Eph's Bookshelf
Rewired
By Camille Preston ’93, AIM Leadership, LLC, 2011. Arguing that the overuse of technology is damaging our professional and personal lives, Preston—who founded AIM Leadership, a personal development and coaching firm, in 2005—offers skills and strategies to balance our goals, manage our commitments, and focus our brains: in short, to rewire ourselves.
Writing Out of Limbo: International Childhoods, Global Nomads and Third Culture Kids
Edited by Gene H. Bell-Villada, Professor of Romance Languages et al. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. In this collection, which includes essays by Bell-Villada and Leyla Rouhi, John B. McCoy and John T. McCoy Professor of Romance Languages, writers from around the world address complex issues presented by growing up a “global nomad.” Considering topics that more »
Geology of the Great Plains and Mountain West: Investigate How the Earth was Formed
By Cynthia Light Brown ’83, Nomad Press, 2011. How do the Rocky Mountains affect climate? Why don’t the Great Plains have volcanoes? Why does the largest river system in North America meander across the continent? Brown, an environmental consultant, helps kids answer these questions and many more in this exploration of the Great Plains and more »
Beyond the Flaming Sword: Poems of Life from Eden to the Cross
By Jay Haug ’73. CreateSpace, 2012. In this collection of poetry, the author explores how life’s most difficult experiences of loss and pain may lead us to paths of forgiveness, redemption and even joy.
Robbie Forester and the Outlaws of Sherwood Street
By Peter Abrahams ’68, Philomel, 2012. In this middle-grade novel, Robin Hood is reincarnated as Robbie Forester, a spunky 13-year-old Brooklynite who comes to possess a powerful charm that guides her, her three friends and her dog Pendleton on the path to justice.
The World War I Memoirs of Robert P. Patterson: A Captain in the Great War
Edited by J. Garry Clifford ’64, University of Tennessee Press, 2012. Robert Patterson, under secretary and secretary of war from 1940-1947, recounts his formative experience as a young captain in the American Expeditionary Forces during the first World War. In portraying realities of life for soldiers fighting on the Western Front, he ties them to more »
Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam
By Theodore Friend ’53. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012. Friend, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and former president of Swarthmore College, set out alone across Asia and the Middle East to understand firsthand the lived experiences of women in Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. Woman, Man, and God more »
Ivyland: A Novel
By Miles Klee ’07. OR Books, 2012. This debut novel—an interlinked series of short vignettes—takes a landscape of drugs, decay, loss and, perhaps, hope and manages to make the ensemble wryly funny. Populated by a bumbling, murderous citizenry of corrupt cops, innocents, ravenous addicts, lovesick geniuses and cynical adventurers, Ivyland operates in the shadow of more »
The Mama's Boy Myth: Why Keeping Our Sons Close Makes Them Stronger
By Kate Stone Lombardi ’78. Penguin Group, 2012. The author offers a radical reexamination of a hot-button issue of the mother and son relationship and advocates the end of the mama’s boy taboo.
How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog
By Chad Orzel ’93, Basic Books, 2012. The author, a physics professor at Union College, explains one of the cornerstones of modern physics in everyday language and down-to-Earth imagery, through a series of imaginary conversations with his canine companion Emmy.
