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David M. Goldenberg. The
Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam. Princeton University Press, 2003.
- Goldenberg studies how black-skinned peoples are described in
the Bible, and traces how these descriptions persisted or changed
among Jews, Christians and early Moslems through the 8th
century.
Sorrel Kerbel, ed. Jewish Writers of the Twentieth
Century. Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003.
- This encyclopedia is especially useful for Hebrew, Yiddish
and European authors. Included for each author are a curriculum
vitae, a bibliography of selected writings, a discussion of the
author, and often a brief selection of books or articles about
the author.
Elizabeth Ann Bartlett. Rebellious Feminism: Camus’s
Ethic of Rebellion and Feminist Thought. Palgrave, 2004.
- Using Camus’s The Rebel as a lens, Bartlett
discovers an "auspicious coincidence" between rebellion
and feminism.
Josephine Gattuiso Hendin. Heartbreakers: Women and Violence
in Contemporary Culture and Literature. Palgrave, 2004.
- Why are we so fascinated with violent women? Hendin shows how
violent women not only attack old notions of femininity, but also
reveal new self-concepts, patterns of intimacy, and
behavior.
Slava Gerovitch. From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of
Soviet Cybernetics. MIT Press, 2002.
- In 1948 Norbett Weiner introduced Cybernetics as the
"study of communication and control within and between
humans, machines, organizations, and society." The Soviet
Union was slow to embrace this new field, but in the 1960’s
it was hailed as a "science in the service of
Communism." However, in the 1990’s cybernetics was
blamed for numerous shortcomings of Soviet science.
Nick Jukes and Mihnea Chiuia. From Guinea Pig to Computer
Mouse: Alternative Methods for a Progressive, Humane Education.
2d ed. Ethical Science & Education Coalition, Boston, 2003.
- The bulk of this volume provides a compendium of software
programs, websites, CD-ROMS, videos and other media forms as
teaching aids in the life sciences. The authors present many
arguments—socially responsible as well as
economic—for employing alternatives to dissection in the
classroom.
Christopher Lane. Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in
Victorian England. Columbia University Press, 2004.
- Challenging the stereotype of Victorian society as prudish,
moral, and refined, Lane finds few characters representing these
ideals in the literature of the time and concludes that the
period was characterized more by misanthropy, criminality, and
hypocrisy.
Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding. Poor Kids in a Rich
Country: America’s Children in Comparative Perspective.
Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.
- The authors compare the situation of American children in
low-income families with their rich counterparts in fourteen
other countries and provide a powerful perspective on the
dynamics of child poverty in the United States.
CONTRIBUTORS
Mark Alpert, Social
Sciences Librarian
Katherine Button,
Reference Librarian/Science Library
Sherry Keen, Librarian for
Technical Services
James Rosenbloom,
Judaica Specialist
Darwin Scott, Creative
Arts Librarian
Anthony T. Vaver,
Humanities Librarian
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