Booknotes

The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language: State of the Science, edited by Rafael Salaberry, associate professor of Spanish at Rice, and Barbara Lafford (Georgetown University Press, 2003)

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory, edited by Cary E. Wolfe, the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

The Art of Dove Bradshaw: Nature, Change, and Indeterminacy, by Thomas McEvilley, distinguished lecturer of art history at Rice (Mark Batty, 2003)

Beneath a Northern Sky: A Short History of the Gettysburg Campaign, by Steven E. Woodworth ’87 (Scholarly Resources, 2003)

Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality, by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr., professor of philosophy at Rice, and Lisa M. Rasmussen (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003)

Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life, Elizabeth Long, associate professor of sociology at Rice (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic, by Peter C. Caldwell, professor of history and German and Slavic studies at Rice (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Earth’s Climate and Orbital Eccentricity: the Marine Isotope Stage 11 Question, edited by André W. Droxler, associate professor of earth science (American Geophysical Union, 2003)

Engineering a Compiler, by Keith D. Cooper, professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering, and Linda Torczon, research scientist in computer science and executive director of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, both at Rice (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003)

Selling the Marshall Plan, by John Bledsoe Bonds ’62, assistant professor of history at The Citadel (Praeger Publishers, 2002)

The Shape of Ancient Thought, by Thomas McEvilley, distinguished lecturer of art history at Rice (Allworth Press, 2002)

The Sourcebook of Parallel Computing, by Ken Kennedy, University Professor, the Ann and John Doerr Professor in Computational Engineering, and professor in electrical and computer engineering; and Linda Torczon, research scientist in computer science and executive director of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation, both at Rice, et al. (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002)

The Specter of Democracy, by Dick Howard ’65 (Columbia University Press, 2002)

Spory o kyrtyke literacka w Dwudziestoleciu miedzywojennym, by Dariusz Skórczewski, lecturer in German and Slavic studies at Rice (Universitas, Craclow, 2002)

Taccuino di Harvard, by Ombretta Frau, lecturer in Italian at Rice (Milan: Mondadori, 2002)

This Day in North American Indian History, by Philip Constantin ’78 (DaCapo-Perseus, 2002)

Time Series Analysis, by Yoosoon Chang, associate professor of economics, and Joon Park, professor of economics, both at Rice (Korea, 2002)

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

Whose Water?, by John N. Leedom ’43 (Nesbett Heights, 2002)

Witold Gombrowicz, by Ewa M. Thompson, professor of Slavic studies at Rice (Twayne Publishers, 2002)