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ooks + artsDavid Swanger ’62, Wayne’s College ofBeauty, BkMk Press, 2006. This collectionof poems, which won the publisher’s2005 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, is,according to the contest judge Colleen J.McElroy, about “neighborhoods and welltraveledpaths…. The poet’s strong senseof voice climbs above the resin of form.The cadence evokes imagery withoutlosing the balance of sentiment andsentimentality. These poems are bothhard edged and beautiful, an excitingcollection.”Steven Epstein ’74, Purity Lost: TransgressingBoundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean,1000–1400, The Johns Hopkins UniversityPress, 2006. The author investigates theporous nature of social, political, and religiousboundaries prevalent in the easternMediterranean during the Middle Ages.Caitlin Killian ’95, North African Women inFrance, Stanford University Press, 2006.This book examines how Muslim womenconstruct and manage their identities in themidst of a foreign culture, why some copebetter than others with the challenges thatconfront them in their new country, andhow they raise their children who will oneday be French.60 : swarthmore college bulletinCarolyn Lesjak ’85, Working Fictions: AGenealogy of the Victorian Novel, Duke UniversityPress, 2006. In this reconceptualizationof Victorian literary history, the authorquestions the relationship between laborand pleasure, two concepts central to theVictorian imagination and the literary outputof the era.Andrew Low ’73, Low on Appellate Practice:Collected Columns, Continuing Legal Educationin Colorado Inc., 2006. This collectionof appellate attorney Low’s quarterlycolumns written for The Colorado Lawyerduring the past 16 years demonstrates hiswit and wisdom in a creative narrative illustratingcomplex legal concepts.John and Anne Tedeschi ’56 (translators),The Jews in Mussolini’s Italy: From Equality toPersecution, University of Wisconsin Press,2006. This book, the Tedeschis’ eighthtranslation from Italian, offers the firsttranslation into English of Italian historianMichele Sarfatti’s work, which focuses onthe treatment of Jews in fascist Italy.Jeremy Weinstein ’97, Inside Rebellion: ThePolitics of Insurgent Violence, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2007. Drawing on interviewswith almost 200 combatants and civilianswho have experienced violence firsthand,the author demonstrates how characteristicsof the environment in which rebellionemerges constrain rebel organization andshape the patterns of violence that civiliansexperience.Richard Wolfson ’69, Essential UniversityPhysics (two volumes), Pearson EducationInc., 2007. This reasonably priced, calculusbasedintroductory-level physics textbookembraces proven techniques from physicseducation, employing a strategy-basedapproach to help students build the analyticand quantitative skills and confidenceneeded to apply physics in science andengineering.CDsDenise Mitkus, David McCullough, LisaWildman ’84 (Peanut Butter Jellyfish),Peanut Butter Jellyfish, Peanut Butter Jellyfish,2006. This CD of family-friendlymusic for children of all ages offers songsabout tolerance and caring for the earth,children’s favorites, and lullabies.David Randall '93, Chandlefort: In theShadow of the Bear, Simon and Shuster,2006. The author's intense and compellingsequel to Clovermead (SimonPulse, 2005) explores the strength oflove, courage, and forgiveness in thebattle of good and evil.Jane Goodall and Dana Lyons ’82,Circle the World: Songs and Stories,Lyons Brothers Music, 2004. This CD isthe result of a collaboration betweenLyons, a singer/songwriter and activistfor the environment, social justice, andanimal rights; and conservationist/chimpanzeeexpert and storyteller Goodall.Its title song was inspired by Goodall’svision for a global celebration on UnitedNations World Peace Day, with so manypeople marching all over the world holdinggiant peace-dove puppets that itwould be visible via satellite from space.