Paying For College: Financing Education At Nine Private Institutions

Sloan Study Consortium

UPNE

Computer Applications In Radiation Oncology Proceedings

Medical Books

Edward S. Sternick

Medicine

Mary Lyon And Mount Holyoke: Opening The Gates

Politics & Social Sciences

Elizabeth Alden Green

Women's Studies

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England

A detailed architectural analysis of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.

History

Thomas C. Hubka

Americas

Building on the foundation of his critically acclaimed A Fierce Green Fire (1993), which provided a sweeping overview of the American environmental movement, Philip Shabecoff now moves to a thoughtful survey of international environmentalism. The annals of international cooperation to preserve the environment and ensure sustainable economic development are recent and brief. Only within the last 30 years, as the effects of human overconsumption have become apparent, have international organizations, national governments, and environmental groups begun focusing on the economic and ecological ramifications of plundering the Earth's resources. Shabecoff, former chief environmental correspondent for the New York Times, provides a detailed history of international environmentalism from the beginnings of a global environmental ethic to an inside view of diplomatic negotiations behind the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. He analyzes Rio's successes and failures and examines both worldwide and local proposals that address environmental and economic challenges not discussed at Rio. Only by facing and overcoming all these challenges, he says, can the global community establish "a peace built on mutual care for the planet and responsibility for the well-being of others with whom we share it."

A New Name for Peace: International Environmentalism, Sustainable Development, and Democracy

Business & Money

Shabecoff, Philip

Economics

So Fine a Prospect: Historic New England Gardens

Join Alan Emmet on a tour of gardens that graced New England from just after the American Revolution into the 20th century. A Martha Stewart Decorative Arts Gift Book Choice for 1996.

Emmet, Alan

A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod

Cape Cod, that sandy, wind-swept enchantress, has captivated many writers, among them Henry David Thoreau, whose descriptions of that "wild, rank place" have fired the imaginations of not one but many generations. Among Thoreau's literary progeny is David Gessner, but this book goes far beyond the naturalist's focus on the transcendent beauty of the landscape. Rather, Gessner combines his deeply felt sense of place with observations of the Cape's people and with insights about his family, himself, and his art. In a series of interconnected personal essays, he explores his response to his own recently cured cancer and to the lung cancer that is killing his father. Issues of life and death intertwine with images of a land that Gessner finds curiously healing: "Here thoughts are swamped by the smells, sounds, and sights of place. The gentle hypnotic lapping of waves. A prehistoric cormorant on a slick black rock. The delicate lacework of sea grass roots breaking down through a ledge of sand." Gessner's introspection during a year spent writing in the family's weathered cottage portrays another struggle, too. For a young writer just beginning his career, such mighty literary forebears as Thoreau can be imposing, if not paralyzing. Yet the process of sorting through and making peace with the memories of his genetic father gives Gessner the power to declare artistic independence from his literary one. Seeing "something tremendously heroic" about his father's determination to perform mundane tasks in the face of imminent death brings Gessner to realize that "our minds have minds of their own. Reality is fabulous, yes, but we also crave something more. Symbol, perhaps. Meaning." In the end, what Cape Cod comes to mean for Gessner is not just freedom from the past, but love and nobility in the face of death.

Gessner, David

Charles and Garth are downing drinks at the Black Dog Inn, but, in a dramatic technique reminiscent of the classic film My Dinner with Andre, their dialogue transports us far beyond those walls through the adventures of rogues and rapscallions in such far-flung locales as Baltimore, New York, Key West, and ultimately Cambridge, Massachusetts. Along the way we meet characters mythic and mysterious, all seeking something and few finding it. Chief among them is the Hitchhiker, alias William Cutshall, a drifter-qua-philosopher whom Charles picks up in Massachusetts and whose tale he spins for Garth. Cutshall is searching for his son, long ago given up for adoption, and in his account of that search we meet his wife, Carol, a self-proclaimed earth mother who abandons both husband and child to become the weirdly pantheistic Our Lady of the Stones. There's also Marty, the liar, cheat, and thief who knew the demon; Julio and Xavier, two unflappable and highly suspect outrageous works of art; the barmaid Connie, a cosmic gossip, out to save the world from its incorrect display of emotions; and a cavalcade of drug dealers, gamblers, believers, and nonbelievers. The Hitchhiker's own loss makes him see loss everywhere. Like other sojourners, he is engaged in the quintessential quest - for the lost son, for a sense of permanence, for meaning in an inchoate social structure. Connolly's version of the persistence and perversity we muster for that ongoing battle makes for occasionally disquieting, constantly entertaining, and frequently riotous reading.

A Great Place to Die (Hardscrabble Books–Fiction of New England)

Literature & Fiction

Connolly, Sean

Humor & Satire

A collection of poems exploring the world of grammar, covering such topics as nouns, verbs, homophones, and contractions.

A Child’s Garden of Grammar

Disch, Tom

Children's Books

In this second and final volume “composed” by archy, the literary cockroach, the wonderfully whimsical insect and his fractious feline friend, mehitabel, engage in misadventures large and small and comment with quirky accuracy on the common state of humanity. Previously unpublished in book form and literally recovered from a steamer trunk by editor Jeff Adams, these stories are the product of Don Marquis, a New York columnist and raconteur who was one of America's most popular humorists during the early twentieth century. archy supposedly worked at Marquis’s newsroom typewriter at night, diving headfirst onto individual keys to tap out columns; unable to use the shift key, of course, archy settled for lower-case letters and dispensed with punctuation entirely. Ungrammatical as they may be, archy's wry insights are a true delight, for, as he puts it, “one advantage of being a cockroach is that i see things from the under side.” From that unique perspective we follow the continuing saga of archy, the Cockroach Detective, a spoof on the gumshoe genre in which the six-legged private eye encounters a raja, his chorus-girl harem, Bolshevist twins, an Egyptologist, seven sister manicurists, and a set of bejeweled false teeth. In other episodes archy saves the US fleet from a German U-boat attack, muses with a spider about humanity's inhumanity to insects, stows away on a freighter to London, and climbs to the top of the Washington Monument. In the Capitol building itself, archy says, “there is no attention paid to me because there are so many other insects around it gives you a great idea of the american people when you see some of the things they elect.” The Ku Klux Klan, he observes elsewhere, “is going strong and the national emblem will soon be the great american kleagle.” Meanwhile, mehitabel, who claims to be a reincarnation of Cleopatra, offers to hire hit-cats to clean up City Hall, not of rats but of reporters. Accompanied by the inspired drawings of cartoonist Ed Frascino, these new archy tales are, Adams writes, “classic American humor, as vivid and amusing today as they were decades ago.”

Archyology II : (The Final Dig) : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel

Humor & Entertainment

Marquis, Don

Humor

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