We welcome review copies of books by alumni. The books are donated to the Swarthmoreana section of McCabe Library after they have been noted for this column. Cynthia Stevens (ed.), Edwin Arsht '51 (contributor), Windows of the Soul, The National Library of Poetry, 1995. This anthology of original poetry is published by The National Library of Poetry to encourage writers to pursue their craft. Arsht, whose favorite subjects are peace, passion, and people, had his poem "Colored...!" included in this collection.
Charles M. Conver '49, Overheard at the Day Care, Dorrance Publishing Co., 1996. This collection of vignettes spans Conver's 14 years as a day care center teacher, where mischief abounds and nearly anything might be overheard from 2- to 5-year-olds.
Stephen M. Davidson '61, Marion McCollom, and Janelle Heineke, The Physician-Manager Alliance, Jossey-Bass, 1996. The key to any health care organization's success is the partnership of managers and physicians, say the authors of this book, who show how this alliance can develop effective policies and procedures to provide health care that is timely, considerate, technologically appropriate, and responsive to patient needs.
John R. Katzenbach, Frederick Beckett, Steven Dichter '75, Marc Feigen, Christopher Gagnon, Quentin Hope, and Timothy Ling, Real Change Leaders: How You Can Create Growth and High Performance at Your Company, Random House, 1995. This book, geared toward senior and middle managers, shows why some companies have been able to change and grow to higher performance levels while most others get bogged down: The former have a new breed of middle managers with a combination of tough performance standards and a fresh sense of how to inspire and motivate the workforce.
William Dusinberre '50, Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps, Oxford University Press, 1996. Focusing on three plantations, the author examines slavery in the rice swamps of the South Carolina and Georgia "low country" and offers analyses of slave culture within a wider context of health, discipline, privilege, and psychology.
W. (William) D. Ehrhart '73, Mostly Nothing Happens, Adastra Press, 1996. This limited edition chapbook contains a single poem in which Ehrhart uses his own experiences in Vietnam and Philadelphia to plead for better race relations in our decaying cities. Janet Hart '74, Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941- 1964, Cornell University Press, 1996. Interviews with many survivors of the Greek resistance movement during and after World War II provide the basis for this look at the social and political changes that took place for women as their lives were transformed by active participation in the resistance against the Nazis and in the anti-communist aftermath of the war. Dale G. Larrimore '72, Pennsylvania Rules of the Road, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1995. This manual deals with the motor vehicle code of Pennsylvania and the liability consideration associated with it. It contains a guide for counseling clients, presenting claims to insurance adjusters, and preparing pleadings and pre-trial documents.
Richard Martin '67 and Harold Koda, Bare Witness, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. Assembled according to the bodily zones of decolletage, back and derriere, ankle and leg, and midriff, this collection highlights an exhibition of "fashion's practice of covering and uncovering" currently being shown at the Metropolitan Museum. Richard Martin, La Derniere Mode: A Bibliography of Fashion, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. This bibliography catalogs articles on fashion appearing in fashion magazines, newspaper reports, general interest news journals, and political magazines during 1995.
Osmond Molarsky '34, A Sky Full of Kites, Tricycle Press, 1996. When 6-year-old Colin creates a beautiful-but very large-painting, he can't convince anyone to display it. This children's book follows Colin as he comes up with a creative solution to his dilemma.
Richard H. Shultz Jr., Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr. '56, W. Bradley Stock (eds.), Special Operations Forces: Roles and Missions in the Aftermath of the Cold War, United States Special Operations Command, 1995. This compilation of papers presented at an annual conference designed to assess major factors shaping the requirements for U.S. military capabilities was based on the possible use of forces, especially Special Operations Forces, in shaping national security policy.
Nicole Hahn Rafter '62 and Frances Heidensohn (eds.), International Feminist Perspectives in Criminology: Engendering a Discipline, Open University Press, 1995. The first multicultural book in the field of criminology, this collection brings together an international range of contributors who outline and analyze the impact of feminism on criminology in their countries.
Jerome R. Ravetz '50, Scientific Knowledge and its Social Problems, Transaction Publishers, 1996. Demonstrating the role of choice and value judgment and the inevitability of error in scientific re-search, Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems and how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.
David Sacks '76, Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World, Facts on File Inc., 1995. This A-to-Z illustrated reference of ancient Greece encompasses politics, geography, art, medicine, war, sexual attitudes, and mythical figures as well as philosophers and other thinkers from Socrates and Aristotle to the great historians Herodotus and Thucydides.
Cheryl J. Sanders '74, Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture, Oxford University Press, 1996. Identifying the theme of exile both as an idea and an experience, Sanders studies the worship practices and social ethics of the family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches, known collectively as the Sanctified Church.
Helen Hornbeck Tanner '37 (ed.), The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present, Macmillan, 1995. This fully illustrated book reconstructs the migrations, lifestyles, and cultures of the early Asiatic nomads, the ancestors to all North American Indian peoples, and continues with European colonization, the forced migration of Africans, and the current influx of peoples from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia.
David Bleiler (ed.), Marc Walkow '90 (contributing ed.), TLA Film & Video Guide: 1996-1997, TLA Publications, 1996. Featuring more than 8,500 titles, this guide provides capsule film reviews of movies available to rent on tape or broadcast on television. It also provides awards and theme indices, information on pricing, and filmographies of directors, stars, writers, and composers.
Robert C. Wallach '56, A Primer of Gynecologic Oncology, IDI Publications, 1995. Designed primarily for residents in training and medical students, this monograph presents a simple and straightforward guide to the diagnosis and treatment of cancers of the uterus and other organs of the reproductive system.
John Yinger '69, Closed Doors, Opportunities Lost: The Continuing Costs of Housing Discrimination, Russell Sage Foundation, 1995. Nearly three decades after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, illegal housing discrimination against blacks and Hispanics remains rampant in this country. Yinger shows how deeply housing discrimination can affect the living conditions, education, and employment of minority Americans.
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