Anthony Harkins ’86, Meredith McCarroll, editors. West Virginia University Press, February 2019. Available on Amazon. J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly… Continue reading »
Edited by Walter Lehmann ’85. Independently published, February 2019. Available on Amazon. From the Anzio beachhead to the roof top of the US Embassy in Saigon, this expansive memoir recounts the wide-ranging life of a US foreign service officer who had a front row… Continue reading »
Edited by Elizabeth Allison ’91, et al. Routledge, October 2018. This book examines and builds upon Carolyn Merchant’s decades-long legacy of innovative environmental thought and her critical responses to modern mechanistic and patriarchal conceptions of nature and women as well as her systematic taxonomies of environmental thought and… Continue reading »
By Bernie Kosar with Craig Stout ’70. Cleveland Landmarks Press, September 2017. With the help of Craig Stout, Bernie Kosar relates how he overcame a variety of challenges both during and after his college and professional football career. Continue reading »
By Justine de Young ’02. I.B. Tauris Publishers, June 2017. Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often critiquing the making of… Continue reading »
Edited by E. Brooks Goddard ’63. Jugum Press, May 2017. Available on Amazon. In the early 1960s—while young people were inspired by President Kennedy, civil rights advanced in the USA, and the Cold War overheated—575 US and 200 UK teachers went to East Africa. These walimu—Swahili for… Continue reading »
Edited by Patricia C. Martin ’78. NAFSA: Association of International Educators, March 2017. The best way to handle an emergency is to plan for it. Make sure you have a response in place for your education abroad office before a crisis occurs. The education abroad office is… Continue reading »
Co-authored and edited by Jason Gladstone ’97. University of Iowa Press, July 2016. Available on Amazon. Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of… Continue reading »
Edited by Nora Kenworthy ’04, Ross Mackenzie, and Kelley Lee. Rowman & Littlefield International, July 2016. There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease. However, limited analysis has been undertaken of the increasing corporate involvement in… Continue reading »
Edited by Dan Swkire ’91, with associate editor Margaret (Donavan) Cormier ’94, et al. ACTEX, May 2016. A comprehensive treatment of all aspects of group insurance in the United States and Canada. Continue reading »
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