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André the Famous Harbor
Seal
Fran Hodgkins
Illustrated by Yetti Frenkel, Museum 88
Down East Books
Sometimes a human being and a wild animal make a special
connection that changes both of their lives. So it was
with Rockport, Maine’s Harry Goodridge and the harbor
seal pup he named André. The two were inseparable,
and the seal became a legend. Here, with the help of the
Goodridge family, award-winning author Fran Hodgkins and
muralist/illustrator Yetti Frenkel retell the story of
Harry and André for young children, who can also
visit Rockport Harbor and run their hands over the polished
granite of the life-size statue that will forever ensure
this seal’s presence in Maine history. |
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Made in Italy
Laura Morelli, G92
Universe Publishing
Each year, Americans flock to Italy in search of rich
Old World cultural traditions, including handmade crafts.
In this volume, Laura Morelli, art historian and Italy
aficionado, has created a guide to shopping and touring
Italy’s handmade treasures, including Sicilian ceramics,
the Murano glass of Venice, Tuscan terra cotta, gold and
coral jewelry of Sardinia, and Florence’s marble
paper. Organized by region, Made in Italy takes the reader
on a comprehensive tour of the dazzling artisanal legacy
of Italy, uncovering one-of-a-kind hidden workshops and
off-the beatenpath-tours. Packed with useful tips on pricing,
quality, and value, it also includes a year-round calendar
of craft festivals. |
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Creating the National Health
Service: Aneurin Bevan and the Medical Lords
Marvin Rintala, F55, F58
Frank Cass Publishers
Marvin Rintala, a professor of political science at Boston
College, has written the first book on the political origins
of the British National Health Service (NHS)—the
result of a private alliance between Aneurin Bevan, Minister
of Health, and Charles Wilson, Lord Moran, president of
the Royal College of Physicians. Rintala reveals the importance
of the expert medical advice Bevan received from Moran
and highlights the clash in personality and policy between
Moran and Lord Horder, Britain’s most distinguished
consulting physician, showing how personal relationships
still mattered in the highest reaches of British medicine
as well as in politics. |
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Reproductive Health and Human
Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics and Law
Rebecca Cook, F72, Bernard Dickens, and Mahmoud Fathalla
Oxford University Press
The authors, leading international authorities on reproductive
medicine, human rights, medical law, and bioethics,
integrate their disciplines to provide an accessible
but comprehensive introduction to reproductive and sexual
health. Rebecca Cook, a professor in international human
rights at the University of Toronto, along with Dickens
and Fathalla, analyzes 15 case studies that represent
a wide array of recurrent problems, focusing particularly
on resource-poor settings. Approaches to resolution
are considered at both clinical and health system levels.
The authors also examine the kinds of social change
that would relieve the underlying conditions of reproductive
health dilemmas.
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I’m Not Slowing Down:
Winning My Battle with Osteoporosis
Ann Richards with Dr. Richard U. Levine, A62, A91P
Dutton
Former Texas governor Ann Richards shares her struggle
with osteoporosis in a book that will help others triumph
over this debilitating disease. In 1994, after falling
and fracturing her hand, Ann Richards underwent a bone
density test and subsequently was diagnosed with osteopenia,
an early stage of osteoporosis. After witnessing both
of her grandmothers and her mother fall victim to the
disease, Richards was determined to overcome its incapacitating
effects. She began a physician-approved regimen of medication
and dramatically changed her lifestyle. The former Texas
governor and Dr. Richard U. Levine, vice-chair of obstetrics
and gynecology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital,
explain how to combat this devastating condition. |
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One for Each Night: Chanukah
Tales and Recipes
Marilyn Kallet, J68
Celtic Cat Publishing
One Chanukah when Marilyn Kallet was “flat broke,”
she came up with the idea of giving stories about food
as presents to her husband and daughter. Each night, they
received a different story, and Kallet would prepare the
meal described. One for Each Night is a compilation of
those eight stories along with their corresponding recipes.
Kallet, a professor of English and director of the creative
writing program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
includes recipes for “Luscious Luchshen Kugel,”
“My Mother’s Lightweight Matzo Balls,”
and “Classic Potato Pirogi.” With colorful
illustrations and a glossary of Yiddish and Hebrew terms,
this is a book that both parents and children can enjoy
together. |
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Captors and Captives: The 1704
French and Indian Raid on Deerfield
Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney
University of Massachusetts Press
On February 29, 1704, a party of French and Indian raiders
descended on the Massachusetts village of Deerfield, killing
50 residents and capturing more than 100 others. In this
masterful work of history, Evan Haefeli, assistant professor
of history, and Kevin Sweeney reexamine the Deerfield
attack and place it within a framework stretching from
the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. Drawing on previously
untapped sources, they show how the assault grew out of
the aspirations of New England family farmers, the ambitions
of Canadian colonists, the calculations of French officials,
the fears of Abenaki warriors, and the grief of Mohawk
women as they all struggled to survive the ongoing confrontation
of empires and cultures. |
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Outspoken Free Speech Stories
Nan Levinson
University of California Press
Today, many Americans believe free speech to be one of
the early casualties of the war on terrorism. Nan Levinson,
a lecturer in English, tells the stories of 20 people
who refused to let the government whittle away at their
right to speak, think, create, or demur as they pleased.
Among these sometimes unlikely defenders of the cause
of free speech are a Puerto Rican journalist who risked
going to prison to protect her sources, a high school
teacher who discussed gays and lesbians in literature,
and a fireman who fought for his right to read Playboy
at work. Caught up in conflicts that are complex, confusing,
or just plain silly, these individuals and their cases
are both emblematic and individually revealing, affording
readers a variety of perspectives on the issues surrounding
free speech debates. |
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Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers:
An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls
Stephanie Wellen Levine
NYU Press
Stephanie Wellen Levine, a lecturer in English, provides
a rare glimpse into the inner worlds and daily lives of
Hasidic girls, drawing on a year she spent living in the
Lubavitch community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and participating
in the rhythms of Hasidic girlhood. From the ardently
religious young woman who longs for the life of a male
scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club and
agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher
with a desire for a high-powered career, Levine offers
rich portraits of individual Hasidic young women and how
they deal with the conflicts between the regimented society
in which they live and the pull of mainstream American
life. |
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The Global
Negotiator: Making, Managing, and Mending Deals Around
the World in the Twenty-First Century
Jeswald W. Salacuse
Palgrave Macmillan
In today’s global business environment, an executive
must have the skills and knowledge to navigate all stages
of an international deal from start to finish. Jeswald
W. Salacuse, the Henry Braker Professor at the Fletcher
School, illustrates the many ways in which an international
deal may falter and the methods parties can use to save
it, provides the necessary technical knowledge to structure
specific business transactions, and explores transformations
to the international business landscape over the last
decade. Salacuse guides the reader through the life of
the deal, from the first handshake with a potential foreign
partner through the intricacies of making a venture succeed
to the ways to get out of a deal gone wrong.
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