Alex-Assensoh, Yvette Marie,
and Lawrence J. Hanks, eds. Black and Multiracial Politics in America.
New York: New York University Press, 2000, 352 pp., $21.00, paper.
Using literature on black politics as an analytical springboard, this collection
of essays brings together scholars from varied racial and ethnic groups to
consider how America’s increasingly multiracial composition is affecting
urban political institutions, media portrayals, affirmative action policies,
and more. Alex-Assensoh is assistant professor of political science at
IUB. Hanks is associate professor of political science at IUB.
Ansart, Guillaume. Reflexion
utopique et pratique romanesque au siècle des lumières-Prévost,
Rousseau, Sade. Paris-Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard, 1999, 176 pp.,
150ƒ.
This book is a study of a phenomenon found in 18th-century French fiction—the
presence of utopian episodes in otherwise nonutopian novels. Utopian episodes
in 18th-century French novels, Ansart says, are significant in the history
of the novel and in the history of the literary utopia. For the novel, they
signify a general turn toward t he
philosophical novel; for literary utopia, they mark an important stage in
a long-term evolution toward a more novelistic form. The latter part of the
book analyzes utopian motifs in Prévost’s Cleveland, Rousseau’s
La Nouvelle Héloïse, and Sade’s Aline et Valcour.
Ansart is assistant professor of French and Italian at IUB.
Baginski, Stephen P., and John
M. Hassell. Intermediate Accounting: Management Decisions and Financial
Accounting Reports. Cincinnati: South-Western College Publishing,
2001, 704 pp. $87.95, cloth.
In this textbook, the authors stress the link between internal decision makers
(managers) and external decision makers (investors and creditors) as they
introduce financial statement analysis. The text uses three sets of financial
statements—from TCBY, Southwest Airlines, and Texas Instruments—to
increase students’ familiarity with real financial statements. A “CFA
Exam-Type Problems” section follows each chapter. Baginski is professor
of accounting and PricewaterhouseCoopers Fellow at the IU Kelley School of
Business in Bloomington. Hassell is professor of accounting at the Kelley
School in Indianapolis.
Bancroft, John, ed. The Role
of Theory in Sex Research. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2000, 366 pp., $49.95, cloth.
This conference volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding
human sexuality. Nineteen scholars from fields such as sociology, medicine,
anthropology, and psychology contribute articles on four general themes: sexuality
through the life cycle, sexual orientation, sexual risk-taking, and adolescent
sexuality. Bancroft is professor of psychiatry and director of the Kinsey
Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at IUB.
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Beyer, Landon E. The Arts,
Popular Culture, and Social Change. New York: Peter Lang, 2000, 176
pp., $24.95, paper.
Beyer analyzes challenges
to traditional understandings of art and the aesthetic experience, aiming
to clarify the dominant traditions of modern aesthetic theory and show how
they have affected the role, purpose, and value of the arts. The latter chapters
of the book explore possible educational policies and practices that reflect
cultural, social, political, economic, and ideological contexts. Behind the
volume’s central ideas, Beyer writes, “stands an essentially moral
commitment to changing the current role of the arts in mainstream U.S. society
and altering the realities of schooling.” Beyer is professor and associate
dean for teacher education at IUB.
Braddom, Randall, ed. Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders,
2000, 1,450 pp., $179.00, cloth.
More than 120 authors contribute to this updated medical reference text. New
information in the edition includes coverage of gait analysis, brain injuries,
osteoporosis, and rehabilitation of transplant patients. Nearly 600 illustrations
accompany the text. Braddom is associate dean of the IU School of Medicine
and professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Brandt, Kenneth D. Diagnosis
and Nonsurgical Management of Osteoarthritis. 2nd ed. Caddo, Okla.:
Professional Communications Inc., 2000, 304 pp., paper.
In his second edition of
this handbook for primary care physicians, Brandt continues to offer practical
information as he emphasizes recent research advances and improvements in
the management of osteoarthritis. The monograph includes a broad discussion
of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. Second edition features include
a complete discussion of COX-2 inhibitors. Discussions of disease-modifying
drugs and surgical options conclude the text. Brandt is also co-editor of
Osteoarthritis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), a comprehensive
reference work for clinical rheumatologists. Brandt is head of the rheumatology
division at the IU School of Medicine.
Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright
Essentials for Librarians and Educators. Chicago: American Library
Association, 2000, 145 pp., $45.00, paper.
An outgrowth of online tutorials developed by Crews in association with IUPUI’s
Copyright Management Center, this reference manual explains copyright fundamentals
for information professionals. Succinct chapters describe discrete aspects
of copyright law, including several summaries elucidating fair use law. Small
sidebars offer supplemental information on recent legislation, cases, and
events in the news. Seven appendices accompany the text, including a one-page
checklist for assessing fair use. Crews is professor of law, associate
professor of library and information science, director of the Copyright Management
Center, and associate dean of the faculties at IUPUI.
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Davis, Thomas J. The Christmas
Quilt. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 2000, 272 pp., $18.99, cloth.
Drawing on stories his father told him around the family table, Davis has
“created something that I hope conveys the feeling I get when I listen
to him—a heartfelt appreciation for home, family, and land,” he
writes in the preface. Davis’s story concerns events in a family’s
life in the mountains of north Georgia during six memorable months leading
up to Christmas, 1942. Davis is associate professor of religious studies
at IUPUI.
Eastman, Susan Tyler, ed.
Research in Media Promotion. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Inc., 2000, 365 pp., $40.00, cloth.
In this volume, articles taken from scholarly studies and trade publications
focus on program promotion, i.e., marketing efforts designed to recruit or
retain viewers or listeners for a particular program, attract the industry
(stations, cable networks, syndicators), enhance the brand image of a service
or station, or garner support from advertisers or funders. Chapters analyze
published research and report original studies on aspects of promotion such
as the roles of violence and sexual content, promotion within children’s
programming, sports promotion, and program promotion in the online medium.
Eastman is professor of telecommunications at IUB.
Fox, Frederick. The Music
of Frederick Fox, Vol. 2. New Music from Indiana University, Vol.
3, IUSM-09.
This CD includes four compositions by the founder and first director of the
New Music Ensemble at IU—“Impressions,” “Dawnen Grey,”
”Fantasy for Viola and Piano,” and “Devil’s Tramping Ground,”
a piece evoking tales of mysteriously flattened pastureland that community
leaders would attribute to the work of the devil. (“The reality,”
writes Fox in the program notes, “was that young persons and carousing
adults would sneak off with a musician or two and dance.”) Fox is
professor emeritus of music at IUB.
Freund, Donald. The Music
of Don Freund, Vol. 1. New Music from Indiana University, Vol. 4,
IUSM-10.
Featuring performances by IU orchestras, the New Music Ensemble, and faculty
and student soloists, this CD includes the Madame Bovary ballet suite, “Soft
Cells,” “Viola Concerto” (written for IU Professor of Viola
Atar Arad), and “Dissolving Music.” The latter track is a rock piece
based on W.S. Merwin’s poem “For a Dissolving Music,” featuring
“a drumset augmented by vibes, tuned cowbells, and suspended water-filled
paint cans.” A composer, conductor, and pianist, Freund is professor
of composition at IUB.
Goodman, Victor, and Joseph
Stampfli. The Mathematics of Finance: Modeling and Hedging. Pacific
Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning, 2000, 300 pp., $83.95, cloth.
This textbook, initially developed for an undergraduate course, explains the
process of computing the prices of financial derivatives in terms of underlying
equity prices. It describes the basic mathematical tools and techniques used
to carry out this process and offers insights into how derivatives are used,
as well as the risks associated with creating or trading these assets. Exercises
and examples, often using real market data, illustrate the topics. Goodman
is professor of mathematics at IUB. Stampfli is a professor emeritus of mathematics
at IUB.
Granet, Irving, and Maurice
Bluestein. Thermodynamics and Heat Power. 6th ed. Upper Saddle
River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Inc., 2000, 727 pp. $90.00, cloth.
In this new edition of a widely used engineering textbook, Bluestein has incorporated
the following: a DOS-format disk containing steam tables; clarification of
units, especially the difference between pound mass and pound force and the
use of the correction factor g/c; updated photos of manufacturers’ equipment;
new coverage of heat pump operation; and additional heat-transfer problems.
Bluestein is associate professor of mechanical engineering technology at IUPUI.
Granet died in 1998.
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Hawkins, Joan. Cutting Edge:
Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 2000, 320 pp., $19.95, paper.
Delving into the politics of taste and trash culture, Hawkins considers films
that “thrill, frighten, gross out, (or) arouse” and the consumers
who view them. Horror shows form a subversive genre, Hawkins argues, blurring
the line between high art and low culture; consumers looking for something
different are drawn to both high and low ends of the film market. Even as
they offend, horror films can offer important challenges to our assumptions
about class, taste, and culture. Hawkins is associate professor of communications
and culture at IUB.
Heathorn, Stephen. For Home,
Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary
School, 1880–1914. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000,
300 pp., $50.00, cloth.
For English schoolchildren at the turn of the century, “learning to read
the alphabet and learning to read the nation went hand-in-glove,” writes
Heathorn in this social history. Elementary education in England forged the
national identities of working-class children, a process that was “infused
with ideas about social roles, political participation, and gender and ethnic
differences.” Decoding the nationalist and imperialist subtexts of hundreds
of school books, Heathorn argues that early schooling was the “means
by which an understanding of the ‘nation’ and one’s ‘place’
within it, as well as one’s place in the world, was first formed.”
Heathorn is assistant professor of history at IUPUI.
Houser, Nathan, Jonathan Eller,
André De Tienne, Albert Lewis, Cornelis de Waal, D. Bront Davis, Cathy
Clark, Leah Cummins, Luise Morton, and Diana Reynolds, eds. Writings of
Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Vol. 6, 1886–1890.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, 656 pp., $49.95, cloth.
Compiled by the editorial staff of IUPUI’s ongoing Peirce Edition Project,
Volume 6 contains 47 writings from an unsettled period in the life of American
intellectual and philosopher Charles S. Peirce. The selections are taken from
the years just after Peirce moved from New York to Milford, Penn., in 1887,
a move followed shortly by the death of his mother. Among the writings included
are Peirce’s unfinished attempt to draw his philosophical theories into
a unified system of thought and lengthy excerpts from his report on gravity,
which led to his forced resignation from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Houser is professor of philosophy and director of the Peirce Edition Project.
Eller is professor of English and textual editor of the project. De Tienne
is assistant professor of philosophy and associate editor of the project.
All are at IUPUI.
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Kalamaras, George. The Theory
and Function of Mangoes. Marshfield, Mass.: Four Way Books, 2000,
96 pp., $13.95, paper.
Selected by poet Michael Burkard as the winner of the Four Way Books 1998
Intro Series in Poetry, Mangoes was inspired by the poet’s months-long
stay in India. A longtime practitioner of yogic meditation, Kalamaras’s
poems are steeped in the sights, sounds, smells, and senses of Indian culture.
This is Kalamaras’s first published collection, although some of the
poems have been published previously, including “Mud,” which appeared
in Best American Poetry of 1997. Kalamaras is associate professor
of English at IPFW.
Kingsley, Robert E. Concise
Text of Neuroscience. 2nd ed. Philadelphia and Baltimore: Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 1999, 696 pp., $43.00, paper.
The goals of this revised edition are the same as those of the first: to provide
a practical, concise, and integrated neuroscience text with major emphasis
on clinical neurology for first-year medical students. New features include
additional figures and improved illustrations, a chapter summary format for
quick review of chapters, key term etymologies, an expanded glossary, and
a high-resolution, multiplanar MRI brain atlas. Kingsley is associate professor
of physiology and biophysics at the IU School of Medicine’s South Bend
Center for Medical Education.
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Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. The
Starr Report Disrobed. New York: Columbia University Press,
2000, 188 pp., $16.00, paper.
Far more than a legal document,
The Starr Report is an unprecedented “cultural phenomenon”
and “textual event,” writes Malti-Douglas in this close analysis
of the report’s textual strategies and narrative structures. Dissecting
its characters and discourse, Malti-Douglas concludes that The Starr Report
is a postmodern—and thoroughly American—text about gender, sex,
and power that “discloses more about contemporary America than America
would want to reveal.” Malti-Douglas is the Martha C. Kraft Professor
of Humanities at IUB.
Musa, Mark, trans. Divine
Comedy, by Dante Alighieri. Vol. 3, Purgatory: Italian Text and Verse Translation,
and Vol. 4, Commentary. Indiana Masterpiece Editions. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2000, 352 pp. and 344 pp., $89.95 (2-vol. set),
cloth.
In these middle volumes of his six-volume translation, Musa offers a dual-language
edition of Dante’s Purgatory, setting a fresh translation against the
original Italian verse. Musa also examines the critical commentary of other
Dante scholars as he presents his own interpretations and commentary. Musa
is Distinguished Professor emeritus of French and Italian at IUB.
Nixon, Cornelia. Angels Go
Naked. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint Press, 2000, 287 pp.,$24.00,
cloth.
In this “novel-in-stories,” Nixon follows the lives of Margy, a
violinist, and Webster, a microbiologist, as they meet, marry, and struggle
to keep loving each other despite some nearly irreconcilable differences,
including their dispute over having a child. A New York Times reviewer described
the novel as transforming “the ordinary events of Margy and Webster’s
daily existence into exquisite dramas.” Nixon received an O. Henry Award
and a Pushcart Prize for stories included in this book. Nixon is professor
of English at IUB.
Nolan Jr., Val; Ellen Ketterson;
and Charles F. Thompson, eds. Current Ornithology. Vol. 15. New
York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2000, 326 pp., $145, cloth.
In this fifteenth volume of a series begun in 1983, scholars in various areas
of bird research contribute six detailed chapters. The topics include how
small birds use environmental cues to survive cold winters, differential migration,
birds’ use of grit (fragments of stone, rock, and other substances),
the maintenance and restoration of seabird populations, prospecting for breeding
sites, and an investigation of edge effects on avian productivity. Nolan
is professor emeritus of law and biology at IUB. Ketterson is professor of
biology and co-director of the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal
Behavior at IUB.
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Remsberg, Rich. Riders for
God: The Story of a Christian Motorcycle Gang. Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 2000, 265 pp., $34.95 , paper.
In this photodocumentary, Remsberg chronicles the activities of the Unchained
Gang, an outreach ministry made up primarily of “former bikers and drug
dealers, ex-convicts and recovering addicts,” all of whom have one thing
in common—their motorcycles. Through 62 black-and-white images of worship
and witnessing, plus detailed interviews with many members of the group, Remsberg
explores the affinities between the spirit of these outlaw bikers and Spirit-filled
Christianity. Remsberg is a part-time film and photo researcher with WTIU
at IUB. He has also been a member of the photo department at the School of
Journalism and recently served as visual resources specialist for the IU Digital
Library Program.
Sebeok, Thomas A. Life Signs:
Essays in Semiotics-I and Culture Signs: Essays in Semiotics-II.
Language, Media, & Education Studies series, ed. Marcel Danesi and Leonard
G. Sbrocchi. Ottawa and Toronto: Legas, 2000, 169 pp. and 147 pp., paper.
These small volumes bring together essays first published elsewhere in a tribute
to Sebeok’s influence on the field of semiotics. In Life Signs,
five essays that shaped the field of biosemiotics (communication across species)
are included in their original form. In Culture Signs, six essays,
also in original form, round out the picture of semiotics and spotlight “the
human system of shared semiosis called culture.” Sebeok is Distinguished
Professor emeritus of linguistics and semiotics at IUB.
Shupe, Anson; William A. Stacey;
and Susan E. Darnell, eds. Bad Pastors: Clergy Misconduct in Modern America.
New York: New York University Press, 2000, 256 pp., $18.50, paper.
Clergy malfeasance—”the abuse and exploitation, whether sexual,
financial, or authoritative, of religious congregants by their trusted leaders”—is
a real but underexplored phenomenon, observe the editors of this volume. Contributors
to the volume go behind the headlines to provide a better conceptual definition
of clergy malfeasance as a pervasive and persistent problem in our society.
The original articles do not focus on individual faiths or case studies, but
rather on whether the foundation for clergy malfeasance is inherent in religious
organizations themselves. Shupe is professor of sociology and anthropology
at IPFW.
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Sutton, Susan Buck, ed. Contingent
Countryside: Settlement, Economy, and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since
1700. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000, 408 pp.,
$85.00, cloth.
In this fourth volume in the publication program of the Argolid Exploration
Project, contributors’ essays explore the “many ways in which residents
of the coastal regions of the southern Argolid peninsula of Greece have attempted
to shelter, feed, and advance the situations of their families during the
last three centuries.” Ethnographic, geographic, historical, and archaeological
methodologies are integrated to yield an image of the southern Argolid as
a countryside whose boundaries, character, people, and external connections
have been reconfigured time and time again. Sutton is professor of anthropology
at IUPUI.
Theobald, Neil D., and Betty
Malen, eds. Balancing Local Control and State Responsibility for K–12
Education: 2000 Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association.
Larchmont, N.Y.: Eye On Education Inc., 2000, 344 pp., $39.95, cloth.
For much of U.S. history, states have delegated executive power and even legislative
powers to local school boards. Since 1980, however, there has been shift in
power away from local school boards and toward state-level institutions. This
yearbook analyzes the evolving balance between state responsibility for funding
K–12 education and local autonomy in operating the schools. Part one
examines the philosophical, historical, legal, and political forces at work
in the shift from local to state initiative; part two looks at the major ideas
shaping the policy choices being made. The final part analyzes local control
of schools and the impact of changes in the state-local power balance on educational
resources. Theobald is associate professor of education at IUB.
Walsh, Andrew D. Religion,
Economics, and Public Policy: Ironies, Tragedies, and Absurdities of the Contemporary
Culture Wars. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000, 168 pp., $59.95, cloth.
Walsh takes up the culture wars thesis, which describes a “nearly cosmic
battle” between conservative believers and secular Americans. He challenges
“the assumption that orthodox religionists identify with laissez faire
capitalism while those who have drifted away from traditional religion embrace
liberal or Marxist views on political economy.” In the book’s first
part, Walsh explores the historical relationships between religious communities
and political economy, specifically the role of religious communities in creating,
legitimating, and dismantling America’s welfare states. The second part
describes the role of religious communities in the public policy debates surrounding
health care and welfare reform. Walsh is visiting assistant professor of
religious studies at IUPUI.
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