Alumni and Faculty Books
	Shaw J. Dallal ’56, Scattered Like Seeds (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998) Dallal’s book offers a dimension of the Middle East conflict often overlooked. In his historical novel about the struggle of the Palestinian people for survival, the author gives insights into Palestinian culture, family life, character, and history while looking at the cultural implications of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He does this by narrating the story of a Palestinian- American returning to the Middle East, distilling the larger story into the personal conflicts of the hero. Dallal teaches international relations and international business management at Utica College and Islamic culture and civilization in the honors program of Syracuse University. Zillah Eisenstein, Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Lure of Cyberfantasy (New York: New York University Press, 1998) In her latest book Eisenstein argues that the explosive growth of media and cyber conglomerates has been at the expense of the real world’s ecology. She alleges that public space and public democracy are withering while new "geographies of power" are being defined by sex scandals, plant closings, stock market schizophrenia, and "cyberporn." The purported democratic effect of new media is, she claims, a global mirage. Eisenstein is a professor in the Department of Politics. López-Arias, Julio, and Gladys M. Varona-Lacey, eds., Latin America: An Interdisciplinary Approach (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 1999) López-Arias and Varona-Lacey are associate professors in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. This textbook presents a broad perspective of a crucial region of the world and highlights major events, issues, and political, social, and economic changes that have shaped Latin America. The book contains articles written by expert scholars representing different disciplines. One of these scholars is Colleen Kattau, also of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, who wrote a chapter on a cultural movement called Latin American "new song." John Hess, a former faculty member of the Roy H. Park School of Communications, contributed a chapter on Latin American cinema from 1954 to 1974. Michael Zimet ’70 and Christopher Mykrantz, The Comprehensive Guide to Upward and Face-to-Face Communication (Chicago: Ragan Communications, 1997) Billed as a "hearing aid" for companies where management does all the talking, this is a guide to creating dialogue between employees and management. The authors have extensive backgrounds in assessing, planning, and developing corporate communication programs.