UCD Directives

UC DAVIS:  GENERAL LIBRARY
           BOOKSTORE

October 5, 1998

Deans, Directors, Department Chairpersons and Campus/UCDMC Administrative
Officers

RE:     Faculty Authors To Be Recognized at Annual Event
 
A program to celebrate the newly-published books of UC Davis faculty members
will take place on Thursday, October 8 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Peter J.
Shields Library.  The event, co-sponsored by the UC Davis General Library and
the UC Davis Bookstore, combines a reception, brief remarks by several of the
authors and a display of more than 100 recently published books of faculty
members. 

This year's faculty author/speakers will include:

John Stewart, Professor, African and African American Studies
     Looking for Josephine

Marijane Osborn, Professor, English
     Romancing the Goddess:  Three Middle English Romances About Women

Susan Mann, Professor, History
     Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century 

Mary Louise Flint, Cooperative Extension Specialist, Entomology
     Natural Enemies Handbook:  The Illustrated Guide to
          Biological Pest Control

Joseph Cech, Jr., Professor, Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology
Donald Crosby, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Toxicology
Barry Wilson, Professor, Avian Sciences
     Multiple Stresses in Ecosystems 
 
James Shackelford, Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science 
     Bioceramics
 
Don Owings, Professor, Psychology
     Animal Vocal Communication:  A New Approach 

Dianne Macleod, Professor, Art
     Orientalism Transposed:  The Impact of the Colonies on British
          Culture

Luana Ross, Associate Professor, Native American Studies
     Inventing the Savage:  The Social Construction of Native American
          Criminality 

Benjamin Orlove, Professor, Environmental Studies
     The Allure of the Foreign: Imported Goods in Postcolonial Latin
          America 

Francisco Alarcon, Lecturer,  Spanish
     Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems/Jitomates Risuenos y
          Otros Poemas de Primavera

There is no charge to attend the event and all UC Davis faculty and staff are
encouraged to attend for this opportunity to hear colleagues speak about their
research, writing and publication experiences.

Questions about this event should be directed to Diane Forrest in Library
Administration, dlforrest@ucdavis.edu/752-1286, or Kathleen Spurr in the UC
Davis Bookstore, kmspurr@ucdavis.edu/752-9075.
 
Marilyn J. Sharrow           Charles P. Kratochvil
University Librarian         General Manager, UCD Bookstore

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