Historian Frank Turner challenges long-held beliefs about John Henry Newman's conversion to Catholicism in his new book, which has been called Turner's "crowning achievement." X

The following is a list of books recently or soon-to-be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers.

To submit information about books for this column, send e-mail to opa@yale.edu.

JSTL in Action
Shawn Bayern, research programmer, Information Technology Services
(Manning Publications)

"JSTL in Action" introduces and demonstrates the capabilities of JSTL, a Java standard for developing dynamic websites. In his new book, Shawn Bayern uses working examples and includes information about codes to help both beginners and experts alike learn how to tie JSTL's features together. The book shows how to manipulate XML, use relationship databases, format text, internationalize web applications and configure and integrate Java code with JSTL. The book "does a wonderful job at making beginners and experts alike fluent in JSTL," says Pierre Delisle, a JSTL specification lead at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79
Ben Kiernan, the A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and director of the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale
(Second edition, Yale University Press)

The second edition of "The Pol Pot Regime" shows how an ideological preoccupation with racist and totalitarian policies led a group of intellectuals to impose genocide on their own country. This edition includes Ben Kiernan's new preface recounting the fatal disintegration of the Khmer Rouge army, the death of Pol Pot, the United Nations' foray into the struggle to bring his accomplices to justice and the damning new evidence they could face. Kiernan, a noted authority on Cambodia, was called an "arch war criminal" by the Khmer Rouge when the first edition of this book was published in 1995.

John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion
Frank M. Turner, the John Hay Whitney Professor of History
(Yale University Press)

Frank Turner explores the motivations behind John Henry Newman's conversion to Roman Catholicism in his new book about one of the most controversial religious figures of the 19th century. Departing from previous interpretations, Turner portrays Newman as a disruptive and confused schismatic conducting a radical religious experiment, and argues that at the root of Newman's intellectual life and personal religious development lay a fundamental "monastic imperative" -- a desire on his part to avoid the intimate company of women and to live in a community of celibate males. Boyd Hilton of Cambridge University calls Turner's new book his "crowning achievement."

Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade
Co-edited by Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and Carolyn Deere, Rockefeller Foundation
(MIT Press)

This book reviews the North American Free Trade Agreement's treatment of environmental issues and explores the treaty's environmental and economic impacts. Through their analysis of the NAFTA experience, the editors argue that economic integration in the Western hemisphere -- as envisioned in a proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement-- must proceed in an environmentally sustainable manner to fully realize the benefits of freer trade and open markets. The book also argues that the FTAA trade and environment agenda should be developed by the Latin American countries, rather than dictated by the United States. The book's 21 contributors include Mónica Araya, director of the Sustainable Americas Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy.

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ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

• Bender is the new Robert Levy Professor
  
  
• Lockwood named to O'Keefe Young post
  
  
• Schultz assumes the Ford Foundation chair
  
  
• Snyder is appointed Cullman Professor
  

Nelson named next director of Marsh Botanical Garden

In Focus: Postdoctoral Office

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Symposium will mark Yale Center for British Art's 25th year

Anthropologist makes his first Yale address in 'Crossing Borders' conference

MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS

• Three elected to Institute of Medicine
  
  
• Results of autism research may provide a key . . .
  
  
• Investigators win Donaghue Foundation awards
  
  
• Researchers' findings challenge previous theories . . .
  
  
• Study shows 'dearth' of federally-funded research . . .
  

Yale Books in Brief

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