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Breaking the Food Seduction: The Hidden Reasons
Behind Food Cravings—and 7 Steps to End Them Naturally
by Neal Barnard '75 (St. Martin's Press, 2004. 324 pages, $24.95 cloth)
Banishing food cravings is not a question of willpower or psychology but biochemistry, Neal Barnard argues. A physician and health researcher, he explains why sugar, chocolate, cheese, meat and certain other foods "affect your brain just enough to keep you hooked."
The founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., Barnard conducts studies on the effect of diet on a variety of health conditions and the process of diet change itself—what makes habits easy or difficult to break. His book explains the chemical reasons behind cravings, steps to break craving cycles and tame one's appetite, and advice for children's sugar cravings and how to halt them. The book includes a "three-week kickstart plan" to break free of troublesome food habits and 100 recipes for a healthy diet.
Too Big a Storm
by Marsha Qualey '75 (Dial, 2004. $16.99 hardcover, 224 pages)
In her eighth novel for young adults, Marsha Qualey tells the story of 18-year-old Brady Callahan, who is on vacation with her family in northern Minnesota the night of the first moonwalk in July 1969. She's invited to what turns out to be a wild, life-changing party. Shortly thereafter, she learns that her older brother, a soldier in Vietnam, is AWOL. Despite the evidence, Brady cannot believe her brother would desert and she tries to uncover the truth behind his disappearance.
Qualey teaches creative writing at workshops and conferences around the country. She lives near Minneapolis with her family.
From Child Sexual Abuse to Adult Sexual Risk: Trauma, Revictimization and Intervention
edited by Linda J. Koenig '78, Lynda S. Doll, Ann O'Leary and Willo Pequegnat (American Psychological Association Books, 2004. 336 pages, $39.95 cloth)
This book examines the relationships between child sexual abuse and adult sexual health outcomes in men and women. An emerging body of literature suggests that children who experience sexual violence are more likely to engage in sexual risk behavior and, consequently, may be vulnerable to many negative reproductive and sexual health problems as adults. These problems include unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV infection and adult sexual violence.
In this volume, leading researchers and clinicians integrate research from a variety of disciplines to bridge the current scientific literature on child sexual abuse, basic trauma research and clinical practice. Chapters identify the theory and research-based cognitive, affective, social and behavioral consequences of trauma that influence both sexual health and sexual risk behaviors in adulthood. The book also highlights new approaches that begin to translate these findings into interventions for people who have experienced child sexual abuse.
Linda Koenig is the assistant chief for behavioral science in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Mother-Child Transmission and Pediatric/Adolescent Studies Section, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
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Rapture, Revelation and the End Times: Exploring the Left Behind Series
edited by Jeanne Halgren Kilde and Bruce David Forbes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 219 pages, $24.95 cloth)
The "Left Behind" series of novels, based on one view of biblical prophecy, have sold more than 60 million copies, reaching well beyond conservative Christian audiences to the general public. What makes these books about the apocalypse so popular? What does the Bible really say about the end of the world? Six experts examine the series' theology, understanding of scripture and views of Jews and Judaism. They also place the novels in historical, social, political and cultural contexts.
Co-editor Jeanne Kilde, who contributes a historical essay on millenarian thought, teaches in Macalester's Religious Studies Department and co-directs the college's Lilly Project in Work, Ethics and Vocation.
Thirst: God and the Alcoholic Experience
by James B. Nelson '51 (Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. $19.95 paperback, 217 pages)
Jim Nelson, professor emeritus of Christian ethics at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, is a recovering alcoholic. After a five-and-a-half-day binge in a Minneapolis hotel room less than two miles from his home, he took his last drink in April 1993 and entered treatment at the Hazelden Center. In this book, he reflects on the complex theological issues involved in addiction and recovery and explores the mystery at the center of his alcoholism. His book, he writes, is "for people who want to use the lenses of theology (especially Christian theology) to look at their own addiction and recovery or that of others they care about....It is for those who find themselves with a spiritual thirst that will not go away—one that keeps leading them to deeper levels of experience—and for those who sense that both addiction and recovery are expressions of that very human spiritual thirst."
Nelson is the author of many books in the areas of sexual theology, bioethics and Christian ethical theory. He and his wife, Wilys Claire Nelson '52, live in Tucson, Ariz.
The Tools & Techniques of Investment Planning
by Robert J. Doyle Jr. '73, Stephan R. Leimberg, Robert T. LeClair and Thomas R. Robinson (National Underwriter Co., Inc., 2004. 546 pages, $74.95)
This volume is the newest addition to the "Tools and Techniques" series published by National Underwriter. Robert J. Doyle Jr.'s third title in the series, the book seeks to provide financial services professionals and those studying for CFP certification with both the theoretical and practical investment concepts and strategies they need to serve their clients. Similar to the other "Tools and Techniques" titles, the "Tools" section includes 29 chapters on investment instruments ranging from American depository receipts to warrants and rights. The "Techniques" section includes 16 chapters explaining investment tax principles, investment risk measures, time-value concepts and the like, as well as presenting investment tax planning tactics and tips.
Doyle, a chartered financial consultant, is an independent writer and speaker
and financial economist. He lives in Wayne, Pa.
A Defense for the Dead
by Michael Fredrickson '67 (Forge, 2004. $24.95 cloth, 320 pages)
This is the third legal thriller by Michael Fredrickson, again featuring the fictional Boston lawyer Jimmy Morrissey. He becomes entangled with a serial killer known as "Van Gogh" for his habit of removing his victims' right ears. The FBI tracks down Van Gogh and shoots him dead, but Morrissey, already trying to cope with a failing legal practice and his wife's struggle with cancer, comes upon enough clues to make him wonder if the FBI got the real killer.
Fredrickson is the general counsel for the Board of Bar Overseers in Massachusetts,
the state agency that regulates the legal profession.
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