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LEIGH SCHMITT ’95
ROBERT HOFFMAN ’60
STEPHEN C. LEAVITT, Union
Wild Bahamas: An Illustrated Ecology of the Bahamas: Sun, Sand, and Sea from A-Z
Six Innings to Destiny: The Heart and Mind of America is Found in Baseball
vice president for student affairs and dean of students
Media Enterprises Ltd.
Z-Hall with MFNY Media Solutions
Wild Bahamas is an illustrated encyclopedia of aquatic and terrestrial organisms of the Bahamian archipelago. It covers animals microscopic to mammoth, from lesser-known rodents like hutia to majestic and iconic national treasures like the blue marlin and West Indian flamingo. From the letters A-Z, creatures great and small, as well as critical ecological principles such as invasive species, habitat loss and extinction, are represented to educate the reader about the beauty and biodiversity "that make up the land of sun, sand and sea.
In 1954, sports casting legend Mel Allen tagged them “Destiny’s Darlings.” Six decades later, filmmaker Bob Hoffman ’60 has chronicled the trajectory of the 12 kids from blue collar Schenectady who were Little League World Champions. Six Innings to Destiny opens with a snapshot of the times— Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio, McCarthyism, Brown vs. Board of Education, GE as the heart of Schenectady— and a prescient call by Coach Mike Maietta, a domineering tough-love mentor, that his team would rebound from a heartbreaking loss in the 1953 championship to win the next year. Martin Rabalvsky’s 1974 book Destiny’s Darlings gave a largely unflattering look back: he found that few of the players had found their potential and Coach Maietta was recalled as a tyrant who was in it for himself. Those images have changed over time, and Six Innings to Destiny catches up with the players as they recall with fondness how they played their hearts out for their team, their town and each other.
with PHILIP K. BOCK
Office of Communications Union College Schenectady, NY 12308 or synopsis and high-resolution image to magazine@union.edu
Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: A Critical History, Third Edition Waveland Press
Psychological anthropologists have grappled with changing trends in both disciplines, including psychoanalytic, holistic, cognitive, interpretive and developmental approaches. It is important to appreciate these currents of thought to understand the state of the field today. This edition is a guide to that history along with a critique that may lead to a new synthesis. After over three decades of continual publication, the premise of the previous editions remains: that all anthropology is psychological and that the interplay between anthropological methods and the psychological theories existing in different times is dialectical. It is an ideal choice for courses in psychological anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, and the history of anthropology.
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