Cradle
of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils
By J. William Schopf '63
Princeton University Press, 2001
The
quest to discover fossils dating back more than 550 million years culminated
dramatically in 1993, when Schopf identified fossilized microorganisms
3.5 billion years old. His find opened up a vast period of time--about
85 percent of this planet's history--for research and new theories about
life's origins. A professor of paleobiology at UCLA, Schopf received
national book prizes for two edited volumes on life's earliest evolution,
an Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, and two Guggenheim Fellowships.
Cradle of Life received the 2000 Phi Beta Kappa Science Award.
Listening
to Music
By
Jay Zorn '53, with June August
Prentice
Hall, 2000
Zorn
knows how to teach music appreciation, and his new text is one
of the top five best sellers in the field. If one wants to teach
such a course, his package allows you to do so beautifully,
from pre-baroque through the Broadway musical. The manual includes
four CDs, 250 photos and color plates, 62 biographical sketches,
an instructor's manual, and a computerized test bank. The coordinated
interactive website has reinforcement activities. Zorn is a
professor of music at the University of Southern California
and a conductor and trumpet player. This is his 13th book in
the field of music.
Signals
from Space: The Chandra X-ray Observatory
By
Robert Naeye '85
Turnstone
Publishing/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 2000
The
Chandra X-ray Observatory is a cutting-edge astronomy research
satellite, the X-ray equivalent of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Written for junior high students, the book guides readers through
the journey from concept to finished observatory. Naeye was
senior editor of Astronomy magazine for five years, before his
recent appointment as editor of Mercury magazine.
Ivory
Cradle
By
Anne Marie Macari '77
The
American Poetry Review, 2000
Macari
was the winner of the American Poetry Review's Honickman First
Book Prize for 2000. Her collection of 24 poems resembles snapshots
in an album of memories, based on moments in her own life, reflecting
anger, joy, love, and relief.
Losing
Malcolm: A Mother's Journey through Grief
By
Carol Henderson '74
University
Press of Mississippi, 2001
Interweaving
dreams and journal entries, this moving memoir is the author's story
of the painful loss of her newborn son from a heart murmur. Plunged
into the depths of grief, she resurfaces with a newfound sense of self,
a deep empathy for others, and an awareness of the place of grief in
the broader tapestry of life.
Stone
Sky Lifting
By
Lia Purpura '86
Ohio
State University Press, 2000
This
is a small book of poems by the author of The Brighter Veil and Increase,
which won the 2000 AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. The collection
is a study in states of extremity, portraying violence at one end of
the spectrum and unbidden solace at the other. Purpura teaches at Loyola
College's department of communications;
Stone Sky Lifting is the winner of the 2000 Ohio State University Press/The
Journal Award.
Signs
and Abominations
By
Bruce Beasley '80
Wesleyan
University Press, 2000
This
is a small, beautifully designed book of poems that integrates
the relationship between religion and art at the end of the
20th century. A series of damaged likenesses--child crusaders
stumbling toward Jerusalem, the man who wants to preserve for
posterity his tattooed body, Andres Serrano submerging a crucifix
in his own urine--are part of a deformed search for signs of
the divine among the abominations of the profane. Beasley, a
professor of English at Western Washington University, a National
Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow, and author of three books
of poetry, lives in Bellingham, Washington, with his wife, Suzanne
L. Paola '80.
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