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Film Sound: Theory and Practice

By Elisabeth Weis, John Belton

The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: Advice for Young Scientists

By Peter Doherty, DVM (Chairman, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)

Notes of a Desolate Man

By Chu T'ien-wen, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin

Picturing Algeria

By Pierre Bourdieu (SSRC), Craig Calhoun, Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli

The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change

By Richard C. Lewontin

Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement

By Roel Meijer

The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960

By Catharine Newbury

Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility

By Kenneth Posner

A History of Islamic Philosophy

By Majid Fakhry

Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean

By Edward Simpson, Kai Kresse

Critique and Conviction: Conversations with Francois Azouvi and Marc de Launay

By Paul Ricoeur (Fremeaux-Rousseau-Laplace Atty)

The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses

By Larbi Sadiki

The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam

By Roger Hardy

The State-Society Struggle

By Thomas M. Callaghy

Dhow Cultures and the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam

By Abdul Sherrif

The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture

By Patrick Manning (Professor, University of Pittsburgh)

Islam: An Historical Introduction

By Gerhard Endress, Carole Hillenbrand

East Asia at the Center: Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World

By Warren I. Cohen

The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism

By Steven Bernstein

Under Siege: PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War

By Rashid Khalidi

Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement

By William Duggan (Columbia University)

Nietzsche as Philosopher

By Arthur C. Danto

Political Liberalism

By John Rawls

African Elite: The Big Men of a Small Town

By Joan Vincent

The Age of Rights

By Louis Henkin

Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature

By J. W. Wright, Jr., Everett K. Rowson, J.W. Wright Jr (Business Division Chair and Director of the MBA Program, American University, Dubai)

The Top 500 Poems

By William Harmon

Keeping House in Lusaka

By Karen Tranberg Hansen

Anticipating a Nuclear Iran: Challenges for U.S. Security

By Jacquelyn Davis (Pls note: Prof. Pfaltzgraff is primary contact), Robert Pfaltzgraff Jr. (Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis)

Local Politics in Jordan and Morocco: Strategies of Centralization and Decentralization

By Janine A. Clark