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Memoir: A History “It is a Western, or possibly human, trait to want to tell others about one’s experiences, and people have done so in their various ways since time immemorial,” says Yagoda. In this entertaining look at a genre that has at least some of its written roots in the Old Testament—David’s Psalms were early tell-all autobiography—the author traces the development of an overwhelmingly popular genre and offers advice on how to tell truth from the memoirist’s fictions. Milton’s Words In 1947, T. S. Eliot dismissed Milton’s use of the English language as “a perpetual sequence of original acts of lawlessness.” A half-century later, “we are free to admire Milton again,” says Patterson. Beginning with the poet’s use of the words “unlibidinous” and “indefatigable,” Patterson crafts an engaging analysis of “what Milton’s words look like when we acknowledge their freight of personal and political history.” No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life Legalized discrimination based on race is history in this country, but, say the authors, complete equality remains elusive. “Many solutions have been proposed for healing these divisions, but education—and especially higher education—has traditionally been believed by most Americans to be an effective strategy,” Espenshade and Radford write. The thrust of their thorough assessment of elite colleges’ success in promoting social mobility: “We are not there yet.” Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes Everyone knows the tale, perhaps even true, of the Greek mathematician Archimedes taking a bath and deducing how to find out, through water displacement, whether a gold crown had been adulterated with silver. But that was just one achievement of this polymath, who developed a kind of calculus nearly 2,000 years before Newton and Leibniz, and whom Galileo termed “superhuman.” Hirshfeld’s book is partly intellectual biography, partly a scholarly detective story about an ancient manuscript by Archimedes himself. Judaism: A Way of Being “What is it about Judaism that is transfixing enough to have kept a brilliant, fractious, bickering, relentlessly skeptical people alive for three thousand years?” Gelernter creates four “image-themes” to build a novel, personal, and provocative explanation of the essence of an ancient religion. Through this effort to educate Jews and non-Jews alike about the “grand scheme,” Gelernter hopes also to halt the decline of the American Jewish community. The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey
Charles Affron 1963PhD and
Mirella Jona Affron Bromwell Ault 1949 Peter Baldwin 1978 C. Stephen Baldwin
1965JD Katharine P. Beals 1987 May R. Berenbaum 1975 Joseph Ciabattoni 1976MD Sheldon S. Cohen 1953 Tom Dolby 1998 Julia Schlam Edelman
1976 Shelley Fisher Fishkin
1971, 1977PhD Robert Gooding-Williams
1975, 1982 PhD Jonathan Hafetz 1999JD
and Mark P. Denbeaux, editors Terence Hawkins 1978 Gary L. Kaplan 1980 Mark S. Kende 1982 Randolph Kwei 1958 Rika Lesser 1974,
translator Theodore R. Marmor,
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management David Mickics 1988PhD Margarita A. Mooney 1995 Roy C. Nelson 1985 Annabel Patterson,
Sterling Professor Emerita of English David Pogue 1985 Laura Quinney 1980 Maxim D. Shrayer 1995PhD Debra Spark 1984 Paul E. Stepansky
1978PhD Ann Reynolds 1979 and Kenneth
Wapner Gina Welch 2001 John V. Wylie 1964
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