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Author Archives: Marc Killinger
Autumn Desire
Autumn Desire by Sharon Noble (CommThtr’71, MArt’72) is a novel depicting the complicated romance of a 50-year-old widow, Paula Wincott. The story is set in the beautiful scenery of Boulder as Paula decides to return to CU to take classes years after dropping out and marrying a professor she met her freshman year.
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Night Café: The Amorous Notes of a Barista
Night Café: The Amorous Notes of a Barista by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (Phil’77) depicts the café world as both sophisticated and intellectual as he delves into the history of coffee while combining the artistic and stimulating subjects of painting, poetry and philosophy.
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A Duck Looking For Hunters
In A Duck Looking for Hunters by Lt. Col Dale Amend, the incredible story of the author’s own experience as a Forward Air Controller (FAC) in South Vietnam in 1965-66 is described in vivid detail.
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Building a collection
What do an ancient Roman glass vessel from 300 AD and a painting by 20th century Mexican artist Diego Rivera have in common? They are part of more than 6,000 works of art that make up the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection.
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Buff Tribute: A natural resources giant
A tireless attorney, CU professor, carpenter and water gardener, Clyde Martz passed away on May 18 at home in Albuquerque, N.M., after a long illness. He was 88.
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Ralph Ellison in Progress: From “Invisible Man” to “Three Days Before the Shooting…”
Ralph Ellison has been called the preeminent African-American author of the 20th century, though he published only one novel, Invisible Man, in 1952. Associate professor of English Adam Bradley’s Ralph Ellison in Progress is the first book to survey the expansive geography of the second novel that Ellison had been composing for more than 40 years, but never published before he died. Bradley pieced together the thousands of pages Ellison left behind and released his unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting in January, 2010. Additionally, Ralph Ellison in Progress re-imagines the more familiar, but often misunderstood, territory of Invisible Man and works from the premise that understanding Ellison’s process of composition imparts important truths not only about the author himself but about race, writing and American identity.
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Modeling by Nonlinear Differential Equations: Dissipative and Conservative Processes
In Modeling by Nonlinear Differential Equations, professor emeritus of physics Paul E. Phillipson provides mathematical analyses of nonlinear differential equations, which have proved pivotal to understanding many phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology. Topics of focus are nonlinear oscillations, deterministic chaos, solitons, reaction-diffusion-driven chemical pattern formation, neuron dynamics, autocatalysis and molecular evolution. Included is a discussion of processes from the vantage of reversibility, reflected by conservative classical mechanics, and irreversibility introduced by the dissipative role of diffusion. Each chapter presents the subject matter from the point of one or a few key equations, whose properties and consequences are amplified by approximate analytic solutions that are developed to support graphical display of exact computer solutions.
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Borders and Conflict in South Asia: The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the Partition of Punjab
Assistant professor of history and international affairs Lucy Chester’s Borders and Conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. The book uses the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonization and independence of India and Pakistan, and examines the competing interests, both internal and international, that influenced the actions of the various major players. It highlights British efforts to maintain a grip on India even as the decolonization process spun out of control and also demonstrates that it was not the location of the line but flaws in the larger partition process that caused the mass violence and chaos of 1947.
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The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism: A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence
Through her detailed analysis of the rhetoric of Puritan plain style, associate professor of English Ann Kibbey overturns many of our long-held assumptions about the social and artistic values of Protestantism. In The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism, Kibbey centers her argument on the influential preacher John Cotton and discloses a general theory of figuration in the Protestant tradition that has been overlooked by literary critics, historians and sociologists alike. The author explores the immense variety of ways in which early Protestants in Europe and America granted significance to material shapes.
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Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico
In his book Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and Chatinos: Ancient Peoples of Southern Mexico, associate professor of anthropology Arthur Joyce examines the history of the rich and complex societies that arose and flourished in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Between 500 B.C. and A.D. 800, many powerful urban polities developed in the geographic regions surrounding the Valley of Oaxaca, including in the highland valleys of the Mixteca and lower Río Verde Valley along the Pacific Coast. The book draws upon the most recent archaeological, ethnographic, epigraphic, linguistic, and iconographic evidence, to reveal the lengthy, complex strands of historical and cultural interactions woven among the diverse pre–Hispanic societies of Oaxaca.
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