Ruined by Design: Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility by Inger Thomsen Brodey ’88 “Ruined by Design,” a book of literary criticism and cultural theory, provides an analysis of the philosophical shift from reason and order toward imagination and feeling in landscape innovations and literary experimentation during the 18th century. The author [...]

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A Users' Guide to Measuring Corruption by Jonathan Eyler-Werve ’02 Commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme, this book is one of the first attempts to systematically explore the practical challenges and opportunities of measuring what is increasingly viewed as one of the major impediments to development: corruption. Based on a review of the literature [...]

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Open Hearts Open Doors: Reflections on China’s Past and Present by Elizabeth Gill Lui ’73 A movement for historic preservation is taking hold in China as more people realize the extent to which the country’s historical character has been sacrificed to economic development. This stunning collection of photos, taken between 1995 and 2006 while Lui [...]

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Chemosabee: A Triathlete's Journey Through the First Year of Breast Cancer by Nancy Reinisch ’75 Triathlete and psychotherapist Reinisch became a statistic at 53 when a lump in her breast was diagnosed as invasive breast cancer. In “Chemosabee,” which was honored as a finalist in May 2009 in the National Indie Excellence Book Awards, Reinisch [...]

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Winter Ridge by Bruce Kellner ’55 Kellner's new novel is a departure for the noted scholar and author of a dozen books on 20th-century arts and letters, as well as a landmark study of the Harlem Renaissance during the Jazz Age. In this book, Silas Harmon, who is approaching old age, closes his San Francisco [...]

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Valles Caldera: Map and Geologic History and Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument: Trail Map and Geology by Kirt Kempter ’81 These publications are non-technical field guides to the Valles Caldera, a 12-mile-wide collapsed volcanic crater, and the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, a landscape riddled with bizarre volcanic hoodoo formations, both located in northern New [...]

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Brides of the Multitude by Jeremy Agnew ’64 “Brides of the Multitude” is a historically accurate account of why prostitution ran rampant in the Old West during the prudish Victorian period of the United States. Weaving facts with anecdotes, the book presents a look at the women who conducted business in the infamous red light [...]

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The Best Nonreligious Quotes Ever by Christine Pierce ’83 and Kevin Reedy ’83 What happens when two middle-aged friends get their master’s degrees in theology, only later to conclude that there may not be a God? They write an inspirational quote book aimed at nonreligious and religious people alike. The book provides encouraging, thoughtful, and [...]

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The Family of Sukey Lewis in the Plantation South by Heather Palmer ’81 Working from a cache of newly discovered diaries and letters from 1793 to 1866, Palmer presents the story of five generations of an American family. As each generation featured moves further west, the men write of the challenge of bringing crops to [...]

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The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum: An Agenda for Reform by Kristie Kauerz ’91, Sharon Lynn Kagan, and Kate Tarrant The authors focus on the more than two million individuals who care for and educate nearly two thirds of the American children under age five participating in non-parental care, and address [...]

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