Books
Spinning Stories of Climate Change and a Fragile Planet
Alum Ross West pens cli-fi collection with provocative questions but no easy answers
![The Physics of Flocking: Birth, Death, and Flight in Active Matter](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/2024-06/flock3.png?h=816d07a7&itok=rFC2JOdM)
The Physics of Flocking: Birth, Death, and Flight in Active Matter
By John Toner, professor emeritus, Physics
![LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/2024-03/life.cover_.jw_.png?h=1d289a4f&itok=fWU--MDl)
LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry
Edited by Jeremy Swartz, BA ’00 (music), MS ’10 (individualized program), PhD ’16 (communication and society); and Janet Wasko, professor, School of Journalism and Communication
![The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/2024-03/sustainable.png?h=fdea10b1&itok=RurrrZLr)
The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook
By Nico Larco, professor, School of Architecture & Environment; and Kaarin Knudson, BA ’99 (journalism, fine and applied arts), MArch ’07, instructor, School of Planning, Public Policy and Management
![Show Game](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/2024-06/showgame.anderson.png?h=caadef47&itok=ohAFNds-)
Show Game
By Steve Anderson, BA ’89 (history)
![TransPacific: Collected Poems of Ernest G. Moll](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/2024-06/moll.poems_.png?h=1d289a4f&itok=H6Zwj8RJ)
TransPacific: Collected Poems of Ernest G. Moll
Edited by Alan Contreras, BS ’82 (political science), JD ’85
![Just Here for the Comments](/sites/default/files/styles/portrait/public/2024-06/comments.png?h=8a41f885&itok=Ch2NgqhM)
Just Here For The Comments: Lurking As Digital Literacy Practice
By Gina Sipley, MEd ’07 (teaching and learning)
![Two participants in a self-defense class practice striking a mitt](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_medium/public/2024-02/courtesy.the_.registerguard.resize.jpg?h=529739da&itok=Tcr_2IQZ)
How to Empower Yourself to Survive and Thrive
Former UO instructor authors book on self-defense and success in a sexist world
![1977 photo of luminary Black writers gathered in an NYC apartment](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_medium/public/2023-11/oq-sisterhood.jpg?h=bf70942b&itok=fkXaxZYd)
Literary Sisters: Two Years That Changed Our Culture
English professor’s new book captures pivotal moment for Black feminist writing
![quran on table with sun beaming into window in background](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_medium/public/2023-08/quran_adobestock_337448628-med.jpg?h=1d4b4ebd&itok=5_oIkscW)
Religious Scholar Courts Controversy with “Creating the Qur’an”
Stephen Shoemaker challenges claims adopted by Muslims and non-Muslims alike