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NYU Faculty-Authored Books in the Humanities, Published in 2008

Allen, Richard
      Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15 (Wallflower Press)

Altshuler, Bruce
      Salon To Biennal: Exhibitions That Made Art History, Volume 1 (Phaidon Press, Inc.)

Badal, Sharon
      Swimming Upstream: Lifesaving Guide Short Film Distribution (Focal Press)

Baker, Jennifer
      Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation and Writing in the Making of Early America (Hopkins)

Becker, Adam
      Sources for the Study of the School of Nisibis (Liverpool University Press)

Bender, Tom
      American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005: Documenting the National Discourse (Hopkins)

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth
      Italian Colonialism (Palgrave Macmillan)

Berry, Ciaran
      The Sphere of Birds (Southern Illinois University Press)

Bilal, Wafaa
      Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life, and Resistance under the Gun (City Lights Publishers)

Biro, Yvette
      Turbulence and Flow in Film: The Rhythmic Design (Indiana)

Brams, Steven
      Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Votiing and Fair-Division Procedures (Princeton)

Breytenbach, Breyten
      All One Horse (Archipelgo Books)

Breytenbach, Breyten
      Windcather: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2006 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Brown, Jonathan
      Collected Writing on Velazquez (Other Distribution)

Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce
      The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Reagan and Yeltsin (Michigan)

Calhoun, Craig
      Cosmopolitanism and Belonging: From European Integration to Global Hopes (Routlegde)

Cameron, Donna
      Donna Cameron (Spuyten Duyvil)

Carruthers, Mary
      The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge)

Castaneda, Jorge
      Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants (New Press)

Castaneda, Jorge
      Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left (Taylor and Francis)

Cherbo, Joni Maya
      Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States (Rutgers)

Chi-Saw, Jennifer
      Wine, Workship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani (Princeton)

Conley, Dalton
      Social Class: How Does It Work? (Russell Sage Foundation)

Coupeau, Steeve
      History of Haiti (Greenwood Publishing Group)

Cox, Virginia
      Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650 (Hopkins)

Cusick, Suzanne
      Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court (Chicago)

Davila, Arlene
      Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race (NYU)

Diawara, Manthia
      Black American Cinema Reconsidered (RKP)

Dickar, Maryann
      Corridor Cultures: Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School (NYU)

Donoghue, Denis
      On Eloquence (Yale)

Dworkin, Ronald
      Is Democracy Possible Here: Principles for a New Political Debate (Princeton)

Dworkin, Ronald
      Justice in Robes (Harvard)

Dworkin, Ronald
      The Supreme Court Phalanz: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc (New York Review of Books)

Easterly, William
      Reinventing Foreign Aid (MIT)

Eigen, Michael
      Conversations with Michael Eigen (Karnac Books)

Eustace, Nicole
      Passion is the Gale (North Carolina)

Fahmy, Khaled
      Mehmed Ali (Oneworld Publications)

Feldman, Jeffrey
      Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons Democracy (Consortium Book Sales and Distributors)

Field, Hartry
      Saving Truth from Paradox (Oxford)

Fine, Kit
      The Limits of Abstraction (Oxford)

Fleming, K. E.
      Greece: A Jewish History (Princeton)

Fleming, Paul
      Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism (Stanford)

Friedman, Sharon
      Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works: Critical Essays (McFarland)

Geroulanos, Stefanos
      Knowledge of Life (Fordham)

Gilligan, Carol
      Deepening Darkness: Loss, Patriarchy, and Democracy's Future (Cambridge)

Gilligan, Carol
      Kyra (Random House)

Goldberg, Nieca
      Dr. Nieca Goldberg's Complete Guide to Women's Health (Random House)

Gordon, Linda
      Impounded: Dorthea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment (Norton)

Greenberg, Karen
      The Enemy Combattant Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror (Cambridge)

Groys, Boris
      Art Power (MIT)

Hamilton, John
      Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (Columbia)

Hulsebosch, Daniel
      Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (North Carolina)

Huppauf, Bernd
      Signale Aus Der Bleecker Street (Wallstein)

Jamieson, Dale
      Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Cambridge)

Jenkinson, Mark
      CIG Photography Essentials (Ingram)

Judt, Tony
      Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century (Penguin)

Kahana, Jonathan
      Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary (Columbia)

Kain, P. G.
      The School for Cool: Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts (Simon and Schuster)

Kanaaneh, Rhoda
      Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military (Stanford)

Kaplan, Marion
      Dominican Haven: Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 1940-1945 (Stanford)

Khoury, Elias
      Yalo (Picador)

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara
      Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times (U. Penn.)

Klass, Perri
      Treatment Kind and Fair: Letters to a Young Doctor (Perseus Publishing)

Klinenberg, Eric
      Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media (Henry Holt & Company)

Komunyakaa, Yusef
      Warhorses: Poems (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)

Krause, Monika
      University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (Temple)

Kupperman, Karen
      The Jamestown Project (Harvard)

Levering Lewis, David
      God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 (Norton)

Levering Lewis, David
      W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of Race, 1868-1963 (Henry Holt & Company)

Levin, Phillis
      May Day (Penguin)

Light, Paul
      The Search for Social Entrepreuneurship (Brookings)

Lukes, Steven
      Moral Relativism (Picador)

Machado, Eduardo
      Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home (Gotham)

Malnig, Julie
      Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader (Illinois)

Manza, Jeff
      Locked Out: Fellon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (Oxford)

Marcus, Gary
      Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind (Oxford)

Maslon, Laurence
      Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (Grand Central)

Maslon, Laurence
      The South Pacific Companion (Simon and Schuster)

Maynard, John
      Literary Intention, Literary Intrepretation, and Readers (Broadview)

McKelvey, Tara
      Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War (Ingram)

McLane, Maureen
      Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge)

McLane, Maureen
      Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry (Cambridge)

McLane, Maureen
      Same Life: Poems (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux)

Merry, Sally
      Gender Violence: A Cultural Perspective (Blackwell)

Miller, Mark
      Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy (Consortium Book Sales and Distributors)

Mills, Linda
      Violent Partners: A breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse (Basic Books)

Mirzoeff, Nicholas
      Seinfeld (BFI Publishing)

Momma, Haruko
      Companion to the History of the English Language (Wiley, John & Sons)

Murray, Susan
      Realtity TV: Remaking Television Culture (NYU)

Nestle, Marion
      Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mind (California)

Nochlin, Linda
      Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe (Periscope)

Noguera, Pedro
      The Trouble With Black Boys : And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education (Wiley, John & Sons)

Noguera, Pedro
      Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools (Wiley, John & Sons)

Nolan, Mary
      University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (Temple)

Olds, Sharon
      One Secret Thing (Knopf)

Ollman, Bertell
      Dialectics for the New Century (Palgrave Macmillan)

Ostashevsky, Eugene
      The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza (Zephyr)

Parasecoli, Fabio
      Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture (Berg)

Park, Ed
      Personal Days (Random House)

Pellegrini, Ann
      Secularisms (Duke)

Poovey, Mary
      Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in 18th- and 19th-Century Britain (Chicago)

Pylkkanen, Liina
      Introducing Arguments (MIT)

Ragen, Therese
      The Consulting Room and Beyond: Psychoanalytic Work and Its Reverberations in the Analyst's Life (Taylor and Francis)

Rampino, Michael
      Origins of Life in the Universe (Cambridge)

Reid, John
      Legislating the Courts: Judicial Dependence in Early National New Hampshire (N. Illinois)

Rendell, Joanne
      The Professors' Wives' Club (Penguin)

Revesz, Richard
      Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (Oxford)

Ritchin, Fred
      After Photography (Norton)

Ritchin, Fred
      Magnum Photos (Thames and Hudson)

Rodriguez, Joseph
      Still Here: Stories after Katrina (PowerHouse Books)

Roiphe, Katie
      Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939 (Bantam)

Ronell, Avital
      The Test Drive (Illinois)

Rosenthal, Howard
      Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Rights (MIT)

Ross, Andrew
      University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace (Temple)

Ross, Kristin
      The Emergence of Social Space: Rimbaud and the Paris Commune (Verso)

Ross, Kristin
      Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema (Duke)

Rubio-Marin, Ruth
      What Happened to Women (Columbia)

Ruttenburg, Nancy
      Dostoevsky's Democracy (Princeton)

Sartori, Andrew
      Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital (Chicago)

Schain, Martin
      The Politics of Immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A Comparative Study (Palgrave Macmillan)

Schloss, Joseph
      Foundation: B-Boys, B-Girls, and Hip-Hop Culture in New York (Oxford)

Schwartz, Frederick
      Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (Norton)

Schwartz, Judith
      Confrontational Ceramic (U. Penn.)

Seife, Charles
      Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking (Penguin)

Sennett, Richard
      The Craftsman (Yale)

Shaw, Lytle
      The Chadwick Family Papers (Periscope)

Shinn, Marybeth
      Toward Positive Youth Development: Transforming Schools and Community Programs (Oxford)

Shirky, Clay
      Here Comes Everybody (University Press of America)

Shrum, Robert
      No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner (Simon and Schuster)

Shulman, George
      American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (Minnesota)

Silber, William
      When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy (Princeton)

Silver, Kenneth
      Paris Portraits: Artists, Friends, and Lovers (Yale)

Sirin, Selcuk
      Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities through Multiple Methods (NYU)

Slatkin, Laura
      Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the "Iliad" (California)

Sokal, Alan
      Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy, and Culture (Oxford)

Soussan, Michael
      Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy (Perseus Publishing)

Strauss, Darin
      More Than It Hurts You (Penguin)

Streible, Dan
      Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (California)

Stulberg, Lisa
      Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press)

Suarez-Orozco, Carola
      Learning in a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society (Harvard)

Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo
      Latinos: Remaking America (California)

Sullivan, Edward
      Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935 to 1950 (Yale)

Taylor, Diana
      Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance (Michigan)

Thurs, Daniel
      Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture (Rutgers)

Truxes, Thomas
      Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York (Yale)

Vinjamuri, David
      Accidental Branding - How Ordinary People Build Extraordinary Brands (Wiley, John & Sons)

Volk, Tyler
      CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge (MIT)

Weschler, Lawrence
      Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin (California)

Weschler, Lawrence
      Tara Donovan (The Monacelli Press)

Weschler, Lawrence
      True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney (California)

Westreich, M. D.
      Helping the Addict You Love: The New Effective Program for Getting the Addict into Treatment (Simon and Schuster)

Willis, Deborah
      Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits (Smithsonian Institution Press)

Willis, Deborah
      Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs (Harper Collins)

Wright, Robert
      One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe (McGraw Hill)

Young, Marilyn
      Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past (New Press)

Zhang, Xudong
      Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century (Duke)

Zimmerman, Jonathan
      Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century (Harvard)

 

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