Edited by Joshua R. Smith ’91. Springer, 2013. The Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform (WISP) is the first of a new class of RF-powered sensing and computing systems. Rather than being powered by batteries, these sensor systems are powered by radio waves that are either deliberately… Continue reading »
By Nir Kossovsky. Edited by Robert Brandegee ’54. Apress, 2012. A how-to guide to company governance structure and execution strategies designed to help firms establish and profit from their reputational value. The book draws on a range of companies’ failures and successes in illustrating its key principles. Continue reading »
By Joel Richardson ’82. Self-published, July 2012. A collection of personal vignettes written by Boston Marathoners, including Peter Fess ’59, Dan Sullivan ’82 and 10,000-meter national champion Lauren Philbrook ’09. Continue reading »
Edited by Christina Rosan ’96 et al. MIT Press, 2012. Intended for classroom use as well as a reference for scholars and practitioners and as a history of urban and regional planning, this book charts the trajectories of the four key themes in planning in an increasingly… Continue reading »
Edited by J. Garry Clifford ’64, University of Tennessee Press, 2012. Robert Patterson, under secretary and secretary of war from 1940-1947, recounts his formative experience as a young captain in the American Expeditionary Forces during the first World War. In portraying realities of life for soldiers… Continue reading »
Edited by Clyde Buck ’61. Self-published, 2011. This collection of testimonials from former athletes remembers Clarence Chaffee, a squash, tennis and soccer coach at Williams from 1937-1970, who inspired many players long after graduation. Continue reading »
Edited by Annie Thoms ’97. Harper Collins, 2011. In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center, students from Stuyvesant High School––four blocks from Ground Zero––developed a play made up of interview-based monologues that recounted firsthand stories of the day from members of their… Continue reading »
Edited by Charles Mahoney ’87. John Wiley and Sons, 2010. Focusing on form and technique rather than biography, this collection of 34 essays by leading scholars explores the diversity of Romantic poetry and its vital role in the history of English literature. Continue reading »
Edited by Milton Wilfred Grenfell ’73. Norton Professional Books, 2010. A selection of 273 fine details from a major architectural journal of the 1930s—by leading architects including John Russell Pope, Delano & Aldrich, Grosvenor Atterbury and Aymar Embury II—as well as new images from contemporary traditional architects are… Continue reading »
Edited and with an introduction by Willard Spiegelman ’66. Published quarterly by Southern Methodist University. 2010. This double volume, titled “Style as Performance/Performance as Style,” includes submissions by Ilona Bell, Samuel Fessenden Clarke Professor of English; Robert H. Bell, Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of English; and Darra Goldstein, Francis Christopher… Continue reading »
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