A publication for alumni, parents, and friends
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. Suddenly, his [...]
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 major advocacy [...]
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 title by [...]
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 writes about [...]
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 and bolstered [...]
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 was a [...]
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 uses her [...]
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 bookshop to [...]
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 Mexico's Jemez [...]
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 districts located [...]
