Booknotes

After the City, by Lars Lerup, dean of Rice’s School of Architecture (MIT Press, 2000)

Apartheid’s Landscape and Ideas: A Scorched Soul, by Alan Schwerin ’89, associate professor and director of Cross-Cultural Studies and Perspectives at Monmouth University (University of Rochester Press, 2001).

Black Jack Point, by Jeff Abbott ’85(Signet, 2002)

The Cancer Breakthrough You’ve Never Heard Of, by Richard A. Evans, M.D. ’67 (Texas Cancer Center, 2000)

Crossing Boundaries: Essays on the Ethical Status of Mysticism, edited by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the Lynette Autry Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rice, and G. William Barnard (Seven Bridges Press, 2002)

Dracula, by Bram Stoker, an authoritative edition edited by John Paul Riquelme ’68, professor of English at Boston University (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002)

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, edited by Masayoshi Shibatani, the Deedee McMurtry Professor of Humanities at Rice (J. Benjamins, 2002)

Imperial Fault Lines: Christianity and Colonial Power in India, 1818–1940, by Jeffrey Cox ’70, professor of history at the University of Iowa (Stanford University Press, 2002)

Mitigating the Earthquake Hazard, by Anestis Veletsos, the Brown & Root Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice (University of Patras, Greece, 2002)

A Monte Carlo Primer: A Practical Approach to Radiation Transport, by Stephen A Dupree ’64, and Stanley K. Fraley (Kluwer Acacemic/Plenum Publishers, 2002)

Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women in the Old South, edited by Michele Gillespie ’83, associate professor of history at Wake Forest University, and Susanna Defino (University of North Carolina Press, 2002)

Pyramid Algorithms, by Ron Goldman, professor of computer science at Rice (Elsevier Science, 2002)

Revelation, a science fiction novel by Carol Berg ’70 (Roc, 2001)

Storms in Space, a text for the general reader, by John W. Freeman, professor emeritus of astronomy and space physics at Rice University (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

The Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel, by Matthias Henze, assistant professor of religious studies at Rice (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001)

Tolkien the Medievalist, edited by Jane Chance, professor of English at Rice (Routledge Ltd., 2002)

Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry into Moral Agency, by Nomy Arpaly, assistant professor of philosophy at Rice (Oxford University Press, 2002)