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Edwin S. Munger, SB'43, SM'48, PhD'51, Cultures, Chess, & Art: A Collector's Odyssey across Seven Continents: Volume Three: Pacific Islands & Asia (Mundial Press). In the latest addition to his series, Munger combines anthropology and history with the aesthetics and collection of chess pieces. Through illustrations and descriptions of 89 ethnic chess sets, Munger depicts the cultures found in 22 countries and as many islands in the Pacific, spanning 17 centuries. Wolfgang Schorlau, Down at Theresa's-Chicago Blues: The Photographs of Marc PoKempner (Prestel). This book contains more than 80 black-and-white photographs by Marc J. PoKempner, AB'73, taken at Theresa's and other neighborhood Chicago blues clubs since the late '60s.

Sally M. Promey, PhD'88, Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library (Princeton University Press). Promey interprets the imagery in Sargent's religiously controversial library panels within the context of the cultural currents running through 19th- and 20th-century America, particularly Boston.