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BOOKSHELF
Compiled by Timothy P. Cross and Laura Butchy

Tuberculosis: Current Concepts and Treatment, second edition, edited by Lloyd N. Friedman '75. This updated version of a 1994 primer focuses on recent changes in the transmission, treatment and control of tuberculosis, especially among the foreign-born who are among those most affected by the disease in this country (CRC Press, $99.95).

From Frontier to Backwater: Economy and Society in the Upper Senegal Valley (West Africa), 1850-1920, by Andrew F. Clark '76. Local politics, colonial policy and environmental changes all contributed to the gradual marginalization of an African region that had been an important source of exports for European imperialists a century ago (University Press of America, $47).

Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays by Tony Kushner '78. According to its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this collection of six plays could have been entitled Things I Wrote While Mustering the Courage to Write a Full-length Play to Follow Angels in America (Theatre Communications Group, $16.95 paper).

Worlds of Difference: European Discourses on Toleration, c.1100-c.1550 by Cary J. Nederman '78. A revisionist history of ideas that traces the concept of toleration back to medieval thinkers who "held toleration to follow from the unfortunate limits imposed on human beings by their common nature" (Pennsylvania State University Press, $18.95 paper).

Listener in the Snow: The Practice and Teaching of Poetry by Mark Statman '80. In this guide, a creative writing teacher and poet offers practical ideas and intriguing questions for aspiring poets (Teachers and Writers Collaborative, $14.95 paper).

Stock Market Basics: A Guide for the Novice Investor by David Cash. Five years experience working at five different financial houses prompted Jeffrey Kraskouskas '94, writing under a pseudonym, to pen this primer for first-time online investors (KrackHead Entertainment, $11.95 paper).

The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom by Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History, et al. The contributors to this primer of college pedagogy eschew theory in favor of answering "common logistical questions and using our own experiences in the classroom" (University of Chicago Press, $25 cloth, $9 paper).

Meetings of the Mind by David Damrosch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature. The author of We Scholars engages in seriocomic discussions of literary theory and modern academic life with three alter egos - an independent scholar of aesthetics, a feminist film critic, and an Israeli semiotician (Princeton University Press, $19.95).

Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970 by Steven Heydemann, Associate Professor of Political Science. Aggressive state-building allowed Syria's Ba'th political party to overcome obstacles that have undermined other radical populist regimes, create stable institutions, and consolidate its hold on the country (Cornell University Press, $39.95).

Shakespeare After Theory by David Scott Kastan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature. An explicitly "historical" reading of the bard's plays that restores them to the unstable and often harsh political realities of late Tudor and early Stuart England (Routledge, $18.99 paper).

New Addresses: Poems by Kenneth Koch, Professor of English and Comparative Literature. This new collection contains autobiographical poems directly addressing important forces in his life, including World War II, sleep, friendship and the unknown. (Alfred A. Knopf, $23).

Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture: Paintings from the Daros Collection, by Yve-Alain Bois, et al. Rosalind Krauss, the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, contributed two essays - one on abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock and another on Andy Warhol's response to abstract expressionism - for this volume celebrating one of the most important private collections of modern and contemporary American art (Scalo, $49.95).

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable, Professor of History. A new edition of the groundbreaking 1983 study of race, political economy and society in the United States; by the director of the Institute of African American Studies (South End Press, $22 paper).

Found in Brooklyn by Thomas Roma, Associate Professor of Arts, with an introduction by Robert Coles. This collection, representing 20 years of Roma's photography, demonstrates once again that New York's most populous borough remains a world unto itself (DoubleTake/Norton, $35).

A Short History of Greek Literature by Suzanne Saïd, Professor of Classics, and Monique Trédé. A concise history of Greek literature beginning with Homer and covering the origin of literary genres, the Hellenistic period, High Empire and late antiquity (Routledge, $17.99 paper).

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