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Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo and Merrill Maguire Skaggs are co-editors of Violence, the Arts and Willa Cather. Urgo also wrote the introduction to the book, which contains essays from the 2005 International Willa Cather Seminar of the same name.

In their newly released book Europe at Bay, Alan Cafruny, Hamilton’s Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, and J. Magnus Ryder, professor of international relations at Oxford Brookes University, contend that “Absent the fundamental social and political changes that might engender a positive and coherent regional agency, Europe appears condemned to continuing dependency on the United States’ precarious imperium.”

James Bradfield, Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Economics, has authored a text titled Introduction to the Economics of Financial Markets, published by Oxford University Press.

In his new book, “The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place” (MIT Press), Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Peter F. Cannavò focuses on the displacement and transformation of our landscape, the “crisis of place facing the United States.” He points out that “rampant development, unsustainable exploitation of resources, environmental degradation, and the commodification of places are ruining built and natural landscapes, disconnecting people from their surroundings and threatening individuals’ fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any change in the landscape.”

Associate Professor of Dance Leslie Norton is the author of a new book, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star. Franklin is one of the greatest ballet dancers of the twentieth century and is still performing at the age of 93, dancing principal roles for American Ballet Theatre. In writing the book, Norton conducted more than 60 hours of taped interviews with Franklin and his most noteworthy colleagues.

Broadening the Horizon: Critical Introductions to Amma Darko, edited by Professor of English Vincent O. Odamtten, has been published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited, Banbury Oxfordshire, UK. This collection of essays from nearly a dozen respected academics and practitioners in the field brings a number of critical perspectives to focus on the work of Amma Darko, a 21st century Ghanaian writer.

Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi is the author of a new book, Clothing Gandhi’s Nation: Homespun and Modern India (Indiana University Press).

Dean of the Faculty Joseph Urgo is the co-editor of a new book on William Faulkner, Faulkner and Material Culture published by University Press of Mississippi. It is co-edited with Ann J. Abadie, associate director of Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. Faulkner and Material Culture is a collection of essays originally presented at the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference in July, 2004, in Mississippi.

The second Faulkner book co-edited by Dean of the Faculty Joseph Urgo is Faulkner's Inheritance, co-edited with Ann J. Abadie, associate director of Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, (University Press of Mississippi). The book is a collection of essays originally presented at the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference in 2005 in Mississippi.

This book is an examination of a religion in flux — one that speaks to the growing popularity of evangelicalism in America and to the broader pathways of religious change.