Sun Devil
Shelf Life
Books by the ASU community

Browse selections written or edited by Arizona State University faculty, staff, alumni and students — or search for specific genres or keywords. Happy reading!

Sun Devil Shelf Life



Cover of Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics


Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics
Elenore Long

Offering a comparative analysis of "community-literacy studies," "Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics" traces common values ...


Cover of "Thinking About Movies"


Thinking About Movies
Watching, Questioning, Enjoying
Peter Lehman

"Thinking About Movies" Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for students and movie lovers who want to learn how to watch movies critically and ...


Cover of "A Guide to the Mammals of China" featuring illustrations of tigers, pandas, bats, hedgehogs and more


A Guide to the Mammals of China
Edited by Andrew T. Smith

Some books really are landmarks. Not just another guidebook, this 527-page volume describes ...


Cover of "Border Fictions" featuring a blue and beige background with images of a landscape


Border Fictions
Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States
Claudia Sadowski-Smith

"Border Fictions" offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders ...


Cover of Watching Slavery


Watching Slavery
Witness Texts and Travel Reports
Joe Lockard

How did witnesses of slavery relate their experiences and what effect did their reports have? This book examines travel accounts, fictions, ...


Cover of Technologies of the Picturesque British Art, Poetry, and Instruments, 1750-1830 (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-century Literature and Culture)


Technologies of the Picturesque
British Art, Poetry, and Instruments, 1750-1830
Ron Broglio

"Technologies of the Picturesque" is an original study of how art and technology mutually align their representations of nature in order to ...


Cover of Soul of the Age by Jonathan Bate


Soul of the Age
The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare
Jonathan Bate

Jonathan Bate's "Soul of the Age" brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like. How did plague turn ...


Cover of "La Clinica" featuring two people riding on horseback down a dusty road


La Clinica
A Doctor's Journey Across Borders
David P. Sklar

In 1972, when the world around him was making little sense, David Sklar left in his senior year of college to volunteer at a community ...

Pages

Current faculty, staff and students should contact the communicator at their school or college to submit items. For alumni or former faculty and staff, please click the button to submit your book for consideration.

Submit your book

Sun Devil Shelf Life is provided as a service to the ASU community. All information is submitted by the authors or publishers. ASU is not responsible for the content of any listings or in any of the featured titles. ASU® and Sun Devil® are registered trademarks of the Arizona Board of Regents.