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Posts from the April 2010 issue

Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America

by Stephen Trimble ’72 Stephen Trimble tackles the paradox of the modern West: How do people inhabit and develop a rapidly vanishing landscape? Trimble weaves the important tale of public land transformed into a commercial ski resort with his own construction of a second home near a national park. This juxtaposition elevates the book from…

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Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, edited by Christopher Kelly and Eve Grace, CC associate professor of political science A key thematic sampling of Rousseau’s published writings come together in this anthology, some newly translated or translated into English for the first time by the editors. The book has been called “a must-read for all students of Rousseau…

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Mountain Mafia: Organized Crime in the Rockies

by Betty L. Alt ’60 and Sandra K. Wells “Mountain Mafia” is a brief history of the Black Hand and Mafia in the Rocky Mountain region, and brings to life some of the West’s more colorful organized crime leaders of the 20th century. The famous court case of “Scotty” Spinuzzi is looked at in depth;…

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Clinical Neuropsychology in the Criminal Forensic Setting

by James Sullivan ’84 and Robert L. Denney This book focuses exclusively on criminal forensic practice among neuropsychologists, an area in which Sullivan specializes. It brings together experts to present the legal and clinical foundations of neuropsychology practice in criminal forensic cases and provides guidance for conducting assessments that address specific legal standards and questions,…

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Lugar de Origen / Place of Origin

by Melina Draper ’97 and Elena Lafert These poems are written as a means to bridge the distance between a mother and daughter living on separate continents. The reader is allowed into this correspondence in a way that is generous and fascinating, and by the end of the book is sharing these two worlds with…

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