Editor's note: Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences publish dozens of books and hundreds of journal articles each year. What follows is a list of books by A&S faculty that have been published this year, either in hardback or paperback format.
Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes
Ask airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, farmlands and developed neighborhoods. Once-contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass prairies that extended for thousands of miles are now crisscrossed by highways and byways. Whether the result of naturally occurring environmental changes or the product of seemingly unchecked human development, fractured lands significantly impact the planet’s biological diversity.
Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes
By Sharon K. Collinge, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of environmental studies (Foreword by Richard T.T. Forman)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ask airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they will describe a fragmented landscape: a patchwork of desert, farmlands and developed neighborhoods. Once-contiguous forests are now subdivided; tallgrass [...]
Delinquency in Society
Eighth Edition
By Robert M. Regoli, CU professor of sociology; John D. Hewitt, professor of criminal justice at Grand Valley State University; and Matt DeLisi, associate professor of sociology at Iowa State University
Jones and Bartlett Publishers
The eighth edition of “Delinquency in Society” provides a systematic introduction to the study of juvenile delinquency, criminal behavior and status-offending [...]
Tobacco Industry and Smoking
Revised edition
By Fred C. Pampel, professor of sociology
Library in a Book Set
As the single largest preventable cause of premature death, tobacco use kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. But nearly one in five adults in the United States still smokes. Despite vigorous criticism from public-health advocates and strict limits on advertising and marketing, [...]
Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design
By Bradley Monton, associate professor of philosophy
Broadview Press
The doctrine of intelligent design is often the subject of acrimonious debate. Seeking God in Science cuts through the rhetoric that distorts the debates between religious and secular camps. Bradley Monton, a philosopher of science and an atheist, carefully considers the arguments for intelligent design and argues that intelligent [...]
Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind
By Robert D. Rupert, assistant professor of philosophy
Oxford University Press
“Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind” surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena as the joint product of brain, body, and environment. The book focuses primarily on the hypothesis of extended cognition, which asserts that [...]
What Is a Number?
Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems and proofs can involve highly complex concepts, the math becomes transparent when viewed as part of a bigger picture.
Local Governments and Rural Development
Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades.
Philosophy Looks at Chess
For the first time, this book offers a collection of contemporary essays that explore philosophical themes at work in chess.
A History of the Ancient Southwest
While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures.
Symbolic Caxton
“Symbolic Caxton” is the first study to explore the introduction of printing in symbolic terms. It presents a powerful literary history in which the 15th century is crucial to the overall story of English literature.
Max Goes to Jupiter
Scientifically accurate illustrations and information-packed sidebars enrich this fascinating tale, the third in this acclaimed series about diversity and space exploration
Yoruba women, work, and social change
“Based on a careful reading of the existing scholarship on Yoruba women, this will be an important text for scholars in Yoruba studies, African studies, and especially women’s and gender studies.”
Integral Ecology
With more than a hundred ecological schools of thought and methodologies—and scientists, economists, religious leaders, activists, and others often taking completely different stances on the issues—how can we come to agreement to solve our toughest environmental problems?
Filling the Ark
Filling the Ark argues that humans cause most of the risks faced by animals and urges for better decisions about the treatment of animals in disasters.
Fiction Now
“Fiction Now” reports on the current states of the novel in France, taking a series of soundings within the compass of innovative French writing since 2001.
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