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CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age
By Ellen Ernst Kossek ’79 and Brenda A. Lautsch (Wharton Press)
Are you finding the line between your work and home life blurred? Are you sick of juggling work tasks while trying to spend time with your children? Ellen Kossek’s book helps people clarify their work-life values and learn new ways to manage work-life relationships.
Ellen Ernst Kossek is a professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University and a leading research expert on work and personal life.
My Life and Battles
By Jack Johnson; translated by Christopher Rivers (Greenwood Press)
African American Jack Johnson (1878–1946), whose defeat in 1910 of heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries, who was white, spurred race riots across the country, has been called “the first African American pop culture icon.” My
Life and Battles uncovers Johnson’s depictions of his colorful life and battles as well as the “color line” in boxing and American society in general.
Christopher Rivers is a professor of French at Mount Holyoke. He is writing a book on Georges Carpentier, the celebrated French boxer of the pre– and post–World War I era.
This Too Is Diplomacy: Stories of a Partnership
By Dorothy J. Irving ’43 (AuthorHouse)
An occupied city, an active volcano, and a presidential visit were all part of Dorothy Irving’s experience as a Foreign Service spouse, which she faithfully examines in this book. Irving paints a broad canvas of raising three children in numerous countries; coping with unfamiliar customs and languages; and how to accept humbly the special treatment often accorded diplomats.
Dorothy Petrie Irving has long been involved in interracial and intercultural activities and has received several awards in this field, including an MHC Sesquicentennial Award.
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I Got the Idear: My Love Affair With Maine Language
By Marion Kingston Stocking ’43 (Maine Folklife Center)
Marion Kingston Stocking began a love affair with the numerous Maine dialects while teaching English at the University of Maine in the 1950s. In this small book, she outlines her personal journey with the Yankee lingo, the problem of class distinction in language, and offers a collection of the peculiar spellings used by her Maine students from “the days before we all sounded the same.”
After a long career as a Romantics scholar, Marion Kingston Stocking is writing memoirs. She also is an editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal.
Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks: The Story of the Lake, the Land, and the People
Annette Jones Lux ’47, contributor (Midwest Book Review)
Travel back to the 1870s with Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks: The Story of the Lake, the Land, and the People. This well-documented story describes the growth of the lakeside community made famous by the incident that inspired Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. The book includes black-andwhite photographs that paint a revealing picture of humble daily life across the span of a century.
Annette Jones Lux spent nine years working on this book. She lives near Big Moose Lake five months each year.
The Intersection of International Law, Agricultural Biotechnology, and Infectious Disease
By Meredith Mariani ’98 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Brill)
Mariani examines current global and regional legal frameoff works for infectious disease and genetically modified organisms. She weighs the positive and negative effects of using biotechnology from a public-health perspective and then analyzes the related legal issues.
Meredith Mariani has written articles on stemcell legislation for the University of Notre Dame Journal of Legislation and the International Center for Technology Assessment. She lives in Northern Virginia.
Women, Religion, & Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith
Edited by Karen M. Morin and Jeanne Kay Mountain Guelke ’71 (Syracuse University Press)
Women, Religion, & Space offers various perspectives on women who practice or interact with the gender norms and spaces of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The writers include observations based on fieldwork in Jerusalem, Istanbul, Pakistan, and Los Angeles. In the sixth chapter on missionary women in early America, Guelke references the religious focus of Mount Holyoke in its early years.
Jeanne Kay Guelke recently retired as professor of geography at University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Her articles have been published in The Professional Geographer, the Journal of Historical Geography, and Environmental Ethics.
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Blank Verse: A Guide to Its History and Use
By Robert B. Shaw (Ohio University Press)
Familiar to many as the form of Shakespeare’s plays and Milton’s Paradise Lost, blank verse— unrhymed iambic pentameter—has provided poets with a powerful and versatile metric line for centuries. Shaw analyzes the work in this meter by these great poets but also gives emphasis to modern and postmodern poets working in the form, the meter’s technical features, and its many uses.
Robert B. Shaw is professor of English at MHC and frequently writes on modern and contemporary poetry. His own books of poems include Below the Surface and Solving for X.
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Not Like You
By Deborah Davis ’79 (Clarion Books)
Touted by one reviewer as the best mother-daughter story she’d ever read, Not Like You tells the story of fifteen-year-old Kayla, who must learn to take care of herself—even if that means no longer taking care of her alcoholic mother. The book is an emotionally complex novel for teens, and its moving, realistic storyline builds to a hopeful conclusion.
Deborah Davis’s other novels are My Brother Has AIDS and The Secret of the Seal. She was also the editor of You Look Too Young to Be a Mom: Teen Mothers Speak Out on Love, Learning, and Success. Check out her Web site, www.deborahdavisauthor.com.
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CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age
My Life and Battles 
This Too Is Diplomacy: Stories of a Partnership 
