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Subtitle: 70 University of Virginia professors recommend readings in history, politics, literature, math, science, technology, the arts, and more
By: edited by Jessica R. Feldman and Robert Stilling.
Contributors: Feldman, Jessica R. 1949-; Stilling, Robert, 1977-
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780813927367
Subjects: University of Virginia -- Faculty -- Books and reading; Best books; Best books -- United States; Books -- Reviews; Books -- United States -- Reviews
Genres: Reviews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The past as memory and oblivion / Alon Confino; title: Human connections : history and the Latin American novel / Herbert Tico Braun; title: Your culture or your rights? : women and the multicultural dilemma / Denise Walsh; title: Best sellers and half-truths : misreading Iran in America / Farzaneh Milani; title: How to understand 9/11, Iraq, and Bush's war on terrorism / William B. Quandt; title: Writing self and society : East Asian women authors / Ellen V. Fuller; title: Approaching China : philosophy, history, and politics / Brantly Womack; title: Asian America : studying culture and ethnicity / Sylvia Chong; title: Improvising america : rethinking the founding / Peter S. Onuf; title: Discerning constitutional meaning / Daniel R. Ortiz; title: The life and afterlife of slavery / Lawrie Balfour; title: Ongoing struggle : the deeper history of the civil rights movement / Risa L. Goluboff; title: "The cruel radiance of what is" : poverty in America since 1945 / Grace Elizabeth Hale; title: Sex in the United States : some history / Cindy Aron; title: New histories of the American West / Christian W. McMillen; title: Political power : how to get it, use it, and avoid losing it / Larry Sabato; title: Media and politics : media effects? media bias? / Paul Freedman; title: Academic capitalism : the political economy of higher education / Brian Pusser; title: Tintin and the American menace : French (mis)representations of the United States / Philippe Roger; title: Catastrophes and commemorations : shaping nineteenth-century Chicago / Daphne Spain; title: Urban plans and urban realities : understanding cities / Dell Upton; title: Nations and nationalism / Krishan Kumar; title: Light and life : the evolution of visual perception / Dennis Proffitt; title: Everyday evolution / Edmund Russell; title: An appreciation of reality : society and science / Reginald H. Garrett; title: Starship Earth user's manual 2.0 : revising the balance of nature / Herman H. Shugart; title: Perspectives on global warming science / Robert E. Davis; title: The environmental other : finding and losing ourselves in nature / Jonathan Cannon; title: The epic of the cosmos : space, time, and the universe / Trinh Xuan Thuan; title: Doing science : physics, genius, and creativity / Paul Fendley; title: Designing matter : molecules, materials, and their importance to society / Cassandra L. Fraser; title: How computing changes thinking / David Evans; title: Symmetry and group theory / Brian Parshall; title: Arguments : exploring the history of logic / James Cargile; title: At the edge of war : five from the 1850s / Stephen Cushman; title: Mourning and modern poetry / Jahan Ramazani; title: Doctors, lawyers, and the classics : reading for ethical values / Marcia Day Childress and Julia D. Mahoney; title: Marketing fiction : Victorian serial novels / Stephen Arata; title: Love, guilt, and reparation : fiction that guides us / Karen Chase; title: Beside ourselves : ecstatic poetry / Lisa Russ Spaar; title: The euphoric suffering of modern heroines / Alison Booth; title: Abroad at home : contemporary interethnic fiction / Caroline Rody; title: Women between cultures : Latina writers of the United States / María-Inés Lagos; title: Where Spain is real : the nineteenth-century Spanish novel (and beyond) / Randolph D. Pope; title: Joyce's Ulysses, five ways / Michael Levenson; title: Ovid's Metamorphoses / Paul Barolsky; title: Beyond Shakespeare : some other high points of English Renaissance drama / Clare R. Kinney; title: Dangerous knowledge : Faust, Frankenstein, the golem, and the castle / Jeffrey A. Grossman; title: Tolling the bells : liturgy and English literature / Bruce Holsinger; title: Return to the word hoard / Elizabeth Fowler; title: Literature as re-viewing / J. Paul Hunter; title: Art and science in the Renaissance / Francesca Fiorani; title: Maps, graphs, and icons : the art of visual knowledge representation / Johanna Drucker; title: A pilgrim's guide : the visual world of medieval art / Lisa Reilly; title: "One, two, three, four" : one hundred years of jazz and counting / Scott DeVeaux; title: American art and material culture / Maurie McInnis; title: "Reading" popular entertainment / John Frick; title: Music and identity in the African diaspora / Melvin L. Butler; title: The pleasures and terrors of speaking (and reading) aloud / Judith Reagan; title: The beginning of wisdom : self-knowledge / Mitchell S. Green; title: Babies, toddlers, and teens : how children develop / Judy DeLoache; title: Illness narratives / David B. Morris; title: Psychiatric anthropology : mental illness and cultural difference / Larry Merkel; title: Exploring human diversity : an entrée into anthropology / Peter Metcalf; title: Sex and morality / John Portmann; title: For the sake of profit : self-interest, self-sacrifice, and corporate goals / Ira Bashkow; title: The four goals of life in classical Hinduism / John Nemec; title: Differing inequalities : considering India, Europe, and America / R.S. Khare; title: Islam, Christianity, Judaism : reading across a difference / Peter Ochs; title: The need to know Islam and Muslims / Abdulaziz Sachedina.