Alumni Books

FRED "SKIP" PESSL '55 Barren Grounds

Dartmouth College Press

Drawing on his personal experiences as well as journals of members of the 1955 expedition through the Barren Lands of Arctic Canada, Pessl recounts the trip led by Arthur Moffat. A retired geologist, Pessl explains how they battled frigid waters, harsh weather and low food supplies during the 900-mile journey.

WILLIAM ROTH ’62 Out of the Box Thinking for Successful Managers

Productivity Press

Roth mines decades of experience consulting in the corporate world to question numerous modern-day management practices. He explains why they hamper attempts to improve productivity and provides simple suggestions for change that have proven effective in private-and public-sector organizations.

lau ra d e n a r d I s ’ 8 8 The Global War for Internet Governance

Yale University Press

One of the world’s foremost Inter- net governance scholars and a com- munications professor at American University, DeNardis reveals the in- ner power structure already in place within the institutions of Internet governance. She stresses the pub- lic’s responsibility to actively en- gage in debates about it.

k I r st e n ( ru t n I k ) G I l l I B ra n d ’ 8 8 Off the Sidelines

Ballantine Books

The U.S. senator from New York of- fers a playbook for women who want to step up, whether in Congress or the boardroom or the local PTA. She also shares her legislative successes (repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) and greatest disappointments (failing to pass a bill protecting survivors of sexual assault in the military).

e r I ka m e I t n e r ’ 9 6 Copia

BOA Editions

In her fourth book of poetry the 2009 National Poetry Series winner takes cues from the Land Artists of the 1960s, who created work based on landscapes of urban peripher- ies. The collection also includes a section—commissioned by Virginia Quarterly Review—that bears witness to a decaying Detroit.

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