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NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS BY ALUMNI
Clinton C. Gardner '44 presents Dartmouth professor Eugen RosenstockHuessv's modern and secular interpretation of Christianity, which continues to influence philosophers and believers today, in Beyond Belief: Discovering Christianity's New Paradigm (White River Press).
Frank D. Gilroy '50, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and novelist, traces his journey from gambling on horse races as a boy in the Bronx to writing and directing Hollywood films in his memoir Writing for Love and/or Money: OuttakesFrom a Life on Spec (Smith & Kraus).
Michael S. Gazzaniga '61, a University of California Santa Barbara professor of psychology and former Dartmouth psychological and brain sciences professor, applies cutting-edge neuroscience research to the questions of understanding human behavior in Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique (Ecco).
William Woods '64, an English professor at Wichita State University, examines effect and significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales in Chaucerian Spaces: Spatial Poetics inChaucer's Opening Tales (SUNY Press).
William Morgan '66, Pulitzer Prize-nominated architectural historian, explains the unique characteristics of more than 20 styles of American homes—from colonial to Greek revival to deconstructivism—in The Abrams Guide to AmericanHouse Styles (Abrams), a handbook to domestic architecture that includes color photography and descriptions of 350 homes from more than 40 states.
John Segelbaum '69 follows a young naval officer caught in the political intrigue of 1969 Panama in his first novel, Panama (Booksurge). Rick Shefchik '74 follows lastyear's sports thriller Amen Corner with Green Monster (Poison Pen Press), in which detective Sam Skarda is hired by the Red Sox to investigate an extortion note claiming the 2004 World Series was fixed.
Kimberly Ford '91 delivers a personal, emotional and often hilarious account of all aspects of having sex after children in her first book, Hump: True Tales of Sexafter Kids (St. Martins Press).
Louise Erdrich '76 shows how a brutal act of racism committed in the early 1900s haunts a small prairie town for the next century, changing—and intertwining—the lives of several families living near the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation in her 13th novel, Plague ofDoves (HarperCollins).
Carl Little '76, a Maine-based art critic, teams with the sons of celebrated Maine artist Vincent Hartgen to produce an extensive biography of Hartgen—the popular professor and founder of the University of Maine Museum of Artand his art with Vincent Andrew Hartgen:His Art and Legacy (Wildflower Lane).
Christina Thompson '80 tells the story of her marriage to a Maori man while exploring the meaning of cross-cultural contact and the history of Europeans in the South Pacific in Come on Shore andWe Will Kill and EatYouAll:A New ZealandStory (Bloomsbury).
Deborah Hellman '85, a law professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, develops a theory of discrimination and shows that many familiar ideas about when it is wrong—when motivated by prejudice, grounded in stereotypes or departs from meritbased decision-making, for exampledon't adequately explain our widely shared intuitions in When Is Discrimination Wrong? (Harvard University Press).
Neil Maher '86, an associate professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology-Rutgers University in Newark, examines the history and im pact of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal conservation programs in Nature'sNew Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corpsand the Roots of the American EnvironmentalMovement (Oxford University Press).
Paul Griffin '88, drawing on his work as a teacher in New York City juvenile detention centers and at-risk high schools, tells a story of survival and friendship on the streets of the city in his debut novel, Ten Mile River (Penguin).
Jason Maloney '91, news and PBS documentary producer and co-founder of the Bureau for International Reporting, profiles ordinary people who have achieved extraordinary changes in their communities in Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes (Palgrave Macmillan).
Davit (Friedmari) Benioff '92, author and screenwriter, follows two young men who meet in jail during the siege of Leningradone a Jewish teenager arrested for looting and the other a soldier charged with desertion—as they navigate the lawlessness of the World War II countryside in City of Thieves (Viking).
Aaron Sandoski '96, cofounder and managing director of venture capital firm Norwich Ventures and former Harvard teaching fellow, shares advice on successful decision-making gleaned from interviews with CEOs and world leaders in How the Wise Decide (Crown Business).
Max Gross '00, a writer for The New YorkPost, chronicles his transformation from an overweight, directionless slacker living at home with his parents to a fashionable lady magnet in From Schlub toStud (Skyhorse Publishing).
Lance Kramer '06 explores the ingenuity and history of ancient China with 25 hands-on projects for readers ages 9 and up in Great Ancient China Projects YouCan Build Ybursclf (Nomad Press).
