"Security+ Exam Cram 2"
by Martin Weiss
Que. $34.99, ISBN 978-0789729101

The Security+ certification is CompTIA's answer to the market's need for a baseline, vendor-neutral security certification. The IT industry recognizes there is a need to better train, staff, and empower those tasked with designing and implementing information security, and Security+ is an effort to meet this demand. Security+ will become the baseline certification for Microsoft's new security certification initiative (to be announced in 2003). This book is not intended to teach new material. Instead it assumes that you have a solid foundation of knowledge but can use a refresher on important concepts as well as a guide to exam topics and objectives. This book focuses exactly on what you need to pass the exam - it features test-taking strategies, time-saving study tips, and a special Cram Sheet that includes tips, acronyms, and memory joggers not available anywhere else. The series is supported online at several Web sites: examcram.com, informit.com, and cramsession.com.

The accompanying CD features PrepLogic™ Practice Tests, Preview Edition. This product includes one complete PrepLogic Practice Test with approximately the same number of questions found on the actual vendor exam. Each question contains full, detailed explanations of the correct and incorrect answers. The engine offers two study modes, Practice Test and Flash Review, full exam customization, and a detailed score report.

Martin Weiss ’05G lives in Connecticut and is the author of several books on Information Technology and IT Certification

"The Computer Has Character"
by JoAnn Pellecchia
Diversified A+ Publications. $12.99

The Computer Has Character book and CD introduces computer skill concepts with familiar people in a practical format. The black and white educational picture book contains a CD with a color version of the book in audio format, built-in dictionary, terminology and activities. A quiz accompanies the book.

JoAnn Pellecchia ’02G is the author and illustrator of The Computer Has Character, a computer literacy book for young learners. D. Scott Calhoun ’02G provided the audio for the publication. JoAnn also released a new educator’s version in CD format for K-5 teachers. Visit www.dpublications.com for more info.

"Queen Bees of New England"
by Pierce Parker
Athena Press Publishing Co. UK. $14.95, ISBN 978-1844017966

At one point in our history, racism was thought to be a quintessential male sport, with its female spectators sitting sympathetically on the sidelines. Yet how far can we exculpate the cheerleaders for their indifference and for their lack of active anti-racist attitudes? In fact, where the perception of non- violence and muted inability to propagate change exist, an alternate form of intrinsic racism is allowed to flourish. As the seemingly violent players are hurdled off the field and active racism becomes no longer acceptable, what becomes of the silent and complicit supporters? Passive racism is thus synonymous with feminine racism. Passive or feminine racism involves manipulation rather than aggression, strategy rather than violence. It always operates within the well-established social parameters to tear someone away from an institution, to hamper the advancement of someone's career within a company, or to make finding or maintaining affordable housing virtually impossible. This book tells a story of true feminine racism in contemporary America.

Pierce Parker ’97 of San Jose, California, obtained two more graduate degrees in California. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology. The events described in this book played a critical role in his determination to explore sociology.

"Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice"
by Phaedra Pezzullo
University Alabama Press. $47.50, ISBN 978-0817315504

Toxic Tourism is the first book length study of the use of "toxic tours" as a mode of advocacy to challenge links made between waste, race, and class.

Phaedra Pezzullo ’96 is assistant professor of rhetoric and public culture in the department of communication and culture at Indiana University. For more information or to contact her visit www.indiana.edu/~envtrhet.

"Lemonade Mouth"
by Mark Peter Hughes
Delacorte Books for Young Reader. $15.99, ISBN 978-0385733922

Poets. Geniuses. Revolutionaries. The members of the legendary band Lemonade Mouth have been called all these things. But until now, nobody's known the inside story of how this powerhouse band came to be--how five outcasts in Opequonsett High School's freshman class found each other, found the music, and went on to change both rock and roll and high school as we know it. Wen, Stella, Charlie, Olivia, and Mo take us back to that fateful detention where a dentist's jingle, a teacher's coughing fit, and a beat-up ukulele gave birth to Rhode Island's most influential band. Told in each of their five voices and compiled by the Opequonsett Scene Queen, freshman Naomi Fishmeier, this anthology is Lemonade Mouth's definitive history.

Mark Hughes ’95G is a writer of young adult novels. His first book, I Am the Wallpaper, will be out in paperback soon. Mark lives in Wayland with his wife, Karen, and their three children. To find out more about Mark and his books visit markpeterhughes.com.

"Parris Island: A Woman's Memoir Of Marine Corps Boot Camp"
by Lisa Cordeiro
Whiskey Creek Pr. $5.99, ISBN 978-1593740931

Parris Island. The mere mention of this Marine Corps training ground strikes fear and awe in the many men and women who dared to venture there in the hope of becoming Marines. For those who survive, Parris Island tears them down as people and rebuilds them up as group over a thirteen-week training regiment considered by many to be the most difficult military training in the world.

It is extremely difficult for men to make it through and it is no easier for the women. Under the relentless eyes of four women drill instructors, women recruits are challenged by a dizzying array of obstacles tearing down every inhibition and self-doubt. Every dread is exploited and every fear is confronted. For these women who survive the thirteen weeks, they become minorities in a minority, an elite group of women encompassing 5% of the population of "a few good men."

Lisa Cordeiro ’95 brings you along on an intensely personal, physical, spiritual, and sometimes comical struggle to become one of "the few, the proud." From choosing among the various sales pitches thrown by military recruiters to survival tactics in boot camp, Parris Island allows you to experience Marine Corps boot camp like never before. For more on her work visit lisacordeiro.com.

"Encyclopedia of Beat Literature"
by Kurt Hemmer
Facts on File. $65.00, ISBN 978-0816042975

Since the 1950s, the experimental style, bohemian life, and rebellious attitudes of the Beats have influenced literature and culture. Many Beat writers and their associates, such as Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Robert Creeley, and Kathy Acker, are now included in classroom anthologies, and continue to have popular appeal for their unorthodox writing style and anti-authoritarian point of view.

In an A-to-Z format, Encyclopedia of Beat Literature contains hundreds of entries on all the major figures and great works of the Beat movement. Contributors include distinguished Beat scholars and friends of the Beat generation, including the Beat poets Andy Clausen and Ed Sanders. Other features include a foreword by Ann Charters, an afterword by Tim Hunt, and photographs by the legendary Beat photographer Larry Keenan.

Coverage includes:

• Synopses and critical analyses of fiction, poetry, and essays by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and other major Beat writers, with notes on background and critical reception
  
• Women of the Beat generation: Hettie Jones, Joyce Johnson, and more
  
• Family, friends, and associates of the Beats, including Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, and John Lennon.

Kurt Hemmer ’92 is an associate professor of English at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, and author of the award-winning documentaries As We Cover the Streets: Janine Pommy Vega and Rebel Roar: The Sound of Michael McClure.

"Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire"
by Thomas Zeiler
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. $24.95, ISBN 978-0742551695

In this lively chronicle of the 1888-1889 Spalding world baseball tour, Thomas Zeiler examines the roots of the post-1898 American empire by analyzing the ways in which the tour drew on elements of globalization to inject American values, and thus, power into the international arena. As Zeiler follows the players on each leg of their journey, he explores important elements of globalization: the business ethic, technological innovation, racial hierarchy, attempts at Americanization abroad, and promotion of an exceptionalist identity.

Thomas Zeiler (G) ’89G is a professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

"Waggle"
by Joe Tigan
iUniverse, Inc. $14.95, ISBN 978-0595416196

An inordinately beautiful day surprises Chicagoland in July, 2003. No searing heat. No humid haze. Perfect. Real estate appraiser Conny Bromenn has recently turned 40, and the new fresh breeze has pumped him with a magnum of lucidity, though it struggles sometimes to sift through the gauze of befuddlement compiled over 40 years.
Conny's ready for a serious change. He needs to confront his long-standing lethargy in the community and search for deeper meaning in his life-but can he let his golf buddies know his intentions without being laughed off the course? His newfound clarity tells him . Maybe.

Risking their friendship, Conny proposes a new wager to replace their long-standing $5 Nassau, one in which the losers must adhere to certain pacts. Intended to initiate some sense of social responsibility within this group of 40-year-olds, these pacts quickly take on a life of their own with each passing hole.

Conny and his friends start out just hoping to get a tee time in this unexpected weather, but end up turning a funhouse mirror on suburbia, their places in it, and what needs to be done .

Joe Redden Tigan ’88 has had poetry published in The High Plains Literary Review and other literary journals. This is his first novel. He once caddied in the Western Open, one of golf’s oldest and most prestigious tournaments.

"A Practical Guide to Service-Learning: Strategies for Positive Development in Schools"
by Felicia Wilczenski
Springer. $59.95, ISBN 978-0387465388

The ultimate goal for school psychologists, teachers, and other allied mental health and educational professionals is to ensure that all children are able to achieve academic success in the classroom. Still, a significant number of schoolchildren feel caught in an academic, social-emotional vortex that can be demoralizing, isolating, and disorienting. Some may be cognitively impaired. Others may simply be bored. Many are well-adjusted but overwhelmed with academic and extracurricular demands.

Ensuring that all students achieve their full academic potential is no small feat. Service learning – an experiential approach to education that involves students in meaningful, real-world activities – can advance social, emotional, and academic curricula goals while simultaneously benefiting the students and their communities. It supports character development by providing situations in the community in which caring, helping, and collaboration as well as sensitivity to culture and social justice issues become integral parts of the educative process.

A Practical Guide to Service Learning: Strategies for Positive Development in Schools is a valuable resource that:

• Describes how service learning – an intervention that can be both remedial or preventive and individual or systemic – can enable school psychologists and other educational and counseling professionals to expand their roles beyond working with special populations to serving students within the academic mainstream.
• Highlights the connections between the positive psychology movement, the nurturing of purpose in youth, and the benefits of service learning.
• Introduces case studies of school-based mental health professionals who have implemented service learning.
• Provides practical materials and forms to guide mental health practitioners in organizing and assessing service learning activities.
  School psychologists, counselors, allied educational and mental health practitioners – and anyone who works with children in schools – will find this volume a must-have reference.
  

Felicia Wilczenski ’85G, ’89G is professor and chair of the Department of Counseling and School Psychology, Graduate College of Education, University of Massachusetts in Boston.

"Arteducarte: Arte Ecuatoriano Para Ninos"
by Marilyn J.S. Goodman
Fundacion El Comercio

The first book of this type in the country, introduces children to a magnificent artistic cultura through outstanding works of Ecuadorian artists. Amusing exercises, play, readings and activities of creative writing, will help children in the development of conceptual, creative, and critical thought.

This educational supplement will enliven and enrich the educational experience in class as well as promoting intergenerational learning, involving parents in the education of its children.

Goodman affirms that "The artistic images can be used to stimulate discussions in class and to promote the exchange of ideas. The students learn to read a painting, to understand the cultural, symbolic or historic importance of a work of art and to discover how the artists utilize an assembly of tools, which, like the letters and the words, permits them to communicate meaning and feelings. When of the art treats there is not correct or incorrect answers because, out of the age or education, each individual that looks the art has a valid opinion that drifts of its personal experience. The art offers the students the complex opportunity to produce senses communiqués by the language. Giving space to the imagination, the art encourages the students to think, to write and to be involved actively with its own education. When the students look at art, they read on art, they speak on art and they write on art since its own point of view, this improves the confidence in itself so much as its self-esteem. Also it can help the professors to motivate its students and to improve its oral communication dexterities and written."

Marilyn JS Goodman ’83G is an arts and museum education specialist with over 25 years of professional experience in the United States, Europe, Latin and South America.

"Improving Your School One Week at a Time"
by Jeff Zoul
Eye on Education. $34.95. ISBN: 978-1596670273

This book displays 37 “Friday Focus” memos, each of which provides insight into a specific aspect of teaching and learning for all to reflect on throughout the year. Friday Focus memos address the principal’s responsibility to shape the school culture, provide intellectual stimulation, and communicate effectively.

The memos are organized around the school year and provide educators with a wide variety of insights into how to improve our schools. They are typically between 500–1,000 words in length and can be sent out via e-mail to each staff member – not only to the teachers but also secretaries, custodians, and cafeteria workers.

A vehicle for school improvement, the Friday Focus memos provide a step-by-step plan for staff members and principals to work together as change agents for school improvement.

Themes of the Friday Focus Memos

• School Climate and Culture
  
• Working with Students
  
• Effective Teaching
  
• Management, Operations, Organization
  
• Professional Development
  
• Motivation
  
• Interpersonal Skills
  
• Communication

Jeff Zoul ’82 is a principal with the Forsyth County School System in Cumming, Georgia. Prior to becoming principal at Otwell Middle School, Dr. Zoul served as a classroom teacher for 20 years at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. In addition, he has served as an administrator at all three levels and has extensive coaching experience. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at North Georgia College and State University. He has also been published in the area of teacher collaboration and speaks on school climate and culture, building professional learning communities, and positive classroom discipline.

"Evidence of the Journey"
by Ralph Sneeden
Harmon Blunt Publishing. $16.00. ISBN: 978-1402204012

Evidence of the Journey is a rich collection of poems that explores family history, personal narrative, and man's relationahsip to the natural world with an exacting eye and curious, searching spirit.

Ralph Sneeden ’82 lives in Exeter, New Hampshire

"The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help"
by Jackson Katz
Sourcebooks, Incorporated. $16.95. ISBN: 978-1402204012

Recent studies tell us that between 1 in 4 and 1 in 6 American women will be the victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime. This is the first book to make the case that violence against women is a male issue as well as a female one–and that men who care have an obligation to better understand it and to do something about it. Pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz offers cogent explanations for why so many men harass and hurt women–including those women closest to them–and he shows both women and men what they can do to stop the violence.

The book incorporates the voices and experiences of women and men who have confronted the problem of gender violence from all angles, specifically highlighting what works and what does not work in dealing with this issue. By working together as allies, Katz shows both men and women how they can end the abuse and mistreatment of women.

Jackson Katz ’82 is the founder and director of MVP Strategies, an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, the U.S. military services, community organizations and corporations. He lives in Long Beach, California.

"Rat Jugular Vein and Carotid Artery Catheterization for Acute Survival Studies: A Practical Guide"
by Angela Heiser
Springer. $79.95. ISBN: 978-0387494142

Jugular vein and carotid artery cannulations are among the most widely used surgeries in research labs around the world. These cannulations are extremely important for confirmed intravenous delivery of test substances and arterial blood collection. Cannulation reduces the stress of multiple sampling as observed in association with tail vein or orbital sinus techniques (Ling, 2003; Flynn, 1988; Cocchetto, 1983). Very few adverse effects, including a possible rise of corticosterones and a decrease in platelets, are associated with indwelling catheters except under chronic conditions (Fagin, 1983; Richman, 1980).

Typically, technicians teach these skills to incoming employees and move on to graduate studies or other fields. A resulting "oral history" of cannulation has been passed down from technician to technician. I have endeavored to capture these techniques on paper. Through the years, I have searched for and collected a number of training materials and guides for teaching purposes. This is my attempt to compile all the necessary information in one source.

The contents of this manual include two cannulation procedures detailed in a format of materials, instruction, and pictorial for each step. In addition, the manual is rounded out with information regarding procedures for anesthesia, pre- and post- operatives, anatomy, bleeding techniques using catheters implanted, and rat biodata compiled from numerous sources. The content is thoroughly researched and reported based on over 80 references and 7 reviewers’ suggestions.

Angela Heiser ’82 works for a large pharmaceutical company in Cambridge and is actively involved with the local branch of the American Association of Lab Animal Science to promote communication among animal technicians. Her daughter, Hannah, keeps her busy on weekends at the barn so she can continue her 7th year of riding horses; her “soccer” son, Sebastian, and patient husband, Steve, who is “supportive through it all,” live with her.

"Reference Guide to the International Space Station (Apogee Books Space Series)"
by Gary Kitmacher
Collector's Guide Publishing Inc. $21.95. ISBN: 978-1894959346

His book is designed to provide a broad overview of the International Space Station's complex configuration, design, and component systems. The sophisticated procedures required in the Station's construction and operation are presented in Amazing 3D Graphics generated by NASA 104 pages of spectacularly detailed color graphics the Space Station as you’ve never seen it before! If you haven’t got the $20 Million . . . get this book. It’s almost as good as being there. Apogee Books Space Series #62.

Gary Kitmacher ’76 has been at the Johnson Space Station in Houston, Texas, since 1981 and with NASA since 1985. His first book intended for the public, Reference Guide to the International Space Station, was selected as the National Space Society book of the month for January. Published initially by NASA and subsequently by Apogee Books, it is now being revised for its third printing along with an interactive web-based version. Previously, he wrote Space Station Man-Systems Architectural Control Document, Lunar Base Design, User’s Guide to Spacehab,and NAS-Mir Processes and Requirements.

"Home Run: The Definitive History of Baseball’s Ultimate Weapon"
by David Vincent
Potomac Books. $26.95. ISBN: 978-1597970358

The home run is indeed baseball's ultimate weapon. It can change a game in a heartbeat, making a tight game into a blowout or a seemingly easy win into a nail-biter. Homers are majestic, powerful, and awe inspiring. And sluggers are the sport's biggest stars, from the days of Babe Ruth through Barry Bonds.

David Vincent, called "The Sultan of Swat Stats" by ESPN, delves into the long history of the home run with great detail and color. He starts when the rules of the game were highly unstable and sometimes the definition of a home run could change in a park from year to year; follows through the "Deadball Era," when the home run was rare; explores the explosion Babe Ruth brought to baseball in the 1920s; discusses how both world wars affected homer statistics; looks at great home run races such as Maris versus Mantle in 1961; assesses the effects of the juiced ball, juiced players, thin air, and smaller ballparks; and so much more.

If there is something to know about home run history, look to David Vincent for the answer-Major League Baseball does. With Home Run: The Definitive History of Baseball's Ultimate Weapon, now you can know it too. A 1990s Nike commercial proclaimed that "chicks dig the long ball." In this thorough and colorful look at baseball's ultimate weapon, David Vincent shows you why.

David Vincent ’72 is a computer programmer who lives in Centreville, Virginia.

Traces the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual evolution of one of America's most important cultural figures.

From the Back Cover
This critical biography traces the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual growth of one of America's foremost oracles and prophets, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Beginning with his undergraduate career at Harvard and spanning the range of his adult life, the book examines the complex, often painful emotional journey inward that would eventually transform Emerson from an average Unitarian minister into one of the century's most formidable intellectual figures. By connecting Emerson's inner life with his outer life, Len Gougeon illustrates a virtually seamless relationship between Emerson's Transcendental philosophy and his later career as a social reformer, a rebel who sought to "unsettle all things" in an effort to redeem his society.

In tracing the path of Emerson's evolution, Gougeon makes use of insights by Joseph Campbell, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, and N. O. Brown. Like Emerson, all of these thinkers directly experienced the fragmentation and dehumanization of the Western world, and all were influenced both directly and indirectly by Emerson and his philosophy. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how Emerson's philosophy would become a major force of liberal reformation in American society, a force whose impact is still felt today.

"[E]ven readers whose knowledge of Emerson is rusty, or those who hardly know more than the name, will absorb [Gougeon's] biography and his main ideas with surprising ease ... I have seldom encountered a scholar so steeped in his material--Mr. Gougeon has been studying Emerson for 30 years--and yet so capable of conveying that learning with an admirable lucidity ... Enter the biographer--or rather the biographical critic--as precise as he is passionate, evincing in his evocation of Emerson's eros a deep feeling of his own that renews the sense of his subject as our contemporary." -- Carl Rollyson, The New York Sun

"I've read this book with immense pleasure; it is a compelling work of scholarship and spiritual exploration." -- Jay Parini, author of Robert Frost: A Life

"Gougeon's major contribution will be a portrait of the heroic Emerson, a conventional young man undergoing a spiritual crisis that sends him on an inward journey from which he emerges, reintegrated, to acts of heroism, a rebel against the ossified Fathers, the Establishment itself. This is not just a literary argument directed at specialists. Gougeon's audience is much broader: he wishes to tell a universal story about the genesis and triumph of a hero that will inspire students and general readers today, for we too face a world that is grim and fragmenting, leaderless and resistant to change." -- Laura Dassow Walls, author of Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth

Len Gougeon ’72G, ’74G is professor of English and Distinguished University Fellow at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania. His previous books include Virtue’s Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform and Emerson’s Antislavery Writings. He has served as president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and is currently working on a study of relations between British and American authors as they were impacted by the Civil War.

Going organic may be a clear way of getting back to basics—and getting away from the havoc chemicals can wreak on our health and our environment—but the basics themselves may not be so clear. How to begin? What kind of fertilizer and feed are allowed? Is there natural pest management? What does certification entail? And is this the way to go?

This book covers the basics and then some. Whether you’re thinking of starting an organic farm or making the transition to organics, whether you’re growing crops or raising animals, you’ll find everything you need to know in these pages—from getting started to developing a marketing strategy. A list of resources also points the way to other books, websites, and organizations focusing on every aspect of organic farming, including state standards and more information.

From the Back Cover
This essential book is the first seed you’ll need to get your organic farm growing!
From organic certification to planning your crop, harvesting to selling your wares, this book is chock full of everything you need to know. It also covers raising animals—organically!
The number of organic cropland in the United States has quadrupled in the last twenty years, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department. This hot trend is good for Planet Earth and good for you.
Experienced organic farmer Peter Fossel offers hard-won, firsthand expert advice on:

• Vegetables, Crops, and Plants
  
• Livestock and Poultry
  
• Converting from Conventional Farming
  
• Organic Certification, Laws, and Rules
  
• Alternatives to Pesticides and Drugs
  
• Marketing Strategies for Your Wares
  

For every farmer who has ever wished to harvest chemical-free vegetables and livestock on their own acreage, this book will help you fulfill your dreams!

Peter Fossel ’71 lives in Tennessee.

Shawn Alexander a detective with the police department shocked by the unleashing of pets given passage of a law that outlaws pets. Packs of dogs attack people to obtain food. He escapes to the mountains in Nevada to an out-and-back hike to the glacier alpine lakes and an old mining settlement. VI raised by wolves in an abandoned mine in the mountains encounters Shawn as he investigates the mineshaft. She has the ability to communicate with the wolves. Her parents lost her at an early age. Vi provides Shawn with a solution to the disastrous freeing of pets. Given the wolves cooperation the dog packs may be battled. Her influence over the wolves thereby brings to Nevada the force of good against the forces of evil. With the power of God, Vi and Shawn combat the spread of evil; worldwide that includes Southeast Asia, given encounters with demons, exorcism, and hope for the future. To battle the pandemic they travel to Germany to encounter Aryan dog packs, Tsunami effects in Asia, and demons with the power to raise the dead.

Stan Morganstein ’70G lives in Phoenix, Arizona Other projects he’s working on include The History of the Computer Industry in the U.S. and Outlaws, and Lawmen of the West. 

From the moment of their births, John and Caroline Kennedy occupied a central position in what is generally regarded as the most famous family in the United States, if not the world. Even as young children growing up in the White House, their most subtle gestures and actions made headlines.... Yet until now they have not been the subject of a dual biography. In that sense, this volume represents a first.
In American Legacy, #1 New York Times bestselling author C. David Heymann draws upon a voluminous archive of personal interviews to present a telling portrait of John and Caroline Kennedy. A longtime biographer of various members of the Kennedy clan, including Jackie and Robert Kennedy, Heymann covers John's and Caroline's childhood in the White House, the dark aftermath of their father's assassination, their uneasy adolescence, and the many challenges they faced as adults, all under the glaring eye of the media. He reveals John's and Caroline's loving but at times trying relationship with their larger-than-life mother, as well as Jackie's own emotional struggles, romantic relationships, and financial concerns following JFK's death.

Other revelations brought to light for the first time in American Legacy include the assassination attempt made on Jackie just before she gave birth to John; JFK Jr.'s romantic escapades prior to marrying Carolyn Bessette and accounts of the predominantly happy marriage they shared despite criticisms from questionable sources; the shocking report of the autopsy performed on John following the tragic plane crash that killed him, Carolyn, and her sister Lauren; Caroline's rise to become one of the wealthiest women in America and her life now as the sole keeper of her family's magnificently complex legacy.

Utterly compelling and full of new and fascinating details, American Legacy overturns much of what we thought we knew about two of the most talked-about members of the Kennedy family.

C. David Heymann ’69G is a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee living and working in Manhattan, New York. His ninth and most recent book, American Legacy: The Story of John & Caroline Kennedy, was published this July. Previous books include The Georgetown Ladies’ Social Club; RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy; Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton; and A woman Named Jackie: An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.

In Leading with a Laugh: 101 Funny Stories with 300 Serious Lessons for Managers, Speakers, and Trainers, coauthors Dr. John W. Newstrom and Dr. Robert C. Ford reveal keys to successfully improving the art and craft of management based on using appropriate professional humor. This book offers playful stories and anecdotes as useful management tools to initiate a broad range of discussions on topics such as team building, productivity, motivation, personal integrity, and providing winning customer service. This text includes over 300 professional lessons and 300 management insights. The primary contribution (value added) of this book is to encourage readers to use humor as a tool to stimulate self-reflection, insightful group discussions, and personal improvements at work.

Robert C. Ford ’67 holds a PhD from Arizona State University. He is the coauthor of several books including Managing the Guest in Hospitality Organizations and Achieving Service Excellence: Strategies for Healthcare and over 100 articles that focus on both the theory and practice of management, especially, hospitality management. Presently, he is a Professor of Management at the University of Central Florida. Newstrom and Ford have collaborated on many previous publications, including "Making Workplace Fun More Functional," "Having Fun at Work," “Questions and Answers About Fun at Work,” and "Making Work Fun: An Important Role for Managers."

At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part needed by the up-and-coming auto giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive supplier company, much to Ford’s advantage, John and Horace Dodge again changed the face of the automotive market in 1914 by introducing their own car. The Dodge Brothers automobile carried on their names even after their untimely deaths in 1920, with the company then remaining in the hands of their widows until its sale in 1925 to New York bankers and subsequent purchase in 1928 by Walter Chrysler. The Dodge nameplate has endured, but despite their achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of the early automotive industry.
Charles K. Hyde’s book The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy is the first scholarly study of the Dodge brothers and their company, chronicling their lives—from their childhood in Niles, Michigan, to their long years of learning the machinist’s trade in Battle Creek, Port Huron, Detroit, and Windsor, Ontario—and examining their influence on automotive manufacturing and marketing trends in the early part of the twentieth century. Hyde details the brothers’ civic contributions to Detroit, their hiring of minorities and women, and their often anonymous charitable contributions to local organizations. Hyde puts the Dodge brothers’ lives and accomplishments in perspective by indicating their long-term influence, which has continued long after their deaths.

The most complete and accurate resource on John and Horace Dodge available, The Dodge Brothers uses sources that have never before been examined. Its scholarly approach and personal tone make this book appealing for automotive historians as well as car enthusiasts and those interested in Detroit’s early development.

Charles Hyde ’66 is a professor of history at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and has published eight books.

Understand Thailand's important symbols, icons, and social practices
Thailand's culture is unlike any other. Travelers attempting to fully immerse themselves in all that this tourist destination has to offer find it essential to become culturally sensitive. Thailand Tourism gives readers with an indispensable overview of this remarkable land of contrasts. This invaluable text reveals the South East Asian country, its history, its culture, and its people's fun-loving perspective of life. The importance of Thai symbols and their meaning, icons and social practices, its proud history of its constitutional monarchy, and its numerous religious temples are examined in detail. This book offers tourists and students of tourism an informative, realistic view of the people, food, entertainment, and scenery of one of the most exotic lands in the world.

Thailand was never colonized by a foreign power. Because of the lack of outside influence, this South East Asian nation has fostered a culture thrillingly different from others. Thailand Tourism offers a rare, in-depth look at this unique country and provides the information travelers need to know to easily move about and make their trip memorable. The guide includes helpful typical tourist itineraries illustrating what to expect when booking plans. The Thai viewpoints on sexuality, marriage, and societal changes are analyzed in detail. The issue of violence is discussed, including its ingrained presence in everyday life. Helpful tables detail demographic information from several countries to shed light not only on where travelers originate, but also to study the contrasts with the Thai culture. The book also presents a primer on the semiotics of tourism, and then discusses significant signs and symbols infused in Thai culture including Thai smiles, the royal kingdom of Thailand, Buddhist monks, Buddha statues, and Wats (temples). The importance of elephants in modern Thailand is explored, as well as the importance of the nation's ethnic tribes and the cultural significance of the Wai. Thai food, the Thai sex industry, and a comparison between Thailand and America are also examined. The final section presents author Arthur Asa Berger's own notes of his travels throughout Thailand with cogent perspectives of the country as a 'monoculture'.

• Topics in Thailand Tourism include:
• a theoretical discussion of tourism
• statistical data on tourism in Thailand
  
• typical tourist itineraries in Thailand
  
• perceptions of Thailand in travel literature
  
• violence in Thai society
  
• analysis of Thai culture such as Thai smile, Wats, Buddha statues

Discover an exotic, spiritual, sensual country like no other. Thailand Tourism is a must read for anyone planning to visit Thailand, students of tourism, and students of Thailand's culture.

Arthur Asa Berger ’54 lives in Mill Valley, California. This is his 60th book.