Phyllis Cole, associate professor of English and women's studies at Penn State Delaware County.
Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family History, published by Oxford University Press.
The book yields proof that Moody Emerson was more than a beloved aunt -- that her influence and ideas formed the cornerstone for much of what her famous nephew, American literature icon Ralph Waldo Emerson, penned during his lifetime.
Geoffrey Godbey, professor of leisure studies in the College of Health and Human Development, and John Robinson, director of the Americans' Use of Time Project at the University of Maryland.
Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time , published by The Pennsylvania State University Press.
For the first time since the 1960s, men report having significantly more free time than women. That and other major changes are reported in the newest edition of this book. Time for Life describes quantitatively how a typical day in American life has been changing. Based on the oldest and most comprehensive study of how Americans use time, this revised edition contains results from the latest national diary study of more than 10,000 respondents of all ages across the country. These respondents reported on all their activities across a 24-hour day to compare with earlier national studies completed in 1965, 1975 and 1985.
Peggy Johnson, associate professor of civil engineering, and Eric Brown, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering.
Maryland's Guidelines to Waterway Construction.
This one-of-a-kind manual is intended to aid in the design and construction of waterway projects such as stream restoration, stream stabilization, bridges and culverts, and temporary diversions. Because of the manual's breadth, the guidelines also can be used on most waterway construction projects in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
The Maryland Department of Environment plans to put the guidelines on the Web sometime in the near future.
Charles Prebish, professor of religious studies, with Martin Baumann of the Universität Bremen in Germany.
The Journal of Global Buddhism.
Prebish will co-edit this new online journal, which can be found at http://jgb.la.psu.edu/. The scholarly academic journal was established to promote the study of Buddhism's globalization and its transcontinental interrelatedness. It employs a blind peer review evaluation process, includes research articles, discussions, critical notes, bulletins and reviews. The journal also will emphasize the creation of databases, empirical investigations and ongoing research projects.
Adam J. Sorkin, professor of English at Penn State Delaware County.
Bebop Baby, published in New York as part of the Poetry New York Poetry Pamphlet series; and Recensamant de epifanii / Census of Epiphanies by Virgil Mihaiu.
Sorkin has published two books of translation from these contemporary Romanian poets. Cartarescu, the author of five books of poetry and five of fiction and criticism, is one of Romania's most honored writers of the generation that came to the fore in the 1980s. Bebop Baby is the first volume in English devoted to his work.
Recensamant de epifanii/Census of Epiphanies is a 189-page volume containing 70 poems that originated in Pitesti, Romania. It is part of the dual-language series called Colectia Gemini (Gemini Collection), published by Editura Paralela 45. Mihaiu is the author of six previous books of poetry, and two volumes of his collected commentaries on contemporary music and world jazz.
Francis T.S. Yu, Evan Pugh professor of electrical engineering, and Shizhou Yin, assistant professor of electrical engineering.
Photorefractive Optics: Materials, Properties and Applications, published by Academic Press.
Yu and Yin edited this book, which brings together articles by some of the world's top experts in photorefractive optics into a single volume. Designed as a reference text for technical staff, research scientists and graduate students working in the field, the book covers the fundamental aspects and recent advances of photorefractive optics. The text's 570 pages collect state-of-the-art information from world experts in the United States, Japan, Russia, Ukraine, China, France, Germany, Australia and Denmark.
Lori D. Ginzberg, associate professor of history and women's studies
Women in Antebellum Reform, published by Harlan Davidson Press.
This book describes a wide range of charitable and reform activity in the antebellum period. It offers a view of women and reform through two lenses: one that focuses on the ideas about women, religion, class and race that shaped 19th-century reform movements and another that observes actual women as they participated in the world of social change.
Mark E. Neely Jr., McCabe Greer professor of Civil War history at Penn State, and Harold Holzer, vice president for communications at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Union Image, Popular Prints of the Civil War North, published by the University of North Carolina Press.
During the American Civil War, popular prints were frequently used to depict, define and celebrate both the Union and Confederate causes. The Union Image explores the graphic arts that portrayed the Northern side -- both patriotic pictures and newsworthy illustrations published while the war raged and in retrospective images issued years later. This volume reproduces nearly 150 original prints.