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Michael L. Bromley '86 is the author of Stretching It: The Story of the Limousine. The book is an automotive and social history of the limousine from its origins in carriages to the monster-sized, luxurious vehicles of today. Co-written with Tom Mazza, the work is lavishly decorated in both black-and-white and color.

Owing to the recent forces of globalization, the world is a very different place than it was just two decades ago. The world-wide movements toward trade deregulation, privatization, and the lowering of tariff barriers, coupled with the information revolution, has made obsolete many of the more traditional ways of thinking and behaving. If we are to succeed in this new, fast-paced, diverse, and complex global economy, we will need to equip ourselves with new skills and new understandings. We need to be more competent than ever before. But more than that, we need to develop a new mindset for this changing world, which Ferraro calls “global brains.”

Thomas G. Moore '85 examines the role of the outside world as a source of change in post-Mao China. Based on extensive documentary and interview material, the book adds the Chinese case to a long tradition of country-based studies by political economists, historians, and area specialists that have chronicled the experiences of developing countries as they enter specific industrial markets in the world economy. This book will be timely and provocative reading for anyone concerned with the nature of China's deepening participation in the world economy and its consequences for the country's development prospects, internal reforms, and foreign policy.

Alumnus Frank Baldwin ‘85 recently published Mimi & Jack, his 2001 follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut, Balling the Jack (1996). This 310-page novel is a spicy murder mystery thriller. Baldwin is currently working on his third novel.

Nesecan Balkan, visiting assistant professor of Economics, is co-editor, with Sungar Savran, of "The Politics of Permanent Crisis: Class, Ideology and State in Turkey". The book is a collection of 10 essays on current political and ideological issues in Turkey covering a wide range of topics including the Kurdish question, the recent rise of nationalism, relations with the European Union, the question of political Islam in Turkey and the Cyprus issue. Each essay touches on historical developments related to the specific topic it explores, thus providing accessible background information to uninformed readers. The first chapter is a comprehensive analysis of the 20th-century Turkish political economy.

Premiered in London’s West End in 2000 and produced off-Broadway in 2001, this play about a 15-year-old American student in Paris, who one evening learns much about life from a seductive literature teacher, earned plaudits from the critics. Finely crafted, as are all of Richard Nelson’s plays, it is also highly engaging in its affecting delicacy.

Bruce Goldstone ’84 co-produced with world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau, this is a “silent storybook, a reader without words.” Containing a series of striking and playful photographs of Marceau, it is also a charming tribute to that artist’s remarkable, and remarkably long, career.

Beyond a vague notion of children reading around the kitchen table, we don't know what home schooling looks like from the inside. Mitchell Stevens, assistant professor of sociology, goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of home schoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education--one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of home schooling today.

Through a careful analysis of early libel law, the state and federal constitutions, and the Sedition Act crisis, Robert Martin, assistant professor of government, shows how the development of constitutionalism and civil liberties were bound up in the discussion of the "free and open press."  This book is a study of early American political thought and democratic theory, as seen through the revealing window provided by press liberty discouse.