Popular Democracy in Japan: How Gender and Community are Changing Modern Electoral Politics (Posted on June 13, 2011)

By Sherry L. Martin ’93

(Cornell University Press) This book argues that the exclusion of Japanese women from a full range of opportunities in public life provokes many of them to seek alternative outlets for self-expression, which then leads them to examine the political conditions...

Mirrors of Memory: Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo (Posted on June 13, 2011)

By James W. White ’63

(University of Virginia Press) The author observes that Paris and Tokyo may appear to be growing more alike, but in fact remain profoundly different places. He argues, for example, that it is Tokyo, not Paris, that is the City of Light, shaped by peace and...

The Lost Shepherd (Posted on June 13, 2011)

By Ned Conquest ’53 *67

(Apollonian Press) In this novel’s foreword, the author writes, “In the year 1979 the Episcopal Church did the inexplicable, if not the inexpiable: the Church abandoned its time-honored, foundational Book of Common Prayer.”   This “literary masterpiece” was...

The Art of Flourishing: A New East-West Approach to Staying Sane and Finding Love in an Insane World (Posted on June 13, 2011)

By Jeffrey B. Rubin ’75

(Crown Archetype) In more than 30 years of studying, practicing, and teaching Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic disciplines, Rubin has discovered that combining both paths is more effective than following one alone. In his new book, he has...

Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern Metropolis (Posted on June 13, 2011)

By Thomas Singer ’60 (editor)

(Spring Journal) In what the editor, Thomas Singer, calls an unconventional “travel” book, the contributors to this volume look at how citizens of 18 cities around the world experience the “intersection of their souls with the souls of their cities.” The...

Your Loving Son, Philip: Letters from an American Soldier in World War II, May 1944-June 1946 (Posted on June 13, 2011)

By Sgt. Philip R. Herzig ’46, edited by Helene P. Herzig

(Mixed Media Memoirs) After her husband, Philip Herzig ’46, died in 2004, Helene Herzig discovered letters he wrote to his parents during his service in the war in her attic. In those letters, he details his life during basic training and his...

The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East (Posted on May 26, 2011)

By Timur Kuran ’77

(Princeton University Press) By the 1800s, the Middle East had fallen far behind Europe in terms of economic progress. In this book, Kuran argues that what slowed economic development of the Middle East were Islamic legal institutions, which, starting in the...