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1 \\ Intersections: Race,
Gender, Organizational
Culture and Leadership in
Higher Education
(Stylus Publishing)
Consuella Lewis, assistant profes-
sor at the University of Pittsburgh,
and V Barbara Bush, assistant
professor of higher education, editors
African American women
chief executives of U.S. colleges
and universities are numerically
under-represented and highly
visible. Using personal narra-
tives, new qualitative and
quantitative research and theory,
the book's contributors explore
how factors such as race,
gender, organizational culture
and leadership intersect on
college and university campuses
to create an environment that
can either support or hinder
the progress of African
American women.
In addition to serving as
co-editor, Bush contributes
"When Cultures Meet:
African American Women
Presidents of Predominantly
White, Four-Year Colleges
and Universities."
2 \\ Food and Beverage
Cost Control, fourth edition
iA, ai.y)
Lea R. Dopson, associate
professor and chair of hospitality
management; David K. Hayes,
managing owner of the Clarion Hotel
and Conference Center in Lansing,
Mich.; and the late Jack E. Miller,
who was Professor Emeritus and past
chair of the hotel, restaurant, chef'sapprentice and tourism program at
St. Louis Community College
Providing a practical
approach to cost control for
working food service managers
and students, this edition
addresses cultural, legal and
technological questions about
managing food service costs
in a global setting.
Highlights include a look at
international food service cost
control in the age of global-
ization, with a special emphasis
on using advanced technologies
internationally. The book's
exercises focus on the applica-
tions of topics and concepts to
real-world industry scenarios.
A bonus CD features manager-
developed spreadsheets.
3 \\ American Culture in
the 1940s
(Edinburgh U,,ivs'' s Press)
Jacqueline Foertsch, assistant
professor of English
Part of the Twentieth
Century American Culture
series, this book explores
fiction and nonfiction, music
and radio, film and theater,
and serious and popular visual
arts in 1940s America.
Observing the decade as a
whole, Foertsch points out the
comparable features of wartime
and the immediate post-war
period in the United States.
She includes case studies fea-
turing key texts, genres, writers,
artists and cultural trends; adetailed chronology of 1940s
American culture; and bibli-
ographies for each chapter.
4 \\ Police Patrol
Allocation and Deployment
(Prentice Hail)
Eric J. Fritsch, associate
professor of criminal justice; John
Liederbach, associate professor of
criminal justice at Bowling Green State
University; and Robert W Taylor,
professor and chair of criminal justice
Bringing together issues of
patrol allocation and deploy-
ment in a single source, the
authors discuss the complexities
and factors that affect decision
making in this area. They
provide a historical assessment
of patrol allocation and
deployment and cover central
issues in the day-to-day man-
agement of police agencies
and personnel.
Topics include deployment
through scheduling, modern
tactical deployment approaches
and the evolution of opera-
tional deployment strategies.
5 \\ Health-Seeking
Behavior in Ethnic
Populations
(Edwin Mellen Press)
Tyson Gibbs, associate professor
of anthropology, and Sue Gena Lurie,
assistant professor in social and
behavioral sciences in the School of
Public Health at the UNT Health
Science Center at Fort Worth, editors
The articles in this book
bring together the concepts of
ethnicity and health-seeking
behavior, focusing on ways inwhich individuals and cultures
seek health care and providing
a framework for observing how
people respond to ill health
around the world.
Gibbs wrote a chapter on
the health-seeking behavior of
African Americans. Other
UNT contributions include a
foreword by Erma Lawson,
associate professor of sociology,
and articles from Doug Henry
and Lisa Henry, assistant
professors of anthropology, on
the health-seeking behaviors of
Nigerian Americans and
Native Hawaiians. The book
also covers the health-seeking
behaviors of Mexican
Americans, Arab Americans,
Southeast Asian refugees,
populations in Namibia and
India, and affluent Americans,
among other groups.
6 \\ Inside John Haynie's
Studio: A Master Teacher's
Lessons on Trumpet and Life
iUNT P,,
John Haynie, Professor
Emeritus of music, compiled and
edited by Anne Hardin
Haynie - who was one
of the first full-time single-
instrument wind faculty mem-
bers at a U.S. university when
he was hired by North Texas
in 1950 - taught some of
the university's most successful
musician graduates during his
40-year career, including Keith
Johnson and Marvin Stamm.
In addition to trumpet les-40 " 2008 UNT RESEARCH
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