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College of the Pacific Faculty Books and Book Chapters

 
A selection of published books and book chapters from faculty members of the College of the Pacific at University of the Pacific.
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  • Dead Heretics amongst the Living Saints: The Discovery of the Papyri from Turah at Dayr al-Qusayr (Dayr Arsaniyus) and Its Legacy by Caroline T. Schroeder

    Dead Heretics amongst the Living Saints: The Discovery of the Papyri from Turah at Dayr al-Qusayr (Dayr Arsaniyus) and Its Legacy

    Caroline T. Schroeder

  • Gender and Authenticity in the Debates about Gospel of Jesus's Wife Fragment by Caroline T. Schroeder

    Gender and Authenticity in the Debates about Gospel of Jesus's Wife Fragment

    Caroline T. Schroeder

  • The Perfect Monk: Ideals of Masculinity in the Monastery of Shenoute by Caroline T. Schroeder

    The Perfect Monk: Ideals of Masculinity in the Monastery of Shenoute

    Caroline T. Schroeder

  • Memory: Training methods and benefits by Carla M. Strickland-Hughes and Robin Lea West

    Memory: Training methods and benefits

    Carla M. Strickland-Hughes and Robin Lea West

  • At the Table: Food and Family Around the World by Ken Albala

    At the Table: Food and Family Around the World

    Ken Albala

    What's for dinner? Not just in America, but around the world? And how is it cooked, what's the historical significance of that food, how is it served and consumed, and who gets to clean up? This book provides fascinating insight into how dinner is defined in countries around the world.

    Almost universally, "dinner" is a key meal in most countries around the world, whether it be a simple dish of rice and beans, a slice of pizza on the go, or a multi-course formal meal. What do the specifics of how a meal is eaten—by hand instead of with utensils, for example—say about a specific culture? This fascinating one-volume reference guide examines all aspects of dinner in international settings, enabling insightful cross-cultural comparisons and an understanding of the effects of modernization and globalization on food habits.

    Some 50 countries are covered in chapters focusing on present-day meal habits in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and North and South America. The commentary covers everything about the meal, such as the time, the cooking and preparation, shopping for ingredients, the clean-up process, gender-based participation roles, conversation or other social interactions, and etiquette—just about everything that happens at the table. The book is ideal for classroom teaching and learning, as the entries and photos are conducive to teaching students about other cultures, directly supporting the National Geography Standards. Students will be able to make informed comparisons between their own lives and the various cultural experiences described in the book.

  • La Cuisinère Canadienne: The Cookbook as Communication by Ken Albala

    La Cuisinère Canadienne: The Cookbook as Communication

    Ken Albala

  • Longevity Diets by Ken Albala

    Longevity Diets

    Ken Albala

  • Stimulants and Intoxicants 1500-1700 by Ken Albala

    Stimulants and Intoxicants 1500-1700

    Ken Albala

  • Beams and Bones: Exposure and Concealment of Raw Ingredients, Structure and Processing Techniques in Two Sister Arts – Cuisine and Architecture by Ken Albala and Lisa Cooperman

    Beams and Bones: Exposure and Concealment of Raw Ingredients, Structure and Processing Techniques in Two Sister Arts – Cuisine and Architecture

    Ken Albala and Lisa Cooperman

  • Exhibiting patriotism: Creating and contesting interpretations of American historic sites by Teresa Bergman

    Exhibiting patriotism: Creating and contesting interpretations of American historic sites

    Teresa Bergman

    American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across America―but they are also contested and reshaped by visitors and their engagement with those places. In Exhibiting Patriotism, Bergman analyzes exhibits, interpretive materials, and orientation films at major US sites, from Mt. Rushmore and to the USS Arizona Memorial, where controversy has erupted over the stories they tell about the past. She shows how historic narratives are the result of dynamic relationships between institutions and the public, and how these relationships are changing in an era when museums are becoming more visitor-centered, seeing visitors as partners in historical interpretation. Drawing on film theory, memory studies, visual communication, and visitor studies, Bergman offers an important analysis for scholars and professionals in American studies, museum studies, public history, and communication and media studies.

  • Technologies for Detecting Botulinum Neurotoxins in Biological and Environmental Matrices by Luisa W. Cheng, Kirkwood M. Land, Christina C. Tam, D. L. Brandon, and L. H. Stanker

    Technologies for Detecting Botulinum Neurotoxins in Biological and Environmental Matrices

    Luisa W. Cheng, Kirkwood M. Land, Christina C. Tam, D. L. Brandon, and L. H. Stanker

    Biomonitoring of food and environmental matrices is critical for the rapid and sensitive diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases caused by toxins. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has noted that toxins from bacteria, fungi, algae, and plants present an ongoing public health threat, especially since some of these toxins could compromise security of the food supply. Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), produced by Clostridium spp., are among those bacterial toxins that pose life-threatening danger to humans. BoNTs inhibit the release of acetylcholine at peripheral cholinergic nerve terminals and cause flaccid paralysis. BoNTs are grouped in seven serotypes and many subtypes within these groups. Rapid and accurate identification of these toxins in contaminated food as well as in environmental matrices can help direct treatment. Herein, we discuss current methods to detect BoNTs with a focus on how these technologies have been used to identify toxins in various food and environmental matrices. We also discuss the emergence of new serotypes and subtypes of BoNTs and the increasing number of cases of botulism in wildlife. Finally, we consider how environmental changes impact food safety for humans and present new challenges for detection technology.

  • Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family by Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder

    Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family

    Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder

    Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth, status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity. This volume examines their influence on late antique Christianity and provides an insightful portrait of their legacies in the modern world. Departing from the traditionally patriarchal view, Melania gives a poignant and sometimes surprising account of how the rise of Christian institutions in the Roman Empire shaped our understanding of women’s roles in the larger world.

  • Scribal Revision and Textual Variation in Akkadian Šuila-Prayers: Two Case Studies in Ritual Adaptation by Alan Lenzi

    Scribal Revision and Textual Variation in Akkadian Šuila-Prayers: Two Case Studies in Ritual Adaptation

    Alan Lenzi

  • Mill’s Philosophy of Religion by Lou Matz

    Mill’s Philosophy of Religion

    Lou Matz

  • Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Agricultural Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s by Gregory Rohlf

    Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Agricultural Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s

    Gregory Rohlf

    Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s examines rural resettlement to the Sino-Tibetan cultural borderlands in the 1950s. More than 100,000 eastern Han and Hui Chinese were sent to Qinghai province—known in Mongolian as Kokonor and Amdo to Tibetans—to plow up new fields in areas that were being incorporated into the Chinese state for the first time. The settlers were to bring their skilled labor, literacy, and modern thinking to “backward” Qinghai to fully exploit its natural resources of oil, natural gas, gold, and empty lands for the benefit of the industrializing nation. The book is a social and political history of resettlement, focusing on the people who were moved and the overall impact the program had on the province. It is a frontier history, but it also narrates a story of state building in modern China that spans the twentieth century and the opening years of the twenty-first.

  • Exemplary Women by Caroline T. Schroeder

    Exemplary Women

    Caroline T. Schroeder

  • Corned Beef by Ken Albala

    Corned Beef

    Ken Albala

  • Experiential Research in Culinary History: Reconstructing 16th Century Techniques by Ken Albala

    Experiential Research in Culinary History: Reconstructing 16th Century Techniques

    Ken Albala

  • Licorice by Ken Albala

    Licorice

    Ken Albala

  • Medicinal Uses of Sugar by Ken Albala

    Medicinal Uses of Sugar

    Ken Albala

  • New York Academy of Medicine by Ken Albala

    New York Academy of Medicine

    Ken Albala

  • Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues by Ken Albala

    Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues

    Ken Albala

    The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues explores the topic of food across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and related areas including business, consumerism, marketing, and environmentalism. In contrast to the existing reference works on the topic of food that tend to fall into the categories of cultural perspectives, this carefully balanced academic encyclopedia focuses on social and policy aspects of food production, safety, regulation, labeling, marketing, distribution, and consumption. A sampling of general topic areas covered includes Agriculture, Labor, Food Processing, Marketing and Advertising, Trade and Distribution, Retail and Shopping, Consumption, Food Ideologies, Food in Popular Media, Food Safety, Environment, Health, Government Policy, and Hunger and Poverty. This encyclopedia introduces students to the fascinating, and at times contentious, and ever-so-vital field involving food issues.

  • Sephardic Cuisine by Ken Albala

    Sephardic Cuisine

    Ken Albala

  • Con la cabeza en el abismo: Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes and 2666, Literary Guerrilla, Maquiladora of Death and the Search for the Masterpiece by Martín Camps

    Con la cabeza en el abismo: Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes and 2666, Literary Guerrilla, Maquiladora of Death and the Search for the Masterpiece

    Martín Camps

  • La voz colectiva de la ciudad: En octubre no hay milagros de Oswaldo Reynoso y las democracias simuladas by Martín Camps

    La voz colectiva de la ciudad: En octubre no hay milagros de Oswaldo Reynoso y las democracias simuladas

    Martín Camps

 

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