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The University Bookshelf

Tehano by Allen WierTehano (Dallas, TX: SMU Press, 2006), Allen Wier's latest novel, is drawing praise as a Western epic that rivals Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove for its depiction of the myriad characters, events, and landscape that marked the western expansion of the United States in the second half of the 19th century. " . . . most of all, we learn how Americans thought in those pioneer days, how they dreamed and how they suffered," writes Tom Walker, books editor of the Denver Post. Southern Methodist University published the book, Wier's fourth novel.

Thomas Haddox's Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005) explores the shifting and contradictory ways Catholicism has been portrayed in American and Southern literary and cultural history. Haddox, a member of UT's English faculty, examines Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, and other notable writers from the region to catalog the various roles Catholicism has played in Southern life and letters.

In Progress

The first scholarly edition of Knoxville-born James Agee's novel, A Death in the Family, is in production at the University of Tennessee Press, with publication scheduled for fall 2007. Subtitled A Restoration of the Author's Text, the novel is being edited by UT English professor Michael A. Lofaro, who is presenting a new and substantially different edition based much more closely on Agee's original manuscript and papers. Lofaro is the general editor of The Works of James Agee, a 10-volume series that will present definitive scholarly texts of all Agee's writings, including journalism, film criticism, letters, and other publications. Lofaro's James Agee Rediscovered: The Notebooks for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (UT Press), edited with Hugh Davis, is already in print, as is Paul Ashdown's edited collection, James Agee: Selected Journalism (UT Press), for which Ashdown has written a new introduction.

Other Notable Books

  • Stephen V. Ash. Middle Tennessee Society Transformed, 1860–1870 (with a new preface). UT Press.

  • Janet M. Atwill. The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition. State University of New York Press.

  • Adedeji B. Badiru. Handbook of Industrial and Systems Engineering. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL.

  • Amy Billone. Peter Pan. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics.

  • Michael Berry. Understanding Search Engines: Mathematical Modeling and Text Retrieval, 2nd ed. SIAM.

  • David Brill, ed., Cleaning America's Air: Progress and Challenges. UT Press.

  • Gordon M. Burghardt. The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits. MIT Press.

  • Lorri M. Glover. Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old-South. University of Georgia Press.

  • W. Todd Groce and Stephen V. Ash, eds., Nineteenth-Century America: Essays in Honor of Paul H. Bergeron. UT Press.

  • Michael H. Handelsman. Leyendo la globalización desde la mitad del mundo: identidad y resistencias en el Ecuador. Editorial El Conejo (Ecuador).

  • Thomas Heffernan. The Liturgy of the Medieval Church. Medieval Institute Publications.

  • Thomas Heffernan and Thomas E. Burman. Scripture and Pluralism: Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages. E.J. Brill Press.

  • Carolyn R. Hodges and O. M. Welch. The Search for Meaning in Multicultural Education: A Critical Theory Approach to Pedagogy. University Press of America.

  • Sally P. Horn. Paramos de Costa Rica. INBio.

  • Asafa Jalata. Oromia and Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868–2004. Red Sea Press.

  • Warren H. Jones. Personality: Contemporary Theory and Research. Wadsworth.

  • Marilyn Kallet and April Morgan, eds., The Art of College Teaching. UT Press.

  • Marilyn Kallet. Circe, After Hours. BkMk Press.

  • Michael Kulikowski. Hispania in Late Antiquity. E.J. Brill Press.

  • Tom Lee, The Tennessee–Virginia Tri-Cities: Urbanization in Appalachia, 1900–1950. UT Press.

  • B. J. Leggett. Late Stevens: The Final Fiction. Louisiana State University Press.

  • Murray K. Marks and John Clement. Computergraphic Facial Reconstruction. Academic Press (Elsevier).

  • John Nolt. A Land Imperiled: The Declining Health of the Southern Appalachian Bioregion. UT Press.

  • Robert J. Norrell. The House I Live In. Oxford University Press.

  • Lynne E. Parker. Multi-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, Vol. III. Springer.

  • Lydia M. Pulsipher. World Regional Geography: Global Patterns, Local Lives. Freeman.

  • David Reidy. Universal Human Rights: Securing Moral Order in a Multicultural Society. Rowman & Littlefield Press.

  • John B. Romeiser. "Beachhead Don": Reporting the War from the European Theater, 1942–1945. Fordham University Press.

  • Neal E. Shover. Choosing White-Collar Crime. Cambridge University Press.

  • Ken Stephenson. Introduction to Circle Packing. Cambridge University Press.

  • Johanna Stiebert. The Exile and the Prophet's Wife: Historic Events and Marginal Perspectives. Liturgical Press.

  • William Bruce Wheeler. Knoxville, Tennessee: A Mountain City in the New South, 2nd edn. UT Press.

  • George White Jr. Holding the Line: Race, Racism, and American Foreign Policy Toward Africa, 1953–1961. Rowman & Littlefield Press.

  • Yang Zhong. Leadership in a Changing China. Palgrave Macmillan.

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