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New Rooms for Old Houses: Beautiful Additions for the Traditional Home
By Frank Shirley, DAAP ’89

For those who love their historical homes but also would like to update for a modern lifestyle, “New Rooms for Old Houses” explores the ins and outs of additions to old residences. Shirley is an experienced architect whose passion for historical homes and their detailed style is evident throughout this work. Accompanying his words, readers will find large photos of old houses and their new additions -- the good, the bad and the ugly. Tips of the trade and details to consider also are highlighted throughout the book.

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ISBN: 1561588857

Legal and Financial Exploitation of our Elders

By Stephanie Siddall Germack, DAAP ’75

Germack’s personal experience with the involuntary institutionalization of her elderly mother spurred a dedication to helping others avoid the painful process. Her book outlines the costs of losing guardianship: giving up civil rights, life savings, right to live where and how you wish, children’s inheritance and family relationships.

Beyond sharing her own story, Germack offers advice to readers to keep themselves from becoming targets. She also outlines the strategies used to prematurely institutionalize and how individuals can help change and improve involuntary guardianship laws.

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ISBN: 1430327626

by Brian Adams, MD, associate professor of dermatology at UC and director of dermatology at Veterans Administration Medical Center

An evidence-based guide to diagnosis, treatment and prevention of sports-related skin conditions, this handbook is recommended for all who regularly deal with a wide range of sports-related skin injuries -- bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic. Includes helpful illustrations and an easy-to-read style.

Springer Science+Business Media.

Order Information: Amazon.com. ISBN: 0-387-28837-6

 

by Franchot Ballinger, UC associate professor of English emeritus

A comprehensive study of the diverse roles and qualities of the North American Indian "trickster," including the mischievous spirit's roles as buffoon, social critic, teacher, transformer or mediator between humans, nature and the gods. Each chapter examines an aspect of trickster behavior and tells a related story. Includes a full bibliography and discussion of the stories as literature.

University of Oklahoma Press.

Order Information: Amazon.com. ISBN: 0-806-13796-7

by Lloyd Bone, MM '01, co-editor

A comprehensive new guide for the euphonium, this well-researched book contains the instrument's history, discography and an extensive repertoire of interest to educators, historians, composers, arrangers, performers and students.

Bone, who performed at Carnegie Hall in January 2007, teaches brass and directs band at Glenville State College, West Virginia.

Indiana University Press.

Order Information: Amazon.com. ISBN: 0-253-34811-0

by Lee Shai Weissbach, A&S '69
Professor of history, University of Louisville

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the experiences of 490 small Jewish communities (100 to 1,000 persons) in small American towns and cities from the mid-19th century to World War II. Weissbach provides narrative and data about immigration patterns, occupations, Jewish education, marriage strategies and congregational organization in these communities, as well as city and regional population tables and household composition figures. Yale University Press

by Henry Winkler, A&S '38, MA (A&S) '40, Honorary '87
UC president emeritus, professor emeritus

The responsibilities of political parties, as well as the pros and cons of specific policies, come to life in this look at the evolution of Britain's Labour Party. Formed in the early 20th century to deal with domestic problems of the working class, Labour was soon compelled by world events to accept a broader role in the governance of the country, particularly in international issues. A synthesis of Winkler's 20-year study of the subject, "British Labour" has been called the first full-scale treatment of the subject. Transaction Publishers

by Lee Shai Weissbach, A&S '69
Professor of history, University of Louisville

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the experiences of 490 small Jewish communities (100 to 1,000 persons) in small American towns and cities from the mid-19th century to World War II. Weissbach provides narrative and data about immigration patterns, occupations, Jewish education, marriage strategies and congregational organization in these communities, as well as city and regional population tables and household composition figures. Yale University Press

by Brent Shannon, MA (A&S) '96
Assistant professor of English, Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.

Although most British men in the early 19th century felt it was "puny peacockism" to be overly concerned about what they wore, attitudes quickly changed when an emerging consumer culture offered them inexpensive ready-to-wear. Middle- and lower-class men began to imitate the look of their “betters,” to the chagrin of the well-to-do. Includes Victorian-era cartoons and clothing ads.

Ohio University Press

Order Information: Amazon.com. ISBN: 0-821-41703-7

by Steven Siry, PhD (A&S) Â’86
Professor of history, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio

The youngest general in America's Continental Army, Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island both outguessed and outmaneuvered British soldiers in the war for independence. Greene wore down the enemy by combining militia, regular troops and guerilla forces under his command, enabling rapid troop movement and applying continuous pressure on British forces. Well written, interesting style.

Potomac Books

Order Information: Amazon.com. ISBN-10: 1-57488-913-3.

by Claire Sponsler, A&S '76, MA (A&S) '78
Professor of English, University of Iowa

Sponsler's book is a cultural history of European performance traditions and their impact on the New World, from the 16th century to the present. Among the rituals and festivities she examines are Spanish conquest drama and matachines dances, Afro-Dutch religious celebrations, Philadelphia mummers, American and German passion plays, Brooklyn's Italian-American saints' plays and academic reconstructions of medieval drama. Cornell University Press

by April Lindner, PhD (A&S) '98
Assistant professor of English, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia

A concise anthology of major contemporary American poets and examples of their work, co-edited with R.S. Gwynn for the Penguin Academics Series. Lindner, an award-winning poet in her own right, also includes helpful header notes and information about contemporary literary movements. Although her poetry is not included in the anthology, her book, "Skin," won the Walt McDonald First Book poetry prize in '02. Longman Publishing

by John Yolton, A&S '54, MA (A&S) '55
John Locke professor of the history of philosophy, emeritus, Rutgers

In an examination of Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding," the author maintains that a number of rarely examined components of Locke's thought -- including the nature of man, the nature of a human being and the place of man in the universe among other creatures -- proves the importance of the world of spiritual beings to Locke's philosophy. Critics have called Yolton's work provocative and fascinating. Cornell University Press

by George Bishop, UC professor of political science.

A critic of public polling, Bishop argues that much of what is claimed to be public opinion in mass media is an illusion, both because typical survey questions tend to be vague or misleading and because those surveyed are likely to form their opinions on the spot, rather than after careful consideration. Includes numerous data sources, examples from American National Election Studies and "cautionary tales." Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Co-edited by Constance Schulz, MA (A&S) '66, PhD (A&S) '73
Professor of history, University of South Carolina, Columbia

A collection of interviews with the women historians who helped found and lead the SAWH in 1970-80, in response to entrenched sexism in the decades following World War II. Through the association, it became possible for women scholars to address issues of visibility, legitimacy and equality in the history profession. University of Missouri Press

Edited by Karen Yelena Olsen, PhD (A&S) '76
Writer and professor, University of Maryland European division

A century of human flight is celebrated in this anthology of 116 works by American poets who explore all facets of this phenomenon, from exhilaration to loss. Writers include Archibald MacLeish, Ogden Nash, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams and Amelia Earheart. A pilot as well as a poet, Olsen lives in a Greek village where she is preparing her next book, "An Island Almanac: Seasons of a Life on Crete." University of Iowa Press