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NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Bruce Ducker '60 has two new books out: His eighth novel, DizzingHeights: The AspenNovel (Fulcrum), is a rollicking comedy of manners set in Aspen, Colorado, and Home Pool: Stories ofFly Fishing and Lesser Passions (Stackpole Books) is a collection of fly-fishing stozies.

John Adler '49, a retired management consultant, focuses on the impact of editorial cartoonist Thomas Nast, who attacked the legendary Boss Tweed, in Doomed By Cartoon: How Cartoonist ThommasNast and The New York Times BroughtDown Boss Tweed and His Ring of Thieves (Morgan James).

Weyman Lundquist '52, former assistant U.S. attorney in Alaska and longtime partner with Heller Ehrman, and Alyson Pytte '82, who works for the Alaska Court of Appeals, outline the processes by which cases are tried and decided and highlight concrete, time-proven techniques and ideas from some of the country's preeminent trial lawyers and judges in The Litigation Manual: Jury Trials (American Bar Association).

George L. Paul '79, a partner with Phoenix, Arizona-based Lewis and Roca, provides legal and practical advice for lawyers dealing with digital information in Foundations of Digital Evidence (American Bar Association).

George B. Stauffer '69, a professor of music and dean of the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University, edited About Bach (University of Illinois Press), a collection of essays about the composer.

Robert Schwartz '84 presents the provocative premise that we plan our lives—and our greatest challenges—before birth in Your Soul's Plan: Discovering the Real Meaningof the Life You Planned Before You WereBom (North Atlantic Books/Random House).

James Brewer Stewart 62, a history professor emeritus at Macalester College, collects and edits the essays of various scholars on the topic of one of the most militant and uncompromising abolitionists in the United States in William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred (Yale University Press).

Chuck Wooster '89, founder of Vermont's Sunrise Farm, a community-supported agriculture farm, draws on his experience raising pigs for food to advise other farmmers in Living with Pigs: Everything You Needto Know to Raise Your Own Porkers (Lyons Press).

Valerie Steele '78, director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, traces the development of gothic style from its origins in the 18th-century gothic literature of terror to its contemporary manifestations in both street style and high fashion in Gothic: Dark Glamour (Yale University Press). The book is a companion to a current exhibit of the same name that Steele curated at the museum.

Peter Murane '8, CEO and founder of marketing firm Brand Juice— where he consults with firms such as Chlorox, Procter & Gamble and General Mills—offers both practical and theoretical insights into the creation and management of innovation in Lessons from the Vinyl Sofa:Hie Street Smart Way to Win at Innovation (Brandjuice).

Mike Ackerman "86, CEO of The Ackerman Group LLC, which provides services to 65 of America's top 100 multinational corporations, offers a comprehensive overview of the risks to multinational corporations—and suggests practical countermeasures—in CounterterrorismStrategies for Corporations: TheAckerman Principles (Prometheus Books).

Alex Kapian '93, an English teacher at Newton South (Massa chusetts) High School, helps high school and college English and creative writing teachers more effectively use the works of National Book Award-winning author Tim O'Brien in Tim O'Brien in the Classroom:This Too Is True: Stories Can Save Us (National Council of Teachers of English).

Louisa Gilder '00 explores the papers and memoirs of the 20th century's greatest physicists, who were behind the dramatic rebirth of quantum physics, in The Age of Entanglement (Alfred Knopf), a book that began as a paper she wrote as a senior in Hanover.

Brian Schoft '93 brings together western authors and emerging writers and artists in his new Montana-based literary journal devoted to mountain culture, White fish Review: Art, Literature, Photography.

Larry Olmsted, Adv '09, a freelance writer for Outside and USA Today, profiles the extreme feats, and characters behind the pages of Guinness World Records and chronicles his own two successful record-breaking attempts (for playing the world's longest poker session and for squeezing in two golf games on different continents on the same day) in Gettinginto Guinness (Collins).