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Nightsong
Sarah J. Woolf-Wade, J57
Goose River Press
Woolf-Wade, who had her first poem published in the Boston
Herald when she was nine years old, studied the craft
of poetry with John Holmes, A29, H62, at Tufts. Now she
brings together a collection of her poems in Nightsong,
in which she offers portraits of clam diggers, coastal
fishermen, the earnest teacher, the sister ships of Wiscasset,
Maine, women of the Varanasi, the lost son and her mother,
whose life she reconstructs. |
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The Body in the Lighthouse
(A Faith Fairchild Mystery)
Katherine Hall Page, G74
William Morrow
In this 13th appearance by minister’s wife and caterer
Faith Fairchild, Page brings her favorite sleuth to the
idyllic vacation spot of Sanpere Island, off the coast
of Maine. But Fairchild and her family find the island’s
unique ambience threatened by an aggressive real estate
developer, whose plans to fill the island with huge mansions
has infuriated many of the locals. When Fairchild herself
discovers the developer murdered, she sets out to track
down the killer for the sake of an island that she loves,
even if it means placing her own life in peril. |
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Better Than Running at Night
Hillary Frank, J97
Houghton Mifflin
In her first novel, Frank, who also provided the illustrations,
delves into the life of her young protagonist who, after
leaving her solitary high school days, looks forward to
moving to a new city and reinventing herself through her
art. Arriving one winter at the New England College of
Art and Design, she finds the ideal opportunity to start
again. A story about independence, trust and boys. |
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Max and Annie’s Mysterious
Campfire
Sandra J. Philipson, G72
Chagrin River Publishing Company
Max and Annie, the canine stars of the Animal Planet show
“Breed All About It,” return in another picture
book (Max’s Wild Goose Chase, The Artist: A
Max and Annie Adventure in Imagination). This time
they travel out west and discover the Arizona desert.
The desert animals invite the dogs to a mysterious campfire
where Max is confronted by a local bully. He learns that
getting caught up in bullying can become dangerous. With
Annie’s help, however, Max learns that he can use
his head to save the spirit of the campfire. |
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White on Arrival: Italians,
Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890–1945
Thomas A. Guglielmo, A91
Oxford University Press
Upon arrival in America, Italian immigrants were made
to fill out a standardized immigration form on which the
only option they had for race and color questions was
“white.” While many suffered from racial prejudice,
they were nonetheless viewed as white, with all the privileges
this color bestowed. Guglielmo, an assistant professor
of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, has
drawn on dozens of oral histories and numerous primary
sources to focus on how perceptions of Italians’
race and color were shaped in Chicago, one of America’s
great centers of immigration and labor. |
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At America’s Gates: Chinese
Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943
Erika Lee, J91
The University of North Carolina
Press
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers
became the first group in American history to be excluded
from the United States on the basis of their race and
class. Lee, an assistant professor of history at the University
of Minnesota–Twin Cities, looks at how this transformed
not only Chinese-American lives and immigration patterns,
but also recast the United States into a “gatekeeping
nation.” Drawing on recently released immigration
records and oral histories, she brings alive the forgotten
hardships and triumphs of Chinese immigrants. |
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Condition of Access: Higher
Education for Lower Income Students
Donald E. Heller, A81, editor
Praeger Publishers
Condition of Access asserts that increased access
to higher education institutions for lower-income students
must be established as a national priority. Heller, associate
professor and senior research associate at the Center
for the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State
University, along with a group of expert researchers,
uses the most recent research available to discuss the
state of access for lower-income students. The authors
examine, among other issues, the postsecondary education
patterns of these students in the U.S. and the status
of student aid programs. |
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The Geography of Thought: How
Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why
Richard E. Nisbett, A62
The Free Press
When a Chinese and an American look at the same painting,
don’t they see the same painting? Nisbett, a professor
of psychology at the University of Michigan, documents
his international research in cultural psychology with
a series of comparative studies, addressing questions
such as, Why did the ancient Chinese excel at algebra
and arithmetic, but not geometry, which was achieved by
the Greeks, and Why do Western infants learn nouns more
rapidly than they do verbs, when it is the other way round
in East Asia? Nisbett offers his map to bridging the differences
between the two cultures. |
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What Your Doctor May Not Tell
You About Pediatric Fibromyalgia: A Safe New Treatment
Plan for Children
Dr. R. Paul St. Amand, A48, M52, and Claudia Craig Marek
Warner Books
Your child suffers from myriad symptoms—anything
from persistent aches and pains to mood swings to irritated
eyes. The problem, according to St. Amand, an endocrinologist
and assistant clinical professor at UCLA, and Marek, may
be fibromyalgia. In this book, parents can discover why
pediatric fibromyalgia is often misdiagnosed, the most
powerful clue that your child has the disease, and the
link between fibromyalgia and hypoglycemia and how the
right foods can become the best medicine for your child. |
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Thomas Jefferson,
Architect: The Built Legacy of Our Third President
Hugh Howard, A74
Rizzoli International Publications
The latest book by Hugh Howard, A74, is a stunning catalog
and appreciation of the “dozen-odd” surviving
buildings attributed to Thomas Jefferson. He spoke with
Tufts Magazine from his home in Red Rock, New York.
”I hope from this book people will see the larger
context of Jefferson’s architecture. Monticello
may be his greatest work, but there are also other memorable
houses that show how his mind was always at work, always
experimenting. One of the least well known is Poplar Forest,
which he built as an escape as he was about to retire,
just outside Lynchburg, Virginia. It reveals another part
of his personality that you don’t get at Monticello—he
built it in order to find ‘the solitude of a hermit.’
“Perhaps his most important contribution is that
he created a building culture in Virginia. People hadn’t
aspired to classical architecture; it was hit or miss.
But Jefferson said, ‘Wait. We should try to do something
important, something ennobling.’ He educated himself
about the grand buildings of Europe and then educated
more than 200 builders here in America.
“Overall, his regard for monuments of classical
antiquity brought a new rigor and seriousness to American
architecture. It was his idea to put a dome on the Capitol,
for instance. Coming to a larger understanding of his
work was fascinating; studying one building is interesting,
but taking on a wider philosophical and intellectual challenge,
that was great fun.” |
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FACULTY
Proactive Parenting: Guiding Your Child from Two to Six
Faculty of Tufts University’s Eliot-Pearson Department
of Child Development
Penguin Putnam
Early childhood is a time of explosive growth and constant
change. As toddlers become preschoolers and preschoolers
become “big kids,” parents are faced with
new challenges on an almost daily basis—and are
often unsure of the best way to cope. The faculty of child
development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
offer parents the information, advice and encouragement
needed for them to learn and grow with their children.
They discuss how children influence parents’ behavior
and how both parents and children are learners. They look
closely at children’s interaction with their world
and how their point of view changes with age and experience. |
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