From Inquiry to Publication:
Books by Indiana University Faculty Members
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Bowman, Michael S. Applied Economic Analysis for Technologists, Engineers, and
Managers. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999, 561 pp., $66.67,
cloth.
This book focuses on classical engineering economy topics in contemporary
organizations and projects. It provides a basis for financial and technical
decision making grounded in an understanding of organizational financial concepts
and engineering economy principles, financial statements, accounting, and cash
flow concepts. It also discusses practical applications of the interrelationships
among engineering economy techniques, continuous improvement of costs and
profits, and basic financial/accounting concepts. Bowman is an associate
professor of industrial engineering technology at IUPUI.
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Brantlinger, Patrick. The Reading Lesson: the Threat of Mass Literacy in
Nineteenth Century British Fiction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998,
254 pp., $39.95, cloth, $19.95, paper.
Novels and novel reading were viewed--especially by novelists themselves--as both
causes and symptoms of mind rot and moral decay among nineteenth-century readers.
The guardians of middle-class culture were alarmed by the mass literacy that
brought with it a mass consumer market for such popular, supposedly low forms as
Gothic romances, penny dreadfuls, and Newgate crime stories. Their higher priced
and higher brow cousins, the three-decker novels, were also not above suspicion.
Brantlinger demonstrates how Thackeray, Dickens, Trollope, Collins, Gissing,
Stevenson, and others shared the unease of their audiences about the negative
consequences of reading. Brantlinger is a professor of English at IUB.
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Bringle, Robert G., Richard Games, and Edward A. Malloy, eds. Colleges and
Universities as Citizens. Needham Heights, Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon, 1999,
210 pp., $26.99, cloth.
In this vision for higher education in the twenty-first century through the
concept of colleges and universities as citizens, the authors continue the
discussion of Ernest Boyer's vision of the "engaged campus." They illustrate the
rewards and risks and provide an examination of the implications of engagement on
the various institutions of higher education. Each chapter discusses the status
of higher education, the factors that have shaped its current status, and the
steps that could be taken to produce change. The authors provide informative
historical analyses, case studies, and conceptual frameworks through which
planning and work can be construed and evaluated. Bringle is a professor of
psychology at IUPUI.
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Burbank, Jane, and David L. Ransel, eds. Imperial Russia: New Histories for the
Empire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998, 359 pp., $24.95, paper.
In contrast to much of traditional historical writing on Imperial Russia, which
focused heavily on the causes of its demise, the contributors to this volume
investigate the people and institutions that kept Imperial Russia functioning for
two centuries, from the time of Peter the Great to the 1880s. The collection
introduces a variety of methodologies to the field, including demography, family
and gender studies, legal history, microhistory, and semiotics. It explores
neglected topics such as the reading public, the imperial family, freemasonry,
educational and scholarly societies, and religion. Essays address the symbolic
politics of autocracy, the lived experience of people in both central and
outlying regions, the institutional foundations of the empire, and the debates
sustained in public discussions of the polity. Ransel is a professor of history
at IUB.
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Caldwell, Lynton Keith. The National Environmental Policy Act: An Agenda for the
Future. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 209 pp., $29.95, cloth.
The 1993 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (Union of Concerned Scientists)
reported that "human beings and the natural world are on a collision course."
Many similar, highly informed assessments have been made. A prudent and rational
response to these forecasts would be recognition of the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) as a protective national strategy for a sustainable and
enhanced future. That NEPA offers this possibility is the thesis of this book.
Environmental protection measures adopted thus far have done little more than
slow the rate of adverse trends and seem to be inadequate to prevent an
ecological impoverishment of the Earth. But humans also have the capacity to
respond to possibilities, once the benefits and costs are understood. NEPA
declares an agenda for the possible. If a heavy cost to the quality of the
environment cannot be avoided, it can be diminished--and in time the destructive
trends may be stopped, and some even reversed. For this to happen in America and
throughout the world, a change in human perspective as great as that following
the Copernican revolution to the seventeenth century will be necessary. Caldwell
is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science and a professor
emeritus of public and environmental affairs at IUB.
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Capshew, James H. Psychologists on the March: Science, Practice, and Professional
Identity in America, 1929-1969. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University
Press, 1999, 276 pp., $59.95, cloth, $19.95, paper.
The author argues that World War II had a profound impact on the modern
psychological profession in America. Before the war, psychology was viewed
largely as an academic discipline, drawing its ideology and personnel from the
laboratory. After the war, it was increasingly seen as a source of theory and
practice to deal with mental health issues. With the support of the federal
government, the field entered a period of exponential growth accompanied by major
changes in the institutional structure of the field that spread to include the
epistemological foundations of psychology. Moving back and forth between
collective and individual levels of analysis, this book provides a narrative that
weaves together the internal politics and demography of psychology in relation to
the cultural environment. It includes discussions of the wartime reformation of
the American Psychological Association, the role of gender politics, the rise of
reflexivity, and the popularization of psychology. Capshew is an associate
professor of history and philosophy of science at IUB.
Carr, Jacqueline H., and Bernadette F. Rodak. Clinical Hematology Atlas.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1999, 217 pp., $39.00, paper.
In this book more than 300 photographs, schematic diagrams, and electron
micrographs illustrate every facet of hematologic cellular morphology--from
normal cell maturation to the development of various pathologies. The
accompanying text is minimized to keep this resource user-friendly. Images reveal
Clark, John, and Daniel H. Cole, eds. Environmental Protection in Transition:
Economic, Legal, and Socio-Political Perspectives on Poland. Brookfield, Vermont:
Ashgate, 1998, 156 pp., $68.95, cloth.
During the Communist era, Poland became one of the most polluted countries in the
world. In this book, Polish and American economists, legal scholars, policy
analysts, and sociologists examine the improvements and continuing problems of
environmental protection in post-Communist Poland. The contributions cover a
range of environmental protection issues, including environmental policy
innovations, environmental protection in privatization, the perspective of the
regulated community, and the growth and maturation of Poland's nongovernmental
environmental movement. Cole is a professor of law at IUPUI.
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth G., and Thomas S. Ulen, eds. Law and Economics Anthology.
Cincinnati, Ohio: Anderson Publishing, 1998, 561 pp., $27.95, paper.
This anthology focuses on the private law topics of a first-year law school
curriculum. It includes many of the classic law and economics articles to set
forth the basic body of knowledge within the discipline, as well as many
critiques of these articles to prompt thought and discussion. Dau-Schmidt is a
professor of law at IUB.
Grosvenor, Theodore, and David A. Goss. Clinical Management of Myopia. Boston:
Butterworth Heinemann, 1999, 217 pp., $55.00, cloth.
Myopia is shortsightedness/nearsightedness or defective vision from a distance.
It is one of the most common vision problems, treated by optometrists daily.
Several new therapies and some major clinical studies have brought about a
renewed interest in the problem by the optometry community. The authors have
reviewed and evaluated these studies to provide practitioners with the latest and
most thorough information on the clinical management of myopia. The book
addresses the epidemiology and etiology of myopia; management, including clinical
examination and prescription; and methods of myopia control or reduction,
including vision therapy and biofeedback training, pharmaceutical agents, rigid
contact lenses and orthokeratology, refractive surgery, and corneal topography
measurement. By consulting this comprehensive reference, optometrists can better
understand the range of options available for treating myopia and can learn how
to select the best method of correction for each patient. Grosvenor is a
professor emeritus of optometry. Goss is a professor of optometry. Both are at
IUB.
Gutjahr, Paul. An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United
States, 1777-1880. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999, 254
pp., $39.50, cloth.
American publishing experienced unprecedented, exponential growth during the
first three-quarters of the nineteenth century. An emerging market economy,
widespread religious revival, reforms in education, and innovations in print
technology worked together to create a culture increasingly formed and framed by
the power of print. At the center of this new culture was the Bible. Although the
importance of the Bible in early American culture is beyond dispute, scholars
have been reticent to write about it. This book offers the first synthetic
account of the Bible's place in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
American cultural life. More specifically, it examines the grand drama of how a
wide range of constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the
Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace
experienced explosive growth. Gutjahr is an assistant professor of English at
IUB.
Klaassen, Curtis D., and John B. Watkins III, eds. Casarett & Doull's Toxicology:
The Basic Science of Poisons. Fifth Edition. New York: McGraw Hill, 1999, 861
pp., $29.50, paper.
This handbook delineates the basic concepts and fundamental principles needed to
grasp current issues in modern toxicology. It is organized and presented in a
logical progression of general principles to specific topics--such as organ
system toxicology, specific agent toxicology, and environmental toxicology--and
provides information on the principles, concepts, and modes of thought at the
foundation of the discipline. It also reflects the marked progress in toxicology
during this decade. Watkins is a professor of pharmacology and toxicology and
assistant director of the Medical Sciences Program at IUB.
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Larson, Catherine, and Margarita Vargas, eds. Latin American Women Dramatists:
Theater, Texts, and Theories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998, 277
pp., $39.95, cloth, $19.95, paper.
Contributors discuss the works of fifteen Latin American playwrights and
delineate the artistic lives of these women dramatists. The playwrights, from
places as diverse as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and
Venezuela, highlight the problems inherent in writing under politically
repressive governments. The writers also illustrate through their own experiences
that gender differences entail both loss and profit. A theme common to all the
playwrights is that their plays--whether they subscribe to traditional male forms
of writing or are involved in dismantling masculine structures- use the theater
to bring about change. Larson is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese
at IUB.
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Larson, Greg Ward, and Robert Shakespeare. Rendering with Radiance: The Art and
Science of Lighting Visualization. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers,
1998, 664 pp., $79.95, cloth.
Radiance is a collection of approximately fifty computer programs that do
everything from object modeling to point calculation, rendering, image
processing, and display. The accompanying reference book on the Radiance lighting
simulation and rendering system is for advanced lighting designers and academic
researchers, and more than half of the book is devoted to applying Radiance to
real-world lighting problems. The authors discuss luminaire modeling and lighting
analysis, daylight simulation, animation, roadway lighting, theatre lighting, and
exterior lighting. Shakespeare is an associate professor of theatre and drama at
IUB.
Marakas, George M. Decision Support Systems in the Twenty-first Century. Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1999, 506 pp., $75.00, cloth.
To help future business management professionals learn to make and support
managerial decisions, this book provides an understanding of the support aspects
of decision support systems. Written from a cognitive-processes and
decision-making perspective, it concentrates on issues that emphasize managerial
applications and the implications of decision support technology on those issues.
It gives a strong managerial application and use approach throughout, focusing
content toward a distinctly "real-world" orientation, with an emphasis in all
topic areas on application and implementation over design and developments. It
also covers the processes involved in making creative decisions and effectively
solving problems, showing students different ways to think (logical/lateral
thinking), free association techniques, and acquainting them with intelligent
agents in decision support. Marakas is an assistant professor of accounting and
information systems at IUB.
Martin, R. Bruce, David B. Burr, and Neil A. Sharkey. Skeletal Tissue Mechanics.
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1998, 392 pp., $64.95, cloth.
This book was written primarily as a textbook for graduate and advanced
undergraduate students. It serves to integrate anatomy and physiology with
structural and material behavior of musculoskeletal tissues, and serves as an
effective bridge between engineering, veterinary, biological, and medical
disciplines. In the interest of this diverse audience, basic mechanical and
biologic concepts are introduced and the approaches used for the engineering
analyses are limited. Each chapter ends with exercises that maintain this
diversity of application. Burr is a professor of anatomy and orthopaedic surgery
and chairperson of the Department of Anatomy at the IU School of Medicine.
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McCullough, L. E. Anyone Can Produce Plays with Kids: The Absolute Basics of Staging Your Own At-Home, In-School, 'Round-the-Neighborhood Plays. Lyme, New Hampshire: Smith and Kraus, 1998, 170 pp., $14.95, paper.
There are several good reasons why adults should help kids create and put on plays. It's a simple, family-centered activity, a potent learning tool for children, a proven method of helping children acquire vital social and communication skills--and it's fun! The author covers the how-to basics of playmaking from organizing a company and selecting a script to assembling costumes and props, running rehearsals, and handling the production's technical aspects. The last part of the book translates theory into action by presenting three plays in details. McCullough is a lecturer in English and administrative director of the Humanities Theatre Group at IUPUI.
Mitchell, B. Breon, trans. The Trial by Franz Kafka. New York: Schocken Books,
1998, 276 pp., $24.00, cloth.
Written in 1914, The Trial is a terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank
officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against
a charge about which he can get no information. This new edition is based upon
the work of an international team of experts who have restored the text, the
sequence of chapters, and their divisions to create a version that is as close as
possible to the way the author left it. Mitchell also provides a preface
explaining some of the translation challenges. Mitchell is a professor of
comparative literature and Germanic studies at IUB.
Papke, David Ray. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial
America. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1999, 152 pp., $25.00,
cloth, $12.95, paper.
When the American Railway Union went on strike against the Pullman Palace Car
Company in 1894, it set into motion a chain of events whose repercussions are
still felt today. The strike pitted America's largest industrial union against
twenty-four railroads, paralyzed rail traffic in half the country, and in the end
was broken up by federal troops and suppressed by the courts, with union leader
Eugene Debs incarcerated. But behind the Pullman case lay a conflict of
ideologies at a watershed time in our nation's history. The author reexamines the
events and personalities surrounding the 1894 strike, related proceedings in the
Chicago trial courts, and the 1895 Supreme Court decision (In re Debs), which set
important standards for labor injunctions. He shows how the court, by upholding
Debs' contempt citation, dealt fatal blows to broad-based unionism in the
nation's most important industry and to any hope for a more evenhanded form of
judicial involvement in labor disputes--thus setting the stage for labor law in
decades to come. Papke is the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law and a professor
of liberal arts at IUPUI.
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Robertson, Jean. Matter Mind Spirit: Twelve Contemporary Indiana Women Artists.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999, 60 pp, $19.95, paper.
A catalog of an exhibition of art by twelve artists whose works blend physical,
intellectual, and emotional intensity, this work demonstrates the range of media
and techniques used by women artists in Indiana today. The catalog recognizes
artists whose vision is individual, yet who share certain traits: a strong work
ethic, close involvement with their physical materials, dedication to making
things by hand, and well-defined values and ideas--qualities not unlike those
historically identified with people in Indiana and the Midwest. Each of the
artists creates works whose resonance results from the physical, intellectual,
and emotional concentration that she brings to her studio. The result is art that
combines sensual use of materials, creative concepts, emotional intensity, and
the energy of hundreds of hours of hard work. Robertson is an assistant
professor, Herron School of Art, at IUPUI.
Russell, Lisa A. Child Maltreatment and Psychological Distress among Urban
Homeless Youth. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998, 400 pp., $50.00, cloth.
Thousands of young people experience homelessness in the United States every
year. Yet understanding of this group remains fragmented and incomplete. This
book serves as a resource for anyone who wants detailed information about
homeless youth. This descriptive study investigates potential relationships
between the experience of specific types of child maltreatment and the
experiences of symptoms of psychological distress within a homeless youth sample.
The analysis attempts to enhance the runaway and homeless youth literature with
its application of stress and coping theories to the understanding of the effects
of child maltreatment. Russell is an assistant professor of applied health
science at IUB.
Sebeok, Thomas. Come Comunicano Gli Animali Che Non Parlano (How Speechless
Animals Communicate). Bari, Italy: Edizioni dal Sud, 1998, 254 pp., $na, cloth
and paper.
These materials, never before published in this form, examine general biosemiotic
issues, including the evolution of semiosis, the foundations of zoosemiotics, and
the study of animal communication. This book--Sebeok's eleventh in Italian-
assembles a dozen of his shorter works on aspects of semiosis and about processes
of communication in speechless creatures. Included among those not previously
available is his study of signifying behavior in the domestic cat. Other chapters
deal with the concept "animal" in biological and semiotic perspectives, the
zoosemiotic components of human communication, communication between people and
animals, questions of animal deception, and the relation of naming to playing in
the animal world. Sebeok is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and
Semiotics and professor emeritus of anthropology and Uralic and Altaic studies at
IUB.
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Sperber, Murray. Onward to Victory: The Crises That Shaped College Sports. New
York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998, 578 pp., $32.50, cloth.
Big-time college sports have endured, survived, and even thrived despite a number
of catastrophes and scandals. These problems never end but never seriously dent
the public's and the media's love for the games and the participants. Why? This
book answers this question by focusing on the worst crises in the history of
college sports- the financial and manpower failures during World War II and the
horrendous basketball fixing and football cheating scandals of the post-war
years. These events stunned the nation and shaped the subsequent history of
college sports, particularly the form of the modern NCAA and the media's
portrayal of players, coaches, and teams. The author recreates the world of
wartime and postwar America with its classic Hollywood movies, its all-powerful
radio men, its lurid press, its remarkable corruption, and, of course, its
enchantment with a new diversion: television. Sperber is a professor of English
at IUB.
Thorelli, Hans B., Robert L. Graves, and Juan-Claudio Lopez. INTOPIA: Guia Del
Ejecutivo. Barcelona, Spain: Marcombo Boixareu Editores, 1998, 171 pp., $52.00,
paper.
A frontier-style international business strategy simulation in management game
form, this guide focuses on the specific problems of international trade and
overseas operations. Using a team structure, INTOPIA is used to sharpen business
judgment. Teams are free (short of antitrust violations) to cooperate with each
other: buy and sell, borrow and lend, license patents, sell excess plants, hedge
foreign currencies, and form strategic alliances and joint ventures. Thus
participants can engage in a realistic search for balance between cooperation and
competition in the marketplace. Interest is growing in the use of this simulation
for research purposes, as well as in teaching. The simulation has more than
eighty university adoptions in more than fifty countries. Thorelli is
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at IUB.
Von Furstenberg, George, M., and Michael K. Ulan. Learning from the World's Best
Central Bankers. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 248 pp., $110.00,
cloth.
Central bankers play a prominent role in many societies; a few of them even
become oracles or celebrities. Yet they are not paid much heed--commonly accorded
little respect--as educators and intellectual leaders. The growing reputation of
central bankers suggests that there is much to be learned from the ways in which
they practice their profession. This volume offers a series of essays in which
the authors present what central bankers have to say for themselves and the
lessons they believe they can teach about monetary policy--not what economists,
politicians, or journalists say about them. Von Furstenberg is Rudy Professor of
Economics at IUB.
Zhang, Yingjin, and Zhiwei Xiao. Encyclopedia of Chinese Film. New York:
Routledge, 1998, 475 pp., $140.00, cloth.
This critical reference guide provides coverage of Chinese film in its
historical, cultural, geopolitical, generic, thematic, and textual aspects. In
addition to the main body of entries on film people, film synopses, genres, and
subjects presented in alphabetical order, the book also includes six historical
essays on cinema from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as their interactions
with and their relations to the West. Zhang is an associate professor of
comparative literature and East Asian languages and cultures at IUB.
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