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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.

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.

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).

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.

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.