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Human Geography; work and leisure; Andrew
Johnson
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Encyclopedia of Human Geography
by Gerald R. Pitzl (Greenwood Press, 2004. 272 pages,
$59.95)
Human geography focuses on the ways that humans interact with
each other and with the environment. Themes within the field of
human geography reflect the diverse perspectives of culture, population,
economics, politics, urbanization and social behavior. The first
encyclopedia devoted exclusively to human geography, this book presents
nearly 300 pertinent models, concepts, theories and people associated
with human geography. It is intended as a guide for high school
students taking advanced placement human geography as well as a
useful supplement to college texts and a guide for researchers.
Jerry Pitzl, a Macalester professor emeritus of geography, now lives
in Santa Fe, N.M.
Between Work and Leisure: A Study of the Common Ground of Two Separate
Worlds
by Robert A. Stebbins '61 (Transaction Publishers, 2004. 136
pages, $29.95 cloth)
Robert Stebbins examines ways in which people can be attracted to
their work in such a profound way that the line between work and
leisure is virtually erased. The heart of his book uses research
findings on leisure to develop a critique of the "workaholic"
model. Stebbins argues that deeply felt worker enthusiasm is free
of addictive or coerced behavior. Between Work and
Leisure aims to debunk the prevailing myth that
work and leisure are wholly separate and mutually antagonistic spheres
of life.
Stebbins is faculty professor in the University of Calgary's Department
of Sociology and a fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences and
the Royal Society of Canada.
The Tools & Techniques of Life Insurance Planning
by Robert J. Doyle Jr. and Stephan R. Leimberg (The National
Underwriter Company, Inc., 2004. 574 pages, $74.95)
The third edition of Life Insurance Planning is intended to assist financial professionals in absorbing
and in turn conveying highly complex concepts to clients in a clear
and simple manner. The authors reorganized the third edition especially
to serve the needs of students and professionals studying to become
Certified Financial Planners.
Robert J. Doyle Jr. is a financial economist living in Wayne, Pa.,
who has written or co-written 14 books and published nearly 100
articles on financial planning, investment and retirement topics.
Andrew Johnson
by Kate Havelin '83 (Lerner Publications, 2004. $27.93 cloth,
112 pages)
One in the publisher's series on U.S. presidents, this is Kate Havelin's
11th book for young readers. Intended for grades 6<en dash>12,
it tells the story of the only Southern senator to side with the
North during the Civil War and who became the 17th president after
Lincoln's assassination. Despite his loyalty to the Union and his
efforts to reunited a divided country, Johnson expressed strongly
racist views. Combined with his refusal to compromise, such views
alienated Johnson from Congress and his own cabinet, halting progress
during Reconstruction and leading to his impeachment.
Havelin, who worked as a television producer for more than a decade,
lives with her husband and two sons in St. Paul.
Look Over Your Shoulder
by F. Keith Hunt '42 (Caira Press, 2004. 212 pages, $19.40
paperback)
In a previous book, Tough Men, Tough Boats, published in 2002, F. Keith Hunt interviewed commercial
fishermen about their trials and triumphs on Lake Superior's North
Shore. In this companion volume, he focuses on the lives of early
20th century settlers<em dash>who made their livings as farmers,
loggers and the first hosts to tourists<em dash>in a portion
of Minnesota's Arrowhead region, from Little Marais to Grand Portage
and west along the Canadian border to Seagull and Saganaga and Gunflint
lakes. The book consists of interviews with old settlers and members
of their families. "In the Arrowhead there was little time,
early on, to stand looking at the beauty of nature," Hunt writes.
"You built your house from timber on your own homestead. You
dug a root cellar by using a slusher. And if<em dash>perish
the thought<em dash>you picked up head lice somewhere, you
used kerosene to get rid of them."
Hunt, who is retired from a Minneapolis publishing company, and
his wife, Sylvia Ness Hunt '45, live on Lake Superior near Grand
Marais. His book is available by writing 2460 East Highway 61, Grand
Marais, MN 55604.
The Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation
by Barbara Davis '75 (North Atlantic Books, 2004. 212 pages,
$16.95 paperback)
Taijiquan is a Chinese martial art practiced by millions of people
around the world for its health, relaxation and self-defense benefits.
Its enthusiasts have used a collection of early writings on the
art<em dash>known as the Taijiquan Classics<em dash>as
a touchstone for almost two centuries. This book traces the colorful
history of taijiquan, its personalities and controversies, and poses
questions about the classics' authorship, dating, contents and transmission.
Barbara Davis offers a fresh translation and thorough annotation
of the five core texts and explores the meaning of the Yang Family
Classics and how they can help people deepen their practice.
Davis holds a master's degree in East Asian studies from the University
of Minnesota. She is the editor of Taijiquan Journal
and is director of Great River T'ai Chi Ch'uan
in Minneapolis.
Object Thinking
by David West '72 (Microsoft Press, 2004. 334 pages, $49.95
cloth)
The foundation of all object-oriented software design, including
agile methods such as extreme programming, is object thinking. In
this reference book, object technologist David West provides a historical
and contextual discussion of object thinking, including the behavioral
approaches to object discovery and design. The book is intended
to help readers master the fundamental principles and learn how
to apply object thinking to improve software development at every
phase of the process.
West is a professor in the School of Business at New Mexico Highlands
University, where he is developing an object-based curriculum in
software architectures, business engineering and management information
systems. He founded and served as the director of the Object Lab,
a cooperative effort with local corporations dedicated to researching
and promoting object technology, at the University of St. Thomas.
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September 11, 1973, in Chile and September
11, 2001
Almost three decades before the attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon killed over three thousand people,
another act of unspeakable horror took place in the South
American country of Chile on September 11, 1973. A savage
military coup d'etat backed by the United States overthrew
democratically elected president Salvador Allende and unleashed
a wave of state-sponsored terror that left thousands of Chileans
dead...
The dual tragedies of September 11 force us to recognize
that the United States government has assisted in the creation
of international terrorist networks and has rarely let a commitment
to democracy stand in the way of its global ambitions. But
until the attack of September 11, 2001, American citizens
seldom experienced the horror, the anguish, the profound loss
and the lingering sense of vulnerability that the survivors
of terrorism in other parts of the world know too well. From
Chile to East Timor, Congo, Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia
and many other cold war battlegrounds, ordinary people who
desired land reform, better wages, improved health care, education
and the basic right of self-determination were labeled Communists
by the U.S.-backed regimes and murdered, tortured and disappeared
by shadowy paramilitary death squads and state security forces
trained by the United States. The perpetrators were almost
never held accountable, and officials acknowledged the dead
and the abused very slowly, if at all. The Third World victims
of cold war atrocities usually did not receive public commemorations,
such as those so fittingly published by the New York Times
for each individual killed in the World Trade Center,
nor were memorials constructed in their honor.
from The School of the Americas: Military Training and
Political Violence in the Americas by Lesley Gill '77.
Copyright 2004 Duke University Press
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The School of the Americas: Military Training
and Political Violence in the Americas
by Lesley Gill '77 (Duke University Press, 2004. 296 pages,
$69.95 cloth, $19.95 paperback)
The School of the Americas, a U.S. Army center at Fort Benning,
Ga., has trained more than 60,000 soldiers and police, mostly from
Latin America, in counterinsurgency and combat-related skills since
it was founded in 1946. The focus of an intense controversy over
the last decade because of the participation of some of its alumni
in torture, murder and political repression throughout Latin America,
the school in 2001 changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute
for Security Cooperation.
Lesley Gill, an associate professor of anthropology at American
University, conducted dozens of interviews in the U.S. and in Bolivia,
Colombia and Honduras in her effort to present a comprehensive portrait
of the School of the Americas and those opposed to it. She sat in
on SOA classes, spoke with a retired Colombian general accused by
human rights organizations of terrible crimes, listened to coca
farmers in Colombia and Bolivia who bear the brunt of state-sponsored
violence and met with anti-SOA activists. Her book seeks to expose
the SOA's institutionalization of state-sponsored violence and the
havoc it has wrought in Latin America.
The book is part of a Duke University Press series, "American
Encounters/Global Interactions," edited by Macalester Professor
Emily Rosenberg and Gilbert Joseph.
Negotiating Economic Development: Identity Formation and Collective
Action in Belize
by Laurie Kroshus Medina '84 (University of Arizona Press,
2004. 290 pages, $45 cloth)
This ethnographic case study focuses on the production of collective
identities and the negotiation of development policies as citrus
farmers in Belize respond to fluctuations in international trade.
Laurie Kroshus Medina, an associate professor of anthropology at
Michigan State University, analyzes the development of the citrus
industry in Belize over 15 years and offers insights into the lives
of the workers, union people, small and larger growers, and politicians
as they adapt to the changing global economy.
Her research demonstrates how collective agency in Belize has
pushed the citrus industry's development in directions that simultaneously
conform to and diverge from the trajectories laid out by foreign
agencies. Her book seeks to provide a bridge from old to new studies
of Latin American social movements as it offers insights into competing
forms of identity.
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