Books & Recordings

The Exquisite Birds of Ecuador eighth Jane Whitefield Books By Robert Mumford ’57 thriller. Whitefield, a Na- Constructive Clinical Supervision Laurel Hill Press, 2014 tive American guide who in Counseling and Psychotherapy Nature helps people in danger By Douglas Guiffrida photographer to disappear, returns as Routledge, 2015 Mumford Jane MacKinnon, a sub- Guiffrida, associate presents more urban housewife, seek- professor of counseling than 300 color ing escape from her and human development photographs past. Her quiet life is interrupted when a at the Warner School, taken during 16 trips to Ecuador over a childhood friend is wanted for murder. offers a guide for clinical seven-year period. In addition to tropical supervisors that birds, the book includes images of What’s that Sound? An Introduction incorporates multiple wildflowers, reptiles, and mammals to Rock and its History theoretical approaches to native to the nation known for its (Fourth Edition) clinical work within a constructivist remarkable biodiversity. By John Covach and Andrew Flory framework. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015 Spy Night & Other Memories: Covach coauthors a Rat Race Blues: The Musical Life A Collection of Stories new and revised of Gigi Gryce (Second Edition) from Dick and Renée edition to the popular By Noal Cohen ’59 and Michael Fitzgerald By Renée Richards ’59M (MD) textbook on the Current Research in Jazz, 2014 Keith Publications, 2014 history of rock music. Cohen, a musician, jazz Richards presents a Covach is professor of historian, and record collection of true stories music theory at the collector, coauthors a from her life in medicine Eastman School, chair revised, updated edition as an ophthalmologist, in of the music department in the College, of the biography of sports as a tennis player, and director of the University’s Institute saxophonist and and in the public eye as for Popular Music. Flory is assistant composer Gigi Gryce. the first athlete to play professor of music at Carleton College. The book won an Award successfully in profes- for Excellence from the Association for sional sports as a transsexual. The book Climate Change Impacts Recorded Sound Collections when it was includes prefaces by tennis player and on Ocean and Coastal Law: U.S. first published in 2002 by Berkeley Hills sportscaster Mary Carillo and Keith and International Perspectives Books. Olbermann of ESPN. Edited by Randall Abate ’86 Oxford University Press, 2015 Upstairs and Downstairs: British Unlocking the Secrets Abate, professor of law Costume Drama Television from the of White Dwarf Stars and director of the Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey By Hugh Van Horn Center for International Edited by James Leggott Springer, 2015 Law and Justice at and Julie Taddeo ’87, ’97 (PhD) Van Horn, professor Florida A&M University Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 emeritus of physics and College of Law, explores Taddeo and Leggott edit astronomy at Rochester, legal responses to cases a collection of essays tells the story of the in which marine and exploring major growth in our under- coastal environments have been damaged developments in the standing of white dwarf as a result of climate change. history of period dramas stars—the burnt-out from the late 1960s to the cores of once bright, The Chorister: Evolution of Voice present. Topics include collapsed stars. Part popular science, part By Jack Miller ’90M (MD) the process of adapta- historical narrative, and part memoir, the Nicasio Press, 2014 tion, the relationship between television book draws on Van Horn’s firsthand Miller, a retired psychia- in the United States and the United experience participating in key discover- trist and San Francisco Kingdom, and the connection between ies about white dwarf stars. artist, presents 29 color period dramas and broader developments illustrations accompa- in television and popular culture. Taddeo A String of Beads nied by narrative verses. teaches history at the University of By Thomas Perry ’74 (PhD) Maryland and is associate editor of the Mysterious Press, 2014 Journal of Popular Television. Mystery novelist Perry presents his

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RochRev_Mar2015.indb 62 2/23/15 12:59 PM BOOKS & RECORDINGS Looking and Listening: book is published online, with each chap- A History of Christmas in Four Conversations between Modern Art ter presented as a blog post, on the Leu- Centuries at the Old Presbyterian and Music kemia and Lymphoma Society’s website Meeting House in Alexandria, By Brenda Leach ’89E (DMA) at www.lls.org. Virginia Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 By Hugh Van Horn Leach pairs well-known Taking the Stage: How Women Can Heritage Books, 2014 visual art works with Speak Up, Stand Out, and Succeed Van Horn, a member of musical compositions By Judith Humphrey ’70 (MA) the congregation of the from the 20th century, Wiley, 2014 Old Presbyterian identifying their shared Humphrey provides a Meeting House and inspirations. Leach is guide for women on how professor emeritus of visiting conductor and to communicate with physics and astronomy at organist for the 2014–15 confidence, regardless of Rochester, explores academic year at Lebanon Valley College. their age, rank, or changes in the way position. Humphrey is Christmas has been observed in the Literary Concord Uncovered: founder of the Hum- Presbyterian Church since the settlement Revealing Thoreau, Emerson, phrey Group, a Toronto- period in North America. Alcott, Hawthorne, and Fuller based consulting firm offering leadership By Joseph Andrews ’63M (MD) and communication training for Xlibris, 2014 executives. Recordings Andrews, a certified Concord, Massachusetts, Moose Tracks on the Road to Heaven The Man tour guide with Concord By M. Reed McCall ’88 By Blues Union Guides Walking Tours, Teabury Books, 2015 The Jazz Project, 2014 explores major figures in In a book based loosely Blues Union—featuring the area’s literary history. upon autobiographical Jud Sherwood ’89 on events, McCall presents a drums, John Carswell story of “family, friend- on vocals, piano, and ship, love, loss, and Hammond B3 organ, Lace Yarn Studio coming to terms with and Josh Cook on tenor By Carol Sulcoski ’87 what it means to live saxophone—offers “a soulful blues groove Sterling Publishing, 2015 when someone you love album.” The recording is the third that Sulcoski, a freelance dies.” The book is set in the Adirondack Sherwood and Carswell have made on writer and designer in Mountains and spans from the 1960s into Sherwood’s Jazz Project label. the field of handknit- the 21st century. ting, presents her Brian Pareschi and the BP Express fourth book, a Spy, Interrupted: The Waiting Wife By Brian Pareschi ’92 collection of patterns By Tamraparni Dasu ’91 (PhD) Brian Pareschi, 2015 and technical IndiaWrites, 2014 New York City jazz information for Dasu presents a romantic trumpeter, composer, handknitters. thriller in which “Jane and arranger Pareschi Austen meets John le performs a mix of Rogue Wave Carré.” Dasu, a research originals and standards By Jennifer Donnelly ’85 scientist, has published on his premier record- Disney-Hyperion, 2015 nonfiction as well as ing as leader of an ensemble. Other In the second book in fiction, and is a translator musicians in the BP Express include Matt Donnelly’s Waterfire of regional Indian fiction Hong (alto sax), Mark Hynes (tenor sax), Saga fantasy series, into English. Carl Maraghi (baritone sax), Wayne mermaids find courage Goodman (trombone), Jim Hershman and cunning in their The Happiest People in the World (guitar), Adam Birnbaum (piano), Neal hunt for talismans. By Brock Clarke ’98 (PhD) Caine (bass), and Andy Watson (drums). Algonquin Books, 2014 In Clarke’s fourth novel, Books & Recordings is a compilation of re- a Danish cartoonist, cent work by University alumni, faculty, Surviving Lymphoma: threatened by terrorists and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming A Patient’s Story and under CIA protec- issue, send the work’s title, publisher, au- By Les Simon ’62 tion, forges a new life in a thor, or performer, a brief description, and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, 2015 small upstate New York a high-resolution cover image, to Books & Simon shares the story of his lympho- town as a high school Recordings, Rochester Review, 22 Wallis ma diagnosis, treatment, and survival, guidance counselor. Hall, P. O. Box 270044, University of in hopes of helping newly diagnosed pa- Clarke teaches creative writing at Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0044; or tients to understand what to expect. The Bowdoin College. by e-mail to [email protected].

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