Booknotes

Customer-Centered Products: Creating Successful Products through Smart Requirements Management, by Kristin A. Farry ’95 and Ivy F. Hooks (AMACOM, 2000)

Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, by Edith Wyschogrod, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice (Fordham University Press, 2000)

History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, edited by Richard G. Gordon, W.M. Keck Professor of Earth Science at Rice; Mark A. Richards; and Robert Dirk Hilst (American Geophysical Union, 2000)

Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism, by Ewa M. Thompson, professor of Slavic studies at Rice (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000)

Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment in Spencer, Shakespeare, and Milton, by Katherine Eggert ’84, associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)

Transformation, by Carol Berg ’70 (ROC Books, 2000)

Usage-Based Models of Language, edited by Michael Barlow, assistant professor of linguistics, and Suzanne Kemmer, associate professor of linguistics, both at Rice (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

When Mountains Walked, by Kate Wheeler ’77 (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000)

Who Gets Sick: How Beliefs, Moods and Thoughts Affect Health, by Blair Justice ’66, associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Texas School of Public Health Houston (Peak Press, 2000)

Willa Cather: The Writer and Her World, by Janis P. Stout ’73, professor of English, dean of faculties, and associate provost at Texas A&M University (University Press of Virginia, 2000)