Our advice? Pull up a chair, grab a blankie, and start reading.
Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability Per Pinstrup-Andersen, editor (Oxford University Press) The bottom line on governmental responses to food price volatility in 14 developing countries, Europe, and the United States. 30 Lessons for Loving Karl Pillemer (Hudson Street Press) Hundreds of elders speak and young couples listen.
Functional Clothing Design Susan M. Watkins and Lucy Dunne ’02, MA ’04 (Fairchild Books) How and why clothing works, from an alumna and the emeritus professor who wrote the book on the subject, 1984’s groundbreaking Clothing: the Portable Environment. Spartan Up! Joe De Sena ’90 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) What can you learn about life by racing over flames, worming under barbed wire, and hauling sandbags through miles-long obstacle courses? Everything. Culinary History of the Finger Lakes Laura Winter Falk ’87 (The History Press) From the founder of Experience! The Finger Lakes, two centuries of eating and drinking like locals.
I Love You, Blankie Sheryl Haft ’86 (LB Kids) With a little imagination, a bedtime blanket can become a balloon, a shooting star, or simply a pathway to sweet dreams. It’s Not Like I’m Poor Laura Tach, co-author (University of California Press) In a world where welfare checks are being replaced by low-wage jobs, Tach offers hope for the working poor.
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From endurance races to food price volatility, functional apparel to board books, faculty and alumni have authored a wide-ranging collection of new books.
Listening to Killers James Garbarino, PhD ’73 (University of California Press) In tracing the path that killers take from childhood innocence, Garbarino finds our common humanity.
Academic Leadership in Higher Education Robert Sternberg, editor (Rowman & Littlefield) Advice on leadership by people who ought to know, including Human Development Chair Charles Brainerd and Dean Alan Mathios.
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