(John Wiley & Sons)

Developed from a 2007 Georgetown University commencement address that examined the attributes of a life well-lived and warned about a financial system that subtracts value from society, Bogle’s meditation on what “enough” entails looks at his own life and a financial world that lacks leadership and professional ethics. Bogle is founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group.

(Cornell University Press)

In this study the authors explore how the increasing number of women in medicine are faring in the profession and whether they will reshape the provision of health care. They also describe the challenges of combining work and family. Boulis is a research associate in sociology and Jacobs is a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

(Johns Hopkins University Press)

In the first book of this two-volume set, the author covers Lincoln’s experiences as a farm boy, his legal training, and his early years in politics. In the second volume, Burlingame examines his presidency as well as his marriage and the deaths of two sons. Publishers Weekly called this set “the finest Lincoln biography in more than 60 years.” Burlingame is the Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus at Connecticut College.