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William Martin, Bound for Gold (2018). A company of Harvard grads, infused with the high-minded values of their education, head for the California Gold Rush. There, as one cynical character predicts, they discover that their education is not enough in a world of high ambitions and dangerous men. The sixth of Bill's best-selling Peter Fallon novels.
Charles Bernstein, Topsy-Turvy (2021). Charles's latest book gathers poems, both tiny and grand, that speak to a world turned upside down during our time of “covidity."
The Complete Poems of Nathaniel Hutner (2020). The poems collected here are not mere versification, nor do they hide their meaning behind surrealism or cubism. Rather, they offer a fresh way of organizing language and discovering its import. 
Mark A. Davis, Invasion Biology (2009). A comprehensive review of the science of biological invasions, while also offering new insights and perspectives relating to the processes of introduction, establishment, and spread of species.
Ken Haas, Borrowed Light (2020). Ken’s debut poetry collection traces the evolution of a first-generation American's heart. His gift for storytelling with intimacy and humor takes us from the schoolyard to the old country, the village to the Sierras, Kafka's bank line to the ballpark, eclipses to cab rides, kayaking to chemo.
Nick Wyman, Climbing Rejection Mountain (2020). A joyful, upbeat look at what it takes to make a life—and maybe a living—as an actor, leavened with amusing tales of Nick’s triumphs and untriumphs.
Jon Guze, Keeping the Peace (2021). In this report for the John Locke Foundation, Jon explains that the current focus of catching, convicting, and punishing perpetrators after crimes have been committed has come with enormous economic and social costs. Herein, Jon's four-pronged plan for moving forward.
David B. Black, Software Business and Product Strategy (2016). This book brings together the lessons from hundreds of software companies about how and why they fail or succeed, with real-life examples. The principles are mostly contrarian, against what HBS and the rest of the establishment believes.
Douglas F. Watt '72 and Jaak Panksepp, editors, Psychology and Neurobiology of Empathy (2016). Integrating individual and social psychology, neuroscience, ethology, and evolutionary theory, this book discusses how empathy can be cultivated, a topic of central importance if we wish to improve the human condition.
James Bessen, The New Goliaths (2022). This forthcoming book shows how corporate giants like Walmart, Amazon, and Google rose to power using proprietary information technologies, and how this has slowed innovation. Jim argues for restoring competitive balance by getting firms to share technology, data, and knowledge.
Michael Tansey contrib-uted to Bandy Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (2019).
It's not all in our heads. It's in his. A raft of experts argue that their moral and civic "duty to warn" superseded professional neutrality. A runaway bestseller when first released in 2017.
Douglas B. Kamerow, Dissecting American Health Care (2011, second edition forthcoming). Herein, 47 essays from Doug's health policy columns in the medical journal BMJ and his nationally broadcast radio commentaries, addressing such hot topics as alternative medicine, health care reform, taxes to change behavior, and gun control.
Keith Raffel, A Fine and Dangerous Season (2013). October 24, 1962: California businessman Nate Michaels boards an air force jet to Washington. JFK needs his help to defuse the threat of Soviet missiles in Cuba. As the world races toward nuclear holocaust, Michaels finds himself spinning in a maelstrom of statecraft, espionage, love, and betrayal.
The Complete Plays of Nathaniel Hutner (2021). These plays comprise five full-length plays and three one-acts. Godot Arrives, a full-length comedy, was performed off-off Broadway to critical acclaim by New York Times theater critic Mel Gussow. Two of the short plays were produced at the amateur comedy club in Murray Hill. 
Jack McLean, Loon: A Marine Story (2009).This book begins with my 1966 enlistment in the United States Marine Corps in March of my senior year at Andover and ends with our freshman registration in September 1968, when I became the first Vietnam veteran to enter Harvard.
Joan Leegant, An Hour in Paradise (2004). I began writing fiction at 40 and published this first book, a story collection, at 53. Much of the material had its origins in my years in Jerusalem in my late twenties; it took a long time to marinate. Fortunately, by the time I was ready to pay attention, the stories were there, waiting for me.
Judith Seligson, Gaps and the Creation of Ideas: An Artist's Book (2021). Juxtaposition is a major tool of the artist and poet. By definition, juxtaposed things, such as neurons in the brain, are contiguous, yet remain discrete and discontinuous. This book is built by juxtaposing quotes and images, with Judith's thoughts in between.
Charles H. Languir '72 and Wally Broecker, How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of the Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind (2012). First published more than 25 years ago, this classic introduction to the story of Earth's origin and evolution has been revised and expanded for the twenty-first century.
Eric Douglas, The Leadership Equation: 10 Practices That Build Trust, Spark Innovation, and Create High Performing Organizations (2014). Trust + spark = leadership culture. Eric delineates the 10 most important practices for building trust and spark in an organization, thus strengthening its culture and setting it on a path to reach its full potential.
Margaret Justice Dean contributed to With Wandering Steps: Generative Ambiguity in Milton's Poetics, Mary C. Fenton and Louis Schwartz, editors (2016). My article, "Preferring His Mother's House: Jesus at Home and in Exile in Paradise Regained," examines aspects of hierarchy in Milton’s brief epic, the sequel to Paradise Lost.
Gerald R. Toner, The Christmas Turkeys, and Other Misadventures of the Season (2010). Ordinary people grinding their way through an ordinary December find a moment of Christmas magic in the midst of their various misadventures—showing us that the best presents don't come in red and green gift wrap, but from the human spirit.
Roger D. Weiss '72 and Hilary Smith Connery, Integrated Group Therapy for Bipolar Disorder and Substance Abuse (2011). Practical clinical tools supporting empirically based treatment of patients with bipolar disorder and substance use disorders, including essential recovery behaviors and relapse prevention skills.
Peter Guarnaccia, Immigration, Diversity and Student Journeys to Higher Education (2019). How immigrant students balanced keeping their family cultures alive with learning U.S. culture to get to college. A key theme is the “immigrant bargain,” wherein students repay their parents' hard work and sacrifice by excelling in school.
Rika Burnham '72 and Elliott Kai-Kee, Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience (2011). This book examines the mission, history, theory, practice, and future prospects of museum education, distilling the authors' decades of experience as a practitioners and observers of gallery teaching across the United States and abroad.
Robert T. Gannett Jr., Tocqueville Unveiled (2003). I missed reading Tocqueville at Harvard but made up for it when I was granted unique access to his archives by his family. I spent two years in Paris investigating Tocqueville’s historical sources and writing strategies. My book captures all that I discovered about Tocqueville and his work as a historian.
David A. Teutsch, A Guide to Jewish Practice (2011, 2014). This three-volume work takes a values-based, multivocal approach to all the ethical and ritual aspects of contemporary Jewish living.
John Crues '72 and Frank G. Shellock, editors, MRI Bioeffects, Safety, and Patient Management (February 2022). A new, updated edition of the classic comprehensive textbook, first published in 2014, on safety and the bioeffects of MRI in medicine.
Nancy Hughes Hornberger, Honoring Richard Ruiz and his Work on Language Planning and Bilingual Education (2016). This volume brings together a selection of the published and unpublished writings of the late University of Arizona professor Richard Ruiz '70.
Prudence Carlson wrote the introduction to Pia Simig, editor, Einsamkeit und Entsagung/Solitude and Renunciation; Ian Hamilton Finlay: Zwei Gärten/Two Gardens (2010). A photographic book contrasting Finlay's two major gardens, Little Sparta in Scotland and Fleur de l'Air in France.
Peter Fox, Acts of God (2005). In this full-length one-act play, Peter has a thought-provoking and humorous go at some serious issues, notably art versus commerce. It was first performed at the Actor's Workout Studio in North Hollywood.
Stephen Ellmann, And Justice For All: Arthur Chaskalson and the Struggle for Equality in South Africa (2020). This important final work by our late classmate Stephen Ellmann, a legal educator and expert on South African law, was published the year after his death.
Leif Rosenberger, Economic Statecraft and US Foreign Policy: Reducing the Demand for Violence (2020). Showing a connec-tion between economics and violent extremism, Leif argues that American foreign policy must be rebalanced with a greater emphasis on social inclusion and shared prosperity in order to mitigate the root causes of conflict.
Matt Witt, In Our Blood (1979). Profiles four coal mining communities and their workplace and environmental issues, cultural traditions, and family lives, from African Americans in southern West Virginia and Navajos at Black Mesa in Arizona to eastern European immigrant communities in Pennsylvania.
Herbert J. Levine, An Added Soul: Poems for a New Old Religion (2020). Herb writes spiritual Jewish poetry from a personal and non-theist perspective. His poems ask us to bring the values that religion offers us—gratitude, responsibility, and awe—into our everyday experience.
John Rember, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World (2020). John examines the practical and ethical dilemmas of climate change, population, resource depletion, and mass extinction—meanwhile never forgetting those improbable connections between human beings that lead to moments of joy, empathy, and grace.
Rob Woods, Waking Up to Deepening Our Connections (2020). A collection of 21 essays in memoir format, to affirm and inspire.
Bob Rosenberg contributed the chapter “Precognition” to Consciousness Unbound, Edward Kelly (Ph.D. ’71) and Paul Marshall, editors (2021). Drawing on a long-term Esalen seminar, Kelly and Marshall have gathered a cohort of leading scholars to consider the significance of extraordinary experiences in our understanding of reality.
Gilbert H. Castle III, GIS in Real Estate: Analyzing and Presenting Locational Information (1999). Geographic Information Systems is the foundational technology for all computerized mapping, such as Google Maps and GPS navigation apps; this was the first book to explore GIS software and data sources directly applicable to real estate.
John Zussman, Revealing the Cellular Dynamics of Cancer Immunotherapy (2020). Immunotherapy has taken its place as a fourth pillar of cancer creatment. This Wiley Essential Knowledge Briefing focuses on two methodologies that can help researchers explore the cellular dynamics of immunotherapy: live-cell analysis and advanced flow cytometry.
David Gaylin, A Profile of the Performing Arts Industry: Culture and Commerce (2016). An overview of five performing arts segments—Broadway, regional theater, orchestra, opera, and dance—together with an economic analysis of the industry behind them—supply, demand, competition, business models, and strategic challenges (pre-COVID!).
Don Maruska '72 and Jay Perry, Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life (2012). Even high performers in fine organizations report that 30 to 40 percent of their talent is untapped. The authors argue here that the joyful expression of your own unique abilities benefits both you and the world.
Leslie Tuttle '72 and Helen Brody, New Hampshire Women Farmers: Pioneers of the Local Food Movement (2015). How 20 women have kept their farms economically viable and helped save small-scale agriculture through marketing innovations, expanding product offerings, investing in educational programs—and lots of hard work.
Paul E. Bailey, Zyg Jankowski: American Modernist Painter (2018). Jankowski (1925–2009) was a masterly Cape Ann modernist. I met him in 1964, when I was 13, and collected his work throughout his life. He remains to be discovered; I wrote this book to help that process along. Search for his work on the internet and be amazed.
Ned Stuckey-French, One by One, the Stars (2022)A faculty member at Florida State University, Ned was a passionate advocate for contemporary practitioners of creative nonfiction. He contributed greatly to scholarly understanding of the history of the essay and was working on this, his own first essay collection, when he died of cancer in 2019.
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