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STRESSED-OUT GIRLS by Roni Cohen-Sandler '77 (Viking)

Many teenage girls stagger under too much pressure, argues clinical psychologist Roni Cohen-Sandler. "They face jam-packed schedules, hours of homework, heightened expectations, demanding social lives, and far too little sleep." She analyzes some of the reasons why girls hide their anguish: fear of exposure, the need for autonomy, fear of repurcussions, reluctance to raise parental anxiety, avoidance of flaws, comparisons to the ideal, and the feeling that stress is the norm. Cohen-Sandler offers strategies for helping girls become better able to cope with stress and lead balanced lives.

ENDING GLOBAL POVERTYby Stephen C. Smith, PhD '83 (Palgave Macmillan). Smith, a professor of economics at George Washington University and director of the Research Program on Poverty, Development, and Globalization, explores conditions that keep people trapped in poverty, such as poor nutrition, illiteracy, lack of health care, and subsistence agriculture. He presents eight ways to fight and overcome poverty.

THE DREAM OF THE PERFECT CHILDby Joan Rothschild '48 (Indiana University Press). Advances in reproductive medicine make it increasingly possible to give birth to a healthy child. Drawing on the experiences of physicians and feminist ethicists, as well as pregnant women and people with disabilities, Rothschild reevaluates the uses of genetics and prenatal testing. She is a professor emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and a research associate at the Center for Human Environments, the City University of New York.

THE LEADERSHIP WHEELby C. Clinton Sidle '74, MBA '77 (Palgrave Macmillan). The director of the Park Leadership Fellows Program in the Johnson Graduate School of Management sees leadership as a vehicle for personal and organizational transformation. His five-part framework serves as a theoretical and practical guide for "developing leaders who do well for themselves while doing good in the world." He calls for a new brand of capitalism that treats people with fairness, compassion, and respect.

A LESSON IN NARRATIVE TIMEby Jody Bolz '71, MFA '73 (Gihon Books). By turns a domestic love poem, an elegy, and a meditation, this collection explores the splendor of dailiness. Poet Carl Phillips writes: "Bolz persuasively argues for a narrative in which time no longer figures as it used to: anything--to our delight and terror, equally--is possible."

Recently Published | Fiction

I RIGHT THE WRONGSby Dylan Schaffer '86 (Bloomsbury). In this sequel to Misdemeanor Man, Schaffer returns with a legal whodunit about small crime, big crime, and the reluctant lawyer caught in the middle.

KILLING RAINby Barry Eisler '86, JD '89 (Putnam). In the fourth thriller in the John Rain series, a hired assassin hopes that by using his talents for good, he might atone for the lives he has taken. But when his conscience causes him to botch an assignment, he must run from Israel's Mossad and rogue elements of the CIA.

Recently Published | Poetry

WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MANby David Lehman (Scribner). In his sixth collection, Lehman, the editor of the Best American Poetry series and a former A.D.White fellow, demonstrates the versatility and wit that are his hallmarks as a poet.

HUGE HAIKUby David McAleavey '68, MFA '72, PhD '75 (Chax Press). True to the title, the director of creative writing at George Washington University pens a 300-page cycle of haiku.

Recently Published | Non-fiction

GREETINGS FROM THE FINGER LAKESby Michael Turback '66 (Ten Speed Press). Ithaca restaurateur Michael Turback profiles the best wineries, restaurants, farm stands, and markets in the region. The book includes behind-thescenes interviews with proprietors, food and wine tasting notes, and some treasured local recipes.

THE WORD MADE SELFby Thomas Seifrid, PhD '84 (Cornell University Press). An associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Southern California explores the Russian fascination with the power of the word as expressed in the work of philosophers, theologians, and artists of the Silver Age and early Soviet period.

SOCIAL CHOREOGRAPHYby Andrew Hewitt, PhD '88 (Duke University Press). Linking dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to historical ideals of social order, a professor of Germanic languages and comparative literature at UCLA analyzes Marxist debates about the relation of ideology and aesthetics.

CAP ANSON 3 by Howard W. Rosenberg '87 (Tile Books). Rosenberg continues his series on the history of baseball with a close look at the tricky and sometimes dirty play of early baseball players, especially 1890s-era Baltimore Oriole John McGraw.

THE BIG PICTUREby Edward Jay Epstein '57, BA '65, MA '66 (Random House).With a welcome lack of animus, Epstein explains how present- day Hollywood works. He shows how the old dream factories whose only products were movies have been replaced by the Big Six: Time Warner,Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal, and Disney--multinational corporations that collect the bulk of their revenue from home video, overseas markets, and product licensing.

NAKED IN THE BOARDROOMby Robin Wolaner '75 (Fireside).Wolaner rose from office temp to president and CEO of Sunset Publishing before moving on to write, consult, and serve on private corporate and nonprofit boards. Her own stories, and anecdotes from other achievers, are the basis for this instruction manual for executive women.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL GUIDE TO THE BUSINESS OF LIFEedited by Nancy Keates '86 (Crown Publishers). Keates, a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal's Weekend Journal, provides a consumer's guide to saving time and money, from getting top-notch health care and the best education for your children to plotting the family summer vacation.

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