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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics by George Simmons, professor emeritus of mathematics Simmons offers two books in one. The first 200 pages survey the lives of 33 mathematicians who made seminal contributions to calculus and its applications to analysis, physics, number theory, and geometry. The second 150 pages fulfill the promise of the…

Arthur Carhart: Wilderness Prophet by Tom Wolf ’67 This is the first biography of landscape architect and recreation planner Arthur Carhart, co-father, along with Aldo Leopold, of the idea of wilderness. Carhart (1892–1978) never won the status or recognition Leopold achieved, in part because he was a political maverick who refused to side with any…