Rochester Review
July–August 2010
Vol. 72, No. 6
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In Review
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but it can be a nice way to get acquainted. As part of an effort to showcase scholarly research, performance, and creativity, University authors and artists were honored this spring at the third annual Celebration of the Book. Featured were more than 60 publications released this year. Here’s a taste of just a few. To see the full list, visit www.rochester.edu/pr/Review.
(Photo: Adam Fenster)Michael Jarvis, Associate Professor of History
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World, 1680-1783 (University of North Carolina Press)
“If we discard Europeans’ predilection for placing north at the top of maps and approach British America from a mariner’s point of view, a more authentic geography encompassing the full scope of British America emerges. Jamaica and the quasi settlements of Belize and the Mosquito Coast in the Caribbean and Hudson Bay excepted, nearly all of British America was arrayed along a continuous curving arc of islands and coastline stretching from Newfoundland to Tobago. Bermuda lay at the center of this vast British American crescent, roughly equidistant from all points on its rim.”
(Photo: Adam Fenster)Peter Milonni, Professor of Physics Joseph Eberly, the Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics
Laser Physics (John Wiley & Sons)
“The word laser is an acronym for the most significant feature of laser action: light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. There are many different kinds of laser, but they all share a crucial element: Each contains material capable of amplifying radiation.”
(Photo: Adam Fenster)Barry Goldstein ’81M (MD), ’82M (PhD), Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Gray Land: Soldiers on War (W. W. Norton & Company)
“I have no political agenda: no one indicts war more powerfully than an experienced soldier, and no one enumerates more eloquently the reasons for serving. Collectively, their stories convey the many, often conflicting, emotions that any soldier deals with in a war zone and returning home.”
