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An introduction to the geology of the Southwestern United States, ideal for students of the subject as well as anyone with more than just a casual interest in the natural wonders of the region. The author is a research scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico. His book is dedicated with great appreciation to Professor Emeritus Donald B. Potter, who, “throughout his 34 years of teaching undergraduate students at Hamilton College…sought to instill in them a love for geology and an appreciation of the importance of science in a liberal arts education.”

All the information you need to create your own painted fabrics, presented in a guidebook handsomely illustrated in full color. It contains 30 step-by-step recipes for success, and covers 15 painting techniques. The author-artist, who began painting fabric that she had woven herself, and later discovered quilting, “makes the art of fabric-painting very accessible to everyone, regardless of their level of experience.”

This impressively researched monograph offers new takes on the reading of James Joyce. In it, the author, a professor of English at Connecticut College, explores in depth, through Joyce’s work leading up to Finnegans Wake, “the evolution of Joycean reality and the Joycean strategies for expressing and dramatizing it.”

The latest collection of cartoons by the veteran illustrator for The New Yorker. Highly distinctive, as always, and filled with typical whimsy and wry wit, they provoke knowing nods of head as well as chuckles in their reflections on life’s everyday absurdities.

A collection of informally written essays, including “personal takes on worldwide screenwriting,” the Hollywood influence and specific examples of projects. The author is an experienced screenwriter who is the Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film and Video Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Appended to his own informative advice are contributing essays by an international group of writers and filmmakers.

In Democratization and the Jews, Kauders deals with the ways in which the West Germans in Munich reacted to the Holocaust. He explores the changing viewpoints and the ways in which the people of Munich distanced themselves from the Nazi regime. Kauders describes these techniques as changing drastically over twenty years. Although they first used Weimar antisemitic images, by the late 1950’s many people – especially Social Democrats and church-members – people had begun to repudiate anti-Semitism and “the language of liberalism merged with the spirit of democracy.”

Magicians aren’t supposed to explain how they do their tricks, but in Sometimes the Magic Works, Brooks obliges. He covers such topics as the importance of daydreaming to the necessity of writing an outline, from the fine art of showing instead of merely telling to creating believable characters who make readers care what happens to them.

House of Holy Fools concerns the grace and genius of the author's late, great parents and sister - music critic Louis Biancolli, violinist Jeanne Mitchell Biancolli and aspiring pianist Lucy - who all died within 26 months of each other in 1992 and 1994. Written with humor and hope, it is a memoir of music, madness, miracles, faith and the insistent tug of life in the face of grief and death.

Ray Lauenstein and his co-author, David Galehouse, have written extensively and been for a number of years consultants on the college athletic recruiting process. This book constitutes a detailed and comprehensive guide for prospective college student-athletes and their coaches and parents, encompassing everything from college selection and scholarship and financial aid availability to applications, admissions, recruiting rules and college athletic life. In all, an impressive compendium, packed with information splendidly organized and lucidly presented.

In a textbook arising from “my teaching of an undergraduate lecture course on Greek civilization that I gave in a room large enough to have accommodated the entire student body of Hamilton College in 1968,” the author, a professor of classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, surveys the history of ancient Greek culture, including analyses of the major works of Greek literature. He particularly stresses how Greek civilization has been “continually reinvented, both in antiquity and in our own world.” Well illustrated and “reader-friendly,” it is an excellent introduction to the world of ancient Greece, not only for students in classrooms but students of history in general.