College of Arts and Sciences

Christopher Cullis, Francis Hobart Herrick Professor of Biology, Department of Biology (Springer). Linum (flax) is a genus of about 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae. The genus includes common flax, which is one of the best fibers to produce linen, the seeds to produce linseed oil and has...

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Karen Beckwith, Flora Stone Mather Professor and Chair Department of Political Science (Oxford University Press) Historically, men have been more likely to be appointed to governing cabinets, but gendered patterns of appointment vary cross-nationally, and women's inclusion in cabinets has grown significantly over time. This book breaks new theoretical...

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Cheryl Toman, Professor of French, and Gilbert Doho, Associate Professor of French, (La Doxa Editions) The book united 11 scholars from four countries (U.S., Cameroon, Ghana and the U.K.) and plays with the various meanings of “capital,” exploring social justice and diversity. Immigration, war, natural disasters, prostitution, corruption and marginalization are...

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Elizabeth Meckes, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics & Statistics (Cambridge University Press). This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of foundational results and recent progress in the study of random matrices from the classical compact groups, drawing on the subject's deep connections to geometry, analysis,...

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Wojbor Woyczynski, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics & Statistics (CRC Press) Geometry and Martingales in Banach Spaces provides a compact exposition of the results explaining the interrelations existing between the metric geometry of Banach spaces and the theory of martingales, and general random vectors with values in those Banach spaces....

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Susan McClary, Professor, Department of Music (University of Michigan Press) Recognized as one of the most innovative and influential directors of our time, Peter Sellars has produced acclaimed—and often controversial—versions of many beloved operas and oratorios. He has also collaborated with several composers, including John C. Adams and Kaija Saariaho,...

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