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NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Norman Weissman '46, a film and television writer and director, explores the power of remembrance in two new novels. Acceptable Losses follows a struggling playwright and his actress wife from the theaters of Broadway to the war in the Pacific as they try to accommodate the conflicting demands of love and addiction, while in Snapshots USA: An American Family Album a former Kent State student seeks answers to his lingering questions about the 1970 shooting (both from Hammonasset House).

William M. Gould '54, M.D., tells the story of a middle-aged doctors hunt for a father who abandoned him and the relationships that complicate that search in the novels Little Score to Settle (iUniverse).

David Birney '61, film, television and stage actor, has edited a collection of holiday songs, stories and poems from authors such as Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson in A Christmas Pudding (Samuel French).

John Dickey '63, geologist and earth sciences author, pursues another passion in his second book of poetry, Quebradillas (Terranova Editores), inspired by his life in northwestern Puerto Rico.

Vic Mansfield '63, a Colgate University professor of physics and astronomy connects the foundations of Buddhism with the principles of quantum mechanics in Tibetan Buddhism &Modern Physics: Toward Union of Love and Knowledge (Templeton Foundation Press).

John Topping '64, founder and president of the Climate Institute, brings together the work of interdisciplinary researchers to examine the consequences of climate change and what we can do about it as coeditor of Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change: Exploring the Real Risks and How We Can Avoid Them (Earthscan).

John M. Fyler '65, a Tufts University professor of English, examines the history of language in a new interpretation of medieval poetry, Language and the Dedining World in Chaucer, Dante and Jean de Meun (Cambridge University Press).

Steve Shipps '66, an Emerson College associate professor of visual and media studies, explains the meaning and purpose of art in (Re) Thinking "Art" A Guide for Beginners (Wiley-Black-well).

Mark Sayles '74 (writing as M.S. Holms) explores how life for a Muslim teenager changes after September 11 in his second book for young adult readers, How Mohammed Saved Miss Liberty (Great West Publishing).

Christopher Carlson '75 follows a mysterysolving 13-year-old delinquent on a journey through underground kingdoms, magic puddles and a secret world of tiny water creatures in his first middle-school novel, Puddlejumpers (Hyperion).

Jonathan Kern '75, head of NPR's news training unit and former senior editor and executive producer of All Things Considered, gives a tour of the world of broadcast journalism in Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production (The University of Chicago Press).

Debbie Lee Wesselmann '81 publishes her second novel, Captivity (John F. Blair), the story of a South Carolina primatologist who must confront personal and professional jealousies, campus politics and her own family's history when her chimpanzee sanctuary ary is vandalized and the animals set loose.

William Blake Winchell '75, managing general partner of Fremont Ventures, a San Francisco-based private equity growth capital fund, discusses building businesses with venture capital in Biotechnology Venture Capital Investments: Leading VCs on Deal Terms, Valuations & Keys to Success for Investors and Management Teams (Aspatore Books).

Peter Heller '82, travel writer and NPR contributor, spent two months aboard an "eco-pirate ship" as it sailed the Antarctic sea hunting for illegal: whalers. The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals (Free Press) is the story of his high stakes journey, the heroic fight to protect the remaining whale population and the fight to save the worlds oceans from total collapse.

David Page '90 packs everything you need to know about California's Southern Sierra Nevada into a 350-page handbook—from hiking routes to historical tidbits to the best taverns in the area—in Yosemite & The Southern Sierra Nevada:A Complete Guide (Countryman Press).

Susy Svatek Ziegler '90, a University of Minnesota assistant professor of geography, explores the human and natural environments of the Land of 10,000 Lakes as co-author of Landscapes of Minnesota:A Geography (Minnesota Historical Society Press).

Sam Means '03 (writing as fictional professor C.H. Daltron), a staff writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, lampoons racist thinking and the stereotypes such thought produces in his first book, A Practical Guide To Racism (Gotham Books).