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candy companies, and many others.
Built on unprecedented access and
sourcing, the book’s examination of
this secretive world begins with a look
at the nation’s first true “private eye,”
and extends through to the connections
today between global intelligence
services and the top investigative
agency on Wall Street.
Peripheral Visions: Politics,
Society, and the Challenges of
Modernity in Yucatan
Co-edited by Gilbert M. Joseph ’69
(with Edward D. Terry, Ben W. Fallaw,
and Edward H. Moseley)
(University of Alabama Press)
Yucatan has been called “a world
apart” — cut off from the rest of
Mexico by geography and culture. The
essays in Peripheral Visions show that,
despite its peripheral location, the region
experienced substantial change
after Mexico achieved independence.
Essays focus on at least three challenges
for study of the peninsula
BookCase
A selection from the new
titles shelf at Case Library
• Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics
Explains Religion
Larry Whitham
• Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of
Desegregation
Stuart Buck
• Britten and Brülightly: A Graphic Novel
Hannah Berry
• Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
James Shapiro
• The Enemy in Our Hands: America’s
Treatment of Prisoners of War from the
Revolution to the War on Terror
Robert C. Doyle
• Anthill: A Novel
E.O. Wilson
• Fashion of the 20th Century: 100 Years
of Apparel Ads
Edited by Jim Heimann, Written by Alison
A. Nieder
• Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood
in Modern America
Rebecca Jo Plant
• Dreaming in Christianity and Islam:
Culture, Conflict, and Creativity
Edited by Kelly Bulkeley, Kate Adams, and
Patricia M. Davis
• 1934: A New Deal for Artists
Ann Prentice Wagner
today: politics after
the fall of the
Institutional Revolutionary
Party
(PRI), scholarly
demystification
of the Maya, and
the transition to
a post-henequen
economy featuring tourism, migration,
and assembly plants known as
maquiladoras. Disciplines represented
in the collection include history, anthropology,
sociology, and economics,
painting a strikingly rich picture of
the region as it has developed.
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story
Behind the Greatest Rescue in
Coast Guard History
Kalee Thompson ’96
(William Morrow)
Deadliest Sea is
a daring adventure
tale that
chronicles the
power of nature
against man, and
explores the essence
of the fear
people must face
when confronted with catastrophe.
Kalee Thompson explores the harrowing
tale of the fishing trawler Alaska
Ranger as it sank into the Bering Sea
in 2008, and the incredible rescue effort
launched by the Coast Guard that
followed.
In exploring the largest cold-water
Coast Guard rescue in history, Thompson
raises questions about the negligence
that leads to the preventable
sinking of dozens of ships each year.
She also pays tribute to the courage,
tenacity, and skill of dedicated service
people who risk their own lives for the
lives of others.
Anticorruption in the Health
Sector: Strategies for
Transparency and Accountability
Edited by Taryn Vian ’80
(co-edited with William Savedoff and
Harald Mathisen)
(Kumarian Press)
Corruption is a serious problem under
any circumstances, but in the health
sector, it is literally a matter of life and
death: facilities crumble when repair
funds are embezzled; fake drugs flood
the market with corrupt regulators
managing supply; and doctors extort-
In the media
“Some lakes look like they might be ready to come back,
and if we cut the emissions more they would.”
— Rich April, professor of geology, offers his expert insight for a
Smithsonian.com story about the impact of acid rain on the ecosystem
“This is a way to get some exercise, meet other people, and
emphasize that nature is right outside our office windows.”
— John Pumilio, sustainability coordinator, describes Colgate’s bird
watching expedition in a U.S. News & World Report article about Earth Day
activities
“In a city [Utica] that’s been economically struggling for a
long period of time, just a little change in the economy can
lead to pretty significant reductions in the properties they
own.”
— Nicole Simpson, associate professor of economics, talks to The Observer-
Dispatch (Utica) about the impact of the lagging economy on Utica’s
shrinking tax base
“It’s our responsibility as people of relative privilege to
help people in need.”
— Rebecca Blake ’10 describes to The Jewish Week (New York) her
experience volunteering in Harlem as part of a Hillel service-learning
project
“All of our budget restructuring is absolutely in response
to the economy.”
— Dave Hale, vice president for finance and administration, in a Central
New York Business Journal report about the 2010–2011 budget, which
includes the lowest tuition increase in at least 35 years
“Of all the enterprises I’ve been involved with, this is by far
the most gratifying.”
— Al Chagan ’64 featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer story about his role as
CFO of Impact Thrift Stores, a community venture in which proceeds from
the sale of “gently used” items are donated to charities
ingunder-thetable payments
from patients fail
to provide needed
care. Until now,
those preparing to
fight corruption in
the health sector
have had few resources
to guide them. Anticorruption
in the Health Sector brings practical
experience to bear on anticorruption
approaches tailored specifically to
health, in a manner that is both practitioner-
and classroom-friendly.
Also of note:
As the western frontier began to close
after the Civil War, some families
sought rural locations for summer living
in which to maintain the frontier
ethos. In Campsteading: Family, Place,
and Experience at Squam Lake, New
Hampshire (Routledge), one of the first
works published on the American
institution of campsteading, Derek
Brereton ’68 approaches one such
community from an anthropological
perspective.
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