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FALL 2005
Media Shelf

The Media Shelf offers a sampling of the faculty and staff creative research efforts including books, software, recordings, research resources and journals.

Georgia’s Amazing Coast
by David Bryant, director of communications, and George Davidson, writer and editor, both with UGA Sea Grant Program; illustrated by Charlotte Ingram, UGA Sea Grant Program graphics designer. (University of Georgia Press, 2003)
This collection of 100 short features about coastal flora, fauna and natural history explains everything from tidal fluctuations to turtle migrations. It is the 2004 winner of Author of the Year for Children’s and Young Adult Literature from the Georgia Writers Association.

A Love Story Beginning in Spanish: Poems
by Judith Ortiz Cofer, Franklin Professor of English. (University of Georgia Press, 2005)
A collection of 34 poems, written over many years and set in many different places, portrays and intertwines multiple cultures, voices and traditions.

Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation
edited by Christy Desmet and Sujata Iyengar, professors of English. (http://www.borrowers.uga.edu)
This online, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal publishes original work of Shakespeare scholars who specialize in the “afterlife” of the Bard’s works. The journal focuses on the way that Shakespeare’s poems and plays influence everything from modern jazz and race studies to more traditional literary forms.

Snakes of the Southeast
by Whit Gibbons, UGA professor of ecology, and Mike Dorcas, professor of biology at Davidson University. (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series,University of Georgia Press, 2005)
This comprehensive guide to snakes of the southeastern United States includes discussions of general topics such as snake conservation and the biology, diversity and life cycles of snakes.

No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African-American Yard Work
by Grey Gundaker, professor of anthropology and American studies at the College of William and Mary, and Judith McWillie, UGA drawing and painting department chair. (University of Tennessee Press, 2005)
This book explores how artful arrangement and adornment of everyday objects are used to express the experiences and cultural traditions of people who make African-American devotional art in homes and domestic landscapes.

Ossabaw: Evocations of an Island
by the late Jack Leigh, professor of history; the late James Kilgo, professor of English; and artist Alan Campbell. (University of Georgia Press, 2004)
This tribute in word and image to a Georgia barrier island, Ossabaw, combines Kilgo’s writing with Leigh’s photography and Campbell’s watercolor and oil paintings to inspire contemplation of the island’s natural and human history.

Legal Regulations of the Effects of Military Activity on the Environment
by Daniel Bodansky, the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law. (Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2003)
This book details the effects of warfare on the environment and how the ensuing problems can be ameliorated through legal and international means.

Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History
by Peter Charles Hoffer, Distinguished Research Professor of History. (Public Affairs Books, 2004)
This book details biographies of four major historians whose lives and careers were destroyed in the Woodrow Wilson era and places them in a broader historical perspective.

Comparative Politics: Critical Concepts in Political Science
edited by Howard J. Wiarda, Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and head of the department of international affairs. (Taylor and Francis Group, Routledge Publishers, 2005)
This six-volume, 2,275-page project is a collection of the main ideas and research in the discipline and presents a systematic and comparative study of the world’s nations and political systems.

The Glass Horse Project
created by College of Veterinary Medicine faculty and staff members: computer graphics artists Flint Buchanan and Thel Melton; veterinarians Jim Moore, Andy Parks and John Peroni; and educational technologist Mac Smith.
An educational program that incorporates three-dimensional representations of equine anatomy with illustrations of the impacts of different diseases and injuries on the system, this tool won the 2005 Dr. Frank Netter Award for Special Contributions to Medical Education and is intended for use by veterinary students, practitioners and horse owners.

National River Restoration Science Synthesis
Southeastern efforts led by Judith Meyer, Distinguished Research Professor of Ecology, and Elizabeth Sudduth, a UGA master’s degree graduate. (http://www.nrrss.umd.edu)
This database provides information on river restorations nationwide that can be used in local policy decisions and also will aid in the initiation and continuation of riparian restoration throughout the country.

Sunlight and Shadows
by the UGA Woodwind Quartet. (ACA Digital Recordings CM20085, 2004)
This collection features new compositions by current and former UGA music faculty members.