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Page Turners Previous | Next Every year, MHC faculty books break new ground on subjects as varied as Ramanujan Graphs, women and space flight, and the history of the electric chair.
Here's a sampling of recent books. Roberto Márquez
Puerto Rican Poetry: A Selection from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times | Work by 64 Puerto Rican poets, translated into English. University of Massachuetts press, 2007 |
Donal O'Shea
The Poincaré Conjecture | A fascinating account of the long and contentious history of this famous mathematical puzzle, which was solved by Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman in 2002.
Walker and Company, 2007 |
Vanessa James
Shakespeare’s Genealogies | Uncovers the familial relationships of more than 1,000 characters in Shakespeare’s plays and dramatic poems. Melcher Media, 2007 |
Patricia Ramsey
What If All the Kids Are White? Anti-Bias Multicultural Education with Young Children and Families | Ramsey and coauthor Louise Derman-Sparks present strategies, resources, and classroom examples for helping white children resist messages of racism. Teachers College Press, 2006 |
Lauret Savoy
Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology | Writings by naturalists, artists, novelists, poets, and others illuminate the geological history of the Earth.
Trinity University Press, 2006 |
Thomas E. Wartenberg
Thinking Through Cinema: Film as Philosophy | Wartenburg edited this collection of essays by film scholars and philosophers. Blackwell Publishing, 2006. |
Debbora Battaglia
E. T. Culture: Anthropology in Outer Spaces | A collection of essays by scholars in the fields of social science, science studies, linguistics, and popular culture edited by Battaglia. Duke University Press, 2005 |
Eva Paus
Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland? | A discussion of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment affects its development prospects in a globalized world. Palgrave MacMillian, 2005. |
Donald Weber
Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs | Explores how modern Jewish writers and makers of popular culture responded to the challenges of adjusting to America. Indiana University Press, 2005. |
Jon Western
Selling Intervention and War: The Presidency, the Media, and the American Public | Looks at how modern conflicts, including the war in Iraq, have been sold to the American public. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 |
Joseph J. Ellis
His Excellency: George Washington | Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, Ellis pints a full portrait of George Washington's life and career—from his military years through his two terms as president.
Knopf, 2004 |
Martha Ackmann
The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Fligh | Tells the story of a group of female pilots who were secretly tested for space flight in the early 1960s only to be dismissed by NASA and Capitol Hill.
Random House, 2003 |
Christopher Benfey
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan | The story of a group of nineteenth-century travelers—connoisseurs, collectors, and scientists—who dedicated themselves to exploring and preserving Old Japan.
Random House, 2003 |
Richard Moran
Executioner’s Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair | Argues that the search for a humane method of execution left capital punishment in the hands of alleged experts who were too often guided by self-interest.
Knopf, 2002 |
Anthony Lee
Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco | Brings to life the history of San Francisco's Chinatown by taking a close look at images of the district created during its first 100 years, from 1850 to 1950.
University of California Press, 2001 |
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