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books published by U.Va. faculty |
Edward
L. Ayers, Hugh P. Kelley Professor of History, and Anne S.
Rubin, associate at the Institute for Advanced Technology in
the Humanities. Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American
Civil War (book and CD-ROM). W.W. Norton.
Glenn
Beamer, assistant professor of Government. Creative Politics:
Taxes and Public Goods in the Federal System. University of Michigan.
Timothy Beatley, professor of Urban and Environmental Planning.
Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities. Island Press.
Beatley looks at the sustainable cities movement, transit systems,
urban green spaces and other ways of discouraging sprawl in Vienna,
Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Zurich, Amsterdam, Berlin and other
cities.
Richard
J. Bonnie, John S. Battle Professor of Law, Psychiatry and Public
Policy, and Charles H. Whitebread II, former U.Va. law professor.
The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in
the United States (reprint with a new authors' preface.) The Lindesmith
Center.
James
G. Clawson, associate professor of Business Administration at
Darden. Level Three Leadership: Getting Below the Surface. Prentice
Hall.
Martha Derthick, professor of Government and Foreign Affairs,
ed. Dilemmas of Scale in Americašs Federal Democracy. Cambridge.
Historical,
political and sociological perspectives on how nationalist and localist
traditions vie within the American federal system. John W. Frick,
associate professor of Drama, ed. Theatre and Violence. University
of Alabama.
Richard
Handler, professor of anthropology, and Daniel Segal of Pitzer
College. Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the
Narration of Social Realities (paperback reprint with a new introduction
by the authors). Rowman & Littlefield.
Diane
M. Hoffman, assistant professor, Curry School. Lanterns on the
River: Essays on Life and Culture in Contemporary South Korea. Rowman
& Littlefield.
The
role of emotion, the theme of conformity, the influence of religion,
and the nature of male/female relationships are among the issues
addressed in these essays on Korean life.
Jeffrey Hopkins, professor of Religious Studies, ed. and
translator. Kalachakra Tantra: Rite of Initiation (second edition),
by the Dalai Lama. Wisdom Publications.
A. E. Dick Howard, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law,
and Robert M. O'Neil, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center
for Freedom of Expression, contributors. The Bill of Rights, the
Courts and the Law. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
R.S. Khare, professor of anthropology, ed. Islamic Law, Justice
and Society: Interdisciplinary Issues and Perspectives. Rowman &
Littlefield.
An
accessible, introductory discussion of issues in Islamic law, justice
and society in such different places as Algeria, Morocco, South
Africa and South Asia.
Maurie
D. McInnis, assistant professor of art history, ed. In Pursuit
of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860. University of South
Carolina. An exploration of Charlestonians' special fascination
with European culture, this fully illustrated catalogue accompanied
an exhibit organized by the Gibbes Museum of Art and the Historic
Charleston Foundation that featured portraits, paintings and decorative
arts.
Robert F. McNergney, Curry School professor, and Todd
W. Kent, associate director of the teacher-preparation program
at Princeton University. Will Technology Really Change Education?
Corwin Press.
Michael
Reed, associate professor of Electrical Engineering, and Ron
Rohrer. Applied Introductory Circuit Analysis for Electrical
and Computer Engineers. Prentice Hall.
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