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Stormchasers by David Toomey '78, focuses on the history of "hurricane hunters" who fly planes into hurricanes and a 1955 disaster that befell one crew. Toomey recreates the hurricane reconnaissance flight into Hurricane Janet in September 1955 that took the lives of nine Navy crewmen and two journalists.

In the summer of 2002 Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies Ann Frechette published Tibetans In Nepal: The Dynamics of International Assistance among a Community in Exile. Based on eighteen months of field research conducted in exile carpet factories, settlement camps, monasteries, and schools in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, as well as in Dharamsala, India and Lhasa, Tibet, this book offers an important contribution to the debate on the impact of international assistance on migrant communities.

Alumnus Kevin P. Davidsen '94 is the author of 600 DAYS: A motivational adventure to 30 countries, published by American Literary Press. Davidsen's book chronicles his 600 day backpacking journey around the world. It interweaves the journal entries from his trip around the world with basic motivational exercises and concepts.

Demonstrating that art history has significant connections to real life, this active and engaging survey introduces students to the complexity of issues and approaches that characterize the study of Western art history today. With readings from a diverse panel of informed and passionate writers, the anthology offers a unique multi-perspective approach—covering everything from the power of images to shape the way we know things, to the political and policy debates about the place of the arts in our society. Critical Perspectives helps students become active participants in a lively analysis of ideas and in the actual process of scholarship—engaging them in directed discussions and critical analysis—and clearly demonstrates that art history is a dynamic field of study, not a static set of facts or a universally agreed upon set of interpretations.

The author, “a professional parent and grandparent who writes on the side,” is best known as a prolific penner of humor. Based on personal experience combined with acute observation of human foibles, he tackles in this work parental obsessions with raising perfect children. Published in paperback under the title My Kid’s An Honor Student, Your Kid’s a Loser, it contains biting social criticism amidst all its engagingly witty prose.

Highly accessible and relevant in today's economic environment, Economic Issues Today provides a unique approach to understanding what the practice of economics is all about. Carson covers 14 current economic issues, providing for each an analysis and proposed solution from three different ideological perspectives: Conservative, Liberal, and Radical (www.barnesandnoble.com).

First inspired by reading Pride and Prejudice aloud and discovering a totally new novel, Michaelson (literary studies, U. of Texas-Dallas) looks generally at the relationship between reading and speech in the late 18th century. She challenges the tradition that links the rise of the novel firmly to print culture and to silent and solitary reading, and the tendency in both the 18th and 20th centuries to define women's language as a coherent sociolect. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (www.barnesandnoble.com).

In the spring of 2000 Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans published the book Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature. Given the current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists revisiting the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends these current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He explores not only the ideas of poets and artists, but also those of philosophers, scientists and explorers.

Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancey Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger are the editors of Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. Women's and men's worlds were largely separate in ancient Mediterranean societies, and, in consequence, many women¹s deepest personal relationships were with other women. Yet relatively little scholarly or popular attention has focused on women¹s relationships in antiquity, in contrast to recent interest in the relationships between men in ancient Greece and Rome. The essays in this book seek to close this gap by exploring a wide variety of textual and archaeological evidence for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric Greece to fifth-century CE Egypt.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Nesecan Balkan is co-editor, with Sungur Savran, of "The Ravages of Neo-Liberalism: Economy, Society and Gender in Turkey". The book, a collection of 14 essays on economic, social and gender-related issues, is the companion volume to "The Politics of Permanent Crisis: Class, Ideology and State in Turkey," also edited by Balkan and Savran. Essays in this book focus on issues including the impact of structural adjustment programs imposed by the IMF, the decline of the social security system, privatization of education, Turkey's military spending, the capital accumulation process in Turkey, recent developments in the labor market, problems of women in labor unions and gender and employment relations in Turkey.