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In her second volume of poems, Without Wings, Laurie Lamon, '78 (English), continues her exploration of the observable mysteries that surround us, but often go unnoticed. Lamon's poems distill the essence of experience into polished gems that refract a kind of necessary light and venture to a world of things as they are, without preconceptions, rationalizations or verbal clutter. (CavanKerry Press, 2009)
Gordon Jackson (Communication Studies) has published his fifth book of quotations, The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful: Quotations for the Thoughtful Traveler. The compilation, which includes more than 500 quotes by well-known and unknown authors and travelers, captures the lure of the open road, the mystery of the road not taken, the magic of far-off places, and the joy of returning home. (The Intrepid Traveler, 2009)
Jackson targets a herd of sacred cows in his forthcoming book, ‘Jesus Does Stand-Up' and Other Satires, a collection of 50 short, original parables and parodies that highlight the weaknesses of the contemporary Western church and the increasingly secular culture in which its members live out their faith. The humorous pieces gently admonish the church and Christians to be the distinctive countercultural presence and witness that God calls them to be. (Wipf and Stock, 2009)
In Participation in Christ: An Entry into Karl Barth's ‘Church Dogmatics,' Adam Neder (Theology) offers a fresh perspective on a central theme in the theology of Barth, a towering figure in 20th-century theology who was a pastor, university professor, and the primary author of the Barmen Declaration, which resisted Nazism in the German Church. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2009)
Jim McPherson (Communication Studies) was selected in summer 2009 as one of six finalists for the esteemed 2008 Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for his book, The Conservative Resurgence and the Press: The Media's Role in the Rise of the Right (Northwestern University Press, 2008). Named in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mott, the annual award is given for the best book on journalism and mass communication based on original research published that year.
Professor of Theology Jim Edwards, '67, has just published The Hebrew Gospel and the Development of the Synoptic Tradition (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.). Edwards' colleague, Associate Professor of Theology Keith Beebe, calls the book "a significant advance in New Testament studies, because it challenges the Q-source theory, a long-held theory about the origins of the Gospel accounts." Beebe expects that the book "will provoke a lot of debate in the scholarly community and raise the scholarly profile of Whitworth."
Residential Patterns of Arab Americans: Race, Ethnicity, and Spatial Assimilation, by Jennifer Holsinger (Sociology), analyzes the segregation and neighborhood characteristics of Arab Americans to examine the ways that race and ethnicity are manifested in urban landscapes. (The book is a monograph in The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society series from LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2009.)
Lyle Cochran (Mathematics) is co-author of Calculus: Early Transcendentals, which takes a geometrically intuitive approach to teaching students calculus. The hardback version of the book will be supplemented with the first-ever fully electronic, interactive calculus textbook. (Pearson Higher Education, January 2010)
Whitworth faculty books may be purchased at the Whitworth Bookstore, www.whitworth.edu/bookstore, and at www.amazon.com.
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