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BOOKSHELF

Alan Tompkins [‘29] – painter by Linda Powers Tomasso. Written in collaboration with the artist, this biography celebrates the author’s work and life, including his time at Columbia (Stienhour Press, $25).

Not All Importers-Exporters are Crooks by Leonard M. Shayne ’41. The author’s memoirs outline 50 years of business in custom brokerage and international freight forwarding (Lulu, $25).

The Best of Joseph Cowley: An Anthology by Joseph Cowley ’47. The author collects his most prominent love stories in this anthology, as well as the play The Stargazers (iUniverse, $21.95).

The Intimate Eye: The Drawings of Burton Silverman by Burton Silverman ’49. A collection of portraits drawn by the author throughout his career, each with commentaries (Brigham Young University, $45).

Bourbon Street: New Orleans, 1955 by George S. Zimbel ’51. New Orleans’ French Quarter, including Bourbon Street, once glowed with bohemian charm and was filled with jazz clubs, burlesque dancers and other night entertainment; this collection of anonymous photographs records the splendor of those days (les editions du passage, $60 Canadian).

An Anatomy of Skepticism by Manfred Weidhorn ’54. Through a close analysis of language and previously unchallenged assumptions, the author uncovers the strength in the philosophy of skepticism (iUniverse, $27.95).

Men of War: Essays on American Wars and Warriors by Henry I. Kurtz ’58. An anthology of Kurtz’s finest essays on American military history (Xlibris, $21.99).

Marquis de Sade: Philosophy in the Boudoir translated by Joachim Neugroschel ’58. A deluxe edition of this classic and controversial guide for young women on how to please their mates is recreated and translated (Penguin Classics, $15).

The Mind of the Novel: Reflexive Fiction and the Ineffable by Bruce F. Kawin ’67. An examination of contemporary first-person literature (Dalkey Archive Press, $29.95).

Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film by Bruce F. Kawin ’67

Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film by Bruce F. Kawin ’67. In the first book-length study of reflexivity in the cinema, the author contradicts the classic assumption that a film’s narration must be in third person (Dalkey Archive, $24.95).

Understanding the Mind of Your Bipolar Child: The Complete Guide to the Development, Treatment, and Parenting of Children with Bipolar Disorder by Dr. Gregory T. Lombardo Ph.D. ’68. The author offers assistance, hope and information for parents who seek to understand this disorder (St. Martin’s Press, $24.95).

Breaking Robert’s Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results by Lawrence E. Susskind ’68 and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank. Robert’s Rules of parliamentary procedure and majority rule have long governed how committees and organizations run their meetings, leading to heated debates and a dissatisfied minority. This guide outlines five consensus-building steps and addresses problems that hinder efficient progress (Oxford University Press, $15.95).

Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World by Michael Jacoby Brown ’69. From a community organizer with more than 30 years of experience, this book is a step-by-step manual for citizens who wish to improve their community by forming groups (Long Haul Press, $19.95).

Amending CERCLA: The Post-SARA Amendments to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act by Michael B. Gerrard ’72 and Joel M. Gross. The authors offer a comprehensive guide to the post-SARA amendments (American Bar Association, $149.95).

Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Mentally Ill Homeless Person edited by Dr. Paulette Marie Gillig, Ph.D. and Hunter L. McQuistion M.D. ’74. A collection of clinical reviews dealing with various aspects of treating mentally ill homeless people, from psychiatric inpatient settings to prisons (APP, $37.95).

Essential Torah: A Complete Guide to the Five Books of Moses by George Robinson ’75. A user-friendly guide to the Torah, including coverage of its historical context, philosophical perspective and theological commentaries (Schocken Books, $35).

The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik ’77 and David Pitt-Watson. The authors describe the rise of citizen investors and how civil ownership will alter the rules of commerce and create a new type of corporation (Harvard Business School Press, $29.95).

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt edited and introduced by Larry King. A compilation of 85 essays by influential contributors, describing and defining the title phrase. Includes an essay by Kenin M. Spivak ’77 about the Scott Peterson case (Phoenix Books, $27.95).

The Confession by James E. McGreevey ’78. The former New Jersey governor recounts the formation of his contrasting public and private identities, the ethical shortcuts he took as a politician and how the threat of exposure from a former lover led him to resign and seek penance and atonement (Regan, $26.95).

The Alembic Space: Writings on Poetics and Translation by Joseph L. Malone, edited by Andrew Sunshine ’79. Ten instructional essays on literary mechanisms, forms and processes employed by poets and translators to create their texts (Atlantis-Centaur, $12).

Fishing New Jersey: A Guide for Freshwater Anglers by Oliver Shapiro ’80. A detailed, comprehensive guide for fishermen that locates more than 120 prime sites and best times and places to catch certain types of fish (Burford Books, $29.95).

Rhetorical Occasions by Michael Bérubé ’82. A collection of writings by Bérubé, the Paterno Family Chair in Literature at Penn State (University of North Carolina Press, $21.50).

Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century by Jonathan Zimmerman ’83

Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century by Jonathan Zimmerman ’83. Drawing on personal accounts from missionary teachers of the 1900s, the author argues that most shared an imperial ideal to “civilize” non-Western communities, but changed around mid-century when the concepts of culture and human differences took hold (Harvard University Press, $45).

The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle by Jonathan Beller ’85. By critically studying films made since the late 1920s, the author argues that, through cinema, perception and looking has been construed by capital as a value-productive activity (Dartmouth College Press, $35).

Bicentennial: Haiti’s Gift to the World, 1804-2004 by Yvrose S. Gilles, edited by Jerry M. Gilles ’85. The history of Haiti’s fight for human rights during its revolution in 1791–1804 and the subsequent Haitian struggle to rebuild society (Bookmanlit, $20).

Themes for English B: A Professor’s Education In and Out of Class by J.D. Scrimgeour ’86. In his memoirs, the author contrasts his Ivy League education with the disadvantaged lives of his students at a small public college (University of Georgia Press, $22.95).

Sirens of the Western Shore: The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature by Indra Levy ’88

Sirens of the Western Shore: The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature by Indra Levy ’88. The author traces the lineage of a a new, exotic archetype in Japanese literature: the “Westernesque femme fatale” (Columbia University Press, $40).

Make Me a Match by Diana Holquist ’89

Make Me a Match by Diana Holquist ’89. When Cecelia’s estranged gypsy sister, Amy, crashes her engagement party, she knows that her conservative lifestyle is coming to a halt. Amy declares that Cecelia is marrying the wrong man and that her real true love is a dying man living in another state (Warner Forever, $6.50).

The Great New York Sports Debate: Two New York Sportswriters Go Head-to-Head on the 50 Most Heated Questions by Roger Rubin ’89 and David Lennon. With nine major league teams in one metropolitan area, there’s always something to argue about when it comes to New York sports. Two writers argue topics like the best N.Y. quarterback, the best sports executive and the most sensational scandal (Plume, $15).

Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families edited by Andrew Carroll ’93

Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families edited by Andrew Carroll ’93. The product of an initiative launched by the National Endowment for the Arts, this anthology collects firsthand accounts from those directly affected by military campaigns (Random House, $26.95).

Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón ’99. This debut novel, set in a war-torn South American country, explores universal themes of war through Norma, a radio host whose program seeks to reunite the missing with their loved ones, and her journey to find her missing husband (Harper Collins, $24.95).

Rock Tease: The Golden Years of Rock T-shirts by Erica Easley '00 and Ed Chalfa

Rock Tease: The Golden Years of Rock T-Shirts by Erica Easley ’00 and Ed Chalfa. A tribute featuring more than 200 t-shirts depicting some of rock ’n’ roll’s icons — Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Grateful Dead and many more (Abrams Image, $19.95).

Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers edited by Matt Kellogg and Jillian Quint. This anthology of essays, all written by people in their 20s, were chosen from a nationwide competition to reveal the lifestyle, personal experiences, culture and attitudes of this generation. Includes an essay by Jennifer Glaser ’00 on the influence of her boyfriend’s cancer on their love life (Random House, $12.95).

From the Cold War to the War on Terror: 60 Years of US Foreign Policy edited by Katherine R. Constabile ’01 and J. Quinn Martin. An anthology of essays originally published in SIPA’s Journal of International Affairs and written by scholars and policymakers (Columbia University, $18.95).

The Second Verse by Jonathan Walton ’08. The poet’s work portrays the dignity of all human beings and the impact of common human experiences — death, success, failure, happiness and emptiness (Tate Publishing, $10.95).

Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York edited by Hilary Ballon, professor of art history and archaeology and Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences

Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York edited by Hilary Ballon, professor of art history and archaeology and Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences. This book examines the building program to salvage New York City undertaken by Moses at a time when the city was suffering from obsolescence, decentralization and urban decline (W.W. Norton, $50).

A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America edited by Stephen Prothero. This collection of essays reflects on how America has become a “nation of religions,” with a focus on how four recently arrived communities — Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs — have shaped, and are shaped by, American values. Includes essays by Courtney Bender, associate professor of religion, and Robert A.F. Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies (University of North Carolina Press, $49.95).

Self-Knowledge and Resentment by Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy. The author analyzes the intricacies of self-knowledge and its relation to one’s thoughts, values and agency (Harvard University Press, $45).

Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema edited with an introduction by Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, preface by Edward Said, late University Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema edited with an introduction by Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, preface by Edward Said, late University Professor of English and Comparative Literature. A study of the social and artistic significance of Palestinian cinema, which has emerged on the global scene and has become a key expression of the Palestinians’ struggle for self-determination (Verso, $24.95).

Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America by Dana R. Fisher, assistant professor of sociology. The author examines the history, rationale and consequences behind political outsourcing by left-wing campaigns (Stanford University Press, $24.95).

The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera edited by Lydia Goehr, professor of philosophy, and Daniel Herwitz. The morality and aesthetics of Mozart’s masterpiece are examined by renowned scholars through the literature, philosophy and culture of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era (Columbia University Press, $40).

W.H. Auden: Selected Poems, Expanded Edition selected and edited by Edward Mendelson, professor of English and comparative literature. This collection from one of the 20th century’s greatest poets includes poems such as “Funeral Blues,” popularized by the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, and “Sept. 1, 1939” (Vintage, $14.95).

Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community by George Rupp, University president emeritus

Globalization Challenged: Conviction, Conflict, Community by George Rupp, University president emeritus. The author outlines steps that could effectively engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism (Columbia University Press, $24.50).

The Power of Art by Simon Schama, University Professor. Masterpieces of eight great artists — Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko — that changed the course of art history and defied conventions in their age are examined by the noted historian through the artists’ lives and times (Ecco, $50).

Love is War by George Stade, professor emeritus of English and comparative literature. In this dramatic novel, lovers Chuck and Claire want to leave their spouses, whom they have come to hate, but conclude that divorce is not an option; they decide that the only solution is for each of them to kill the other’s spouse (Turtle Point Press, $16.95).

Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor

Making Globalization Work by Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor. The author argues that the troublesome effects of globalization do not arise from the problem of globalization itself, but how it has been managed. He describes how multinational institutions reflect the interests of advanced industrialized countries instead of poorer ones and offers a set of practical prescriptions to make globalization work better (W.W. Norton & Co., $26.95).

Supreet Minhas ’10, Carmen Jo Ponce ’08

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