BOOKMarks
The Gospel According to Disney
Philip Longfellow Anderson '62 draws religious and moral lessons from the Disney classics with a playful but serious examination of the values at the heart of such films as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Lady and the Tramp. Longfellow Publishing, 1999 * 261 pages * $15.00
A Woman's Journal
Helping Women Recover
In the form of a step-by-step workbook, this interactive book by Stephanie Covington '64 offers women recovering from addiction a guide on the path to self-knowledge and healing.
Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999 * 134 pages * $19.95
The Girls' Book of Wisdom
Catherine Dee '86 has assembled a collection of empowering, inspirational quotes from over 400 remarkable women, featuring such diverse voices as Helen Keller, Whoopi Goldberg, Maya Angelou, Anne Frank, and Mia Hamm.
Little Brown & Co, 1999 * 200 pages * $8.96
In-line/On-line:
Fundamentals of the Internet and the World Wide Web
Raymond Greenlaw '83 and co-author Ellen Hepp have assembled a textbook for use in a semester course on the Internet, complete with more than 500 student exercises.
WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1999 * 576 pages
Introduction to the Internet for Engineers
In their second book of the year, Raymond Greenlaw '83 and co-author Ellen Hepp offer a short course about the Internet and the World Wide Web designed specifically for engineering and science students.
WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1999 * 328 pages
Tales of My Life
"Within the context of my presumably impending death..." begins the highly affecting memoir that anthropologist James Newlin Hill '57 wrote for his children in the last year of his life, working until the day before he died of cancer in 1997.
Julie Calvert Hill, 1999 * 418 pages
Japan Edge
Carl Gustav Horn '91 and collaborators Mason Jones, Patrick Macias and Yuji Oniki offer a high-energy introduction to the exotic world of Japanese pop subculture, packed with photos, illustrations, flowcharts, maps, and other information.
Cadence Books, 1999 * 199 pages * $19.95
The Psychotherapist's Guide
to Human Memory
Cognitive scientist Janet Jones '84 offers an accessible, authoritative guide to processes of human memory, the first designed expressly for psychotherapists engaged in clinical practice. Basic Books, 1999 * 255 pages * $40.00
Stages of Desire
Employing a critical perspective rooted in Plato and supported by contemporary theory, Michael Kidd '90 explores the role of the theme of desire in the rewriting of classical mythology in 11 Spanish plays of the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries.
Penn State University Press, 1999 * 272 pages * $45.00
Practicing for Heaven
In her acclaimed first book, Julia B. Levine '81 offers, according to Enid Shomer, 1998 Judge for the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, "delicate, elegiac, and truthful poetry with rare transcendental moments that the most cynical of readers can trust." Anhinga Press, 1999 * 79 pages * $12.00
Metaphysics and Oppression
Heidegger's Challenge to Western Philosophy
John McCumber '67 reinterprets the history of metaphysics from Aristotle to the present in light of what he sees as Heidegger's previously unrecognized challenge to oppression.
Indiana University Press, 1999 * 338 pages * $49.95 / $24.95
Child Maltreatment and Psychological
Distress Among Urban Homeless Youth
Lisa A. Russell '80 provides a detailed study of the mental health and histories of homeless youths and examines the relation of these to exposure to violence, abuse and neglect.
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998 * 400 pages
Llama and Alpaca Neonatal Care
Bradford B. Smith '74, with coauthors and fellow veterenarians Karen I. Timm and Patrick O. Long, offer llama and alpaca owners a unique, practical and remarkably thorough guide to the care of the pregnant camelid.
Clay Press Inc., 1996 * 112 pages
Here Comes Eleanor
A book in the Avisson Young Adult Series, this biography by Virginia Veeder Westervelt '35 provides young readers an affectionate introduction to the life of America's first independently activist first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Avisson Press, 1998 * 142 pages * $16.00
Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems
This new collection of Thomas Hardy's poems, edited and introduced by long-time Pomona poet-in-residence Robert Mezey, emeritus professor of English, was selected to introduce the poet's work to a contemporary audience.
Penguin Books, 1999 * 255 pages * $8.95
The Poetry of E.A. Robinson
In his second publication of the year, Robert Mezey, emeritus professor of English, edited, annotated and introduced this selection of poems from the man Donald Justice called "the first modern American poet."
The Modern Library, 1999 * 239 pages * $19.95
