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Confucian Tradition & Global Education by William Theodore de Bary ’41, John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus, Provost Emeritus and Special Service Professor in East Asian Language and Culture

Confucian Tradition & Global Education by William Theodore de Bary ’41, John Mitchell Mason Professor Emeritus, Provost Emeritus and Special Service Professor in East Asian Language and Culture. De Bary’s book, which also contains contributions by Cheung Chan Fai and Kwan Tze-Wan, asserts the importance of the Chinese classics and argues for their inclusion in a global humanities curriculum (Columbia University Press, $32.50).

Novels: Prose-poems of people. Old Mystic, Connecticut. Sixty-five years ago. By Kirby Congdon ’50. A collection of prose-poems that serve as “thumbnail novels depicting various lives in a small New England village in the 1930s” (SeaStory Press, $19.95).

A Sixty-Year Ride through the World of Education by Rudolph H. Weingartner ’50. Weingartner’s book describes his educational experiences as student, administrator and professor on two continents and at a dozen institutions (Hamilton Books, $25).

Galileo’s Gout: Science In An Age of Endarkenment by Dr. Gerald Weissmann ’50

Galileo’s Gout: Science In An Age of Endarkenment by Dr. Gerald Weissmann ’50. Weissmann, director of the Biotechnology Study Center at the NYU School of Medicine and an acclaimed essayist, deplores the ascendancy of creationist thinking and science illiteracy, which, he argues, could be leading our society into an age of “endarkenment” (Bellevue Literary Press, $25).

Kuperman’s Fire by John J. Clayton ’56. A novel of one man’s moral struggle when he discovers that his company’s merger partner is illegally selling chemical weapons abroad. As pressure grows, the Kuperman family goes into hiding, and the experience changes how they define their relationships and heritage (The Permanent Press, $26).

Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm by Daniel J. Leab ’57. An account of the CIA’s involvement in the making of the controversial 1954 animated movie of Orwell’s Animal Farm (The Pennsylvania State University Press, $55).

Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles: Or, The Book of Galehaut Retold by Patricia Terry and Samuel N. Rosenberg ’57

Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles: Or, The Book of Galehaut Retold by Patricia Terry and Samuel N. Rosenberg ’57. With wood engravings by Judith Jaidinger. This version of the 13th-century French “Book of Galehaut” offers a variation on the Arthurian legend in which Galehaut, Lord of the Distant Isles, is in love with Lancelot (David R. Godine, $26.95).

The Blessed Human Race: Essays on Reconsideration by George Jochnowitz ’58. Jochnowitz, who taught in China during the Tiananmen Massacre, describes the drastic change in his political thinking after that event and his conclusion that “the human race’s virtue is found in questioning rather than obedience” (Hamilton Books, $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paperback).

Planning for Uncertainty: Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family (Second Edition) by Dr. David Doukas and Dr. William Reichel ’58. This valuable resource guides readers through the advance-directives process using a question and answer format (Johns Hopkins Press, $18.95).

The Invention of Painting in America by David Rosand ’59, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History

The Invention of Painting in America by David Rosand ’59, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History. Rosand recounts the story of American painting and its rise from obscure and provincial beginnings to international prominence (Columbia University Press, $17.95).

The Battle of Prestonpans 1745 by Martin B. Margulies ’61. Margulies, professor emeritus of law at Quinnipiac University, takes a detailed look at the Battle of Prestonpans, the first major battle of the 1745 Jacobite Rising (Tempus, distributed by Trafalgar Square, $37.95).

Writing for the Web 3.0 by Crawford Kilian ’62. An instructional manual on how to design new Web pages or update existing ones with graphics, animation and sound in order to capture readers; includes a CD with the basics of Web-writing and practice exercises (Self-Counsel Press, $16.95).

Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books by Richard Tuerk ’63

Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books by Richard Tuerk ’63. Tuerk, a professor of literature and languages at Texas A&M, looks at the first 14 full-length books in Baum’s Wizard of Oz series (McFarland, $35).

Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Betrayal by Eric Van Lustbader ’68. In Lustbader’s continuation of Ludlum’s bestselling series, Jason Bourne tries to rescue a CIA buddy who vanished while monitoring shipments of yellowcake uranium (Warner Books, $27.99).

Everybody Eats There: Inside the World’s Legendary Restaurants by William Stadiem ’69 and Mara Gibbs

Everybody Eats There: Inside the World’s Legendary Restaurants by William Stadiem ’69 and Mara Gibbs. In this book — part travelogue and part social commentary — the authors look at 100 glamorous and exclusive restaurants around the world, their rise to fame and the A-list personalities who frequent them (Artisan, $29.95).

The Clarks of Cooperstown by Nicholas Fox Weber ’69

The Clarks of Cooperstown by Nicholas Fox Weber ’69. Weber, the author of a respected biography of the painter Balthus, tells the intriguing story of a family of larger-than-life art collectors, the wealthy Clarks (Knopf, $35).

Jade Rooster by R.L. Crossland ’70. This nautical novel by a retired Navy officer, set in “the hardboiled underworld of early 20th Century Japan,” features an eccentric Columbia scholar named Stuyvesant Draper (Broadsides Press, $17.95).

Global Climate Change and U.S. Law edited by Michael B. Gerrard ’72. The editor, a partner at Arnold & Porter, has assembled a comprehensive resource that looks at U.S. law as it relates to global climate change (American Bar Association, $59.95).

Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary by Haruo Shirane ’74, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature. A textbook that contains easy as well as difficult readings and addresses an array of grammatical concerns. Each piece is accompanied by an English introduction, a vocabulary list and grammatical notes (Columbia University Press, $49.50).

Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production, & Social Change by Steven Goodman ’79. Goodman, the executive director of New York’s Educational Video Center, explores the use of media education to help urban teenagers develop literacy and critical thinking (Teachers College Press, $19.95).

The Visible World by Mark Slouka ’80. The author’s second novel follows the life of the son of post-WWII Czech immigrants as he struggles to learn his mother’s tragic past (Houghton Mifflin, $24).

Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On The Road (They’re Not What You Think) by John Leland ’81. Leland, author of Hip: The History, takes a long, insightful look at Kerouac and his classic novel On the Road, where he finds “lessons about how to grow up” (Penguin, $23.95).

We Band of Mothers: Autism, My Son and The Specific Carbohydrate Diet by Judith (Gorman) Chinitz ’86 with commentary by Sidney M. Baker. Chinitz’s autistic son, Alex, had difficulty sleeping and keeping down nutrients, but the Specific Carbohydrate Diet brought about remarkable changes (Autism Research Institute, $20).

Coltrane: The Story of A Sound by Ben Ratliff ’90. New York Times jazz critic Ratliff tells the story of the legendary musician’s development, influence and legacy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23.00).

The Dry Eye Remedy: The Complete Guide to Restoring the Health and Beauty of Your Eyes by Dr. Robert Latkany ’93. The author offers practical, non-surgical methods to restore eye health, such as a Home Eye Spa Program, environmental adjustments, lifestyle changes and information on which medical prescriptions and procedures to seek or avoid (Hatherleigh Press, $15.95).

Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform by Scott Gac ’95

Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform by Scott Gac ’95. America’s most famous 19th-century singing group, the Hutchinson Family Singers, sang on behalf of the reform issues of their day: temperance and anti-slavery reform. Gac’s book is the first full portrait of these early protest singers (Yale University Press, $45).

Fourth Comings by Megan [Fitzmorris] McCafferty ’95. In this fourth novel in a popular series, Jessica Darling — newly graduated from Columbia — must consider an unsettling proposal (Crown Publishers, $21).

Last One In by Nicholas Kulish ’97. This first novel by Kulish, an editorial writer for The New York Times, describes the alternately hard and hilarious times of a New York gossip columnist who ends up embedded with a group of Marines in Iraq (Harper Perennial/Ecco, $13.95).

For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City’s Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 by Daniel J. Opler ’97

For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City’s Department Store Unions, 1934-1953 by Daniel J. Opler ’97. Opler, an assistant professor at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, studies the early attempts to unionize department-store and retail-store workers (Ohio State University Press, $49.95).

Witness in Palestine: Journal of a Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories by Anna Baltzer ’02. The author recounts her travels in the Middle East and Palestinian territories to discover the impact of the conflict on the people living in those regions (Paradigm Publishers, $62).

Zoology by Ben Dolnick ’04. A debut novel about Henry, a college flunkout who spends a summer living in New York City with his older brother and gets a job at the Central Park Zoo. The joys of a good job and an exciting city, however, quickly unravel due to love and family problems (Vintage Books, $12.95).

Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory edited by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod, professor of anthropology. A study of the ways in which Palestinians have remembered the “Nakba,” the traumatic 1948 event in which hundreds of thousands were displaced in order to create the state of Israel (Columbia University Press, $27.50 paper, $72.50 cloth).

Iran: A People Interrupted by Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature. This book traces the political and cultural history of Iran during the past 200 years while filling the gaps in our understanding of a country often portrayed in the United States as antagonistic (New Press, $26.95).

Public Passions: The Trial of Shi Jianqiao and the Rise of Popular Sympathy in Republican China by Eugenia Lean, assistant professor of history. In a chronicle of the 1935 murder trial of Shi Jianqiao, who killed warlord Sun Chuanfang as he prayed in a Buddhist temple, the author shows how the act was planned to attract media attention and galvanize the new rise of “public sympathy” (University of California Press, $45).

Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State by Bruce Robbins, professor of English and comparative literature. Robbins studies the “upward mobility story” in literature, from Dreiser to Doctorow (Princeton University Press, $35).

Rose Kernochan ’82 Barnard

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