University of New England Books
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Andrew Golub
Dean of Library Services

For at least the past 30 years, futurists have been predicting a bookless and a paperless scenario. And true, libraries today are acquiring access to more and more electronic resources every year.

It is amid this current and continuing debate that the UNE Libraries have decided to focus attention on traditionally published books written by UNE authors: faculty members, administrators, and trustees. Books are still, and will remain, a critical aspect of scholarship and a critical aspect of libraries' collections.

This page showcases just a few of the authors and publications that can be found in the UNE authors booklist within the Libraries' Catalog. In the profiles below, the UNE Libraries are highligting a selected inventory of UNE book authors, either as sole author, co-author, one of many authors, chapter contributor, editor, or illustrator.

If you are a UNE author and wish to be included in our Catalog's UNE authors booklist , please so indicate to a UNE Librarian.

UNE Authors Booklist

Anoaur Majid's Anouar Majid, Ph.D., in his most recent book A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent is Vital to Islam and America, calls not only for difference and dissent within the Muslim world, but within the United States - where the ideals of the American Revolution have "gradually been eroded by the rise of a financial system which replaced the robust notion of the citizen with a conception of the consumer."  A Call for Heresy continues the line of thought from his last book, Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age, which argues that conflicts such as September 11th and the war in Iraq are not an ominous clash of civilizations but the failure of our one and only human civilization to capitalize on its tremendously rich cultural resources to establish a more humane global order.  Majid is professor and chair of the Department of English.  His previous books include Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World (Duke University Press 2000) and the novel Si Yussef (1992). He is the editor of a quarterly magazine, Tingis: A Moroccan-American Magazine of Ideas and Culture. More information.
"Organizational Dynamics and Intervention: Tools for Changing the Workplace" by Seth Alcorn Seth Allcorn, Ph.D., in his most recent book, Organizational Dynamics and Intervention: Tools for Changing the Workplace (2005) provides the reader twelve perspectives for understanding the workplace.  These perspectives are used to create an integrated organizational assessment tool that informs organizational change.  Two other recent books are:  The Dynamic Workplace: Present Structure and Future Redesign  (2003) which creates for the reader a typology of workplace experience that includes bureaucratic, chaotic, charismatic and balanced.  The typology becomes the basis for developing a dynamic workplace theory.  The Death of the Spirit in the American Workplace (2002) explores the dispiriting impact that massive and repetitive organizational change such as downsizing has upon organization members.  His other eight books include The Psychologically Defensive Workplace (1997) and The Human Costs of a Management Failure: Organizational Downsizing at General Hospital (1996). Dr. Allcorn is the vice president for business and finance.
The Murder of Mary Bean and other Stories" by Elizabeth De Wolfe Elizabeth A. De Wolfe is associate professor and chair of the History Department.  DeWolfe's most recent book is The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories (2007). De Wolfe is also the author of Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867 (2002) and co-editor of Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers (2001).She has published articles on anti-Shakerism in "Religion and American Culture", "Communal Societies", and "Teaching Anthropology", and chapters in two anthologies: Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture (1999), and Intentional Communities: An Anthropological Perspective (2002). She is also the recipient of the Mary Rines Thompson Award for Teaching Excellence (1997) and the Outstanding Faculty Member Award (1999) presented by the UNE/Westbrook College Campus Student Government Association.  De Wolfe is the program co-ordinator of the American Studies Program and co-directs the biennial Maine Women Writers Collection interdisciplinary conferences. More information.
David Livingston Smith, Ph.D. David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D. , in his new book, The Most Dangerous Animal, published August 2007, explores the evolutionary and psychological roots of war and genocide, with a view towards identifying what it is about human nature that makes it possible for us to treat our fellow human beings with such extraordinary brutality.  In his last book Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind (St. Martins Press) writes that our brains have evolved to handle deception as a Darwinian tool for survival. The two books have garnered international publicity for Smith, who has been interviewed by Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes magazine, U.S. News & World Report and many other media.  He is the author of Hidden Conversations (Routledge/Tavistock, 1991; Rebus, 1999), Freud's Philosophy of the Unconscious (Kluwer, 1999), Approaching Psychoanalysis: An Introductory Course(Karnac, 1999) and Psychoanalysis in Focus (Sage, 2002).  Smith is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Relgious Studies and is director of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology. More information.
image Jane O’Brien, Ph.D.  is associate professor, graduate and research coordinator in the Department of Occupational Therapy, where she teaches primarily in the area of pediatrics and research. She has published articles and book chapters in the areas of play and playfulness, assistive technology, reaction time in children with developmental coordination disorder, and most recently on motor control issues of children and their families. Dr. O’Brien is co-editor with Jean Solomon, MS, OTR/L, at Trident Technical College, of Pediatric Skills for the OT Assistant (2nd ed.) (2006) and most recently she authored with Susan Hussey, MS, OTR/L and Barbara Sabonis-Chaffe, MS, OTR/L the third edition of Introduction to Occupational Therapy (2007). She also authored the accompanying Instructor’s Manual: Introduction to Occupational Therapy text as well. These texts feature UNE students and faculty children throughout. More information
image Paul Burlin, Ph.D., professor of history, has published Imperial Maine and Hawai'i, Interpretative Essays in the History of Nineteenth-Century American Expansion (2006, Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers). On the surface, the book chronicles a number of fascinating people either native to or associated with Maine who played major roles in the religious, cultural, political and economic absorption of a Polynesian culture into an Americanized, western culture. They were missionaries, sugar barons, diplomats, presidents and lesser public officials. For better or worse, many were visionaries. Prof. Burlin says "the book is not really about Maine or Hawaii, but about what they and their connections might suggest about the United States as an imperial power." Prof. Burlin’s specialty is 19th-century American diplomatic history. He also has an interest in the perceptions and insights “foreigners” have about U.S. history, culture and society, particularly  Brazilian observations about the United States. More information
Perspectives on Higher Education in the Digital Age by Michael Beaudoin Michael F. Beaudoin, Ed.D., professor of education and internationally known distance-education scholar, is editor and principal author of the book Perspectives on Higher Education in the Digital Age, published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. The volume, including chapters by 29 other notable scholars and practitioners, examines how higher education is likely to be affected by the rapidly expanding availability and use of digital resources worldwide. In an economy where nearly all public information is available to anyone with access to a PC and the Internet, the democratization of information and knowledge presents tremendous opportunities, as well as threats, to traditional higher education providers. This book discusses the impact of the digital age on the role and structure of institutions, on how faculty teach and students learn, and the future of the education industry.Beaudoin is also the author of Reflections on Research, Faculty and Leadership in Higher Education, winner of the 2004 Charles A. Wedemeyer Award. More information.
Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Ph.D., has published new book, Forgotten Voices: Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya. Ahmida, a native of Libya, says that since he came to the United States, he has "worked to tell the individual stories of my family and the forgotten human history of the Libyan people, as illustrated by Libyan folk poetry" in the Italian fascist concentration camps in Libya beginning in 1929.  Ahmida's new book, published by the Routlege Taylor & Francis Group, employs archival research, oral interviews, and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya. The book continues work undertaken in his first book, The Making of Modern Libya: State Formation, Colonialization and Resistance, 1830-1932 (State University of New York Press, 1994) and the collection he edited on mapping North African scholarhips, Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism in the Maghrib: History, Culture and Politics (Palgrave Press, 2000). Ahmida is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science. More information.
Susan McHugh, Ph.D. Susan McHugh, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at the University of New England, has published a new book titled Dog that explores the history, evolution, myth, breeding and contributions of humanity's best friend. McHugh's book, part of Reaktion Books' "Animal" series, unravels the debate about whether dogs are descended from wolves, and moves on to deal with canines in mythology, religion, health, and history, including dog cults in ancient and medieval civilizations. In her research as well as teaching, she is interested in using theory to connect literary studies with other disciplinary interests, including visual culture and anthrozoology (studies of human-animal interaction). She is currently working on a second book, a theoretical analysis of how domesticated animals have shaped visual narratives through the twentieth century. More information.
David Johnson, Ph.D.
David Sandmire, M.D.		 In Medical Tests that Can Save Your Life, authors David Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, and David Sandmire, M.D., associate professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, describe 21 medical tests that your doctor is unlikely to order, unless you ask for them. According to the authors, many fatal diseases and medical conditions, if detected early enough, can be cured or their effects dramatically reduced. In many cases, early testing, detection and treatment can mean the difference between life and death.“Drs. Johnson and Sandmire have captured a lot of what I learned in 10 years of medical training in one focused text. This book tackles many of society’s medical issues and transforms them into one easily readable format,” writes Terence K. Gray, D.O., Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School. More information.
   
haskell2 Robert E. Haskell, Ph.D., is co-founder of The New England Institute of Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology (www.une.edu/nei), Professor of psychology, and former department chair at the University of New England. His areas of research include: unconscious cognition, language and communication, transfer of learning, and analogical reasoning. He has authored Transfer of Learning: Cognition, Instruction, and Reasoning. Along with finding a novel set of cognitive operations, he has developed an original logico-mathematic and psycho-linguistic methodology for analyzing and validating unconscious meaning in conversation.
3piece2 David Kuchta received his Ph.D. in European History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1991. He has taught courses in World History, European History, Gender History, and the Social History of Medicine. He is the author of The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England, 1550-1850, published in 2002 by the University of California Press, and has articles in The Sex of Things: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective, and Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe. Also a creative writer, he teaches a course in "Sudden Fiction" at Portland Adult Education. He is currently completing a work of historical fiction, and is the Conference Director for the University of New England's Writers' Conference, sponsored by UNE's Maine Women Writers Collection.
rainforest Richard Peterson is currently assistant professor of Environmental Studies at the University of New England.  Peterson is an integrative scholar with primary research and teaching interests in comparative ecological thought and ethics, ecological anthropology, indigenous peoples, community-based conservation, global environmental policy, and North/South issues of ecojustice. His book, Conversations in the Rainforest: Culture, Values, and the Environment in Central Africa, was published by Westview Press (2000). As a National Science Foundation Fellow, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, and member of a Fullbright-Hays Group Project Abroad, Peterson has conducted extensive field research and study in East and Central Africa. In his classes, Peterson seeks to foster an interdisciplinary and ecological mode of thinking so as to help students more holistically understand and contribute solutions to complex environmental and social issues.
crux2 Jennifer Tuttle is assistant professor of English and the Dorothy M. Healy Chair in Literature and Health. As Healy Chair, she serves as the faculty director of the Maine Women Writers Collection at the Abplanalp Library on UNE's Westbrook College Campus. Tuttle teaches courses in U.S. literatures, women's writing, and literature & health; her courses on world literatures and composition also support UNE's core curriculum. In addition to her recent edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1911 novel The Crux, she has written chapters in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspective (2003) , Reading The Virginian in the New West (2003), and The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2000), and published scholarly articles on topics such as gender, health, & the American West; race & ethnicity in the Western; and women's detective fiction. She is currently writing a book on medical discourse in California women's writing.
habraken Joe Habraken currently serves as an assistant professor in the University of New England's Business Administration department, where he teaches a variety of computer application and technology courses. Habraken is a computer technology professional and best-selling author with more than fifteen years of experience in the information technology field. He has written more than twenty computer and information technology publications including Microsoft Office XP 8 in 1, Practical Cisco Routers, and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking, Third Edition. Habraken, a Microsoft Certified Professional and Cisco Certified Network Associate, has worn a number of hats during his information technology career including educator, consultant and administrator.
Marcia Cohen Marcia B. Cohen, professor of social work, is editor of and contributor to Gender and Groupwork. Audrey Mullender, her co-editor, is at the University of Coventry in the UK. “Based on practice experience in both the UK and the USA, Gender and Groupwork brings together the best of groupwork knowledge, skills and values in a true transatlantic partnership.” [From the book’s blurb] Professor Cohen is the author of numerous journal articles on such topics as group work, gender, empowerment practice, and social work education. Her current and past research foci are homelessness and the ex-patients’ rights movement.
   

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