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"The American Cookbook: A History" Book Review, Skye Hardesty

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a review of the book Kitchen Secrets: The Meaning of Cooking in Everyday Life by Frances Short.

Review: Deutschland Und Die Usa In Der Internationalen Geschichte Des 20. Jahrhunderts: Festschrift Für Detlef Junker By Manfred Berg And Philipp Gassert (Eds.), Gerd Horten

CUP Faculty Research

A review of the book Deutschland und die USA in der Internationalen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts by Manfred Berg and Philipp Gassert (eds.) (Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2004)

Book Review: Learning To Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience And American Indian Literature, Bruce E. Johansen

Communication Faculty Publications

In a twist on assimilation, many boarding school students used the English language, a primary tool of colonization, to "talk back" to the system. As surely as the boarding-schools' inventors understood that language is the vessel of culture, none of them gave much thought to the ways in which Native Americans would use English to critique the schools into which many of them had been unwillingly enrolled.

Their writings, examined by Amelia Katanski, indicate that the boarding-school students were unwilling to surrender as victims. Learning English describes how Native American students in boarding schools often forged new identities, taking a …

Kingship In The Mycenaean World And Its Reflections In The Oral Tradition [Review], Erwin F. Cook

Classical Studies Faculty Research

Shear undertakes a detailed comparison of archaeological evidence from Mycenaean Greece, the surviving Linear B tablets, and the Homeric epics with the aim of showing that, contrary to the reigning scholarly consensus, Homer preserves a detailed and accurate portrait of the age he purports to describe. Indeed, Shear believes that both epics and much of Greek myth took shape during this period and reflect actual historical events (hence the reference to "oral tradition" rather than "Homer" in the title). Thus, because Pelops is the eponym of the Pcloponnesos, "he should logically belong to the early tradition that evolved soon after …

Book Review | Dan Sarooshi, International Organizations And Their Exercise Of Sovereign Powers (2005) & Margaret P. Karns & Karen A. Mingst, International Organizations: The Politics And Processes Of Global Governance (2004), Christopher G. Bradley

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This book review considers two books on international organizations: (1) Margaret P. Karns & Karen A. Mingst, International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance, and (2) Dan Sarooshi, International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers.

The review notes several features that set the Karns & Mingst book apart from other treatments of international organizations. First is a thoroughgoing commitment to an integrated view of international organizations. The book insists (and demonstrates) that knowledge of politics, theory, and history are all indispensable to a rich understanding of the problems and processes of global governance. Second, Karns …

Review Of The Successful Academic Librarian By Gwen Meyer Gregory, Sarah Steiner

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a book review of The Successful Academic Librarian by Gwen Meyer Gregory.

Book Review, Sharon Hatfield, Never Seen The Moon: The Trials Of Edith Maxwell, Tracy A. Thomas

Akron Law Faculty Publications

In Never Seen the Moon, journalist Sharon Hatfield chronicles the story of school teacher Edith Maxwell accused of murdering her coal-miner father in depression-era Appalachia. Hatfield’s detective work brings together the threads of this story to provide a mystery novel using the headlines and trial transcripts from real life. There are surprises to rival a John Grisham novel as Hatfield tells the legal tale of the young and vibrant Edith battling her raging father. The book journeys through the trials and appeals as two juries of twelve men convict Edith of murder and sentence her to a lifetime in prison. …

Review: Americanization And Anti-Americanism In Europe, Gerd Horten

CUP Faculty Research

A review of the books Americanization and Anti-Americanism: The German Encounter with American Culture After 1945 by Alexander Stephan (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005) and The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism After 1945 by Alexander Stephan (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006)

Earthly Powers: The Clash Of Religion And Politics In Europe From The French Revolution To The Great War (Book Review), John B. Roney

History Faculty Publications

Book review by John Roney.

Burleigh, Michael. Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe From the French Revolution to the Great War. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. ISBN 9780060580933

"Food In The Ancient World" Review, Skye Hardesty

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a review of the book Food in the Ancient World, by Joan P. Alcock.

Review Of Indigenous Use And Management Of Marine Resources By Nobuhiro Kishigami And James M. Savelle, Editors. Osaka: National Museum Of Ethnology, 2005, 455 Pp., Alan J. Osborn

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Book review of Indigenous Use and Management of Marine Resources, by Nobuhiro Kishigami and James M. Savelle, editors. Published in Osaka, Japan by the National Museum of Ethnology in 2005, 455 pages.

Virtual Schools: Planning For Success, By Zane L. Berge And Tom Clark, Eds. (Book Review), Michael K. Barbour

Education Faculty Publications

Book review by Michael K. Barbour.

Berge, Z. L., & Clark, T. (Eds.) (2005). Virtual schools: Planning for success. New York: Teachers College Press.

ISBN 9780807745724; 9780807745717 (pbk.)

The Essential Carlstadt: Fifteen Tracts By Andreas Bodenstein (Carlstadt) From Karlstadt (Book Review), John B. Roney

History Faculty Publications

Book review by John Roney.

Karlstadt, Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von. The Essential Carlstadt: Fifteen Tracts. Waterloo, Ont.; Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1995. ISBN 9780836131161

Review Of "Russia! Nine Hundred Years Of Masterpieces And Master Collections" By James Billington, Lidia Iovleva, And Robert Rosenblum, Anahit Ter-Stepanian

Art & Design Faculty Publications

Book review by Anahit Ter-Stepanian.

Billington, J., Iovleva, L., & Rosenblum, R. (2005), Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections.New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

ISBN 9780892073290 (hardcover); 9780892073306 (paperback)

Russia! is the most comprehensive exhibition of Russian art since the end of the Cold War, and it presents an exciting journey through nine centuries of artistic development. The exhibition is the product of a collaboration between the Guggenheim Museum and three museums in Russia: the State Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum (both in St. Petersburg), and Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery. Private collections, museums, and galleries …

Confronting Globalization: Humanity, Justice, And The Renewal Of Politics (Book Review), Steven Michels

Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications

Book review by Steven Michels:

Hayden, Patrick and Chamsy el-Ojeili. Confronting Globalization: Humanity, Justice, and the Renewal of Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

ISBN: 9781403945556

Reforging The White Republic: Race, Religion, And American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (Book Review), R. Bryan Bademan

History Faculty Publications

Book review by R. Bryan Bademan.

Blum, Edward J. Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.

Ria Federal Tax Handbook 2006 (Book Review), Elizabeth Outler

UF Law Faculty Publications

Review and explanation of the features of the RIA Federal Tax Handbook.

E. Fernie, Spiritual Shakespeares, Christopher P. Baker

Department of Literature Faculty Publications

This book review was published in Renaissance Quarterly.

"Encyclopedia Of Space And Astronomy" Book Review, Skye Hardesty

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a review of the Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy.

"Notable African American Writers" Book Review, M. Elaine Hughes

University Library Faculty Publications

This is a book review of "Notable African American Writers", edited by the Editors of Salem Press, Magill's Choice.

On Being Among Friends: A Response To Eugene Garver’S For The Sake Of Argument, Richard Sherwin

Articles & Chapters

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Essay Review Of Family Communication, Kristen Cvancara

Communication Studies Department Publications

Book review of Family Communication by Chris Segrin and Jean Flora (2005).

Comparative Cultural Perspectives For The Study Of The Americas: New Work By Imbert And Mcclennen And Fitz, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This review article covers two new volumes of scholarship dedicated to the comparative study of the Americas: Patrick Imbert's Trajectoires culturelles transaméricaines (Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004) and the edited volume by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz, Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004). The latter volume is the revised and updated book form version of the thematic issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America, edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.2 (2002): ). These books represent a new wave of innovative …

Gender And The Digital Economy: Perspectives From The Developing World, Margaretha Geertsema Sligh

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Editors Cecilia Ng and Swasti Mitter address an important and timely topic in their new book. The book sets out to do exactly what the title says; the authors interrogate the participation of women in the Information and Communication Technologys (ICTs) industry, particularly in developing countries. As the editors point out in the introduction, there are concerns that globalization will increase inequalities and asymmetrical power relationships between the rich and the poor. Yet, they are quite optimistic about the potential enabling power of new technologies.

The Digital Teaching Portfolio Handbook: A How‐To Guide For Educators, Amanda C. Gingerich

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Book review.

Allostasis, Homeostasis, And The Costs Of Physiological Adaptation, Sarah C. Coste

Faculty Publications

Sarah Coste reviews Allostasis, Homeostasis, and the Costs of Physiological Adaptation (edited by Jay Schulkin) for the Quarterly Review of Biology.

The Sex Lives Of Saints: An Erotics Of Ancient Hagiography – By Virginia Burrus [Review Of The Book The Sex Lives Of Saints: An Erotics Of Ancient Hagiography By V. Burrus], Rubén R. Dupertuis

Religion Faculty Research

In the difficult yet rewarding book Burrus offers “countererotic” readings of fourth- and fifth-century CE hagiographies in which she challenges understandings that take ascetic lives of saints as sublimating sexual desire; rather, Burrus reads these texts as the site of an “exuberant eroticism” that constantly relocates and displaces erotic desire. After an introductory chapter, Burrus first focuses on Jerome’s “queer” Lives of Paul, Malchus, and Hilarion. A second chapter treats the eroticized lives of three women: Jerome’s friend Paula, Gregory of Nyssa’s sister Macrina, and Augustine’s mother, Monica. A third chapter focuses on several treatments of Martin of Tours in …

An Ecstasy Of Folly: Prophecy And Authority In Early Christianity – By Laura Nasrallah [Review Of The Book An Ecstasy Of Folly: Prophecy And Authority In Early Christianity By L. Nasrallah], Rubén R. Dupertuis

Religion Faculty Research

Nasrallah’s book is a valuable contribution to the study of prophecy and ecstatic manifestations in early Christianity, for its reading of representative Christian texts within the larger context of debates about such phenomena in the Greco-Roman world, and for viewing the materials through the lens of rhetorical criticism. Nasrallah focuses on three texts or authors: Paul’s discussion of the gifts of the Spirit in 1 Corinthians, Tertullian’s defense of prophecy in De anima and related texts, and the Anti-Phrygian source, Nasrallah’s name for the late second—early-third-century source probably embedded in Epiphanius’ Panarion. Nasrallah argues that taxonomies of forms of …

Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile A Divided Nation? (Book Review), Sandra F. Joireman

Political Science Faculty Publications

Anyone engaged in conflict resolution, whether interpersonal or international, would agree that the process must begin with truth telling. But can truth telling be more than a beginning? Can it create a political environment hospitable to both perpetrator and victim?

Review Of Higher Education For The Public Good: Emerging Voices From A National Movement By Adrianna J. Kezar, Tony C. Chambers, And John C. Burkhardt, W. Bede Mitchell

Library Faculty Publications

This review was published in College and Research Libraries.