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by Lawrence Waddington ’53 A young American Catholic priest volunteers to assist a seriously ill colleague in a foreign country. Arriving in the impoverished nation, Father Frank Morello is confronted by turmoil and the challenges it brings. Torn between his faith and his dedication to the people, Morello must resolve a moral dilemma — before [...]
by Thom Shanker ’78 and Eric Schmitt These two New York Times national security team reporters tell the story of how a group of analysts within the military, at spy agencies, and in law enforcement has fashioned an innovative and effective new strategy to fight terrorism, unbeknownst to most Americans and in sharp contrast to the [...]
by Julie Moffett ’84 SWFG: Single, White, Female, Geek. That’s Lexi Carmichael, geek extraordinaire and Moffett’s protagonist. In “No One Lives Twice,” Lexi spends her days stopping computer hackers at the National Security Agency and nights avoiding her mother and eating cereal for dinner. Says Lexi, “Even though I work for a top-secret agency, I’ve [...]
by John Gould, CC Associate Professor of Political Science In this story of post-communist politics gone wrong, Gould explores privatization’s role in the scramble for wealth and power in post-communist Europe. Does democratic development facilitate effective capitalist reform, or vice versa? How do political legacies shape privatization choices? Is simultaneous transition feasible? Offering new empirical information [...]
by John Simons, CC Professor of English “Peckinpah’s Tragic Westerns” examines the work of filmmaker Sam Peckinpah and places it within the 2,000-year-old tradition of Western tragedy. The tradition, enfolding the Greeks, Shakespeare, and modern tragedians, is represented in Peckinpah’s art in numerous ways, and the fact that he worked in the mode throughout his career [...]
by Hersch Wilson ’72 “Test of Faith” is a story of sanity or insanity — take your pick. Beneficio Augustin Rael is a world-famous artist. But at the end of his career, the spirit world returns to Beneficio in the form of otherworldly messengers who remind him that his talent is not his but God’s, [...]
by John Shors ’91 The 2004 tsunami that ravaged 11 countries around the Indian Ocean seems a difficult subject for a novel, but Shors manages to convey the drama on a human scale. The book takes place on Thailand’s pristine Ko Phi Phi island and centers on two families: one, a three-generational Thai family trying to [...]
by Larry Stimpert, CC Professor of Economics and Business, with Julie A. Chesley, formerly of the CC economics department, and Irene M. Duhaime The book provides a realistic picture of the dynamic and complex process of strategic management in organizations. Written from the perspective of a manager, Stimpert’s book builds on theories of managerial and organizational [...]
by Miles White ’92 This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, White examines how these [...]
by Steve Pettit ’73 This coming of age story features Yano, who lives in western New Mexico circa 1100 A.D. There is both excitement and tragedy in Yano’s world, and when all-out war breaks out, Yano is forced on a mission of vital importance to the survival of his pueblo, one that takes all his courage, [...]
by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola, with Kristin Thomson ’89 contributing How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z’s song “Takeover”? Why doesn’t Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as “Funky Drummer” and “Cold Sweat,” get paid for other [...]
by William C. Black ’53 Through stories of numerous historical characters, Black, a professor of surgical pathology at the University of New Mexico-Albuquerque, details the robust debate among fly-fishing devotees on the relative merits of dry vs. wet flies. The book is an in-depth examination of the history of fly-fishing, an art that stretches back [...]
by Henry Biernacki ’97 This “travel book” touches on more than the basics of what people do while traveling; it touches on the growth of the human spirit that occurs and what happens when the traveler returns. Niklas, a young man who travels constantly to seek new experiences and avoid the humdrumness of life, becomes [...]
by Meagan Frank ’97 After hitting a low point in her marriage, Frank didn’t want to be a divorce statistic, so she set out on a quest to find the tools she needed to fight to save her marriage. She embarked on an eight-year journey of contemplation, research, and eventual revelation about how modern marriage [...]
by Steven Hayward, CC English professor “Don’t be Afraid” is a darkly comic novel of adolescent anxiety featuring Jim Morrison — not the lead singer of The Doors who died in 1971, but a chubby 17-year-old living in Ohio. This Jim Morrison was born days after the singer’s death, and Jimmy has been living a largely [...]
by Peter Enns ’98 As the title implies, the book investigates whether policy makers privilege some constituents’ preferences more than others. One person, one vote is a bedrock principle of a democratic society, but it does not require the government to represent the interests of all citizens equally. Taking unequal representation as a given, the [...]
by Markham (Skipper) A. Dickson ’71 Dickson and high school pals celebrate their 60th year by taking a beat-up houseboat 400 river miles across Louisiana, testing its mettle and their own. They rediscover the magnificence of Louisiana’s waterways, the serenity of its sandbars, and the lure of its storied blue catfish. Everywhere they go, Dickson [...]
by Rebecca Klenk ’85 This ethnography shows how rural women accept, refuse, reinterpret, and negotiate development’s terms in a quest to improve their own communities. The book focuses on Lakshmi Ashram, a Gandhian educational initiative for women and girls in Himalayan India, and blends memories and stories with historical research and ethnographic analysis to craft [...]
by Michael F. O’Riley, associate professor of French and Italian How do cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror? O’Riley examines works representing colonial history and the dynamics of viewership that emerge from them, and shows how the centrality of victimization in certain cinematic representations of colonial history [...]
by Bryan Rommel-Ruiz, associate professor of history Using films from many different genres, the book draws together movies that depict the Civil War, the Wild West, the assassination of JFK, and the events of 9/11 to show how viewers use movies to make sense of the past. Rommel-Ruiz addresses how we render history for popular [...]
by Craig Miner ’66 The railroad not only transformed America’s economic landscape, but it also profoundly changed its citizens. But while there have been many histories of railroads, few have examined the subject as a social and cultural phenomenon. Miner, who was a professor at Wichita State University, traces the growth of railroads from their [...]
by Dave Armstrong, CC interim vice president for information management Armstrong’s book features 18 high-quality gicleé prints of his collages, with poetry and short fiction inspired by the print on a facing page. Armstrong and CC English Professor Jane Hilberry, who edited the book and wrote the introduction, invited poets and writers to select an [...]
by Lydia Griffin ’00 Susan Anderson was the cherished physician of Fraser, Colo., for more than 47 years. Born six years before Colorado became a state, Anderson practiced until she was 84 years old. The biography, part of the “Now You Know” series, is aimed at a fourth-grade audience and provides an interesting look not [...]
by Art Elder ’56 Elder has more than 70 years collecting experience, is fascinated by what drives collectors, and has researched the collecting psyche. He believes that collecting should be fun, rewarding, and educational, but collecting without a plan can lead to costly errors and cluttered collections. To prevent this, he provides a series of [...]
by Merle Ricklefs ’65 This comprehensive, one-volume history of Southeast Asia spans prehistory to the present. Ricklefs brings together colleagues at the National University of Singapore whose expertise covers the entire region, encompassing political, social, economic, religious, and cultural history. Ricklefs is professor of history at the National University of Singapore and a historian of [...]
by Peter Rice ’05 “Drinking Buttermilk” is a humorous yet journalistic account of the fall of buttermilk as a beverage. The book traces a complicated history from the days when buttermilk could be found on the finest restaurant menus and in a few all-you-can-drink “bars,” to the present day, where it survives mostly as a [...]
by Bruce Kellner ’55 The impact of the past on the present dominates this novel, as Kellner explores the erratic, mysterious power of memory, simultaneously faithful and unreliable. “Memory is our sixth sense,” one character observes. “Is the fading of the other ones as we grow older the reason why memories of the past grow [...]
by Andrew Farago ’98 Ehhh, what’s up, Doc? Here’s a first-hand look at the Looney Tunes from an irrefutable source — the characters themselves. This irreverent, hilarious, and just plain looney history provides an offbeat look at the animation industry, the “behind-the-cels” men (and women) who gave the characters their unequivocal look, attitude, and voices, [...]
by Dorothy Budd ’80 and Peyton Budd ’12 This book by a CC mother-daughter team was featured on “Larry King Live” last fall and tells the story of what helped 12 wrongly imprisoned men hold onto their hope, faith, and sanity while behind bars. Each man’s story could be a book in itself. Dori Budd [...]
by Neal Baer ’78 “Kill Switch” is the first in a series featuring Claire Waters, a forensic psychiatrist with unnervingly personal insights into the criminal mind. The book begins as a police drama involving a serial killer, but a plot twist propels the story into something bigger and more frightening. Baer, who has a medical degree [...]
by Julie Appel and Amy Guglielmo ’94 Both books combine historical paintings with different developmental skills that help teach young children while introducing them to classic art. “Finding King Henry’s Treasure” is an adventure with a lot of “texture” (the brave knight’s velvet cloak, the duchess’s feathered hat); “Count Monet’s Lilies” teaches counting, beginning with [...]
by Gina Hernez-Broome, Cindy McLaughlin, and Stephanie Trovas ’90 Why do organizations often reward the most vocal or most visible even if they aren’t the most qualified? Beyond bruised egos and a sense of unfairness lies a larger organizational problem: When the wrong people get rewarded, organizations suffer, projects fail, employee morale and motivation disintegrate, [...]
by John Shors ’91 Almost a year after the death of his wife, Kate, former high-tech executive Ian finds a letter that will change his life. It contains Kate’s final wish — a plea for him to take their 10-year-old daughter, Mattie, on a trip across Asia, through the countries they had planned to visit [...]
by David Weddle, CC professor of religion Weddle examines the stories of miracles among the gurus, rebbes, bodhisattvas, saints, and imams of Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam through the centuries, analyzing each tradition through the same lens. The book explores the mysterious healings in the waters at Lourdes, those affected by evangelists, and explains [...]
by Eric Hall West ’98 West knew nothing about trucking, in fact, had never even driven a stick shift, before quitting his desk job to captain an 18-wheeler. In “Truck,” a humorous, fish-out-of-water memoir, he relays the (mis)adventures that take him cross-country more times than he can count. Along the way he encounters characters and [...]
by Robert Wilson ’94 Wilson, assistant geography professor at Syracuse University, examines the development and management of refuges in the wintering range of migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway. Many of the key places migratory birds use — the Klamath Basin, California’s Central Valley, the Salton Sea — are sites of recent contentious debates over [...]
by John Riker, CC professor of philosophy Talk about irony: Just as he completed the first draft of “Why it is Good to be Good,” Riker’s computer and all the backups were stolen. Yet he forged on, and in this book Riker shows how modernity’s reigning concept of the self undermines moral life and lays [...]
by Cynthia Chavez Lamar ’92 and Sherry Farrell Racette Chavez Lamar is director of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, N.M. This book grew out of the conversations of a group of Native women artists who spoke frankly about the roles, responsibilities, and commitments in their [...]
by Ellen Boughn ’64 Today’s amateur and professional photographers are sharing photos on websites like Flickr, but few amateurs realize that they could be making money from their images, thanks to the booming young microstock industry. This book demystifies the world of microstock, sharing behind-the-scenes secrets for posting images that will get viewed, downloaded, and [...]
by Kathryn Gibbs Davis ’76 Davis’s book was inadvertently featured with an incorrect cover photo in the November issue of the Bulletin; see correct photo here. Since then, the book was awarded an Oppenheim Gold Seal. Gibbs Davis has visited the National First Ladies Library and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library discussing this book and an [...]
by Spencer Walker ’01 Walker puts his culinary talents to use in this cookbook aimed at the young male demographic. Miss Manners the cookbook is not, with recipe titles that we won’t repeat here. One reviewer said, “I would suggest this book to anyone who likes to read, cook, laugh, or wants to get closer to a [...]
by Scott Samuels ’83 and Justin D. Radolf The genus Borrelia, in the spirochete phylum, is not closely related to any other bacteria and has a highly unusual genome composed of a linear chromosome and multiple circular and linear plasmids. The book is a comprehensive guide to the pathogenic Borrelia, providing researchers, advanced students, clinicians, and [...]
by Daniel Leffler ’96 and Melinda Dennis This book helps readers determine if they may have undiagnosed celiac disease. For those already diagnosed, the authors, joined by more than 50 experts, share their knowledge of problems related to celiac disease and gluten-related disorders. This is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the medical, dietary, nutritional, emotional, [...]
by David Mason ’78, CC professor of English During his 20s, Mason found himself living with his wife in a village in southern Greece. Their first encounter with the country would prove an unrecoverable dream of magic, but through decades of steadfast affection, Mason comes to a deeper understanding of what it means to be a [...]
by Paul Maruyama, CC lecturer in Japanese Maruyama’s book details the story of his father, Kunio Maruyama, then a 37-year-old Japanese citizen, and his two friends who in 1946 devised a plan to escape to Japan from Soviet-occupied Manchuria. The three men personally appealed to General Douglas MacArthur, who was then the Supreme Commander for Allied Power occupying the defeated [...]
by Kate Fuller Niles ’84 John Thompson thinks he’s going to have an easy summer. Instead he runs into an archeological discovery that will shake the field to its core. Fifty years old, overweight, married to someone who has aided his career while never forcing him to deal with his own insecurities, John flees to the [...]
edited by Doug Lansky ’92 The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale — and laugh about it. This collection captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories include escorting a [...]
by John Kantner ’89, Kevin Vaughn, and Jelmer Eerkens Leaders exist in all societies, ranging from smaller-scale heads of households to larger-scale elected governing bodies to dictators with vast coercive powers at their disposal. This book, the product of an advanced seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), brings together the perspectives of cultural anthropologists and archaeologists to explore [...]
by John Ike ’77, Thomas Kligerman, and Joel Barkley Ike is a partner in the architectural firm Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects (IKBA), based in New York and San Francisco. The 21 houses and apartments in this lavishly illustrated volume, the first published on the award-winning architectural firm, feature their signature residential works and depict the remarkable [...]
by Eric Perramond, associate professor of Southwest studies and environmental science Perramond evaluates management techniques, labor expenditures, gender roles, and decision-making on private ranches of varying size in northern Mexico. By examining the economic and ecological dimensions of daily decisions made on and off the ranch, he shows that, contrary to prevailing notions, ranchers rarely collude [...]
by Judith A. Swanson ’79 and C. David Corbin This book presents an accessible introduction to Aristotle’s “Politics,” widely considered to be the founding text of Western political science. Similar to his mentor Plato, Aristotle ponders the form that will produce justice and cultivate the highest human potential. Taking a more empirical approach, however, Aristotle [...]
by Jeffrey C. Bauer ’69 Americans are bombarded with statistical data every day, and healthcare professionals are no exception. This book explains the fundamental concepts of statistics, as well as their common uses and misuses. Without jargon or mathematical formulas, Bauer presents a clear explanation of what statistics do. He provides a practical discussion of scientific methods and [...]
by Gregg Easterbrook ’76 Easterbrook is the author of six books and contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic. In his previous book, “The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse,” he argued that, by all standards, American life has been getting better and better for generations, and compelled us to use our [...]
Thomas P. Lyon, Matthew C. Banks ’97, and others This book project brings together NGO, business, and academic perspectives to address the need for objective study of NGO strategies to improve the environmental performance of business. Panelists highlighted organizational structure and key objectives at several major NGOs and outlined strategies toward corporate engagement, particularly the [...]
by Zibusiso Ncube ’92 At the turn of the century, technological development was occurring at a rate that boggled the mind. These technological developments were bringing better standards of living to all, yet the gap between the rich and the poor was becoming more pronounced. Developing governments, fearful of foreigners, often enacted repressive laws hampering the [...]
The Maine Highlands: Honors the Fallen produced by Steven C. Hildreth ’65 Hildreth utilizes several area musicians in Maine, many of whom are veterans, in the production of this CD. As part of the project, the performers have held veteran’s tribute concerts on several Veterans Days. The titles of the songs on the CD are telling: [...]
From the Ground Up: Building Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Care Programs in Resource-Limited Settings edited by Richard G. Marlink and Sara Teitelman ’96 This three-volume set is a comprehensive guide to improving and expanding HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment efforts in resource-limited settings. An independent review in The Lancet states that the book is “unique in imparting [...]
First Kids by Kathryn Gibbs Davis ’76 Almost 200 kids have lived in the White House. Some loved it; others couldn’t wait to leave, according to this book, aimed at young readers. It then asks, “Would you like to live there?” This “Step into Reading” book is targeted at young readers beginning to read paragraphs. [...]
A Tribute to the Great Wines of Burgundy: Henri Jayer, Winemaker from Vosne-Romanee by Jacky Rigaux; translation by James K. Finkel ’82 Burgundy lovers of all persuasions unite in reverence of the legendary French vigneron Henri Jayer, who died in 2006 at age 84. Jacky Rigaux, the well-known Burgundian wine writer, published a book in [...]
The Conservation Program Handbook: A Guide for Local Government Land Acquisition by Sandra Tassel ’79 Between 1996 and 2007, U.S. voters approved almost $24 billion for local government park, open space, and other conservation purposes. Despite this substantial sum for land protection, at that time there was no book to guide officials as they implemented [...]
Bicycle Mania by Shirley Agudo, with contributing photographers Ben Deiman, Trevor Waldron, and Max Rubenacker ’10 Old, young, barely walking, and, yes, even naked cyclists have been captured in all their glory in this volume of photography celebrating Dutch cycling mania. Full of surprising images, this book depicts people transporting anything and everything on their [...]
Voices of the American West by Corinne Platt ’87 This documentary-style collection of photographs and narratives profiles a diverse group of visionary men and women who engage in candid discussions about the West and its identity. The work tackles such topics as education, recreation, immigration, ranching, alternative energy, and wildlife habitat protection. It features Terry [...]
Celestial Trilogy: Full Moon Maxi, Lucy’s Shooting Star, and Clayton and the Planets by Carrie Wismer Yakola ’93 Yakola’s celestial trilogy for children age 3 through 7 celebrates the joy and innocence of childhood, filling three children’s books with the love, energy, and charisma that come with learning new things as a child. Yakola, who [...]
A Peak at the Springs edited by Courtney Arnstein, CC alumni and parent relations office; photos contributed by Jessica Feis ’98 and Andrea Pacheco, CC annual giving office More than a cookbook, this book includes a tour of Colorado Springs, with beautiful photography, visitor information, and a unique recipe collection from Junior League friends, family, [...]
Law and the Humanities edited by Austin Sarat, Matthew Anderson ’92, and Cathrine O. Frank Anderson, associate professor and chair of the department of English and language studies at the University of New England, brings together scholars from law schools and an array of disciplines in the humanities. This book is a stock-taking of different [...]
Committed to the Sane Asylum: Narratives on Mental Wellness and Healing by Rosemary Barnes ’70 and Susan Schellenberg Psychologist Rosemary Barnes and artist Susan Schellenberg, a former psychiatric patient, relate their own stories, conversations, and reflections concerning the contributions and limitations of conventional mental health care and their collaborative search for alternatives such as art [...]
Blessing’s Bead by Debby Dahl Edwardson ’74 Set in a little-known part of Arctic Alaska, this young-adult book tells the multigenerational tale of an Iñupiaq family torn apart by tragedy and reunited by the power of story and tradition. The book was selected by the Junior Library Guild as a book of the month and [...]
Hitler’s Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare by Dennis Showalter, CC professor of history Showalter, a World War II scholar, presents a comprehensive study of Nazi Germany’s armored forces and their influence on the role of the army in the Third Reich. Panzers, self-contained armored units able to operate independently, became the nucleus of [...]
Olio Aglio by Annie Whetzel ’09 Olio Aglio, translated, means literally “oil, garlic.“ This gluten-free cookbook is the result of a venture grant Whetzel received while at Colorado College. She spent the summer of 2008 traveling through Italy and collecting recipes while working on organic farms. The final product is a gluten-free recipe collection that [...]
What’s so Great About Granite? by Jennifer H. Carey; photographs by Marli Bryant Miller ’82 Miller started photographing rocks as a geology major at CC, and her passion for geological photography grew as she spent additional time in the field while attending graduate school at the University of Washington. Her photos help illustrate this geologic [...]
This Awkward Art by Conrad Hilberry and Jane Hilberry, CC professor of English This volume of poetry features works by both father and daughter. The poems are each an individual response to a shared subject, seen from different points of view. Perhaps the most poignant poems are those that focus on the shared loss of [...]
by Conor Miller ’05 The premise of “The Black Book” is simple — a collection of high-quality photos of skiing lines in the Grand Teton National Park. Miller’s inspiration for the project was the lack of photos in the Jackson Hole Ski Atlas depicting the national park. The resulting book is an addition to the Teton [...]
by Jamie Taylor ’87, Toby Segaran, and Colin Evans In this book Taylor, who started one of the first ISPs in San Francisco so he could get a better connection at home, demonstrates several ways to implement semantic web applications using current and emerging standards and technologies. The book shows that the promise of a [...]
by Eric Stover ’74 The book is based on a two-year study of former prisoners at the U.S. government’s detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Researchers interviewed more than 60 former Guantánamo detainees in nine countries, as well as key officials, military experts, and camp personnel, and the result contributes significantly to the debate surrounding [...]
by Jessy Randall, CC curator of special collections, Tutt Library Wanda Lowell and Dora Nussbaum are best friends, co-editors of the school’s literary magazine, and so close that friends call them “The Wandora Unit.” But things shift in their senior year of high school. This is a bittersweet story about the meaning of friendship, the [...]
by Linda Seger ’67 Seger’s 11th book focuses on how to achieve your professional goal without losing your soul. Each chapter features interviews with a number of high-profile Christians from the fields of business and the arts. Seger, a script consultant and international speaker, has written eight books on screenwriting and three on spirituality. ISBN: [...]
by David Williams ’87 “Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology” examines how stone is used as a building material in the urban landscape, with each chapter focusing on a different type of rock. Williams traveled to quarries and stone yards; interviewed historians and preservationists about the social history of stone; and accompanied geologists to discover [...]
by Charlotte Blessing, CC director of international programs This children’s book, told from the perspective of a pair of old sneakers, was inspired by the secondhand clothing and shoe markets in East Africa, where Blessing lived for 13 years. The story follows the shoes from their first home with a young boy in America to [...]
by Max Morath ’48 “I Love You Truly” is the fictionalized autobiographical story of composer Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1862–1946), whose spell Morath says he has been under ever since he sang “I Love You Truly” in 7th grade glee club. A divorcee, then a widow, Jacobs-Bond was nearly 40 before her music lifted her out of [...]
by Paul Butler ’79 In “Out of Style,” Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among compositionists, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar conventions. His goal is to articulate style as a vital and [...]
by Anthony D. Barnosky ’74 While reviewing evidence that points to drastic changes resulting from even small global temperature increases, Barnosky also discusses biodiversity’s importance, compares rates of evolutionary change with global temperatures, and recounts Earth’s four previous mass extinctions. One of the assessments is that “many of the species that humans tend to like” [...]
by Katherine Giuffre, CC associate professor of sociology “Collective Creativity” analyzes the explosion of artistic creativity taking place on Rarotonga, a South Pacific island. By examining tourism, galleries, and the artists, the book presents a detailed picture of a complex and multi-faceted community through the words of the artworld participants. Giuffre spent her sabbatical year [...]
by John Shors ’91 Shors’ third novel is set in modernday Vietnam and tells the story of Iris and Noah, two Americans who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, open a center to house and educate Vietnamese street children. Inspired by the street children she meets, Iris walks in the footsteps of [...]
by Tom Cronin, CC political science professor and Michael Genovese This is an expanded update of the highly regarded “The State of the Presidency” (1980). The presidency is loaded with paradoxes that make the job arduous under the best of circumstances. The public wants a strong president but is suspicious of power; it yearns for [...]
by Peter Devine “The Final Interview” is a 100- minute interview with Studs Terkel, one of the world’s greatest contemporary oral historians, and was conducted in February 2005 after Terkel broke his neck. Terkel could not sit still for long periods, making this one of his longest postaccident interviews. Devine, a reporter for the Manchester [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
by Matt Weber ’85 and Aspatore Books Staff The book is an authoritative insider’s perspective on representing and advising health care organizations facing criminal and/or civil fraud and abuse investigations. Featuring partners from some of the nation’s leading law firms, these experts discuss key considerations of an investigation. Weber, a partner in the white collar [...]
by Julie Chesley, CC assistant economics and business professor, Wiley Larson, Marilyn McQuade, and Robert Menrad “Applied Project Management for Space Systems” is the 16th book produced by the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Space Technology Series. The book presents approaches for practicing managers leading complex space projects, but also may serve as a primary text [...]
by Diane Brown Benninghoff ’68 Benninghoff has made nearly a dozen trips, including several organized for Colorado College alumni, down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Most of the 30 poems in this chapbook are the result of the 2008 CC Grand Canyon trip, with CC English Professor and poet Jane Hilberry. Says Hilberry, [...]
by Andrew Borene ’98 Attorney, Iraq war veteran, and former Minnesota state senate candidate, Borene’s debut collection of poems is derived from his experiences in business, politics, and government. The collection is an edgy and at times haunting look into the mind of a man struggling with addiction and trauma. A portion of the book’s [...]
by Darcy Purinton ’86 and Dale Cahill With more than 200 photographs, the book provides a visual tour of the wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. The photos are accompanied by text that provides a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and agricultural perspective, highlighting how Yankee ingenuity [...]
by Paul Weathington, illustrated by Steve Shaw ’87 This children’s book explores the use of the “ish” phrase (“Ish helps us guess one’s age … fiftyish like Dad, Ish helps us get it close so no one is too mad!”). Shaw, an Atlanta freelance artist who teaches art at Atlanta’s Schenk School, portrays Ish as [...]
by Sara S. Villarreal Bishop ’00 The book serves as an American expatriate’s primer for being pregnant overseas in an embassy environment and returning to the U.S. for the birth. The author also includes suggestions for raising an American child in a foreign environment. Although written specifically for young families who do a significant amount [...]
by Peter W. Marty ’80 Marty, senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa, and host of “Grace Matters,” the radio ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, takes wellworn religious language from another era and refashions it into food for thought for the 21stcentury Christian. The work is a treatise on [...]
Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization by Andrew Price-Smith, political science professor This timely book analyzes the relationship between public health and governance, particularly looking at how disease affects national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book, “The Health of Nations,” Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease [...]
Worlds Apart?: Disability and Foreign Language Learning by Tammy Berberi '91, Elizabeth C. Hamilton, and Ian M. Sutherland Today's foreign language teachers are increasingly expected to be skilled in addressing multiple intelligences and learning styles, yet without a reliable resource that consolidates the best of what is known about the broad spectrum of disabilities that [...]
The Early Care and Education Teaching Workforce at the Fulcrum: An Agenda for Reform by Kristie Kauerz ’91, Sharon Lynn Kagan, and Kate Tarrant The authors focus on the more than two million individuals who care for and educate nearly two thirds of the American children under age five participating in non-parental care, and address [...]
The Family of Sukey Lewis in the Plantation South by Heather Palmer ’81 Working from a cache of newly discovered diaries and letters from 1793 to 1866, Palmer presents the story of five generations of an American family. As each generation featured moves further west, the men write of the challenge of bringing crops to [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
