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Adam Berinksy, Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America, Princeton University Press, 2004. Berinksy presents a provocative argument that the very process of collecting information on public preferences through surveys may bias our picture of these preferences. In particular, he focuses on the many respondents who say they "don't know" when asked for their views on the political issues of the day. Adam Berinksy is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. Ellen Cooney, Gun Ball Hill, University Press of New England, 2004. This book traces the development of a small Maine community, which, during the early years of the American Revolution, creates a foundry to supply ammunition to Washington's new army. Ellen Cooney is a Writer in Residence with the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. Aden Evens and Ian Ilavsky, alms, Constellation Records, 2004. alms is the second full-length recording released by re: (re: is comprised of Aden Evens and Ian Ilavsky), which combines techniques of musique concrete with the aesthetic sensibilities of post-rock and electronica to produce a highly textured and dynamic work of sound-art. Aden Evens is Assistant Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. Aden Evens, Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience, University of Minnesota Press, July 2005. As record collectors and file swappers know, the experience of music—making it, marketing it, listening to it—relies heavily on technology. Sound Ideas reinvents the philosophy of music in a way that encompasses traditional aspects of musicology, avant-garde explorations of music's relation to noise and silence, and the consequences of digitalization. Aden Evens is Assistant Professor in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, editors, Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back, University of California Press, 2005. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists offer fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. Hugh Gusterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Science Studies in the Anthropology Program and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Maya Honda and Wayne O'Neil, Understanding first and second language acquisition. Handbook 10 in Awakening our languages: ILI handbook series, The Indigenous Language Institute, 2004. This series of handbooks is designed to aid Native communities in reversing language loss, primarily the loss of indigenous languages of North America. In Handbook 10, Honda and O'Neil summarize some basic research on first and second language acquisition and suggest ways in which that research can be useful in programs of Native language revitalization. Wayne O'Neil is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Richard K. Lester and Michael J. Piore, Innovation: The Missing Dimension, Harvard University Press, 2004. This book draws on a series of case studies in new product development (cell phones, medical devices, blue jeans, automobiles) to argue that we are in danger of drawing the wrong lessons from the resurgence of the American economy in the 1990s. Michael Piore is David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy. Irving Singer, Sex: A Philosophical Primer, Expanded Edition, Rowan & Littlefield. 2004. This enlarged edition of the 2001 text includes a new essay by Singer entitled "Marriage: Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex" which attempts to resolve the current controversy about same-sex marriage. Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy. Susan Slyomovics, The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. A unique distillation of politics, anthropology, and performance studies, this book offers both a clear picture of the present state of human rights and a vision of a possible future for public protest and dissidence in Morocco. Susan Slyomovics is Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Professor for the Study of Women in the Developing World and Professor of Anthropology. Elizabeth A. Wood, Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia, Cornell University Press, 2005. In reconstructing the history of the so-called agitation trials and placing them in a rich social context, Wood makes a major contribution to rethinking the first decade of Soviet history. Her book traces the arc by which the regime's campaign to educate the masses by entertaining and disciplining them culminated in a policy of brute shaming. Elizabeth Wood is Associate Professor of History. |
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