Books & Recordings
Books
Institutions on the Edge: The Origins and Consequences of Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America
By Gretchen Helmke
Cambridge University Press, 2017
Through the lens of Latin America, Helmke addresses the questions, Why is institutional instability pervasive in the developing world? And why do institutional crises emerge repeatedly in some countries and not in others? Helmke is a professor of political science and chair of the department at Rochester.
Downed by Friendly Fire: Black Girls, White Girls, and Suburban Schooling
By Signithia Fordham
University of Minnesota Press, 2016
Fordham, an associate professor of anthropology at Rochester, presents an ethnography of white and black girls at a high school in upstate New York. Among the issues she explores are academic achievement, social competition, and aggression in the form of female-centered bullying.
Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
By Ronald Epstein 鈥�87M (Res)
Scribner, 2017
Epstein, a professor of family medicine, psychiatry, and oncology at the Medical Center, offers insights on bringing humanity to the practice of medicine in an increasingly commodified health care environment.
Mother of the Church: Sofia Svechina, the Salon, and the Politics of Catholicism in 19th-Century Russia and France
By Tatyana Bakhmetyeva 鈥�06 (PhD)
Northern Illinois University Press, 2017
Bakhmetyeva explores the life of Parisian salonni猫re Svechina鈥攁 Russian 茅migr茅 who converted to Catholicism and made her salon a meeting place of the Liberal Catholic movement and the French intellectual Catholic elite. Bakhmetyeva is a lecturer at Rochester鈥檚 Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies.
A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830鈥�1910
By Steven Hahn 鈥�73
Viking, 2016
Hahn, a Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning historian and professor of history at New York University, offers a synthesis of the decades surrounding the Civil War that places the conflict in the context of many domestic rebellions against state authority. The book is the third volume in the edited series the Penguin History of the United States.
Bertrand Russell, Public Intellectual
Edited by Peter Stone 鈥�00 (PhD) and Tim Madigan
Tiger Bark Press, 2016
Stone and Madigan coedit a collection of essays from Russell scholars across disciplines, lending insight to Russell鈥檚 work as a political activist and progressive educator, and to his role as a cultural icon. Stone holds the title of Ussher Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin and Madigan is an associate professor of philosophy at St. John Fisher College.
Get a PhD in You: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery
By Julie Reisler 鈥�97
Empowered Living Books, 2017
Life coach Reisler offers advice and strategies designed to help you achieve your personal potential.
Aesthetic Facial Reconstruction after Mohs Surgery
By Salvatore Pacella 鈥�99M (MD)
JP Medical, 2016
Pacella, division head of plastic surgery at Scripps Health in San Diego and La Jolla, California, coauthors a guide to improving cosmetic outcomes in the surgical treatment of skin cancer.
Nursing Beyond the Bedside: 60 Non-Hospital Careers in Nursing
By Susan Lowey 鈥�11N (PhD)
Sigma Theta Tau, 2017
Lowey, an assistant professor and advisement coordinator at SUNY鈥檚 College at Brockport, offers a guide to nursing careers in an increasingly community-based care environment.
Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary
Edited by Ed Folsom 鈥�76 (PhD) and Christopher Merrill
University of Iowa Press, 2016
Folsom, the Roy J. Carver Professor of English at the University of Iowa and a distinguished Whitman scholar, joins the poet Merrill in offering critical commentary and perspective on the 19th-century American poet鈥檚 most famous work.
El ni帽o con deficit de atenci贸n o hiperactividad: C贸mo pasar del fracas al 茅xito
By Armando Filomeno 鈥�71M (Res)
Peruvian Association for Attention Deficit, 2016
Neurologist Filomeno offers a third edition of his guide for Spanish-speaking parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges
Edited by Randall Abate 鈥�86
ELI Press, 2016
Abate, associate dean for academic affairs and professor of law at Florida A&M University鈥檚 law school, examines climate justice from the perspectives of U.S., international, and foreign domestic law and proposes solutions to regulatory obstacles to climate justice on a global scale.
How Do You Know When You Know?
By Ellen Quick 鈥�00M (Pdc)
Lulu, 2016
Quick, a clinical psychologist and life coach, presents 鈥渁 solution-focused approach to personal decision making鈥� drawing on insights from behavioral economics, philosophy, and multiple areas of psychology.
Lost in a Book
By Jennifer Donnelly 鈥�85
Disney Books, 2017
Donnelly offers an original twist to the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale in which a bookish Belle finds an enchanted book in the Beast鈥檚 library. Just as 鈥済ood stories take hold of us and never let us go,鈥� when Belle 鈥渂ecomes lost in this book, she may never find her way out again.鈥�
A Last Chapter of the Greatest Generation: The Life and Family of Colonel Frederic A. Stone, MD
By Judson Stone
Aviva Publishing, 2017
Stone tells the life story of his father, Frederic Stone 鈥�52M (MD), who served as a pilot during World War II, completed a medical degree at Rochester, practiced medicine around the world as an Air Force doctor, served as a missionary, and found 鈥渢hat dreams can be fulfilled in the most unexpected ways, through a career, marriage and fatherhood, and ambitions.鈥�
The Moon and the Other
By John Kessel 鈥�72
Simon and Schuster, 2017
Kessel, a novelist who teaches creative writing and American literature at North Carolina State University, presents a dystopia in which a matriarchal utopia disintegrates into civil war.
Romeo and Juliana
By Maggie Adams
Boroughs Publishing, 2016
Margaret Blank Birth 鈥�85, writing under the name Maggie Adams, presents a modern and multicultural retelling of the Shakespearean tragedy 鈥渨ith a happily-ever-after plot twist.鈥�
East Coast: Arctic to Tropic
By David Freese 鈥�68
George F. Thompson Publishing, 2017
In a companion book to his 2012 West Coast: Bering to Baja, Freese offers a photographic exploration of the effects of climate change along the Atlantic seaboard. Freese teaches in the film and media arts department at Temple University.
The Rhymes of My Life
By Ed Russell 鈥�55
Outskirts Press, 2016
Russell presents a collection of poems reflecting on 鈥渢he highs and lows of his own life and the follies of others.鈥�
LinkedIn for Personal Branding: The Ultimate Guide
By Sandra Long 鈥�79
Hybrid Global Publishers, 2016
Long, an author, trainer, and consultant at Connecticut-based Post Road Consulting, shares her formula for demonstrating a personal brand effectively using the networking tool LinkedIn.
Journeys Off the Road: Short Stories
By Alan Hilfiker 鈥�60
CreateSpace, 2015
Hilfiker offers a collection of stories in which characters attempt 鈥渢o find some measure of grace, or power, in a morally complex world.鈥� An attorney and a University trustee, Hilfiker has published multiple works of fiction and poetry.
Recordings
Masks
By Mirna Leki膰 鈥�02E
Centaur Records, 2017
Pianist Leki膰 presents her solo debut, featuring Claude Debussy鈥檚 La Bo卯te 脿 joujoux. Leki膰 is an assistant professor of music at Queensborough Community College.
Hear & Now
By Nick Finzer 鈥�09E
Outside In Music, 2017
Trombonist and composer Finzer鈥檚 third recording is 鈥渁n artistic interpretation of the current social and political scene in the United States,鈥� delivered through eight original tracks and a Duke Ellington classic.
Ave Maria
By the Basilica Choir, Mary, Queen of the Universe Shrine
Stemik Music, 2016
The Basilica鈥檚 choir performs works by Palestrina, Mozart, Bach, and several living composers. William Picher 鈥�81E (MM) is the director of music and organist.
Books & Recordings is a compilation of recent work by University alumni, faculty, and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming issue, send the work鈥檚 title, publisher, author or performer, a brief description, and a high-resolution cover image, to Books & Recordings, Rochester Review, 22 Wallis Hall, P. O. Box 270044, 人妻少妇专区, Rochester, NY 14627-0044; or by e-mail to rochrev@rochester.edu.
Rochester Review
March鈥揂pril 2017
Vol. 79, No. 4
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