Books
A select list of books by CMS/W faculty, lecturers, and alumni.
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Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning (2003)
In “Defining Reality”, Schiappa shows the act of defining to be a specialized and learned behavior, and therefore one that can be studied and improved.
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Einstein in Berlin (2003)
“Take a good look,” he said to his wife as they walked away from their house. “You will never see it again.”
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Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (2003)
The essays cover a wide and colorful array of subjects including pro wrestling, Doom, soap operas, baseball cards, karaoke, and Internet fandom.
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High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng’s China (1996)
“Jing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square.”
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The Serpent’s Gift (1995)
“Helen Elaine Lee’s supremely assured The Serpent’s Gift, a first novel that gives to us — with the fullest emotional resonance, humor, and exultation in the novelist’s art — the intertwined stories of two families from early in this century to our own times. “
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Einstein’s Dreams (1993)
Alan Lightman’s “modern classic”, a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905.
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Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just (1983)
“This biography illuminates the racial attitudes of an elite group of American scientists and foundation officers. It is the story of a complex and unhappy man.”
