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HOT TYPE: New releases by Swarthmoreans
Anne Rosenbaum Vohl ’55
My Twelve Wars
Self-published
My Twelve Wars is Vohl’s account of 84 years in the life of an American pacifist. She also published The Ted Letters, an account of her deceased son’s long treatment for schizophrenia using the drug Clozaril.
Janet Smith Warfield ’58
Surrendering into Soul: A Heroine’s Journey
Hybrid Global Publishing
Smith Warfield wants the reader to explore their own inner space and answer the question, “Who am I?” Surrendering Into Soul offers guideposts for the journey.
Mike Vitiello ’69
The Victims’ Rights Movement: What It Gets Right, What It Gets Wrong
NYU Press
Vitiello says the Victims’ Rights Movement expanded resources to help victims deal with trauma and increased their chances of receiving restitution, but also led to excessive punishment for many defendants, exacerbating racial inequality in criminal sentencing, and falsely promising “closure” to crime victims and their families.
Walter Cochran-Bond ’70 and Bruce Bond ’76
Lunette
Green Linden Press
Lunette is a conversation between a poet and a photographer, brothers haunted by the lunette as both an architectural curvature and hollow, and a word, taught by their father, signifying a protection spell. This book carves a dialogic space into the mysteries of music, childhood, death, and dreams.
Mark VanderSchaaf ’72
Sustainability Planning in Metropolitan Los Angeles: Products and Processes
Chief Sustainability Officers Task Force of Los Angeles County
The first analysis of all 13 key sustainability plans affecting the Los Angeles region, this e-book will be free to sustainability policymakers and stakeholders throughout metropolitan Los Angeles and to a national audience of sustainability planners.
Charlotte Witt ’75
Social Goodness: The Ontology of Social Norms
Oxford University Press
Social norms are important to understand because they both limit our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and are the very conditions of our agency. Social Goodness presents an answer to the question of the source of social role normativity.
Saul A. Rubinstein ’76, Charles Heckscher, and John McCarthy
Democracy and Reform in Public Schools
Harvard Education Press
Democracy and Reform in Public Schools examines how public education systems can be strengthened through strategic relationships both within schools and with outside partners. The authors apply their expertise in labor relations to public school reform, envisioning a model of K–12 education that centers on productive collaboration involving school boards, administrators, teacher unions, and other education stakeholders.
Marc Forster ’81
Keeping the Peace in the Village: Conflict and Peacemaking in Germany, 1650-1750
Oxford University Press
Keeping the Peace in the Village is a study of how rural society evolved in Germany from 1650 to 1750. The book examines how rural people sought peace in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War. Forster finds an important consequence of the tension between conflict and the desire for peace was that people increasingly used local courts to help resolve conflicts.
Christopher GoGwilt ’83
The K-Effect: Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture
Fordham University Press
The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. The first sustained cultural study of romanization, The K-Effect proposes an important new way to assess the multilingual and multi-script coordinates of modern print culture.
Shelley Lippman ’86
AS IS: Accepting, Forgiving and Empowering Your Child With ADHD… and Yourself
Live Life Happy Publishing
When an elementary school administrator admitted to hating Lippman’s son with ADHD, Lippman set out to learn and train to advocate better for her son. This book offers hope and guidance to parents raising kids with ADHD.
Jennifer L. Koosed ’93
Wisdom Commentary: Judith
Liturgical Press
The biblical scene of Judith cutting off Holofernes’ head has inspired the imaginations of readers for millennia, but there is more to her story than this climactic act. This volume offers an examination of gender ideologies in the Book of Judith, from the hypermasculine machinations of war and empire to the dynamics of class in Judith’s relationship with her enslaved handmaid.
Stacy Nakell ’96
Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors
Routledge
Treatment for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors is the first book to establish the theory and practice of a psychodynamic approach to treating body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (BFRBDs). Nakell provides a framework for understanding and treating BFRBDs, one grounded in attachment theory and neurobiological research.
Meredith Linn ’97
Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845–1875
University of Tennessee Press
Linn explores three kinds of afflictions that disproportionately affected Irish immigrants between 1845 and 1875. Full of stories from real working-class Irish people and their American doctors, this book provides new perspectives about urban experiences in the Irish diaspora.
Myra Sack and Matt Goldstein ’04
Fifty-Seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way
Monkfish Publishing
Life is unfolding as planned for Myra Sack and her husband Matt until their beautiful one-year-old daughter Havi is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, and given only a year to live. Myra and Matt decide to celebrate Havi’s short life and vow to show her as much of the world as they can, surrounded by friends and family who relocate to be in Havi’s orbit. They transform Friday night Shabbats into birthday parties —“Shabbirthdays”— to replace the birthdays Havi will never have.
Caroline Carlson ’06
Wicked Marigold
Candlewick Press
Princess Marigold is 11 when the unthinkable happens: Her older sister, who had been kidnapped, escapes captivity and comes home. Marigold has always known she’s not as good, sweet, or kind as the sister everyone adores, but amid the celebration of Rosalind’s return, Marigold realizes something new: If Princess Rosalind is good, then Princess Marigold must be wicked.
Daisy Yuhas ’09
Kids’ Field Guide to Birds
Cool Springs Press
With Kids’ Field Guide to Birds in hand, spot and learn about many of North America’s most common bird species. Featuring a bright, illustrative design, this guide offers species profiles, birding basics, and a selection of activities to help kids learn more about the birds found in cities, backyards, and various ecosystems. Learn fun facts including how to protect birds from window collisions to a creative bird-beak experiment.
The Bulletin receives numerous submissions of new publications from the talented Swarthmore community and can feature only a fraction of those submissions here. Please note that work represented in Hot Type does not necessarily reflect the views of the College.