with years of experience in pain management, Pain-Wise is a patient’s guide to simplifying the confusing and often overwhelming process of finding treatment for chronic pain. It will teach readers the basics of how pain works, explain different interventional pain therapies in layman’s terms, and help find a doctor that can manage, and potentially relieve, chronic suffering. CARMEN MCLAREN ’93
UFO Conspiracy Schiffer Publishing
UFO Conspiracy is an in-depth look at the UFO phenomenon and what McLaren identifies as the federal government’s efforts to keep facts from the general public—via pseudoinvestigatory groups designed to discredit witnesses and other mechanisms. The author posits that the included sightings/reports shatter myths created by officials to keep a lid on this phenomenon, which continues in skies the world over. Read about UFO sightings by two presidents, many scientists, and hundreds of military/civilian pilots, police officers and others.
DANIEL BULLEN ’94
The Dangers of Passion: The Transcendental Friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Margaret Fuller Levellers Press
During the 1840s, self-reliant individuals thought they could create a new world by following their hearts. When Margaret Fuller met Ralph Waldo Emerson, the guru of self-reliance, she thought she might reinvent marriage. Emerson was newly married to his second wife, but Fuller saw herself as Emerson’s ideal companion nonetheless, and she fought for a place in his life. Their relationship was never consummated, but it caused both Emerson and Fuller to question the value of marriage for self-reliant individuals. In their writings and in their letters to each other, they strove to find peace between the long-term commitment of marriage and the relationships their hearts suggested might be possible. DUNCAN CRARY ’00
The KunstlerCast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler—The Tragic Comedy of Suburban Sprawl New Society Publishers
James Howard Kunstler is one of the country’s most
outspoken commentators on the collapse of the American dream, his grim predications leavened by sharp wit and cheerfully pessimistic humor. The KunstlerCast revisits and updates the major ideas contained in Kunstler’s conversations—from the failure of urban planning to the reality of peak oil—with author Duncan Crary. Crary is a journalist, editor, and host and producer of “The KunstlerCast,” a popular weekly podcast featuring Kunstler. PHILIP KOSKY, G.E. Distin-
guished Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering; GEORGE WISE, deputy director of the Dudley Observatory; ROBERT BALMER, retired, dean of Engineering and Computer Science; WILLIAM KEAT, associate professor, Mechanical Engineering
Exploring Engineering: An Introduction to Engineering and Design Academic Press
Winner in its first edition of Best New Undergraduate Textbook by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers, this is the first text offering an introduction to the major engineering fields, and the
engineering design process, with an interdisciplinary case study approach. Now in its second edition, it introduces the fundamental physical, chemical and material bases for all engineering work and presents the engineering design process using examples and hands-on projects. ROBERT BALMER, retired dean of Engineering and Computer Science
Modern Engineering Thermodynamics Academic Press
Designed for use in a standard two-semester engineering thermodynamics course sequence, the first half of the text contains material suitable for a basic thermodynamics course taken by engineers from all majors. The second half of the text is suitable for an applied thermodynamics course in mechanical engineering programs. The text has numerous features that are unique among engineering textbooks, including historical vignettes, critical thinking boxes, and case studies. All are designed to bring real engineering applications into a subject that can be somewhat abstract and mathematical.
Spring 2012 UNION COLLEGE
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