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A guide to books with Syracuse University authors showcased at the 4th annual Books in the Humanities Reception - April 17, 2019.

2018 Celebration Titles

Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography by Frederick C. Beiser
Call Number: B3216.C74 B45 2018
Publication Date: 2018-12-18
This biography comprehensively and accessibly maps out Cohen's intellectual development over seven decades.

Author Website - Frederick Beiser - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Expert Failure by Roger Koppl
Call Number: BF378.E94 K65 2018
Publication Date: 2018-02-08
This book argues that, in the market for expert opinion, we need real competition in which rival experts may have different opinions and new experts are free to enter.

Author Website - Roger Koppl - Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University
Empirical Studies of Contemplative Practices by Diane Grimes, Hong Lin, Qiu Wang, co-editors
Call Number: BF637.M56 E47 2018
Publication Date: 2018-09-14
Print edtion

This book theorizes about and models methodologies for the study of contemplative practices.

Editor Website - Diane Grimes - Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Orthodox Magic in Trebizond and Beyond: A Fourteenth-Century Greco-Arabic Amulet Roll by Glenn Peers
Call Number: BF1593 .P41 2018
This book examines a unique parchment combining images, prayers, and the Abgar legend in Greek from Trebizond, with designs and prayers in Arabic from the Middle East.

Author Website - Glenn Peers - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Conversations about Beauty with Ordinary Americans: Somebody Loves Us All by Harvey Teres
Call Number: BH221.U53 T47 2018
Publication Date: 2018-08-31
The book asks 15 people from the Syracuse area about their encounters with beauty.

Author Website - Harvey Teres - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Sensing Sacred Texts by James W. Watts, editor
Call Number: BL71 .S46 2018
Publication Date: 2018-10-01
Works by nine authors explore the role of sensation in the production and use of religious texts.

Editor Website - James W. Watts - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things by Virginia Burrus
Call Number: BT695.5 .B855 2019
Publication Date: 2018-10-26
This book seeks resources for thinking ecologically in ancient Christian cosmology, saints' lives, art, architecture, liturgy.

Author Website - Virginia Burrus - Religion - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity by Patricia Cox Miller
Call Number: BT746 .M545 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-03
Print edtion

How does one account for the zoological imagination found in a variety of ancient Christian texts when early theology posited a strict division between animals and humans?

Author Website - Patricia Cox Miller - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement by Harriet Brown
Call Number: CT275.B7634 A3 2018
Publication Date: 2018-11-06
Interviews with more than 50 people shape this story about family estrangement.

Author Website - Harriet Brown - Newhouse School, Syracuse University
The Code of Putinism by Brian D. Taylor
Call Number: DK510.766.P87 T39 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-05
Author illustrates how the mentality of Putin and his team - the code of Putinism - has shaped Russian politics over the past two decades.

Author Website - Brian D. Taylor - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History by Martin S. Shanguhyia, Toyin Falola, co-editors
Call Number: DT20 .P35 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-28
Print edtion

Scholars from many disciplines tackle subjects ranging from the economy, conflict, nationalism and politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience.

Editor Website - Martin S. Shanguhyia - Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Online Edition
Freedom's Racial Frontier: African-Americans in the Twentieth Century West by Herbert G. Ruffin, Dwayne A. Mack, co-editors; Quintard Taylor, foreword by
Call Number: E185.925 .F74 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-15
Contributors explore community formation,
multiculturalism, civil rights, black empowerment, artistic liberation and identity, and U.S. West scholarship.

Editor Website - Herbert G. Ruffin II - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Game Time: Understanding Temporality in Video Games by Christopher Hanson
Call Number: GV1469.34.P79 H36 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-08
Print edtion

Preserving, pausing, rewinding, replaying, reactivating… has the ability to manipulate video games temporality altered our cultural conceptions of time?

Author Website - Chris Hanson - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do by Carl J. Schramm
Call Number: HB615 .S367 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Successful entrepreneurs’ stories show how knowledge, passion, and creativity challenge conventional business school advice.

Author Website - Carl J. Schramm - Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Conflict and Collaboration: For Better or Worse by Catherine Gerard, Louis Kriesberg co-editors
Call Number: HM1126 .C66 2018
Publication Date: 2018-05-10
Whether conflict and collaboration can be good, bad, or even benign are determined by the role of power, design of the process, skills and intent of the actors, social contexts, and world views.

Editor Website - Catherine Gerard - Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Editor Website - Louis Kriesberg - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Practical Guide to Ethics in Public Relations by Regina Luttrell, Jamie Ward, co-authors
Call Number: HM1221 .L87 2018
Publication Date: 2018-02-09
This text highlights the balance required between the values and demands of public relations and society as a whole.

Author Website - Regina Luttrell - Newhouse School, Syracuse University
Against Inclusion: Tyranny in the Name of Inclusion by Amardo Rodriguez
Call Number: HM1271 .R696 2018
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
This book looks critically at the destructive nature of inclusion politics which assumes that in order for us to thrive collectively, our differences must be tamed, sanitized, and harmonized.

Author Website - Amardo Rodriguez - Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule by Norman A. Kutcher
Call Number: HQ449 .K88 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-31
Print edtion

Kutcher explores the lives and works of eunuchs in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China.

Author Website - Norman Kutcher - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration by Azra Hromadžić, Monika Palmberger, co-editors
Call Number: HQ1061 .C336 2018
Publication Date: 2018-05-24
Print edtion

This volume investigates what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad, and its impact on relationships, spirituality, the economy, and more.

Editor Website - Azra Hromadžić - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Feminist Freedom Warriors by Chandra Talpede Mohanty, Linda Carty, co-editors
Call Number: HQ1123 .F463 2018
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Print edtion

Stories of women of color from the Global South illuminate cross-generational histories of feminist activism across national borders, to imagine what a just world might look like.

Editor Website - Chandra Talpade Mohanty - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences

Editor Website - Linda Carty - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
The Geopolitics of Spectacle by Natalie Koch
Call Number: HT178.A78 K63 2018
Publication Date: 2018-06-15
Print edtion

Koch considers both “spectacular” and “unspectacular” projects shaping state-society relations. The contrasting views of those from the poorest regions toward these new national capitals provide a geographic approach to spectacle.

Author Website - Natalie Koch - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Doing Time, Writing Lives by Patrick W. Berry
Call Number: HV8883.3.U5 B47 2018
Publication Date: 2017-12-27
Print edtion

Berry analyzes the teaching of college writing in U.S. prisons, a racialized space that—despite housing more than 2 million people—remains nearly invisible to the general public.

Author Website - Patrick W. Berry - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
The Political Value of Time: Citizenship, Duration, and Democratic Justice by Elizabeth F. Cohen
Call Number: JA71 .C64 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-01
Cohen explores the idea of time within democratic theory and practice, including how political procedures use quantities of time to confer and deny citizenship rights.

Author Website - Elizabeth F. Cohen - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy by David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, Steven Wall, co-editors
Call Number: JA71 .O94
Publication Date: 2018-03-18
An essential resource for anyone working at the intersection of philosophy, political science, and jurisprudence.

Editor Website - David Sobel - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Reality Bites: Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture by Dana L. Cloud
Call Number: JA75.7 .C62 2018
Publication Date: 2018-02-17
Print edtion

Cloud argues for a rhetorical realism… the idea that communicators can bring knowledge from various perspectives into the domain of common sense.

Author Website - Dana Cloud - Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts
Interpreting Congressional Elections: The Curious Case of the Incumbency Effect by Jeffrey M. Stonecash
Call Number: JK1965 .S75 2018
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
Print edtion

Stonecash challenges the empirical claim that incumbents are doing better and the research paradigm that accompanies those claims.

Editor Website - Jeffrey M. Stonecash - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook by Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Kourosh Rahimkhani, co-authors
Call Number: JQ1785 .B67 2018
Publication Date: 2018-06-05
Print edtion

This data-driven look at post-revolutionary Iran includes coverage of 36 national elections, hundreds of legal and outlawed political organizations, and family ties among the elite.

Author Website - Mehrzad Boroujerdi - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
20 Secrets to Success for NCAA Student-Athletes Who Won't Go Pro by Rick Burton, Jake Hirshman, Norm O'Reilly, Andy Dolich, Heather Lawrence, Oliver Luck (Foreword), Pat O'Conner (Afterword), co-authors
Call Number: LC2581 .B87 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Many who dream of athletic stardom won't make it to the pros, though the discipline and skills of balancing sport and academics prepare them for satisfying careers elsewhere.

Author Website - Rick Burton - Falk College, Syracuse University
Syracuse University: Volume Six, The Shaw Years by David T. Tobin
Call Number: LD5233 .T62 2018
Publication Date: 2018-04-23
A comprehensive and compelling history of Syracuse University during the years of Kenneth 'Buzz' Shaw's chancellorship, 1991-2004.
Introduction to Architecture: Global Disciplinary Knowledge by Joseph Godlewski, editor
Call Number: NA2500 .I57 2019
Publication Date: 2015-12-31
This volume provides a holistic exploration of the history of architectural discourse.

Editor Website - Joseph Godlewski - Syracuse University School of Architecture
Possible Mediums by Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, Kyle Miller, co-editors
Call Number: NA2500 .P68 2018
Publication Date: 2018-11-15
This volume presents a collection of sixteen speculative design mediums by emerging architects.

Editor Website - Kelly Bair - Syracuse University School of Architecture

Editor Website - Kristy Balliet - Syracuse University School of Architecture

Editor Website - Kyle Miller - Syracuse University School of Architecture
Forbidden Fruit: Yasuo Kuniyoshi's America by David Prince
Call Number: ND237.K83 A21 2018
Author examines the life and career of a 20th century Japanese immigrant artist.

Author Website - David L. Prince - Syracuse University Art Galleries
Godefridus Schalcken by Wayne Franits
Call Number: ND653.S284 F73 2018
Publication Date: 2018-05-25
Print edtion

Franits follows the four-year sojourn of a famous Dutch painter in London.

Author Website - Wayne Franits - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age: Research in Honor of Pamela J. Shoemaker by Carol M. Liebler, Tim P. Vos, co-editors
Call Number: P87.3.S48 M33 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-24
This work honors the significant and lasting contribution that gatekeeping theorist Pamela J. Shoemaker (SU/Newhouse) has made to mass communications research.

Editor Website - Carol Liebler - Newhouse School, Syracuse University
Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric by Collin Gifford Brooke, Laurie Gries, co-editors
Call Number: P301.5.S63 C57 2018
Publication Date: 2018-04-15
Print edtion

Contributors explore connections between circulation and public rhetorics, urban studies, feminist rhetorics, digital communication, new materialism, and digital research.

Editor Website - Collin Gifford Brooke - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals by Emma Ticio Quesada
Call Number: PC4074.85 .T53 2018
Publication Date: 2018-12-12
Print edtion

This monograph addresses a broad range of research in syntax and language acquisition.

Author Website - Emma Ticio Quesada - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
The Golem Verses by Diane Wiener
Call Number: PN1031 .W647 2018
Publication Date: 2018-06-16
Wiener presents a feminist, Jewish, crip, queer, gender-bending mad adventure with an interlocutor through the ages.

Author Website - Diane R. Wiener - Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University
The Lonely Nineties: Visions of Community in Contemporary US Television by Paul Arras
Call Number: PN1992.6 .A77 2018
Publication Date: 2018-07-10
Print edtion

Arras looks at the most popular American television shows of the nineties—a decade at the last gasp of network television’s cultural dominance.
A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema by Kendall R. Phillips
Call Number: PN1995.9.H6 P438 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-01
Exploration on how supernatural elements entered into early cinema and their relationship to American national identity.

Author Website - Kendall Phillips - Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies by Steven Cohan
Call Number: PN1995.9.M65 C64 2019
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
Print edtion

Cohan looks at backstudios’ fascination with the mystique of Hollywood as a geographic place, a self-contained industry, a fantasy of fame, leisure, sexual freedom, and modernity.

Author Website - Steven Cohan - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences

Online Edition
Filthy Material: Modernism and the Media of Obscenity by Chris Forster
Call Number: PR888.C45 F67 2019
Publication Date: 2018-11-19
Print edtion

Fresh readings of major modernist obscenity trials (e.g., James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Radclyffe Hall) reveal the ways 20th century obscenity was shaped by changes in media.

Author Website - Chris Forster - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat by Nancy Kang, Silvio Torres-Saillant, co-authors
Call Number: PS3555.S535 Z73 2018
Publication Date: 2018-05-11
Print edtion

This first major study of the Dominican-born bilingual American poet and translator traces Espaillat's early success through her return to the literary spotlight decades later.

Author Website - Silvio Torres-Saillant - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Tropic of Squalor: Poems by Mary Karr
Call Number: PS3561.A6929 A6 2018
Publication Date: 2018-05-08
Karr returns with a collection of bracing poems as visceral, deeply felt, and hilarious as her memoirs.

Author Website - Mary Karr - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey by Stephen Kuusisto
Call Number: PS3561.U85 Z46 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-13
A blind poet shares his story of how a guide dog changed his life and helped him discover a newfound appreciation for travel and independence.

Author Website - Stephen Kuusisto
No Mark Spiral: Poems by Rainie Oet
Call Number: PS3565.E8 N62 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-06
Author tracks expanding and shrinking distances between siblings over the years surrounding a grandparent's death.

Author Website - Rainie Oet
Spill by Bruce Smith
Call Number: PS3569.M512 S67 2018
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
The centerpiece of this poetry collection is a lyrical essay recalling the poet’s time working at the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg in the 1960s.

Author Website - Bruce Smith - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Call Number: PS3601.D49 A6 2018
Publication Date: 2018-10-23
Short stories explore themes surrounding black identity as it relates to a range of contemporary social issues.

Author Website - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Clues from the Animal Kingdom: Poems by Christopher Kennedy
Call Number: PS3611.E557 A6 2018
Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Print edtion

This collection of poetry looks to animals and their instincts for inspiration for transcending grief and depression by seeking humanity's place in the natural world.

Author Website - Christopher Kennedy - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Noise HcarK by Mona Eikel-Pohen
Call Number: PT2670.O36 N64 2018
Publication Date: 2018-08-12
Poetry and short prose in English and German ranges from angry, elevating, funny, paradox, sad, sarcastic, thoughtful.

Author Website - Mona Eikel-Pohen - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences
Heavy Laden: Union Veterans, Psychological Illness, and Suicide by Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck, co-authors
Call Number: RC451.4.V48 L64 2018
Publication Date: 2018-08-09
Many soldiers returned from the Civil War with damaged bodies and minds. Drawing on archival records for thousands of Union army recruits, the authors uncover the diversity and severity of the veterans' psychological distress.

Author Website - Larry Logue - Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University

Author Website - Peter Blanck - Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University
Still (Noon) by Shane Lavalette
Call Number: TR91 .L38 2018
Publication Date: 2018-05-22
Fotostiftung Schweiz commissioned Lavalette to photograph a dozen Swiss towns to create a portrait of the country.

Author Website - Shane Lavalette
British Forts and Their Communities: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives by Christopher R. DeCorse, Zachary J. M. Beier, co-editors
Call Number: UG429.G7 B75 2018
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Contributors look beyond the defensive architecture, physical landscapes, and armed conflicts to explore the complex social diversity that arose in the outposts of the British Empire.

Editor Website - Christopher DeCorse - Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Andrew Jackson: A Rhetorical Portrayal of Presidential Leadership by Amos Kiewe
Publication Date: 2018-12-13
The book examines the prolific rhetoric of President Andrew Jackson during his campaigns and his two terms in office.

Author Website - Amos Kiewe - Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts
The Grammar You Missed in High School by Jim Molloy
Publication Date: 2018-06-30
Textbook for journalists provides fundamental instruction in all aspects of standard English to improve composition.
Corresponding Voices by Kathy Everly, Jules Gibbs, Tere Paniagua, co-editors
The latest edition of this annual Point of Contact Gallery series includes original work by Safia Elhillo, Rohan Chhetri, Jessica Scicchitano, José Sanjinés, and Noel Quiñones.
Chinese Translations of English and American Poems with English Originals by Lanjing Zhou
Publication Date: 2018-12-07
This book is a translation of some well-known poems in English into a certain Classical Chinese poetic form.

Author Website - Lanjing Zhou - Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences

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