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ShelfLife@Texas October 2008 Blog Archive
No full textContents: Welcome to ShelfLife -- Professors Slated to Appear at Texas Book Festival -- Q&A with Warren Buffett Biographer Alice Schroeder || Books Mentioned in Contents: "Traitor to His Class: The Privilged Life and Racial Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt" by H.W. Brands -- "Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics" by Don Carleton -- "The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too" by James Galbraith --"Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research" by Thomas McGarity, Joe R., and Teresa Lozano -- "The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched" by Paul Woodruff and Alice SchroederDivision of Campus and Community Engagemen
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ShelfLife@Texas November 2008 Blog Archive
No full textCONTENTS: Alumnus Investigates Verbal Blunders -- Brands’ FDR Biography Hits Bookstores Tomorrow -- Election Day Reading List -- “Forbidden Fruit” in The New Yorker -- Historian Discusses the Fate of Savannah During the Civil War -- Scholar Examines the Rhetoric of Style -- Post-Election Reading Roundup -- Samuel Beckett’s Doodles: What do they mean? -- Amy Tan, Denis Johnson, Tim O’Brien and Lee Blessing Discuss the Future of Reading -- The Power of the Zoot -- Lecture Highlights 50th Anniversary of “Exodus” by Leon Uris -- Littlefield Fund Brings Back War Between the States -- Interview with a Vampire Expert -- Alum’s Science Fiction Book Tackles Dangers of Global Warming -- Books Offer New Perspectives on American Indian Identity -- When Writing Met Art -- "Dream City" Novelist at BookPeople -- Law Professor Investigates the Preemption War -- Critique This Book: Longhorn Reviews -- "Snoop" in Smithsonian Magazine || BOOKS MENTIONED IN CONTENTS: "Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean" by Michael Erard -- "Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt" by Brand, H.W. -- "Unconventional Wisdom: Facts and Myths About American Voters" by Karen Kaufmann, John
Petrocik, and Daron Shaw -- "The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order" by Gretchen Ritter -- "Politics in the Pews: The Political Mobilization of Black Churches" by Eric McDaniel -- "Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers" by Mark Regnerus -- "Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War" by Jacqueline Jones -- "A Rhetoric of Style" by Barry Brummett -- "Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln" by Tasha Philpot -- "Party Polarization in Congress" by Sean Theriault -- "On Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics and Art" by Ari Adut -- "The Power of the Zoot" by Luis Alvarez -- "The Littlefield History of the Civil War Era" by Ira Nadel -- "Global WarNing" by Perla Sarabia Johnson -- " Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H.H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells" by Steven Hoelscher -- "Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940" by Erika Bsumek -- "When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story" by Denise Schmandt-Besserat -- "Dream City" by Brendan Short -- "The Preemption War: When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries" by Thomas McGarity -- "Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You" by Sam GoslingDivision of Campus and Community Engagemen
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ShelfLife@Texas January 2009 Blog Archive
No full textContents: What’s on Your Nightstand, Tom Zigal? -- Alum’s Comic Book Illustrates Iraq War Experiences -- Grad Student Publishes Memoir of Growing Up in Iran -- Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston -- Celebrate 400 Years of Eyes on the Skies -- An Inside Look at the Supreme Court's Gatekeepers -- A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama -- Historian Traces Emergence of Black Identity in America -- Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! -- Michener Alum Reads at BookPeople Tonight -- Professor Translates Novel about Iran-Iraq War -- The Ultimate Product Placement -- What's on Your Nightstand, Tom Gilligan? -- Barry Unsworth to Discusses "Land of Marvels" at the HRC -- Book Chronicles Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps -- Professor Discusses the Economic Crisis and the Road Ahead -- PBS Airs "The Polio Crusade" Based on Professor's Book -- What Obama Can Learn from FDR || BOOKS MENTIONED IN CONTENTS: "The Film Club" by David Gilmour -- "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" by ZZ Packer -- "Our Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson -- "City of Refuge" by Tom Piazza -- "No Enemy, but Peace" by Richard Meyer -- "In the House of My Bibi: Growing Up in Revolutionary Iran" by Nastaran Kherad -- "Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston" by James Hornfischer -- "Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court" by David Weiden -- "Carry It On: The War on Poverty and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, 1964-1970" by Susan Youngblood Ashmore" -- "Becoming African in American: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic" by James Sidbury -- "Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine” by Jake Silverstein -- "Fortune Told in Blood" by Mohammad Ghannonparvar -- "American Rust" by Philipp Meyer -- "Land of Marvels" by Thomas Gilligan and Barry Unsworth -- "Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps" by Robert AbzugDivision of Campus and Community Engagemen
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ShelfLife@Texas December 2008 Blog Archive
No full textCONTENTS: Circus Queen and Tinker Bell -- Poetry on the Plaza: Winter Landscapes -- A Reading with Visiting Professor ZZ Packer -- In Memoriam: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea -- What's on Your Nightstand, Tom Staley? -- Tales for Little Rebels -- Happy 400th Birthday John Milton -- Jazz Performance of "A Child's Christmas in Wales" -- Alum's Book Parodies Pregnancy Guide -- Sociologist Analyzes the Business of Toys -- Don Graham’s Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies -- Historian Unwraps Origins of Christmas Traditions -- Books that Changed America || BOOKS MENTIONED IN CONTENTS: "Circus Queen & Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline" by Janet Davis -- "The Thosands" by ZZ Packer -- "Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry" by Elizabeth Fernea Warnock, Thomas Staley, and Donald Hall -- "A Most Wanted Man" by John le Carre -- "The Trouble with Tom: The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine" by Paul Collins -- "Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature" by Julia Mickenberg -- "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by John Milton and Dylan Thomas -- "The Unexpected When You're Expecting: A Parody" by Mary Moore -- "Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping and Social Inequality" by Christine Williams -- "State Fare: An Irreverent Guide to Texas Movies" by Don Graham -- "Christmas in America: A History" by Penne Restad -- "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine -- "The Federalist" by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay -- "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave" by Frederick Douglass -- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair -- "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson -- "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty FriedanDivision of Campus and Community Engagemen
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ShelfLife@Texas February 2009 Blog Archive
No full textCONTENTS: What's on Your Nightstand, Jim Magnuson? – Poetry on the Plaza: The Rossetti Circle – David Mamet to Discuss "The Spanish Prisoner" in Harry Ransom Lecture – The Mystery of the "Victorian Blood Book" – Professor Evaluates Israel's Struggle Against Terrorism – Law Professor to Discuss "The Preemption War" at BookPeople – An Interview with Australian Author Peter Carey – Is Narcissism Destroying Your Marriage? – The Dark Side of Love – Pornography: A Mirror of American Culture? – Literary Marriages from Hell – A Philosopher's Treatise on Love – Review: “Diplomats in Blue” by William Braisted – Irish Studies Reading List – New Book Highlights Work of Photographer Fritz Henle – Alumna Chronicles Her South-of-the-Border Identity Quest – Burnt Orange Britannia – Amazing Rare Maps in the Benson Collection – Visualizing Russia’s Kaleidoscopic History – Mayor Picks "The Septembers of Shiraz" for Book Club – Symposium Celebrates Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" – What's on Your Nightstand, Juliet Walker? – Tracing New Orleans’ Creole History || BOOKS MENTIONED IN CONTENTS: “On Chesil Beach” by Ian McEwan – “True History of the Kelly Gang” by Peter Carey – “How Fiction Works” by James Wood – “The Savage Detectives” by Roberto Bolano, translated by Natasha Wimmer – “Victorian Blood Book” by Evelyn Waugh – “The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism” by Ami Pedahzur – “The Preemption War: When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries” by Tom McGarity – “Conversational Narcissism in Marriage” by Lisa Leit – “The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill” “The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating” “The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love and Sex” by David Buss – “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity” by Robert Jensen – “About Love: Reinventing Romance For Our Times” by Robert Solomon – “Diplomats in Blue: U.S. Naval Officers in China, 1922-1933” by William R. Braisted – “Women, Press and Politics During the Irish Revival” by Karen Steele – “The Dandy in Irish and American Southern Fiction” by Ellen Crowell – “Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlands” by Stephanie Elizondo Griest – “Burnt Orange Britannia” by William Roger Louis – “Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture” by Joan Neuberger – “The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer – “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” by Annette Gordon-Reed – “The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom” by John Baker – “The Militant South, 1800-1861” by John Hope Franklin – “Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching” by Paula Giddings – “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” by Gwen Ifill – “Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in New Orleans” by Shirley ThompsonDivision of Campus and Community Engagemen
