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ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Robert E. Asher, PhB’32, AM’34, and Leo J. Harris,
A Family of Artists (Pogo Press, Inc.). A presentation of
color and black-and-white photographs highlights the paintings and
sculptures of three Chicago-born women—Marilee Harris Shapiro,
PhB’33; her mother, Bonnie Harris; and her sister, Eleanor
Harris.
Steven C. Dubin, AM’76, PhD’82, Displays of
Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum (NYU Press).
Using a journalistic approach, Dubin argues that modern museums
have been criticized by their conservative opponents and run by
idealistic and politically naive curators, who have allowed minor
conflicts to blow up into front-page stories.
BIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS
Conrad L. Bergendoff, AM’48, One Man’s Perspective
(New Hanover Printing & Publishing, Inc.). Bergendoff’s
collection of essays includes a look at humanity’s efforts
to bracket time, a satirical political commentary on the Iran-Contra
investigation, and an informative piece on pastoral care for alcoholism.
Amy R. W. Meyers, AB’77, and Margaret Beck Pritchard,
editors, Empire’s Nature: Mark Catesby’s New World
Vision (University of North Carolina Press). This collection
of interdisciplinary essays strives to place Mark Catesby’s
endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental
horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker
in a broader context, particularly as those interests related to
the British colonial enterprise.
Suzanne Mehler Whiteley, AB’55, AB’58, Appel
Is Forever: A Child’s Memoirs (Wayne State University Press).
Written in the voice of a young girl, this narrative describes Whiteley’s
years during the German occupation of Holland, her experiences in
the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and her later childhood years
in Europe and the United States.
Richard Yatzeck, AM’57, Hunting the Edges (University
of Wisconsin Press). Yatzeck’s humorous tales of hunting and
fishing through his youth and adulthood highlight the relationship
between the cycles of modern life and the age-old season of the
hunt.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
John R. Boatright, AM’66, PhD’71, Ethics in
Finance (Blackwell Publishers). Beginning with examples of well-publicized
Wall Street scandals, Boatright explains the need for ethics both
in the personal conduct of finance professionals and in the operation
of financial markets and institutions.
Howard L. Kirz, MD’67, editor, Thriving in Capitation:
A Practical Guide for the Medical Leader (American College of
Physician Executives). Drawing on more than 25 years of experience
in medical leadership and managed care, Kirz and contributing authors
give advice on issues ranging from precise contracting to patient-care
management.
William Lazer, MBA’50, and Roger A. Layton, Contemporary
Hospitality Marketing: A Service Management Approach (Educational
Institute of the American Hotel and Motel Association). The authors
deal with strategic marketing in the running of hospitality businesses,
particularly in highly competitive markets.
Craig T. Scalise, MBA’92, PhD’97, Intellectual
Property Protection Reform: Theory, Evidence and Policy (Singapore
University Press). Scalise investigates major reforms in the protection
of intellectual property in developing countries, concluding with
a commentary on the harmonization of global policy.
G. D. Venerable, SM’67, PhD’70, Managing in
a Five Dimension Economy: Ven Matrix Architectures for New Organizations
(Quorum Books). Venerable argues that the evolution of our current
five-dimension economy is driven by a collective group consciousness.
He offers a new approach to managing today’s organizations
based on the Ven Matrix model, governed by certain mathematical
and scientific principles.
Daniel Wagner, AM’85, IRMI’s Political Risk
Insurance Guide (International Risk Management Institute). Wagner’s
guide aims to help insurance companies, brokers, risk managers,
accountants, investors, and others use political-risk insurance
to weather countries’ political changes.
Jack D. Wilner, MBA’77, 7 Secrets to Successful
Sales Management (St. Lucie Press). Wilner, a self-avowed “grizzled
veteran” of sales management, combines his experience with
innovative strategies for motivating a sales force, recruiting quality
sales people, and training employees.
CRITICISM
Inger Sigrun Brodey, AM’91, PhD’93, and Sammy
Tsunematsu, editors, Rediscovering Natsume Sôseki (Weatherhill).
The editors present the first English translation of novelist Natsume
Sôseki’s Man Kan Tokoro Dokoro, as well as an introduction
by Brodey that places the work in historical, biographical, and
literary contexts.
Steven C. Caton, PhD’84, Lawrence of Arabia: A
Film’s Anthropology (University of California Press). Combining
ethnography, film criticism, and a knowledge of the Middle East,
Caton poses questions of ethnographic representation and the discourse
of power.
Marc Cogan, AB’65, PhD’74, The Design in the
Wax: The Structure of the Divine Comedy and Its Meaning (University
of Notre Dame Press). Cogan explains the common principles organizing
all three parts of Dante’s Divine Comedy, revealing
a set of variations on the themes of love and the nature of God.
Lawrence Rainey, AB’81, PhD’86, Institutions
of Modernism: Literary Elites and Popular Culture (Yale University
Press). Rainey assays the movement known as literary modernism,
posing the questions of where modernism was born, how it was transmitted,
and to whom.
Terence J. Whalen, AB’83, Edgar Allan Poe and the
Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America
(Princeton University Press). Broadly concerned with the relationship
between literature and capitalism during a period of momentous social
change, Whalen unfolds a new account of Poe’s confrontations
with slavery, the publishing industry, and the dawn of the information
age.
EDUCATION
Steven Glazer, AM’86, editor, The Heart of Learning:
Spirituality in Education (Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam). A collection
of essays by bell hooks, Parker Palmer, the Dalai Lama, and others
encourages readers to rediscover their deepest inner values through
teaching and learning.
Louis Janus, AB’70, Norwegian Verbs and Essentials
of Grammar: A Practical Guide to the Mastery of Norwegian (Passport
Books). The book covers all major aspects of modern Norwegian grammar,
pitfalls for English speakers, and forms of all common Norwegian
verbs.
FICTION AND POETRY
David Kaplan, AB’74, PhD’79, MD’80, The
Immunologist, The Virus Within, and The Water Drinkers (1st
Books Library). This trilogy concerns the lives of biomedical scientists
and the scientific process. Kaplan highlights the adventures of
three different scientists through a coming-of-age novel, a mystery,
and a work of science fiction.
Ron Offen, AM’67, God’s Haircut & Other
Remembered Dreams (Pygmy Forest Press). Winner of the Academy
of American Poets Prize, Offen employs a variety of styles in his
work, which has been characterized as “sweet-sour.”
HISTORY AND CURRENT EVENTS
Hayward Farrar, AM’71, PhD’83, The Baltimore
Afro-American, 1892–1950 (Greenwood Press). Farrar traces
the development of one of America’s leading black newspapers,
from its founding in 1892 to the beginning of the Civil Rights era
in the 1950s.
David Fromkin, AB’50, JD’53, The Way of the
World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first
Century (Alfred Knopf). Fromkin gives a whirlwind overview of
the evolution of world civilization in an effort to influence readers’
views of the future political landscape.
Jean S. Gottlieb, AM’71, PhD’77, Coconuts
and Coquinas: Island Life on Fort Myers Beach, 1920–1970
(Sentry Press). Recognized by the Florida Historical Confederation
as 1999’s best local-history monograph, this firsthand account
relates the beauties and hardships of life on a barrier island off
the southwest coast, from its early days as a combination hideaway,
entertainment outpost, and tourist playground to its more sedate
but overcrowded present.
Hank Hassell, AM’80, Rainbow Bridge: An Illustrated
History (Utah State University Press). Drawing on unpublished
letters, diaries, and personal accounts, Hassell traces the history
of the Rainbow Bridge National Monument in southern Utah’s
canyon country. Historical photographs and color plates accompany
information about the area’s geology, prehistory, and the controversy
generated by Lake Powell’s intrusion into the National Monument.
Richard Hellie, AB’58, AM’60, PhD’65,
The Economy and Material Culture of Russia, 1600–1725 (University
of Chicago Press). Hellie offers a glimpse into the economy and
the material life of the people of Muscovy during the tumultuous
period between 1600 and 1725.
Alf Hiltebeitel, AM’66, PhD’73, Rethinking
India’s Oral and Classical Epics (University of Chicago
Press). The author compares the oral tradition of the south Indian
cult of the goddess Draupadi to that of five other regional martial
oral epics, illustrating how traditional plots are twisted and reshaped
to reflect local history and religion.
Robin Kirk, AB’82, translator, The Shining Path:
A History of the Millenarian War in Peru (University of North
Carolina Press). Kirk translates and introduces Gustavo Gorriti’s
account of the strategies, actions, successes, and setbacks of both
the government and the rebels in the war fought on Peruvian soil
since the Chilean invasion.
George Levy, AB’53, AB’54, JD’56, To
Die In Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862–65
(Pelican Publishing Co.). Levy’s book reveals the brutal
life at Camp Douglas, a Confederate prison camp, located between
present-day Cottage Grove and King Drive, that quickly became the
largest Confederate burial ground outside of the South. He bases
his depiction on original camp records discovered after a church
fire in Chicago and baptismal books kept by a priest who visited
the camp
Ray Suarez, AM’93, The Old Neighborhood: What We
Lost in The Great Suburban Migration, 1966–1999 (Free Press).
Suarez juxtaposes statistical analysis, government reports, and
personal narratives to retell the story of urban flight in the U.S.
He foregrounds race as a primary factor in the phenomenon of suburban
migration, which has left many cities in relatively impoverished
conditions.
Joseph A. Varacalli, AM’75, with Salvatore Primeggia,
Salvatore J. LaGumina, and Donald J. D’Elia, editors, The
Saints in the Lives of Italian-Americans: An Interdisciplinary Investigation
(Forum Italicum) and with LaGumina, Frank J. Cavaioli, and Primeggia,
editors, The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia
(Garland Publishing). In the first book, the editors approach Italian-American
religious issues from complementary sociological, historical, psychological,
and philosophical perspectives. The encyclopedia comprehensively
presents the history and cultural contributions of Italian Americans.
MEDICINE AND HEALTH
David G. Ostrow, SB’69, PhD’74, MD’75, and
Seth Kalichman, editors, The Psychosocial and Public Health Impacts
of New HIV Therapies (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers). This
book addresses concerns raised by the combination therapies that
have revolutionized the treatment of HIV and AIDS. Issues such as
clinical use, prevention implications, mental-health ramifications,
and ethical and policy issues are discussed.
Terra Ziporyn, AM’81, PhD’85, and James Dillard,
Alternative Medicine for Dummies (IDG Books Worldwide). Dillard
and Ziporyn offer a guide to alternative therapies for common ailments,
explaining how each treatment differs from conventional Western
medicine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW
Paul Kahn, AB’73, The Cultural Study of Law: Reconstructing
Legal Scholarship (University of Chicago Press). Kahn outlines
the shortcomings of current legal scholarship and charts the way
for the rise of a new intellectual discipline that approaches the
law as a way of life rather than a set of rules.
Charles H. Kennedy, JD’76, Robert L. Corn-Revere,
Robert M. Frieden, and Harvey L. Zuckman, Modern Communication
Law (West Group). This practitioners’ treatise deals with
the constitutional, common-law, and regulatory constraints placed
on traditional and electronic media.
Thomas L. Pangle, PhD’72, and Peter J. Ahrensdorf,
PhD’89, Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power
and Peace (University Press of Kansas). The authors provide
a critical introduction to the most important conceptions of international
justice, spanning 2,500 years of intellectual history, from Thucydides
to Morgenthau.
Bartholomew H. Sparrow, PhD’91, Uncertain Guardians:
The News Media as a Political Institution (Johns Hopkins University
Press). Blending original interviews with his own institutional
analysis, Sparrow shows how major U.S. news organizations can act
contrary to the interests of the American public and democratic
government.
PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Richard D. Chessick, PhB’49, SB’54, MD’54,
Emotional Illness and Creativity: A Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological
Study (International Universities Press). Chessick explores
the relationship between artistic creativity and the psychological
dysfunction occurring in mental or social disorder. He also draws
connections between creativity and concepts of truth and being,
the artistic process, and aesthetics.
Joseph F. Goldberg, AB’84, and Martin Harrow, editors,
Bipolar Disorders: Clinical Course and Outcome (American
Psychiatric Press, Inc.). This text for mental-health clinicians
and researchers summarizes data on bipolar illness, describing current
knowledge about recovery, relapse, psychological adjustment, medications,
and new treatments.
Martha Heineman Pieper, AM’63, AM’74, PhD’79,
and William J. Pieper, Smart Love (Harvard Common Press).
This husband-wife team argues that popular discipline methods such
as spanking or lecturing are actually harmful for children. They
offer an alternative nurturing technique intended to preserve the
natural optimism children bring into the world.
James Rest, PhD’69, D. Narvaez, M. J. Bebeau, and
S.J. Thomas, Postconventional Moral Thinking: A Neo-Kohlbergian
Approach (Erlbaum). The authors analyze and propose solutions
to psychological and philosophical criticism raised by Kohlberg’s
research on moral development.
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY
Thomas A. Carlson, AM’90, PhD’95, Indiscretion:
Finitude and the Naming of God (University of Chicago Press).
Carlson compares premodern approaches to God’s ineffability
and postmodern approaches to the mystery of the human subject. The
recent interest in mystical theological traditions, he argues, is
best understood in relation to contemporary philosophy’s emphasis
on the idea of human finitude and mortality.
W. Trent Foley, AM’77, PhD’84, and Arthur G.
Holder, Bede: A Biblical Miscellany (University of Pennsylvania
Press). This collection offers previously untranslated biblical
writings by the Venerable Bede, an early medieval English biblical
scholar and historian.
Gordon Jackson, PhD’54, A Theology for Ministry:
Creating Something of Beauty (Chalice Press). Jackson organizes
his thoughts on process theology around such themes as the massiveness
of the past, persuasive power, peace, importance, and imagination.
The work culminates in a discussion of spirituality as the attainment
of beauty.
Douglas R. McGaughey, PhD’83, Christianity for
the Third Millennium: Faith in an Age of Fundamentalism and Skepticism
(International Scholars Publications). McGaughey offers an
exercise in systematic theology, attempting to describe Western
and Eastern interpretations of Christianity as a result of two radically
different ways of experiencing reality.
Charles W. Meister, AM’42, PhD’48, Religion:
Bane or Blessing (New Falcon Publications). Meister studies
the distinction between divisive religion, which recognizes no religion
but one’s own, and unitive religion, which avers that all humans
are God’s children.
Richard Polt, AM’89, PhD’91, Heidegger: An
Introduction (Cornell University Press). Presenting the writings
and life of Heidegger, Polt provides a detailed guide to the philosopher’s
masterpiece, Being and Time, as well as exploring many other texts,
some of which have only recently been published.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
John Morgan Allman, AM’68, PhD’71, Evolving
Brains (Scientific American Library/W.H. Freeman). Allman studies
brain evolution, applying knowledge about the genetic regulation
of development, the geological history of the earth, and the behavioral
ecology of animals.
Roger A. Powell, PhD’77, J. W. Zimmerman, D. Erran
Seaman, C. Powell, Ecology and Behaviour of North American Black
Bears: Home Ranges, Habitat, and Social Organization (Chapman
& Hall). Powell and his co-authors address what factors affect
mammalian home range size and dynamics, including overviews of black
bears’ habits.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Carl Abbott, AM’67, PhD’71, Political Terrain:
Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis (University
of North Carolina Press). Abbott chronicles the ways in which the
city’s regional orientation and national symbolism have been
interpreted by novelists and business boosters, architects and blues
artists, map makers and politicians.
Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod, AB’47, AM’50, New
York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities (University
of Minnesota Press) and Sociology of the Twenty-first Century:
Continuities and Cutting Edges (University of Chicago Press).
In the first work, the author compares the historical trajectories
of the three largest metropolitan regions in the United States,
tracing changing demographics, the evolution of spatial patterns,
and trends in politics and culture. In the second work, she chronicles
the proceedings of a 1997 international conference co-sponsored
by the American Sociological Association and the International Sociological
Association.
Daphne Berdahl, AM’90, PhD’95, Where the World
Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland (University
of California Press). Berdahl’s vivid ethnographic account
of everyday life after Germany’s socialist re-unification highlights
the border issues that have arisen since the fall of the Berlin
Wall in 1989.
Ellen Eslinger, AM’82, PhD’88, Citizens of
Zion: The Social Origins of Camp Meeting Revivalism (University
of Tennessee Press). Eslinger follows Kentucky’s development
from its initial settlement in 1775 to the eve of the Great Revival
in 1801. The author not only explains this particular instance of
religious revivalism, but also explores the creation of a new form
of worship that allowed people to relate more comfortably to a changing
society through an intense collective experience.
Paul Glewwe, AB’79, David Dollar, and Jennie Litvack,
editors, Household Welfare and Vietnam’s Transition (World
Bank). The book examines aspects of Vietnam’s transition from
a planned to a market economy, highlighting such “non-economic”
topics as education, health, child nutrition, and fertility.
Anura Goonasekera, AM’76, PhD’83, and Paul S.
N. Lee, editors, TV Without Borders: Asia Speaks Out (AMIC,
Singapore), and with Duncan Holaday, Asian Communication Handbook
1998. Based on four years of research on trans-border television
in India, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, the first
book addresses economic, legal, and political issues involved in
the rapidly changing Asian communication scene. The second is a
reference work, providing a comprehensive overview of Asian communication
regulations.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE
Mary Jane Checchi, JD’70, Are You the Pet for Me?
Choosing the Right Pet for Your Family (St. Martin’s Press).
Checchi offers a practical guide for prospective pet owners, alerting
families to issues they need to consider before getting a pet—including
space, cost, time, and legal restrictions.
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