ARCHAEOLOGY
- The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: Royal and Private Sepulchres from the Early Dynastic Period to the Romans
By Aidan Dodson, research fellow of archaeology and anthropology, University of Bristol, and Salima Ikram, associate professor of Egyptology, American University in Cairo
Thames Hudson, ?29.95. ISBN 9780500051399
This claims to be the first full survey of Egyptian royal and private tombs, illuminating the work of the key scholars who excavated tombs.
ART AND DESIGN
- Light, Air and Openness: Modern Architecture Between the Wars
By Paul Overy, senior research fellow in the history and theory of modernism, Middlesex University
Thames Hudson, ?24.95. ISBN 9780500342428
Overy examines the relationship between the modernist architecture of the 1920s and 1930s and the preoccupation with fresh air and sunshine, space, health, hygiene and whiteness.
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
- Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship
By Bradley Googins, executive director, and Philip Mervis and Steven Rochlin, both research fellows, Centre for Corporate Citizenship, Boston College
Palgrave Macmillan, ?17.99. ISBN 9781403984838
This book takes a practice-oriented look at corporate citizenship and uses behind-the-scenes examples from well-known companies to show that for many firms social responsibility is becoming more integrated into corporate strategy.
CLASSICS
- Blackwell Introductions to the Classic World: Greek Tragedy
By Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Margaret Bundy Scott professor of comparative literature, Hamilton College
Blackwell, ?50.00 and ?19.99. ISBN 9781405121606 and 1613
Rabinowitz sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest audiences.
- Magic in the Ancient Greek World
By Derek Collins, associate professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan
Blackwell, ?55.00 and ?16.99. ISBN 9781405132381 and 2398
Collins explores the widespread use of spells, drugs, curse tablets and figurines in the ancient world, the practitioners of magic who used them, and how this magic worked.
COMPUTER SCIENCES
- Organizing Knowledge: An Introduction to Managing Access to Information
By Jennifer Rowley, professor of information and communications, and Richard Hartley, head of information and communications, Manchester Metropolitan University
Ashgate, ?25.00. ISBN 9780754644316
The fourth edition of this student text incorporates extensive revisions reflecting the increasing shift towards a networked and digital information environment, and how this impacts on documents, information, knowledge, users and managers.
ECONOMICS
- Global Efforts to Combat Smoking: An Economic Evaluation of Smoking Control Policies
By Rajeev K. Goel, assistant professor of economics, Illinois State University, and Michael A. Nelson, professor and chair of the department of economics, University of Akron
Ashgate, ?50.00. ISBN 9780754648659
The authors bring together the findings of economists on the effectiveness of price and non-price policy initiatives to combat smoking and draws conclusions regarding the efficacy of the various policy measures.
- The Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take on Today's Problems
By Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor of economics, Columbia University, and Aaron S. Edlin, Richard Jennings professor of economics, University of California, Berkeley
University of Columbia Press, ?14.95. ISBN 9780231143646
More than 30 of the world's top economists offer innovative policy ideas and insightful commentary on pressing economic issues such as global warming, the global economy and government spending.
EDUCATION
- Reading to Learn in the Content Areas, International Edition
By Judy S. Richardson, professor of teacher education, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Raymond F. Morgan, professor of reading education, and Charlene Fleener, director of the graduate reading programme, Old Dominion University
Wadsworth, ?29.99. ISBN 9780495506744
Richardson, Morgan and Fleener seek to provide a realistic and practical treatment of reading and methodology issues, theory, research and historical perspective.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
- W. H. Auden Prose Volume 3 (1949-1955)
Edited by Edward Mendelson, professor of English and comparative literature and Lionel Trilling professor in the humanities, Columbia University
Faber and Faber, ?40.00. ISBN 9780571237616
This fifth volume includes the essays, reviews and other prose that Auden published or prepared for publication between 1949 and December 1955, shortly before he was elected professor of poetry at the University of Oxford.
ENGINEERING
- Visualization, Modeling and Graphics for Engineering
By Sheryl Sorby, professor in civil and environmental engineering, Michigan Technological University, and Dennis Lieu, professor in mechanical engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Cengage Delmar Learning, ?69.00. ISBN 9781401842499
The blend of modern and traditional topics in this text shows how computer modelling techniques have changed the engineering design process. From this new perspective, the book focuses on the evolved design process.
FILM STUDIES
- Projections 15: Twenty Years of European Cinema
By Peter Cowie, former visiting professor in film studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Faber and Faber, ?16.99. ISBN 9780571235292
This volume features articles and interviews with leading names in the film industry as well as audience members from across Europe discussing what it is that makes a European film.
- European Cinema after 1989: Cultural Identity and Transnational Production
By Luisa Rivi, lecturer of contemporary European cinema-television, University of Southern California
Palgrave Macmillan, ?40.00. ISBN 9781403979988
Rivi brings post-1989 Europe and European cinema to full visibility and into the fray of contemporary debates on nationalism, post-colonialism, globalisation and transnational cinema.
- Transnational Feminism in Film and Media
Edited by Katarzyna Marciniak, associate professor in the department of English language and literature, Ohio University, Aniko Imre, postdoctoral research fellow, University of Amsterdam, and Aine O'Healey, professor of modern languages and literatures, Loyola Marymount University
Palgrave Macmillan, ?40.00. ISBN 9781403983701
This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines current cinematic and media landscapes from the perspective of transnational feminist practices and methodologies, focusing on film, media art and video essays.
GENERAL SCIENCE
- Chemistry and Chemical Reactivity, International Edition
By John C. Kotz, professor emeritus in chemistry, State University of New York, and Paul M. Treichel, professor in chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Brooks/Cole, ?45.99. ISBN 9780495387138
Kotz and Treichel have updated and revised their textbook with the latest research. The text also comes with an interactive software package that allows tutors to customise their homework plans to complement the textbook.
- Principles and Practice of Pharmacology for Anaesthetists
By Norman Calvey, honorary senior research fellow in the department of anaesthesia, and Norton Williams, lecturer in clinical pharmacology, University of Liverpool
Blackwell, ?99.99. ISBN 97814051578
This fifth edition continues to provide a comprehensive scientific account of the principles of pharmacology, as well as practical guidance in the use of drugs relevant to clinical anaesthesia.
HISTORY
- A History of the Hellenic World: 323-30BC
By R. Malcolm Errington, emeritus professor of ancient history at the University of Marburg
Blackwell, ?55.00 and ?19.99. ISBN 9780631233879 and 3886
Errington offers an engaging look at the Macedonian monarchies in the period after the reign of Alexander the Great and examines their impact on the Greek world.
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES
- Communication in Our Lives, International Edition
By Julia T. Woods, distinguished professor in interpersonal and organisational communication, University of North Carolina
Wadsworth, ?44.99. ISBN 9780495566908
This textbook, now in its fifth edition, focuses on skills development and aims to encourage students to read about communication theories, research and skills and then apply them to their own lives.
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
- Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There
Edited by Jason T. Eberl, assistant professor of philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Blackwell, ?9.99. ISBN 9781405178143
According to these essays, Battlestar Galactica is more than a television "space opera" - it offers a dramatic character study as characters confront existential, moral, metaphysical, theological and political crises.
- What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World
By Noam Chomsky, professor in the department of linguistics and philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hamish Hamilton, ?14.99. ISBN 9780241144015
In this collection of conversations, Chomsky explores international concerns including Iran, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Democratic victory in the US mid-term elections and its ramifications.
- Number and Numbers
By Alain Badiou, professor of philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure
Polity, ?50.00 and ?16.99. ISBN 9780745638782 and 8799
Badiou offers a philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the past century to define the special status of numbers.
- The Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Introduction
By Beverley Clack, reader in philosophy of religion, Oxford Brookes University, and Brian Clack, assistant professor of philosophy, University of San Diego
Polity, ?55.00. ISBN 9780745638676
This second edition has been revised and updated to include chapters on religious extremists and changes in the study of the philosophy of religion after 9/11.
POLITICS
- World Politics
By Charles W. Kegley, distinguished Pearce professor of international relations emeritus, University of South Carolina
Wadsworth, ?39.99. ISBN 9780495565451
Kegley uses key concepts to analyse historical and contemporary developments in international relations, including topics such as terrorism and the environment while emphasising an institutional approach to resolving international conflict.
PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
- Safety at the Sharp End: A Guide to Non-Technical Skills
By Rhona Flin, professor of psychology, University of Aberdeen
Ashgate, ?65.00 and ?25.00. ISBN 9780754645986, and 6006
In covering the identification, training and evaluation of non-technical skills, Flin has written a book for individuals studying crew resource management and other safety or human factors courses.
- Sex and the Psyche: The Truth about Our Most Secret Fantasies
By Brett Kahr, senior clinical research fellow in psychotherapy and mental health, Centre for Child Mental Health, London
Penguin, ?12.99. ISBN 9780141024844
Kahr examines the sexual imagination after undertaking what is claimed to be Britain's biggest-ever sex survey to answer questions on why people fantasise, what it reveals about the self and the fantasies of both sexes.
- Key Concepts in Health Psychology
By Ian Albery, course director for addiction psychology and counselling, London South Bank University, and Marcus Munafo, lecturer in the department of experimental psychology, University of Bristol
Sage, ?19.99. ISBN 9781412919333
Albery and Munafo provide a one-stop analysis of key issues in contemporary health psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Generalist Social Work Practice
By Joseph Walsh, associate professor of social work, Virginia Commonwealth University
Brooks/Cole, ?29.99. ISBN 9780534641306
Walsh provides undergraduate and masters-level students with the introductory knowledge and skills needed to work with individuals, families, groups, communities and organisations.
- Migration and Domestic Work: European Perspective on a Global Theme
Edited by Helma Lutz, professor of sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
Ashgate, ?55.00. ISBN 9780754647904
This volume brings together contributions by European and US-based researchers to look at the connection between migration and domestic work on an empirical and theoretical level.
- The Student's Companion to Social Policy
Edited by Pete Alcock, professor of social policy and administration and head of the School of Social Sciences, University of Birmingham; Margaret May, principal lecturer in teaching, learning and human resource management, and Karen Rowlingson, professor of social policy and director of research, Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham
Blackwell, ?24.99. ISBN 9781405169011
The third edition of this introduction to contemporary British social policy has been updated to reflect policy changes and innovations.
- Social Theories of Risk and Uncertainties: An Introduction
Edited by Jens Zinn, senior research fellow at the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury
Blackwell, ?55.00 and ?21.99. ISBN 9781405153355 and 3362
Leading experts in the field provide an introduction to mainstream theorising on risk and uncertainty in sociology, exploring key topics including risk society and reflexive modernisation.
- Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line
By Sudhir Ventakesh, faculty fellow in the department of sociology, Columbia University
Allen Lane, ?18.99. ISBN 9780713999938
After being held hostage by a gang in Chicago, Ventakesh found his curiosity piqued by the workings within the gang and returned to ingratiate himself in gang culture. This book recounts his experiences during his time with the gang.
- Gender, Identity and Imperialism: Women Development Workers in Pakistan
By Nancy Cook, assistant professor of sociology, Brock University
Palgrave Macmillan, ?42.50. ISBN 9781403979919
An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers built new identities in a Muslim community.
- Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages
Edited by Eileen A. Joy, assistant professor of English, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Myra J. Seaman, associate professor of English, College of Charleston, Kimberly Bell, assistant professor of English and foreign languages, Sam Houston State University, and Mary K. Ramsey, visiting professor of English, Fordham University
Palgrave Macmillan, ?40.00. ISBN 9781403973078
Contemporary entertainment, current politics and medieval history and culture are brought together in an attempt to investigate the intersecting relations between reality and fiction in relation to issues such as morality, identity, and justice, both in the past and the present.
- In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism
By Margaretta Jolly, senior lecturer, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex
University of Columbia Press, ?23.50. ISBN 9780231137928
Jolly covers the complicated dynamics of the relationship between writer and addressee, the part that letters play in specific movements for social justice, and the continuing complexity and vibrancy of the letter form.
