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Chinese Studies Program
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DePaul has launched a comprehensive
Chinese studies major that includes Mandarin
language training, history, political science,
■ If the prospect of making a business presentation sends you into a cold sweat, consult
“The Professional Communications Toolkit,” Sage Books (2006), by D. Joel Whalen,
professor of marketing. This how-to book covers skills for succeeding in a range of
communications venues, from one-on-one business conversations to small staff presentations
and keynote addresses before large audiences. New technology also is covered.
■ “Instant Identity: Adolescent Girls and the World of Instant Messaging,”
Peter Lang Publishing Group (2007), is heralded as the first book of its kind to explore
the millennial generation’s prevalent use of instant messaging and its implications for the
future. Author Shayla Thiel Stern is an assistant professor of communication.
religious studies, and arts and culture. At an
event celebrating the launch are (left to right)
the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M.,
president; J.D. Bindenagel, vice president
■ Hailed by critics as a cross between James Baldwin’s soulful song and the nightmare
poetry of Louis-Ferdinand Celine, “Free Burning,” Three Rivers/Crown (2006), by
Bayo Ojikutu, instructor of English, is a novel about a man who makes a series of bad
choices after losing his white-collar insurance job.
■ Thomas R. Mockaitis, professor of history, has distinguished himself as a television
news analyst and expert on terrorism. His “The ‘New’ Terrorism: Myths and Reality,”
Praeger Security International (2006), argues that what is being labeled as a new brand
of terrorism bears a striking resemblance to past extremist movements and represents
a “culmination of trends evolving over decades.”
■ “Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of
Sexuality in America,” Beacon Press (2006), by Thomas A. Foster, assistant professor
of history, is a provocative investigation of male sexuality from the end of the Puritan
age through the American Revolution. It debunks many historical beliefs about sex
and identity during this period in American history.
■ A guide to understanding Islamic immigrants to the United States from the Middle
East, South and Southeast Asia and Africa, “Transnational Muslims in American
Society,” University Press of Florida (2006), by Aminah Beverly McCloud, director of
the Islamic world studies program, challenges the predominant perception that Islam
is monolithic and exclusively Arab.
for community, government and international
affairs; and Professor Xiaoxiang "Frank" Li,
dean of foreign languages at Southeast
University (Nanjing). (See p.16.)
■ In “Winning Elections with Political Marketing,” Haworth Press (2006), by
Bruce I. Newman, professor of marketing, and his co-editor, Philip John Davies,
director, Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, set out to answer the
question, “What does it take for candidates on both sides of the Atlantic to get elected?”