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Gregory Rabassa '44, one of the most acclaimed American translators of Latin American literature, considers the art of translation in If This Be Treason: Translationand its Dyscontents (New Directions).
Roger C. Brown '57, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, turns to the printed word with a collection of stories, essays and photographs from 40 years of living in the Rocky Mountains, Requiem for theWest (self published).
(David) Ta-Pei Cheng '64, physics and astronomy professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, offers an introduction to core areas of relativity and cosmology in Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology:A Basic Introduction (Oxford University Press).
Marine Capt. Robert Cleary '66 has collected papers, letters and impressions of a series of Marine Corps missions in WelcomeIntruder: Stories from the Log Book of a MarineNaval Flight Officer (self-published).
NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI
Richard Parker '68, professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, presents a biography on one of the 20th century's most influential Americans in John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics,His Economics (Farrar, Straus, Giroux).
George Anastasia '69, continues to explore the decline of the Philadelphia mob in the 1990s in The Last Gangster: From Cop toWiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte andthe Fall of the American Mob (Regan Books).
Robert Sullivan '75, deputy managing editor of Life magazine and lifelong Red Sox' fan, offers a memoir about a fans relationship to the game and the team he loves in Our Red Sox:A Story of Family, Friends, and Fenway (Emmis Books).
Peter Stark '76, a contributor to Outside magazine, gives a spine-tingling account of his adventure down the Lugenda River in Mozambique in At the Mercy of theRiver (Random House).
Michael R. Mosher '77, assistant professor of art/communication multimedia at Saginaw Valley State University in University Center, Michigan, gathers essays based on lectures he gave at Shikoku University in Japan in The Lyrics and Background of isHit Songs (Shohakusha Publishers).
Peter Heller '82 chronicles an elite kayaking teams heroic conquest of the worlds last great adventure prize in Hell or High Water:Surviving Tibet's Tsangpo River (Rodale).
Jean Hanff Korelitz '83 writes a novel of aging, love and self-discovery-has well as a reimagining of the Strauss; opera DerRosenkavalier set in upper-class Jewish New York City—in The White Rose (Mira- max Books).
Michele Hernandez '89, founder of Hernandez College Consulting, offers advice on the college application process in Don't Worry,You'll Getln:ioo Winning Tips for Stress-freeCollege Admissions (Marlowe & Cos.).
