Bookmarks
Two in the Wild
Tales of Adventure from Friends, Mothers, and Daughters
"The Solo Journey, Revisited" by Lea Aschkenas '95 joins stories by Diane Ackerman and Sara Corbett in this anthology on friendship and adventure, edited by Susan Fox Rodgers.
Vintage Books, 1999 * 223 pages * $13.00
College Countdown
Helen Heron '56 has put together the fourth edition of her friendly guide and workbook for high school students preparing for college. The book offers helpful advice on high school planning, study skills, college admissions and financial aid.
Heron Publishing, 2000 (www.heronpub.com) * 160 pages * $19.95
Philosophy and Freedom
Derrida, Rorty, Habermas, Foucault
John McCumber '67 explores the liberating promises contained in the thought of four of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century.
Indiana University Press, 2000 * 200 pages * $39.95 / $18.95
Alí Bey en Marruecos
Michael McGaha, professor of Romance languages and literatures, is co-editor, with Celsa C. García Valdés, of this previously unpublished tragedy by Domingo Badia. The play is one of the first to explore a clash of Western and Islamic values.
Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 1999 * 140 pages
Satyagraha in America
The Political Culture of South Asian Americans
Vijay Prashad '89 co-edited with Biju Mathew this special volume of UCLA's Amerasia Journal. "Satyagraha" refers to the Gandhian theory of "action on the basis of truth."
Amerasia Journal, 1999/2000 (Vol. 25, No. 3) * 298 pages
Intrinsic Motivation at Work
Building Energy and Commitment
Management expert Kenneth W. Thomas '65 offers managers a research-based framework for motivating workers through intrinsic rewards that make work more fulfilling.
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2000 * 150 pages * $24.95
Ghosts in the Gallery
In this Victorian tale of deception and betrayal for younger readers by Edgar Allan Poe Award winner Barbara Brooks Wallace '45, a young orphan finds herself living as a servant in her grandfather's strange and menacing household.
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2000 * 136 pages * $16.00
Fun Excursions in Hong Kong
In place of the trusty (or fusty) guidebook, Sabina Wong '95 offers a deck of 53 cards, each offering detailed nuggets of information on an excursion in the island city--with entries ranging from detailed directions to useful Cantonese phrases.
Publishers Associates, 2000 (www.funhk.com) * 53 cards * HK$65.00
