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Terrible Beauty — Schendler '92
$32.00
By Auden Schendler, Class of 1992 Terrible Beauty is a trench-view story of the failure of the modern environmental movement—and an inspiring prescription for change. Walden (1854) defined American environmentalism. A Sand County Almanac (1949) reinvented the field of conservation. Silent Spring (1962) alerted the world to persistent environment...
Value Added Risk Management — Belmont '88
$59.99
By David P. Belmont, Class of 1988 A new perspective on risk management. Risk management has evolved to address the more strategic issue of optimization of return on risk. This has been accompanied by statistical, mathematical, and financial techniques which-when actively applied-can aid an institution in producing disproportionately high return...
Outpost — Hill '74
Outpost — Hill '74
$17.00
By Christopher Hill, Class of 1974 A “candid, behind-the-scenes” (The Dallas Morning News) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.Christopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He ...
Crush Your Test Anxiety — Bernstein '69
$18.99
By Ben Bernstein, Class of 1969 Tests cause a lot of stress and anxiety, but no more! Performance coach Ben Bernstein delivers a comprehensive training guide on how to improve test scores. These lessons avoid memorization and answering strategies and instead address the test-taker individually to determine what they need to perform well at test ...
Neighborhood Heroes — Rielly '18
$15.95
By Morgan Rielly, Class of 2018 Inspired by the old African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground," high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women who served in World War II. All of these veterans taught him something, not just about how to fight a wa...
On Target — Bechtell '78
On Target — Bechtell '78
$29.95
By Michele Bechtell, Class of 1978 In all too many companies, once a business plan is created there is no systematic follow-up. The plan is filed and forgotten until it's time for the annual review-and the result is repeated failure to achieve goals and objectives. Seasoned organizational consultant Michele Bechtell draws on twenty years of expe...
So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03
$40.00
Edited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,and Lorien Foote Highlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses th...
Find Your Perfect Job — Smith '89
$12.95
By Scott Smith, Class of 1989 LEARN THE INSIDER SECRETS TO FIND YOUR PERFECT JOB -- GET THE ONLY REAL-WORLD CAREER GUIDE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Young professional who cracked Wall Street, Washington, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley, while earning an MBA and law degree along the way, shares everything he learned about job searching, careers, and g...
Birds of Bowdoin — Dow '24
Birds of Bowdoin — Dow '24
$14.00
By Cora Dow, Class of 2024 A beautifully illustrated guide to the birds that can be seen on the Bowdoin College campus. Article: Student Artist Creates Illustrated Book of Birds
Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98
$35.00
By Elena Jackson Albarrán, Class of 1998 During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the...
La rebelión de las niñas — Celis
$32.50
By Nadia V. CelisProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies A study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, The Rebellion is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures. Combining feminist theory wi...
Lección Errante — Celis
Lección Errante — Celis
$26.00
By Nadia V. CelisProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Lección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary c...
Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego
$35.00
By Carolyn Wolfenzon NiegoAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Muerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16th-18th centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothe...
Driving the Green Book — Hall '74
$18.99
By Alvin Hall, Class of 1974 Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentiall...
From Spinning to Winning — Sullivan '69
$17.95
By Tim Sullivan, Class of 1969 Are you one of the millions of young people struggling to make a real start in your career? Are you on your second or third job and still don't know how to find the best way forward... or can't seem to open the door to the path that was meant for you? If so, From Spinning to Winning is the book you've been waiting ...
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74
$17.00
By Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974 The Tin Ticket takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched...
Dying to Be Beautiful — Kay '91
$22.95
By Gwen Kay, Class of 1991 Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics tells the story of how cosmetics came to be regulated in early-20th-century America. In 1906, the Food and Drug Administration was given the power to control food and drugs. Not until 1938 were other products that went into or onto the body, including cosmetics, simil...
The Big Disconnect — Steiner-Adair '76
$26.99
By Catherine Steiner-Adair, Class of 1976 Have iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? What do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? Should you be your child's Facebook friend? As the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online around th...
Strategic Warning Intelligence — Gordon '63
$25.99
By Joseph S. Gordon, Class of 1963,and John A. Gentry John A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first century. Strategic warning—the process of long-range analysis to alert senior leaders to trending threats and opportunities that require action—is a critical intelligen...
I, Grape — Clarke
I, Grape — Clarke
$17.00
By Brock Clarke Professor of English In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a wea...
Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon
$24.15
By David Gordon, Professor of History This volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, ...
Living Sustainably — Sanford '83
$36.95
By A. Whitney Sanford, Class of 1983 In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft t...
Into the White — Heuer '94
Into the White — Heuer '94
$32.95
By Christopher Heuer, Class of 1994 European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: ...
Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley
$20.00
By Nancy Riley, A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciencesand James McCarthy Nancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordi...