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| MAR./APR. 2004 VOLUME 106 NUMBER 5 | Authors |
SHOOTING THE HEART by Paul Cody, MFA '87 (Viking). In a harrowing portrait of the dark underside of American life, former CAM associate editor Cody's fourth novel tells the story of Earl Madden, previously a Boston schoolteacher now committed to the locked ward of a mental hospital. Haunted by thoughts that he may have killed his wife and driven between memory and hallucination, Madden broods on love's mysteries, his unstable childhood, his obsession with famous serial killers, and the need to seek forgiveness.
AT
THE ABYSS by Thomas C.
Reed '55 (Ballantine Books). A
former secretary of the air force,
special assistant to President Reagan
for national security policy,
and consultant to the director of
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
gives an insider's look at
the Cold War; with an introduction
by former President George
H.W. Bush.
ZIGZAGGER by Manuel Muñoz,
MFA '98 (Northwestern University
Press). In his first collection
of stories—a volume in the
Latino Voices series—Muñoz
explores the conflicts of family
and sexuality and the struggles
of characters against their physical
and personal isolation in the
rural towns of California's Central
Valley. The stories transcend
the traditional family myths and
narratives of Chicano literature
and the constraints of geography.
MAKING
ENEMIES by Mary P. Callahan, PhD '96 (Cornell University
Press). An assistant professor
at the University ofWashington's
Jackson School of
International Studies analyzes
the durability of the Burmese
military government using interviews
with former officers and
archival material to which no
other foreigner has gained
access.
WHY
SHE WENT HOME by Lucinda Rosenfeld '91 (Random
House). In this sequel to her
debut novel, What She Saw,
Rosenfeld's heroine Phoebe Fine
leaves New York City for her
parents' home in the New Jersey
suburbs while she continues her
maneuvers through the dating
minefields. Rosenfeld sends up
the lives of her quirky New York
strivers and their equally strange
suburban counterparts.
THE
BUDDHA IN THE JUNGLE by Kamala Tiyavanich, PhD '93 (University of Washington
Press). A Buddhist scholar presents
a vivid picture of Buddhism
and the natural environments in
which the Buddha's teachings
were practiced through real-life
accounts of nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century Buddhist
monks in Thailand.
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SPECTRAL NATIONALITY by Pheng Cheah, PhD '98 (Columbia University Press). An assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, rethinks postcolonial theory's discussion of the nation and nationalism and assesses the difficulties of achieving freedom in the postcolonial world.
FROM MEETINGHOUSE TO MEGACHURCH by Anne C. Loveland, PhD '68, and Otis B.Wheeler (University of Missouri Press). An exploration of the rise of the evangelical megachurch, which has grown from ten churches in 1970 to nearly 2 percent of Protestant churches in the U.S. today.
IT'S HARD TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU CAN'T FIND YOUR KEYS by Marilyn Paul, MBA '78 (Penguin Compass). A management consultant and selfconfessed former queen of clutter gives a practical, seven-step guide for finding relief from the stress of disorganization.
DR. PETE'S EATING FOR A HEALTHY HEART by Pierre S. Aoukar '98 (Magalhaes Scientific Press). Advice and recipes for promoting cardiovascular health and longevity.
POSTNATIONALISM PREFIGURED by Charles V. Carnegie '75 (Rutgers University Press). The chair of African American studies at Bates College casts a cold eye on nationalism's hold on modern consciousness and points toward possibilities for new forms of world community that accommodate local histories and cultures in a larger global framework.
TEXTBOOK OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY, third edition, edited by Jerry M.Wiener and Mina K. Dulcan '70 (American Psychiatric Publishing). An update that integrates clinical experience and scientific research to improve treatment for children and adolescents, written by eighty-eight experts in the field.
RANCOR & RECONCILIATION IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND by Paul R.Hyams (Cornell University Press). A Cornell professor of history and director of the Medieval Studies Program contests the notion that England had forged a centralized legal system and advanced beyond anarchic barbarism by the time of the Norman Conquest, while feuds and vengeance prevailed across the Channel.