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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…

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…

The Chosen Few by Matthew Simon ’82 Private investigator Max Lovely finds himself entangled in an expanding web of men and women with big dreams and dark secrets. As the investigation takes him through the Boston neighborhoods of Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, downtown, Chelsea, and Watertown, he draws closer to the truth.…