By K.K. DuVivier ’75. Carolina Academic Press, 2011. A concise, reader-friendly sourcebook for U.S. renewable energy law, this book provides an accessible reference for lawyers, law students, policy-makers and the general public, providing an overview of the significant legal implications of renewable energy development. Continue reading »
By Noah Capurso ’05. New Brade Publishing, 2011. A practical guide aimed at college students interested in applying to medical school. The book also includes special sections for high school students, MD/PhD applicants and non-traditional applicants. Continue reading »
By William Simpkins III ’83. CreateSpace, 2010. This book tells the true story of Richard Welcome Turner, a former Confederate soldier who worked as a Union federal judge in post-Civil War Louisiana. After falling in love and marrying a woman of color, Turner was the victim of… Continue reading »
Andreas Kluth, ’92. Riverhead Books, 2012. The life of Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with his army in 218 B.C.E., is known for the choices he and his opponents made—both on and off the battlefield. This book explores the truths behind triumph… Continue reading »
By Jennifer Sleeper ’07 and Debbie Sleeper. Full Court Press, 2011. A topsy-turvy book of children’s poems. Inside the wacky walls of the Upside Down house, anything is possible: a girl with a beard, a boy who never gets out of bed, a sword swallower, a pirate,… Continue reading »
By Sam Sommers ’97. Riverhead Books, 2012. An exploration of how ordinary situations influence the ways we think and act and how understanding why can improve everything we do. Continue reading »
By Gerard Caprio Jr. ’72, William Brough Professor of Economics, James Barth and Ross Levine. MIT Press, 2012. The authors argue that the financial meltdown of 2007 to 2009 was no accident. Senior regulatory officials around the world knew or should have known that their policies… Continue reading »
By Steven F. White ’77. 400 Elefantes/Alcaldía Municipal de León. 2011. Essays with an ecocritical focus on the writings of major Nicaraguan poets and singer-songwriters including Rubén Darío, Ernesto Cardenal, Carlos Mejía Godoy and many others. This Central American country, known as the Republic of Poets, also… Continue reading »
By Johnny Sundstrom ’66. Xlibris Press, 2011. A novel based on six generations of Oregon Trail pioneer Martha Bradford’s family and the first ranch settled in southern Wyoming. Meet real cowboys and cowgirls, Native Americans of the past and present, a faith-challenged evangelist, a militant suffragette,… Continue reading »
By Peter Elbow ’57. Oxford University Press, 2012. The author, Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, propounds the overlooked linguistic and rhetorical merits of the spoken word and explicates the political implications of recognizing its relationship with its written counterpart. Continue reading »
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