Sharks and behavior that advantages business are notions sometimes associated. But the two topics will on Oct. 28 enjoy individual attention — as will a wide variety of other scholarly topics — as the annual faculty authors celebration returns to Shields Library.

Works of faculty authors from disciplines as varied as wildlife, business-world innovation, conditions in the Peruvian jungle, African fashion and aging will take the spotlight.

More than 120 newly published books by campus writers and researchers will be featured at the free event, and at least a dozen of the authors are slated to, from 4-6 p.m., discuss writings they published over the past year.

The program and reception, held since 1993, offers campus colleagues and the public the chance to see what interesting scholarship is coming out of UC Davis, say library administrators. Campus librarian Marilyn Sharrow, Provost Virginia Hinshaw and Academic Senate chair Bruce Madewell also are slated to speak. Refreshments will be provided.

Authors to speak at this year’s event are: Carolyn Aldwin and Diane Gilmer of human and community development, who discovered some secrets to aging gracefully during research for Health, Illness and Optimal Aging; Stefano Varese, of Native American studies, who wrote about Campa Asháninka and resistance in the Peruvian Jungle; Thomas Beamish of sociology, talking about Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis; Winder McConnell, of German and Russian, discussing The Nibelungen Tradition; Andrew Hargadon, of the Graduate School of Management, who studied how companies innovate for How Breakthroughs Happen; Peter Klimley of wildlife, fish and conservation biology, who will delve The Secret Life of Sharks; Philip Martin of agricultural and resource economics, who has written about “promises unfulfilled” for unions, immigration and farm workers; Carolyn Thomas de la Pena of American studies, who has traced Americans’ use of machinery to renew the body since the early 1900s; Jeff Loux of land use and natural resources, who looks at planning for the state’s future in terms of water needs; Leslie Rabine of women and gender studies, eyeing African fashion; and Carlos Puente of land, air and water resources, who will uncover Treasures Inside the Bell (curve). Hidden Order in Chance.

For a listing of books to be featured, see http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/admin/CampusAuthors. Or for more details, call (530) 752-3444 or 752-9075.