Books & Recordings
Books
Understanding Teen Eating Disorders: Warning Signs, Treatment Options, and Stories of Courage
By Mary Tantillo et al
Routledge, 2018
Tantillo coauthors a guide to teen eating disorders presented as a series of case studies of common scenarios, with a series of treatment options for each. Tantillo is a professor of clinical nursing at Rochester’s School of Nursing and a fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders.
A Spectrum of Voices: Prominent American Voice Teachers Discuss the Teaching of Singing (Second Edition)
By Elizabeth Blades ’93E (DMA)
Rowman and Littlefield, 2018
Blades offers a new edition of the book in which she interviews prominent American voice teachers, incorporating updated observations about pedagogy, technology, and style, and several new participants. A second edition of her Singing with Your Whole Self: A Singer’s Guide to Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2017. Blades is the founder and director of Vocalhealthworks and an adjunct professor of music at Shenandoah University.
Educating Refugee-Background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts
Edited by Mary Jane Curry et al
Multilingual Matters, 2018
Curry, an associate professor of teaching and curriculum at the Warner School of Education, coedits a collection of empirical research exploring major issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds living in North America, Australia, and Europe.
Words Marked by a Place: Local Histories in Central Oregon
By Jarold Ramsey
Oregon State University Press, 2018
Ramsey, a professor emeritus of English at Rochester, offers a series of interconnected writings on the human and natural history of central Oregon. Ramsey lives in Madras, Oregon.
Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and Its Afterlives
Edited by Steven Rozenski et al
Brill, 2018
Rozenski, an assistant professor of English at Rochester, coedits a collection of essays exploring “the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion.” The essays originated as presentations at a National Endowment for the Humanities–funded conference in York, UK, in 2014.
Depression as a Systemic Illness
Edited by James Strain and Michael Blumenfield ’60
Oxford University Press, 2018
Blumenfield coedits a collection of research findings exploring depression as a physical, as well as a mental, illness. Blumenfield is the Sidney E. Frank Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York Medical College.
Value Driven Healthcare and Geriatric Medicine: Implications for Today’s Changing Health System
By James Powers ’77M (MD/PhD)
Springer, 2018
Powers explores the origins, implications, challenges, and promise of value-based purchasing in medicine as a model to reward quality in health care delivery. Powers is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University.
My Heroes and Their Stories of Survival
By Patrick Bastow ’75D
Bookbaby, 2017
Bastow, a retired dentist who served patients at the Canandaigua, New York, VA Medical Center, brings together memories shared with him by his patients who served in combat in World War II.
Art, Artifact, Commodity: Perspectives on the P. G. T. Black Collection
Edited by Robert Foster et al
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 2017
Foster, a professor of anthropology at Rochester, coedits a series of essays on one of the oldest and largest collections of material culture from the western Pacific Islands made by a single person—amassed between 1886 and 1916 and transferred to the Buffalo Museum of Science in 1938. Foster is also editor and contributor to a collection of essays, The Moral Economy of Mobile Phones: Pacific Islands Perspectives (Australian National University Press, 2018).
Last Roman’s Prayer
By John Caligiuri ’79S (MBA)
Insomnia Publishing, 2018
Caligiuri presents his third novel, an alternative history of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1452.
Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All
By Jennifer Donnelly ’85 et al
Schwartz & Wade, 2018
Donnelly is coauthor of a “collaborative novel” in which she and six other novelists reimagine the story of King Henry VIII and his wives, retelling the monarch’s history from multiple vantage points.
Manna City
By Geoffrey Pierce ’06 (MA)
CreateSpace, 2018
Pierce tells a tale of survival in which an escaped slave, a one-armed man, and a pregnant woman “travel through the scorched remnants of Earth, searching for the last remaining oasis, Manna City.”
The College Bound Organizer: The Ultimate Guide to Successful College Applications from Search through Admission
By Anna Costaras and Gail Liss ’80
Mango Media, 2017
Liss, cofounder of Bound to Organize, coauthors an updated edition of the college-application guide first published in 2013. Edward Fiske, author of Fiske Guide to Colleges, writes the foreword.
The New Email Revolution: Save Time, Make Money, and Write Emails People Actually Want to Read
By Robert Bly ’79
Skyhorse Publishing, 2018
Copywriter Bly offers a guide to crafting effective emails for business.
Introduction to Microfinance
By Todd Watkins ’84
World Scientific, 2018
Watkins, a professor of economics at Lehigh University, offers a nontechnical introduction to “the broad array of inclusive financial and nonfinancial services for the world’s poor.”
Health in Humanitarian Emergencies: Principles and Practice for Public Health and Healthcare Practitioners
Edited by David Townes ’89
Cambridge University Press, 2018
Townes, a professor of emergency medicine and adjunct professor of global health at the University of Washington, edits an up-to-date guide suggesting ways to better integrate clinical with overall emergency response efforts.
The Day the Sun Changed Colors
By Scott Evans ’84
CreateSpace, 2018
Evans presents his second comic novel, set more than 2,000 years in the future, when the sun bombards Earth with changing colors, causing societies to unravel.
Crisis in Grand Canyon
By Michelle Klaiman Rubin ’73
CreateSpace, 2017
In her novel about a rafting trip gone awry, Rubin intertwines the magic, lore, history, and science of the Grand Canyon into a tale of suspense.
Recordings
The Classroom Sessions
By Robert Barrett ’88E
Third Street Music, 2018
Barrett, an assistant professor of recording arts and music business at North Central University in Minneapolis, presents a recording derived from classroom projects he has conducted in audio engineering and mixing techniques.
Archive Recordings, 1966–2008
By Max Stern ’69E
Max Stern, 2018
Composer Stern’s limited edition CD is “a retrospective of personal recordings that have never previously seen the light of day, but, nonetheless, constitute a significant part of my musical biography.”
Eastern Currents
By Ensemble 365
Romeo Records, 2018
Ensemble 365, featuring founding member and pianist Mirna Lekic ’02E, performs contemporary Asian music by several composers, including Ming-Hsiu Yen ’03E.
Assorted Colors
By Spin Cycle
Sound Footing Records, 2018
The jazz ensemble co-led by saxophonist Tom Christensen ’86E (MM) presents an eclectic mix of new compositions on the group’s second CD.
Reflections
By Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Summit Records, 2017
Conductor Mallory Thompson ’85E (DMA) leads the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble in a diverse repertoire.
Theme and Variations
By Leslie Tung ’77E (MM)
MSR Classics, 2018
Keyboardist Tung performs Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven on a five-octave Viennese fortepiano.
Rising
By Vicente Avella ’98E (MM)
Pandora’s Boombox Records, 2018
Avella features original compositions which he performs on piano, accompanied by strings, guitars, vocals, percussion, and electronics.
Books & Recordings is a compilation of recent work by University alumni, faculty, and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming issue, send the work’s title, publisher, author or performer, a brief description, and a high-resolution cover image, to Books & Recordings, Rochester Review, 22 Wallis Hall, Box 270044, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0044; or by e-mail to rochrev@rochester.edu.