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• Meena Alexander
  Raw Silk
• David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios
  The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang
• Mary Ann Caws
  -Maria Jolas, Woman of Action: A Memoir and Other Writings, editor
  -To the Boathouse: A Memoir
  -Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, editor
  -Surrealism, editor
• Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Malva E. Filer
  Voces de Hispanoamérica: Antología literaria
• Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, editors
  Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism
• Robert Engel and JaimeLee Iolani Cohen
  Synthesis of Carbon-Phosphorus Bonds
• Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg, editors
  Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life
• Nancy Foner and George M. Frederickson, editors
  Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
• Daniel Gerould, translator and editor
  Witkiewicz: Seven Plays
• Edouard Glissant
  Monsieur Toussaint
• Michio Kaku
  Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
• Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, editors
  Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation
• Cindi Katz
  Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives
• Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A. Marston,
  and Cindi Katz, editors
  Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction
• Lawrence Kobilinsky, Thomas E. Liotti, and Jamel L. Oeser Sweat
  DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications
• Wayne Koestenbaum
  -Model Homes
  -Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes
• Howard Lentner
  Power and Politics in Globalization: The Indispensable State
• Isaías Lerner, Robert Nival,
  and Alejandro Alonso, editors
  Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, 4 volumes
• Oscar Montero
  José Martí: An Introduction
• Kevin Murphy
  Colonial Revival Maine
• George Odian
  Principles of Polymerization
• Susan Gushee O'Malley
  "Custome Is an Idiot": Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women
• Jeffery L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher, editors
  Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
• Eugenia Paulicelli
  Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt
• Maurice Peress
  Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots
• Frances Fox Piven
  The War at Home: The Domestic Cost of Bush's Militarism
• Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie J. Sokoloff, editors
  The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Prisoners, Victims, and Workers (Third Edition)
• Stanley Renshon
  In His Father's Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush
• Viraht Sahni
  Quantal Density Functional Theory
• Michael G. Sargent, editor
  Nicholas Love: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ
• Lía Schwartz
  Studies in Honor of James O. Crosby
• Neil Smith
  The Endgame of Globalization
• Larry Sullivan
  The New-York Historical Society: A Bicentennial History 1804-2004
• Larry E. Sullivan, chief editor
  Marie Simonetti Rosen, Dorothy M. Schulz,
  M. R. Haberfeld, editors
  Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, 3 volumes
• Yan Sun
  Corruption and Market in Contemporary China
• Sally Webster
  Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman
• Thomas Weiss
  Military-Civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect (Second Edition)
• E. Gordon Whatley, Anne B. Thompson, and Robert K. Upchurch, editors
  Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections
• Catherine Wilson
  Moral Animals—Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory
• Sharon Zukin
  Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture

2004 Book Descriptions

This deeply moving collection from Meena Alexander, a poet who crosses borders, describes post-September 11 events as they evoke feelings of violence, love, despair, and hope. This autobiographical cycle reflects the author's cross-cultural life and is shot through with the tensions of beauty and pain that mark a global identity. In its profound and polyglot sense of world citizenship gained through the experience of exile, Raw Silk is also quintessentially a New Yorker's work. Alexander is a distinguished professor of English at The Graduate Center and Hunter College.

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This book chronicles the self-transformation of the New York City gang, Almighty Latin Kings and Queen Nation, one of the most feared U.S. gangs, into a social movement acting on behalf of the dispossessed, renouncing violence and the underground economy, and requiring school attendance for membership. Based on inside information—new and never-before-published material by and about the gang, and interviews with 100 gang members—Brotherton and Barrios craft a unique portrait of the lives of these gang members and a ground-breaking study of their evolution. David C. Brotherton is associate professor of criminal justice, sociology, and urban education at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center. Luis Barrios is associate professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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To the Boathouse: A Memoir begins with the author describing the branches that obscured her favorite childhood hiding place; she takes these southern vines as a metaphor not just for her roots, but for the life of her mind: chaotic on the surface, yet strong and vibrant at heart. Mary Ann Caws's narrative flows through her early adulthood, her marriage, her early career as a faculty wife and part-time teacher, her research, and first books. The vine metaphor continues to color descriptions of her professional life, as she acknowledges the two sides of her conference presentations: the confident scholar at the podium, and the person frantically searching for the proper meeting room or the correct slides just before her talk. Caws is a distinguished professor of English, French, and comparative literature at The Graduate Center.

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  Caws is particularly qualified to write about the movement: she has translated many of Surrealism's major texts, and published extensively on Surrealist art and writings. Caws is a distinguished professor of English, French, and comparative literature at The Graduate Center.

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Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Malva E. Filer
Voces de Hispanoamérica: Antología literaria
(Thompson and Heinle Books, 2004; 635 pp.)

Voces de Hispanoamérica: Antología literaria features the most distinguished authors of Spanish-American literature from the Pre-Colonial period to the present. Through annotated selections, biographical essays, and detailed essays that focus on each historical period, the book provides the necessary background to effectively study and analyze key literary works. The discussions presented by Chang-Rodríguez and Filer emphasize how writers, shaped in many instances by Native-American, European, African, and Asian traditions, speak with universal voices. Voces de Hispanoamérica: Antología literaria is edited by Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, distinguished professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center and City College; and Malva E. Filer, professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College.
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Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, editors
Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism
(Blackwell Publishing, 2004; 416 pp.)

In this new collection of readings, scholars investigate a field newly animated by theories of globalization, modernity, cultural hybridity, and transnationalism. Providing a comprehensive overview of a subject that ranges from classical origins to today's debates on the "magic" of the free market, the volume explores a variety of incisive questions concerning the nature of "development." Is it a powerful vision of a better life for the half of the world's population who subsist on two dollars a day? Or is it a failed Enlightenment legacy, an oppressive "master narrative"? Readings include commentary on traditional texts from Weber, Marx, and Engels, as well as contemporary works on the politics of development knowledge, consumption, environment, gender, international NGO networks, the International Monetary Fund, campaigns to reform the World Bank, the collapse of socialism, and the limits of "post-developmentalism." Explicitly designed for teaching, Anthropology of Development and Globalization mingles historical, cultural, political, and economic perspectives with a variety of theoretical approaches in a single volume. Edelman is a professor of anthropology at The Graduate Center and Hunter College.

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Robert Engel and JaimeLee Iolani Cohen
Synthesis of Carbon-Phosphorus Bonds
(CRC PRESS, 1988, 2004; 178 pp.)

This book is a useful tool for the laboratory, incorporating classical approaches with the recent developments of carbon-phosphorus (C-P) bond formation. These advances include the use of transient oxophosphoranes as intermediates in organophosphorus compound synthesis along with the new approaches towards the preparation of compounds with aromatic and vinylic C-P bonds. It offers detailed surveys of IUPAC nomenclature, common notation systems, and various experimental examples. These features help to make this volume a working guide for any chemists working with C-P bonds. Engel is a professor of chemistry at Queens College and The Graduate Center. Cohen is assistant professor of chemistry at Pace University.

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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Arne L. Kalleberg, editors
Fighting for Time: Shifting Boundaries of Work and Social Life
(Russell Sage, September 2004; 384 pp)

Fighting for Time brings together a collection of essays by distinguished sociologists and management analysts who investigate the social construction of time and its importance in American culture. Though there are still 24 hours in a day, the authors contend that society's idea of who should be doing what—and when—has shifted. Time, the ultimate scarce resource, has become an increasingly contested battle zone in American life as work, family, and personal obligations pull individuals in conflicting directions. This anthology challenges many of the assumptions we make about the relationship between time and work, showing that time is a fluid concept deriving its importance from cultural attitudes, social psychological processes, and the exercise of power. The book provides valuable insights into the fields of sociology, economics, social psychology, business, and work-life balance issues. Epstein is a distinguished professor of sociology at The Graduate Center.

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Nancy Foner and George M. Frederickson, editors
Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2004; 390 pp.)

In Not Just Black and White, Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson bring together a distinguished group of social scientists and historians to consider the relationship between immigration and the ways in which concepts of race and ethnicity have evolved in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. The book opens with an examination of historical and theoretical perspectives; it considers the shifting role of state policy in defining race and ethnicity; and explores socioeconomic trends that have affected, and continue to affect, the development of ethno-racial identities and relations. Foner is a distinguished professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Baruch College. Fredrickson is the co-director of the Research Institute for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

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Daniel Gerould, translator and editor
Witkiewicz: Seven Plays
(Martin E. Segal Center Publications, 2004; 395 pp.)

Witkiewicz: Seven Plays consists of an introduction on the Polish playwright's life and work, newly revised translations of seven of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's most important and representative plays written during the most creative period of his work for the theatre from 1919 to 1925, two theoretical essays, and individual introductions to each of the plays. The unifying theme of the collection, and of all Witkiewicz's work, is the problem of creativity. The heroes of the plays are creators who are at odds with the universe, with their society, and with themselves. Daniel Gerould holds the Lucille Lortel Chair in Theatre and is a distinguished professor of theatre and comparative literature at The Graduate Center.

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Edouard Glissant
(translated by J. Michael Dash)
Monsieur Toussaint
(Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004; 127 pp)

Renowned author Edouard Glissant tells the dramatic story of former slave, Francois Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture, in his play, Monsieur Toussaint, newly translated (in collaboration with Glissant himself) by J. Michael Dash. Toussaint rose to the rank of general in first the Spanish and then the French army, became ruler of Saint-Domingue, and was abducted and delivered to France by Napoleon's agents. He died in 1803, a captive in a desolate French prison—but his influence survived his demise. L'ouverture's lieutenants led his former troops into battle, fighting mercilessly until they routed the French forces; by 1804, the remaining colonies had been driven from Saint-Domingue, and the renamed Haiti was declared independent. Glissant is a distinguished professor of French at The Graduate Center.

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Michio Kaku
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
(Doubleday, 2004; 448 pp.)

Imagine a universe where the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections turned out differently! In his latest well-researched book on leading-edge physics for a popular audience, Kaku addresses serious theoretical possibilities of the existence of parallel and/or multiple universes, some of which, he speculates, may be found literally just beyond the tip of our noses. First Kaku outlines the historical background of cosmology and the latest evidence gathered from satellite data on the age of the universe, much of which theorists are only beginning to understand. He gives glimpses into key concepts in physics and the legendary scientists behind these big ideas, from Newton, Einstein, and Hawking to Big Bang theorist George Gamow and the entertaining Richard Feynman. In a second section, he explores the idea that parallel universes may be floating unseen just a millimeter away. Using M-Theory, a derivative of string theory, Kaku discusses how parallel universes might be created and might interact with our own, and how new universes bud and bloom off of one another, potentially offering humans the ability to escape into other realms as our own universe dies. Kaku is Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at City College and a professor of physics at The Graduate Center.

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Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, editors
Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2004; 448 pp.)

Almost two-thirds of New Yorkers under the age of 18 are the children of immigrants. In-depth ethnographies in this volume explore the ways in which the new second generation is adapting to, and also changing, the fabric of American culture. Among the ethnographies included are those of Graduate Center alumni Nancy Lopez (on Dominican men's high-school experiences), Dae Young Kim (on the integration of Korean Americans in New York), and Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida (on being a Russian Jewish American). Philip Kasinitz is professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Hunter College; John H. Mollenkopf is distinguished professor of political science and sociology and director of the Center for Urban Research at The Graduate Center; and Mary C. Waters is professor of sociology at Harvard University.

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Cindi Katz
Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives
(University of Minnesota Press, 2004; 312 pp.)

In an ethnographic study of two seemingly disparate demographic groups—children growing up in a village in the northern Sudan taking part in a wide-scale, state-sponsored agricultural program and children from mostly working-class families in New York City—the author examines the impact of global development and change on these respective communities. Following a small group of children from ten years of age through to early adulthood, Katz focuses on the ways in which children in the Sudanese village prepare for an agrarian lifestyle centered around family, a way of life that is rapidly become obsolete. She next turns her attention to children in working-class families in New York, and draws some startling conclusions. Katz is professor of psychology at The Graduate Center.

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Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A. Marston,
and Cindi Katz, editors
Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction
(Blackwell, 2004)

This new and innovative study of the shifting spaces and material practices of social reproduction in the global era blurs the heavily drawn boundaries between production and reproduction. The book focuses on both theoretical and practical issues; investigates changing conceptions of subjectivity, national identity, and modernity; and includes case studies of migration, education, and domesticity which show how the practices of everyday life challenge these categorical distinctions. Cindi Katz is a professor of psychology at The Graduate Center.

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Lawrence Kobilinsky, Thomas F. Liotti, and Jamel L. Oeser-Sweat
DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications
(John Wiley & Sons, 2004; 364 pp.)

Because it consists of a number of complex steps and procedures subject to both scientific and legal standards, the collection, analysis, presentation, and interpretation of DNA evidence remains a complex process. Combining legal practice and scientific analysis, DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications provides forensic scientists and professionals in the criminal justice system with a definitive resource on the methods of DNA analysis as well as the handling, potential, and limitations of DNA evidence. The book includes a forward by Nobel Laureate James Watson and Jan Witkowski of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Thomas F. Liotti and Jamel L. Oeser-Sweat are both practicing lawyers. Lawrence Kobilinsky is a professor of biochemistry and criminal justice at John Jay College and The Graduate Center.

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Wayne Koestenbaum
Model Homes
(BOA Editions Ltd., 2004; 96 pp.)

By turns urbane, ribald, melancholic, and wry, poet Koestenbaum puts a new spin on the status quo notion of domestic arrangements. The 13 ottava rima cantos in Model Homes present a neo-Freudian tale of the goings-on both in the poet's present home and various events from childhood. It's "part riff, part romp... Koestenbaum's metrical hijinks-what he calls form's 'striptease liberty'-land him firmly in the profound," wrote the poet Frank Bidart. Koestenbaum is a professor of English at The Graduate Center.

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Wayne Koestenbaum
Moira Orfei in Aigues-Mortes
(Soft Skull Press, 2004; 256 pp.)

Poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum's first novel shines a hot light on the treacherous crossroads of sex, death, family, and popular culture in a world peopled by piano-playing relatives, prostitutes, muses, and manipulators. Five years of breakdown separate pianist Theo Mangrove's last recital in Europe from his planned comeback. Overcome with the belief that Moira Orfei, queen of the Italian circus during the 1960s, must perform with him, Theo begins to write to her and to pen what may or may not be her cryptic replies into his notebooks. In a fugue of notes and troubling memories, Theo prepares for Aigues-Mortes, struggling with Moira's guidance towards one final, full celebration of "the partial, the flawed, the almost, the not quite." Koestenbaum is a professor of English at The Graduate Center.

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Howard Lentner
Power and Politics in Globalization: The Indispensable State
(Routledge, 2004; 256 pp)

Challenging the conventional view that globalization embodies a new and inexorable process, Howard Lentner analyzes the political foundations and choices involved in contemporary arrangements in the world. Rather than treating politics as a battleground for control over an unpredictable future, this book explains the historical backdrop and processes through which the modern world has arrived at its current state. Lentner presents a view that emphasizes continuity with the past, while still acknowledging what is new in the present. Invoking many examples throughout, Power and Politics in Globalization supports its theoretical analysis with an extended case study of Malaysia. Lentner is a professor of political science at The Graduate Center and Baruch College.

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Isaías Lerner, Robert Nival,
and Alejandro Alonso, editors
Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, 4 volumes
(Juan de la Cuesta, 2004)

In these four volumes of Proceedings, the editors published the six plenary lectures and some 250 papers read at the XIV Congress of the International Association of Hispanists, which was held at The Graduate Center from July 16 to July 21, 2001. Volume I is dedicated to lectures and papers on medieval literature, history, and linguistics; volume II, to early modern Spanish literature; volume III encompasses a plenary lecture and 71 papers on modern and contemporary Spanish Peninsular literature; while volume IV focuses on Latin American literature—a plenary lecture and 83 papers. Isaías Lerner is a distinguished professor of Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center.

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Oscar Montero
José Martí: An Introduction
(Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2004; 160 pp.)

During 15 years of exile in New York City, José Martí (1853-95), Cuba's national hero, became a lucid reader of the culture and politics of the United States. As a poet, journalist, and political activist, Martí wrote on a range of topics, from literature, art, and politics in the United States to its shameful legacy of racism and its increasingly ambitious imperial designs. José Martí: An Introduction discusses these and other central topics in Martí's writings. The book synthesizes Martí's ideas, providing the historical context necessary to fully appreciate them. It highlights Martí's relevance not only as an important source of a Latino consciousness in the United States but also as prescient defender of the values of a true democracy. Montero is a professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at Lehman College and The Graduate Center.

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Kevin Murphy
Colonial Revival Maine
(Princeton Architectural Press, 2004; 192 pp.)

Beginning with McKim, Mead, Bigelow, and White's famous sketching trip of 1877, architects have recorded the historic architecture of northern New England and incorporated its imagery into their own designs. Colonial Revival Maine provides an insightful account of how an interest in the classical influences of colonial- and federal-era buildings engaged the imagination of a group of Boston-based architects and their draftsmen. Together, these under-appreciated designers would create the charming streetscapes and bucolic retreats that today dot the Maine coast. Kevin Murphy is an associate professor of art history at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College.

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George Odian
Principles of Polymerization
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004; 4th edition)

The large chains of molecules known as polymers are currently used in everything from "wash and wear" clothing to rubber tires to protective enamels and paints. Yet the practical applications of polymers are only increasing; innovations in polymer chemistry constantly bring both improved and entirely new uses for polymers onto the technological playing field. This volume, now in its fourth edition, presents the classic text on polymer synthesis, fully updated to reflect today's state of the art. A thorough discussion at the elementary level prefaces each topic, with a more advanced treatment following. Yet the language throughout remains straightforward and geared towards the student. Extensively updated, the fourth edition provides an excellent textbook for today's students of polymer chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science, as well as a current reference for the researcher or other practitioner working in these areas. George Odian is a professor emeritus of chemistry at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center.

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Susan Gushee O'Malley
"Custome Is an Idiot": Jacobean Pamphlet Literature on Women
(University of Illinois Press, 2004; 320 pp.)

During the early seventeenth century a fierce debate raged in British intellectual society regarding the role of women—how much is ordained by God, and how much is merely custom. The pamphlets that circulated at the time reveal a great deal about the terms of the debate.  Custome Is an Idiot contains the complete and annotated texts of six pamphlets written between 1609 and 1620, opening a lively window on early modern British cultural history, specifically on competing opinions about the role of women in society. Included here are two pamphlets about gossips by Samuel Rowlands, William Heale's treatise against wife-beating, Christopher Newstead's argument for the superiority of women, and Hic Mulier and Haec Vir, two pamphlets that address the theme of cross-dressing. Susan Gushee O'Malley is a professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, and a professor of liberal studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Jeffery L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher, editors
Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic
(University of North Carolina Press, 2004; 448 pp.)

In pursuit of a more sophisticated and inclusive American history, the contributors to Beyond the Founders propose new directions for the study of the political history of the republic before the Civil War. In ways formal and informal, and symbolic and tactile, this political world encompassed blacks, women, entrepreneurs, and Native Americans, as well as the Adamses, Jeffersons, and Jacksons, all struggling in their own ways to shape the new nation and express their ideas of American democracy. Taking inspiration from the new cultural and social histories, these political historians show that the early history of the United States was not just the product of a few "founding fathers," but was also marked by widespread and passionate popular involvement; a print media much more politically active and potent than that of later eras; and political conflicts and influences that crossed lines of race, gender, and class. Robertson is an associate professor of history at The Graduate Center and Lehman College.

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Eugenia Paulicelli
Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt
(Berg Press, 2004; 228 pp.)

Eugenia Paulicelli explores the dark and complex social history of Italian fashion under the Fascists and examines the subtle yet sinister changes to the seemingly innocuous practices of everyday dress. Paulicelli shows why they were such a concern for the Italian state under Mussolini and demonstrates how these developments impacted the global dominance of Italian fashion today. The book includes interviews with major designers, such as Fernanda Gattinoni and Micol Fontana. Paulicelli is an associate professor of comparative literature at The Graduate Center and Queens College.

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Maurice Peress
Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots
(Oxford University Press, 2004; 264 pp.)

Dvorak to Duke Ellington offers an elegant portrait of composer Antonin Dvorak's legacy, America's music, and the inestimable African American influence upon it. Peress begins his history by recounting Dvorak's three-year residency as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, and his work with Will Marion Cook and Rubin Goldmark, who would in turn become teachers of Ellington, Gershwin, and Copland. We follow Dvorak to the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, where the author brings to light the little-known African American presence there: piano professors about to become ragtimers, gifted young artists such as Paul Dunbar and Harry T. Burleigh. Peress concludes with an astounding look at Ellington and his music. Peress is a professor of music at The Graduate Center and Queens College.

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Frances Fox Piven
The War at Home: The Domestic Cost of Bush's Militarism
(The New Press, 2004, 165 pp.)

The attention paid to American imperialism has turned national focus away from a crucial dimension of foreign policy: the domestic politics of war. Frances Fox Piven examines the ways in which the war on terror served to shore up the Bush administration's political base and analyzes the manner in which politicians have used the emotional fog of war to further their social and economic agendas. The War at Home makes sense of these developments by putting the war in the context of history and by turning an unsentimental eye on the domestic motivations of American militarism. Piven is a distinguished professor of political science at The Graduate Center.

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Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie J. Sokoloff, editors
The Criminal Justice System and Women: Offenders, Prisoners, Victims, and Workers (Third Edition)
(McGraw-Hill, 2004; 624 pages)

Consisting of original essays commissioned for the volume from leading scholars, and a number of recently published, important articles in the field, this significantly updated edition provides a comprehensive overview of how women both affect and are affected by crime and the criminal justice system. The Criminal Justice System and Women brings together feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, criminology, anthropology, and history), who describe, explain, and challenge the criminal justice system and its treatment of women. New topics in this edition include prostitution, abortion, globalization, Native American women prisoners, lesbians in prison, and mothers in prison. Natalie J. Sokoloff is a member of the faculty of the Ph.D. Programs in Criminal Justice and Sociology; both she and co-editor Barbara Raffel Price are professors at John Jay College Criminal Justice.

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Stanley Renshon
In His Father's Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush
(Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004; 304 pp.)

Stanley Renshon presents a psychological portrait of the current president in In His Father's Shadow. Renshon shows how from his beginnings, as a pampered son who showed little promise, to his successful rise to the presidency, George W. Bush altered himself through acts of will and faith. Bush is examined as a man who battled—and defeated—his own inner demons to become a president determined to battle terrorism and extremism around the world. The book provides a psychological portrait of the president, giving insight into his judgment, policies, and leadership. Renshon is a professor of political science at The Graduate Center and Lehman College.

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Viraht Sahni
Quantal Density Functional Theory
(Springer, 2004; 256 pp.)

In Quantal Density Functional Theory, Sahni develops a new approach which gives insight into quantum mechanics and renders the many-fermion problem in as close to a classical mechanical and electrodynamical form as can be imagined. The book also describes Schroedinger theory from the new perspective of fields and quantal sources, and it further explains the physics underlying the functionals and functional derivatives of traditional DFT. Sahni is a professor of Physics at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College.

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Michael G. Sargent, editor
Nicholas Love: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, A Reading Text, paperback
Nicholas Love: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, A Full Critical Edition, hardback
(University of Exeter Press, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, 2004)

Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, an important work of late medieval English vernacular theology, is made available here in two versions: (1) a paperback "Reading Text" edition, complete with a short introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary; and (2) a longer hardback, the Full Critical Edition. The latter is not merely a revision of Michael Sargent's 1992 Garland best-text edition, now out of print, but a new and completely critical edition that uses the Garland volume only as its starting-point. Although based on the same manuscript, and containing much of the same introductory material, this edition includes the results of a complete collation of the seventy-one known surviving manuscripts and early prints. The Introduction discusses the evidence for the process of composition of the text, and places Love's Mirror, properly, at the centre of current scholarly discussion of the development of vernacular theology in late medieval England. Michael G. Sargent is a professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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Lía Schwartz, editor and contributor
Studies in Honor of James O. Crosby
(Juan de la Cuesta, 2004; 397 pp.)

In this collection of essays, eighteen leading scholars in the field examine significant ideological, textual, and aesthetic issues in the works of early modern Spanish authors—among them, Garcilaso, Alemán, Cervantes, Soto de Rojas, Gracián, and Quevedo—from new theoretical and multi-disciplinary perspectives. The volume is offered to James O. Crosby, the most distinguished American specialist in the work of the writer and politician Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) during the year of his eightieth birthday, to honor his career as an indefatigable and renowned scholar, whose impact on critical editing of early modern Spanish texts has won recognition in Europe and in the United States. Lía Schwartz is a distinguished professor of Spanish literature in the Ph.D. programs in comparative literature and Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at The Graduate Center; and she is executive officer of the Ph.D. program in Spanish and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages.

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Neil Smith
The Endgame of Globalization
(Routledge, December 2004)

Smith, author of the award-winning American Empire (2003), offers an entirely novel account of America's century-long quest to create a new world order under the auspices of American globalism; he also discusses the reason why these objectives continually fall short. Most recently, the invasion of Iraq represents the "endgame" of America's decades-old effort to impose its vision of globalization on the world. Yet, while the war has ended Saddam Hussein's regime, it also points to another end—that of America's latest global project. Smith demonstrates that this is not the first time the United States has attempted to reshape the world in its own image, but actually the third.  After attempts by both the Wilson and FDR administrations, Smith marks the third moment—globalization—as beginning in the late 1970s, when the United States used its economic power to attempt to enforce a worldwide free-market orthodoxy tied to an ideal of liberal democracy. According to Smith, the effort is now failing for the same reasons the preceding attempts failed—a crippling yet hard-edged nationalism that surfaces and drives U.S. actions, despite America's self-perception as a champion of benign and obvious universal values. Smith is a distinguished professor of anthropology and earth and environmental sciences at The Graduate Center.

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Larry Sullivan (with a Preface by Louise Mirrer)
The New-York Historical Society: A Bicentennial History 1804-2004
(New-York Historical Society, 2004; 125 pp.)

This history of the New-York Historical Society recounts the Society's achievements from its founding on November 20, 1804, through its bicentennial year in 2004. Over the course of 200 years, the Society has become one of the premiere research and museum collections of Americana in the country; Sullivan's detailed account, with a preface by Louise Mirrer—former Executive Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs of CUNY and current President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society—chronicles the Society's milestones in collection-building. The museum began with early gatherings of natural history specimens and ancient Egyptian artifacts but soon acquired extensive holdings of colonial and Revolutionary War manuscripts; rare books, including some printed in New York; colonial and eighteenth-century newspapers; approximately one million pieces of advertising ephemera; maps; prints; sculptures; decorative arts; furniture; and thousands of paintings. This volume also profiles many of the Society's accomplished members and officers. Sullivan is a professor of criminal justice at The Graduate Center and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where he is also associate dean and chief librarian.

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Larry E. Sullivan, chief editor
Marie Simonetti Rosen, Dorothy M. Schulz,
M. R. Haberfeld, editors
Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, 3 volumes
(Sage Publishing, 2004 )

A distinguished roster of authors, representing many years of knowledge and practice in the field, draw on the latest research and methods to delineate, describe, and analyze all areas of law enforcement. This encyclopedia provides a comprehensive, critical, and descriptive examination of all facets of law enforcement on the state and local, federal and national, and international stages. The work is a unique reference source that provides readers with informed discussions on the practice and theory of policing in an historical and contemporary framework. The volumes treat subjects that are particular to the area of state and local, federal and national, and international policing. Many of the themes and issues of policing cut across disciplinary borders, however, and several entries provide comparative information that places the subject in context. Larry Sullivan is a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center; Maria Haberfeld is an associate professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate Center.

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Yan Sun
Corruption and Market in Contemporary China
(Cornell University Press, 2004; 275 pp.)

Sun examines the ways in which market reforms in the People's Republic of China have shaped corruption since 1978 and how corruption has in turn shaped those reforms. Professor Sun suggests recent corruption is largely a by-product of post-Mao reforms, spurred by economic incentives and structural opportunities in the emerging marketplace. She finds that the steady retreat of the state has both increased mechanisms for cadre misconduct and reduced disincentives against it. Sun also uses disciplinary casebooks to illuminate the extent and forms of corruption in the People's Republic of China; unintended and informal mechanisms arising from corruption may, she reports, take on a life of their own and undermine the central state's ability to implement its developmental policies, discipline its staff, enforce its regulatory infrastructure, and fundamentally transform the economy.  Sun is an associate professor of political science at The Graduate Center and Queens College.

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Sally Webster
Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman
(University of Illinois Press, 2004; 176 pp.)

Often regarded as merely the creator of sentimental images of mothers and children or an expatriate heavily influenced by Impressionism, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) is not typically described as an artist of radical convictions. In Eve's Daughter/Modern Woman, Sally Webster reevaluates these dismissals with a historical, aesthetic, and symbolist analysis of Cassatt's unique venture into the male-dominated realm of large-scale mural painting. The book undertakes a complete overview of Cassatt's mural, Modern Woman, synthesizing a wide variety of interpretations and original observations to present the first complete treatment of the work. Webster is a professor of art history at The Graduate Center and Lehman College.

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Thomas Weiss
Military-Civilian Interactions: Humanitarian Crises and the Responsibility to Protect
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2004; 312 pp.; second edition)

Is it possible and worthwhile to use the military in conjunction with humanitarian action to thwart violence and mitigate civilian suffering? Military-Civilian Interactions seeks to answer this question by looking at the contemporary context and history of military-civilian interactions, developing a framework for assessing military costs and civilian benefits, and examining in depth seven prominent cases from the 1990s—Northern Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, East Timor, and Kosovo. In the wake of U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq after September 11, the book further examines how multilateral military operations could expand or contract in the future to the benefit or peril of affected populations. Weiss is Presidential Professor of political science and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center.

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E. Gordon Whatley, Anne B. Thompson,
and Robert K. Upchurch, editors
Saints' Lives in Middle English Collections
(Medieval Institute Publications, 2004; TEAMS, Middle English Texts Series)

This volume, conceived as a complement to Sherry Reames' Middle English Legends of Women Saints, concentrates chiefly on the lives of male saints (Andrew, George, Jerome, Benedict, Austin [Augustine of Canterbury], Francis, and Julian), though two women saints are included—Thaïs and Scholastica. As the introduction notes, this selection "is intended to be broadly representative of saints’ lives in Middle English and of the classic types of hagiographic legend as these were presented to the lay public and less-literate clergy of late medieval England." And although hagiography is notoriously unreliable as history, the introduction notes that "[l]egends such as those printed here ... provided generations of medieval people, both lay and clerical, with a stately procession of figures that constituted the Christian past, as well as being still 'present' as glorious members of the body of Christ, the communion of saints." E. Gordon Whatley is a professor of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center.

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Catherine Wilson
Moral Animals—Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory
(Oxford University Press, 2004; 332 pp.)

This original new theory of morality and human nature draws on philosophy, anthropology, evolutionary theory, and psychology, and is informed by a deep commitment to human well-being and equality. The author bases her theory on two fundamental premises: first, that moral progress implies the evolution of moral ideals involving restraint and sacrifice; second, that human beings are outfitted by nature with selfish motivations, intentions, and ambitions that place constraints on what morality can demand of them. She argues that social justice with respect to global disparities in well-being, and in the condition of women relative to men, depends on the relinquishment of natural and acquired advantage that is central to the concept of morality. Catherine Wilson is a professor of philosophy at The Graduate Center and Andrew Heiskell Faculty Scholar.

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Sharon Zukin
Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture
(Routledge, 2004; 325 pp.)

"The social spaces and cultural labels of shopping offer us hope of achieving the American Dream: low prices define our concept of democracy. Brand names represent our search for a better life. Designer boutiques embody the promise of an ever-improving self," writes Sharon Zukin in her introduction. In Point of Purchase, she traces the incredible phenomenon of shopping and how it became central to American life—from the mid-nineteenth century to today, from the grand department stores to internet shopping and Zagat's guides. Unlike many social critics, Zukin doesn't condemn shoppers, but rather argues that shopping has become so important in our daily lives because it is one of the few means we have left for creating value that was once provided by religions, politics, or work. She is a professor of psychology and sociology at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center.

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