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 From the Other Side of the Water: Starting,
Learning by Malcolm S. Mason '30. This illustrated
autobiography, presented in diary form, concentrates on the
Maryland attorney's earliest days and education (Xlibris Press,
$29.99 paper).
My Nine Lives by N.T. Wang '41. An
autobiography of the Shanghai-born economist, teacher and public
servant who is senior research scholar in Columbia's East Asian
Institute and director of its China-International Business Project
(Writers Club Press, $15.95 paper).
Hearing the Measures. Shakespearean and Other
Inflections: Selected Essays by George T. Wright '45. A
collection of essays, written across a span of 25 years, on the use
of rhythm and meter by poets from the Bard to Robert Lowell; by a
professor of English emeritus at the University of Minnesota
(University of Wisconsin Press, $60 cloth, $24.95 paper).
Darkening Water: Poems by Daniel Hoffman
'47. This collection of new poems by the former poet laureate
of the United States and Schelling Professor of English Emeritus at
the University of Pennsylvania is his first in more than a dozen
years (Louisiana State University Press, $22.95 cloth, $15.95
paper).
A Play of Mirrors: Poems by Ruth Domino,
translated by Daniel Hoffman '47. According to the
translator, a former poet-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine, in these poems - the only poetry and the only Italian
works by the German expatriate author - "verbal architecture
conforms to changeless patterns" (Gradiva Publications, $13
paper).
 Bronx Boy: A Memoir by Jerome Charyn
'59. This final volume in the trilogy that began with Black
Swan and continued with The Dark Lady From Belorusse
recounts the author's youth as a Jewish kid (and champion egg-cream
pourer) in the Bronx while blurring the line between reality and
imagination (St. Martin's Press, $23.95).
The Isaac Quartet by Jerome Charyn '59.
A one-volume compilation of the acclaimed author's first four crime
books - Blue Eyes, Marilyn the Wild, The Education of Patrick
Silver and Secret Isaac - featuring the idiosyncratic,
incorruptible, ping-pong loving NYPD inspector Isaac Sidel (Four
Walls Eight Windows, $35 cloth, $17.95 paper).
How to Beat the Democrats and Other Subversive
Ideas by David Horowitz '59. House Majority Whip Tom
Delay (R-Texas) praises this survey of Democratic political
imprecations and handbook for Republicans in the 2002 elections as
"an indispensable guide to political combat"; by the editor of
FrontPageMag.com and columnist for Salon (Spence Publishing, $27.95).
Reflections on Higher Education by Stephen
Joel Trachtenberg '59. The third collection of commentaries on
the status, relevancy and vicissitudes of college and university
education in the United States from the president of The George
Washington University (Oryx Press, $29.95).
Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of
American Fiction, 1945-1970 by Morris Dickstein '61.
Taking his title from a Kafka parable, the Distinguished Professor
of English at Queens College reassesses 20 key literary figures and
argues that a daring band of outsiders - ranging from Philip Roth
to Jack Kerouac '44 - reshaped the American novel and dominated
fiction in the United States during the second half of the 20th
century (Harvard University Press, $15.95 paper).
News From the Blockade and Other Poems by
Egito Gonçalves, translated by Alexis Levitin
'63. A collection of lyric poems from one of Portugal's most
versatile and prolific poets, who published 21 volumes of verse
before his death in 2001 (Guernica, $10 paper).
Brooklyn: A State of Mind, edited by Michael
W. Robbins, introduction by Phillip Lopate '64. This
collection of stories about New York's most populous borough
illustrates the degree to which, in Lopate's words, "the Brooklyn
state of mind is combative, wry, resilient" (Workman Publishing,
$19.95 paper).
 What They'll Never Tell You About the Music
Business: The Myths, the Secrets, the Lies (& a Few Truths)
by Peter M. Thall '64. This jargon-free insider's look at
today's music industry reveals the machinations and potent dangers
lurking beneath the surface of music deals and recording contracts
(Watson-Guptill Publishers, $24.95).
Mirrors of Time: Using Regression for Physical,
Emotional and Spiritual Healing by Brian L. Weiss '66.
The CD-ROM included with this volume allows readers to undergo the
same past-life regression techniques that the physician author has
used to alleviate psychological and physical issues as well as
encourage a strong sense of peace and well-being in his patients
(Hay House, $17.95).
 My House Is Killing Me! The Home Guide for Families
With Allergies and Asthma by Jeffrey C. May '66. This
comprehensive guide from a leading home inspector offers a
step-by-step approach to identifying, controlling and eliminating
mold and other indoor allergens, household pollutants and unwelcome
houseguests such as cockroaches and carpenter ants (Johns Hopkins
University Press, $16.95 paper).
Surgical Risk: A Kurtz and Barent Mystery by
Robert I. Katz '74. Hotshot Manhattan surgeon Richard Kurtz
teams up with a NYPD detective to solve the murder of one of
Kurtz's former girlfriends (Willowgate Press, $12.95 paper).
Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's
University by Phyllis Keller and Morton Keller
'77. A Brandeis historian and Harvard's first female dean team
up to describe the Massachusetts university's 20th-century
transformation from a school catering to Boston Brahmins to one of
the world's premier academic institutions (Oxford University Press,
$35).
 The Corporate University Handbook: Designing,
Managing and Growing a Successful Program, edited by Mark
Allen '81. Contributors assess the rise and significance of the
new phenomenon of corporate universities, full-fledged
management-development organizations that encourage innovation and
are essentially strategic partners of their sponsoring companies
(Amacom, $32.95).
When the Butterfly Stings by Richard Kramer
'96. This comparison of the American and Japanese educational
systems, which emphasizes the dangers of student violence and
bullying, draws on the author's firsthand experience as a junior
high school teacher in Japan (Minerva Press, £18.49).
Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel
'99. In this debut novel from a Brooklyn high school teacher, a
sergeant in the Civil Guard, which was created by the victorious
Nationalists to restore order after the defeat of the Republicans
in the Spanish Civil War, searches for the murderer of his best
friend in a war-ravaged Madrid (Soho Press, $24).
 Free Trade Today by Jagdish Bhagwati,
University Professor. This paean to globalization, based upon a
series of lectures delivered in Stockholm, applies critical
insights from commercial policy theory to argue that the
advancement of social and environmental agendas can be reconciled
with the pursuit of free trade (Princeton University Press,
$24.95).
Playing Darts With a Rembrandt: Public and Private
Rights in Cultural Treasures by Joseph L. Sax, foreword
by Lee Bollinger, University president. Columbia's new
president praises this study of the boundaries of private property
and public rights for exploring "elusive areas between them where
norms of behavior are created and flourish" (University of Michigan
Press, $35 cloth, $20.95 paper).
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for
Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Alice
Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History.
This study of New Deal social policies - Social Security,
unemployment insurance, fair labor standards - and their impact on
the access to resources for women and men was recently honored with
a Bancroft Prize for excellence in the field of American history
(Oxford University Press, $35).
Acts of Aggression: Policing Rogue States,
second edition, by Noam Chomsky with Edward W. Said,
University Professor. Chomsky's harsh assessment of American
foreign policy toward "outlaw" states is supplemented by Said's
analysis of the United States sanctions toward Iraq and policies
toward Arab states (Seven Stories Press, $6.95 paper).
Power, Politics and Culture: Interviews With Edward
W. Said, introduction by Gauri Viswanathaa, Class of
1933 Professor of English and Comparative Literature. This
collection of interviews with the celebrated and controversial
University Professor explores his contributions to literary and
cultural theory as well as his efforts to combine theory and
activism in the discussion of Middle Eastern politics and the
Palestinian situation (Alfred A. Knopf, $30).
James Joyce: A Short Introduction by Michael
Seidel, Jesse and George Siegel Professor in the Humanities.
This concise prolegomenon "follows Joyce along the accessible arc
of his career" from Dubliners to Finnegans Wake and
reveals that the famed Irish author "never tried as a matter of
course to be difficult" (Blackwell Publishers, $54.95 cloth, $19.95
paper).
T.P.C.
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