Jeffrey Hopkins, professor of religious studies, editor. The Art of Peace: Nobel Peace Laureates Discuss Human Rights, Conflict and Reconciliation. Snow Lion Publications.

Edward L. Ayers, Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History, and Anne S. Rubin, project manager of the Valley project and associate at the Institute for Advanced Technologies. The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (book and CD-ROM). W.W. Norton and Company.

Peter Baker, professor of English. The Beowulf Reader: Basic Readings. Routledge.

A collection of essays reflecting the evolution of Beowulf scholarship over the past 25 years.

Richard Drayton, associate professor of history. Nature's Government: Science, British Imperialism, and the ŒImprovement' of the World. Yale University Press.

Nature's government shows how colonial expansion, from the Age of Alexander to the 20th century, led to more complex kinds of science, particularly botany, and how science was used to justify imperialism.

Glen Beamer, assistant professor of government and assistant professor of health evaluation sciences. Creative Politics: Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System. University of Michigan Press.

Trinh Xuan Thuan, astronomy professor. Chaos and Harmony: Perspectives on Scientific Revolutions of the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press.

A look at important scientific discoveries and intriguing new theories about chaos, gravity, strange attractors, fractals, symmetry, superstrings and the strangeness of atoms.