EDITOR’S PICKS
EDITOR’S PICKS
alumni books
LISA DENSMORE BALLARD ’83 Ski Faster! Rocky Fork Media
Ballard has competed on a variety of ski racing stages—from World Cup to NCAA Division I college racing to the masters circuit—and has garnered almost 100 national titles and four world masters championships. Here, the longtime alpine racing coach reveals her secrets to success on the slopes.
NEIL MAHER ’86 Apollo in the Age of Aquarius Harvard University Press
The New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers history professor examines how the celestial aspirations of NASA’s Apollo space program were tethered to terrestrial concerns—from the civil rights struggle and the antiwar movement to environmentalism, feminism and the counterculture.
MEL ROBBINS ’90 The 5 Second Rule Savio Republic
The motivational speaker draws on her experience teaching executives how to overcome self-doubt and build confidence in a how-to for everyday life. Using the science of habits, Robbins supports her theory behind the book’s title: “The moment you have an instinct to act on a goal you must 5-4-3-2-1 and physically move or your brain will stop you.”
PRAYAAG AKBAR ’04 Leila Simon & Schuster India
Journalist Akbar turns an unflinching gaze on class and privilege in this fictional account of a future, digitized city obsessed with purity—and building walls to divide and confine communities. His debut novel follows a once-wealthy woman as she searches outside the walls for the daughter she lost years ago.
MEGAN (FONTANELLA) REMMELTS ’04 Visionaries: Creating a Modem Guggenheim Guggenheim Museum Publications
Guggenheim curator Remmelts celebrates the late-19thand early20th-century masterworks at the core of the institution’s holdings, and the trailblazers—artists and early patrons alike—whose contributions helped define the forward-looking identity of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
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