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SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE LIBRARY GAZETTE Vol. XXXVI 2003

Lee Lawrie Sculptor of Ideas. Collaborator with Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. He did not sculpt for gal- grand scale. His first private of a great architect during his leries or drawing rooms. He commission, however, was for a most fecund and interesting did not fashion fine objects for small bronze panel. Lawrie did- period. Lee Lawrie “modeled the private pleasure of individu- n’t have his own studio to work the figure for every als at leisure. He built, not for in, so he hammered a few nails important building designed men, but for Mankind. He into the door of his room, by Goodhue,” according to believed that he was doing modeled the clay on that, cast Richard Oliver. Furthermore, something that mattered— his relief, then searched for new Lawrie was the instant benefi- helping to build a better lodgings. He moved among ciary of all of the older man’s tomorrow. Lee Lawrie (1877- , New York and readings, travels, experience 1963) and his generation Boston, assisting A. Phiminster and ponderings. The firm even shaped the future of urban Proctor, Augustus St. Gaudens, paid for Lawrie’s architectural America out of stone and , Charles Lopez, tour of Paris. bronze and steel. William Partridge, W. Clarke In Lawrie, Goodhue found Life as a boarding student at Noble, George Brewster and an equal. “Lawrie’s studio is a the St. Vincent de Paul School other Beaux Arts icons, quietly place I visit frequently, and we in Baltimore “did not appeal to nurturing his own mastery talk over any and everything, a boy with ideas of his own,” under their influence. and all of the time.” Goodhue Robert Wakeman writes, “so While assisting in the felt Lawrie was a man he could one day when he was told to Boston studio of Henry trust “to do the right thing out sweep the sidewalk …he . . . Kiston, Lee Lawrie met the of his own head without any placed the broom up against architect Bertram Grosvenor detail,” so he started making the building and walked off Goodhue of the firm Cram, architectural drawings with down the street with no place Goodhue and Ferguson—a tal- blank areas for Lawrie to fill in. to go.” Fourteen-year-old ented man of wide experience, They agreed on the role of Photo by Stephen Mirabella Detail of Saint at Church of St. Thomas, Lawrie survived by sketching eight years his senior. Thus sculpture in architectural , NYC. people in the park or on street began one of the great artistic design. “Sculpture for build- corners, then “selling the result collaborations in history. ings serves to accent the archi- to the unsuspecting model.” Lawrie and the older man tecture and sometimes also to The sketches must have been became true friends. His first characterize the building for good ones. Lawrie not only major commission for the firm which it is made,” Lawrie once survived, he made his way back required bas-relief panels wrote. “It seems like a waste of to Chicago, where he had lived depicting the great ages of effort when sculpture aims only with his mother after leaving western culture—Egyptian, to ‘decorate’.” Germany in 1882 when he was Hebraic, Greek, Roman, Teu- At the very time when five. He answered a two-word tonic, and Anglo Saxon—for Goodhue’s relationship with ad—“Boy Wanted”—and the Public Library in Pawtuck- Lawrie was developing, the one found himself enlarging sculp- et, Rhode Island. he had with his partner Ralph ture for the 1893 Columbian This friendship couldn’t Cram was souring. Their firm Exhibition in the studio of have come at a better time. dissolved, due to Cram’s con- Henry Clay Park. He grew Lawrie was able to hitch his stitutional inability to share the accustomed to working on a prospects to the rising fortunes limelight. He publicly mini- mized Goodhue’s contribution Studying while he taught, he before Christ, his doubts dis- to the art of Goodhue and to their success. Goodhue’s earned a B.F.A. in 1910. He solved; Christ, Mary and St. Lawrie. Above all else, the mas- bruised feelings would benefit instructed at Harvard from John; nine Messianic prophets terful handling of sculpture dis- Lee Lawrie: Goodhue pointed- 1910-1912 and continued above and the apostles on each tinguishes and truly completes ly recognized Lawrie’s contri- teaching at Yale until 1919, side. Other Lawrie carvings at the building. Goodhue under- butions, emphasizing that their where his Harkness Tower St. Thomas portray a living stood the importance of Lee relationship was one of equal beautifies the campus. Yale church in modern times—an Lawrie’s contribution. When collaborators. “Lawrie is the awarded him an honorary Mas- airplane, an automobile, WW I the building commissioners greatest, quickest, and least ter of Arts degree in 1932. generals, the Lusitania, and a decided that all artwork had to expensive,” he told clients. While teaching, Lawrie con- bustling Fifth Avenue scene. be put out for bid, Goodhue Goodhue’s patronage helped tributed a Gothic sculptural Goodhue insisted that the defended the man he called Lawrie’s art evolve at an accel- program of military figures to American Institute of Archi- “my collaborator” in a caustic erated pace down avenues he Goodhue’s West Point Chapel tects add Lee Lawrie’s name to letter—“the idea of putting this might not otherwise have before beginning the awesome his when awarding their 1921 on a competitive basis, precise- taken. reredos of St. Thomas Church Gold Medal to the reredos. ly as you do plumbing, is pre- In 1902, while Lawrie at Fifth Avenue. Lawrie compared his sculp- posterous. …How am I to get sculpted Arthurian legends for Ralph Cram had devised an tures and the buildings they competitive bids on the same one of their jobs, Goodhue ambitious replacement of the cover to branches on a tree. At work which, it must not be for- rode horseback four hundred fire-ravaged St. Thomas St. Vincent Ferrer (1916) on gotten, was designed almost miles from the Caspian Sea to Church at Fifth Avenue in Lexington Avenue, beings wholly by him?” He demanded the Persian Gulf, visiting Isfa- 1908. Goodhue began interior emerge from the surface of the Lawrie, “the only man in my hand, Shiraz, Samarkand, and work by 1913. Because the site stone. Lawrie created the first opinion that understands the Persepolis. Goodhue transmit- precluded big stained-glass crucifixion placed on the exte- relation between sculpture and ted his enthusiasm for ancient windows behind the altar, rior of a church, and he sculpt- architecture.” eastern art to Lawrie when he Goodhue designed an enor- ed figures rising out of the Lawrie became enthusiastic returned. Lawrie’s later work mous reredos, larger than any octagonal shapes of the turrets. over the chance to compose a bears testimony to his success Gothic example in history. Lee At Rockefeller Chapel of the unified expression of history, assimilating Mesopotamian Lawrie went to work modeling , com- politics, nature, philosophy, sculpture into a daringly mod- sixty figures to be carved in pleted in 1928, sparse sculpture and ethics on a single edifice. ern idiom. This growing eclec- Dunville stone then set in an placement makes a stunning When the capitol commission ticism was a break with his architectural arrangement that and integrated effect. hired University of Nebraska’s Beaux Arts beginnings. married the intricacy of a Bertram Grosvenor Good- poet-philosopher, Dr. Hartley Lee Lawrie joined the Yale miniature ivory carving with hue won the design competi- Burr Alexander, to consult with School of Fine Arts in 1908. monumental scale. Ernest tion for the Nebraska State Goodhue, it was Lawrie who Peixotto reported his “impres- Capitol at Lincoln in the sum- leaped into the work with rel- sion of richness combined with mer of 1920. This was to be ish. Lawrie used Alexander’s order . . . dignity combined one of the most important pro- suggestions as fuel for his own with grace.” The subject of the jects in the history of American ongoing explorations. The reredos seems to be all of architecture, combining classi- is a Christian lore—martyrs, mis- cal order with touches of masterpiece of reconciliation. It sionaries, saints, a living bishop, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, harmonizes competing artistic Tuttle, and an American Presi- Gothic, Byzantine, and Spanish styles, it resolves horizontal and dent, Washington; the sculpted mission adobe—the full gamut vertical thrusts, and it juggles a scene of St. Thomas kneeling of influences that contributed plethora of themes, images, personalities and events. Strangely enough, the grand- ness of scale and meaning never leaves the viewer feeling puny by comparison. Lawrie success- fully transmits 5,000 years of noble achievement and his sense of the shared greatness of mankind to everyone visiting the capitol. Lawrie’s artwork speaks across the centuries to the builders of the pyramids, the Photo by Stephen Mirabella Photo by Stephen Mirabella court of Darius, the cities of St. Thomas at the entrance of Church Detail of the Reredos Church of St, Thomas. Empty cross signifying the risen Nineveh and Nimrod, Athens of St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue, NYC. Christ at the center of the relief and life-size saints and Rome. In the Nebraska 2 perity and American might— sculpture with building design indeed that agriculture is the was employed to similar, awe- wellspring of civilization itself, inspiring effect. Those figures creating the surplus food that were, if anything, more archi- allows some to build, others to tectonic and modern than ever. write, still other to calculate the In April 1924 Bertram stars. Grosvenor Goodhue died, Lee Lawrie deserves the leaving Lawrie with years of lion’s share of credit for this work to go on the Nebraska extraordinary sculpture pro- State Capitol and the Los gram. Dr. Alexander’s goals Angeles Public Library. Lawrie energized the sculptor. Having made his dear friend’s effigy received the spark of inspira- tomb for the Chapel of the tion, however, Lawrie ran with Intercession in ,

Photo Courtesy of Nebraska State Capitol Collection. it, sometimes to Alexander’s placing a Pegasus, symbol of Wisdom. Nebraska State Capitol Building. consternation. Alexander was poetic inspiration, at Good- too abstract. Lawrie had practi- hue’s feet. State Capitol, America takes building suit the countryside in cal experience. He knew people Lawrie was in demand. He her place among the great civi- which it lives. Low panels and he knew the limitations and Alexander next worked on lizations of mankind. Beautiful- carved in shallow relief repre- that stone placed on lofty ideas. the Fidelity Mutual Insurance ly rendered buffalo sculptures sent all of the most literal sub- Lawrie created a lexicon of Building (1926-27), part of an flanking the north steps trace jects on the building; those sculpted forms that could be important complex across from their lineage back to the placed higher up are more read by the American public. “I the Museum of winged bulls of Assyria. Their abstract and are carved deeper. believe this is what an ancient Fine Art. Lawrie also sculpted a bodies are even inscribed in the Emerging from the limestone Egyptian or a Greek would do beautiful arrangement of Flori- Mesopotamian style. In fact, blocks near the top, integral if he were to return to earth da bird and plant life for the these buffalo wore wings in with the very structure of the and set to work in our present Bok Carillon Tower, dedicated early clay models. Panels cir- building, are the lawgivers: American civilization,” Lawrie in 1929. cling the capitol connect the Minos, Hammurabi, Moses, mused in the September 1931 Lawrie and Alexander were sacred and the secular, the past Akhenaton, Solon, Solomon, issue of Architectural Progress. brought into early planning for with the present. Moses deliv- Caesar, Justinian, Charlemagne “Can you imagine him repeat- the com- ering the Law stands next to and Napoleon. Around the ing Karnak or Athens? Hardly. plex. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. the panel showing Nebraska tower base stand high relief fig- Being so sensitive as to do the had decided to forge ahead statehood. Circling the build- ures symbolizing the tenets of thing that fit perfectly in his despite the Great Depression. ing, Nebraskan statehood car- civilization that the law pro- own time and place, he could With so much more than “fear ried us back through the tects: Ezekiel (vision), Socrates not do what would not fit here itself” crushing the spirit of the emancipation of the slaves to (reason), St. John (faith), Pen- and now. He would work in 1930’s, Rockefeller was very the Constitution, through the taour (history) Marcus Aure- Twentieth Century America as sensitive to Lee Lawrie’s ability Magna Carta to the Codifica- lius (statesmanship), Newton ably as he did in ancient Egypt to unite and uplift Americans tion of Law under Ethelbert, (science), Louis XI (chivalry) or Greece, but he would work during hard times. Lawrie was which in turn leads to Roman and Lincoln (freedom). The from an American point of put in charge of the entire Law Under Justinian, Plato tower itself holds a frieze of view, not an Egyptian or sculptural program, and sculp- and Solon, Solomon and Deb- Thunderbirds—messengers Greek. …And he would no ture is mainly responsible for orah, and finally Moses, again, from the Great Spirit, bringers more abandon the experience whatever unity the complex has as we come full circle. It is the of rain and fruitfulness in all of the great art periods of the and for the vast affection this noble story of the Rule of Law. things. Above it all, the nine- past than should we.” place has earned with the peo- Forms amplify meaning. teen-foot tall, bronze finial, Lawrie’s faith in the Ameri- ple of New York. When he Lawrie freely incorporates The Sower, strides forward can experience and to the great hired Lawrie, Rockefeller pur- whatever is useful from 5,000 casting seed like some modern art of the past combined into chased his ability to communi- years of monument tradition: God of Agriculture. This is not something that seemed radical- cate the greatness of this the geometry of the carved hair Millet’s humble peasant farmer. ly modern at first. When the enterprise. on either Moses or his A powerful gesture, command- world grew a bit accustomed to Being closer to ground level Nebraskan farmers could fit in ing grace, and stark geometri- it, the Nebraska capitol seemed than Nebraska’s The Sower, at the Citadel of Sargon II. The cal musculature and chiseled the perfect embodiment of the the godlike power of drapery would look at home at face take dominion over the modern spirit. So the team of (1937) and Wisdom (1933) is Persepolis. countryside below him. His Lawrie, Goodhue and Alexan- more obvious here. Tilted Lawrie harmonizes local Egyptian cap and American der assembled again for the Los towards the street below, Wis- with abstract concepts. His dress remind us of several Angeles Public Library (1926). dom forces our eyes upward, sculptures of sunflowers, things—that Agriculture is the The Light of Learning was the wheat, corn, and cattle help the backbone of Nebraskan pros- theme. The same integration of continued on page 10 3 Friends of the Library Minutes of the Spring Meeting April 12, 2002

The activities for the Antoinette “Toni” Nelson. Margaret Ann Rogers ’56, NEEDS COMMITTEE Spring Meeting of the Friends Just before her death, Toni Wayne & Adelaide Smith, REPORT of the Library began at 3 PM had met with Deal Tompkins, Margaret Stanton, Donna Lisa Johnston, Associate in the Browsing Room of the Director of Capital and Whitehouse, Ann Whitley ’47. Director and Head of Public Library with a talk by Stephen Planned Giving and told him Services, gave the Needs Mirabella on the close artistic how happy she was to have MINUTES Committee Report for Mr. collaboration and friendship been able to contribute so The minutes of the Fall Huszti, Professor of Music, between architect Bertram generously to the library pro- Meeting (2001) of the who was unable to attend. Grosvenor Goodhue and ject and that the facility would Friends of the Library were Ms. Johnston requested that sculptor Lee Lawrie. Good- house a new Lawrence G. approved as submitted. the Friends accept the Needs hue was an early architect for Nelson Reading Room. She Committee’s list of purchas- Sweet Briar College. Mr. has now given $120,000 to MEMBERSHIP es. The list of purchases Mirabella is a teacher, writer the library fund and raised COMMITTEE REPORT totaled to $6,511.28. The and sculptor whose article about another $10,000 from Donna Whitehouse, Friends approved the pur- profiling Lee Lawrie appeared relatives and friends. Dr. Jaffe Director of Stewardship, chase of these items. in the Fall 2000 issue of remarked, “We shall miss from the Sweet Briar Devel- American Arts Quarterly. Toni.” opment Office gave the EVENTS COMMITTEE Dr John Jaffe, Director of Dr Jaffe had also been Membership Committee REPORT Libraries and Integrated notified of the death of Mr. Report. As of April 11, 2002, Mr. Joe Malloy, Branch Learning Resources extended Henry James, Jr. Mr. James there were 167 members and Interlibrary Loan Librar- greetings to everyone from: was librarian emeritus at with total contribution of ian, gave the Events Commit- past Friends of Libraries Sweet Briar College. He $8,875. Last year at this time tee Report: Stephen Chairman, Nancy Rasenberg- passed away on January 22, there were 136 members Mirabella’s lectured during er, who was unable to attend 2002 in New Haven, CT. whose contributions equaled the Browsing Room event due to cataract surgery; and Also, Nancy Hudson Adams $6,310. The library sent out and after dinner, Mr. from Clarissa Rowland who former employee of the renewal notices to those Nicholas Basbanes, author sent her greetings from Wash- Library passed away February Friends whose memberships and newspaper editor, will ington with a note, “I always 28, 2002 in Lynchburg, VA. were up for renewal. The deliver the Gehard Masuer enjoy hearing what the Nancy was the bookkeeper in Development Office will do a Lecture “The Cycle of Friends of the Library are the library and will be missed joint mailing with the Friends Books: An Unending Explo- planning and, though it is by all. of Art and Friends of Athlet- ration” to the Friends of unlikely I can attend meet- Jane Nelson ’66 Chairman ics again this year. Libraries and Friends of Art. ings, I will envy you the convened the Spring Business opportunity to hear a most Meeting of the Friends of the FINANCE COMMITTEE PUBLICATIONS interesting talk”; and finally Library in the Browsing REPORT COMMIITTEE REPORT from President Elisabeth Room of the Library on 12 Dr. Jaffe gave the Finance Mr. Malloy distributed the Muhlenfeld who announced April 2002 at 4 PM. Those Committee’s Report for Dr. new Library Gazette to the at the April Faculty Meeting, present were: Greg and Edna John Goulde, Professor of Friends, which highlighted that the amount pledged for Armstrong, Nancy Baldwin ’57, Religion, who could not Dr. Aileen Laing’s talk on the library renovation had Carolyn Bates, Adelaide attend. Dr. Jaffe recommend- and the reached six million dollars. Hapala, John Jaffe, Lisa John- ed that the Friends adopt the building of the Mary Helen This current total brings us ston, Joyce Kramar, Joe and same budget as last year. A Cochran Library in 1929. nearly half way to the project- Martha Malloy, Stephen and motion was made and accept- The Library Gazettes are ed goal. Sigrid Mirabella, Jessica & ed to adopt the budget of now on the web at Dr. Jaffe announced the Alex Newmark, LaVerne $4,700 for the fiscal year http://www.cochran.sbc. recent death of one of the Paige ’03, Ro Putz ’88 and 2002-03. edu/friends.html. Friends’ dearest members, James Putz, Ann Reams ’42,

continued on page 8 4 First Annual Nicholas A. Basbanes and Sweet Briar College Friends of Libraries Student Book Collecting Contest Book Collecting Contest Winners Announced

(L-R) – Karli Brook Sakas ’06, Lee Piepho, Nicole Basbanes ’04, Lisa Johnston, Courtney Arnott ’03

Nicholas A. Basbanes, the 2002 Gehard Masur Memorial Lecturer for the annual Friends of Libraries and Friends of Art spring meeting, generously donated funds to the Friends of Libraries for a student book-collecting contest. The rules of the contest were simple and the rewards great. The judges were Mr. Nicholas Basbanes, Dr. Lee Piepho, Dr. John G. Jaffe and Professor Lisa N. Johnston. The prize for first place was $150, a Friends of Libraries gift John G. Jaffe, Nicholas and Connie and a signed first edition of Nicholas A Basbanes’ newest Basbanes book, Among the Gently Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the Twenty First Century (Henry Holt, 2002). The second place prize was $100, a Friends of Libraries gift and a signed first edition of Nicholas A Basbanes’ newest book. The winners were: First Place – Ms Courtney Faith Arnott ’03 from King George, VA, with her Stephen King collection and; Second place – Ms. Karli Brooks Sakas ’06 from Springfield, VA, for her personal collection. Lifetime Members and Nicholas A. Basbanes is the author of Among the Gently Library Benefactors Josiah P. Rowe III and Mad: Strategies and Perspectives for the Book Hunter in the Anne Rowe ’57. Twenty First Century (Henry Holt, 2002), Patience & Forti- tude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture (HarperCollins, 2001) and A Gentle Madness: Biblio- philes, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books (Holt, Nicholas A. Basbanes Book Collecting 1995). A Gentle Madness, was a finalist for the National Book Contest Rules: Critics Circle Award in nonfiction and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 1. Entries normally will be limited to a selection of no less than 25 nor more than 50 books or similar material (for example, pamphlets, periodicals), regardless of the size of the student’s total collection. 2. Books must be owned and collected by the student alone. 3. Students will submit a brief (less than five pages) statement of the purpose of her collection and ideas for the collection’s future development, together with a bib- liography of the collection that includes at least 10 anno- tated entries describing each volume and its special interest to the collection and/or the collector. 4. This contest is open to all Sweet Briar College stu- dents currently enrolled as full-time students and previ- ous winners are ineligible. Nicholas Basbanes giving lecture.

5 Courtney Faith Arnott Student Book Collection: Horror and

The bulk of my Horror and paperback before purchasing it I particularly enjoy King’s newspaper articles, courtroom Science Fiction collection is (by then I have usually writing because of the fine line transcripts, computer read- written by Stephen King. He is checked it out from the library he walks between fiction and outs, and other pieces of mate- considered one of the most and read it). The Stephen reality. The horrors of his nov- rial evidence that serve to draw prolific fiction writers of this King books in my collection els, while made up, are some- the reader that much more generation, publishing as span his entire career, from his times presented so subtly that firmly into the web of litera- many as three books a year and first published work Carrie in it is easy to believe that this ture. eventually having to create a 1975 to his most recently pub- could have actually happened. I also add to this collection pseudonym, Richard Bach- lished collection, Everything’s King, whether writing short three of the four published X- man, in order to continue Eventual late last year. There is stories, novellas, or full-length Files series books, based on the publishing while alleviating his still room for the collection to novels, proves himself to be a TV show that I followed for agent’s concerns about wear- expand in this aspect, as I am master of fiction, one that I most of its television run, a ing out the market. I have missing a few of his lesser- almost never cease to enjoy novel by R.L. Stine (one of his been collecting Stephen King known works, including Ger- reading. only “adult” novels, as he books since about 8th grade; I ald’s Game and Rose Madder The second largest part of focuses most of his efforts on came about my early ones sec- (both of which I have read but my collection is by Michael the Fear Street and Goose- ond-hand during book sales at do not own) and his collabora- Crichton. I enjoy his work bumps series for preteens) that the library where my mother tions with Peter Straub. The very much and find it to be gives a new, haunting meaning works. I occasionally bought only Stephen King books that incredibly realistic science fic- to being superstitious, and two hardcover books if it was the will not appear in my collec- tion. He has written much books (one horror, one sci-fi) only book available, but even- tion are those in the Dark more than I currently own, that I read in middle school tually I turned my collection Tower series; I find that these and I am looking forward to English. to paperbacks. I enjoy paper- are more of a fantasy nature purchasing his newer books Horror and Sci-Fi writing is backs for several reasons, and I was unable to hold my (most recently Timeline). I becoming a dying breed, with mainly because of the conve- interest through even half of enjoy his style of “scientific” few if any newcomers to the nience of carrying and the the first installment. I am also writing, particularly because of field. I hope my collection will ability to fit more in the same working on obtaining all of my own science background. help in some tiny way to keep amount of space. I now only the “Bachman Books” (those Both Crichton and King these genres alive as well as to buy paperbacks, even some- written under King’s pseudo- enhance the realism of their be able to share them with times waiting several months nym), namely The Regulators works by including references others. for a book to come out in and Rage. to fictional news reports and

6 Courtney’s Library

1. Anderson, Kevin J. The X Files: 1. King, Stephen. Christine. New 2. King, Stephen. The Green Mile. 5. King, Stephen. Salem’s Lot. New Ground Zero. New York: York: Signet Books, 1983. New York: Simon & Schuster, York: Signet Books, 1975. Prism, 1995. 2. King, Stephen. Cujo. New York: 1996. The concept of this book inter- Signet Books, 1981. This book was originally pub- 6. King, Stephen. The Shining. New ested me: survivors from islands lished as a serial novel, and King York: Signet Books, 1978. used to test nuclear weapons 3. King, Stephen. The Dark Half. set a record by being the only coming back and mentally creat- New York: Signet Books, 1990. author to have 6 titles (all six 7. King, Stephen. Skeleton Crew. ing small nuclear explosions to parts in the series) on the New New York: Signet Books, 1985. seek revenge on the scientists 4. King, Stephen. The Dead Zone. York Times Bestsellers list at the who carried out the tests. While New York: Signet Books, 1980. same time. I preferred to have the 8. King, Stephen. The Stand. New the science is lacking, the excite- entire novel in one book; this York: Signet Books, 1978 and ment isn’t. This book first got me 5. King, Stephen. Delores Claiborne. book is the one I have loaned out 1990. interested in the X-Files as a writ- New York: Signet Books, 1993. the most. Even people who “hate This is the complete, uncut ver- ten series, but as far as I know, Stephen King” (including one of sion of the book, as King origi- only 4 books were published. 6. King, Stephen. Desperation. New my old roommates) enjoyed this nally wrote it. It was edited York: Signet Books, 1996. book. before its publication in 1978, 1. Anderson, Kevin J. The X Files: and over 500 pages were cut out. Ruins. New York: Harper Prism, 7. King, Stephen. Different Seasons. 1. King, Stephen. Hearts in The 1990 printing contains the 1996. New York: Signet Books, 1982. Atlantis. New York: Simon & original material in a full 1141 Schuster, 1999. pages. 2. Crichton, Michael. The Androm- 8. King, Stephen. Dreamcatcher. eda Strain. New York: Ballantine New York: Simon & Schuster, 2. King, Stephen. Insomnia. New 1. King, Stephen. Thinner. New Books, 1969. 2001. York: Signet Books, 1994. York: Signet Books, 1984.

My favorite Michael Crichton 9. King, Stephen. Everything’s book, as well as the first book of 3. King, Stephen. It. New York: 2. King, Stephen. The Tommy- Eventual. New York: Simon & Signet Books, 1986. his I ever purchased. The science Schuster, 2002. knockers. New York: Signet Books, in this book is incredible, and it’s 1987. scary to think how pertinent this King’s latest work, which I wait- 4. King, Stephen. The Long Walk. ed 6 months in order to be able New York: Signet Books, 1999. plot-line can be to our times of 3. Midnight Fright: A Collection of to purchase in paperback. The (On loan). super-viruses and biological Ghost Stories. Watermill Press, best story is the first one, involv- weapons. 1994. ing the autopsy of a man who 5. King, Stephen. Misery. New I first read this, I believe in 7th 1. Crichton, Michael. Congo. New isn’t quite dead. This book also York: Signet Books, 1987. grade, and still keep it around. York: Ballantine Books, 1980. contains the story “Riding the Bullet,” originally published 6. King, Stephen. Needful Things. The two most interesting stories are “Man-Size in Marble” and 2. Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. online as an E-book. New York: Signet Books, 1992. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” They New York: Ballantine Books, are both horror, in a more psy- 1990. 1. King, Stephen. The Eyes of the 7. King, Stephen. Nightmares and Dragon. New York: Signet Dreamscapes. New York: Signet chological way rather than a jump-out-and-scare-you way. 3. Crichton, Michael. The Lost Books, 1988. Books, 1994. The book also includes stories by World. New York: Ballantine One of King’s collections of short Charles Dickens and Guy de Books, 1995. 2. King, Stephen. Firestarter. New stories. I particularly enjoy this Maupassant. York: Signet Books, 1980. one for the diversity of its con- 4. Crichton, Michael. Sphere. New tent. My favorite story is 1. Stine, R.L. Superstitious. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. 3. King, Stephen. Four Past Mid- “Dolan’s Cadillac,” where a York: Warner Books, 1995. night. New York: Signet Books, schoolteacher seeks revenge on a 5. Crichton, Michael. The Terminal 1990. mafia boss by burying him, and 2. Yolen, Jane, Ed. 2041: Twelve Man. New York: Ballantine King occasionally writes things he his Cadillac, alive. The book also Short Stories About the Future. Books, 1972. terms novellas—too long for a includes a short screenplay enti- New York: Dell Publishing, short story, but not long enough tles “Sorry, Right Number,” a 1991. 6. Grant, Charles. The X Files: for a book. Every once in a while story based on a Chris Van Alls- Whirlwind. New York: Harper he publishes them as a collection. burg illustration, and a short This book is geared more Prism, 1995. The novellas in this collection are non-fiction work. towards younger readers, but I all more of a psychological realm still enjoy reading it from time to 7. King, Stephen. Bag of Bones. New of subtlety than a scary type of 1. King, Stephen. Night Shift. New time. It predicts where we will be York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. horror; they are also very popular York: Signet Books, 1979. in 2041 - everything from cen- with Hollywood—three of the sorship and free speech to new 8. King, Stephen. Carrie. New four have been made into movies 2. King, Stephen. Pet Sematary. technologies, travel and enter- York: Signet Books, 1975. (“The Shawshank Redemption,” New York: Signet Books, 1984. tainment. I look forward to read- ing it in 38 years to see if any of it While not an original printing, “Apt Pupil,” and “Stand By is right. this is King’s first work and the Me”). 3. King, Stephen. Roadwork. New book that defined his career as a York: Signet Books, 1981. horror writer. It’s one of the few 1. King, Stephen. The Girl Who King books that our home library Loved Tom Gordon. New York: 4. King, Stephen. The Running had and so it was one of the ear- Simon & Schuster, 1999. Man. New York: Signet Books, liest works I read. 1982.

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OLD BUSINESS There was no old business.

NEW BUSINESS Mrs. Bernard “Ann” Reams ’42 has agreed to serve as the Karli Brooks Sakas Friends of Libraries Vice Chair- man. Nicholas Basbanes Student The Fall 2002 Friends of Book Collecting Entry Libraries meeting will be held on Friday, October 18, 2002. The date coincides with the Amherst County Apple Festival. Ms. Lisa Johnston received word that President Muhlenfeld will nominate her to the Board I started my book collection two years and an intact spine intimidate me. I peek of Directors for full Professor- ago when I calculated that I spent more on into those books, wincing at every stray ship. library fines than I did on book purchases. crease my fingers make as I turn the pages. Dr. Jaffe reported that a Instead of checking books out of the Sometimes the books I buy used are great deal of work has been library, I started buying books from library completely unappealing once I bring them done to the library windows and book sales. Paying a dime or a quarter for home and start flipping through the pages. stonework. He also showed a book was much more cost-effective than I will never forget the Oprah Book Club some conceptual drawings by paying $23.30 in three months for six book I bought because it looked unread. It architects Shepley, Richardson books I couldn’t remember to return was titled “I Know This Much Is True.” I and Bulfinch for the new library While I couldn’t completely give up check- read the book, disagreed with its tugging addition. Once fund raising has reached a certain point, the col- ing out books—I couldn’t write a scientif- of the heartstrings tone, and abandoned lege will forward to select ic paper using a biology textbook from the book on a bus with no regrets. I can’t design architects. Dr. Jaffe 1971—I now primarily buy the books I bear to throw away books, but I didn’t urged Friends’ participation and read for pleasure. want the smarmy text in my collection. I suggestions for sources of sup- There’s a certain delight in the hunt for hope that someone on the bus picked up port toward the renovations to a book at sales that cannot be achieved the book and enjoyed reading it. That’s the library. during trips to Barnes and Noble or Ama- what my book collection is for, anyway. Dr. Jaffe reported that the zon.com. The best books are classics, My collection here at Sweet Briar is a library now has wireless laptops which means that if I skulk around a library mix between books meant to entertain me, available to patrons; a number book sale in Fairfax County, Virginia, for a and books meant to educate me. I bought of new electronic resources were month or so, checking in every week, the some of the books because my curiosity added during the year; the library has extended its hour per book, or a better one, is bound to turn up. about a topic discussed in a class made me student requests; and the The books I find, however, are usually want to read more. Other books I bought library’s use is much higher this paperbacks, yellowed with age with tears because I never want to take a class in a year. on the cover and bent-back pages. While topic, but I feel like I should at least try to Dr. Jaffe reported that there my ultimate goal is to purchase hardcover learn something on my own. The follow- has been some restructuring editions of books, I revel in the freedom to ing are selections from that collection. with some of the library staff. scribble all over my “bad” copies of the Liz Linton will now be our Ref- books. Fresh books with clear white pages erence, Instruction, and Elec- tronic Resources Librarian and LaVerne Paige will become Seri- als Technical Services Assistant. Meeting was adjourned at 5 PM.

8 Karli’s Library

1. Faulkner, William. The Unvan- good that I’d pay full price for dog-eared pages. I don’t think slogging through its five hundred quished: The Corrected Text. New hardcover copies. However, I’ll ever be able to give my copy and thirty five pages during stolen York: Vintage Books, 1934. according to several bookstores I of Rand’s justification of moments in the semester, The Notes copyright 1990. consulted two years ago, the teenaged self-absorption to any- Bourne Identity had left the the- This book is a about as beat up as books are out of print, making one else, if only because my scrib- aters and I had my answer: proba- a book can get without requiring cheap-o library book sales the bled notes fill up the margins. bly made a pretty good movie, but a rubber band to keep the book only place to find the books. While the last sentence is a bit I knew the ending. After all, together between readings. I Over the course of two years, I tongue-in-cheek, I do value her what’s the fun in watching a bought it for a quarter after my found each of the five books in books highly as an example of movie when you know the end- Spanish professor suggested that the series. Precious as they are to how to write a persuasive argu- ing? reading Faulkner would help us me, I’ve Xeroxed my favorite pas- ment. students understand Latin-Amer- sages, and left the books them- 10. Luther, Jean. Ed. Spies, Black ican writers. After I bought this selves on my home bookshelf. 7. Wadud, Amina. Qur’an and Ties, and Mango Pies: Stories and book, I realized that I might have Woman: Rereading the Sacred Recipes from CIA Families from understood Faulkner better if he 4. Austen, Jane. Pride and Preju- Text from a Woman’s Perspective. All Over the World. Community wrote in Spanish, instead of in a dice. Originally published 1813. New York: Oxford University Communications Corp, 1997. Southern-styled stream of con- Having a copy of this book on Press, 1999. Cookbooks are what I read while sciousness. According to Faulkn- snowy days is just about as impor- Occasionally, a new book makes I eat a bowl of cold cereal and er fans, however, the first tant as having enough milk and its way into my collection because milk. Because I rarely cook exotic Faulkner is the hardest to read, toilet paper, so whenever I see the book’s topic is so compelling food for others, or myself the best and after that “you get the hang Pride and Prejudice on sale I snap and rare that I can’t wait for it to cookbooks have a lengthy story of it.” Hence, I have “As I Lay it up. (Right now I have at least make its way into a book sale. accompanying each recipe. This Dying” in my collection, too, four copies of the book.) If I After I heard Amina Wadud speak book is the best cookbook I’ve waiting until the literary light overuse the cliché that biblio- at Randolph-Macon Women’s read for exotic recipes and excit- bulb goes off in my head. philes have a “voracious appetite College on women’s status in ing stories. for reading,” then this book is the Islamic society, I had to buy her 2. Traupman, John C. The New ultimate comfort food. On days book. Her thesis is enticing— 11. Robertson, Robin. The Vegetari College Latin & English Dictio- when the weather’s bad, there is mistranslations of key words in an Meat and Potatoes Cookbook. nary. New York: Bantam Books, nothing more relaxing than curl- the Qur’an led to Islamic laws Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1966. ing up on a couch, sipping hot that treat women unjustly. For 2002. I bought this dictionary because I tea, and reading my way out of example, an interpretation of the wanted to know where words frozen Virginia. word for “underwear” as “cover- 12. Clavell, James. Shogun: A Novel came from without going through ing” in the Qur’an created cen- of Japan. New York: Dell, 1975. a Latin class. Whenever I’m bored, 5. Armstrong, A.H. An Introduc- turies of laws requiring pious I can open up a random page and tion to Ancient Philosophy: From women to dress very modestly. 13. Greenwald, Harold. The Elegant look at word. For example, I the Beginning of Greek Philosophy The book was as interesting as Prostitute: A Social and Psy- looked up “instipulor” which to St. Augustine. Boston: Beacon her talk, and will remain in my choana-lytic Study. New York: means, “to bargain.” Then I try to Press, 1963. collection. Ballantine Books, 1958. think of all the words I know that Some bibliophiles may fear that have elements of “instipulor” in books are being killed off by the 8. Márquez, Gabriel García. Leaf 14.Faulkner, William. As I Lay them—like “stipulate.” Before I Internet, because information on Storm: And Other Stories, Trans- Dying. New York: Random looked in the Latin-English dictio- the ‘Net is easier, faster and lated by Gregory Rabassa. New House, 1930. nary, I thought the word meant, flashier. I’ll admit that googling York: Harper & Row, Publishers, vaguely, “to specify.” After look- “St. Augustine” is an incredibly 1972. 15. Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New ing in the dictionary, I can use the fast way to get thousands of web- Márquez’s stories are great York: The New American word much more precisely—I can pages about “St. Augustine.” I escapes into the Shangri-La of Library, Inc., 1957. only stipulate in a negotiation sit- bought this book because I want- Macondo, but the real beauty of uation. ed information only on St. his work in English must come 16.Márquez, Gabriel García. One Augustine’s philosophy. Instead from Gregory Rabassa. I read Hundred Years of Solitude. Trans- 3. Hass, E.A. Incognito Mosquito, of wading through webpages on Spanish, and I know I should lated by Gregory Rabassa. New Private Insective. New York: everything from the town of St. read the books in the original, York: Penguin Books, 1967. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, Augustine to a monastic order, I but I’m afraid Rabassa’s poetic 1982. got what I wanted—Augustine’s interpretation of the prose will be 17. Márquez, Gabriel García. Love in the Time of Cholera. Translated by This book is the Hope Diamond philosophy—in one chapter. lost in the translation from Eng- How’s that for convenience? lish back to Spanish. I also have Edith Grossman. New York: of my collection without the bad Penguin Books, 1988 luck or the sparkle, but with all of Love in the Time of Cholera and the sentimental value. When I 6. Rand, Ayn. Anthem. New York: One Hundred Years of Solitude, was in second grade and starting New American Library, Inc., both in English. to read on my own, I picked up 1946. the Incognito Mosquito series and Like many college freshmen, I am 9. Ludlum, Robert. The Bourne developed a life-long love of going through an Ayn Rand Identity. New York: Bantam puns. The book is one of a series phase. Admitting I have a prob- Books, 1980. of books about a smart-alecky lem is the first step of the solu- Ah, the guilty pleasure that is a Mosquito who works in “crime tion, but I’m not throwing out bestseller. When I hear about a and pun-ishment.” When I start- my copies of Anthem and Atlas movie based on a book, I’ll pick ed collecting books, I decided Shrugged just yet. My copy of up the book before deciding to go that the Mosquito books were so Anthem is covered in notes on to the movie theater or not. After

9 continued from page 3 staccato rhythms of the build- tor member of the National our necks crooked back. ings’ stair step forms. Commission of Fine Arts. He Regardless of the inscription, Lawrie’s other reliefs at the coordinated sculpture for the his fierce gaze commands, center impart street level charm 1933 “Look upon my works”— to visitors. Breezy Mercury Exposition in Chicago, the meaning Rockefeller Center, skimming the waves on the 1939 New York World’s Fair, New York City, the world, all of and and the post-WWII American Creation. Wisdom radiates the Sower of Maison Francaise Battle Monuments Commis- force in every direction. are particularly delightful. The sion. World War II had so dried Though inspired by William symbolism of the pierced lime- up commissions, Lawrie was Blake’s engraving of the stone screen at West Fiftieth inquiring about jobs assisting Ancient of Days, Lawrie has Street rewards deeper contem- other sculptors as early as Stephen Mirabella discusses transformed Blake’s crouching plation. Progress over the 1939. He even tried to sell a Lee Lawrie figure calmly reaching out of entrance to One Rockefeller boat design. “For several years his circle, into an explosion of Plaza, borrows a page from I waited for the economic death in 1963, but his moment creative power that the panel Picasso: the head of Pegasus upturn that failed to arrive. had definitely passed. Building cannot contain. The glass block shows two perspectives at once, What little I had saved, van- ornament disappeared alto- universe below him was an and the body of the female fig- ished.” He thought about gether. Monument commis- inspired touch. It casts light ure of wisdom could easily farming. “My family and I did sioners felt he was too radical. and color into the lobby. The stand beside a certain painting not expect any sculpture to He was too tame for the avante polychromy of Lawrie’s reliefs in the Museum of Modern Art. come to me again. I expected garde. Young artists, anxious to comes from the ancients. Yet it Again, Lawrie’s reliefs reconcile to plant the two fields in grain make a name in the revolution all looks completely modern. myth and reality. and keep chickens, hogs and of the moment, passed him The giant Atlas holding the Other Lawrie commissions sheep.” How could a great and without a second look. New world at the International include the Louisiana State successful sculptor go broke so Yorkers and tourists love his Building’s Fifth Avenue Capitol (completed in 1924), easily? Assistant Joseph Kise- work, but how many know his entrance looms above us like a the National Academy of Sci- lewski’s remembrances provide name? While he did not die in building. His towering ences in DC, and the Memori- a clue: “His standard was obscurity, it is a cruel irony that strength instills confidence. al Bridge at Harrisburg, always perfection. All the jobs America’s greatest monumen- The meanings we attach to Pennsylvania. The most widely took longer than the estimated tal artist is barely remembered Atlas changes, but he inspires seen Lawrie sculpture of all is time so he never made any today. strong emotion in every age. his portrait of F.D.R. (1946) money.” The geometry of hair and mus- on the dime in your pocket. After WW II, things Stephen Mirabella is a writer, culature on Atlas, and the His direct influence can be improved. Lee Lawrie had a sculptor, musician, teacher zigzag of clouds, and the found in the art of Washington, solid reputation among old- and current Friends of the shapes in the beard, hair and D.C. from his 1933-1937 and timers and there was always Library Board member. brow of Wisdom all mimic the his 1945-1950 terms as sculp- something to work on until his 2002 Acquisitions

ANTHROPOLOGY Steinberg, Karen K. The from Cornelia to Julia Socratics to Plato – Cam- DEPARTMENT genetic basis for cancer (elec- Domna – Routledge Publish- bridge University Press / tronic resource) – Oxford ing / 1999 2000 Africa Series – DVD University Press / 2001 (set of 4 DVDs) – PBS Constructing identities in late CLASSICS DEPARTMENT CLASSICAL STUDIES antiquity; edited by Richard Ladies of the Lake – Journey- DEPARTMENT Miles – Routledge Publishing / Papyri Graecae magicae; man Pictures - VHS 1999 edited by Albert Henrichs. Bomgardner, D.L. The story Saur Publishing/(two vol- BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT of the roman amphitheatre – Dickie, Matthew Magic and umes) Routledge Publishing / magicians in the Greco- Harper, Peter S. Practical 2000 Roman world – Routledge Law, society, and authority in genetic counseling; 5th edi- Publishing / 2001 late antiquity; edited by tion – Butterworth-Heine- Hemelrijk, Emily Ann Ralph W. Mathisen. Oxford mann / 1998 Matrona docta: educated Morgan, Kathryn A. Myth University Press / 2001. women in the Roman elite and philosophy from the pre-

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Trout, Dennis E. Jeffers, Jennifer The Irish Scodel, Joshua Excess and the Doan, Laura L. Fashioning Paulinus of Nola: life, letters, novel at the end of the twenti- mean in early modern English Sapphism: the origins of a and poems. University of Cal- eth century: gender, bodies, literature – Princeton Uni- modern English lesbian cul- ifornia Press / 1999. and power – Palgrave / 2002 versity Press / 2001 ture. Columbia University Press / 2001. Childhood, class, and kin in Modernism and empire; edit- Randles, W.G.L. The unmak- the Roman world. Routledge / ed by Howard J. Booth – St. ing of the medieval Christian Niedecker, Lorine Collected 2001. Martin’s Press / 2000 cosmos, 1500-1760 – Ashgate works. University of Califor- Publishing / 1999 nia Press / 2002. Wray, David Catullus and the The Cambridge history of lit- poetics of Roman manhood. erary criticism – Cambridge DuRocher, Richard J. Milton McNamara, Kevin R. Urban Cambridge University Press / University Press / 1999 among the Romans: the peda- verbs: arts and discourses of 2001. gogy and influence of Milton’s American cities. Stanford Dubrow, Heather Shake- Latin curriculum. Duguesne University Press / 1996. Among women: from the speare and domestic loss; forms University Press / 2002. homosocial to the homoerotic of deprivation, mourning, Wirth-Nesher, Hana City in the ancient world; edited and recuperation – Cam- Witt, Ronald G. In the foot- codes: reading the modern by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz bridge University Press / steps of the ancients: the ori- urban novel. Cambridge Uni- and Lisa Auanger. University 1999 gins of humanism from versity Press / 1996. of Texas Press / 2002. Lovato to Bruni. Brill / The German Reformation: the 2000. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Ellis, Simon P. Roman hous- essential readings; edited by ing. Duckworth / 2000. C. Scott Dixon – Blackwell Walsham, Alexandra Provi- Quaternary geochronology: Publishers / 1999 dence in early modern Eng- methods and applications – Dillon, Matthew land. Oxford University American geophysical Union / Girls and women in classical Young, R.V. Doctrine and Press / 1999. 2000 Greek religion. Routledge / devotion in seventeenth-centu- 2002. ry poetry: studies in Donne, Samuel Johnson in historical Land use and watersheds: Herbert, Crashaw, and context; edited by Jonathan human influence on hydrology EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Vaughan – Brewer Publishers / Clark and Howard Erskine- and geomorphology in urban 2000 Hill. Palgrave / 2002 and forest areas; edited by Handbook of research on mul- Mark S. Wigmosta, Stephen ticultural education; edited Smuts, R. Malcolm Culture Bourke, Angela Field Day J. Burges – American Geo- by James A. Banks – Jossey- and power in England, 1585- Anthology: Irish Women’s physical Union – 2001 Bass Publishers / 2001 1685 – St. Martin’s Press / Writing and Traditions. 1999 Cork University Press / Soil mineralogy with environ- The international handbook of 2002. mental applications; edited giftedness and talent; edited Neill, Michael Issues of death: by Joe B. Dixon and Darrell by Kurt A. Heller – Elsevier mortality and identity in Rody, Caroline The daugh- / 2000 ter’s return: African- G. Schulze – Soil Science English Renaissance tragedy – Society of America / 2002 ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Oxford University Press / American and Caribbean 1997 women’s fictions of history. Toy, Terence J. Soil erosion: Sir Gawain and the Green Oxford University Press / processes, predicition, measure- Knight – VHS – Films for Sources and analogues of 2001. ment, and control – John the Humanities & Sciences / Chaucer’s Canterbury tales – Wiley & Sons Publishing / 2002 Brewer Publishers / 2001 Critical essays on Don Delillo; 2002 Peters, Julie Stone Theatre of edited by Hugh Ruppersburg Bakker, Peter A language of the book, 1480-1880: print, and Tim Engles. G.K. Hall / The controlled flood in Grand our own: the genesis of Michif, text, and performance in 2000. Canyon; edited by Robert H. the mixed Cree-French lan- Europe – Oxford University Webb – American Geophysi- guage of the Canadian Metis Press / 2000 Milosz, Czeslaw New and cal Union / 1999 – Oxford University Press – collected poems 1931-2001. 1997 Ecco / 2001. 11 The Friends of the Non-Profit Org. Mary Helen Cochran Library Board U.S. Postage 2002-2003 PAID Ms. Jane Nelson ’66, Chairman Sweet Briar Mrs. Bernard L. Reams ’42, Vice-Chairman College Dr. John Goulde, Treasurer Dr. John G. Jaffe, Secretary Board Members FRIENDS Mrs. Nancy Baldwin ’57, Ms. Jennifer L. Crispen, OF THE Mrs. Milan Hapala, Jenny Hoffman, MARY HELEN Stephen Mirabella, Sigrid Mirabella, Laura Pharis, Anne Richards ’84, COCHRAN Dr. Margaret Stanton, Ann Whitley ’47 LIBRARY Ex-Officio Members Sweet Briar College Mrs. Cathy Cash Mays ’84, Sweet Briar, VA 24595 Director of Prospect Research; www.cochran.sbc.edu Donna Whitehouse, Director of Stewardship; [email protected] President Elisabeth Muhlenfeld; Dean Stephen Stahl; Mary Lou Merkt, Vice President for Finance and Administration; Mrs. Louise Swiecki Zingaro ’80, Director, Alumnae Association McVea Scholars Class of 2003, Lauren Friend; Class of 2004, Jennifer Warde; Class of 2005, Ashley Rogers

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HISTORY DEPARTMENT Quei monti azzurri: le Encyclopedia of ethics; editors Cox, Michael The Oxford Marche di Leopardi; a cura di Lawrence C. Becker and chronology of English literature. Elliott, David W. P. The Viet- Ermanno Carini – Marsilio / Charlotte B. Becker. Rout- Oxford University Press / namese War: revolution and 2002 ledge / 2001. 2002. social change in the Mekong Delta. M.E. Sharpe / 2000. MUSIC DEPARTMENT PHYSICS DEPARTMENT Minahan, James Encyclopedia (two volumes) of the stateless nations: ethnic Atlas, Allan W. Renaissance Desurvire, Emmanuel and national groups around Crabtree, Adam From Mesmer Music: music in western Erbium-doped fiber ampli- the world. Greenwood Press / to Freud: magnetic sleep and Europe, 1400-1600 – Norton / fiers: principles and applica- 2002 the roots of psychological heal- 1998 tions., Volume 2 – JohnWiley ing. Press / and Sons Publishers / 2002 Encyclopedia of the essay; edit- 1993 PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT ed by Tracy Chevalier. Fitzroy Gurzadian, G.G. Handbook Dearborn Publishers / 1997. Discovering the history of psy- Routledge Encyclopedia of Phi- of nonlinear optical crystals – chiatry; edited by Mark. S. losophy – CD-ROM; edited by Springer-Verlag / 1991 The Continuum Companion Micale, Roy Porter. Oxford Edward Craig / June 1998 to 20th Century Theatre; edit- University Press / 1994. (3 years online database) REFERENCE ed by Colin Chambers. Con- tinuum Books / 2002. Italian Department Mapps, Thomas A. Social Rapaport, David The New ethics: morality and social pol- York Times History of Modern Ben-Dov, M. Historical atlas La letteratura italiana alla icy. McGraw-Hill / 2002. Terrorism (3 volumes) of Jerusalem. Continuum / fine del millennio, Firenae / 2002. 1996. White, James E. Contempo- Encyclopedia of the Modern rary moral problems. 7th edi- Islamic World (5 volumes); Freeman-Grenville, G.S.P. La novella barocca: con un tion. Wadsworth Pub / edited by John L. Esposito. Historical Atlas of Islam. repertorio bibliografico, 2001. Oxford University Press / Continuum / 2002. Liguori / 2001. 2002.