Dartmouth Authors
Milton M. Lieberthal '32 and Harold O. Conn. The Hepatic Coma Syndromes and Lactulose. Williams & Wilkins, 1979. 404 pp. A medical text on the subject of portal-system encephalopathy (PSE) and the use of lactulose in the management of the disease in both its chronic and acute forms. Dr. Lieberthal is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
William N. Turpin '44. Soviet Foreign Trade:Purpose and Performance. Lexington Books, 1978. 172 pp. An abundantly documented study of the characteristics of the Soviet foreign trade system and its relationship to the domestic economic system and the political power structure of the Soviet Union. The focus is on East-West trade. Contrary to the opinion of some Western economic theorists, Turpin argues that Soviet trade practices are unlikely to be altered significantly by contact with the West in the foreseeable future because the present foreign trade system is tightly linked to the domestic, centrally planned economic structure by which, in turn, the Soviet leadership group maintains itself in power. A former long-time State Department official, Turpin teaches economics at Appalachian State University.
Richard E. Welch Jr. '45. Response toImperialism: The United States and the Philippine War, 1899-1902. University of North Carolina Press, 1979. 275 pp. An analysis of the impact of the so-called "Filipino Insurrection" (1899-1902) on American society and politics, this book studies for the first time the response of domestic public opinion to one of our earlier "colonial" wars. Though Welch insists that this response must be interpreted in light of the social values and international outlook of the United States in the opening years of the 20th century, some parallels to our later experience in Vietnam inevitably suggest themselves.
Edward Connery Lathem '5l, ed. AmericanLibraries as Centers of Scholarship. Dartmouth College, 1978. 107 pp. The title repeats the theme of the Convocation held on June 30, 1978, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Baker Library. The first half of the book comprises the formal speeches delivered on the occasion by President Emeritus Dickey; Gordon Ray, president of the Guggenheim Foundation; and William J. Haas, president of the Council on Library Resources. The attention of the general reader is more likely to be engaged by the second half where, freed from constraints of the lecture context, a panel presided over by President Kemeny and including such faculty scholars as Blanche E. Gelfant, Walter H. Stockmayer, and Arthur M. Wilson informally discusses a number of germane issues: Is the increasing computerization of library resources a scholar's boon or bane? What can, or should, be done about the superfluity of unread, unreadable scholarly publications which clog shelves and clot the arteries of knowledge? Is a national library system either possible or desirable? The panelists are informed and urbane, their tone properly unsolemn, but there is no disguising that they are serious. That's because the problems themselves are serious.
Alan Tenney '64. The Mistake Made on Purpose. Vantage Press, 1979. 59 pp. The "mistake made on purpose" is modern psychiatry, and in a series of short, disjunctive essays the author attacks it sharply from his personal religious point of view. "Psychiatry is not a science ...." he believes, but "merely a catalog of the psychiatrist's personal likes and dislikes." He finds a personally satisfying answer for "bemuddled" minds in theism: "Prayer can cure all kinds of sin and sickness. God has a right to cure us.... The antidote to mental illness is prayer." Though the logic by which the author arrives at his conclusions is not always easy to follow, the intensity of his convictions is unmistakable.
Michael R. Darby '67. IntermediateMacroeconomics. McGraw-Hill, 1979. 479 pp. An undergraduate-level text. "The basic theme of this book," the author writes, "is that the macroeconomy fluctuates around a growing equilibrium. The fluctuations result from unexpected changes ('shocks') in monetary and fiscal policy and in behavioral relations and international conditions. The effects of such a change are explained in terms of their short-run impact, of how the long-run growth equilibrium is affected, and of the transition from the short-run toward the long- run." Darby is professor of economics at UCLA.
Robert W. Christy, professor of physics, John R. Reitz, and Frederick J. Milford, Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory. 3rd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1979. 544 pp. A new edition of a standard junior-senior level textbook now expanded for use in either a one- or a two- semester college course. The treatment of such topics as electromagnetic wave propagation, boundary-value problems, and the Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations has been broadened, and new material on induction fields, radiation damping, and optical dispersion in materials has been added. Chapter summaries and 130 new problems have also been included.
