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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Frank Lepreau '34, M.D., tells the story of his life, including almost 10 years as medical director of a hospital in rural Haiti, in Surgery and Beyond (self published).

Russ Fraser '47, an English and literature professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, has published his 17th book-on 20th-century writing—with ModernsWorth Keeping (Transaction Publishers).

Frank Johnson '51 and William Leffler '51, Dartmouth roommates who went on to become a Mormon high priest and a rabbi, respectively, explain their religions and discuss similarities and differences between the two faiths in Jews and Mormons:Two Houses of Israel (Ktav).

Michael Gazzaniga '61, director of Dartmouth's Center of Cognitive Neuroscience and a member of President Bush's Council on Bioethics since 2001, presents discoveries in neuroscience and an analysis of their ethical implications in The EthicalBrain (Dana Press).

John Dickey '63 recounts the epic of the Earths evolution in 44 cantos in Earth: ANarrative in Verse (AuthorHouse).

Tom Holzel '63, under the pen name T. Martin Woody, offers up a collection of salacious tales in While away: Erotic Tales toRevitalize the Weary Traveler (iUniverse).

Bruce Ferguson '71, a professor of environmental design at the University of Georgia, explores the technology and applications of porous pavement materials in PorousPavements (CRC Press).

Christopher Kenneally '81, director of author relations for Copyright Clearance Center, offers an offbeat, fact-filled history of his home state in Massachusetts 101: The 101Events That Made Massachusetts (Commonwealth Editions).

Amy Nauss Millay '92, who teaches Latin-American literature at Tufts University, explores the ways in which Latin-American writers incorporate oral tradition into their writing in Voices From the Fuente Viva:The Effect of Orality in 20th-century SpanishAmerican Narrative (Bucknell University Press).

Bob Bordone '94, deputy director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project, offers an overview of the dispute resolution field in The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass).

Maggi Leung '94, assistant professor in the department of geography and resource management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, details the life experiences of ethnic Chinese migrants in Germany in Chinese Migration in Germany: Making Homein Transnational Space (Frankfurt: IKO).

Nathaniel Fick '99, a former Marine officer who led troops in Afghanistan and Iraq (and was profiled in a cover story for DAM in the Jan/Feb '04 issue), recounts his odyssey through the grueling regimen of Marine training and wartime deployments in One Bullet Away: The Making of aMarine Officer (Houghton Mifflin).