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Norman Moss '50 is the author of Managing the Planet: The Politics of the New Millennium. An enlightening history of international environmental politics, combined with a discussion of major issues confronting our planet, now and in the future, by a journalist, broadcaster, and writer long resident in his native Britain.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of tiny towers to appreciate . . . All are mere pebbles on the earth's surface. It is the tall imagination that counts, in this book at least.

Murder on the Junior Year in France is set against the backdrop of the French student revolt of 1968. -Writers Club Press

Whoever wrote "Make 'em laugh!" knew that it's easier said than done. But people love to laugh, and good comedy will always sell. With the help of this complete and entertaining guide, writers and would-be writers for film and television can look forward to writing comedy that goes far beyond stereotypic jokes and characters. In Laughing Out Loud, award-winning screenwriter and author Andrew Horton blends history, theory, and analysis of comedy with invaluable advice.

In 1997, Ralph Upson Stone ’80 had completed research on his doctoral dissertation, “Women Leaders in Kenya,” when he was brutally murdered by a still unknown assailant in his home in Washington, DC, at the age of 38. Determined that his years of labor would not be lost, his mother, Anne Upson Stone, put the finishing touches on Ralph’s research and concluded the writing of his dissertation. In 1998, at age 68, she successfully defended it before his professors at George Washington University. That summer, Ralph’s Ed.D. degree was posthumously awarded, with his mother and father, Frederick L. Stone, Jr. ’51, on hand to receive it. In June, 2001, the Centre for Development and Population Activities, of which Ralph was the highly respected and admired director of training, published the fruits of his and his mother’s labors as a book: Women Leaders in Kenya: A Legacy for the Future. Proceeds from its sale will go to the Ralph U. Stone Memorial Fund, which provides scholarships for leaders around the world to attend seminars at CEDPA, a nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Washington and aimed at empowering women at all levels of society.

This book tells the fascinating story of the famed West End of Glasgow, Scotland’s grandest Victorian suburb. Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 historic photographs (many never before published), Along Great Western Road charts the architectural and social development of the West End from earliest times to the present, celebrating the area's picturesque townscape, illustrious residents and famous institutions.

A study of cultural encounter, this book takes a fresh look at the much ignored and often misunderstood experience of Christian Indians in early America. Focusing on New England missionary settlements from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Hilary E. Wyss examines the ways in which Native American converts to Christianity developed their own distinct identity within the context of a colonial culture.

We take for granted today the tremendous power of the Supreme Court to interpret our laws and overrule any found in conflict with the Constitution. Yet our nation was a quarter-century old before that power of "judicial review" was fully articulated by the Court itself in Marbury v. Madison (1803). William Nelson's concise study of that landmark case provides an insightful and readable guide for students and general readers alike.

If you've read any of John Nichols's novels or books of nonfiction, you've met a lively, funny, and very impassioned man. This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately. Taoseño, fisherman, father, author, spokesman for all underdogs, Nichols has gathered writings that span more than thirty years and range from idyllic reflections on nature to unmerciful satires on impending Armageddon. We see the author as a young man on the trip to Central America that gave him a social conscience that wouldn't quit; as a hunter, hiker, and naturalist on rivers and in mountains increasingly threatened by development; and as a novelist watching in embarrassed disbelief as his book The Milagro Beanfield War is made into a movie that succeeds in spite of Hollywood's best efforts to garble the outcome. The vitality that made Nichols a standout prep-school mischief maker and college hockey player lends irresistible high spirits even to essays about departed friends and mortal illness--subjects that are treated with compassion, bawdy irreverence, thoughtful philosophizing, and the author's intense love of life.

Philip B. Mead '62, President of the Hamilton College Alumni Association of Vermont and 2001 Hamilton College Key Award recipient has edited Protocols for Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000). The second edition of a now standard medical reference work, revised and updated to include critical new information. Dr. Mead is a professor at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and chairs its department of obstetrics and gynecology.