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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Roy Rowan '41. a senior writer for ForbesATagazine and winner of the 2006 Henry R.Luce Award for lifetime achievement in journalism, follows Justin Olson and Francisco Liriano as they pitch for the minor leagues New Britain Rock Cats in Throwing Bullets: A Tale of Two Pitchers Chasing the Dream (Taylor Trade Publishing).

Gregory Rabassa '44, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, recollects his career as a translator of Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Lezama Lima in If This Be Treason: Translation and ItsDyscontents (New Directions).

Glenn Currie '65 explores journeys without destinations in his second collection of poems, Riding in Boxcars (Snap Screen Press).

Jim Newton '68, a senior columnist for TheNew York Times, examines the life of the legendary chief justice and chairman of the Warren Commission in Justice for All:Earl Warren and the Nation He Made (Riverhead books).

Andrew J. Newman '74, senior lecturer in Islamic studies and Persian at the University of Edinburgh, re-evaluates the role of the Safavid dynasty in the flowering of Iranian culture in Safavid Iran: Rebirth of aPersian Empire (I.B. Tauris).

James Nienhuis '76, a professor of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin, examines the development of the post- Deluge civilization in Ice Age Civilizations (Genesis Veracity).

William L. Robbins '83, a co-founder of venture capital firm Convergent Ventures, discusses the risks and rewards of technology-based start-up companies in SeedStage Venture Investing: The Ins and Outs forEntrepreneurs, Start-ups and Investors on Successfully Starting a New Business (Aspatore). Eric Dezenhall '84, the chief executive of a Washington, D.C.-based crisis management firm, weaves a subversive tale of a presidential press secretary's attempt to save the ancestral home of a Southern belle in his sixth novel, SpinningDixie (St. Martins Press).

C. Patterson Giersch '89, a Wellesley College history assistant professor, challenges the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest by providing comparative history in Asian Borderlands: The Transformation of QingChina's Yunnan Frontier (Harvard University Press).

Tony Jones '90, a doctoral fellow and senior research fellow in practical theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, makes Augustine of Hippos classic Confessions accessible to a new generation of readers in You Converted Me: The Confessions of St.Augustine (Emergent Youth Specialties).