The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel Melville House Publishing, 2011 Since June of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has seen the most dramatic political upheaval in its three decades of rule. What began as a series […]
Patrick’s Home Run By Elizabeth McCarthy Tate Publishing, 2010 War has many victims. But one group of people affected by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan can’t fend for themselves, and Elizabeth McCarthy is determined to do something about it. “When a parent is deployed, children don’t fully understand […]
Buffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer Edited by Jodie Kreider and Meghan Winchell McFarland & Co., 2010 Buffy in the Classroom explores the ways in which Buffy the Vampire Slayer is taught through both interdisciplinary and discipline-based approaches. Essays describe how Buffy can be […]
The Summit: Faith Beyond Everest’s Death Zone By Eric Alexander New Leaf Publishing Group, 2010 In 2001, DU alumnus Eric Alexander (BA ’92) successfully led blind climber Erik Weihenmayer to the summit of Mount Everest. The Summit details that climb and chronicles Alexander’s adventures guiding people with disabilities as […]
“This Nest, Swift Passerine” By Dan Beachy-Quick Tupelo Press, 2009 In this Colorado Book Award nominee, Dan Beachy-Quick (BA English ’95) entwines original and scavenged texts, lyric fragment and lyric song. Language, Beachy-Quick says, is a nest where the minds of poet and reader can dwell. A migratory bird’s […]
National Security in the Courts: The Need for Secrecy vs. the Requirements for Transparency By Derigan Silver LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2010 National Security in the Courts, part of the publishers Law and Society Series, explores how judges identified the main legal issue and the mode of legal analysis they […]
How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street By Allan Roth Wiley, 2009 Allan Roth thinks kids can teach adults something about investing. The key to wise investing really comes down to simplicity, says the DU adjunct professor. Roth’s book follows the story of his son Kevin, who learned simple investing […]
Cats’ Night Out By Caroline Stutson Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, 2010 As she was writing her latest children’s book, Cats’ Night Out, Caroline Stutson (BA ’62) didn’t give much thought to the poor fellow who would end up illustrating the thing. “In my mind I had all these cats […]
The Past is Never Dead By Harry MacLean (JD ’67) Basic Civitas Books, 2009 In this nonfiction legal drama, MacLean offers a detailed account of the trial of Ku Klux Klansman James Ford Seale, who was arrested in 2007 for assisting in the torture and murder of two black […]
Handbook of Multicultural Counseling Competencies By Lavita Nadkarni, Jennifer Erickson Cornish, Barry Schreir, Lynett Henderson Metzger and Emil Rodolfa Wiley, 2010 Lavita Nadkarni is an associate professor in DU’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology and director of its Forensic Studies Program. The handbook provides an overview of the knowledge, […]
Gall: Lakota War Chief By Robert Larson (BA ’50, MA ’53) University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 Retired history professor Robert Larson has written the first-ever scholarly biography of the Gall, a Lakota leader who fought alongside Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Drawing on six years of research, including interviews with […]
Fighting for Your Marriage By Howard Markman, Scott Stanley and Susan Blumberg Jossey-Bass, May 2010 DU Professors Howard Markman and Scott Stanley have published the newest edition of Fighting for Your Marriage. The book, first published in 1994 and revised in 2001, is updated to reflect significant changes in […]
Seaborn By Craig Moodie (BA ’78) Roaring Book Press, 2008 “I am seastruck—someone entranced by great and small waters alike,” reads the author’s note in Seaborn, a young-adult novel by Craig Moodie. After his mother abruptly moves out prior to the family’s annual sailing trip, 16-year-old Luke and his […]
And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family By Annie Dawid (PhD English ’89) BookSurge Publishing, 2009 Annie Dawid’s latest book traces her ancestral roots through a collection of short stories from the perspective of her paternal relatives. The collection begins in the early 20th century with […]
St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne: Relics, Reliquaries and the Visual Culture of Group Sanctity in Late Medieval Europe By Scott Montgomery Peter Lang Press, 2009 The cult of St. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs of Cologne was the most widespread relic cult in […]