New Books
Ken Novak (Criminal Justice and Criminology) recently co-authored Police & Society (Oxford University Press, 2011). This widely-used textbook is in its 5th edition. Additional information can be found at
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/CriminologyCriminalJustice/?view=usa&ci=9780199772568
Jennifer Frangos (English) is pleased to announce that The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, now a quarterly academic journal, has completed its transition to the University of Pennsylvania Press, and as of December 2010 has caught up the backlog of unpublished issues and is once again publishing on schedule: issue 52.1 (Spring 2011) is due to be released in March.
Frangos has also co-edited her new book: Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010).
For more see:
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Teaching-the-Transatlantic-Eighteenth-Century1-4438-2266-3.htm
Nacer Khelouz, (Foreign Language and Literatures) has just published his book, Le roman algérien des années 1920: Entre fiction et réalité politique (Editions L’Harmattan: Paris). This work looks at the representation of colonial society in Algeria as seen in the Algerian novel of the 1920’s. See: http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=33452
Charles G. Spencer (Geosciences) adjunct professor is the author of Roadside Geology of Missouri. The book is the latest edition of the Roadside Geology series published by Mountain Press of Missoula, Montana. Books in the series are written for a non-technical audience and describe the geological sights along state and federal highways. For more see: (http://www.mountain-press.com/mountain-press.com).
