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Faculty Book Gallery

 
The Faculty Book Gallery is the collection of books that are featured at Santa Clara University's Faculty New Publications reception which celebrates the accomplishments of SCU faculty who have published a book, produced a film or composed works of music in the past year. The annual event is sponsored by the University Library to honor the diverse works created by the university's exceptional faculty.

Other notable published work is also included in this gallery.

This gallery includes books published in 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
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  • African, Christian, Feminist: The Enduring Search for What Matters
  • A Glossary of Liturgical Terms
  • A Primer on Innovation Theology: Responding to Change in the Company of God
  • ARM Assembly for Embedded Applications (3rd Edition)
  • Authority and Leadership: Values, Religion, Media
  • Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary by Conceptual Categories: A Student's Guide to Nouns in the Old Testament
  • Brazil: Media from the Country of the Future Vol: 13
  • Conscience and Catholic Health Care: From Clinical Contexts to Government Mandates
  • Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
  • Effective Conservation Science: Data Not Dogma
  • Embodiment in Qualitative Research
  • Finance for Normal People: How Investors and Markets Behave
  • From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice
  • Hard Sentences: Crime Fiction Inspired by Alcatraz
  • Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels (Music of the African Diaspora)
  • Innovation Theology: A Biblical Inquiry and Exploration
  • Internet Law: Cases & Materials (2017 Edition)
  • Knowing Moral Truth: A Theory of Metaethics and Moral Knowledge
  • Management in the Digital Age: Will China Surpass Silicon Valley?
  • Many and Brilliant Lights
  • Native art now!: Developments in Contemporary Native American Art since 1992
  • Sport, Ethics and Leadership
  • The Critical Surf Studies Reader
  • The First Church of What's Happening
  • The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (6th Edition)
  • The Sensus Fidelium and Moral Theology
  • The Unmoored God: Believing in a Time of Dislocation
  • Tsong Khapa's Illumination of the Hidden Meaning: Mandala, Mantra, and the Cult of the Yoginis
  • Undocumented and in College: Students and Institutions in a Climate of National Hostility
  • Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820
  • Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism: Transnational Histories
  • Working Memory
  • Adolescent Development for Educators
  • A Macat analysis of Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch’s Working Memory
  • Antigay Bias in Role-Model Occupations
  • Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850
  • Behavioral Risk Management: Managing the Psychology That Drives Decisions and Influences Operational Risk
  • Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America's Nones
  • Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography
  • Communication and Information Technologies Annual: Digital Empowerment: Opportunities and Challenges of Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean Vol: 12
  • Communication and Information Technologies Annual [New] Media Cultures
  • Ethnotheatre and Creative Methods for Teacher Leadership
  • Full of Empty
  • Gender in Modern East Asia: An Integrated History
  • Graduating with Honor: Best Practices to Promote Ethics Development in College Students
  • Internet Law Cases & Materials (2016 Edition)
  • Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader
  • Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990
  • North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States, 3rd Edition
  • Philosophy: A Text with Readings (13th Edition)
  • Politics and Beauty in America: The Liberal Aesthetics of P.T. Barnum, John Muir, and Harley Earl
  • Romero & Grande: Companions on the Journey
  • Service Learning, Information Literacy, and Libraries
  • Statistics in Plain English (4th edition)
  • Table Talk: Building Democracy One Meal at a Time
  • Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation
  • Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting
  • The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change
  • The G. H. Hardy Reader
  • The Global Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: Hidden Factors in the Meltdown
  • The Kid
  • The Oxford Handbook of Relationship Science and Couple Interventions
  • The Silicon Valley Model: Management for Entrepreneurship
  • The Skeleth (The Nethergrim)
  • The Well-Crafted Argument: A Guide and Reader, 6th Edition
  • Transmission Techniques for Digital Communications
  • World Christianity: Perspectives and Insights
  • A Century of Advancing Mathematics
  • Adapting Early Childhood Curricula for Children with Special Needs (9th edition)
  • Agroecology: A Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Action-Oriented Approach
  • Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer
  • Big Data: Algorithms, Analytics, and Applications
  • Communication and Information Technologies Annual: Digital Distinctions and Inequalities
  • Conscience and Catholicism: Rights, Responsibilities, and Institutional Responses
  • Conservation Science: Balancing the Needs of People and Nature, 2nd Edition
  • Conversations on Human Nature.
  • Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper
  • Dear Reader
  • Derivatives: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition)
  • Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives
  • Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art
  • Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies
  • Experimental Organic Chemistry: A Miniscale and Microscale Approach (6th Edition)
  • Extraordinary Leadership in Australia and New Zealand: The Five Practices that Create Great Workplaces
  • Femminismi queer postcoloniali
  • Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey
  • How Not to Say Mass (3rd edition)
  • Illinois Justice: The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens
  • Internet Law: Cases and Materials
  • Junipero Serra: California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary
  • Just Prayer: A Book of Hours for Peacemakers and Justice Seekers
  • Kansas Trail Guide: The Best Hiking, Biking, and Riding in the Sunflower State.
  • Lands of Promise and Despair: Chronicles of Early California, 1535-1846.
  • Les Biens Culturels en Temps de Guerre: Quel Progrès en Faveur de Leur Protection?
  • Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action (3rd edition)
  • Modern Competitive Strategy (4th edition)
  • Nectar of Story: Poems
  • Normal and Abnormal Vocal Folds Kinematics
  • Politics, Participation, and Production: Communication and Information Technologies Annual
 
  • Women and Social Movements, International--1840 to Present. by Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin, and Barbara Molony

    Women and Social Movements, International--1840 to Present.

    Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin, and Barbara Molony

    Backed by a global editorial board of 130 leading scholars, Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials drawn from more than 300 repositories. Assembled and cross-searchable for the first time, these resources illuminate vast areas of modern history. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, Women and Social Movements, International lets you see how women’s social movements shaped many of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life. To the present, women’s international organizations have focused on issues related to peace, poverty, child labor, literacy, disease prevention, and global inequality. Only by exploring traditions of women’s activism can we reach a full understanding of modern society and history.

  • Abnormal Psychology across the Ages by Thomas G. Plante PhD, ABPP

    Abnormal Psychology across the Ages

    Thomas G. Plante PhD, ABPP

    In these three volumes, a team of scholars provides a thoughtful history of abnormal psychology, demonstrating how concepts regarding disordered mental states, their causes, and their treatments developed and evolved across the ages.

    Compiling current thought from some of the best minds in the field, Abnormal Psychology across the Ages provides essays that reflect on multiple dimensions of abnormal behavior. These experts present biological, psychological, social, cultural, and supernatural perspectives throughout human history on a range of disorders, as well as the global influences on scientific thinking. A fascinating read for anyone in the field of abnormal psychology, from undergraduate students to clinicians, counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists, this three-volume work addresses questions such as: What is "abnormal" psychology and thinking? What are the causes, how have we treated it, and how do we treat it now? And how does the culture of the times affect what we perceive as "abnormality"?

  • A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Christianity, Violence, and Theology. by Karl W. Lampley

    A Theological Account of Nat Turner: Christianity, Violence, and Theology.

    Karl W. Lampley

    In this unique volume, Lampley analyzes the theology of Nat Turner's violent slave rebellion in juxtaposition with Old Testament views of prophetic violence and Jesus' politics of violence in the New Testament and in consideration of the history of Christian violence and the violence embedded in traditional Christian theology.

  • Beauty and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics by Jean-Francois Racine and Richard Bautch

    Beauty and the Bible: Toward a Hermeneutics of Biblical Aesthetics

    Jean-Francois Racine and Richard Bautch

    These seven essays offer fresh perspectives on beauty s role in revelation. Each essay features a hermeneutical approach informed by the contemporary study of aesthetics. Covering a series of texts in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, from Adam and Eve in the garden to Jesus on trial in the Fourth Gospel, the authors engage beauty from three overarching perspectives: modern philosophy, contextual criticism, and the postcritical return to beauty s primary qualities. The three perspectives are not harmonized but rather explored concurrently to create a volume with intriguing methodological tensions. As this collection highlights beauty in the narratives of scripture, it opens readers to a largely unexplored dimension of the Bible.

  • Buying the Field: Catholic Religious Life in Mission to the World by Sandra M. Schneiders

    Buying the Field: Catholic Religious Life in Mission to the World

    Sandra M. Schneiders

    Sandra Schneiders continues her rethinking of the traditional religious vows in the context of postmodernism, reaching back into the gospels for the meaning of world in order to discern the meaning of renunciation of the world by religious, examining, the vow of poverty both in its economic and spiritual sense as well as the vow of obedience.

  • Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village by Mary Elaine Hegland

    Days of Revolution: Political Unrest in an Iranian Village

    Mary Elaine Hegland

    Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months ahead. She became the only American researcher to witness the Islamic Revolution firsthand over her eighteen-month stay. Days of Revolution offers an insider's view of how regular people were drawn into, experienced, and influenced the 1979 Revolution and its aftermath. Conventional wisdom assumes Shi'a religious ideology fueled the revolutionary movement. But Hegland counters that the Revolution spread through much more pragmatic concerns: growing inequality, lack of development and employment opportunities, government corruption. Local expectations of leaders and the political process―expectations developed from their experience with traditional kinship-based factions―guided local villagers' attitudes and decision-making, and they often adopted the religious justifications for Revolution only after joining the uprising. Sharing stories of conflict and revolution alongside in-depth interviews, the book sheds new light on this critical historical moment. Returning to Aliabad decades later, Days of Revolution closes with a view of the village and revolution thirty years on. Over the course of several visits between 2003 and 2008, Mary Hegland investigates the lasting effects of the Revolution on the local political factions and in individual lives. As Iran remains front-page news, this intimate look at the country's recent history and its people has never been more timely or critical for understanding the critical interplay of local and global politics in Iran.

  • Discrete Probability: by Ralph E. Morganstern

    Discrete Probability:

    Ralph E. Morganstern

    These Lecture Slide Notes have been used for a two-quarter graduate level sequence in probability covering discrete and continuous probability in two separate volumes. Although reasonably self-contained, they do not constitute a formal exposition on the subject; rather the intent is to provide a concise and accessible format for reference and self-study. In this regard, each slide stands alone to encapsulate a complete concept, algorithm, or theorem, using a combination of equations, graphs, diagrams, and comparison tables. The explanatory notes are placed directly below each slide in order to reinforce key concepts and give additional insights. A Table of Contents serves to organize the slides by topic and gives a complete list of slide titles and their page numbers. An index is also provided in order to link related aspects of topics and also to cross-reference key concepts, specific applications, and the abundant visual aids.

    This book constitutes the first volume on discrete probability; a second volume will cover continuous probability. Part 1 covers counting with and without replacement, axiomatic probability models, computation techniques, conditional, joint, marginal, and Bayesian update probabilities. The concept of a random variable (RV) is fully characterized by a discrete probability mass function (PMF) and a quasi-continuous cumulative distribution function (CDF). A numerical characterization of a RV is given by the mean, variance, and expectation value. Pairs of RVs give way to new concepts such as independence, covariance, and the effects of linear and bi-linear transformations. Common discrete probability mass functions (PMFs) are discussed in terms of related pairs, tree diagrams, and algebraic representations.

  • Evolving Roles of Sovereign Wealth Managers After the Financial Crisis: Past Present and Future by Bernard Lee

    Evolving Roles of Sovereign Wealth Managers After the Financial Crisis: Past Present and Future

    Bernard Lee

    Consider these phenomena: savers at surplus countries are often “penalized” by astronomical consumer prices, while spenders at debtor countries enjoy bargain basement prices; Silicon Valley continues to be the global leader in R&D and innovation despite chaos in public finance; and Surplus countries worry about holding potentially worthless IOUs issued by elected debtor governments.

    In this book, Professor Lee has tried to better understand sovereign wealth management in the context of saver and debtor countries, by presenting a unified model that can explain these observed phenomena. His attempt is a clear departure from traditional theories, in which these observations would be considered aberrations from “standard assumptions”. Although no model is perfect, this new framework can be useful to explain why, for example, it will be bad economic news for all if saver countries use their public surpluses to hoard food and fuel.

  • God-Thinking: Every Juror's Moral Brain, Religious Beliefs, and Their Effects on a Trial Verdict by Sunwolf

    God-Thinking: Every Juror's Moral Brain, Religious Beliefs, and Their Effects on a Trial Verdict

    Sunwolf

    A wide variety of moral compasses is sitting in every jury box! Jurors bring their religions and spiritual beliefs with them to court and rely upon personal moral compasses during deliberations. Every trial, civil or criminal, can become a battle of good and evil in the minds of the jurors, yet trial advocacy books have ignored this dynamic. This eBook invites trial practitioners, attorneys, judges, and consultants to engage in new thinking about how jurors' moral compasses affect trial outcomes.

  • Great Monologues in Dialect for Young Actors (Ages 17 - 25) Volume II by Kimberly Mohne Hill

    Great Monologues in Dialect for Young Actors (Ages 17 - 25) Volume II

    Kimberly Mohne Hill

    The monologues in volume two are taken from the five major dialect regionalisms to be studied: British, Irish, Latina/o, African Continent, and American South. While the plays represented in the selections can use the dialects of the regions in question, it is also possible that no dialect is required by the author. The monologue selections are meant to serve as an in-depth study into the literature, environment, culture, and language of a region.

  • Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media by Mizuko Ito, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, Danah Boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martínez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp

    Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

    Mizuko Ito, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, Danah Boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martínez, C.J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims, and Lisa Tripp

    An examination of young people's everyday new media practices -- including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.

    Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there is little actual research that investigates the intricate dynamics of youths' social and recreational use of digital media. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out fills this gap, reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people are living and learning with new media in varied settings -- at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces.

    Integrating twenty-three case studies -- which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups -- in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out is distinctive for its combination of in-depth description of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis.

  • Innovationspotenzialanalyse für die neuen Technologien für das Verwalten und Analysieren von großen Datenmengen (Big Data Management) by Michael Schermann, Volker Markl, Thomas Hoeren, and Helmut Krcmar

    Innovationspotenzialanalyse für die neuen Technologien für das Verwalten und Analysieren von großen Datenmengen (Big Data Management)

    Michael Schermann, Volker Markl, Thomas Hoeren, and Helmut Krcmar

    Durch die Digitalisierung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft ist ein rasantes Anwachsen von Datenbeständen zu beobachten. In fast allen Unternehmenssowie Wissenschaftsbereichen werden bereits heute schon Unmengen an Daten erzeugt, deren Größe, Erfassungsgeschwindigkeit oder Heterogenität die Fähigkeiten gängiger Datenbanksoftwareprodukte zur Verwaltung und zur Analyse übersteigt. Dieses Phänomen, welches unter dem Schlagwort „Big Data“ popularisiert wurde, stellt eine große Chance für Unternehmen, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft dar. Allerdings ergibt sich aufgrund der neuen Komplexität der Daten und Analysen eine Vielzahl an Herausforderungen technischer, wirtschaftlicher und rechtlicher Natur. Diese Studie analysiert die Chancen und Herausforderungen von Big Data insbesondere im Hinblick auf eine nachhaltige Wettbewerbsfä- higkeit Deutschlands.

  • Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era by Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme

    Italy and the Mediterranean: Words, Sounds, and Images of the Post-Cold War Era

    Norma Bouchard and Valerio Ferme

    This book explores new ways that the Mediterranean has been discussed in Italian intellectual and artistic culture from the 1980s to the present.

  • Jesus Risen in Our Midst: Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel Paperback – November 22, 2013 by Sandra M. Schneiders

    Jesus Risen in Our Midst: Essays on the Resurrection of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel Paperback – November 22, 2013

    Sandra M. Schneiders

    Jesus Risen in Our Midst mines the Resurrection Narrative of John's gospel as a rich resource for understanding and developing Christian spirituality. In this series of essays, which can be read independently of one another, Scripture scholar Sandra Schneiders draws out especially fascinating insights onthe place of the Resurrection in the overall structure of the Gospel of Johnthe important structure of John 20, which presents a series of episodes that are internally related to each other and constitute a distinctive synthesis of Christian spiritualitywhat the Resurrection story reveals about the New Covenant promised by Jeremiah and Ezekielthe anthropology and eschatology that is operative in John's account of the Resurrectionthe distinction in John between the Glorification and the Resurrection of Jesus

  • Learning Curve: A Novel of Silicon Valley by Michael S. Malone

    Learning Curve: A Novel of Silicon Valley

    Michael S. Malone

    Get an inside view of the breathless, winner-take-all world of high technology — Silicon Valley style — in this fast-paced corporate thriller.

    Veteran businessman Dan Crowen is finally handed the reins of a large, successful tech firm, Validator Software — only to be ordered by its eccentric owner, Cosmo Validator, to take a step that could destroy the company.

    Young entrepreneur Alison Prue is at the helm of Validator’s upstart rival, eTernity. When the venture capitalists funding eTernity decide it’s time to take the hot young startup public and go head-to-head against Validator, both Alison and Dan are caught up in a global tsunami of high-tech conspiracies.

    Nothing’s as it seems in this high-stakes game of cat and mouse that will keep you guessing the whole way through.

  • Museum of Seraphs in Torment by David Pinault

    Museum of Seraphs in Torment

    David Pinault

    Francis Valerian Hammond: the most gifted young Egyptologist of his generation—or a crackpot so unstable that he merits his current residence in the locked ward of a psychiatric facility? Scrawled writings from his cell hint at a lost treasure known as King Solomon’s Wand—an artifact that Hammond claims somehow links the Egyptian prince Khaemwaset, son of pharaoh Ramses the Great, with otherworldly visitors called the Seraphs. Despised and isolated, Hammond finds his claims laughed off by all his onetime academic colleagues—all except his old friend Ricky Atlas, a grad-school dropout and Egyptological ne’er-do-well now making an odd-job living as a tomb-robber and thief-for-hire serving the pleasure of private collectors. When an entity calling itself the Corporation hires Ricky to unearth Solomon’s Wand, he finds himself on a hazard-filled quest that propels him from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum to a mountaintop cave in the highlands of Yemen, and from there to Chicago’s Oriental Institute and the deserts of the American Southwest. There he meets Annie Martinez, a free-lance antiquities-hunter who joins Ricky in the attempt to free Francis Hammond, vindicate his claims, and keep one step ahead of the Corporation—while also seeking to learn how Solomon’s Wand may unlock the ancient secret of the Seraphs.

  • Philosophy: A Text with Readings by Manuel Velasquez

    Philosophy: A Text with Readings

    Manuel Velasquez

    Engaging and compelling on every page, Velasquez's text helps you explore and understand philosophy while it helps you appreciate how philosophy is relevant to your day-to-day life and the larger social world. This trusted text combines clear prose and primary source readings to take you on a meaningful exploration of a range of philosophical topics, such as human nature, reality, truth, ethics, the meaning of life, diversity, and social/political philosophy. Carefully crafted built-in learning aids help you quickly master the material and succeed in your course.

  • Political Islam in the Age of Democratization by Farid Senzai and Kamran Bokhari

    Political Islam in the Age of Democratization

    Farid Senzai and Kamran Bokhari

    The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider secularism a prerequisite for democratic transitions. Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai offer a comprehensive view of the complex nature of contemporary political Islam and its relationship to democracy.

  • Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach by Radhika Grover

    Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach

    Radhika Grover

    Suitable for readers with little or no programming experience, this comprehensive introduction to programming with Java provides readers with an easy-to-understand, in-depth treatment of Java.Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach uses multimedia-based programs as a means of instruction. With this book, the reader will learn Java using programs that draw graphics and images, perform animation, read and play audio files, display video, and more.

    Unlike the conventional approach of using a console output in programs, this book utilizes a multimedia approach right from the start, creating examples that are imaginative and interesting. The author carefully explains both basic and advanced concepts by providing simple frameworks that the reader can use to write programs. With a focus on hands-on learning, a large project is developed incrementally in relevant chapters to help explain new concepts as well as demonstrate how these concepts relate to material previously discussed.

    Programming with Java: A Multimedia Approach covers topics such as Java 2D classes, user-defined classes, inheritance, interfaces, exception handling, GUI programming, generics and collections, multithreaded programming, and more.

  • Reflections on Renaissance Venice: A Celebration of Patricia Fortini Brown. by Blake DeMaria and Mary E. Frank

    Reflections on Renaissance Venice: A Celebration of Patricia Fortini Brown.

    Blake DeMaria and Mary E. Frank

    Inspired by the teachings and research of Patricia Fortini Brown, a renowned scholar of Venetian art and history, these beautifully illustrated essays by leading scholars address topics ranging from painted Venetian narrative cycles of the late 15th century to the rebuilding of the Campanile in the early 20th century. This book was derived from papers given at the Giorgione Symposium held at Princeton University on the occasion of Fortini Brown’s recent retirement. The superb study offers new reflections on artists as diverse as Andrea Mantegna, the Bellini family, Giorgione, Pietro Lombardo, Paolo Veronese, Andrea Palladio, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

  • Rights and Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Movement by Stephen F. Diamond

    Rights and Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Movement

    Stephen F. Diamond

    The victory of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua in 1979 opened up a major new battleground in the Cold War between east and west. That larger conflict caused many to ignore or misjudge the domestic battle for democratic rights carried out by ordinary Nicaraguans, first against the Somoza dictatorship, and then against the Frente Sandinista, which led the Revolution. In Rights and Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Nicaragua's Sandinista Movement, political scientist and legal scholar Stephen F. Diamond examines the conflict inside Nicaragua from a viewpoint that is critical of the FSLN, which was allied closely with Cuba and the Soviet Union, and of the United States, which formed a proxy army to overthrow the FSLN regime. Such an independent viewpoint yields important and original insights into the complex relationship between authoritarianism and democracy in the developing world.

  • Robert McAfee Brown: Spiritual & Prophetic Writings by Paul Crowley SJ

    Robert McAfee Brown: Spiritual & Prophetic Writings

    Paul Crowley SJ

    Robert McAfee Brown (1920-2001), an American Presbyterian, was a master theologian, a spiritual guide, and an engaged activist, whose long career reflected many of the critical movements and concerns of the twentieth century. As an official Protestant observer at Vatican II, he was an influential figure in the ecumenical movement. But his concerns ranged widely over the intersection between faith and the issues of his time: the Holocaust and Jewish-Christian relations; the Civil Rights movement and race relations; the emergence of Latin American liberation theology; the Vietnam War and the struggle for peace in Central America; and the changing shape of Protestant theology. Overall, his work represented a prophetic style of public theology, in which faith and practice, prayer and action, words and deeds, and religion and politics came full circle.

  • Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts by Michael J. Kevane, Valeda F. Dent, and Geoff Goodman

    Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts

    Michael J. Kevane, Valeda F. Dent, and Geoff Goodman

    Around the word, in developed as well as developing countries, libraries play an important role in the dissemination of knowledge. The availability of information resources can often mean the difference between poverty and prosperity, particularly in underdeveloped African communities.

    Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts investigates the relationship between local libraries and community development. From the historical roots of rural libraries to their influence on the literacy, economy, and culture of the surrounding region, this book will present academics, researchers, and, most importantly, librarians with crucial insight into the tangible benefits of rural community libraries and the obstacles they must overcome.

  • Social Justice: Professionals, Communities and Law, 2nd Edition by Stephanie M. Wildman, Martha Mahoney, and John Calmore

    Social Justice: Professionals, Communities and Law, 2nd Edition

    Stephanie M. Wildman, Martha Mahoney, and John Calmore

  • Strangled Cry: The Communication and Experience of Trauma. by Aparajita Nanda and Peter Bray

    Strangled Cry: The Communication and Experience of Trauma.

    Aparajita Nanda and Peter Bray

    The chapters in this collection seek to set up meaningful dialogue between scholars in the field of trauma studies. The goal is to create conversations that add to a critical appraisal of the primary theme. Communication being crucial in this context, the intention of this compilation is to reflect in its chapter divisions an exchange of ideas about a crucial topic in human history. By history is meant not only knowledge dealing with past events related to the human race but also history as 'his-story' - the personal narrative of a particular person.Hence the fifteen chapters, divided into three sections, move from the individual response, which often seeks a collective voice, to a search for resolution of trauma.

  • Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City by Gordon Young

    Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City

    Gordon Young

    After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and “star” of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me.Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one of the world’s highest per capita income levels, but is now one of the country's most impoverished and dangerous cities, he returned to Flint with the intention of buying a house. What he found was a place of stark contrasts and dramatic stories, where an exotic dancer can afford a lavish mansion, speculators scoop up cheap houses by the dozen on eBay, and arson is often the quickest route to neighborhood beautification.

    Skillfully blending personal memoir, historical inquiry, and interviews with Flint residents, Young constructs a vibrant tale of a once-thriving city still fighting—despite overwhelming odds—to rise from the ashes. He befriends a rag-tag collection of urban homesteaders and die-hard locals who refuse to give up as they try to transform Flint into a smaller, greener town that offers lessons for cities all over the world. Hard-hitting, insightful, and often painfully funny,Teardown reminds us that cities are ultimately defined by people, not politics or economics.

  • The American Legal System and Civic Engagement. by Kenneth Manaster

    The American Legal System and Civic Engagement.

    Kenneth Manaster

  • The Evolving God: Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion by J. David Pleins

    The Evolving God: Charles Darwin on the Naturalness of Religion

    J. David Pleins

    In focusing on the story of Darwin's religious doubts, scholars too often overlook Darwin's positive contribution to the study of religion. J. David Pleins traces Darwin's journey in five steps. He begins with Darwin's global voyage, where his encounter with religious and cultural diversity transformed his understanding of religion. Surprisingly, Darwin wrestles with serious theological questions even as he uncovers the evolutionary layers of religion from savage roots. Next, we follow Darwin as his doubts about traditional biblical religion take root, affecting his career choice and marriage to Emma Wedgwood. Pleins then examines Darwin's secret notebooks as he searches for a materialist theory of religion. Again, other surprises loom as Darwin's reading of Comte's three stages of religion's development actually predate his reading of Malthus. Pleins explores how Darwin applied his discovery to the realm of ethics by formulating an evolutionary view of the "Golden Rule" in his Descent of Man. Finally, he considers Darwin's later reflections on the religion question, as he wrestled with whether his views led to atheism, agnosticism, or a new kind of theism. The Evolving God concludes by looking at some of the current religious debates surrounding Darwin and suggests the need for a deeper appreciation for Darwin as a religious thinker. Though he grew skeptical of traditional Christian dogma, Darwin made key discoveries concerning the role and function of religion as a natural evolutionary phenomenon.

 

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