BY FACULTY and STAFF

Kitchenspace: Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico, by Maria Elisa Christie, program director for women in international development in the Office of International Research, Education, and Development, offers a pioneering ethnography of kitchen space--an often devalued world granted little scholarly attention--in three central-Mexican communities.

The publisher is University of Texas Press (P.O. Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713); www.utexaspress.com.

BY ALUMNI

Three Minutes with God: A Weekly Devotional for Inspiration and Encouragement, by Jarvis E. Bailey (urban affairs '83), seeks to aid the busy reader in creating time for devotions, journaling, and prayer in their lives, helping them to carve out time to read, reflect, and respond to weekly Scripture passages.

The book is self-published through AuthorHouse (1663 Liberty Dr., Ste. 200, Bloomington, IN 47403); www.authorhouse.com.

Nonparametric Statistics for Non-Statisticians: A Step-by-Step Approach by Greg Corder (civil engineering '97) is a statistics textbook that addresses nonparametric statistics in a comprehensible manner that is ideal for social and health scientists.

The publisher is Wiley & Sons Publishing (111 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030); www.wiley.com/WileyCDA.

In Foy's World, Wade Gilley (civil engineering '61, M.S. '64, Ph.D. '66) draws his reader into the world of the Depression-era Blue Ridge Mountains, in a tale of murder, violence, and race relations, told through a series of conversations between a 10-year-old boy and his 45-year-old grandmother.

The book is self-published through AuthorHouse (1663 Liberty Dr., Ste. 200, Bloomington, IN 47403); www.authorhouse.com.

Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them, by Ross W. Greene (M.S. psychology '86, Ph.D. '89), offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the difficulties of kids with behavioral challenges and explains why traditional discipline is not effective in addressing these difficulties.

The publisher is Scribner, a division of Simon and Schuster (1230 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10020); www.simonandschuster.com.

Houses in the Sun: Light Movement Embrace by Cathi House (architecture '77) and Steven House (architecture '75) documents House + House Architects' recent residential work in California, Mexico, and the Caribbean, and examines their design process through exploratory sketches and exquisite photography.

The publisher is The Image Publishing Group (6 Bastow Place, Mulgrave 3170, Australia); www.imagepublishing.com.

In Blackbird Resurrection, Col. Joe Reich (political science '75, M.A. '77) follows the fictional tale of Air Force Lt. Col. Jessie Reeves as he participates in the SR-71 Blackbird Reactivation Program of the mid 1990s. The novel is a story of loyalty, integrity, leadership, and duty, mingled with a history of the SR-71 imagery intelligence collection system and the science of flight.

The book is self-published through PublishAmerica (Baltimore, Md.); www.publishamerica.com.

How Fit is Your Business?, by Mark Richardson (accounting '87), draws a comparison between personal health and the health of a business, taking its reader through a business-oriented, 10-element fitness checkup.

The book is published by Advantage Media Group (192 East Bay St., Ste. 210, Charleston, SC 29401); www.amglive.com.

The Organized Effort: A Quest for High-Quality Sales Results, by T. Michael Smith (political science '65), teaches investment professionals how to ask the right questions, listen to the responses, provide the right solution, and make the sale.

The book is self-published through Brush Fork Press; http://shop.theorganizedeffort.com/main.sc.