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Shelby Tucker ’53 in Burma |
Knights
of the Oblong Table Under the nom de plume of Hellie, Blythe swerves into spoofdom to present a fantasy about ancestral knights, a story uncovered beneath layers of dust in an ancient trunk in her attic. These knights have contributed their names to present-day language and are described in turn, including Sir Ching, Sir Prize, Sir Charge, Sir Plus, Sir Ender and Sir Vival. Blythe lives on a ranch near Paso Robles, Calif.
In this small volume, Coolidge presents a series of essays about two political world-views—mechanism and organicism—metaphors of the world as a machine and the world as an organism. The world as a machine is something that can be divided, while as an organism, it has a unified complete pattern, like a living plant or animal. Coolidge lives in Iowa City, Iowa. France on Foot by Bruce LeFavour ’53 Attis Press France on Foot details how to combine the pleasures of walking village to village through France's forests and vineyards with the comforts of eating in good restaurants and sleeping in comfortable hotels. It is a useful how-to guide on taking a walking vacation on France's superb off-road footpaths. A retired chef and restaurateur, LeFavour lives in California's Napa Valley with his wife, Faith Echtermeyer, who took the beautiful photographs in the book.
Among Insurgents describes Tucker's remarkable and perilous journey through Burma in the midst of its Civil War. Tucker is an American who lives in Oxford, England. See the profile of Tucker at To Thy Self Be True.
This volume of six stories includes the title story "Cool Fire," a short but evocative series of comments made by its two characters. Some of the stories deal with the aftermath of the Holocaust; others have as their source dreams or real life. Bissinger is a playwright who has written three other books and lives in Pennsylvania.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the first authors of the French Revolution, but his writings are difficult to understand, containing contradictions and multiple lines of argument. This book is a study of the historical and political role of reading—about reading as a historical problem, using Rousseau's works as examples. Swenson lives in New York City and is an associate professor of French at Rutgers University.
Combining botany, archaeology and art history, Corn in Clay studies contact between ancient American cultures. It integrates evidence from replicas of maize on ancient pottery with other biological and geographic evidence to establish contact between Mesoamerica and the Andean region in pre-Columbian times. Eubanks is a senior research scientist at Duke University and a member of Phillips Academy's Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology's visiting committee.
T his collection of poems brings together three original British poets who capture the spirit and anxieties of the early 1800s. The editors of this anthology have included prefaces, notes and a chronology of the poets' lives and writings. Manning lives in Los Angeles and is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.
This book, intended for college students, teachers and researchers, provides an in-depth look at how organisms respond to challenging physical and chemical environments. It includes detailed descriptions of what happens in vertebrates, mammals and other organisms as they adjust to environmental extremes such as changes in temperature, altitude, radiation and air or water pressure. A professor of physiology at the University of Iowa, Folk lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
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