Recent Publications

The Art of Teaching the Bible: A Practical Guide for Adults
Christine Blair '70, associate professor of practical theology at Austin Presbyterian Seminary, offers a fresh, creative approach for those who are preparing to teach the Bible to adult learners.
Geneva Press, 2001 - 152 pages - $12.95

Lost Farm And Other Poems
Elizabeth Bolton was the literary nom de plume of Oregon poet, playwright and novelist Barbara de Lackner '53, who died in 1998. This collection of her poetry spans her 40 years of writing.
Oregon Writers' Colony, 2001 - 120 pages - $9.95

Road to Montevideo
This posthumous publication of the journals that Helen Richardson Coyle '35 kept during her one-year bicycle jaunt in South America in 1941-42 is the story of a fiercely independent woman undertaking a rare and dangerous adventure during the height of World War II.
Power Press, 2000 - 368 pages - $9.95

The Girls' Book of Friendship
With the newest in her series of small inspirational books for girls, Catherine Dee '86 offers a wealth of quotes, poems, real-life stories and celebrity advice, designed to help girls deal with the thorny issue of childhood friendship.
Little, Brown and Company, 2001 - 208 pages - $8.95

Efficient Eye Care: Manual of Managed Care Ophthalmology
Donald S. Fong, M.D., M.P.H., '83 offers a compendium of practical, authoritative tips and guidelines concerning the running an ophthalmic office in today's complex managed care environment.
Blackwell Science, 2001 - 256 pages - $34.95

Understanding Practical Unix
The latest in a series of computer guides by Raymond Greenlaw '83 is an introductory textbook for Unix-users, offering an expedient, end-user approach to developing the skill-set necessary to navigate Unix-based computer systems.
Franklin Beedle & Associates, 2001 - 440 pages - $23.95

Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education
Kevin Kumashiro '92 provides a critical anthology dealing with the social, political and educational issues facing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youths of color.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 - 256 pages - $72.00/$26.95

Contending With Contradictions China's Policy toward Soviet Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Sino-Soviet Split, 1953-1960
Based on declassified sources, this new study by Mercy A. Kuo '91 offers an incisive interpretation of China's relations with Poland and their irreversible impact on the communist world.
Lexington Books, 2001 - 208 pages - $60.00

The Eye Care Sourcebook
Jay B. Lavine, M.D., '73, an authority on ophthalmology and nutrition, discusses nutritional and lifestyle changes that can improve eye health and exposes what he calls "today's entrepreneurial medical practices," helping readers decide whether and when invasive surgery is in their best interests.
Contemporary Books, 2001 - 352 pages - $16.95

Healthy Markets? The New Competition in Medical Care
Mark A. Peterson '77 combines the different perspectives of a variety of scholars to assess both health policy in the mid-1990s and the forces that will determine what happens next in American health care.
Duke University Press, 1998 - 439 pages - $64.95/22.95

Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation
Henry D. Sokolski '72 examines and assesses the range of initiatives America has put forward over the last half century in its ongoing effort to prevent the spread of strategic nuclear weapons.
Praeger Publishers, 2001 - 184 pages - $59.95/19.95

Secret of St. Something
In another of her series of historical mysteries for children, Barbara Brooks Wallace '45 weaves terror and treachery into a vivid portrait of a child trapped in the midst of the cruelty and squalor of 19th-century tenement life.
Atheneum, 2001 - 160 pages - $16.00

Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women
Rena Fraden, professor of English at Pomona College, investigates the blend of art and activism of Rhodessa Jones' Medea Project and considers its limits and possibilities for enacting social change.
University of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 272 pages - $39.95/$18.95

Physical Hydrodynamics
This textbook, co-authored by Pomona College Professor of Physics Catalin Mitescu with his French colleagues Étienne Guyon, Jean-Pierre Hulin and Luc Petit, offers a thorough introduction to the field of fluid mechanics, principally from the point of view of physics.
Oxford University Press, 2001 - 528 pages - $100.00/$50.00

2001: A Spiritual Odyssey
Frederick Sontag, Pomona's Robert C. Denison Professor of Philosophy, argues that we cannot understand the causes and the directions of our 21st century spiritual odyssey without seeing the forces which attract and drive the human spirit.
University Press of America, 2001 - 238 pages - $52.00

Video: Stealing Home: The Case of Contemporary Cuban Baseball
This PBS documentary, produced and directed by Robert Anderson Clift '97 and Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, explores the meaning and future of Cuban baseball in what may be the twilight of its greatness.
Available from PBS Home Video at www.pbs.org - $24.98