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BOOKSHELF Species by Michael Friedman '82. This fifth collection of poetry from the editor of the review Shiny comprises 68 disarming prose poems, one of which originally appeared in the pages of Columbia College Today (The Figures, $10 paper). Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road by G. Winston James '89. This collection of lyric poetry, the author's first book, was selected as a literary award finalist in the category of gay men's poetry by the Lambda Literary Foundation (GrapeVinePress, $12 paper). Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements, edited by Jagdish Bhagwati, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, Pravin Krishna and Arvind Panagariya. Columbia contributors to this volume on different analytical approaches and public policy implications of trade agreements include not only the editor but also Kyle Bagwell, professor of economics; Ronald Findlay, the Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics; and 1999 Nobel laureate Robert Mundell, the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics (MIT Press, $55). Last Things: Death & the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, edited by Caroline Walker Bynum, University Professor, and Paul Freedman. Eleven essays from a scholarly panel at the 1995 American Historical Association annual meeting and from a graduate history seminar by Bynum explore medieval visions of the end of things, for both society and for individuals (University of Pennsylvania Press, $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper). Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture by Jonathan Crary, Associate Professor of Art History and Archeology. Multifaceted analyses of single works by Edouard Manet, Georges Seurat and Paul Cézanne provide a way to explore changes in the nature of perception and the modernization of subjectivity at the end of the nineteenth century (MIT Press, $37.50 cloth). Le Roman à l'oeuvre. Genèse et valeurs by Henri Mitterand, Professor of French. A literary analysis of the genesis, structure and aesthetics of the novel, from the director of the French department's graduate studies and expert on nineteenth-century French literature; in French (Presses Universitaires de France, 138 Fr.). On the Commonwealth and On the Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero, edited by James G. Zetzel, Professor of Classics and Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization. These texts - the Roman orator's first attempts to apply Greek theories of politics to the exigencies of the Roman Republic - were widely known in antiquity, though they exist only incompletely today (Cambridge University Press, $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper).
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