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New books by Berkeley professors & alumni
Food in California Indian Culture edited by Ira Jacknis
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum (2004), 490 pages with 72 photographs and 7 illustrations, $34.95.
Jacknis sets the Native American gastronomic table of 100 to 200 years ago. Detailed descriptions present the full range Native food—from gathering through storage, processing, cooking, and eating—as well as the role of food in ritual.
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock
Princeton University Press (2005), 280 pages, $35.00.
Tetlock explores what constitutes good judgment in predicting future events, and looks at why experts are often wrong in their forecasts.
Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel by Robert Alter
Yale University Press (2005), 208 pages, $27.50Through interpretations of novels by Flaubert, Dickens, Bely, Woolf, Joyce, and Kafka, Alter shows how writers innovatively represented shifts in modern consciousness spurred by runaway urban growth in the early 19th and 20th centuries.
Mind: A Brief Introduction by John Searle
Oxford University Press (2005), 208 pages, $15.95Searle looks at the 12 problems of the philosophy of mind and illuminates such topics as the freedom of the will, the actual operation of mental causation, the nature and functioning of the unconscious, and the concept of the self.
Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You by Roberta Satow ’66
Tarcher/Penguin (2005), 288 pages, $22.95Based on Satow’s personal and clinical experience she offers an approach on how to navigate the challenges of middle-aged caregiving in a strained parent-child relationship. She shows how to set limits to caregiving and cope with guilt, and learn forgiveness when anger surfaces.
The Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
Oxford University Press (2004), 4,560 pages with 1,643 photos, illustrations, and musical examples, $699Ten years in the making, this six-volume illustrated work examines the last 2,000 years of music through a larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Encompasses the full range of 20th-century music, including American music, women in music, and popular music. |
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