucial information that has emerged over the past twenty years, Valerie Boyd delves into Hurston's thirst for the limelight, her sexuality and short-lived marriages, her mysterious relationship with Vodou, and her occasionally controversial political views. With the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and World War II as historical backdrops, Wrapped in Rainbows not only positions Hurston's work in her time but offers implications for our own. ISBN 0684842300: $30.00 CH/M/ND

70. The Cambridge companion to Edgar Allan Poe / edited by Kevin J. Hayes. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 266 p. 818.309 POE

This Companion consists of 14 essays by leading international scholars. They provide a series of new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. Specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, the essays examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stores and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. This volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading. ISBN 0521797276 (pbk.): $21.50; ISBN 0521793262 C

71. The Cambridge companion to Sam Shepard / edited by Matthew Roudane. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 329 p. 812.54 CAM

Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed "on" and "off" Broadway as well as in all the major regional American theaters. They are also widely performed and studied in Europe, particularly in Britain, Germany and France, finding both a popular and a scholarly audience. This companion explores the various aspects of Shepard's career, providing fascinating first-hand accounts and substantial critical chapters on the plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work. ISBN 0521777666 (pbk.): $20.70; ISBN 0521771587 C/CH

On nature and language / Noam Chomsky ; edited byAdriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 206 p. 401 CHO

Including transcripts of three lectures and an interview, this work presents results from noted linguist Chomsky's November 1999 visit to the University of Siena's Certosa di Pontignano, a secluded research center. The varied collection of essays offers a unique introduction to the minimalist approach to linguistics, which views language as optimally enabling the brain to express thought. Adriana Belletti and Luigi Rizzi, two University of Siena linguistics professors, contribute a lengthy introductory essay highlighting progress in linguistic research (Chapter 1) as well as a transcript of their interview with Chomsky (Chapter 4). Both in the interview and the lectures reproduced in Chapters 2 and 3, Chomsky explains how the minimalist approach fits with other scientific research. In Chapter 5, he discusses political topics. ISBN 052101624X (pbk.): $18.50; ISBN 0521815487 C/CH/M (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2002)

Reporting the universe / E.L. Doctorow. Harvard University Press, 2003. 125 p. DOC

The writer, according to Emerson, believes all that can be thought can be written. In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported. And what writer worth his name, E.L. Doctorow asks, will not seriously, however furtively, take on the universe? Human consciousness, personal history, American literature, religion, and politics - these are the far-flung coordinates of the universe that Doctorow reports here, a universe that uniquely and brilliantly reflects our contemporary scene. Rich with philosophical asides, historical speculations, personal observations, and literary judgments, Reporting the Universe ranges from the circumstances of Doctorow's own boyhood and early work to the state of modern society. An account of the "Childhood of a Writer," along with pieces on Kenyon College and the author's first novel, comprise a pocket-sized memoir. In reflections on Emerson, on "texts that are sacred, texts that are not," and on literature and religion Doctorow concerns himself with the status and fate of literature. And in "Why We Are Infidels" and "The Politics of God" he engages some of the most pressing anxieties and ideologies of our day. This series of reflections comes together as an artfully sustained meditation on American consciousness and experience. ISBN 0674004612: $22.95 C/CH/M/ND

The layers of magazine editing / Michael Robert Evans. Columbia University Press, ©2004. 353 p. 808 EVA

Unlike the myriad writing manuals that emphasize grammar, sentence structure, and other skills necessary for entry-level editing jobs, this engaging book adopts a broader view, beginning with the larger topics of audience, mission, and tone, and working its way down, layer by layer, to the smaller questions of grammar and punctuation. Based on Michael Evans's years of experience as an editor and supplemented by invaluable observations from the editors of more than sixty magazines - including The Atlantic, Better Homes and Gardens, Ebony, Esquire, and National Geographic - this book reveals the people - oriented nature of the job. ISBN 0231128614 (pbk.): $29.00; ISBN 0231128606 CH

75. Faulkner and war : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2001 / edited by Noel Polk and Ann J. Abadie. University Press of Mississippi, ©2004. 165 p. 813.52 FAU

There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner - the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Although he did not fight in any war, he postured as a veteran flyer, for he had enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps in Canada. In his novels, short stories, essays, and letters, war remained a looming subject. Faulkner and War, a collection of essays from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi in 2001, explores the role that war played in the life and work of a writer whose career seems forever poised against a backdrop of conflicts going on or recently ended or in the volatile years between. Perhaps most significant for all his works was the Civil War, which had ended thirty-two years before Faulkner was born. Yet it was the vast, inescapable panorama against which he set his novels of the anguished South. John Liman discusses Faulkner's attempt to show how much of the sense of reality that the Great War produced could be rendered in fiction without explicit reference to it, as, for example, in one novel seemingly remote from the war, As I Lay Dying. Lothar Honnighausen examines Faulkner's evolving ideological attitudes toward war in Soldiers' Pay, A Fable, and The Mansion. These and other essays give illumination to Faulkner's close analysis of war and its consequences as they appear in his work ISBN 1578065593: $46.00 C

Everyday and prophetic : the poetry of Lowell, Ammons, Merrill, and Rich / Nick Halpern. University of Wisconsin Press, ©2003. 293 p. 811 HAL

The everyday is what the prophetic poet focuses on, that is what fills him with rage, that is what he wants to transform. Everyday and Prophetic describes and analyzes at length the complex relationship between the prophetic voice and the everyday voice in postwar and contemporary American poetry. Halpern demonstrates the ways in which the tension between these voices is centrally important to poetry and argues that focusing on this crucial relationship will allow readers to describe more accurately and precisely the inner operation of an enormous variety of poems. After a comprehensive introduction, Halpern offers extended readings of the work of Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, Jorie Graham, and Louise Gluck, presenting readers with a fresh and original context in which to see their work and to understand postwar and contemporary American poetry as a whole. Halpern traces the complex relationship between the everyday and prophetic voices, arguing that their failure or success in the poem determines whether the reader is rewarded with sharp disappointment or tremendous excitement. ISBN 0299173402: $35.00 C/CH

77. The Harvard guide to African-American history / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, editor-in-chief ; Leon F. Litwack and Darlene Clark Hine, general editors ; Randall K. Burkett, associate editor ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Harvard University Press, 2001. 923 p. REF 973 HAR

This guide offers a compendium of information and interpretation on over 500 years of black experience in America. The first section includes 12 essays on historical research aids divided by topics such as films, newspapers, Internet resources, primary sources on microform, government documents, manuscript collections, and oral history archives. The second section contains comprehensive bibliographies prepared by distinguished scholars such as John Thornton, Stephanie Shaw, Eric Foner, Nancy Grant, and Clayborne Carson and further subdivided into specific themes such as race relations, religion, color and class, politics and voting, urban conditions, and science and technology. The third section provides sources related to special subject matters: autobiographies of African-Americans, studies identified by geographic region, and studies of African-American women by editor-in-chief Higginbotham. ISBN 0674002768: $125.50 (For use only in the AIRC) ND (Adapted from Library Jounal, ©2001)

Understanding William H. Gass / H.L. Hix. University of South Carolina Press, ©2002. 189 p. GAS

Hix offers readings of Gass's works, from the early books, Omensetter's Luck and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, to his later The Tunnel and Cartesian Sonata. Hix identifies the continuous presence of psychological, metaphysical, and ethical themes, including the lingering effect on adults of childhood hurts, the results of being "trapped" in language, and the consequences of hatred. While agreeing with critics who label Gass's novels and stories metafiction, he contends that to stop the exploration there would be to miss a complete appreciation of the novelist. Hix demonstrates instead how Gass's writings both break and follow tradition - as metafiction belonging to the company of works by John Barth but also as moral fiction belonging to the long American tradition that includes The Scarlet Letter and To Kill a Mockingbird. ISBN 1570034729: $29.95 C/ND

The modern library writer's workshop : a guide to the craft of fiction / Stephen Koch. Modern Library pbk. ed. Modern Library, 2003. 246 p. 808.3 KOC

Koch, former chair of Columbia's graduate writing program, takes the beginning fiction writer through the entire writing process, from conceptualizing a story to making characters come alive. Seeing writing as a vocation, he persuasively argues that it is hard work and craft (and not always talent) that enables writers to succeed. This book is filled with practical advice and insights gained not only from the author's experience as a writer and teacher but, more importantly, from the myriad famous writers whom he quotes and whose work he analyzes for character, point of view, and style. Thus, the "workshop" here is conducted not only by Koch but also by all of those he invokes, from Aristotle to John Gardner and Ray Bradbury. There is also a wonderful chapter on memoir or autobiographical writing and the relationship between fiction and fact. This very readable book will appeal not only to serious fiction writers but also to all students of literature. ISBN 0375755586: $12.95 C/CH/M/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

Beulah land / Krista McGruder. Toby Press, 2003. 283 p. MCG

The most surprising thing about this first published work by McGruder is the vast disparity of voices, characters, images, and locales in its 13 stories. Dense yet understated, the prose swings from the farmland to the city with remarkable ease. "Divination" finds old farmer Gerald struggling in the heat of late summer in the upper Midwest with a drought. The strained relationship with his truck-driver daughter is tersely portrayed as she sets him up with a woman who "witches" for water. The title story is a short novella divided into five parts, in which a lawyer returns to her Native American hometown to try to discover from her grandmother, the truth about a family death. ISBN 1592640273: $19.95 C/M/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

The tattooed girl : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates. Ecco, ©2003. 307 p. OAT

From its opening words, this riveting and at times highly disturbing novel will have listeners firmly in its grip. Oates's (Blonde) knack for portraying the poor and uneducated interacting with the wealthy intellectual is in perfect form here. Alma, a girl of indeterminate age with disturbing tattoos all over her face and arms, has gotten used to being a prostitute and slapped around by her lover and has been brought up to hate Jews. Joshua Seigi - wealthy, a brilliant but reclusive novelist, Greek translator, and expert in Holocaust literature - takes her in to "assist" him, for reasons even he himself can't figure out. With these and other characters captured in perfect pitch, Oates's novel builds drama and tension, turning misunderstanding and stupidity into insightful glimpses of lives we can barely fathom. Not a word is wasted. With Kate Fleming's reading, the book builds to almost thriller intensity and might well be appreciated by listeners who would normally shun more literary works and writers. ISBN 006053107X (pbk.): $13.95; ISBN 0060531061 C/CH/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2004)

82. A patriot's handbook : songs, poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love / selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy. Hyperion, ©2003. 663 p. 810.8 PAT

The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are reprinted in full, along with a large selection of presidential inaugurals and farewells and excerpts from landmark Supreme Court decisions. Popular songs include "Yankee Doodle," "This Land Is Your Land" and "Surfin' USA." Poems and fiction from such luminaries as Whitman, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Stephen Crane, Alice Walker and Annie Proulx explore the variegated textures of American life. The dissident voices of Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass hold America to account for its injustice; H.L. Mencken castigates it as "a commonwealth of third-rate men"; and Oscar Wilde raises a sardonic eyebrow at the whole dubious enterprise. Combining traditional touchstones of Americanism with many insightful surprises, Kennedy's thoughtful arrangement of works of historical significance and literary quality will reward both casual browsers and those conducting a more focused investigation of the nation's patriotic literature. ISBN 0786869186: $27.95 C/CH/M/ND (Adapted from Publisher's Weekly, ©2003)

83. The sheltering sky ; Let it come down ; The spider's house / Paul Bowles. Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, 2002. 938 p. BOW

Paul Bowles had already established himself as an important American composer when, at the age of 38, he published The Sheltering Sky and became widely recognized as one of the most powerful writers of the postwar period. By the time of his death in 1999 he had become a unique and legendary figure in modern literary culture. From his base in Tangier he produced novels, stories, and travel writings in which exquisite surfaces and violent undercurrents mingle. Bowles - who once told an interviewer, "I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born" - charts the collisions between "civilized" exiles and unfamiliar societies that they can never really grasp. In fiction of slowly gathering menace, he achieves effects of horror and dislocation with an elegantly spare style and understated wit. This Library of America volume, containing his first three novels, with its companion Collected Stories and Later Writings, is the first annotated edition of Bowles' work, offering the full range of his literary achievement: the portrait of an outsider who was one of the essential American writers of the last half century. The Sheltering Sky (1949), which remains Bowles' most celebrated work, describes the unraveling of a young, sophisticated, and adventuresome married couple as they make their way into the Sahara. In a prose style of meticulous calm and stunning visual precision, Bowles tracks Port and Kit Moresby on a journey through the desert that culminates in death and madness. "In Let It Come Down (1952), Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to this darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles' second novel is an alternately comic and horrific account of a descent into nihilism. ISBN 1931082197: $35.00 CH/M

84. This bridge we call home : radical visions for transformation / edited by Gloria E. Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating. Routledge, 2002. 608 p. 810.8 THI

More than twenty years after the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back called upon feminists to envision new forms of communities and practices, Gloria E. Anzaldua and AnaLouise Keating have painstakingly assembled a new collection of over eighty original writings that offers a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century. Written by women and men - both 'of color' and 'white' - This Bridge We Call Home will challenge readers to rethink existing categories and invent new individual and collective identities. ISBN 0415936829 (pbk.): $22.50; ISBN 0415936810 C

85. Twentieth-century American poetry / edited by Dana Gioia, David Mason, Meg Schoerke. McGraw Hill, ©2004. 1143 p. 811.5 TWE

With the end of the 1900s, the time has come for a thorough assessment of one hundred years of poetry - from the widely acclaimed to the subtly influential - and with an eye to the importance and meaning of poetry in America. Compiled by three poets and poetry scholars - including 2002 American Book Award Winner Dana Gioia - this anthology presents American poetry across the twentieth century from Stephen Crane to Kevin Young. The collected works are arranged according to the major movements in American poetry, offering a valuable teaching resource for American Literature and Poetry courses. ISBN 0071427791: $49.95; ISBN 0072400196 C

The art of burning bridges : a life of John O'Hara / Geoffrey Wolff. Knopf, 2003. 373 p. 813.52 OHA

Fueled by alcohol and a lifelong inferiority complex, he bullied everyone in his path. His rages - against women, editors and critics - have become the stuff of literary legend. While admitting his subject's character flaws, Wolff believes they have obscured the quality of O'Hara's best work, particularly the novel Appointment in Samarra and several short stories. But in addition to restoring O'Hara's literary reputation, Wolff has a more personal motive: he details the many ways in which O'Hara reminds him of his own father (memorialized in his notable The Duke of Deception), and as much as he declines to reach any conclusions about their similarities, one cannot help thinking that the author's soft take on O'Hara's nasty behavior is informed by respect and compassion for his father's legacy. Wolff refuses to speculate on what drove O'Hara's emotional and artistic life, instead adhering to the facts as much as possible - not that the facts are dull. Wolff weaves an engrossing narrative, taking us from O'Hara's privileged but provincial beginnings as a doctor's son in Pottsville, Pa. (the model for his fictional Gibbsville), to his cocktail years among the New York literati and his stint as a Hollywood script doctor. Wolff offers a clear-eyed analysis of O'Hara's gifts as an acute observer of social manners, with an uncanny ability to illuminate the customs, morals and hypocrisies of the rich and, more tragically, the arrivistes who never quite arrived. ISBN 0679427716: $30.00 CH (Adapted from Publisher's Weekly, ©2003)

Philosophical foundations of leadership / David Cawthon ; with an introduction by Blue Clark. Transaction Publishers, ©2002. 114 p. 303.3 CAW

Cawthon discusses the philosophical foundations of leadership using examples drawn from thinkers ranging from ancient to modern times. Coverage includes Plato's "code of the soul," the concept of the divine right of kings, and Nietzsche's writings on the will to power. In each chapter, the author emphasizes the qualities he believes today's leaders in politics and the workplace should posses. ISBN 0765801256: $29.50 C/CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2002)

Them and us : cult thinking and the terrorist threat / Arthur J. Deikman ; foreword by Doris Lessing. Bay Tree Pub., ©2003. 206 p. 291.177 DEI

Deikman is a distinguished expert in the area of cult psychology. Updated to incorporate discussion of the post-9/11 world, this book assesses the presence and dynamics of cults and cult-think. Drawing on extensive research, Deikman points to the pervasiveness of cult thinking in everyday, seemingly innocuous contexts such as the corporate and media realms. Beginning with a case history that illustrates cultism, Deikman argues that characteristics such as compliance with groups, dependence on leaders, devaluing outsiders and avoiding dissent typify cult members. Ultimately, an individual's desire to be taken care of by a parent figure predisposes him or her to succumb to cult-think. The chapter introducing methods of identifying and dispelling tendencies toward cult-think is most valuable. This work belongs on the shelf near Gustave LeBon's classic The Crowd, along with Margaret Thaler's Singer's Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace and Walter Martin's The Kingdom of the Cults. ISBN 097200212X (pbk.): $17.95 M (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

Thinking how to live / Allan Gibbard. Harvard University Press, 2003. 302 p. 170.42 GIB

Philosophers have long suspected that thought and discourse about what we ought to do differ in some fundamental way from statements about what is. But the difference has proved elusive, in part because the two kinds of statement look alike. Focusing on judgments that express decisions - judgments about what is to be done, all things considered - Allan Gibbard offers a compelling argument for reconsidering, and reconfiguring, the distinctions between normative and descriptive discourse - between question of "ought" and "is." Gibbard considers how our actions, and our realities, emerge from the thousands of questions and decisions we form for ourselves. The result is a book that investigates the very nature of the questions we ask ourselves when we ask how we should live, and that clarifies the concept of "ought" by investigating the patterns of normative concepts involved in beliefs and decisions. ISBN 0674011678: $44.50 CH

Human nature and the freedom of public religious expression / Stephen G. Post. University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 200 p. 323.44 POS

Research scholar and bioethicist Post cogently argues that humanity will always be homo religious. Belief in a creative presence, however it is defined, seems to be "hard wired" into the human psyche, and Post spends several chapters providing neuroscientific verification for this. If this is true, he argues, then the religious perspective should not be barred from either education or political discussion; to do so is to deny human nature its full expression. The author intends to answer such radical secularists as Richard Rorty and John Rawls who demand the absolute exclusion of religious perspective in all public policy debate. "The religious inclination will not go away," says Post, "nor should it, because it is essential rather than peripheral to who and what we as human creatures are." This is a well reasoned and clearly presented thesis that merits serious consideration by thoughtful readers. ISBN 0268030626 (pbk.): $17.96 C/CH (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

Judaism in America / Marc Lee Raphael. Columbia University Press, ©2003. 234 p. 296.0973 RAP

A fine contribution to the "Columbia Contemporary American Religion" series, Raphael's book is an apt portrait of contemporary Judaism in America. Raphael provides capsule coverage of Judaism's beliefs, doctrines, history, institutions, and religious leaders and the diversity of thought in the four-part Jewish community (Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and Reconstructionist). Raphael finds that there are about six million Jews in America but that only about three million consider themselves to be religious. His research on their beliefs includes interviews and visits to about 100 synagogues. Each section is short and to the point, never bogging down in tedious details. Some of the most significant chapters deal with the religious practices, life-cycle events, beliefs, and devotional life of synagogues in America. This is a solid contribution to the Columbia series, which already includes volumes on Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, Islam, and Protestantism. ISBN 0231120605: $35.00 C/CH/M/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

Healing America : values and vision for the 21st century / Paul Simon. Orbis Books, ©2003. 176 p. 303.3 SIM

Paul Simon, former U.S. Senator from Illinois, widens a national debate. September 11th, 2001 changed everything: we are beginning to realize that what happens to one of us happens to all of us. And we are beginning to understand that what happens to others in foreign lands also happens to us. Simon calls for a new way of thinking, and challenges us to new priorities, a renewing of the best American values. Simon expands on the familiar meaning of values such as family, religion, equality, optimism, and initiative. He also explores equally important but less talked about values: restraint, humility, participation, compassion, integrity, and much more. Healing America reminds us of what is best in us, and encourages us to extend our highest vision and values by living them here and now. ISBN 1570755051: $24.00 C/M/ND

All in sync : how music and art are revitalizing American religion / Robert Wuthnow. University of California Press, 2003. 284 p. 291.3 WUT

Wuthnow has written numerous books on religion in America, including Creative Spirituality. Here he discusses the importance of the arts in spirituality, drawing on hundreds of interviews, extensive surveys, and anecdotal examples. He documents the importance of songs, rituals, and visual arts in the spiritual development of many Americans and notes that clergy, who see preaching and rational explanation as the key to growth, often overlook this phenomenon. He also sees what he calls a "profound cultural shift" in American religion: It is a move away from cognition toward experience and toward a more complete integration of the senses into spirituality. Wuthnow calls for a more open approach to the arts in churches to allow spiritual self-expression in whatever artistic form it may take. He gives examples of churches that have experienced substantial growth by using this approach. ISBN 0520237692: $27.95 C/CH/M/ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2003)

94. Das, Dilip K.

Police mission : challenges and responses / Dilip K. Das, Arvind Verma. Scarecrow Press, ©2003. 252 p. 363.2 DAS

Das and Verma compare the element of militarism in American police culture with that of many other agencies around the world, apply traditional and open system organizational theories to the typical American police department, and advocate police organizations become learning organizations concerned with improving work relationships, processes, results, and the capacity to create their own future. ISBN 0810832895: $37.00 C/M (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2003)

The United States Congress / Ross M. English. Manchester University Press, 2003. 177 p. 328.73 ENG

This work looks at the workings of the United States Congress, and uses the Republican period of ascendancy, which lasted from 1994 until 2000, as an example of how the Congress works in practice. The book illustrates the basic principles of Congress using contemporary and recent examples, while also drawing attention to the changes that took place in the 1990s. The period of Republican control is absent from many of the standard texts and is of considerable academic interest for a number of reasons, not least the 1994 election, the budget deadlock in 1995 and the Clinton impeachment scandal of 1999. The book traces the origin and development of the United States Congress, before looking in depth at the role of representatives and senators, the committee system, parties in Congress, and the relationship between Congress and the President, the media and interest groups. ISBN 0719063086: $70.00; ISBN 0719063094 (pbk.) C/M/ND

Bureaucracy and democracy : accountability and performance / William T. Gormley, Steven J. Balla. CQ Press, ©2004. 215 p. 352.6 GOR

Drawing on concepts and studies from political science and public management, Gormley and Balla explore the issues of bureaucratic accountability and performance in the United States. The topic is approached from the perspectives of bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory. Examples are taken from federal, state, and local levels of government. ISBN 1568027605: $39.00 CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2004)

Get out the vote! : how to increase voter turnout / Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber. Brookings Institution Press, ©2004. 145 p. 324.7 GRE

Get Out the Vote! is a practical guide for anyone trying to mobilize voters or organize at the grass roots. Unlike authors of other campaign advice books, Donald Green and Alan Gerber root their work firmly in rigorous science. Their recommendations emerge from thorough experiments conducted in real electoral settings, examining the impact and effectiveness of door-to-door canvassing, telephone calls, direct mail, and other campaign tactics. Since 1998 the authors have conducted research in over a dozen states, studying a wide range of federal, state, and municipal elections. Their book connects theory with practice, informing campaign professionals and local organizers as well as students of electoral politics. They discover that many GOTV tactics used by campaign managers and political consultants are less effective than is often believed. The authors, relying on rigorous and systematic research, challenge much of the conventional wisdom about what works and what doesn't in the political campaigns. The authors' applied form of political science has won acclaim from scholars and earned the attention of campaign professionals and journalists. This book presents their result for a non-academic audience interested in putting campaign research into practice, and the findings will be surprising to many. Get Out the Vote! will help both consultants and the candidates who use their services better understand the efficacy of campaign methods. It is essential reading in an age of electronic communication, professional electioneering and voter apathy. ISBN 0815732694 (pbk.): $13.00; ISBN 0815732686 C/CH/ND

Deliberate discretion : the institutional foundations of bureaucratic autonomy / John D. Huber, Charles R. Shipan. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 284 p. 320.6 HUB

The laws that legislature adopt provide a crucial opportunity for elected politicians to define public policy. But the ways politicians use laws to shape policy vary considerably across polities. In some cases, legislatures adopt detailed and specific laws in an effort to micromanage policymaking processes. In others, they adopt general and vague laws that leave the executive and bureaucrats substantial discretion to fill in the policy details. What explains these differences across political systems, and how do they matter?" The authors address these issues by developing and testing a comparative theory of how laws shape bureaucratic autonomy. Drawing on a range of evidence from advanced parliamentary democracies and the U.S. states, they argue that particular institutional forms - such as the nature of electoral laws, the structure of the legal system, and the professionalism of the legislature - have a systematic and predictable effect on how politicians use laws to shape the policymaking process. ISBN 0521817447: $57.00; ISBN 0521520703 (pbk.) ND

The campaign continues : how political consultants and campaign tactics affect public policy / Douglas A. Lathrop. Praeger, 2003. 200 p. 320.6 LAT

Lathrop analyzes the use of political consultants and campaign tactics and shows their impact on the development of public policy. Major pieces of legislation often are accompanied by a sophisticated marketing effort, complete with polling, television commercials, and direct mail. As Lathrop suggests, governing has taken on all the trappings of a full-time campaign. Enhanced by extensive interviews with practitioners, the book provides a number of insights that go beyond the academic literature. ISBN 0275979652: $63.00 C/CH/ND

The new nationalism / Louis L. Snyder ; with a new preface by John D. Montgomery. Transaction Publishers, ©2003. 387 p. 320.54 SNY

In The New Nationalism, Louis Snyder sees various forms of nationalism, and categories them as a force for unity; a force for the status quo; a force for independence; a force for fraternity; a force for colonial expansion; a force for aggression; a force for economic expansion; and a force for anti-colonialism. In Snyder's opinion, nationalism should be differentiated from Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism," a phrase he borrowed from Herbert D. Croly's The Promise of American Life. Croly warned that giving too much power to big industry and finance would lead to the degradation of the masses, and that state and federal intervention must be pursued on all economic fronts. Roosevelt expanded upon this concept, and saw the flourishing of democratic government as a means of reviving the old pioneer sense of individualism and opportunity. Snyder, in contrast, extends the work of the two major pioneers in the study of modern nationalism, Carlton J. H. Hayes and Hans Kohn, in exploring this most powerful sentiment of modern times, and showing how it relates to the political, economic, and psychological tendencies of historical development. ISBN 0765805502: $29.50 C/CH

Dismantling democratic states / Ezra Suleiman. Princeton University Press, ©2003. 327 p. 321.8 SUL

Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government. And yet the aftermath of September 11 has opened the door to a reassessment of the role of a skilled civil service in the survival and viability of democratic society. Here, Ezra Suleiman offers a timely and powerful corrective to the widespread view that bureaucracy is the source of democracy's ills. This is a book as much about good governance as it is about bureaucratic organizations. Suleiman asks: Is democratic governance hindered without an effective instrument in the hands of the legitimately elected political leadership? Is a professional bureaucracy required for developing but not for maintaining a democratic state? Why has a reform movement arisen in recent years championing the gradual dismantling of bureaucracy, and what are the consequences? Suleiman undertakes a comparative analysis of the drive toward a civil service grounded in the New Public Management. He argues that "government reinvention" has limited bureaucracy's capacity to adequately serve the public good. All bureaucracies have been under political pressure in recent years to reduce not only their size but also their effectiveness, and all have experienced growing deprofessionalism and politicization. He compares the impact of this evolution in both democratic societies and societies struggling to consolidate democratic institutions. Dismantling Democratic States cautions that the failure to acknowledge the role of an effective bureaucracy in building and preserving democratic political systems threatens the survival of democracy itself. ISBN 0691115346: $39.00 CH

102. Atkinson, William Illsey.

Nanocosm : nanotechnology and the big changes coming from the inconceivably small / William Illsey Atkinson. American Management Association, ©2005. 306 p. 620.5 ATK

Since the beginning of the industrial age, many machines have grown steadily smaller even as they have grown more powerful and complex. Nanotechnology, based on the science of the infinitesimally small, takes technology beyond most popular definitions of reality, to a realm of astounding possibilities. Nanocosm reveals a spectacular view of the immediate future of nanotechnology and its applications in medicine, computing, manufacturing, engineering, and countless other arenas that affect the world, redefining how people work, play, and live. Will nanoscale transistors enable computers to outstrip the combined power of all the supercomputers currently in the world? Can gold nanoparticles bond with - and destroy - cancer cells? Will gargantuan elevators lift satellites to their orbits? The possibilities for the not-too-distant future are astounding. But nanotech is already real: It makes tennis balls last longer. It makes paints and coatings stick better. It makes pants impervious to coffee spills. It's made car tires stronger for decades. And in 2003, President Bush signed the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act, a $3.7 billion grant that represents the largest federally funded science initiative since President Kennedy established the space program. As with any phenomenon, nanotechnology has both its naysayers and its zealots, by turns clouding scientific truth with dismissals, prophecies, and pipe dreams. Nanocosm distinguishes fact from fantasy, possibility from hype, and perspective from fear-mongering, to present an emerging reality far more thrilling than any fiction. ISBN 081447277X: $16.00 C/CH/M/ND

The new science literacy : using language skills to help students learn science / Marlene Thier with Bennett Daviss ; foreword by Harold Pratt. Heinemann, ©2002. 194 p. 507.1 THI

Thier and journalist Bennett Daviss provide clear guidance on linking science and language instruction to simultaneously strengthen students' mastery of both disciplines. Designed for science educators in grades four-through-ten, the manual contains specific strategies, techniques, sample classroom-based activities, and lists of student performance expectations to help educators fuse science and language experiences. The text seeks to enhance all aspects of literacy - reading, writing, speaking, listening, and media analysis - and places language literacy in the context of inquiry-based, activity-oriented science. ISBN 0325004595 (pbk.): $19.00 C (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2002)

Experimentation matters : unlocking the potential of new technologies for innovation / Stefan H. Thomke. Harvard Business School Press, ©2003. 307 p. 600 THO

In Experimentation Matters, Stefan Thomke argues that companies must not only understand the power of experimentation and new technologies, but also change their processes, organization, and management of innovation. He explains why experimentation is so critical to innovation, underscores the impact of new technologies, and outlines what managers must do to integrate them successfully. Probing and thoughtful, Experimentation Matters will influence how both executives and academics think about experimentation in general and innovation processes in particular. Experimentation has always been the engine of innovation, and Thomke reveals how it works today. While experimentation frequently leads to business innovation, it has also often been prohibitively expensive. Thomke argues that technological change is changing the economics of the equation and making experimentation more feasible. He explains the value of experimentation and looks at a number of experimentation strategies. He also describes organizational changes that need to be implemented in order to capture the full value of experimentation. ISBN 1578517508: $35.00 CH (Adapted from Book News, Inc., ©2003)

105. Campbell, Greg.

Blood diamonds : tracing the deadly path of the world's most precious stones / Greg Campbell. Westview Press, ©2004. 251 p. 966.404 CAM

Freelance journalist Campbell here writes about the cost of diamonds not in dollars to the consumer but in blood, torture, and death for the unfortunate residents of contested mining areas in Sierra Leone. He explains that "conflict diamonds," or "blood diamonds," which account for only three to four percent of all diamonds sold, are mined in war zones, smuggled out of the country, and sold to legitimate companies, financing ruinous civil wars and the plots of international terrorists, including the al Qaeda network. The gems' value and portability have made controlling the diamond mines important to guerrilla fighters, who maim and kill innocent villagers to secure their territory. Campbell has spoken with individuals all along the pipeline, from miners to soldiers to smugglers, and the grim portrait he paints will make many people think twice about buying another diamond. While Matthew Hart's Diamond: A Journey to the Heart of an Obsession covered the international diamond trade more widely. ISBN 0813342201: $14.50 ND (Adapted from Library Journal, ©2002)

Justice at war : civil liberties and civil rights during times of crisis / Richard Delgado; foreword by Jennifer L. Hochschild. New York University Press, ©2003. 219 p. 305.8 DEL

Richard Delgado, one of the founding figures in the Critical Race Theory movement, continues the popular and thought-provoking Rodrigo Chronicles with his latest book. Justice at War features Rodrigo, a brash, talented lawyer of color; "the Professor," his mentor and straight man; the two women in their lives, Giannina and Teresa; and Laz, Rodrigo's conservative faculty colleague. Employing the narrative device he and other Critical Race theorists made famous, Delgado assembles a cast of characters to discuss such urgent and timely topics as race, terrorism, hate speech, interracial relationships, freedom of speech, and new theories on civil rights stemming from the most recent war. ISBN 0814719554: $29.50 CH

American social leaders and activists / Neil A. Hamilton. Facts On File, ©2002. 434 p. 303.484 HAM

American Social Leaders and Activists recounts the fascinating efforts of a diverse and representative group of the most significant, prominent, controversial, and interesting men and women to have attempted to change society from colonial times to the present. This book offers a broad view of reform and reformers, with more than 285 entries on individuals who challenged, if not always successfully, the established social norms of their day. Abolitionists, socialists, communists, temperance crusaders, women's suffragists, peace advocates, civil rights workers, labor organizers, and other social reformers and activists have shaped society for the generations that followed them, and American Social Leaders and Activists provides a unique opportunity for exploring the lives of these dedicated people. ISBN 0816045356: $60.00 C/ND

Fairness versus welfare / Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell. Harvard University Press, 2002. 544 p. 340.11 KAP

Fairness versus Welfare poses a bold challenge to contemporary moral philosophy by showing that most moral principles conflict more sharply with welfare than is generally recognized. In particular, the authors demonstrate that all principles that are not based exclusively on welfare will sometimes favor policies under which literally everyone would be worse off. The book draws on the work of moral philosophers, economists, evolutionary and cognitive psychologists, and legal academics to scrutinize a number of particular subjects that have engaged legal scholars and moral philosophers. How can the deeply problematic nature of all nonwelfarist principles be reconciled with the moral instincts and intuitions that support them? The authors offer a fascinating explanation of the origins of moral instincts and intuitions, developing ideas originally advanced by Hume and Sidgwick and more recently explored by psychologists and evolutionary theorists. Their analysis indicates that most moral principles that seem appealing, upon examination, have a functional explanation, one that does not justify their being accorded independent weight in the assessment of public policy. Fairness versus Welfare has profound implications for the theory and practice of policy analysis and has already generated considerable debate in academia. ISBN 0674006224: $49.50