NEW FACULTY BOOKS

Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in
the Age of Revolution, Martin J.S.
Rudwick (history, professor emeritus) University of Chicago Press,
2005, $45.00.

Stories in the Time of Cholera:
Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare, Charles L. Briggs (ethnic studies, professor) and Clara Mantini-Briggs, University of California Press, 2004, $21.95.

Soft Cinema Navigating the Database,
Lev Manovich (visual arts, associate
professor) MIT Press, 2005, $30.00

Occupational Ghettos: The Worldwide Segregation of Women and Men, Maria Charles (sociology, professor) and
David Grusky, Stanford University
Press, 2004, $55.00.

A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers, V.S. Ramachandran (psychology, professor) Pi Press, 2005, $10.17.

NIGHTSTAND

Professor Ross Frank’s work on Native American Ledger Art is profiled here. We asked him what books he is currently reading.

The Location of Culture
— by Homi Bhabha

Native American Picture Books of Change: The Art of Historic Children’s Editions
— by Rebecca C. Benes

The Game of Silence
— by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwa)

Power: A Novel
— by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)

Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building
— edited by Ronald Niezen

The Death of Bernadette Lefthand
— by Ron Querry (Choctaw)

Gardens in the Dunes: A Novel
— by Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo)

A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
— by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak