BOOKNOTES

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Daniel W. Gottlieb '52 recently published Environmental Technology Resources Handbook. This handbook guides the user to hundreds of technologies, practices, partnership opportunities, and funding resources. Presented in non-technical language, it covers hundreds of publicly available resources for pollution prevention, control, remediation, and assessment.

Mary R. Sloan Jordan '54 announces the publication of the History of Camp Denison, Ohio, 3rd Edition. The little known community of Camp Denison, along the Little Miami River, has a rich and interesting history. Jordan's updated edition covers 1987-2002, including new information about the village, additional family histories, and background on the Civil War Museum.

Jay W. Lorsch '55 recently co-authored the book Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World with Colin B. Carter. The book offers readable, practical and ethical approaches to "fix" what is broken in corporate boardrooms.

Jessica Karchmer Heriot '62 co-edited a book, The Use of Personal Narratives in the Helping Professions: A Teaching Casebook. It is a collection of first person narratives and essays, short stories, and poetry about mental illness and psychosocial problems. Beginning with childhood, the narratives range through adolescence, adulthood, and old age, and offer students in the mental health professions an opportunity to understand mental illness and other stage-of-life problems from the "inside out." Each chapter is accompanied by questions for discussion and related readings.

Patrick Brantlinger '64 has a new book entitled Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930. This book explores the 19th century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Brantlinger is also the author of Fictions of State, Rule of Darkness and Bread and Circuses.

Ted Goertzel '64 is proud to announce the publication of Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than 700 Famous Men and Women, 2nd Edition. This book looks at the childhood of successful adults to see if there are specific factors which lead them to accomplishment. It presents intriguing descriptions of the childhoods of many famous people - from Billie Jean King to the Dalai Lama, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Pablo Picasso, from Mother Theresa to Margaret Thatcher. This book challenges readers to consider how today's world of mass media and technological change is influencing their own success and eminence.

David A. Horowitz '64 recently published America's Political Class Under Fire: The Twentieth Century's Great Culture War. Beginning in the 1920s, professional intellectuals and academics began influencing the nation's public policy on matters as diverse as education, economics, and public health. In this thoughtful work, Horowitz analyzes the tension between the so-called "New Class" of knowledge professionals and their critics, who accused them of being out of touch with the common sense of everyday people, strangers to the American Way, even Communists. America's Political Class Under Fire is organized over nine periods of 20th-century history, providing a window into everything from the Scopes evolution trial and McCarthyism to affirmative action and the Clinton health care fiasco.

Kenneth King '65 recently published Writing in Motion: Body - Language - Technology. It includes essays, performance scripts, art criticism, philosophy and cultural commentary. King, a philosopher and postmodern choreographer, considers dance to be "writing in space" and writing to be a "dance of ideas." His references to Aristotle, Langer, Simone de Beauvoir, MTV, Maurice Blanchot and Marshall McLuhan are very much in motion.

Dan Gartrell '67 is proud to announce the release of his third book, The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Classroom. This book focuses on guidance with young children in early childhood classrooms. It gives teachers practical and workable techniques to deal with problem students and to build a child support network.

Terry Blackhawk '68 announces the publication of her latest poetry collection, Escape Artist. Selected by poet Molly Peacock for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Escape Artist uses art, myth and memory as a springboard for the imagination. Blackhawk reminds readers of the connections to be made across both geographical distances and the decades of their lives. Together with reflections of her own experiences, Blackhawk delves into the minds of an array of characters - from the mythical Odysseus to a native of Damascus circa 1965.

Roberta Gould '69 is proud to announce the publication of two new books: The Kids' Book of Incredibly Fun Crafts and The Kids Multicultural Craft Book, both from Williamson Publishing Company. The Kids' Book of Incredibly Fun Crafts offers over 100 different crafts that explore imaginative uses for a variety of materials. The Kids' Multicultural Craft Book intersperses lessons on different cultural traditions with craft ideas such as creating an Amazon gourd rattle or an Appalachian flip-flop toy. These craft ideas come from Gould's own extensive travels, and her experience working in an after-school program for over 30 years.

Alex Zautra '69 announces his new book, Emotions, Stress and Health. In this work, he draws on empirical studies to provide an integrated perspective on stress and adaptation that highlights the role of emotions in the preservation of health and recovery from illness. Although human beings often feel they must put their needs for happiness aside when they are coping with stress, Zautra believes the ability to move forward and sustain a life with quality may depend on doing just the opposite.

Thomas Atlee '70 recently published the Tao of Democracy. It is especially written for social change agents, community organizers, spiritually motivated activists, and the millions of people sociologist Paul Ray calls "cultural creatives" - the co-creators of a new culture. The book, about breaking through to conscious evolution and conscious co-creation of a collective future, offers new forms of activism and politics, ways to bring wisdom to politics and governance, a hopeful vision, the true stories of ordinary people, and powerful approaches to collaboration and dialogue.

Jerrold Hirsch '71 recently published Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project. The book reviews the founding of the Federal Writers' Project and the significance of its American Guide series, considering the choices made by administrators who wanted to celebrate diversity as a positive aspect of American cultural identity. In his exploration of the Federal Writers' Project other writings, Hirsch discusses the project's pioneering use of oral history in interviews with ordinary southerners, ex-slaves, ethnic minorities, and industrial workers.

Janet Zoglin '72 recently published a book called Youth Peace Collective. This book co-mingles fact and fiction in an account of an organization where 18-25 year olds develop urban youth-run projects in the US and create clean water infrastructure in the non-industrialized world, all in the name of building world peace. The youth live in an egalitarian community, learn and practice non-violence, and are paid $10,000 for each successfully completed 6-month work term. Antioch College has a very special place in this book - it is the site of the organization's first summer training.

Sarah Gorham '76 recently published a collection of poems entitled The Cure. In her third book, Gorham observes family life, from everyday joys to aggressive, dysfunctional sorrows. Gorham's opening array of meditative and memory-based poems consider a father, mother and sister and the mature self the poet grew up to claim. Poems about adult life take the speaker from marriage and honeymoon to motherhood, then following a daughter from infancy to her teens. Gorham's short-lined central sequence considers the damaging experience of living with male alcoholics.

Gorham and her husband, poet Jeffrey Skinner, together edited the anthology Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance. Along with Skinner, Gorham operates Sarabande Books, the Kentucky-based literary publisher.

Shel Horowitz '77 released his sixth book, Principled Profit: Marketing that Puts People First in the summer of 2003. Already nominated for the Ben Franklin, ForeWord Book of the Year, and Ippy awards, this book shows that you can have a business that is both ethical and profitable. Illustrating these points with well-known examples such as Johnson & Johnson, Saturn, and FedEx, Principled Profit offers many new and different ways of looking at business success. The book has 56 endorsements. One thousand copies were sold immediately on publication to Southwest Airlines for use by the company president.

Jan O'Neill '77 is pleased to announce the publication of two books. One, coauthored by Anne Conzemius, is The Handbook for SMART School Teams. This book helps schools set the stage for collaboration and teamwork by teaching how to develop SMART (Strategic and Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results-based, Time-bound) goals and improve processes and systems.

The second book, Building Shared Responsibility for Student Learning is also co-authored with Anne Conzemius. This book presents a practical framework for building shared responsibility within schools and school systems. It explains how to set powerful goals and shares inspiring stories of educators who have embarked on this journey toward higher professional competency, increased staff satisfaction, rising test scores, and improved student results
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Richard Kaplan '78 is proud to announce the publication of his new book, Politics and the American Press: The Rise of Objectivity, 1865-1920. This work takes a fresh look at the origins of modern journalism's ideals and political practices. In particular, Kaplan addresses the professional ethic of political independence and objectivity widely adopted by the US press. He shows how this philosophy emerged from a strikingly different ethic of avid formal partisanship in the early twentieth century. The book also provides fresh insights into the economics of journalism and uses business papers and personal letters of publishers to explore the influence of competition, advertising, and an explosion in readership on the market strategies of the press. Kaplan documents the changes in political content of the press by a systematic content analysis of newspaper news and editorials over a span of 55 years.

Bob Barros '80 recently published Constitutionalism and Dictatorship: Pinochet, the Junta, and the 1980 Constitution. This book challenges the view that autocratic regimes cannot limit their power through institutions of their own making. Based on extensive documentation of military decision-making, much of it long classified and unavailable, this book reconstructs the politics of institutions within the recent Chilean dictatorship (1973 - 1990).

Nancy Quam-Wickham '81 published the book The Power of Oil in 2000. This book explores the history of oil in southern California, from the days when a quarter of the world's oil came from California and the streets of Los Angeles were flooded with "black gold" to recent Hollywood films such as Armageddon in which a team of oil-drillers save the planet.

Scott Sanders, Antioch University Archivist, is pleased to announce that his contribution, "Antioch College: Establishing the Faith," appears as the first chapter of Cradles of Conscience: Ohio's Independent Colleges and Universities, edited by John Williams, Jr. Oliver, James H. O'Donnell, and James A. Hodges. Sanders' piece presents the history of Antioch College's conception, establishment and early years. Sanders writes, "As Ohio commemorates its bicentennial in 2003, Antioch College celebrates its own sesquicentennial. The approach of such a milestone becomes all the more monumental against the backdrop of Antioch's distinguished, colorful, if not occasionally unfortunate, past. Scattered among its many successes - a distinctive liberal arts curriculum combining work and study, a revolutionary program of education abroad, and a unique participatory governance system, just to name a few - are the pitfalls of its history that can provoke wonder at how it has survived at all."

Patricia Linn - Dawson Professor of Cooperative Education and Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Adam Howard - Assistant Professor of Education, and Eric Miller '81 - Assistant Professor of Cooperative Education co-edited The Handbook for Research in Cooperative Education and Internships. The handbook is designed to help co-operative education and internship professionals design, carry out, and disseminate quality research and evaluation studies of work-based education. By combining descriptions of exemplary research and evaluation studies with practical advice from top researchers in the field, this volume is a useful tool for co-op educators.