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On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and
Policy Primer
By Peter Frumkin '84
Harvard University Press, 2002
The boundaries are blurring between nonprofits and government
and businesses, says Frumkin, who focuses on the four functions
that have come to define nonprofit organizations: delivering
needed services, promoting civic engagement, expressing values
and faith, and channeling entrepreneurial impulses. Frumkin
is an associate professor of public policy at Harvard's John
F. Kennedy School of Government and an affiliate of the Hauser
Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
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Story for Bear
By Dennis Haseley '72
Harcourt, 2002
Celebrating fantasy, friendship, and the wonders of reading,
this beautifully illustrated children's book tells the story
of a young bear who becomes mesmerized by the woman who reads
to him. Booklist describes it as a "tender, wistful celebration
of the pleasures of reading." Haseley, the author of several
books for children and adults, lives with his family in Brooklyn,
New York.
Public Lands and Political Meaning:
Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them
By Karen R. Merrill '86
University of California Press, 2002
The history of the American West is one of struggles over land;
here, Merrill traces the history of the politics between ranchers
and federal land agencies. An assistant professor of history
at Williams College, Merrill is credited with offering a new
perspective on the continuing struggles involving ranchers,
environmentalists, and the government.
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Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach,
1925-1965
By Leslie Loveless '83
University of Iowa Press, 2002
Showcasing the newly discovered works of self-taught photographer
A.M. "Pete" Wettach, this book features poignant,
black-and-white images that capture the everyday lives of midwestern
farmers in the 1930s and '40s. Loveless, a writer and public
policy advocate, has included an essay on Wettach's life as
a photographer and turkey farmer.
Energy: Science, Policy, and the Pursuit of Sustainability
By Robert Bent '50, Lloyd Orr, and Randall Baker
Island Press, 2002
As the largest user of fossil-fuel energy, the United States
is the key player in the world's energy markets. This essential
primer on energy, society, and the environment is an introduction
to the "energy problem"--its def inition, analysis,
and policy implications. The late Norman Care, emeritus professor
of philosophy at Oberlin, authored Chapter 7.
New York Criminal Law
Edited by Richard A. Greenberg '66
West Publishing Company, 2002
This is the most comprehensive and definitive treatise on the
substantive criminal law of the State of New York. At 1,500
pages, the book expounds on the law of sentencing, offers new
penal law articles, and takes a closer look at statutory language
and case law. Greenberg is a lawyer and partner with Newman
and Greenberg in New York.
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Early Simple Stories
Edited by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper '75
University of Missouri Press, 2002
Langston Hughes is among the 20th-century's most influential African
American writers; this book is the seventh in a 17-volume series
intended to reprint his works. The fictional character of Jesse
B. Semple first appeared in Hughes' weekly Chicago Defender
column in 1943. Semple's tales quickly became known as the "Simple
stories"--tales of struggle and accomplishment facing the black
working man in a racially unbalanced world. Harper is also the author
of Not So Simple: "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes.
The Battle for Children: World War II, Youth Crime,
and Juvenile Justice in Twentieth-Century France
By Sarah Fishman '79
Harvard University Press, 2002
Fishman offers a historical account of how juvenile delinquency
increased in France after WWII. She presents new information
about the Vichy administration, which formed the modern juvenile
justice system in France, and describes how French children
experienced the events of the war and the German occupation.
It was economic deprivation, she concludes, and not family dislocation,
that drove up juvenile crime rates.
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