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On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media Jack Censer, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences In On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper: Fear and the Media (University of Virginia Press, April 2010), Jack Censer uses the October 2002 Washington, D.C., sniper attacks to explore the shifting character of…

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Peter’s War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution Joyce Lee Malcolm, Professor of Law Peter’s War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution (Yale University Press, December 2008) tells the story of a slave born in Massachusetts in 1763. Malcolm describes Peter’s life in rural New England, which became increasingly…

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Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo’s New Light Martin Winkler, University Professor of Classics, Modern and Classical Languages Cinema and Classical Texts: Apollo’s New Light (Cambridge University Press, February 2009) interprets films as visual texts and demonstrates the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema. The book examines major themes from classical mythology and history, such…

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The Invisible Moon Robert DiFlugo, DA Community College Education ’05 Athena Press, August 2009 In this novel, Bryan thought he knew who he was and what he believed in. Joining the navy and fighting in Vietnam would shatter his beliefs, yet make him a stronger person than he thought possible. But it is not until…

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Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark: A Life of Service Mimi Clark Gronlund, MA English ’84 University of Texas Press, November 2009 An associate justice on the Warren Court whose landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned racial segregation in schools and other public facilities, Tom C. Clark was a crusader for justice…

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Special Dream: Personal Accounts after the Death of a Loved One Luellen Hoffman Maskeny, BIS ’87 Crossroad, 2009 Special Dream is a collection of inspiring stories about the rare dreams people experience after the death of a friend or loved one. The stories interplay between scientific and religious inquiry into after-death communication, featuring Americans from…

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Seminole Views: A Postcard Panorama of America’s Only Unconquered Tribe Emmett H. L. Snellings Jr., MA English ’93 Rainbow Books Inc., 2008 Seminole Views is a full-color coffee table book that features Seminole postcards (some more than 100 years old), as well as modern photographs and interviews of members of the Seminole tribe in Florida….

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Public policy professor Janine Wedel has been a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics that are typically the terrain of political scientists and economists. In her new book, Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market (Basic Books, 2010), she details a new system of power and influence…

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My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer Anousheh Ansari, BS Electrical Engineering ’89 (with Homer Hickam) Macmillan, March 2010 My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer tells the story of space pioneer Anousheh Ansari’s childhood in Iran and her family’s move to the United States after the…

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Torture as Public Policy: Restoring U.S. Credibility on the World Stage James P. Pfiffner, University Professor, School of Public Policy Torture as Public Policy: Restoring U.S. Credibility on the World Stage Stage (Paradigm Publishers, October 2009) is a model of detailed policy analysis that demonstrates how greatly public policy matters beyond the back corridors of…

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