UAlbany Authors

Learn More

Meet our authors

Saturday October 9th, 10am to 3pm
Back lawn of the Science Library
Over two dozen UAlbany faculty and alumni authors will showcase their books at the Fall Festival. Choose your interests below and discover which authors you will have the opportunity to meet.

Crime Fiction	Health Care	Politics
Education	History	Self-Enrichment
Educational Psychology	Literature	Science
Ethics	Memoirs	World Affairs

Crime Fiction

You Should Have Died on Monday (2007)
by Frankie Bailey
In her fourth mystery novel in the Lizzie Stuart Mystery series featuring African American professor/criminologist Lizzie Stuart, Frankie Bailey weaves vivid characters and drama upon a realistic backdrop of race and crime in America.
Carried by Six (2009)
by Allen Ballard
In his crime novel, Allen Ballard plots a fast-paced tale of one family's fight against the murderous drug gangs that threaten to take over their Philadelphia housing project.

Education

Best Practices from High-Performing Middle Schools (2009)
by Kristen Wilcox and Janet Angelis
Kristen Wilcox and Janet Angelis, two researchers from UAlbany's School of Education, share what they have learned about how some middle schools consistently foster better academic performance, no matter what challenges their students face.

Educational Psychology

Reading Our World (2009)
by Robert Yagelski
Robert Yagelski's second edition, helps improve critical reading and writing skills by illustrating the value of contextual awareness.Robert Yagelski's second edition, helps improve critical reading and writing skills by illustrating the value of contextual awareness.
The Nature and Nurture of Giftedness: A New Framework for Understanding Gifted Education (2010)
by David Yun Dai
Dai asks: What do we know about the roles of natural ability, environment, and personal effort in talent development?

Ethics

Ethical Issues In Modern Medicine: Contemporary Readings in Bioethics (2008)
co-authored by Bonnie Steinbock
This seventh edition includes discussion of conflicting roles and responsibilities for medical professionals and justice in health care.
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (2008) co-edited by Donald Siegel
School of Business Dean and Professor Donald Siegel co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, an authoritative source on the responsibility of corporations for the world around them.

Health Care

Practice Under Pressure (2009)
by Timothy Hoff
Timothy Hoff champions a new business model, medical education reform and a rebranding of primary care careers to rescue the U.S. primary care system.
Essentials of Health Economics (2009)
by Diane Dewar
Dewar writes about the specifics of the health care markets, how to evaluate health care services, and health care reform.
Media Messages and Public Health (2008)
co-edited by Jennifer Manganello
Manganello says that she and her co-editors saw the necessity for the book because no prior works informed researchers about the difficult decisions that confronted them involving public health-related messages and behaviors.
Addiction and Pregnancy (1998)
by Barry Sherman
Barry Sherman offers a comprehensive look at substance abuse during pregnancy.

History

Scottsboro and Its Legacy (2008)
by James R. Acker
Scottsboro and Its Legacy: The Cases That Challenged American Legal and Social Justice (2008) is "a careful, even painstaking examination of the Scottsboro Boys, the nine black teenagers convicted of raping two white women on a train ride through Alabama in early 1931.”
The Spy Who Loved Us (2009)
by Thomas A. Bass
The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game is the true espionage story about a double agent who was North Vietnam's "secret weapon for winning the war."
The Fountain of Youth: The Artistry of Frank Glazer (2009)
by Duncan J. Cumming
A frequent collaborator on projects with Glazer, Cumming chronicles the innovative master's life, which spans nearly a century of performing.
The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (2008)
by Barry Trachtenberg
The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917, examines the impact of the 1905 Russian Revolution on the formation of Yiddish scholarship.

Literature

Perseus (2010)
by Richard Matturro, B.A. '68, M.A. '69, Ph.D. '73
In this offbeat take on the classical myth, Perseus bungles his way into a heroic adventure with Andromeda, a highly opinionated young damsel in distress.
Sweet Solitude (2010)
by Leonard A. Slade Jr.
Drawing deeply from the well of the African American experience, Sweet Solitude, addresses a wide variety of subjects — from beauty, family and nature, to racism, religion, and politics.
Please Come Back To Me (2010)
by Jessica Treadway '82
UAlbany alumna Jessica Treadway's new collection of short stories and a novella, Please Come Back To Me, is the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Memoirs

Companionship in Grief: Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin (2010)
by Jeffrey Berman
Jeffrey Berman shines a light on memoirs that deal with the death of a spouse.
Hanatsumi Nikki – The Flowers of Italy (2009)
translated by Susanna Fessler
Originally published in 1909, Hanatsumi Nikki – The Flowers of Italy is the record of Anesaki's travels in Italy and a meditation on art, human life, European and Japanese culture, and faith.
That Place Called Home (2000)
by Paul Grondahl, M.A. '84
This is a true story of how Sister Mary Ann LoGiudice, a Sister of Mercy, became a mother to an orphaned girl with AIDS.

Politics

The Liberals' Moment (2007)
by Bruce Miroff
Miroff offers a "wise and informative" book about this tumultuous time, according to Timothy Noah in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.
1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon, The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies (2008)
by David Pietrusza, B.A. '71, M.A. '72
In 1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon, chronicles the pivotal election of 1960, in which issues of civil rights and religion converged.
Progressive Community Organizing (2009)
by Loretta Pyles
Loretta Pyles emphasizes why and how people get together to effect change in their communities in the social work textbook Progressive Community Organizing: A Critical Approach for a Globalizing World.

Science

Garlic and Other Alliums: The Lore and the Science (2010)
by Eric Block
Block investigates the claims of health benefits, lauds alliums' place in culinary history, and provides quality color illustrations, including onions painted by Renoir.
Physics of Sailing (2009)
by John Kimball
Kimball demonstrates the many ways science can be used to understand the principles of sailboat propulsion and how a scientific understanding of the boat, wind, and water can lead to more skillful sailing.

Self-Enrichment

Toolbox for Sustainable City Living (2008)
by Stacy Pettigrew, B.A.'97
Written for people with limited financial means, the book emphasizes building with cheap, salvaged and recycled materials.
The Three-Dimensional Leader (2009)
by Earl Wallace, M.B.A. '00
The book explains the essential elements of leadership necessary to make organizations thrive.

World Affairs

The Prospects for Liberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist States (2007)
by Cheng Chen
Chen asserts how liberalism and nationalism in China and
Russia were harder to reconcile because of Leninism's indigenous role in nation-building.
Identifying Threats and Threatening Identities (2006)
by David Rousseau
David Rousseau's Identifying Threats and Threatening Identities: The Social Construction of Realism and Liberalism looks at how one state determines if another is a military or economic threat.
Bodies in Crisis (2010)
by Barbara Sutton
Sutton examines the often hidden bodily worlds of diverse women in Argentina post-2001, a period of profound social upheaval.