Dartmouth Discovery: Books

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Currently on display in the café on the first floor of Baker-Berry Library are 11 books written or edited by Dartmouth authors on topics ranging from algorithms to evolutionary biology.

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In conjunction with the new installment of books, Colin Calloway, the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and professor of Native American Studies, will discuss his book Ledger Narratives: The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College, at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21 at the north end of the first floor of Berry Library.

The Dartmouth Authors Book Display in Baker-Berry Library features:

Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Sam Vásquez, associate professor of English

The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation

The MIT Press, 2013Peter Tse, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences

The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America

University of Rochester Press, 2012 Laura Warren Hill (non-Dartmouth) and Julia Rabig, eds., lecturer, Department of English, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program

Book of Dog: Poems

Sarabande Books, 2012Cleopatra Mathis, the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor of the Art of Writing

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Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History

Oxford University Press, 2013Colin Calloway, the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and a professor of Native American Studies

The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology

Oxford University Press, 2012 Erik I. Svensson (non-Dartmouth) and Ryan Calsbeek, eds., assistant professor of biological sciences

Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity

Columbia University Press, 2013Colleen Glenney Boggs, associate professor of English and of women’s and gender studies, director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities

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Humans in the Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Studies

W.W. Norton, 2013 Kai N. Lee (non-Dartmouth), William R. Freudenburg (non-Dartmouth), Richard B. Howarth, professor of environmental studies

Algorithms Unlocked

The MIT Press, 2013Thomas Cormen, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science

Remembering Eden: The Reception History of Genesis 3: 22-24

Oxford University Press, 2012Peter Lanfer, lecturer in Jewish Studies

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Ledger Narratives: The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College

University of Oklahoma Press, 2012 Colin Calloway, ed., the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and a professor of Native American Studies

Please share comments or suggestions for new publications with Andi Bartelstein, coordinator of Baker-Berry Library’s Dartmouth Authors Book Display.

Chrissy Pearson, MALS '11