Albert Schweitzer’s Legacy for Education
A.G. Rud
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2011
WSU’s new dean of the College of Education examines the life and philosophy of Albert Schweitzer, and how Schweitzer’s “Reverence for Life” concept can be applied to teaching and education.
Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance
Michael E. Kraft, Mark Stephan, and Troy D. Abel
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2011
Mark Stephan, an assistant professor of political science at WSU Vancouver, and his colleagues analyze corporate disclosures of environmental impacts and release of pollutants. They show that toxics release information has had substantial effects, but the impact has been uneven and can be improved.
The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
Lawrence Pintak
I.B. Tauris, London, 2011
Building on a broad survey of Arab journalists, his own experience in the Middle East, and interviews with Arab journalists, founding dean of the Murrow College of Communication, Lawrence Pintak delves into the complex and rapidly changing world of Arab journalists and media.