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PRESIDENTIAL VOICES by Allan Metcalf '61 (Houghton Mifflin). A professor of English at MacMurray College and an expert on language and usage examines the speaking styles, regional accents, and distinctive vocabularies of the presidents, including the likes of Silent Cal and the Great Communicator. He also analyzes the hidden influence of speechwriters and the different ways in which presidents have used the media to present themselves to voters.

SELLING GOOD DESIGN by Marilyn F. Friedman '66 (Rizzoli). Art historian Friedman discusses the revolution in the art of promoting early modern interiors that took place in the late 1920s, when Macy's, Lord & Taylor, B. Altman, Wanamaker's, and other wellknown department stores teamed with renowned designers to create exhibits of lavishly decorated rooms. Includes more than 100 photographs culled from the photo archives ofMacy's and Lord & Taylor, period magazines, the National Museum of American History, and the Library of Congress.

MORE THAN KIN AND LESS THAN KIND by Douglas W.Mock '69 (Belknap Press). In his research on sibling rivalry in human beings and animal and plant species, Mock, a professor of zoology at the University of Oklahoma, finds that two powerful forces—cooperation and competition—shape the traits that family members deploy for either helping or hurting each other. Mock shows that when siblings get in the way of individual interests, the results can often be fatal.

IS IT IN YOUR GENES? by Philip R. Reilly '69 (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press). Reilly, the CEO of Interleukin Genetics Inc. and an assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, discusses more than ninety common conditions, diseases, and disorders, arranged from conception to old age, and makes clear what is known and unknown about the influence of genes and the risk of developing each disease.

AMERICAN ORIENTALISM by Douglas Little, PhD '78 (University of North Carolina Press). A professor of history at Clark University exposes "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines U.S. policy toward the Middle East. Chapters focus on America's increasing dependence on foreign oil; U.S.-Israeli relations; the rise of revolutionary nationalist movements; the futility of U.S. military and covert intervention; and the unsuccessful attempt to broker a peace-for-land settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The epilogue addresses the current war in Iraq.

CONSIDERING THE RADIANCE: ESSAYS ON THE POETRY OF A. R.AMMONS editied by Roger Gilbert and David Burak '67, MFA '80 (W. W. Norton). A collection of tributes to Ammons's work, from his early poems in the 1950s to his late masterpieces, Garbage and Glare, exploring the personal side of a poet often still seen as forbiddingly abstract and intellectual. Included are pieces by Helen Vendler, Alice Fulton, Harold Bloom, and John Ashbery, among others.

Recently Published | Fiction

THE BAR MITZVAH MURDER by Lee Harris (Syrell Rogovin Leahy '56) (Fawcett Books). For sleuth Christine Bennett, the chance to visit the Holy Land is a dream come true. But when her best friend's cousin disappears, her vacation turns into a trail of clues that leads to a cunning killer.

MEMOIRS OF A MIDGET by Walter de la Mare, foreword by Alison Lurie (Paul Dry Books). Lurie, prize-winning novelist and the F. J.Whiton Professor of American Literature at Cornell University, introduces a new edition of de la Mare's strange fictional memoir, the dreamlike story of Miss M.

Recently Published | Non-Fiction

HEALTHY HIGHWAYS by Nikki Schulman Goldbeck '68 and David Goldbeck (Ceres Press). For travelers who've wondered how to avoid "gas and go" road stops, this guide includes places to find nutritious meals, snacks, or cooler provisions. State maps provide directions to more than 1,900 health-oriented restaurants and natural food stores.

Recently Published | Poetry

CASCADE EXPERIMENT: SELECTED POEMS by Alice Fulton, MFA '82 (W.W. Norton). Fulton, a MacArthur fellow and teacher in Cornell's MFA program, charts the evolution of a poetics that revises the limits of language, emotion, and thought in her first book of selected poems (and seventh collection overall).

THE KEEPSAKE STORM by Gina Franco, MFA '00, MA '00 (University of Arizona Press). The award-winning Franco explores the transformative power of compassion as she addresses themes of cultural alienation, lost family roots, and the uncertain resiliency of self.

BARTER by Ira Sadoff '66 (University of Illinois Press). Sadoff, the Dana Professor of Poetry at Colby College and recipient of the George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, offers his seventh volume of poetry.

CARSLAW'S SEQUENCES by Lisa M. Steinman '71, MFA '73, PhD '76 (University of Tampa Press). Steinman adopts the mathematical idea of divergent series as an "untidy metaphor for the way we put together linguistic gestures and talismanic anecdotes" as a method for making sense of the world.

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