The Union Bookshelf regularly calls special attention to books written by alumni and other members of the Union community. If you're an author and would like us to feature your new book, please send us a copy of the book or the jacket as
well as your publisher's news release. Our address is Public Relations Office, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. 12308-3169.
Robert Barnes '44, M.D.
“Growing up with my father, an energetic, articulate, highly opinionated man, was often unsettling, sometimes frightening, occasionally maddening, but never boring,” writes Robert Barnes in
Harry Elmer Barnes As I Knew Him, a biography of his father. The elder Barnes taught at Harvard, Columbia, Smith, and Amherst and was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union as well as the New School for Social Research. Included in the book are letters to and from Al Capone, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, H. G. Wells, John Dewey, Will Rogers, and many others.
Robert Barnes '44, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist in Scottsdale, Ariz. The book is available from High Plains Publishing Company.
William A. Levinson M.B.A. '88, M.S. '93
Basing his book, The Way of
Strategy, on the theory that “business is war” and that the
marketplace is a battlefield, Levinson discusses the art and science of managing organizations in competitive situations; to win, people and systems must deliver quality products and services.
In SPC Essentials and Productivity Improvement: A Manufacturing Approach, Levinson and coauthor Frank Tumbelty teach the essentials of statistical process control without the manual mathematical calculations usually required. The textbook is designed for quality professionals who must use SPC on the job. Both books are available from Quality Press in Milwaukee.
Levinson is a professional engineer with certification from ASQC, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, American Institute of Chemists, and the Institute of Certified Professional Managers.
Tom Broderick '73
East Burke, Vt., resident Tom Broderick '73 D.O., contributed an essay to the book
Letters for Our Children, a collection of fifty letters from parents to their children sharing values and experiences that have influenced their lives. Broderick's essay is to his ten year-old son, Currie, about making choices in life and “doing the right thing.”
W. Tillar Shugg '39
The Handbook of Electrical and Electronic Insulating Materials is the updated second edition of industry expert W. Tillar Shugg's original information source devoted to all classes of dielectric materials. It is a reference
manual for engineers, material specialists, and all others in the electronics industries. The book is available from IEEE Press in hardcover.
Daniel Schwarz '63
Daniel Schwarz's new book, Reconfiguring Modernism: Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and Modern
Literature, considers such painters as Manet, Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, and Cezanne as well as authors Joyce, Conrad, Lawrence, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf. He asks what these figures have in common and how they may have influenced each other. Schwarz is a professor of English at Cornell University, and the book is published by St. Martin's Press.
Ray Rappaport
Union Professor Emeritus of Biology Ray Rappaport discusses the centrality of cell division to biological development in his book,
Cytokinesis in Animal Cells. Experiments devised to test cell division theories are described and explained. The book also traces the history of
some of the major ideas in the field and gives an account of our current knowledge of animal cytokinesis. The book was published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press.
Gary Prevost '69
The Undermining of the Sandinista Revolution,
co-edited by Gary Prevost '69 and Harry E. Vanden, is a debate on the gains or losses to the Nicaraguan government and populace as the result of the Sandinista revolution. A principal theme is that the revolution is in significant retreat with social and economic gains largely reversed.
Prevost is a professor of political science at St. John's University in Minnesota.
David K. Rosenthal '75
The author, a professional handicapper, shows readers how to maximize profits with proper betting techniques in
The Complete Guide to Racetrack Betting. Using many examples from three popular North American racetracks, Rosenthal discusses proper money management as well as knowing how to place a bet and when. The book is available from Liberty Publishing Co.
Robert Milder '67
Reimagining Thoreau (Cambridge University Press) is a detailed summary of Henry David Thoreau's career from his graduation from Harvard University in 1837 to his death
in 1862. Milder explains the psychosocial undercurrents in Thoreau's works such as
Walden and shows how the works changed over time as Thoreau, himself, was changing.
Milder is a professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English at Washington University in St. Louis.
Louis W. Joy III '81 and Jo A. Joy
Written as a fictional novel, Frontline Teamwork gives the reader a look at contemporary plant management, explaining how to build teamwork and total quality as well as delegating authority.
Louis Joy is president of Manufacturing Excellence, Inc., a management consulting firm. Jo A. Joy is vice president of Manufacturing Excellence and a senior financial analyst for Hewlett Packard. The book is available from Irwin Professional Publishing.
Emily Monosson '83
Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem
Health, co-edited by Emily Monosson and Richard T. DiGiulio, is part of a series from Chapman & Hall Publishing on ecotoxicology. The book raises environmental management issues to stimulate discussion of how to deal with environmental disturbances that affect human and ecosystem health.
Monosson is an adjunct professor in the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.