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		P. L. Madan, Ph.D. College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Administrative Sciences Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, 6th Edition 2006 Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics is a required course taught in all pharmacy schools. This is a textbook intended for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in pharmacy.

		Co-Author: S. Lin College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Administrative Sciences Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics 2010 This is a textbook for required courses in the curriculum of all pharmacy schools. The book is intended for both undergraduate level courses and for graduate level courses.

		Gregory Maertz, Ed. *St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, English* George Eliot’s Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life 2005 George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871–72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is also a historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel; other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews and criticism); and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom and the advent of the railroads.

		William H. Manz *School of Law, Law Library* The Palsgraf Case: Courts, Law, and Society in 1920s New York 2006 This book presents a historical study of Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad (1928), the most famous negligence decision in American legal history. It tells for the first time the full story of the case of Helen Palsgraf, a Brooklyn cleaning woman, who was injured in a bizarre fireworks accident at the Long Island Railroad station in East New York, and how she lost her $6,000 judgment because of a landmark New York Court of Appeals decision written by future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. The book places the case within the context of legal culture in New York in the 1920s, as well as within the lives and careers of all the participants, including all 13 judges who were eventually involved with the case. Also considered are the case’s unusual facts and the controversy over whether the accident could have occurred as it was described in Cardozo’s opinion.

		Sharon Marshall *Institute for Core Studies, First-Year Writing* Water Child 2010 Becky and Elliot are idealistic and artistic 20-somethings who met at an elite college and married shortly after graduation. She is black and Christian; he is white and Jewish. Despite their backgrounds, families and the social and political climate of the 1980s, they are convinced that their love, education and the baby they are expecting are all they need to be happy. When tragedy strikes, they must confront their vulnerability and come to acknowledge that there are ways of knowing and lessons about life that they still need to learn.

		Mary Ann Maslak *The School of Education, Early Childhood and Adolescent Education* Daughters of the Tharu: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls 2004 Girls in the emerging world do not enroll in and graduate from school at the same rate as boys. This book, primarily addresses two themes: the general factors that influence Tharu ethnic minority girls’ educational participation in Nepal, and the process of the educational decision-making by parents for their daughters. Based on data gathered during a series of field visits from 1997 through 2001, her book not only identifies the most important conditions in the educational decision-making process for Tharu parents, namely, ethnicity and religiosity, but also examines the conversations, and discussions in the household, which reveal ways in which power influences the decision to educate a girl in the Tharu community.

		The Structure and Agency of Women's Education   2007 This collection examines the educational policies, programs, and practices that offer and/or deny adolescent girls and young women the opportunity for change and advancement, from both comparative and international perspectives. Grounded in social and feminist theory, the essays focus on the dynamic interaction between agency and structure. The first part of the book outlines fundamental principles of public policy and provides examples of their application. Part 2 explores, within the context of globalization, the impact of international organizations “large and small” on the local level. Part 3 looks at the influence of sociocultural forces on women's ability to participate in educational programs. Part 4 proffers innovative methodologies that demonstrate how the agency of voice within the structure of the research setting ultimately furthers our understanding of women's education. Throughout the book, the complexities in delivering and improving education for females in India, China, Kenya, the United States, and other parts of the world are revealed.

		George McCartney *College of Professional Studies, English* Evelyn Waugh and the Modernist Tradition, 2nd Ed. 2004 This study considers the formative influences on Evelyn Waugh’s fiction, arguing that his satire sprang from the conflict between his esthetic tastes and his philosophical convictions. He cultivated an ambivalent regard for modernist art which led him to enlist the movement’s esthetic techniques in the cause of defeating its ideological implications. This apparent contradiction reflected a lifelong personal struggle between his wayward and orthodox selves. This struggle may have undermined his emotional stability but it also enabled him to register the cultural trends of the 20th century with uncanny prescience.

		Rev. John H. McKenna, C.M. *St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Theology* The Eucharistic Epiclesis: A Detailed History from the Patristic to the Modern Era, 2nd Edition 2009 A study of the ancient invocation (epiclesis) of the Holy Spirit upon the Eucharistic gifts and the people. It deals with such ecumenical questions as the role of the Holy Spirit and that of the praying, believing, partaking Assembly and Eucharistic presence, among others.

		Become What You Receive: A Systematic Study of the Eucharist 2011 “In this remarkable book, theologian and teacher John McKenna examines our use of sign and symbol as it pertains to the study of the Eucharist, 'the source and summit' of the Church. Become What You Receive clarifies the symbols and reality of the Eucharist in a way that will deepen the understanding of this sublime mystery of the Faith. The related concepts of sign and symbol as they pertain to the Eucharist are sometimes difficult concepts to explain and teach. In clear and accessible language, McKenna clarifies the use of sign and symbol from anthropological, phenomenological, ecumenical, and New Testament perspectives. His solid grasp of the history of the Eucharist adds a unique ecumenical perspective as he expertly analyzes historical backgrounds and current Eucharistic theologies.” -Amazon.com

		Judith McVarish *The School of Education, Department of Early Childhood, Childhood and Adolescent Education* Where’s the Wonder in Elementary Math: Encouraging Reasoning in the Classroom 2008 Where’s the Wonder argues that even in today’s high stakes testing environment, “teaching to the test” need not be teachers’ only focus as they introduce young children to mathematics. This book provides strategies for enabling children to develop as critical thinkers rather than as robotic test takers. Vignettes are shared of teachers equipping students with reflective habits that have enabled these young learners to see critically their role in creating solutions.

		Steve Mentz *St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, English* Rogues and Early Modern English Culture 2004 This book collects essays about the English Renaissance equivalents of today’s “true-crime” bestsellers: pamphlets, poems, plays, and historical records that purport to tell the scandalous truth about the culture of vagrants, criminals, and prostitutes hovering on the margins of English life. “Rogues and Early Modern English Culture is an up-to-date and suggestive collection on a subject that all scholars of the early modern period have encountered but few have studied in the range and depth represented here.” —Lawrence Manley, Yale University

		Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction 2006 English fiction self-consciously invented itself as a new form of literary culture near the end of the 16th century, when professional writers for the first time created books to be printed and sold to anonymous readers. The period’s narrative innovations, however, emerged not solely from changes in early modern culture like the book market or print, but also from the rediscovery of a forgotten classic of late antiquity, Heliodorus’s Aethiopian History. This comprehensive historicist and formalist account of early modern English prose romance situates the legacy of Heliodorus and the achievements of early modern writers within the larger narrative of prose fiction, thus connecting early modern literary culture to the rise of the modern novel.

		At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean 2010 We need a poetic history of the ocean, and Shakespeare can help us find one. There is more real salt in the plays than we might expect. Shakespeare's dramatic ocean spans the God-sea of the ancient world and the immense blue vistas that early modern mariners navigated. Throughout his career, from the opening shipwrecks of The Comedy of Errors through The Tempest, Shakespeare's plays figure the ocean as shocking physical reality and mind-twisting symbol of change and instability. To fathom Shakespeare's ocean -- to go down to its bottom - this book's chapters focus on different things that humans do with, in, and near the sea: fathoming, keeping watch, swimming, beachcombing, fishing, and drowning. Uncovering the depths of Shakespeare's maritime world, this book draws out the centrality of the sea in our literary culture.

		John J. Metzler *St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Government and Politics* Trans-Atlantic Divide: The USA/Euroland Rift? 2011 St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Government and Politics The trans-Atlantic gap between America and Europe widened in the countdown to and in the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq War. A vitriolic political standoff concerning Iraq brought severe stress to relations between the Bush Administration and many key Western European allies, especially France and Germany, creating a chasm of misperceptions deepened by incessant media hype. Sadly, stereotypes still abound. In an atmosphere where trans-Atlantic ties are viewed not through the prism of policy, but rather through that of emotion - where shrill polemical accounts of the USA vs. Euroland create a self-fulfilling prophecy, this book brings back a needed balance to the debate: are the USA and Europe really at odds?

		Timothy A. Milford *St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, History* The Gardiners of Massachusetts: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career 2006 Gardiners explores late 18th century American political and cultural history through the lives and careers of three men from successive generations of a prominent New England family. These men exemplified the ambitions of the cosmopolitan middle class throughout the British Empire and English-speaking Atlantic world during the decades just before and after the American Revolution. Their ambitions demonstrate a deep allegiance to the liberal vocabulary of private gains and public good—a vocabulary in which Americans had been schooled by their imperial engagements.

		Stephen Paul Miller *St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, English* Skinny Eighth Avenue 2009 Skinny Eight Avenue is a surreal and extraordinarily witty intrusion into the flow of postmodern life, altering its course and in doing so disclosing the assumptions of its power. These poems are unique in their insouciant and insightful analyses of life in an age that is moving along too swiftly for everyone’s good. With intelligence and humor, Stephen Paul Miller presents the world as at once full of play and utterly serious, in this memorable collection punctuated by whimsical drawings by his son, Noah.

		Being with a Bullet 2009 “Somebody once said poetry without rhyme is like playing tennis with the net down. But Stephen Miller’s poetry plays a different game in which the relevant phrase is “nothing but net,” a series of subtle daggers, long bombs and slam dunks: sly, funny, artful and unforgettable. Highly recommended for sports fans and deracinated who like being reeled into the net of critically smart poetry.” — W. J. T. Mitchell

		Fort Dad 2009 Lively, brainy, probing… Miller’s erudite, humane and yes, talky poems are punctuated by young Noah with exuberant drawings. Time in these poems is shown to be illusory and malleable. The effect produced is like a dream in which one suddenly realizes one can fly or breathe underwater: one can move forward in the present tense-simulacra of this book. —Joyelle McSweeney, Constant Critic.

		Co-Editor: Daniel Morris *St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, English* Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture 2010 “There is no other book that addresses the relation of radical modernist and contemporary poetry and secular Jewish culture. And it turns out that this topic is of great interest to a compelling range of contemporary poets and scholars. The essays collected have an energy and an engagement that make the book both elucidating and a pleasure. The book focuses on American Judaism as a culture.”— Charles Bernstein

		Regina M. Mistretta *The School of Education, Department of Early Childhood, Childhood and Adolescent Education* Teachers Engaging Parents and Children in Mathematical Learning: Nurturing Productive Collaboration 2008 This book serves to enliven three-way partnerships among parents, teachers and students concerning mathematical learning in elementary and middle school settings. Key tenets of the principles concerning constructivism and overlapping spheres of influence are presented to provide a solid theoretical basis for teaching mathematics the way we do and for involving parents in the learning process.

		Eduardo Mitre *St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Languages and Literatures* El Paraguas de Manhattan 2005 El Paraguas de Manhattan (The Umbrella of Manhattan) is the ninth volume of poems by Eduardo Mitre. The poems in this book celebrate the urban body of Manhattan, its rivers, its parks and other mythical sites of the city. They praise the city’s cultural, ethnic and linguistic variety. The book also expresses the mourning caused by the September 11, 2001, tragedy. There are poems inspired by the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Edward Hopper.

		De cuatro constelaciones. Ensayo y antología 2006 This book is a study about the works of the four most important poets that the modernist movement has produced in Bolivia: Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, Franz Tamayo, Gregorio Reynold and José Eduardo Guerra, all of them of continental repercussion. Followed by an anthology of their poems, the detailed study encompasses the analysis of the poetic of each author, the eroticism, as well as their experience of time and the vision of the Spanish conquest.

		Robert J. Mockler with Marc Gartenfeld *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Cases in Domestic Strategic Management (IV) 2004 This is the fourth book in a series of books involving domestic companies. It contains 11 cases focusing on strategic management decisions, written by students and graduate assistants in the St. John’s University MBA program. Five cases were co-authored by Prof. Marc Gartenfeld.

		Strategic Leadership and Management: Winning in Today’s Rapidly Changing Markets, 4th Edition 2004 This is mainly a textbook which focuses on the major task in business —winning. It focuses on the strategic management decisions and actions of domestic and multinational business executives in today’s rapidly changing business environment. The book concerns learning from experience: studying your own and other companies’ successful and unsuccessful experiences and drawing lessons from them, and then going beyond these experiences to create new winning solutions in the reader’s own situations.

		with Luisa Focacci and Marc E. Gartenfeld *The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, Management* Application Service Providers in Business 2006 Application Service Providers in Business is a comprehensive analysis of the Application Service Provider (ASP) model and its place in business today. The book explains the specific contingent ASP models including: business; enterprise; functional-focused and vertical market ASPs; and ASP aggregators. It demonstrates how different ASP models have fulfilled diverse market/customer expectations and explores future scenarios for the current ASP models. It also provides detailed base practice guidelines for managers of ASPs and business managers using or considering using ASPs. Case studies, tables and figures illustrate important concepts and make complex information easy to access and understand.

		The Competitive Environment: Cases in Strategic Management 2007 Case studies are used widely to teach strategic management. This book, The Competitive Environment: Cases in Strategic Management, contains 10 new cases designed for use in strategic planning and business policy courses in colleges, universities and business schools. As a result of his many years teaching business strategies and using cases, Professor Mockler believes that the student often is moved too quickly to the company solutions section of case studies without first performing a detailed analysis of completive markets and of possible future competitor actions.

		Strategic Management Cases: Accounting and Finance 2007 Case studies for use in accounting and finance courses.

		An Introduction to Electronic Business for Managers 2008 his book is a comprehensive tool for students learning the functions of Electronic Business and its related aspects. It is used for e-commerce courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.

		An Introduction to Electronic Business for Managers 2009 A monograph that introduces readers to electronic business for managers.

		Paul D. Molnar *College of Professional Studies, Humanities* Incarnation and Resurrection: Toward a Contemporary Understanding 2008 This book calls into question a tradition of over 40 years in which Christology has been pursued from below by arguing that any such Christology tends to undermine the Church’s understanding of faith which rests on the fact that Jesus never existed at all except as the incarnate Word. My thesis is not in opposition to Christology from below, which tends to begin with only the human Jesus in abstraction from his being as the Word, a Christology from above, which may begin solely with his divinity, but to stress that Christology must begin with Jesus himself as attested in the New Testament and as recognized in faith as one who never existed except as truly divine and truly human.

		Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity 2010 This book provides an important study of the theology of Thomas F. Torrance, who is generally considered to have been one of the most significant theologians writing in English during the 20th century, with a view toward showing how his theological method and all his major doctrinal views were shaped by his understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity.

		Melissa Mowry *St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, English* The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714 2005 With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub-genre: 17th century political pornography.  “This is a fascinating study of how the distopic vision of pornographic pamphlets and broadsides—particularly their representation of a monstrous bawdy politic governed by ‘common women’—provided fodder for anti-democratic politics of the late 17th-century.” —Valerie Traub, University of Michigan

		Roxana by Daniel Defoe 2010 A critical edition of Daniel Defoe’s last novel, Roxana, or the Fortunate Mistress, this book offers students and professors a newly annotated text. The introduction takes advantage of new research and thinking on women, sexuality and prostitution in late Stuart England and combines that with long-neglected contemporary documents that provide enriched opportunities for intellectual and historical engagement.

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