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Roy Blitzer ’65 is an independent executive coach living in Palo Alto, California.

More than a third of the worldwide growth in drilling is expected to come from offshore, making the development of offshore pipelines an extremely hot topic in the energy industry. Offshore Pipelines is the most up-to-date reference for engineers and developers challenged with bringing oil and gas onshore.

Written primarily for engineers and management personnel working on offshore and deepwater oil and gas pipelines, this book brings together the authors years of experience on a variety of pipeline projects. It offers cost-effective approaches for developing pipeline systems. By presenting principles, criteria, and data necessary to perform engineering analyses, the authors set forth guidelines that can be employed to optimize pipeline development projects.

• Covers the full scope of pipeline development from pipeline designing, installing, and testing to operation.
• Guidelines to achieve cost-effective management of offshore and deepwater pipeline development and operations.
• Tips on how to design low-cost pipelines allowing long-term operability and safety.

Jacob Chacko ’73G is a project manager for INTEC Engineering Inc.

The Art of Hiring Leaders explains the executive search process or executive transition so that search committees and boards can complete successful executive search processes.

Each executive search or executive transition is critical for an organization’s future and this book, based on the author's more than 25 years experience as an executive search and transition consultant, is a thorough guide for nonprofit leadership searches

Barbara Gilver ’60 has been an executive search consultant for nonprofits for more than 25 years.

Sam Wallace, recently divorced and fired from his teaching position at a Boston college, escapes to Sarasota, Florida. With his dog and a contract for a second novel, he looks forward to new adventures.

In Sarasota, Sam immediately encounters some of the extraordinary characters that have also found their way to Florida. Among them, he meets the nouveau riche, real estate developers, socialites and the hustlers – like the classic car dealer, Mike Rossi. Two days after they meet, Rossi is found murdered. Having been a police officer prior to academia, Sam pokes into the murder investigation.

He discovers many possible suspects who would have wanted Rossi dead, including a very short multimillionaire social-climber, a fast talking developer, and the proprietor of a kinky female escort service. Sam also meets Dr. Jennifer Belding, an expert on red tide whose research shows that an especially virulent strain may hit Southwest Florida at the beginning of the tourist season. Powerful people are alarmed that the release of her findings could precipitate financial disaster. When a houseguest of Jennifer's is murdered it is clear that she was the intended victim. The murders escalate to three before Sam finds the clues that lead to a surprising ending.

Wayne Barcomb ’55 is a writer living in Sarasota, Florida, with his wife, Susan.

This book discusses how to design “good geometric puzzles: two-dimensional dissection puzzles, polyhedra dissections, and burrs. It outlines major categories of geometric puzzle and provides examples, sometimes going into the history an philosophy of those examples

The author presents challenges and thoughtful questions, as well as practical design and woodworking tips to encourage the reader to build his own puzzles and experiment with his own designs. Aesthetics, phychology, and mathematical considerations all factor into the definition of the quality of a puzzle.

Stewart Coffin ’52 of Andover has been designing and making geometric puzzles for 35 years.

What does race have to do with religion? According to Khyati Y. Joshi, quite a bit. In this compelling look at the ways that second generation Indian Americans develop and change their sense of ethnic identity, she reveals how race and religion interact, intersect, and affect each other in a myriad of complex ways. In a society where Christianity and whiteness are the norm, most Indian Americans are both racial and religious minorities. At the same time-perceived as neither black nor white-they are a racially ambiguous population. One result of these factors is the racialization of religion, on which Joshi offers important insights in the wake of 9/11 and the intensified backlash against Americans who look Middle Eastern and South Asian.

Drawing on case studies and in-depth interviews with forty-one second-generation Indian Americans, Joshi analyzes their experiences involving religion, race, and ethnicity from elementary school to adulthood. She shows how their identity has developed differently from their parents' and their non-Indian peers', and how religion often exerted a dramatic effect. She maps the many crossroads that they encounter as they navigate between home and religious community, family obligations and school, and a hope to retain their ethnic identity while also feeling disconnected from their parents' generation.

Through her candid insights into the internal conflicts that contemporary Indian Americans face as they negotiate this pastiche of experiences, and the religious and racial discrimination they encounter, Joshi provides a timely window into the ways that race, religion, and ethnicity coincide in day-to-day lif e.

Khyati Y. Joshi ’01G is an assistant professor of education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey.

Offering a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas, this book takes as its central theme the key but evolving role of power within the international system. Combining theory and practice, Sean Kay surveys the full range of conceptual frameworks for thinking about power and peace and examines a wide array of current flashpoints in the Middle East, Asia, and Eurasia. He also explores trade and technology, the militarization of space, the privatization of security, the use of sanctions, ethnic conflict, transnational crime, and terrorism. The book goes beyond common understandings of national defense to consider human security in the form of human rights, democracy, population, health, environment, and energy. Kay integrates traditional and emerging challenges in one study that gives readers the tools they need to develop a thoughtful and nuanced understanding of global security.

Sean Kay ’97 is associate professor of politics and government and head of the Internation Studies Program at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.

Everyone has those days. The alarm goes off, but you can't get your head out from under the covers to start the day. Kids have those mornings too. The same child who on most days eagerly jumps up on your bed to wake you up is in a foul mood. Food is yucky, the rain is soggy, and school is boring. But although the day may seem endless, most gloomy days don't last past bedtime. This lovable story appeals to both adults who can relate to cranky days and to children seeking assurance. Remember the Inchworm riding toy? Weebles?Holly Hobbie? The sweet and silly chronicle of a cranky boy's day is filled with vibrant illustrations of these and other nostalgic images from the 70s. Parents and grandparents will enjoy finding the subtle references to their own childhoods woven throughout the book's illustrations and sharing them with children.

Stephen Sanzo ’93 works for Communitis United, a nonprofit that runs Head Start preschools in the Boston area.

Mustard Doesn't Go on Corn! provides an entertaining, fun, straight forward, and practical approach to innovation. Using stories, examples, and worksheets the reader will easily be able to quickly embed the concepts in the book into his or her team or entire organization. The result will be that EVERY employee will be constantly sharing and implementing new ideas. By creating what the author, Richard Trombetta, calls a POP! Culture? and by following a process he calls NEWIDEA!? companies will become truly innovative and greatly improve their bottom line. The book shows how everyone is creative and that innovation is actually quite simple. By focusing on the split second an idea is shared and just eliminating common reactions such as "that won't work because" or "the problem with that is" organizations will experience an 'idea explosion.'

Richard Trombetta ’90 lives in Acton and runs The Innovation Company.

Grace Bauer ’87G, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Nebraska by way of New Orleans, Montana, Massachussetts, and Virginia. She is the author of Where You've Seen Her (Pennywhistle Press, 1993) and The House Where I've Never Lived (Anabiosis P, 1993), and The Women at the Well (Portals Press, 1997), Field Guide to the Ineffable: Poems on Marcel Duchamp (winner of the 1999 Snail's Pace Press Chapbook Competition), Beholding Eye, Custom Words, 2006), Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum: Creative and Critical Responses to Everette Maddox (Xavier Review Press, Fall 2006), and Retreats and Recognitions (Lost Horse Press, forthcoming). She received her MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, where she won the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her other awards include an Individual Artist's Grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, a Diggs Teaching Scholar Award and Women's Research Institute Grant from Virginia Tech, the Irene Leache Poetry Prize, a Nebraska Arts Council Award, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poetry has appear in DoubleTake, Poetry, South Dakota Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of Nebraska — Lincoln since 1994, where she serves as Coordinator of Creative Writing and as a reader for Prairie Schooner.

In this book, Gregory Feist reviews and consolidates the scattered literatures on the psychology of science, then calls for the establishment of the field as a unique discipline. He offers the most comprehensive perspective yet on how science came to be possible in our species and on the important role of psychological forces in an individual’s development of scientific interest, talent, and creativity. Without a psychological perspective, Feist argues, we cannot fully understand the development of scientific thinking or scientific genius.

The author explores the major subdisciplines within psychology as well as allied areas, including biological neuroscience and developmental, cognitive, personality, and social psychology, to show how each sheds light on how scientific thinking, interest, and talent arise. He assesses which elements of scientific thinking have their origin in evolved mental mechanisms and considers how humans may have developed the highly sophisticated scientific fields we know today. In his fascinating and authoritative book, Feist deals thoughtfully with the mysteries of the human mind and convincingly argues that the creation of the psychology of science as a distinct discipline is essential to deeper understanding of human thought processes.

Gregory Feist ’85 is an assistant professor of psychology at San Jose University in California.

Book Description

My homeland is India, far, far away from where I live today. I raised my children here and I really wanted to have them hear some of the stories that my mother and grandmother used to tell when I was a little girl. We have tried to give a glimpse into the world of stories from where I was born and brought up - stories of castles, long journeys, brave heroes and heroines, stories from the great epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, tales of great and learned Indians as well as fables and family tales. We felt that there was a need to preserve and share these tales from a faraway country with generations to come and hope that many readers and listeners may get a flavor of India and will be transported into that world through their imagination.

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Priya DasSarma ’94G lives with her husband and children in Maryland.

With over 100 examples of completed dissertations from well-known universities and colleges, this book allows the student to concentrate on what makes sense and what is important to completing his or her research to writing an effective doctoral dissertation or a master's thesis.

Ray Calabrese ’84G is a professor of educational leadership at Wichita State University.

In the summer of 1991 Michael Burke, an experienced river guide, embarks on a three-week journey down a series of remote rivers in British Columbia. Leaving behind his pregnant wife, he embraces the perils of a voyage with a companion he barely knows in a raft that may not weather the trip. He attempts to reconcile the shifting fates of his life—his transition from river guide to husband, father, and academic. At the same time, he hopes to explore his connection to a distant relative, Sid Barrington, who was a champion "swiftwater pilot of the North" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As Burke contemplates what he and Sid may have had in common, he meditates on the changing meaning of rivers, and the impossibility of fully recovering the past. In clear and graceful prose, Burke blends Sid’s colorful history with his own uncommon journey. He also reflects upon the quick currents of time and the fierce passion he shares with Sid for the life of river running in Alaska and the west. Unlike most river-running books that often describe waterways in the lower forty-eight states, The Same River Twice introduces readers to rough, austere, and unfamiliar rivers in the northern wilderness. Burke has an intimate understanding of these remote, free-flowing rivers. He effectively captures the thrill of moving water, the spirit of rivers and river canyons, and the life of river guides. This insightful memoir brings readers into a confluence of rivers, where past and present merge, revealing the power of wilderness and the truth about changing course.

Michael Burke ’84G is an associate professor in the English department at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He has been a whitewater guide for 35 years.

Unita Blackwell was born in 1933, in Lula, Mississippi, a tiny town in the Delta where living was as hard as it gets, the stuff of the blues music that originated there. Like the other black people in Lula, Unita grew up in a sharecropping family, riding on her mother’s cotton sack before she was old enough to pick cotton herself. Having left school at age twelve in order to make a living, Unita was trapped in menial jobs, and a bright future seemed beyond her reach.

But Unita was forever changed in the summer of 1964 when civil rights workers came to her town of Mayersville, Mississippi. Electrified by the movement, Unita transformed her life from one of despair to one of hope, and in Barefootin’ she details her inspirational rise from poverty to power, from silence to outspokenness, from oppression to freedom.

From her rebirth as a freedom fighter and social activist to her tenure as mayor of her home town, to her work as an international peacemaker and presidential advisor, here are all the unlikely turns of Unita’s remarkable life. The lessons she shares affirm and motivate us all, whether it’s to remember that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, that world-changing movements are the result of many small steps, or that freedom means taking responsibility for our own lives and helping to make the world a better place for all.

Infused with the language and rhythms of the Delta, Barefootin’ is at once the stirring memoir of an exceptional woman and a guide to living a full and meaningful life from someone who knows how.

Unita Blackwell ’83G is the first black mayor in Mississippi.

Luke and Meesha Ferless, college sweethearts now professionals in their thirties, are hiking in a rain forest far from civilization. Their vacation to the idyllic island, Re'enev, is a major step toward rejuvenating what was once a beautiful marriage--a marriage whose decline, due to Luke's betrayal, prompted Meesha to attempt suicide. While hiking, they unknowingly venture into forbidden territory. When they separate briefly in the dense flora, Meesha vanishes.

Tragedy has separated Luke and Meesha once, emotionally; they were beginning to heal. Now it has struck again, this time physically. Luke has to find her; but the elements are against him while his mind, his only ally, can also be an enemy.

Mainstream fiction spiced with mystery, romance and suspence, Re'enev captures both the beauty and fragility of marital love and human life. The story is unique in the way it conjoins an urbane couple with primitive danger, blissful sensuality with unbridled brutality, and a cerebral protagonist with a world that seems to lack reason; then, the conclusion brings unexpected redemption, but with a stunning twist and a lethal caveat. Re'enev is that rare novel that appeals across genders and genres with its intense plot, poetic prose, sharp dialogue, and candid depiction of the human psyche through relationships, crises, perceptions, and emotions--most notably, love and fear.

Mike Maranhas ’85 lives in Rockport, Massachusetts, with his wife, Bela. Visit his Web site: mikemaranhas.com

"Agood place to be from." That's how some people might characterize the Buckeye State. The writings in Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio, are testimony to the truth of that statement. By prominent writers such as P. J. O'Rourke, Susan Orlean, and Alix Kates Shulman, these contributions are alternately nostalgic, irreverent, and sincere, and offer us a personal sense of place. Their childhoods are as varied as their work. Some were raised in urban Cleveland, Akron, and Cincinnati, others in the small Ohio towns that typify the Midwest, and still others in the countryside. Yet what they have to tell us about their roots resonates with a shared heritage, a sense of what is universal and enduring about growing up in the heartland. Their collective resume reads like a literary Who's Who, including four Pulitzer Prizes, several National Book Awards, and many prestigious fellowships. Good Roots is also plain good reading from some of our country's most accomplished contemporary writers.

Lisa Watts ’82 is editor of Winston-Salem Monthly magazine.

In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era's impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960s. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930s American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Left's challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American literary history.

The late modernist writers Lowney studies most closely---Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thomas McGrath, and George Oppen---are not all customarily associated with the 1930s, nor are they commonly seen as literary peers. By examining these late modernist writers comparatively, Lowney foregrounds differences of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social class and region while emphasizing how each writer developed poetic forms that responded to the cultural politics and socioaesthetic debates of the 1930s. In so doing he calls into question the boundaries that have limited the scholarly dialogue about modern poetry. '' No other study of American poetry has considered the particular gathering of careers that Lowney considers. As poets whose collective historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the turmoil of the Depression and war years and the Cold War's repression or rewriting of history, their diverse talents represent a distinct generational impact on U.S. and international literary history.

John Lowney ’79 ’86G is an associate professor of English at St. John's University, New York.

The Five Secrets of Marriage from the Heart is a blessing you can bestow on yourself, your partner, and the important couples in your life. The Five Secrets of Marriage from the Heart is a remarkable book. The lessons emerge from an engaging, easy-to-read story of a couple's struggle. It brings optimism and hope to an institution that needs lots of both.

Jack Rosenblum ’77G lives in Deerfield with his wife Corinne.

In his second short-story collection, Bill Meissner explores the consciousness of Cosmos, U.S.A., a small Midwestern town that is anything but ordinary. Though it has its share of residents intent on keeping the world on an even keel, Cosmos is blessed with a healthy number of eccentrics who are chasing their idiosyncratic dreams, or struggling to distinguish themselves as individuals. Cosmos contains universal characters, each of them attempting to find order, love, and identity amid the chaos of their lives.

We meet Duane, who hopes to build a replica of Stonehenge with salvaged cars; Lilly, who learns to cope with her husband's obsession with the demolition derby; Norm, the local weatherman, longing to be the first person to film the inside of a tornado; and Dolores—convinced Elvis is still alive—attempting to overcome the pain of her husband's desertion.

Threaded through the collection are poignant childhood memories told through the voice of Skip Carrigan, a native son, who left and returned years later. Skip's stories chronicle a sometimes tender, sometimes stormy relationship with his father; through Skip's mature perspective, Meissner artfully comments on the growth and change of America itself during recent decades.

Bill Meissner ’72G is a creative writing teacher at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.

In this book, Harry Morgan covers the history, theory, and practices that influence early childhood education along with an emphasis on infant and toddler care and education. Early Childhood Education provides descriptions of child-centered teaching and the role of our government in providing educational support, recommended instructional strategies, and guidance for home schooling parents.

Harry Morgan ’71G teaches development, learning theory, and research at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.

It is before daybreak on April 18, 1906. Jacob Kaufman slips out of the wooden boarding house where he lives with his immigrant father and little sister Rosie, his father's harsh words still ringing in his ears.

Suddenly the ground beneath his feet begins to rumble, buildings collapse and the street splits wide open as Jacob runs to find safety from a devastating earthquake. Fires engulf the city. He returns to find his father and sister… but there is nothing left of the building but a pile of sticks. Jacob and his dog join the throng of other people searching for shelter, food, fresh water…and loved ones who are missing.

In award-winning author Gail Langer Karwoski's stirring fictional account of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, young readers will relive the drama of the actual event and its devastating aftermath, through the courageous survival of a young boy. An Author's Note at the end carefully separates fact from fiction, giving young readers a glimpse into one of the worst earthquakes in modern history.

Gail Langer Karwoski ’70 lives in Watkinsville, Georgia. More information can be found at her website, www.gailkarwoski.com.

Another wry humor novel about America's most loved PI, Dun Wheeling. The third in the series, Castles of Deceit puts Dun in the middle of another entanglement of mystery, action, and romance.

A teenage prostitute that barely escapes a nationwide web of drug and sex slavery, a voluptuous vampiresss more interested in sex with Dun than his blood, a White House official suspected of espionage, a non-profit school that will kill to keep its secrets, mysterious killers out to force Dun off the road--all this as Dun puts his ass on the line for the President. And loses.

Ron Peters ’66 retired last year after 40 years in the business world to pursue his writing passion full-time.

There is an epidemic of obesity in America's schools and educators are ideally situated to identify, intervene, educate, and support overweight students who are headed for long-term illness or possibly, an early death. In this book, the author proposes a Circle of Wellness model for schools that includes an intervention effort to promote a healthy lifestyle among students.

Bill Fibkins ’57 is an education consultant and adjunct professor in the Counseling and Human Development Program at Long Island University in Brookville, New York. He lives in Peconic on the north fork of Long Island. Reach him at fibkins@optonline.net.

For thirty years, Sheldon has been the target of Evel Knievel's unrelenting attacks. In all that time, only Knievel and Sheldon knew the truth. In this book, Saltman's side of the story is convincingly told by co-author, Thomas Lyons. The reader will learn why the court awarded Saltman nearly $50,000,000 in his civil suit against Knievel. This award has never been collected.

Sheldon Saltman ’53 has worked behind the scenes for more that 50 years as a promoter of major sporting events around the world. Reach him at saltmanproductions@msn.com.