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Recent Books by Alumni and Faculty Marcia Bartusiak (M.S. '79), Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: Listening to the Sounds of Space-Time, Joseph Henry Press. In writing that translates intricate physical concepts into lyrical language, Bartusiak describes how a gravity wave surges through the cosmos at the speed of light and explains what this phenomenon can tell us about the most violent events in the universe. Using her metaphor of music, readers tune into the drum beats of rotating neutron stars, listen to the chirps from the merger of two black holes and eavesdrop on the echoes from the Big Bang. Jens Bischof (faculty), Ice Drift, Ocean Circulation and Climate Change, Praxis Publishing. If you think recent winters have been cold, wait a few thousand years. Bischof says the global climate may well be on the way to ushering in another ice age, contrary to the much-publicized global warming scenario. Backed by his 14 years of research, Bischof contends that marine sediments in northern ocean waters indicate the present time points more to a brief intermezzo between two ice ages than a long-lasting period of warm weather. Nina Brown (faculty), Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grownup's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents, New Harbinger Publications. Left unchecked in parents, unhealthy and excessive self-love or -admiration can affect children as they move into adulthood. Brown focuses on parents who make their children responsible for the parents' well-being, instead of the opposite, which is the case in healthy parent-child relationships. She defines the Destructive Narcissistic Pattern and offers techniques adult children can use to recover from having lived with narcissistic parents. Reginald Webster Carter '99, The Ex-Factor: The Wrath of Carmen Hunt, Sire Publishing. Carter's third book is the story of a girl who is abused as a child and begins to rebuild her life through a tight-knit group of friends. But it won't be easy. Someone wants her dead and she must decide how to fight back. Carter initially explored the urban drama genre in Masks of the Darkest American Game. This limited collectors' edition is a graphically disturbing novel about the horrors of street life, drugs, promiscuity and greed. He wrote Masks and Dead Horizontal, an action thriller, during his student days. John A. Fahey (faculty emeritus), Wasn't I the Lucky One, B&J Books. Fahey offers a memoir of his early days flying Navy airships, including the story of the L-8 airship's mysterious flight to sea and return to land, undamaged, without a single crew member. He served as a combat airship commander during World War II and after the war flew airships from aircraft carriers. A Russian linguist during the Cold War, Fahey was assigned to the Russian army as an American liaison officer in East Germany and played a key role in the Berlin Wall crisis. Gene Fant (M.A. '87), Expectant Moments: Devotions for Expectant Couples, Zondervan Publishing House. An inspiring collection of devotional thoughts for parents-in-waiting, the book was written by Gene and Lisa Fant when they were expecting twins. Their meditations speak to the hopes, dreams, fears and joys that come with expecting a child. Full of spiritual insight and hard-won wisdom, the book includes personal stories, Bible readings and prayers, all designed to help parents-to-be prepare a spiritual, as well as physical, home for their baby. Caroline Schloss '88, Deaths' Row: The Life of Willie Lloyd Turner, Virginia's Dean of Death Row, Donning Company Publishers. Schloss, a psychologist and paralegal for Turner's death sentence appeal, tells the story of perhaps the most fascinating character ever housed in a Virginia prison. She follows Turner from his boyhood of poverty and illiteracy to his prison life as a "genius inventor and prison escape artist." Her work, based on Turner's 1990 novel, "The Real Deal," includes details and insight never before in print. Glen Sussman (faculty) and Byron W. Daynes, The American Presidency and the Social Agenda, Prentice-Hall. Sussman's book looks at the work of recent presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt through Bill Clinton's first term, focusing on six social issues: abortion, pornography, gun control, homosexuality, affirmative action and environmental policy. It also examines the myriad roles each of the presidents played and how these roles shaped their work in social policy. One surprising finding from the research, Sussman said, was that Richard Nixon was perhaps one of the strongest environmental presidents. Deborah Dyer Wahlstrom (Ph.D. '88), Using Data to Improve Student Achievement: A Handbook for Collecting, Organizing, Analyzing and Using Data, Successline Publications. Wahlstrom provides readers with a clear, easy-to-use way for using data to make decisions about student achievement. The book is written so that the most novice user of school data can feel successful with its application and use. It follows her 1998 volume, Practical Ideas for Teaching and Assessing the Virginia SOL. Linda Jeannette Ward (M.S. '76), A Frayed Red Thread: Tanka Love Poems, Clinging Vine Press. Ward occasionally references Japanese culture, while interlacing themes of nature and universal humanity, in this illustrated collection of tanka poems. Venerated in Japan for more than 1,300 years, the tanka is an evocative, musical poem of 31 syllables in a 5-7-5-7-7 pattern. This form of often sensual poetry has a strong tradition of women writers. | |
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