-= NMSU PANORAMA - Summer 2006 =- Press Check

Press Check

Recent books by NMSU faculty members and alumni:
› The Albuquerque Murders: Before and After
› Some Fun: Stories and a Novella
› The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits, Fifth Edition
› Elementary Children's Literature: The Basics for Teachers and Parents, Second Edtion
› The History of Grinding

The Albuquerque Murders: Before and After

By Philip L. Hosford

Authorhouse 2005

Lynn Hodges, commander of criminal investigations for the Las Cruces Police Department, says Hosford’s murder-mystery novel set in northern New Mexico “weaves a plot that takes the reader from suspicion to sympathy and then to doubt masterfully without sacrificing authenticity and accuracy.” After serving in the Navy during World War II, Hosford earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at New Mexico Highlands University and his doctoral degree at the University of Northern Colorado. This was followed by duties at New Mexico State University, where he served as director of student teaching, head of elementary and secondary education and director of the Center for Improving the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics. Hosford won NMSU’s highest faculty award, the Westhafer Award for Excellence in Teaching, for the academic year 1970-71.

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Some Fun: Stories and a Novella

By Antonya Nelson

Scribner 2006

In her latest book, Nelson delivers a novella and seven stories, all exploring the tensions of troubled family relations. Excerpts from her three previous novels and five collections of short stories have appeared in anthologies such as American Short Stories and Prize Stories as well as in several magazines, including Redbook, Esquire, Harpers and The New Yorker, which called her one of the “twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium.” Nelson’s books made the New York Times Notable Books list in 1992, 1996, 1998 and 2000. She recently received the Rea Award for short fiction, an NEA Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Nelson teaches creative writing at NMSU and in the Warren Wilson Master of Fine Arts program in Asheville, N.C.

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The Analysis and Design of Linear Circuits, Fifth Edition

By Roland E. Thomas

Wiley Publishing 2006

The fifth edition of Thomas’ textbook emphasizes the early development of engineering judgment, helping the reader move past simple analysis of circuits to the development of skills needed to solve problems, design practical alternatives and choose the best design from several competing solutions. New design problems, new or revised homework problems and unique evaluation problems are featured in this updated edition. Thomas earned two degrees in engineering at New Mexico State University in 1951 and 1952.

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Elementary Children's Literature: The Basics for Teachers and Parents, Second Edtion

By Nancy A. Anderson

Allyn and Bacon 2005

This revised edition of a text that was first published in 2002 discusses methods of teaching literature to children. Anderson covers teaching strategies, technology applications and discussion topics for future teachers and parents of preschool and elementary students. The book is organized around genres, with each chapter presenting the basics of children’s literature and containing extensive updated bibliographies of books in print and a few out-of-print books. Books about minorities are featured in each chapter. Anderson, who graduated from New Mexico State University in 1968, is an associate professor in childhood education at the University of South Florida.

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The History of Grinding

By Alban J. Lynch and Chester A. Rowland

Society for Mining Metallurgy 2005

Chester A. Rowland earned his bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now NMSU, in 1945. Rowland’s book, which examines the world’s oldest engineering process, begins at the start of agriculture and explains how size reduction developed over the centuries. Through great technical achievements over the years, the machines of today can grind solid particles at the rate of tens of thousands of tons per day. Hand stones, water wheels, crushers and many kinds of mills, from windmills to finegrinding mills, are discussed in this book.

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Panorama welcomes information on books published by NMSU faculty members and alumni. Information may be sent to panorama@nmsu.edu or mailed to University Communications and Marketing Services, MSC 3K, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001.

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