Etchy Sketchy Skies

By Artichoke, featuring Timothy Sellers ’90. The band’s latest album features guitars, trumpets and more and draws inspiration from places as diverse as a local farmer’s market and Sellers’ commission to write songs about science in collaboration with Knoxville scientists. Continue reading »

Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun

’90 and Elizabeth Foy Larsen. A guide for kids that seeks to engage young people in activities beyond their computer screens through engaging how-to’s, lessons and activities. Unbored features plenty of classic child-entertaining games and explorations, as well as more academic and pop culture-savvy. Continue reading »

Sleep to Win!

By James Maas ’60. AuthorHouse, March 2013. Professional hockey player Mike Greenza was a first-round draft pick out of Cornell University, full of youth, talent, and unlimited potential. Midway through his second NHL season, that potential is still unrealized. He and his team struggle, scraping the bottom of… Continue reading »

An Introduction to Art Criticism

’92. Pearson, 2012. Houston, of the Maryland Institute College of Art, presents a thorough overview of art criticism as it has been practiced since the 1700s.  The text is built around excerpts from the work of hundreds of historical and contemporary critics, including a substantial history of art criticism and… Continue reading »

A Climber’s Memoir

By Charles R. Berry ’57. CreateSpace, 2013. This collection of a middle-aged man’s journal entries chronicles his day-to-day experience of climbing a 22,000-foot peak in Nepal. Continue reading »

Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties Commune

By Tom Fels, MA ’83. University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. A follow-up to Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond (2008), Buying the Farm is the story of Montague Farm, an iconic ’60s commune first founded in 1968 near Amherst, Mass. Fels’ latest book continues to… Continue reading »