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Dima’s Dog School takes an innovative approach to dog training. Whereas most dog trainers focus on how to force dogs into taking orders, Dima’s approach is about convincing your dog to act in a pleasing manner by speaking dog. This book will help the reader understand why dogs behave the way they do and how dog owners can help their dogs overcome their bad habits by engaging them in dialogue and teaching them to be good because they want to be.

An introduction to the geology of the Southwestern United States, ideal for students of the subject as well as anyone with more than just a casual interest in the natural wonders of the region. The author is a research scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico. His book is dedicated with great appreciation to Professor Emeritus Donald B. Potter, who, “throughout his 34 years of teaching undergraduate students at Hamilton College…sought to instill in them a love for geology and an appreciation of the importance of science in a liberal arts education.”

This impressively researched monograph offers new takes on the reading of James Joyce. In it, the author, a professor of English at Connecticut College, explores in depth, through Joyce’s work leading up to Finnegans Wake, “the evolution of Joycean reality and the Joycean strategies for expressing and dramatizing it.”

All the information you need to create your own painted fabrics, presented in a guidebook handsomely illustrated in full color. It contains 30 step-by-step recipes for success, and covers 15 painting techniques. The author-artist, who began painting fabric that she had woven herself, and later discovered quilting, “makes the art of fabric-painting very accessible to everyone, regardless of their level of experience.”

The latest collection of cartoons by the veteran illustrator for The New Yorker. Highly distinctive, as always, and filled with typical whimsy and wry wit, they provoke knowing nods of head as well as chuckles in their reflections on life’s everyday absurdities.

A collection of informally written essays, including “personal takes on worldwide screenwriting,” the Hollywood influence and specific examples of projects. The author is an experienced screenwriter who is the Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Appended to his own informative advice are contributing essays by an international group of writers and filmmakers.

Associate Professor in Dance Leslie Norton is the author of Léonide Massine and the 20th Century Ballet. This work provides a biography of Massine and a detailed analysis of his major ballets, including those for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and American Ballet Theatre.

In Democratization and the Jews, Kauders deals with the ways in which the West Germans in Munich reacted to the Holocaust. He explores the changing viewpoints and the ways in which the people of Munich distanced themselves from the Nazi regime. Kauders describes these techniques as changing drastically over twenty years. Although they first used Weimar antisemitic images, by the late 1950’s many people – especially Social Democrats and church-members – people had begun to repudiate anti-Semitism and “the language of liberalism merged with the spirit of democracy.”

Aram Goudsouzian, visiting assistant professor of history, is the author of Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon. In the first full biography of actor Sidney Poitier, Goudsouzian analyzes the life and career of a Hollywood legend, from his childhood in the Bahamas to his 2002 Oscar for lifetime achievement.

Magicians aren’t supposed to explain how they do their tricks, but in Sometimes the Magic Works, Brooks obliges. He covers such topics as the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of showing instead of merely telling to creating believable characters who make readers care what happens to them.