30 Aug 2019
Posted by Alex Reshanov 
Edward Carey’s office is filled with fanciful artwork, including several large drawings of the gloomy-eyed characters who inhabit his books. But the item that immediately catches my eye is a bowl of small, cylindrical objects that at first glance appears to be an ashtray overflowing with cigarette...
Read more → 02 Aug 2019
Posted by Tori Miller 
In Bring Your Brain to Work, Art Markman shares what you need to know to succeed at work. He highlights research from cognitive science that supports strategies to help readers get a job, to succeed at that job once they get it, and to best enhance their career by getting the next job. You’ve...
Read more → 09 Jul 2019
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Air: Pollution, Climate Change, and India’s Choice Between Policy and PretenceHarperCollins, June 2019By Dean Spears, assistant professor, Department of Economics A million people in India are killed each year by the world’s worst air pollution. This...
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Posted by Tori Miller 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in AsiaWiley (Antipode Book Series), March 2019Edited by Jason Cons, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology; and Michael Eilenberg Frontier Assemblages offers...
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Posted by Tori Miller 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place Cornell University Press, Dec. 2018 By Youjeong Oh, assistant professor, Department of Asian Studies Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music...
Read more → 04 Jun 2019
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Vasari’s Words: The “Lives of the Artists” as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2018 By Douglas Biow, professor, Departments of French and Italian, and History Vasari’s...
Read more → 16 Apr 2019
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
Over a period of five years (2013-18) a Faculty Committee on Influential Books discussed, debated and finally compiled a list of intellectually and culturally significant books to encourage reading by undergraduates and provide inspiration for continued reading by college alumni. The committee benefited...
Read more → 14 Aug 2018
Posted by Katie Lazarowicz 
Set in contemporary South China, The Emperor of Shoes is about a young Jewish Bostonian preparing to take over his family’s shoe business. But he ends up falling in love with a factory worker who may or may not be using him as a pawn to start a pro-democratic revolution in the factory. For author...
Read more → 02 Jul 2018
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
Writer and actor Stephen Fry says Galen Strawson “opens windows and finds light-switches like no other philosopher writing today,” and novelist Ian McEwan simply dubs Strawson “one of the cleverest men alive.” High praise for this UT professor of philosophy, who discusses his latest book, Things...
Read more → 04 Jun 2018
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages Cambridge University Press, March 2018By Geraldine Heng, associate professor, Department of English Questioning the common assumption that race and racisms began in the modern era, Heng argues...
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