EDITOR'S PICKS
RUSSELL FRASER ’47
Sojourner in Islamic Lands
University of South Carolina Press
Fraser, a former English professor at the University of Michigan and author of 20 books, including the 2012 memoir From China to Peru, offers a travelogue that sheds light on the influence of geography, religion and art on the culture of Central Asia.
KENNETH COOPER ’68
Becoming a Great School
Rowman & Littlefield
Cooper coauthored this guide to transforming schools into learning communities. An elementary and middle school principal for 26 years, Cooper focuses on energizing the workforce, offering a clear focus and developing a process to renew a school’s educational systems.
L. ACKERMAN SMOLLER ’81
The Saint & the Chopped-up Baby
Cornell University Press
University of Arkansas history professor Smoller traces the contentious process and political implications of establishing a stable image of a saint through the story of celebrated Dominican preacher Vincent Ferrer. He was canonized within 50 years of his death in part because of a miracle in which a baby killed by its mother was restored to life.
TimoTHy polasHek adv’96
The Word Rhythm Dictionary
Rowman & Littlefield
Composer and music technologist Polashek provides a new kind of dic- tionary for writers, rappers, poets and lyricists based on the rhythm of a word. He makes it easy to locate words that feature similar sounds, matching meters and rhythmic grooves, from traditional rhymes such as “clashing” and “splashing” to pure metrical pairs such as “biol- ogy” and “photography.”
Co u RT la n d s m i T H ’ 07
Behind the Psychologist Trilogy
Amazon Digital
Drawing on his psychology studies as an undergraduate and grad stu- dent at New York University (where he now works as a researcher), Smith chronicles the dysfunctional life of a modern-day psychologist. After years of assuming different personalities to aid his patients’ therapy, the psychologist is unsure of what is real and what is construct.
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