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| A new adventure, a different challenge, a phenomenon to study-all these have called Anne Batterson '76 to new experiences in the past. This time, observing the annual migration of birds, an event long found provocative by the author, leads to The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration, a memoir of both a physically demanding journey and a personal search. |
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| Communication, language, and discourse have been central to Ellis's scholarly research, and his fifth book, Crafting Society: Ethnicity, Class, and Communication Theory, brings together a number of ideas that have been "bubbling around in my head for the past few years," he writes in the preface. |
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| For years, Steven T. Rosenthal, associate professor of history at the University of Hartford, had been struck by American Jews' lack of critical examination of their support for Israel. After all, he thought, Jews are generally regarded as fairly liberal and argumentative, and they love to discuss things. |
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| Efforts to improve the quality of an organization can only succeed when the drive for continuous quality improvement becomes an integral part of an organization's culture. James Fairfield-Sonn, associate professor of management at the University's Barney School of Business, not only discusses why this is so in his new book, but also provides real-world examples of how large and small businesses, as well as a nonprofit organization, have successfully integrated quality improvement at all levels of management. |
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| Noted financier and philanthropist George Soros was a 13-year-old living in Budapest, Hungary, when the Nazis occupied the city in March 1944. Soros, a Jew, escaped death by assuming a new identity and disappearing from sight for the remainder of World War II. The story of the survival of the Soros family is told in Masquerade: Dancing around Death in Nazi-Occupied Hungary. |
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| More than a decade after the death of the writer Raymond Carver (Hon. '88), UH Professor of English William L. Stull has published Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Prose, a book that presents five newly discovered stories by the American short-story master. |
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