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Issue: April 2010

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Washington’s First World’s Fair

by Paula Becker ’85 and Alan J. Stein The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held on the University of Washington campus in 1909, was a major community effort that brought Seattle and Washington State (then only 20 years old) into the national spotlight. It was the first world’s fair to make a profit, provided a platform for women’s suffrage, and set the general plan for the University of Washington campus that endures to this day. This volume documents the history of the A-Y-P from its inception to the present day. ISBN: 978-0-295-98926-6. Published by HistoryLink/History Ink in association with the University of Washington Press; 2009.

Issue: April 2010

What Christians Can Learn From Buddhism: Rethinking Salvation

by Kristin Johnston Largen ’90 It is a truism in the study of religion that to understand one’s own tradition one must inhabit another’s deeply. Largen, assistant professor of systematic theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., takes the reader on a pilgrimage into Buddhism in order to ultimately address what Christians mean by salvation. The book explores comparative theology and the meanings of salvation, or soteriology. ISBN-13: 978-0800663285. Published by Fortress Press; 2009.

Issue: April 2010

Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter- Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson

by James Rice ’85 This study of the Potomac River basin opens with a mystery: Why, when the region offered fertile soil and excellent fishing and hunting, was nearly threequarters of the area uninhabited on the eve of colonization? Rice uses archaeological and anthropological research, as well as scholarship on farming practices at the time, to arrive at the answer. The book’s acknowledgements salute Rice’s CC advisor T.K. Barton P’92, “who loved the English language and books and who never hesitated to identify stylistic ‘barbarisms’ when they crept into my prose.” ISBN-13: 978-0801890321. Johns Hopkins University Press; 2009.

Issue: April 2010

The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan

by Bill Greer ’76 In this novel about New Amsterdam, Greer paints a portrait of life in the Dutch settlement as experienced by Jackie Lambert, a teenage bride who is among the first settlers and who witnesses the English takeover 40 years later. Mevrouw (a Dutch housewife) Lambert opens a window into the transplanting of Dutch culture to the Hudson Valley. ISBN-13: 978-1439221785. Published by Manhattan View Press; 2009.

Issue: April 2010

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 polemic to a serious discussion of the many facets of land development. ISBN-13: 978-0520261716. Published by University of California Press; 2009.

Issue: April 2010

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 as well as for anyone who wants to grapple with the most fundamental concerns of human life and politics today.” ISBN-13: 978-1584657507. Published by Dartmouth College Press; 2009.

Issue: April 2010

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; Spinuzzi was acquitted of murder “because no one saw the bullet leave the gun.” ISBN: 978-1583852743. Published by Dog Ear Publishing; 2008.

Issue: April 2010

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, such as competency to confess, competency to proceed, criminal responsibility, and sentencing concerns. ISBN-13: 978-1593857219. Published by The Guilford Press; 2008.

Issue: April 2010

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 the writers as they puzzle over issues of motherhood and place. ISBN-13: 978-1882291069. Published by Oyster River Press; 2008.

Issue: April 2010

CC Receives $2 Million for Unrestricted Financial Aid

Colorado College has received more than $2.3 million from the James W. Austin Charitable Remainder Unitrust, which will go toward a scholarship fund providing unrestricted financial aid. The gift originally was made in May 1993 by James Austin ’29, and remains the single largest life income gift in the history of Colorado College. The funds establish the James W. and Esther Austin Scholarship Fund, in memory of Austin and his wife. Austin’s initial gift was $2,173,259, establishing a Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust. Austin received payments from his unitrust until his death in 1997. Payments then went to two successor beneficiaries, the second of whom died in August 2009. The remaining…