Steven Beeber ’85, ’95G has written fiction and non-fiction for numerous publications including Bridge, Conduit, Fiction, Heeb, Maxim, Mojo, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Playboy.com, Rain, Taxi, and Spin. He is the editor of Awake: A Reader for the Sleepless, an anthology of poems, stories, art, blog entries, and other miscellanea by Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Joyce Carol Oates, James Tate, Arthur Bradford, Charles Simic, Dara Wier, Simon Armitage, and many others. He lives in Jamaica Plain.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst boasts over a century of both intercollegiate and intramural athletics. The story begins with the early recreational activities of a New England agricultural college and ends with a highly competitive Division I athletic schedule. From playing ice hockey on the campus pond in 1908 or dribbling basketballs in the Curry Hicks cage in 1931 to the construction of the state-of-the-art Mullins Center in 1993, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has produced some of the best athletes in American sports history. These stars include hockey great Jerry McCarthy, a 1924 Olympic silver medalist; softball pitcher Danielle Henderson, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist; and Julius Erving, legendary NBA star.

Steven Sullivan ’91 currently serves as the secretary of the Pond Club, the fund-raising arm of the men’s ice hockey program. He is also the author of University of Massachusetts Amherst in the Campus History Series.

Undercurrent, the second novel in the Sam Wallace, Sarasota based series brings back Sam and a few of his friends along with many new characters that populate Sarasota, Florida and Miami. Sam now has a private investigator’s license and is also enjoying his writing career and his romance with Jennifer Belding, Ph.D biologist and resident expert on Red Tide and sea turtle nesting at the Galt Marine Laboratory.

Environmental-activist and Attorney Maggie Robbins is found murdered in her Siesta Key home in a posh neighborhood where recent burglaries have occurred. Several prominent and not so prominent people in town have reason to want Maggie dead, and her husband, Paul, who was in Miami on business, comes racing home believing he may know who killed his wife.
Sam Wallace, with his recently acquired private investigator’s license and his romance with Marine Biologist Dr. Jennifer Belding, is enjoying the good life in Sarasota writing his detective novels. One of the suspects hires him to help “find the real killer.” He takes on the case albeit uncertain of his client’s professed innocence.

Sam discovers Maggie and her friend Sarah Hastings were at the forefront of a fierce campaign fighting developers. Maggie’s brother, Bryce, has proposed a mega-sized resort on a pristine section of Siesta Key beach front that they view as threatening the community’s charm and the environment, particularly one of Florida’s endangered species, the sea turtles. The murder investigation is conducted against this background.

Sam digs deeper into the investigation despite distractions created by the surprise appearance of his exwife from Boston and Jennifer’s former financé. His efforts to work with Chief Homicide Detective Diane Lewis are met with mixed reactions. In spite of their tenuous relationship they gradually unpeel layers of deception and greed where money, revenge, blackmail, jealously, and fear provide ample motives for murder.

Sam shuttles between Sarasota and Miami, searching for links to the killings. More murders are committed and Sam is caught up in a nightmare of violence and deception. Eventually he discovers the killer’s identity only to find there is nothing he or the police can do. A bizarre twist changes everything.

Wayne Barcomb ’55 lives in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife Susan and is the author of four books. Visit his Web site: waynebarcomb.com

Job guru Richard Fein, author of numerous interview books and articles, now offers his expertise to the over-55 set. According to a survey by the AARP, seven out of ten workers that are 45 and older plan to work during the retirement years. People are living longer than ever, and many are finding that retiring in their 50s or 60s leaves them feeling restless and may even leave them without enough money to maintain their accustomed lifestyle. For a variety of reasons, more and more people are finding themselves in the workplace at an advanced age and facing a new set of circumstances.

The Baby Boomer's Guide to the New Workplace is an upbeat, yet realistic, book for people who plan to work during their senior years. It is a book about the reasons people work, the choices they make, what they enjoy, what they don't, and the techniques everyone needs to know to land the right job.

Visit the author's Web site at www.RichardFein.com.

Richard Fein is the founding director of the Isenberg School of Management Career Services Center at UMass Amherst. He has written numerous books including 101 Dynamite questions to Ask at Your Job Interview, 95 Mistakes Job Seekers Make...and How to Avoid Them, and 101 Quick Tips for a Dynamite Resume. In addition he has been a guest for over 30 television and radio interviews. He lives in Amherst.

This book is about so much more than cartography. Map projections are used as tools for understanding the world from different points of view -- those of the world's countries, the world's cultures, the world's people, and the world's history. Seeing Through Maps also explains the principles and hidden messages contained in a number of unique maps and provocative images. It includes the Peters Projection Map; the Van Sant GeoSphere Map; the Fuller Dymaxion Map; a Toronto Canada-based equidistant map; Minard's Map, which tracks Napoleon's march on Moscow; Petit's African Diaspora Map; and a cartogram of global warming. It also includes the original McArthur Universal Corrective Map of the World, an upside down map that has Australia on top. The new REVISED and EXPANDED edition includes: Cartogram of 2004 USA Election Results, Hobo-Dyer Projection maps, and a new chapter called, “Are Maps TALK instead of Pictures” which challenges the conventional notion that maps are representations of reality. Instead, the authors assert that maps are propositions or arguments, and used as tools of persuasion or exploitation. When people in power control the mapmaking, then maps represent the interests of people in power. This book strips the veneer of authority off the status quo, and calls for a true democracy where people use the power of maps to speak (and argue) for their own interests. Read Chapter one at: http://www.diversophy.com/Map_Chapter1.pdf

Bob Abramms 76G, 80G is an international expert on designing, conducting, and evaluating management training and executive development programs. He has published five books and over fifty articles on leadership, motivation, human relations training, prejudice, stereotyping, and cultural differences.

On March 23, 1944, as the Allied Forces were preparing for D-Day, Helen Duncan--"Nell" to her six children and four grandchildren and "Hellish Nell" to her detractors--stood in the dock of Britain's highest criminal court accused of: witchcraft! At the time of her arrest, Helen Duncan was Britain's most controversial psychic, a celebrity medium with a notorious reputation. During her seances, she channeled spirits who spoke from the world beyond, and on a few occasions, her "spirit" seemed to know too much: Helen's seances were accurately revealing top-secret British ship movements. Intelligence authorities wanted "Hellish Nell" silenced. Using diaries, personal papers, interviews, and declassified documents, Nina Shandler resurrects this strange episode and explores the unanswered questions surrounding the trial: Did "Hellish Nell" channel spirits of the dead who gave away wartime secrets? Was she a calculating charlatan or the innocent target of obsessive wartime secrecy? Why did the Director of Public Prosecutions try her as a witch, and not a spy? Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, The Strange Case of Hellish Nell is a true crime tale laced with psychic phenomena and wartime intrigue.

Nina Shandler ’84Gis a licensed psychologist and family therapist in Amherst. She is the author of Estrogen: The Natural Way, Ophelia’s Mom, and The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The True Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II.

Acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson captures the voices of the forgotten men, women, and children who worked in the cotton industry in America over the centuries. The voices of the slaves who toiled in the fields in the South, the poor sharecroppers who barely got by, and the girls who gave their lives to the New England mills spring to life through oral histories, archival photos, and Hopkinson's engaging narrative prose style. These stories are amazing and often heartbreaking, and they are imbedded deep in our nation's history.

Deborah Hopkinson ’73 is the author of award-winning children's books such as Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt; Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings; A Band of Angels; and for Scholastic's Dear America series, Hear My Sorrow. Her nonfiction book Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1923 has garnered a great deal of acclaim. Among many honors, it was selected as one of the New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing, an ALA Notable Trade Book in Social Studies, a Sydney Taylor Notable Book, a NYPL Book for the Teen Age, and it was awarded an Orbis Pictus Honor and a Jane Addams Peace Award Honor. Deborah lives in Oregon. Visit her Web site at www.deborahhopkinson.com.

Lee and Ted are a young, hip New York City couple living together in New York City whose lives consist of nothing but cool work assignments, long lunches, and evenings out with their equally hip and trendy friends. But, not yet feeling quite equipped for life or love, they’re vague about plans for “the future.” “Our relationship is like a French movie,” Lee tells a friend. “There’s a lot of interesting character development, but no plot.”
One summer weekend, Lee and Ted stop at an animal shelter. They've always wanted a dog, and perhaps if they commit themselves to a loving pet, they reason, their lives will become more rooted. When they meet and fall in love with Rex, a beautiful, lively spaniel of mysterious origins abandoned on Doggie Death Row, they elatedly adopt him and bring him home, expecting to be flooded with doggie gratitude and exuberance. But Rex doesn’t romp and wiggle happily like the yellow Labs in Alpo commercials. He doesn’t greet Lee and Ted with exuberance or fetch The New York Times. Instead, Rex is unlike any dog the couple has ever known–he clearly loathes his new owners, their friends, their apartment, and New York City. He terrorizes everyone he encounters (even the friendly librarian who lives next door) and runs away every chance he gets. Lee and Ted are flummoxed. How have they ended up with the only dog on the planet who won’t offer unconditional love?

The couple question whether they can handle this dog, especially in New York City. They can’t agree on how to train him–while Ted wants to use the “hand-corrective method,” Lee prefers a nurturing approach. Consequently, Rex’s behavior doesn’t improve much in the first few months. And Lee and Ted’s relationship doesn’t improve either–they begin to argue constantly. But the twosome refuse to give up on their pooch. As Rex becomes more doglike, they begin to take delight in Rex’s antics and signs of progress: his first nonviolent dog-run experience, his first Halloween costume contest, his first kiss. And as they witness their pet’s gradual transformation from a wounded, fearful puppy into a confident, free-spirited dog, Lee and Ted’s relationship also transforms, as their commitment to the dog seals their commitment to each other.
Lee Harrington writes with an open heart, in prose that is witty, insightful, and poignant. Ultimately a love story between humans and animals alike, Rex and the City is a hilarious and riotous romp of a memoir.

Here are a few examples of how a mantra can help you control your reactions to those mothering circumstances largely out of your control:
When it seems like everyone else's children are better behaved (and doesn't it always feel that way?), you can remind yourself to "narrow your focus," or stop comparing your children to others, which is only bound to make you miserable.

When the monotony of caring for a toddler gets to you, remembering to "surrender to the goat," as one mother did when her son insisted on feeding the same goat at the petting zoo every day, for hours," "will help you recognize the importance of being in the moment, and will help you endure and even enjoy the sometimes tedious routines.

When you begin to resent that you do more housework than your spouse, despite your best intentions and all the nagging in the world, you can learn to "ignore the score," or let go of keeping track, which can become an unhealthy (and unhelpful) obsession.

When your mantras seem to fail you, you can always remind yourself that "I am not Buddha." Motherhood is not something we can master. We can only try to be more mindful. Even so, some days are harder than others. Mantras are the deceptively simple words we can use to diffuse stress and choose appropriate, constructive behavior sowe can recognize ourselves, find our center and be more mindful and compassionate mothers.

Lee Harrington's ’88 series "Rex and the City" has been appearing in The Bark magazine since 2000. She lives in New York city with her second dog, Clothilde. Visit her website at www.rexandthecity.net.

Mommy Mantras are phrases you can say in your head, or out loud if you need to, during those trying moments of mothering. They act to empower you, revive you, and remind you that there is always another way to see your situation. Buddhist-inspired and psychologically grounded, these snippets of wisdom come through entertaining and universal stories of unpredictable life with children.

Here are a few examples of how a mantra can help you control your reactions to those mothering circumstances largely out of your control:
When it seems like everyone else's children are better behaved (and doesn't it always feel that way?), you can remind yourself to "narrow your focus," or stop comparing your children to others, which is only bound to make you miserable.

When the monotony of caring for a toddler gets to you, remembering to "surrender to the goat," as one mother did when her son insisted on feeding the same goat at the petting zoo every day, for hours," "will help you recognize the importance of being in the moment, and will help you endure and even enjoy the sometimes tedious routines.

When you begin to resent that you do more housework than your spouse, despite your best intentions and all the nagging in the world, you can learn to "ignore the score," or let go of keeping track, which can become an unhealthy (and unhelpful) obsession.

When your mantras seem to fail you, you can always remind yourself that "I am not Buddha." Motherhood is not something we can master. We can only try to be more mindful. Even so, some days are harder than others. Mantras are the deceptively simple words we can use to diffuse stress and choose appropriate, constructive behavior sowe can recognize ourselves, find our center and be more mindful and compassionate mothers.

Diane Dillon ’93G ’96G is a mother of two and the director of the Child Study Team at The School at columbia University. She lives in New York City.

Membrane systems are finding increasing application worldwide in the purification of potable and industrial water, and their design and use is set to grow considerably in years to come.
This comprehensive book is written in a practical style with emphasis on process description, key unit operations, plant equipment description, equipment installation, safety and maintenance, process control, plant start-up, operation and troubleshooting. It is supplemented by case studies and useful engineering rules-of-thumb.
The author is a chemical engineer with many years experience in the field and his technical knowledge and practical know-how in the water purification industry are summarised succinctly in this volume.
This book...
* Will ensure your system design is fit for its purpose
* Informs readers of which membranes to use; why, where and when
* Will help readers to trouble-shoot and improve performance
* Provides case studies help understanding through real-life situations
This book...
* Will ensure your system design is fit for its purpose
* Informs readers of which membranes to use; why, where and when
* Will help readers to trouble-shoot and improve performance
* Provides case studies help understanding through real-life situations

Rajindar Singh ’77G is a technical services manager for Siemens Water Technologies in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

This book draws on the collective brainpower of hundreds of executives across America and around the globe, who work for such distinguished companies as Dell Computers, Motorola, and Ford Motor Company. Employing their suggestions, the author tells how any business can use to save money and trim waste. Patricia Moody, a top consultant on supply chain management, created a blog dedicated to savings suggestions for executives who have hands on their companies' purse strings. The result is a wealth of information she has distilled into twelve steps any company can take to immediately implement ten powerful ways to cut spending without sacrificing quality. Ms. Moody begins by telling an amusing story of executives caught in a frenzied rivalry to cut costs. Ultimately, one group finds an avenue that leads to success and an action plan to implement ten powerful ways to cut the company's spend. The remaining half of the book is a distillation of actual blogs providing real case histories any executive looking for ways to save will find invaluable.

Patricia Moody ’68 has written numerous books during a 30-year career in industry and as a consultant whose clients include British Petroleum and Motorola. She has taught at undergraduate and graduate levels and is a frequent speaker at business conferences. Boards she serves on include Inside Supply Management, Sloan Management Review, and Ketera Technologies. She holds an MBA from Simmons College.

This is the first systematic study of the Jews in the Greek resistance based on archival research and personal interviews. It covers Jews in various aspects of resistance in Greece and other concentration camps. The book is a contribution to the overall story of Greek resistance against the Nazi occupiers and provides hitherto unknown stories of their contributions to that fight. Based on interviews and archival research Bowman has assembled a preliminary list of over 650 individuals who fought or served with the Greek Resistance forces. These include andartes and andartissas, interpreters, recruiters, doctors, spies, nurses, organizers, and a number of non Greek Jews who volunteered or were trapped in Greece during the war years. While the murder of nearly 90% of Greek Jews by the Nazis has begun to enter the holocaust story, the participation of Greek Jews in the war against the Nazis is virtually unknown. Greek Jews actively fought in the war against the Italian and German invaders. Veterans and young Jewish males and females went to the mountains to fight or serve in various ways in the andartiko among the several Greek Resistance movements. Other Jews remained in urban areas where they joined different Resistance cells whether as active saboteurs or in leadership roles. A number of Jews appear on the payrolls of Force 133. Additionally Greek Jews participated in the Sonderkommando revolt in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in October 1944 while others fought in the Warsaw revolt from August to October 1944.

Steven Bowman ’64 is a professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

What Grammy-award winning band’s Jewish members recite kiddush before their Friday night concerts? What member of a world-famous band blows the shofar at his synagogue on the High Holy Days? What famous rock musician packed his menorah as well as his drum set when preparing to go on world-wide concert tours? How did Judaism’s historic affinity with music—the Torah was meant to be sung—translate into some of the best-loved rock ‘n’ roll songs of the past century?

Inspired by a backstage conversation with David Lee Roth during which the rock star revealed that he first learned to sing preparing for his Bar Mitzvah, Scott R. Benarde spent five years combining his love of Judaism, journalism, and rock 'n' roll investigating the Jewish contribution to rock music from 1953 to the present. Noting that outside of the Christian rock genre the media had rarely (with the exception of Bob Dylan) dealt with a rock star’s religion or spirituality, Benarde was determined to find out how Judaism influenced rock music and the people who created it. Jews kvell when they discover that someone famous or accomplished in any field is a member of the tribe, but wouldn’t it really be something if these celebrities cared about being Jewish?

Focusing on these musicians, singers, and songwriters, Stars of David offers a highly readable collection of short vignettes that demonstrate the rich strand of Jewish belief and sentiment that underscores the work of many of the best-known rock stars of our time. Among those discussed or interviewed are the legendary songwriting teams of Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, performers such as Bob Dylan, Melissa Manchester, Janis Ian, Randy Newman, Billy Joel, Kinky Friedman (of the Texas Jewboys), and David Lee Roth, and members of groups such as the Tokens, Jay and the Americans, Country Joe and the Fish, Yes, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bon Jovi, Phish, the Wallflowers and many others.

Scott Benarde ’75 is the media relations coordinator for the JCC of the Greater Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, Florida.

If you think you know how the United States got involved in World War II, you may be in for a surprise. Sex, Spies, and Videotape presents a shocking tale of intrigue and treason unlike most books of World War II genre. Starting with a biographical format, O'Toole presents an uplifting tale about a courageous United States Senator, David I. Walsh, who represented Massachusetts for 28 years. Why have we never heard of this liberal senator form Massachusetts, a man whose record of service was just broken by Ted Kennedy? Why has his story never come out of the closet?

Switching to an investigative journalist style, O'Toole presents some astounding charges, backed up with sleuthing that Woodward and Bernstein should be proud of. He, indeed, attempts to follow the money. He starts with a fundraiser at Fenway Park attended by 50,000 people, whose sole purpose was to raise funds for Irish freedom. First elected to the US Senate in 1918, Walsh played a key role in the fundraising capital of Irish freedom, Boston, particularly during the period 1918-1922. As the keynote speaker at that event, Walsh earned a file in the British Intelligence services. Walsh, a leader of the anti-war movement, had his voice snuffed out and his career destroyed by propaganda that Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of. Hardly a pacifist, his criticisms of FDR's foreign policy were based on his belief that America was not prepared for war. Walsh was the target of a British conspiracy that resulted in a "show trial" called the Nazi Spy Nest Case. It mattered little that it was complete fantasy, but Walsh was exposed as a homosexual caught in a Nazi brothel in Brooklyn.

David O'Toole ’69 has called for mock trials of the ACLU, FDR, and Walsh, to be held on college campuses, with the jury pool being restricted to liberal student organizations. As a lifelong supporter and volunteer worker on the Kennedy, Kerry, and Dukakis campaigns, he cannot be shrugged off as some right wing nut. That may have worked in WWII, but it will not work again.

A Matter of Degrees is the highly-anticipated next installment in the critically acclaimed Jessie Mercer mystery series.

Fans of Alex Marcoux's previous novels Façades and Back to Salem will be enthralled by this spellbinding new novel, which heralds the return of her well-loved characters Jessie and Taylor, along with high-powered talent agent Sidney Marcum.

Novelist Jessie Mercer has always had the gift of precognition. Shortly after she conjures up the idea for her newest book, The Ultimate Conspiracy, she is drawn into a web of conspiracy, intrigue, and murder. See for yourself why Sherry L. Stinson, from oulookpress.com, thinks "Alex Marcoux is the lesbian Dan Brown!"

Bits of a previous life in the far-distant past are slowly revealed, uncovering ancient secrets that connect Egyptian pharaohs, the Freemasons, the Knights Templar, Mary Magdalene, the Sumerians, the Roman Catholic Church, he devil, and even God.

Alex Marcoux ’81 lives in Colorado with her son. Her second novel, Back to Salem, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for best mystery. For her first novel, Façades, she was presented a Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Pen Award. Alex is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and the Lambda Literary Agency. For more on Alex and her work, visit her web site at alexmarcoux.com.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London. It addresses the controversial and important question of when eminent domain may constitutionally be used to take property for projects that are not publicly owned and operated facilities, such as schools and town halls. The volume captures and conveys the context within which this debate is taking place as well as offers guidance concerning the Kelo decision itself and how it may be used.

Leading academics and practitioners in the area of eminent domain discuss the history and origins of the public use clause. They debate its proper interpretation and scope. The advocates who argued on both sides of Kelo offer their analysis of the opinion and their thoughts on the future. Advocates who represent the government and those who represent property owners offer their divergent perspectives on Kelo and what it will mean to the future of eminent domain use in this country.

Dwight H. Merriam ’68 is the founding member and senior partner of the Land Use Group at Robinson & Cole, LLP, in Hartford, Connecticut. He represents developers, governments, landowners, and advocacy groups in eminent domain, land development, and conservation issues. Mr. Merriam is a Fellow and past president of the American Institute of Certified Planners, former director of the American Planning Association, and a previous chair of its Planning & Law Division. He is also a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and a Counselor of Real Estate. Mr. Merriam teaches land use law at Vermont Law School. He is the author of The Complete Guide to Zoning (2005), co-editor of Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown (1984), and co-author of The Takings Issue (1999). He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Master of Regional Planning), and Yale Law School (J.D.).

This emotionally mobile novel takes us first from the Midwest to the Pacific coast with Julie, a middle-aged professional struggling to recover from a broken engagement. After a visit with her cousin in California leaves her ambivalent about her desires, Julie returns home. Still restless, she heads east, seeking peace of mind in Vermont. In alternate chapters, we follow Sandy, a disillusioned Boston professor who escapes to the challenging White Mountains of New Hampshire. Disappointed by the trip, both physically and psychologically, Sandy becomes depressed. He soon rallies himself and, hoping for a better experience, sets out for the calmer terrain of Vermont.

Following an awkward initial meeting, the two share high as well as low periods. Among issues common to both characters are the troubling hold of past relationships, uncertainty regarding professional goals, difficulty in dealing with controlling parents, and the debate and eventual decision regarding becoming parents themselves.

Ellen Rubinstein ’83G is a high school chemistry teacher in New Jersey.

This is the true story of an African woman who came to the U.S.A. with wisdom in her mind and love in her heart, to follow a New England boy a world away. Through her journey across continents, we gain an incredible perspective of a life where race was challenged and boundaries were conquered. Beyond a simple woman’s journey through love and marriage, this book offers an intimate, heartfelt, and unpretentious insight into what it means to belong and to define oneself in our modern world.

Kiema-Luvwefwa Miller ’83G lives in Gex, France, with her husband Steven. They have three grown children.

You know him; your friends know him; we all know "That Guy" on the golf course who just doesn't get it. Misfist on the Links: A Golfers' Guide to Freaks Along the Fairway recognized forty different classifications of "Goofy Golfers." Matched with caricatures from Sports Illustrated artist Jeff Wong, Zuckerman's cutting sarcasm reveals many truths about golfers who will read and admit, "Yes, it's true-I really do do that!" or avidly deny any wrong doing whatsoever: "That's not me, if anyone is guilty, it's you!"

Joel Zuckerman ’83 is a golf journalist who has written for more than ninety magazines including Golf, Sports Illustrated, Golfweek, and Continental Magazine. His previous books include Golf in the Low Country and Golf Charms of Charleston.

A dream in 1975 sparked Dr. Lester's interest in the Dogon people of Mali in Africa. Studying this culture on and off over the years, he learned that "the spirits of the dead must be given a place among the living, or they create havoc." In 2003, an image came to Dr. lester "of a woman on a slave ship coming to the United States, and inside her was a spirit that had been sent by an African god to help the neglected spirits of blacks in this country." From this image, Time's Memory developed as a tale of a nyama, or life force, which leaves the body upon death, continues to live on, and is not at peace until if finds a new home. Inhabiting the body of Nat, a seventeen-year-old slave in the days leading up to the Civil War, this spirit is responsible for the well-being of the nyama, as it profoundly impacts the lives of all the other slaves and shapes their futures. The love that develops between Nat, a slave, and Ellen, the white plantation owner's daughter, is symbolic of the power of the nyama—even after Ellen's death, their love survives and materializes again when Amma, the "creator god and master of life and death" returns Nat's and Ellen's nyama more than one hundred years later, enabling them to "live the love [they] could not live then." In the face of physical and social pressures, the nyama endures and love prevails.

Julius Lester is the author of more than forty books for readers of all ages. he was recently awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award from the American Library Association for his book Day of Tears. He joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971, where he is a professor in the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Department and adjunct professor of History.

A new book featuring stories, reflections, history, and insights from the citizens of the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts, on the occasion of its 300th birthday.

Larry Ruttman has lived in Brookline since the age of two, and this book is an expression of his deep involvement in and love for the town and its people. He produces the show “From Community to Cyberspace,” aired on Brookline Access Television. Most of his stories in Voices of Brookline got their start on the set of that show, and some first appeared in his column “Brookline Then and Now,” which was published in the Brookline Tab. Larry graduated from the Edward Devotion School and Brookline High School and took a B.A. in English at the University of Massachusetts and a Juris Doctor at Boston College Law School. He continues to practice law in Brookline, where he lives with his wife, Lois.

A witty and irreverent guide that debunks some of the mythology, opinions and widely held beliefs about baseball that fans have clung to for generations. The authors offer tips on appropriate ballpark heckling and recounts a haunting tale of baseball knowledge used for evil. They have harsh words for the writer responsible for Reggie Jackson's Love Boat appearance, and they reveal shocking information about Moises Alu's personal habits that will dismay even the most jaded baseball devotee.

Howard Bloom ’73 is a former newspaper reporter and columnist for New England Business Magazine. He has written for a variety of other newspapers and publications. He is an attorney, practicing in Boston.

This book uses scientific validity measures to create empirical value science and a normative new science of axiological psychology by integrating cognitive psychology with Robert S. Hartman's formal theory of axiological science. It reveals a scientific way to identify and rank human values, achieving values appreciation, values clarification, and values measurement for the twenty first century.

Leon Pomeroy ’59, ’61G is a professor and licensed clinical psychologist practicing in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Dragon Child is the story of a Vietnamese Catholic raised within the structure of the French colonial system. Her upbringing was somewhat privileged as the daughter of a provincial administrator in the central highlands of Vietnam. As a child, and later as a young woman, she embraced French culture and aspired to French ideals. She was educated at a French boarding school for the children of the elite. Subsequently she received a degree in French teaching from the University of Saigon and became a lycee teacher and administrator.

In 1975, she left on one of the last military planes accompanied by her four children and entered a new life as a refugee in the U.S. She ultimately resettled in Western Massachusetts. She then went back to school and obtained her Ph.D. in Francophone literature. After seeing to her children's education she began her academic career and started to teach French in the Five College academic community. She has fulfilled the "American dream" as have her children. In the process she has rediscovered her cultural roots and has helped others to negotiate the same path.

Lucy Nguyen-Hong-Nhiem ’78, ’82G, former administrator and teacher of French in Vietnam, is adjunct professor of Asian Languages & Literatures at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

The Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal in the United States, but that statement does not hold true for words. Some words carry more weight than others — they seem to work harder, get more done, and demand more respect. Political Keywords: Using Language That Uses Us looks at eight dominant words that are crucial to American political discourse and how they have been employed during the last fifty years.

Based on an analysis of eleven separate studies of political language, Political Keywords helps readers to understand what these terms mean and how they are used. For example, the book tracks what politics now means to modern commentators, how schoolteachers impress certain values upon the nation's children by invoking the office of the president, and why an innocent word like government sometimes makes people so upset. It details how the people are referenced in political talk and how the media portray themselves. The book also considers the work done by political parties, political promises, and political consultants because, together, they shed special light on modern elections. Combining social science with subtle forms of cultural interpretation, Political Keywords: Using Language That Uses Us provides a fresh look at both American politics and American language. It is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in political communication, political language, political campaigns, media and politics, political psychology, public opinion, rhetorical criticism, contemporary public address, and presidential rhetoric.

Roderick P. Hart ’66, is the Shivers Chair in Communication and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

This book applies the complexities of literacy development and personal ethos to the teaching of composition. Zan Meyer Goncalves challenges writing teachers to consider ethos as a series of identity performances shaped by the often-inequitable social contexts of their classrooms and communities. Using the rhetorical experiences of students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender, she proposes a new way of thinking about ethos that addresses the challenges of social justice, identity, and transfer issues in the classroom.

Theoretical and practical, Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom provides teachers of first-year and advanced composition studies with useful, detailed assignments based in specific identity performance. Goncalves offers techniques to subvert oppressive language practices, while encouraging students to recognize themselves as writers, citizens, and active participants in their own education and communities.

Zan Meyer Goncalves ’00G, an assistant professor at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire, is the coauthor of The Original Text-Wrestling Book: The Writing Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst and has contributed essays to collected volumes such as Queer Compositions(s) and Writing and Social Action.

"A great walk through recent Red Sox history as seen through the eyes of one of the great Red Sox beat writers. Bill Ballou captures each era with his own entertaining and witty views." - Don Orsillo, NESN Play by Play, Boston Red Sox

"Bill Ballou has covered the club since 1987 and this book sheds much-neede light on an overlooked era of their history. If you remember Matt Young, Rudy Pemberton and Izzy Alcatara—or even if you have forgotten them—Behind the Green Monster delivers the goods." - Glenn Stout, co-author, Red Sox Century

Bill Ballou ’74 has covered the Boston Red Sox for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette since 1987. He is a life-long resident of Whitinsville, Massachusetts.

Celebrated poet and essayist Marianne Boruch ponders poets and poetry, examining how the imagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of writers from Elizabeth Bishop to Theodore Toethke, from Russell Edson to Larry Levis, from Walt Whitman to Eavan Boland. Combining a richly associative personal style with original insights on poetic texts, Boruch brings in material from other worlds—among them, science and music—to demonstrate the myriad ways we transform experience and knowledge.

Marianne Boruch ’79G is the author of five poetry collections, including Poems New and Selected, and a previous collection of essays, Poetry's Old Air. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and directs the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical isms (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to current anthologies of literary theory, which have embraced an uncritical stance toward Theory and its practitioners. Written by nearly fifty prominent scholars, the essays in "Theory's Empire" question the ideas, catchphrases, and excesses that have let Theory congeal into a predictable orthodoxy. More than just a critique, however, this collection provides readers with effective tools to redeem the study of literature, restore reason to our intellectual life, and redefine the role and place of Theory in the academy.

Daphne Patai is a faculty member in Spanish & Portuguese at UMass Amherst.

This book is an analysis based on extensive research work that was begun in 1992 and 2000 in the Baltic Sea region, Sweden, Finland, Germany, and the Baltic States. The book examines the transformation and recognition of transnational or cross-border organized crime, alien-smuggling, terrorism, and international cooperation in crime prevention and law enforcement matters as emerging public policy, security, and foreign policy issues in the Baltic Sea region, Europe, and Russia after the end of the cold war.

Christopher J. Ulrich ’91 Ph.D. candidate, is a researcher based in Virginia. He has specialized in and published on transnational organized crime, terrorism, law enforcement, proliferation, and national security issues in the Baltic Sea region, Russia/Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, and the European Union. After having been based as a researcher in Europe for the past decade and previously with the foreign policy and arms control community in the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., and abroad, Mr. Ulrich pursued his postgraduate education in Finland and Scotland.

In his third book of poems, Ethan Paquin puts together a sprawling meditation touching on the loss of love and commitment, the painfulness of memory, and the disorientation as well as the consolations of travel. In reaction to the pointed irony of his previous work (and of much American poetry), Paquin’s poems in The Violence contain a rawness of emotion and clarity of feeling rare among writers of his generation. Where form plays a part, therefore, it is likely to be exploded: Paquin’s page becomes more of a canvas than a neutral vehicle for the work. With this book, he confirms his position among the foremost of younger American poets.

Ethan Paquin ’01G is the author of Accumulus, released by Salt in 2003. He created and has been editor of the international poetry journal Slope (www.slope.org) since 1999, and in 2001 founded the small press Slope Editions. His poetry has been published throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia, and his criticism appears in journals including The Boston Review, Verse and Canadian Review of Books. A native of New Hampshire, he directs the Creative Writing Program at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York.