Shelf Life

Leon C. Martel '55, a senior fellow at The Conference Board, a nonprofit business research organization, describes the importance of retaining the best human capital by examining 25 finance industry companies identified as the best places to work in High Performers (Jossey-Bass).

Dinesh D'Souza '83, Rishwain Research Scholar at Stanford University, explains what it means to sit right of today's moderates and liberals in Letters to a Young Conservative (Basic Books).

Louis V. Gerstner Jr. '63, who retired as IBM CEO last March, tells the story of the computer giant's competitive and cultural transformation under his guidance in Who Says ElephantsCan't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround (HarperBusiness).

Lance Dodes '66, DMS'68, relying on his 25-plus years of clinical practice as a psychiatrist, rejects the notion that addiction is purely a medical problem in The Heart ofAddiction (HarperCollins).

Regina Barreca '79, professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut, has published two anthologies on Italian-American culture: A SitdownWith The Sopranos (St. Martins Press) and Don't Tell Mama (Penguin Putnam).

Sarah Worley '87, an arbitrator with Commonwealth Mediation in Boston, examines dispute resolution practices in Massachusetts Practice Series: Mediation andArbitration (West Group).

H.L. McCutchen '87, playwright turned novelist, transports her two protagonists to a fantastical land to battle good and evil in her debut children's novel, Light Land (Orchard Books).

Ben Vinson III '92, a Barnard professor, examines race relations and issues of social mobility in colonial Mexico in ßearing Arms For His Majesty: TheFree Colored Militia in Mexico (Stanford University Press).

Laura Tam '97, masters candidate in environmental studies at Yale, gathers anecdotes about life in northern communities in AtHome in the Northern Forest: Reflections on a Region's Identity (Northern Forest Center).