Booknotes

The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Caroline Levander, associate professor of English and director of the Center for the Study of Cultures at Rice, and Carol J. Singley (Rutgers University Press, 2003)

Baked to Death: A Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery, by Dean James ’86 (Kensington Publishing, 2005)

Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars, by Janis P. Stout ’73 (University of Alabama Press, 2005)

Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature, by David Cook, assistant professor of religious studies at Rice (Syracuse University Press, 2005)

In Praise of Blame, by George Sher, Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Philosophy at Rice (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Making Innovation Work: How to Manage it, Measure It, and Profit from It, by Marc J. Epstein, Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Rice, Tony Davila, and Robert Shelton (Wharton School Publishing, 2005)

The Missing: Poems, by Rangi McNeil ’99(Sheep Meadow Press, 2003)
Nanotechnology for Dummies, by Richard Booker, graduate student in chemistry at Rice, and Earl Boysen (For Dummies, 2005)

Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body, by Christian Emden, assistant professor of German at Rice (University of Illinois Press, 2005)

Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations, by Lydia E. Kavraki, Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and professor of bioengineering at Rice, et al (MIT Press, 2005)

Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia After Communism, by Zoe Knox, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Studies of Culture at Rice (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004)

Seismic Expressions and Interpretation of Carbonate Sequences, by Andrei V. Belopolsky ’00 and Andre W. Droxler, associate professor of earth science at Rice (AAPG Atlas, 2004)

Unto A Good Land: a History of the American People, edited by John B. Boles, William P. Hobby Professor of History at Rice, et al (Eerdmans Publishing, 2005)

Virgil Recomposed: The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity, by Scott McGill, assistant professor of classics at Rice (American Philolgical Association, 2005)

Women Medievalists and the Academy, edited by Jane Chance, professor of English at Rice (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)