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NEW AND NOTABLE BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Granville Austin '50, author of two political histories of India and recipient of fellowships from Oxford University and the Institute of Current World Affairs, recalls his boyhood days in Norwich, Vermont, in Retrieving Times (White River Press).

Calvin K. Towle '57 offers insightful verse on subjects ranging from American traditions to the natural beauty of New England in Poems for Everybody (Vantage Press).

Peter Herman '58, former consultant at Arthur D. Little, traces the company's rise to prominence and subsequent fall using personal interviews with those involved in his self-published MindingOther People's Business (But Not Our Own).

Jonathan Wiesel '66, cross-country skiing enthusiast and founder of recreational trails planning firm Nordic Group International, details nearly 100 of his favorite skiing locales in Cross-country Ski Getaways (e-book available at www.crosscountryskifun.com).

Kenneth Roman '52, former chairman and CEO of advertising firm Ogilvy & Mather, paints a fascinating portrait of the agency's legendary founder in The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvyand the Making of Modern Advertising (Palgrave Macmillan).

Stephen Mullins '54, chairman of a real-estate investment fund and avid collector, provides Doulton collectors with never-before-seen images of more than 800 painted ceramic jugs in ACentury of Royal Doulton Character & TobyJugs (Schiffer).

Naomi Stone '03, assistant editor at The Middle East Journal, drawing from her journey to the Tunisian island Djerba, illustrates the alienation of the islands Jewish community in her first poetry collection, Stranger's Notebook (Northwestern University Press).

Thomas O. Beebee '77, a Penn State University professor of comparative literature and German, examines modern myths of apocalyptic battles between good and evil within the context of European colonialism of the Americas in Millennial Literatures of the Americas,1492-2002 (Oxford University Press).