That Old Ace in the Hole

Annie Proulx '57

Scribner (2002)

Young Bob Dollar of Denver, recently out of college, takes a job with Global Pork Rind to locate land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be bought and converted to hog farms. But the idiosyncratic locals of Woolybucket, Texas, just might teach Dollar how vigorously they'll hold on to their land, even if their children want no part of it.

Inside the Campaign Finance Battle: Arguments from the BCRA Court Case

Anthony Corrado(government), Thomas Mann, Daniel Ortiz and Trevor Potter, editors

The Brookings Institution (2003)

Reports by scholars and practitioners on both sides of the debate over the Shays-Meehan Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act, the new campaign finance law, were selected and edited. With expert reports, testimony and evidence on campaign finance, competing arguments and legal contexts are accessible to both scholars and the general public.

Quest: Investigating Our World

Linda Greenlaw '83

Maine PBS (2003)

Maine fisherman and author Greenlaw joins the Emmy-winning series Quest as its host. Covering Northern New England, six episodes exploring nature and science, including "Wilderness," "Winter" and "Remote Sensing," aired in January and February. Learning continues at the companion Web site (www.mainepbs.org/quest) complete with lesson plans.

Picturing the Past: Illustrated Histories and the American Imagination, 1840-1900

Gregory M. Pfitzer '79

Smithsonian Institution Press (2002)

In the 1840s artists, often with no history background, began presenting patriotic interpretations of historical events along with authors who wrote text with the images in mind. These illustrated history books, directed at semi-literate immigrants and Americans reaffirming their patriotism, often contained sentimental and comic misrepresentations of history. But a few showed sparks of genius.

Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet: Lesbian and Gay Displacement

Cheshire Calhoun (philosophy)

Oxford University Press (2003)

Ethical theorist Calhoun addresses whether and how lesbian issues, often marginalized and having their own system of oppression, can be framed in feminist theory. She also discusses why displacement of gays and lesbians from the public sphere of citizenship and the private sphere of marriage and family belong on the lesbian and gay political agenda.

Nos Chers Blessés--Une Infirmière Dans La Grande Guerre
(Our Beloved Wounded--A Nurse in the Great War)

Claudia Bourcier Yapp '68

Editions Alan Sutton (2002)

Cleaning out her father's apartment in France, Yapp discovered notebooks her great-grandmother Claudine had filled "for her little grandson" about working as a nurse during WWI. Published in France, this is Claudine's story of life as a French military nurse, dodging bombs on the Front and saving lives without sufficient supplies or manpower.

Winter's Lights and Summer Nights

Peggo and Paul

Big Round Music (2002 and 2001)

You can still celebrate the winter season (or its passing) with Winter's Lights, a collection of traditional and original holiday songs by vocalist Peggo Horstmann Hodes '77 and guitarist/husband Paul. If you're ready for warmer weather, check out the international lullabies and soothing songs for any age on Summer Nights.