DARTMOUTH AUTHORS
Howard P. Emerson '23 and Douglas Naehring, Origins of Industrial Engineering—The Early Years of a Profession (Industrial Engineering and Management Press)—Included in this history of industrial engineering is a description of the Dartmouth College Conference on Scientific Management that took place in 1911.
Mario L. D'Avanzo '53, The LiteraryArt of the Bible: A Commentary (American Press)—Avanzo, a professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York, analyzes the lit erar art and unity of the Bible.
Melvin Small '60, Johnson, Nixon and.the Doves (Rutgers University Press) —Drawing on archival sources and interviews with Vietnam-era government officials, including McGeorge Bundy, John Ehrlichman, and Cyrus Vance, Small analyzes the effects that the anti-Vietnam-War movement had on policymakers—and policy—in the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Small is a professor of history at Wayne State University.
Victor H. Mair '65, Chinese PictureRecitation and Its Indian Genesis (University of Hawaii Press)—Mair traces the thousand-year global development of pien wen, a popular Chinese Buddhist folk literature that uses paintings as an aid to storytelling. A professor of Chinese at the University of Pennsylvania, Mair documents his thesis that the art form originated in India and shows how pien wen influenced performance and literary traditions throughout Asia and Europe.
David H. Soren '68 and Jamie James, Kourion: The Search for a Lost RomanCity (Asbury Park Press)— On the island of Cyprus, Soren, a pioneer in seismic archaeology, unearthed the coastal city Kourion, which was destroyed in the year 365 by an earthquake and subsequent tidal wave.
Peter A. Mailloux '70, A HesitationBefore Birth: The Life of Franz Kafka (University of Delaware Press)— Mailloux took seven years to write this biography of Kafka, one of the more perplexing twentieth-century literary figures. In addition to illuminating the life beyond Kafka's neuroses, Mailloux provides a detailed analysis of Kafka's writings. Mailloux has taught at Holy Cross, the College of Saint Joseph, and the Citadel.
Daniel O'Haire '74 and Cathy Conner, Roadside Geology of Alaska (Mountain Press Publishing Company)— Anchorage resident O'Haire has coauthored a guide to the geology of Alaska for travelers of the state's highways and ferry routes.
Jim Bildner '75 with James Dodson, J. Bildner & Sons Cookbook (Doubleday)—The subtitle says it all: Casual Feasts, Food on the Run, and Special Celebrations from America's Most Distinctive Grocers. Bildner's dream of reinventing the neighborhood grocery store became 18 gourmet stores in Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta.
Raymond W. Merritt and Clifford R.Ennico '75, eds., Corporate Counseling (New York State Bar Association)— This guide and compendium of legal issues facing counsel and corporate executives is intended as a primary reference book for all fields of law. Ennico, who earned his J.D. at Vanderbilt University School of Law, wrote chapters on day-to-day management of corporate operations and the dissolution and liquidation of closely held corporations.
Barbara Robinson '76, Focus: An ESLGrammar (St. Martin's Press)—Robinson, the assistant director of the English Language Institute at the University of Akron, has produced a text and workbook for intensive programs in English as a second language. While at Dartmouth, Robinson was a Rufus Choate Scholar in 1973.
Kevin T. Dann '78, Traces on theAppalachians: A Natural History of Serpentine in Eastern North America (Rutgers University Press)—With a style that has been compared to Stephen Jay Gould, Dann explores the natural history of serpentine—the green-gray outcroppings from Georgia to Newfoundland that mark the ancient juncture of North America and Eurasia. Dann is a University of Vermont Bicentennial Fellow.
Nora Mitchell '78, Your Skin is aCountry (Alice James Books)— Mitchell's first collection of poems meanders over territory both familiar and exotic, including basketball players, cars, Mount Chocorua's ghosts, and Korea.
Jan Shapiro and Grant Reeher '82, eds., Power, Inequality, and DemocraticPolitics: Essays in Honor of Robert A.Dahl (Westview Press)—Reeher, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale, where he has been a University and Falk Foundation Fellow, has coedited a set of essays by distinguished scholars in honor of one of the preeminent democratic theorists of the twentieth century. The essays focus on issues of power relations and inequalities of resources as they relate to the theory and practice of democracy. Contributors include David Cameron, T '66, professor of political science at Yale.
Barbara Kreiger, Living Waters: Myth,History, and Politics of the Dead Sea (Continuum)—Kreiger, who teaches history at Dartmouth and has a special interest in travel writing, chronicles the history, legends, use, and aura of the Dead Sea. Old maps, illustrations, and photographs enrich this portrait, which includes a foreword by English professor Noel Perrin.
