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The past as memory and oblivion / Alon Confino -- Human connections : history and the Latin American novel / Herbert Tico Braun -- Your culture or your rights? : women and the multicultural dilemma / Denise Walsh -- Best sellers and half-truths : misreading Iran in America / Farzaneh Milani -- How to understand 9/11, Iraq, and Bush's war on terrorism / William B. Quandt -- Writing self and society : East Asian women authors / Ellen V. Fuller -- Approaching China : philosophy, history, and politics / Brantly Womack -- Asian America : studying culture and ethnicity / Sylvia Chong -- Improvising America : rethinking the founding / Peter S. Onuf -- Discerning constitutional meaning / Daniel R. Ortiz -- The life and afterlife of slavery / Lawrie Balfour -- Ongoing struggle : the deeper history of the civil rights movement / Risa L. Goluboff -- "The cruel radiance of what is" : poverty in America since 1945 / Grace Elizabeth Hale -- Sex in the United States : some history / Cindy Aron -- New histories of the American West / Christian W. McMillen -- Political power : how to get it, use it, and avoid losing it / Larry Sabato -- Media and politics : media effects? Media bias? / Paul Freedman -- Academic capitalism : the political economy of higher education / Brian Pusser -- Tintin and the American menace : French (mis)representations of the United States / Philippe Roger -- Catastrophes and commemorations : shaping nineteenth-century Chicago / Daphne Spain -- Urban plans and urban realities : understanding cities / Dell Upton -- Nations and nationalism / Krishan Kumar -- Light and life : the evolution of visual perception / Dennis Proffitt -- Everyday evolution / Edmund Russell -- An appreciation of reality : society and science / Reginald H. Garrett -- Starship Earth user's manual 2.0 : revising the balance of nature / Herman H. Shugart -- Perspectives on global warming science / Robert E. Davis -- The environmental other : finding and losing ourselves in nature / Jonathan Cannon -- The epic of the cosmos : space, time, and the universe / Trinh Xuan Thuan -- Doing science : physics, genius, and creativity / Paul Fendley -- Designing matter : molecules, materials, and their importance to society / Cassandra L. Fraser -- How computing changes thinking / David Evans -- Symmetry and group theory / Brian Parshall -- Arguments : exploring the history of logic / James Cargile -- At the edge of war : five from the 1850s / Stephen Cushman -- Mourning and modern poetry / Jahan Ramazani -- Doctors, lawyers, and the classics : reading for ethical values / Marcia Day Childress and Julia D. Mahoney -- Marketing fiction : Victorian serial novels / Stephen Arata -- Love, guilt, and reparation : fiction that guides us / Karen Chase -- Beside ourselves : ecstatic poetry / Lisa Russ Spaar -- The euphoric suffering of modern heroines / Alison Booth -- Abroad at home : contemporary interethnic fiction / Caroline Rody -- Women between cultures : Latina writers of the United States / María-Inés Lagos -- Where Spain is real : the nineteenth-century Spanish novel (and beyond) / Randolph D. Pope -- Joyce's Ulysses, five ways / Michael Levenson -- Ovid's Metamorphoses / Paul Barolsky -- Beyond Shakespeare : some other high points of English Renaissance drama / Clare R. Kinney -- Dangerous knowledge : Faust, Frankenstein, the golem, and the castle / Jeffrey A. Grossman -- Tolling the bells : liturgy and English literature / Bruce Holsinger -- Return to the word hoard / Elizabeth Fowler -- Literature as re-viewing / J. Paul Hunter -- Art and science in the Renaissance / Francesca Fiorani -- Maps, graphs, and icons : the art of visual knowledge representation / Johanna Drucker -- A pilgrim's guide : the visual world of medieval art / Lisa Reilly -- "One, two, three, four" : one hundred years of jazz and counting / Scott DeVeaux -- American art and material culture / Maurie McInnis -- "Reading" popular entertainment / John Frick -- Music and identity in the African diaspora / Melvin L. Butler -- The pleasures and terrors of speaking (and reading) aloud / Judith Reagan -- The beginning of wisdom : self-knowledge / Mitchell S. Green -- Babies, toddlers, and teens : how children develop / Judy DeLoache -- Illness narratives / David B. Morris -- Psychiatric anthropology : mental illness and cultural difference / Larry Merkel -- Exploring human diversity : an entrée into anthropology / Peter Metcalf -- Sex and morality / John Portmann -- For the sake of profit : self-interest, self-sacrifice, and corporate goals / Ira Bashkow -- The four goals of life in classical Hinduism / John Nemec -- Differing inequalities : considering India, Europe, and America / R.S. Khare -- Islam, Christianity, Judaism : reading across a difference / Peter Ochs -- The need to know Islam and Muslims / Abdulaziz Sachedina. |