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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI
Frank Sherwood '43 collects the letters he wrote to his mother while serving with the Army from 1943 to 1946 in It Wasn't All Combat: A Soldier's Life in World War II (iUniverse).
Richard 8. Freeman '64, an economics professor and co-director of the labor and worklife program at Harvard Law School, brings together research from various countries to explore workers' attitudes and influences in WhatWorkers Say: Employee Voice in theAnglo-AmericanWorkplace (Cornell University Press).
Howard Greene '59, M.Ed., co-authors his eighth book on educational matters with son Matthew Greene '90, Ph.D, in PayingforCollege: The Greenes'Guide to Financing HigherEducation (Petersons).
David "Scofty" Palmer '59, professor of international relations and political science at Boston University and the former director of Latin American and Caribbean studies at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, examines the Clinton administrations Latin American policy in U.S.Relations with Latin America during the Clintonyears: Opportunities Lost or Opportunities Squandered? (University Press of Florida).
Charles Monagan '72, a writer and editor for the past35 years, brings humor to the college admissions process in his spoof, How toGetaMonkey into Harvard: AnImpractical Guide to Fooling the Top Colleges (Grove/Atlantic).
Ron Heinemann '61, professor emeritus of history at Hampden-Sydney College, coauthors a new history of Virginia with OldDominion, New Commonwealth:A History ofVirginia, 1607-2007 (University of Virginia Press), for which he wrote the chapters on the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Glenn Currie '65, author of Ridingin Boxcars, releases a new collection of poetry that leads readers on the introspective journey of the life of a boy growing up in the 1950s in A Boy's First Diary (Soup Screen Press).
Peter Schafer '82, a world-renowned specialist in ancient Israel and Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies at Princeton University, explores the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmud texts and justifies them as historical sources for Jesus' life in Jesusin the Talmud (Princeton University Press).
Hilary Justice '88, an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, makes connections between Ernest Hemingways life and writing in The Bones of The Others: TheHemingway Textfrom the LostManuscripts to thePosthumous Novels (Kent State University Press).
Rick Shefchik '74, a creative writing major and editor at The Dartmouth during his time at the College, makes his novel debut with AmenCorner, a thriller/crime novel that takes place at Augusta National Golf Club during the Masters tournament (Poisoned Pen Press).
Tony Jones '90, senior research fellow in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, co-edits a book that weaves together pastors, students, and Christians in a conversation about the emerging church in An Emergent Manifesto of Hope (Baker Publishing Group).
Rev. Molly Phinney Baskette '92, senior minister of First Congregational Church of Somerville, Massachusetts, has authored two children's bereavement books Remembering My Pet:A Kid's Own SpiritualWorkbook for When a Pet Dies and Remembering My Grandparent:A Kid's Own GriefWorkbook in the Christian Tradition (Skylight Paths Publishing).
Dr. Larry McCleary 71, research director for the Advanced Metabolic Research Group and former director of the neuroscience research program at the Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado, explains how the brain works and how to care for it in The Brain TrustProgram: A Scientifically Based Three-Part Planto Improve Memoty, ElevateMood, Enhance Attention,and Boost Mental Energy (Perigee).
