Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. Sanctorum communio [BR 45 .B6513x 1998]
Sperber, Daniel. The City in Roman Palestine [DS 111.1 S74x 1998]
Ridley, Jasper Godwin. Mussolini [DG 575.M8 R48x 1998]
Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike. Gotham [F 128.3 .B87x 1999]
In iihiyo, in itlahtol= su aliento, su palabra [F 1219 .L465 I54x 1997]
Kinder, Gary. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea [G 530 .C4 .K55x 1998]
Thompson, Tommy. America's Lost Treasure [+G 530 C4 T48x 1998]
Katzenstein, Mary Fainsod. Faithful and Fearless [HQ 1421 .K27x 1998]
Miller, Richard E. As If Learning Mattered [LA 227.4 .M555x 1998]
Greene, Howard R. The Select [LA 229 .G75x 1998]
Landseer, Charles, 1799-1879. Landseer [++ NC 242 .L36 M32 1972]
Klemperer, Victor. I Will Bear Witness [PC 2064 K5 A3 1998]
Kis, Danilo. Early Sorrows [PG 1419.21 .I8 Z474x 1998]
Samizdat Veka. Edited by Anatolii Strelianyi [+ PG 3228 .U52 S26x 1998]
Sinima al-`Arab = Arab Cinema [PN 1993 .5 .A65 .S56;1996]
Bell, Mark. Aphorism in the Francophone Novel of the Twentieth Century [PQ 673 B44w 1997]
Baricco, Alessandro. Silk [PQ 4862 A6745 S4713 1997]
Holland, Patrick and Graham Huggan. Tourists with Typewriters [PR 808.T72 H65 1998]
Neville-Sington, Pamela. Fanny Trollope [PR 5699.T3 Z76x 1997]

Katzenstein, Mary Fainsod. Faithful and Fearless: Moving Feminist Protest inside the Church and Military. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1998. Location: Olin 14 Day Shelf, Uris HQ 1421 .K27x 1998 Katzenstein's new book (produced partly thanks to "the wonderful environment of my study in the Carl A. Kroch Library"!), looks at the emergence, in the past two decades, of feminist activism within two male-dominated institutions: the U.S. military and American Catholic Church. Demands for equality within these core, mainstream institutions have furthered the challenge issued by the second wave of American feminism to the notion of gender difference as an important basis for organizing the economy and society. Katzenstein answers the question of what happened to feminism and other political protest seen in the streets in the 1970s. In the 1980s and 90s, conflict over status and resources in American society has moved into the institutions of our daily lives. There, these issues are being tackled differently based on particular institutional structure and culture, outside events, access to legal recourse, and America's various political traditions. Katzenstein presents a compelling story of a new stage in American institutions, feminism, and social protest. (Brenda Marston, bjm4@cornell.edu)

Greene, Howard R. The Select : realities of life and learning in America's elite colleges. New York : Cliff Street Books, 1998. Location: Olin LA229 .G75x 1998 Miller, Richard E. As If Learning Mattered : reforming higher education. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998. Location: Olin LA227.4 .M555x 1998 Olin resources about higher education support the self-assessment which is characteristic of a university community. Selected titles offer a range of background information, with books and journals providing descriptive analysis, prescriptive policy, historical perspective, comparative data, etc.A recent addition to Olin, The Select, reports the results of a survey of 4,000 undergraduates at elite American universities. The book focuses on the reality of daily life for the students at twenty schools including Cornell. The response tabulations and the students' comments offer general and specific assessments of each school's performance. In the chapter on the academic experience, for example, tabulations show the environment as challenging, with Cornell ranked highest for level of academic stress. Another new Olin title, As If Learning Mattered, looks at the process of reform in higher education. The author investigates why there is resistance to reform and what happens when theory is actually implemented for reform. His illustrative essays suggest the possibility for change within the bureaucratic university. His work and the others in Olin's collection promote reflection on the state of higher education. (Janie Harris, jlh9@cornell.edu)

Landseer, Charles, 1799-1879. Landseer. <edited by Candido Guinle de Paula Machado>. <São Paulo, Fotolito e impressao em offset por Lanzara, 1972> Location: Olin ++ NC 242 .L36 M32 1972 This beautiful, oversized volume is the sketchbook compiled by Charles Landseer from his trip to London, Lisbon and Brazil, on a diplomatic mission headed by Charles Stuart. The images show Portugal and Brazil in 1825, at the onset of the Brazilian Empire. Landseer's work includes pencil sketches and watercolors depicting landscapes, portraits of the Brazilian elites and scenes of social life, including the pole-wielding Afro-Brazilian included here. There is a brief accompanying narrative, published in parallel Portuguese and English. (David Block, db10@cornell.edu)

Klemperer, Victor. I Will Bear Witness; a diary of the Nazi years, 1933-1941. Translated by Martin Chalmers. New York: Random House, 1998. Location: Olin PC 2064 K5 A3 1998 A professor of Romance languages in Dresden, Victor Klemperer was a baptized Jew married to a Christian. He recognized the danger of Hitler early on, but stayed in Germany and survived the war despite losing his job, his house, his car, his typewriter and most of his freedom. Determined to bear witness to the indignities of daily life under the tyranny of Nazism, Klemperer brought eloquence, sophistication and his keen powers of observation to these, his secret diaries. This volume will be followed next year by the translation of the diaries from 1942-1945. (Martha Hsu, mrh2@cornell.edu) (Yoram Szekeley, ybs1@cornell.edu)

Kis, Danilo. Early Sorrows (For Children and Sensitive Readers). Translated from the Serbian by Michael Henry Heim. New York: New Directions, c1998. Location: Olin, PG 1419.21 .I8 Z474x 1998 Early Sorrows, originally published in Belgrade in 1969, has only recently been translated from Serbian into English. Danilo Kis is an acclaimed Serbian writer, well known in the West for his earlier works, Encyclopedia of the Dead, Hourglass, and A Tomb for Boris Davidovich. Early Sorrows is composed of stories that comprise a memorial to his childhood. All twenty pieces bring back experiences of a Jewish boy during World War II in a small Serbian town near the Hungarian border, the land where "the armies and ideologies washed with the brutal regularity of surf." (William Gass, The New York Review of Books) Kis's poetic prose masterfully captures the change from the dreamy serenity of boyhood to a life, after the soldiers enter his village, of horror and brutality. Since childhood experiences are echoed throughout Kis's later works, this book provides a necessary link for a better understanding and appreciation of the author's literary legacy. (Wanda Wawro, wtw3@cornell.edu)

Samizdat Veka. Edited by Anatolii Strelianyi ... [et al.] Minsk: Polifakt, 1998. Location: Olin, + PG 3228 .U52 S26x 1998 In Samizdat Veka (A Century of Underground Publishing) editors gathered the most significant and outstanding works published underground, despite severe censorship, in Russia during the twentieth century. This impressive, most carefully edited volume contains poetry, essays, anecdotes, folk songs, leaflets, slogans, and, most of all, over 1,000 reproductions of art and artifacts from prisons and gulags. Authors from all walks of life, all ages and backgrounds manifest their steadfast love for liberty and life and their hope and courage in the struggle for freedom of thought and expression. The book's preface consists of several separate essays written by eminent scholars who define and describe underground publishing as a distinct phenomenon of Russian culture. (Wanda Wawro, wtw3@cornell.edu)

Sinima al-`Arab = Arab Cinema <computer file>. -- Falls Church, Va. : Dijitik Intirnashyunal, 1996. Location: Olin,Reference Disk PN 1993 .5 .A65 .S56;1996 Available in: Electronic Text Center (108 Olin Library) This multimedia database gives a full account about more than 3,000 Arabic films, representing a complete archive of Arab cinema and Arab actors and actresses. An outstanding and a unique source for the researcher and the lay person for studying the history of motion pictures in several Arab countries. (Arabic operating system required, provided in ETC room). (Ali Houissa, ah16@cornell.edu)

Bell, Mark. Aphorism in the Francophone Novel of the Twentieth Century. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press. 1997 Location: Olin PQ 673 B44w 1997   In this exploration of the twentieth-century novels written in French, Mark Bell defines aphorism as a literary genre and demonstrates how it is used in seven texts that provide a cross section of ideological stances and francophone communities. (Flaminia Cervesi-McCobb, fcm4@cornell.edu)

Baricco, Alessandro. Silk. Translated by Guido Waldman. London: The Harvill Press. 1997. Location: Olin PQ 4862 A6745 S4713 1997 When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Hervè Joncour leaves his doting wife and his comfortable home in Lavilledieu and travels across Siberia to the other end of the world, to Japan, to obtain eggs for a fresh breeding of silk worms. It is the 1860's; Japan is closed to foreigners and this has to be a clandestine operation... Silk, which became an immediate best seller in Italy, is to be published in sixteeen languages- including Japanese. This book is also available in Olin in its original Italian version. (Flaminia Cervesi-McCobb, fcm4@cornell.edu)

Holland, Patrick and Graham Huggan. Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Olin: PR 808.T72 H65 1998 When Ithaca skies are gray, turn to this book to inspire your escape to the rich variety of contemporary travel writing. The authors of this extensive survey are critical of the frequent complacency and ethnocentrism of travel writing, but recognize its importance as a literary and cultural form. Their work helps us consider the quality of writing; or the accuracy of descriptions; or the temperature of the destination; or the traveler's mode of transportation; or colonial vs. postcolonial locale. Guided by this study, we readers, snowbound, can be transported to faraway places with a literate companion of our choosing. (Sarah How; seh4@cornell.edu)

Neville-Sington, Pamela. Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman. London: Viking, 1997. Olin: PR 5699.T3 Z76x 1997 Traveler and clever commentator, prolific author and mother of novelist Anthony, Fanny Trollope's real life was as interesting as fiction. In Domestic Manners of the Americans, a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic in 1832, she wrote: "I do not like them. I do not like their principles. I do not like their opinions." Olin owns the British edition of this well-received biography, purchased one year before the U.S. edition appeared in late 1998. Olin's collections include materials by other Trollope family members, as well. For example, in addition to some of the more than 40 works by Frances Trollope, Olin stacks contain all available Trollope Society editions of Anthony Trollope's 47 novels, and works by contemporary Aga-saga writer Joanna Trollope. (A complete list of the Trollope Society editions of Anthony Trollope can be found at<http://mirrors.org.sg/victorian/trollope/tsociety/publishing1.html> (Sarah How; seh4@cornell.edu)