Faculty Books .................By Suzanne Grudzinski Seeing the World More Clearly      Until recently, more of the surface of Venus was mapped than the Earth. Now because of advances in remote sensing, the limitations of traditional photography have disappeared and sharp, accurate images of Earth, captured either via satellite or aircraft, are available, regardless of atmospheric conditions or geographic location.      This is just one of the uses of radar imaging highlighted by Floyd M. Henderson, chair of the Department of Geography and Planning, in Principles & Applications of Imaging Radar: Manual of Remote Sensing, which Henderson edited and co-authored with Anthony J. Lewis of Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. It is, without argument, “the Bible” on radar remote sensing.      Henderson, one of the country’s leading experts, explains that remote sensing allows scientists to see the world more clearly and accurately through satellite and airborne radar images. Radar imaging has proven especially useful in resource management and environmental monitoring, Henderson says. Petroleum, for example, can be detected by noting the particular way in which mountains and valleys come together.      The 866-page text costs $198 and is available through John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New Ways to Think About Questions of Language      In Ideology and Inscription: ‘Cultural Studies’ after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin, English Professor Tom Cohen questions how traditional literary theory weaves its way into areas of contemporary cultural studies such as popular culture and the media.      Cohen, the new chair of the Department of English, describes his groundbreaking book as “a series of engagements, questions, and explorations that intend to disrupt, where possible, an impasse in how the critical community regards itself.” It emerged, he says, “from a series of studies that I undertook to explain to myself a contradiction I saw in the contemporary critical (literature).”      Ideology and Inscription is a book intended to make us think in new ways. It is aimed, Cohen says, at those readers who have some familarity with “the different polemics that have dominated critical studies for the last two decades during which time critical argumentation has itself become a popular form of literature.”      Professor Avital Ronell of New York University, who has done pioneering studies in the relations between technology and feminism, says, “This book presents the most comprehensive and brilliant study of critical theory in our day. Thomas Cohen writes in lucid, unrelenting prose of the repressed traumas that pervade most forms of contemporary thought.”      The 258-page book, published by Cambridge University Press, costs $17.95. Zionism and the American Jewish Experience      Sparked by his curiosity about ethnicity, Jewish civilization and 20th-century American society, Mark A. Raider of the Judaic Studies Department takes an in-depth look at the influence of Zionism on American culture and politics in his new book, Emergence of American Zionism.      According to President Jehuda Reinharz of Brandeis University, “Raider persuasively makes the case that Zionism’s cultural vitality, intellectual diversity and unparalleled ability to rally public opinion in times of crisis were central to the American Jewish experience.”      Raider describes Zionism’s dramatic transformation in the American context from a marginal immigrant party at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries into a significant political force during World War II. He does this by “looking at a diverse array of mate-rials and not just at the obvious sources concerning important political figures, but at women’s organizations, youth culture, education, and all kinds of issues in American Jewish life in the period prior to World War II that haven’t been explained fully or investigated thoroughly.” The 296-page book costs $20 paperback, $60 hardcover, and is available from New York University Press. More Faculty Books Addiction and Pregnancy: Empowering Recovery through Peer Counseling, Barry Sherman, Health Policy, Management and Behavior, Laura M. Sanders and Chau Trinh, eds. 216 p., $65, Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. Presents a state-of-the-art program to help pregnant mothers recovering from addictive behavior problems. Can Democracy Take Root In Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State-Society Relations, Harry Eckstein, Frederic J. Fleron Jr., Erik P. Hoffman, Political Science, and William Reisinger, 420 p., $23.95, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Examines the prospects for viable democracies in former communist countries. Civil Service And School Business Management, Frederick L. Dembowski, Educational Administration and Policy Studies, Oliver Robinson, Robert Gosden, and Steven Van Hoesen, 114 p., free, New York State Association of School Business Officials.Explores the relationship of the New York State Department of Civil Service and the school business management profession. Criminal Procedure: A Contemporary Perspective, James R. Acker, Criminal Justice, David C. Brody, 788 p., $65, Aspen Publishers, Inc. Provides an introduction to the conceptually intriguing and practically important rules and principles of criminal procedure law. Ethical Issues In Modern Medicine, 5th ed., Bonnie Steinbock, Philosophy, John D. Arras, eds., 760 p., $48.95, Mayfield. Examines key issues and problems in medical ethics with up-to-date readings and case studies. From Rocky to Pataki: Character and Caricatures in New York Politics, Hy Rosen and Peter Slocum, Health Policy, 256 p., $26.95, Syracuse University Press. Offers a lively blend of political cartooning and oral history featuring 40 years of drawings by award-winning cartoonist Hy Rosen. Hints and Guesses: William Gaddis’s Fiction of Longing, Christopher J. Knight, English, 302 p., $24.95 paper, $55 cloth, University of Wisconsin Press. Explores Gaddis’s depiction of post-war social realities and utopian dimension. Jewish Women in Historical Perspective, 2nd ed., Judith R. Baskin, Judaic Studies, ed., 416 p., $19.95, Wayne State University Press. Presents revised and new essays that explore the richness of Jewish women’s history. Maintaining Communication with Persons with Dementia, Ronald W. Toseland and Phillip McCallion, Social Welfare; Educational Program, 110 p., $125; Set 5 Workbooks, 80 p., $100, Springer Publishing Company. Teaches nursing home staff how to work with residents suffering from Alzheimer’s and related dementias in their early and moderate stages. Mitosis and Meiosis, Conly L. Reider, Biomedical Sciences, ed., 472 p., $64.95 paper, $99 cloth, Academic Press. Details systems and methods used to study mitosis and meiosis in yeast. The Moaner’s Bench, Mars Hill, English, 371 p., $24, Harper-Flamingo. Tells a powerful coming-of-age story about an African-American boy in the Depression-era South. Paralelismos transatlánticos: postcolonialismo y narrativa femenina en América Latina y Africa del Norte (Transatlantic Parallelisms: Postcolonialism and Women’s Narrative in Latin America and North Africa), Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, 195 p., $25, Ediciones Inti. Analyzes the sexual, economic and racial marginalization of women in the “third world.” Perspectives on Crime and Deviance, 3rd ed., Allen E. Liska and Steven F. Messner, Sociology, 272 p., $32, Prentice-Hall, Inc. Provides a comprehensive survey of the major sociological approaches to the study of crime and deviance. Preparing Helping Professionals to Meet Community Needs: Generalizing from the Rural Experience, Shirley Jones, Social Welfare, Joan Levy Zlotnik, eds., 146 p., $8, Council on Social Work Education, Inc. Addresses impending changes in the role of health and education professionals. The Recall: Tribunal of the People, Joseph F. Zimmerman, Political Science, 208 p., $55, Prager Publishers. Offers the first national evaluation of the recall since 1912. Research in Social Work, 3rd ed., Anne E. Fortune and William J. Reid, Social Welfare, 464 p., $34.50, Columbia University Press. Covers quantitative and qualitative research methods with an emphasis on applications to social work practice. Teaching Happy, Dorothy Jacobson, Academy for Initial Teacher Preparation, School of Education, 250 p., $20, Debadon Publishing. Offers anecdotes and observations from Jacobson’s 30-year teaching experience. Thomas Crecquillon: Collected Works, (Volume XIV, Chansons for Four Voices), Mary Beth Winn, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Laura Youens, and Barton Hudson, eds., 170 p., American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler-Verlag. Features the complete works of Thomas Crecquillon, musician at the imperial court of Charles V and leading Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. Understanding Tolowa Histories: Western Hegemonies & Native American Responses, James Collins, Anthropology, Reading, 240 p. $22.95 paper, $69.95 cloth, Routledge. Describes the history of the Native Tolowa of Northwestern California. Wall Street Polices Itself: How Securities Firms Manage the Legal Hazards of Competitive Pressures, David P. McCaffrey, Public Affairs and Policy, and David W. Hart, 256 p., $39.95, Oxford University Press. Explains how the self-regulatory system for U.S. securities firms works within three tiers of supervision. When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe, Tom Daniels, Geography and Planning, 420 p., $32.50, Island Press. Provides alternatives to traditional land use and development practices, and offers a framework for growth management. Women Through Women’s Eyes: Latin American Women in Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts, June E. Hahner, History, ed., 208 p., $17.95 paper, $55 cloth, Scholarly Resources Inc. Touches upon the nature of cross-cultural relations as it draws from insightful accounts by diverse female visitors to Latin America in the 19th century. 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