Maine Lakes Photography by Chris Barnes, Text by Sarah Stiles Bright '80 Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute and Tilbury House Publishers (2002)

Maine Lakes
Photography by Chris Barnes, Text by Sarah Stiles Bright '80
Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute and Tilbury House Publishers (2002)

More than 100 pages of full-color photographs by Barnes capture the detail of Maine lakes in all seasons. Bright's thoughtful essays and closing poem reflect her own affinity and affection for the water. ("This is not my home, but it is, I realize, my place.") She also describes the need to understand, sustain and protect Maine lakes and their communities that led her and her husband to found the Maine Lakes Conservancy Institute in 1999.

Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy
James Barrett (classics)
University of California Press (2002)

While the messenger is a familiar inhabitant of Greek tragedy, one of the most-studied forms of ancient literature, the role has received little critical attention. With the works of Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus as illustration, Barrett explains that the messenger speaks with a unique voice on the tragic stage--a voice whose truth and authority is finally being questioned and examined by one critic.

21 Dog Years: Doing Times @ Amazon.com
Mike Daisey '96
The Free Press (2002)

When a fledgling Amazon.com recruited temp workers in 1998, it gave a simple directive--send us your freaks. Daisey arrived and ascended from lowly temp to customer service rep to business development hustler. Based on his popular off-Broadway show, 21 Dog Years chronicles Daisey's adventures at the world's largest bookstore--where he says he learned to "slavishly love idealistic mouth breathers, 60-hour weeks and the cult of personality that is Jeff Bezos."

American Colonies Alan Taylor '77 Viking (2002)

American Colonies
Alan Taylor '77
Viking (2001)

American Colonies is the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series (edited by Eric Foner, son of late Colby professor Jack Foner). The book begins 15,000 years ago, with Native American settlement, and proceeds to 1820, through thousands of years of conquest and reconquest of lands and civilizations. Pulitzer Prize-winner Taylor demonstrates the ways in which the clash and meshing of cultures--Native, African and European--molded the modern United States.