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For the Bookshelf: Challenges in Health and Development

For the Bookshelf: Challenges in Health and Development

Challenges in Health and Development: From Global to Community Development By Sandy Johnson Springer-Verlag New York, 2010 At the turn of the 21st century, human health and economic growth are inextricably linked components of international development. Challenges in Health and Development is a primer on the changing configurations of population [...]

For the Bookshelf: Man’s Companions

For the Bookshelf: Man’s Companions

Man’s Companions By Joanna Ruocco Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2010 For the characters in Man’s Companions — a collection of 31 linked short stories — the self is a degraded version of someone else. Fantasy is stymied by performance anxiety. Delayed gratification phones in a last-minute cancellation. At the heart of [...]

For the bookshelf: Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes

For the bookshelf: Food, Power, and Resistance in the Andes

For the bookshelf: Stoner

For the bookshelf: Stoner

Book tells life story of Denver heavyweight contender Ron Lyle

Book tells life story of Denver heavyweight contender Ron Lyle

Candace Toft (MA ’74) wrote Off the Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story (Scratching Shed Publishing, 2010) to shed light on Lyle’s extraordinary life. The major heavyweight contender from Denver is portrayed as a man defined not by his failures but by his triumphs in and out of the boxing ring. [...]

Children’s book series explores the world through soccer

Children’s book series explores the world through soccer

David Rosenberg thinks soccer can connect the world. “It’s a universal language in a way,” he says. “You can bring a ball to a field anywhere in the world and you can connect.” That’s the message Rosenberg (BA mass communications and psychology ’78) and co-author Ethan Zohn relay in their [...]

John Williams’ ‘Stoner’ reaches cult classic status

John Williams’ ‘Stoner’ reaches cult classic status

Stoner was John Williams’ third novel, but it’s the one that has earned the former head of DU’s creative writing program the most attention. The tale of a farm boy-turned-college professor has grown from a poor-selling title upon its release in 1965 to a cult classic that was reprinted by [...]

For the bookshelf: The People Reloaded

For the bookshelf: The People Reloaded

The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel Melville House Publishing, 2011 Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series [...]

For the bookshelf: Patrick’s Home Run

Patrick’s Home Run By Elizabeth McCarthy Tate Publishing, 2010   War has many victims. But one group of people affected by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan can’t fend for themselves, and Elizabeth McCarthy is determined to do something about it. “When a parent is deployed, children don’t fully understand [...]

For the bookshelf: Buffy in the Classroom

For the bookshelf: Buffy in the Classroom

Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer Edited by Jodie Kreider and Meghan Winchell McFarland & Co., 2010   Buffy in the Classroom explores the ways in which Buffy the Vampire Slayer is taught through both interdisciplinary and discipline-based approaches. Essays describe how Buffy can be [...]
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