Towering
Faculty members and students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences published more than 65 books in 2018, spanning the spectrum of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Many won national awards, including family development expert Abdul Khaleque’s “Intimate Relationships across the Lifespan,” about love in different cultures, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award; and journalist Mike Stanton’s “Unbeaten,” about boxer Rocky Marciano, which was named one of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2018.
Philosopher Mitchell Green’s book “Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge” spawned from his popular massive open online course of the same name, while language expert and polyglot Peter Constantine’s press, World Poetry Books, translates some of the world’s foremost poetry, from the ancient Greeks to Rainer Maria Rilke, into English.
Lest we leave behind the sciences, mathematicians Emiliano Valdez and Guojun Gan show us how to create killer decision trees in “Actuarial Statistics with R: Theory and Case Studies,” while anthropologist Merrill Singer reveals the human sociopolitical ramifications of global warming in “The Anthropology of Climate Change.”
And that’s just the tip of the stack.With some measures showing printed book sales increasing over the past two years, these authors show that the currency of academic scholarship is alive and well.
By Christine buckley
Towering
Faculty members and students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences published more than 65 books in 2018, spanning the spectrum of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
Many won national awards, including family development expert Abdul Khaleque’s “Intimate Relationships across the Lifespan,” about love in different cultures, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award; and journalist Mike Stanton’s “Unbeaten,” about boxer Rocky Marciano, which was named one of Library Journal’s Best Books of 2018.
Philosopher Mitchell Green’s book “Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge” spawned from his popular massive open online course of the same name, while language expert and polyglot Peter Constantine’s press, World Poetry Books, translates some of the world’s foremost poetry, from the ancient Greeks to Rainer Maria Rilke, into English.
Lest we leave behind the sciences, mathematicians Emiliano Valdez and Guojun Gan show us how to create killer decision trees in “Actuarial Statistics with R: Theory and Case Studies,” while anthropologist Merrill Singer reveals the human sociopolitical ramifications of global warming in “The Anthropology of Climate Change.”
And that’s just the tip of the stack.With some measures showing printed book sales increasing over the past two years, these authors show that the currency of academic scholarship is alive and well.
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