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Rebecca M. Taylor, AB ’06, and Ashley Floyd Kuntz, look at seven normative cases that happen on college campuses and discuss collaborative and multidisciplinary ways to tackle these deeply complex issues.

In his new book, Dean D. Von Dras, MA ’89, PhD ’93, and co-author S.F. Madey, examine how music intersects with wellness and aging as humans adapt to life changes, stay engaged, remain creative and achieve self-actualization.

A collection of poems that contemplate the bureaucracy of the mind through interior political cabinets Taking its name from the banal, purgatorial space outside (but inside) a doctor’s office, “Well Waiting Room” imagines the conversations we have with ourselves at this liminal site as an exchange between interior bureaucrats, each of whom governs a particular aspect of the […]

When Merissa Nathan Gerson moved to New Orleans, she was greeted by the sudden death of her father. In this heartrending and relatable story, she shows how to grieve, how to ask for help, and how to rely on your community.

Tanya L. Roth follows the experiences of women in the military from the 1948 passage of Women’s Armed Services Integration Act to 1980.

In this collection of poems, Lucinda Marshall, AB ’79, “beautifully reminds us to cleave to our memories: scent memories, rearranged and fractured memories, body memories that get absorbed back into the universe. These poems are infused with wisdom to help guide us through the legacy of our own non-being,” writes Nancy Naomi Carlson, a fellow […]

In her latest book, Dr. Leana Wen talks about her battle on the frontline of public health. Previously the health commissioner for Baltimore and currently informing the public about the COVID-19 crisis as a CNN medical analyst, Wen knows what is costing Americans their lives and what can save them.

Human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar, AB ’99, JD ’03, takes on Islamophobia through the lens of the brutal Christchurch slaughter. In March 2019, a heavily-armed white supremacist walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and slaughtered 51 innocent Muslim worshippers while broadcasting on Facebook Live for the world to see. After the Christchurch mosque massacre, […]

In his latest book, Steven “Cash” Nickerson, JD ’85, MBA ’93, teaches how to become a better negotiator. It’s a skill everyone uses almost everyday but it is not regularly formally taught. “We consider it something that we have to just learn by doing it. And it is true that trial and error is the […]

The characters of Final Fantasy VI stay with us, but why? In this book, Deken argues its due to the game’s amazing score.