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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Charles Urstadt '49, Tu'51, CEO at real estate investment trust Urstadt Biddle Properties, recounts his 12-year role as the first chairman and

chief executive of the Battery Park City Authority (starting in 19 67), the urban redevelopment project in lower Manhattan, in Battery Park City: The Early Years (Xlibris Corp.).

Melvin Small '60, a history professor at Wayne State University, co-edited a collection of soldiers' letters, including one by Joe Dallet '27, in The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the AbrahamLincoln Brigade (New York University Press).

Mike O'Connell '65 pays tribute to his former English teacher (and now colleague) David Cole, who has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Baraboo for 35 years, in Cloud of Light: Portrait of a CollegeTeacher (Hugger Mugger Publishing).

William Scott Wilson '66 has translated two works: The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Artsby Issai Chozanshi, an 18th-century Taoist/Buddhist/Confucian study (Kodansha International), and The FloweringSpirit by Zeami Motokiyo, a translation of an early 15th-century work on the classical drama of Japan (Kodansha International).

Geeta Anand '89, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Wall Street Journal, delivers a detailed and heartwrenching account of a fathers extraordinary efforts to save his children and find a cure for a debilitating and life-threatening disease in The Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million—and Bucked the Medical Establishmentin a Quest to Save His Children (Regan).

Robert Morison '72, executive vice president and research director of strategy consulting firm Concours Group of Kingwood, Texas, explores the causes and strategies for managing the shift in the age distributions of the labor force in Workforce Crisis:How to Beat the ComingShortage of Skills and Talent (Harvard Business School Press).

Laura Tyson Li '85, who worked as a business reporter for the South China MorningPost and Taiwan correspondent for the Financial Times, tells the story of the woman who symbolizes Americas vexed love affair with China as well as Chinas own struggle to define itself as a world power in Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal FirstLady (Atlantic Monthly Press).

Chris Balish '88, a reporter and television news anchor based in L.A., explains the benefits of going without a car in How toLive Well Without Owning a Car: Save Money,Breathe Easier, and Get More Mileage Out ofLife (Ten Speed Press).