Books & Recordings
Books
Art for the People: Carl W. Peters and the 乱伦强奸 WPA Murals
Edited by Jessica Marten
Memorial Art Gallery, 2015
Marten edits the catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Memorial Art Gallery. The catalog includes new scholarship that examines and positions the 乱伦强奸 murals within a national context. Contributors include Joan Saab, associate professor of art history and visual and cultural studies at 乱伦强奸, as well as Marten, curator of American art at the museum.
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage
Edited by Catherine Loomis 鈥�97 (PhD) and Sid Ray 鈥�95 (PhD)
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015
Loomis and Ray edit a collection of essays from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference of the American Shakespeare Center. The essays explore 鈥渢he practical applications of theory, scholarship, and editing to performance of early modern plays.鈥� Loomis is a professor of English and women鈥檚 studies at the University of New Orleans, and Ray is a professor of women鈥檚 and gender studies at Pace University.
Dead at His Desk: A Medical Mystery
By Kenneth Cohn 鈥�72
Estate of Kenneth H. Cohn, MD, 2015
Offering glimpses into the world of modern hospitals, the late Cohn presents a medical mystery thriller in which a hospital CEO is murdered. Cohn, who died in June, was founder of the consultancy Healthcare Collaboration, serving physicians and health care executives.
Into the North Woods
By Naya Clifford 鈥�93
Maine Authors Publishing, 2015
Clifford presents her debut novel, the story of a college student and his girlfriend who descend into violent extremism. The book 鈥渆xplores how the path from simple belief to terrorism grows unfettered in isolation.鈥� Clifford is a clinical social worker in Rockland, Maine.
Hitchcock and the Anxiety of Authorship
By Leslie Abramson 鈥�78
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Abramson demonstrates the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock 鈥渆xhibit a complicated, often disturbing vision of cinema authorship鈥攐ne that problematizes rather than exemplifies the director鈥檚 long-standing auteurist image.鈥� Abramson is a film scholar who teaches cinema and the law at the Loyola University of Chicago.
Borderlands
By Margaret Adams Birth 鈥�85
Finishing Line Press, 2015
Birth鈥檚 collection of poetry explores 鈥渁 variety of borderlands,鈥� from physical places and spiritual explorations to images or sounds.
Content Warfare: How to Find Your Audience, Tell Your Story, and Win the Battle for Attention Online
By Ryan Hanley 鈥�03
Ryan Hanley, 2015
Hanley, head of marketing at TrustedChoice.com, offers a guide to online content marketing.
These Shallow Graves
By Jennifer Donnelly 鈥�85
Delacorte Press, 2015
Donnelly presents her sixth work of historical fiction, the story of a wealthy young woman in 1890s New York who takes great risks searching for the truth about her father鈥檚 apparent suicide.
A Salamander鈥檚 Tale
By Paul Steinberg 鈥�75M (Res)
Paul Steinberg, 2015
Mixing personal narrative with modern medical history, Steinberg shares his experience living with metastatic prostate cancer for 30 years鈥斺�減ossibly longer than any other man in history.鈥� Steinberg practices psychiatry in Washington, D.C.
Looking Through Water: A Novel
By Bob Rich 鈥�69S (MBA)
Skyhorse Publishing, 2015
Rich tells an adventure story as well as a coming-of-age tale about the relationship between a grandfather and his grandson. The chairman of the Rich Products food company, Rich is donating proceeds from the sale of the novel to Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, a nonprofit agency serving disabled active duty military personnel and veterans.
What Do I Do Now? Thriving Through the Seven Phases of Adult Life
By Steve Miller 鈥�73M (Res)
CreateSpace, 2015
Miller offers a guide for adults on life transitions, with advice rooted in the teachings of major world religions and modern psychology.
Apostles of the Alps: Mountaineering and Nation Building in Germany and Austria, 1860鈥�1939
By Tait Keller 鈥�96
University of North Carolina Press, 2015
Keller, an assistant professor of history at Rhodes College, explores the Alps as a site of political, environmental, and cultural contention as Germany and Austria transformed themselves into modern, industrial states.
Fundamentals of Research on Culture and Psychology: Theory and Methods
By Valery Chirkov 鈥�01 (PhD)
Routledge, 2015
Chirkov offers a detailed guide to conducting multidisciplinary research on human behavior in different cultures. Chirkov is a professor of psychology at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
kabot wannakarm (Literature Rebel)
By Thanet Aphornsuvan 鈥�73
Sommadhi Books, 2013
Aphornsuvan鈥檚 book, published in Thai, explores 鈥渞elationships between history and politics through the literary lives of notable figures in China, Russia, Thailand, and the United States.鈥� Aphornsuvan is a professor at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, and head of its ASEAN, or Association of Southeast Asian Nations, studies program.
In My Mind鈥檚 Eye: A Cornish Girlhood
By Jenny Lloyd 鈥�92 (PhD)
CreateSpace, 2015
Through a series of 鈥渟napshots,鈥� Lloyd reflects on her youth in England in the 1940s and 1950s. She shares 鈥渕emories of World War II, her life on the farm, and her experiences at boarding school.鈥� Lloyd is an associate professor emerita of history at SUNY College at Brockport.
Zarr: The Legacy of the Vorx
By Randy Smart 鈥�04M (MS)
Smashwords, 2015
In a science fiction e-novel, Smart tells the story of a man, kidnapped as a child and raised by his parents鈥� killers, who discovers the truth of his upbringing from a chance encounter with a stranger.
Charles Harold Davis (1856鈥�1933): Mystic Impressionist
By Valerie Ann Leeds 鈥�79
Bruce Museum, 2015
Independent curator Leeds explores the life and work of the oft-overlooked impressionist painter Davis. The book, among the first scholarly treatments of Davis, accompanies a major museum retrospective of his work at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut.
乱伦强奸 Through Time
By Mary Hasek Grenier 鈥�72 and Emily Morry 鈥�13 (PhD)
Fonthill Media, 2015
Grenier and Morry present a visual history of 乱伦强奸 with an emphasis on the city and region鈥檚 natural resources, as well as its leaders and citizens.
Petty: The Biography
By Warren Zanes 鈥�02 (PhD)
Henry Holt & Co., 2015
Zanes presents a life鈥檚 story of rock and roll musician Tom Petty. Zanes is a former member of the band the Del Fuegos, executive director of the Little Steve Van Zandt鈥檚 Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, and a longtime friend of Petty鈥檚.
An Absence of Justice
By Roderick Cyr 鈥�01S (MBA)
CreateSpace, 2015
Cyr presents a thriller in which a leading authority on technology and a journalist preparing an expos茅 join together to capture a band of wealthy and powerful killers.
The Dating GPS: Guys, Pricks, and Sweethearts
By Alexsandra Sukhoy 鈥�03S (MBA) et al
CreateSpace, 2015
Sukhoy and coauthors share stories and articles about 鈥渄ating adventures, misadventures, and the path that leads to whole and healthy love.鈥� Sukhoy is founder and CEO of the career coaching consultancy Creative Cadence.
State-Building and Democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Edited by Soeren Keil and Valery Perry 鈥�92
Ashgate, 2015
Perry coedits a collection of articles detailing the evolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the two decades since the end of the war among the former states of the Yugoslav federation.
Recordings
Broadway: 1985鈥�2015
By Johnny Russo 鈥�66E
East Hill Classic Jazz Band, 2015
Russo and the East Hill Classic Jazz Band offer a retrospective of their favorite Broadway cuts from the past 30 years, as well as four newly recorded songs. The band, led by Russo, also includes Drew Frech 鈥�65E on banjo.
American Hero (RED)
By Madison Rising
Purple Eagle Entertainment, 2015
The rock band Madison Rising, which includes drummer Sam Fishman 鈥�10, performs a mix of originals and patriotic anthems.
Books & Recordings is a compilation of recent work by University alumni, faculty, and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming issue, send the work鈥檚 title, publisher, author or performer, a brief description, and a high-resolution cover image, to Books & Recordings, 乱伦强奸 Review, 22 Wallis Hall, P. O. Box 270044, 乱伦强奸, 乱伦强奸, NY 14627-0044; or by e-mail to rochrev@rochester.edu.
乱伦强奸 Review
January鈥揊ebruary 2016
Vol. 78, No. 3
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