Booknotes

Chaucer’s England, a look at the England of the Middle Ages, written for teens, by Diana Childress ’61 (Linnet Books, 2000).

Folk Linguistics, by Nancy A. Niedzielski, assistant professor of linguistics at Rice, and Dennis R. Preston (Mouton de Gruyter, 2000).

God Help All Little Children Read, Write, and Spell, by Ian Duck, professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University (1st Books Library, 2000).

100 Years of Planck’s Quantum, by Ian Duck, professor of physics and astronomy at Rice, and E. C. G. Sudarshan (World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., 2000).

Places in the Mind, poems by Catharine Savage Brosman ’55, professor emerita at Tulane University and honorary research professor at the University of Sheffield, England (Louisiana State University Press, 2000).

Schumann’s Eichendorff Liederkreis and the Genre of the Romantic Cycle, by David Ferris, assistant professor of musicology at Rice (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Shamanism: The Neural Ecology of Consciousness and Healing, by Michael Winkelman ’76, director of the Ethnographic Field School at Arizona State University (Bergin & Garvey, 2000).

Transformation, a science fiction novel by Carol Berg ’70 (Roc, 2000).