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May 6, 2005|Volume 33, Number 28|Two-Week Issue


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Historian John Morton Blum has written his first book of fiction, a murder mystery that takes place on the Yale campus and in New Haven.



Yale Books in Brief

The following is a list of books recently or soon-to-be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers.


100 Questions & Answers About Menopause
Ivy M. Alexander, associate professor at the School of Nursing, director of the Adult, Family, Gerontological and Women's Health Primary Care Specialty, and a clinician at the Yale University Health Services, and Karla A. Knight
(Jones and Bartlett Publishers)

This new book on menopause, written by a nurse practitioner and a nurse, covers menopause symptoms and treatment options, including lifestyle changes, alternative therapies, prescription medications and more. The authors also discuss issues surrounding the controversy over hormone therapy, natural hormones, how to make the best decisions regarding treatment and lifestyle, and other midlife health risks, such as osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer.


A Great and Nobel Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland
John Mack Faragher, the Arthur Unobskey Professor of American History, director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, and professor of American studies
(W.W. Norton & Company)

In his new book, John Mack Faragher describes one of the tragic events in the early period of American settlement. In 1755, the British forcibly rounded up some 18,000 French-speaking residents of Nova Scotia and loaded them into transports, separating parents from children and husbands from wives. They scattered them throughout the British Empire. Thousands of uprooted Acadians died, and their lands were taken over by Yankee settlers from New England. Drawing on primary research, Faragher tells the story of this expulsion in detail, following specific Acadian families through the anguish of their removal and exploring the British settlers' reasons for what has since been described as an early American example of 'ethnic cleansing' -- or, as the Acadians themselves called the calamity, "le grand dérangement."


Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy
Michael R. Auslin, assistant professor of history
(Harvard University Press)

"Negotiating with Imperialism" is the first book to explain the emergence of modern Japan through an early period of treaty relations, beginning in 1858 with the signing of the "unequal" commercial treaty with the United States. Over the next 15 years, Japanese diplomacy was reshaped to respond to the Western imperialist challenge, Auslin contends. Tracing various visions of Japan's international identity, Auslin examines the evolution of the culture of Japanese diplomacy and demonstrates the limits of 19th-century imperialist power by examining the responses of British, French and American diplomats. Auslin also dispels the myth that the Tokugawa shoganate was diplomatically incompetent, showing how Japanese diplomats employed negotiation as a weapon to defend Japan's interests.


American Yard: Poems by Dolores Hayden
Dolores Hayden, professor of architecture, urbanism and American studies
(David Robert Books)

In her first collection of poems, Dolores Hayden covers subjects ranging from her daughter's birth and growing up to landscapes of places traveled to the delights of nature. One book jacket commentary reads, "Dolores Hayden infuses formalism with spiky wit and colloquial charm in poems that show us America from Maine to California, from Teddy Roosevelt's childhood to that of her own delightful, ever-so-modern daughter. She gives us a land of motorcycles, flea markets, old houses in new siding, and gardens that still speak the old victorian 'language of flowers' -- but most of all she gives us the America within ourselves, a place of violence and drift but also -- still! -- sweetness and beauty."


America's Inadvertent Empire
William E. Odom, professor (adjunct) of political science, and Robert Dujarric
(Yale University Press)

William Odom, former director of the National Security Agency (1985-1988) and Robert Dujarric analyze America's unprecedented power within the international areas of politics, economics, demographics, education, science and culture. They argue in their new book that the major threat to this empire is not a rising rival power but ineffective U.S. leadership.


Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, 7th edition
Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, the Amy and Joseph Perella Professor of Medicine at the Yale Cancer Center, and Dr. Samuel Hellman and Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins)

Acclaimed by the medical community as "the ultimate authority on cancer," this book is now in its seventh edition. More than 25 Yale physicians contributed to the completely revised and updated book, which reflects the latest breakthroughs in molecular biology, cancer prevention and multimodality treatment of every cancer type. New chapters examine molecular biologic techniques including proteomics, genomics, targeted therapies, RNA interference, cDNA arrays and tissue arrays. In addition, new sections explore bioinformatics and societal issues in oncology, including regulatory issues, telemedicine and international differences in oncology. New information on functional and metabolic imaging, vaccines and antiangiogenesis agents is also provided.


Postcolonial Melancholia
Paul Gilroy, professor of sociology and professor and chair of African American studies
(Columbia University Press)

In "Postcolonial Melancholia," Paul Gilroy defends multiculturalism within the context of the post-9/11 "politics of security." He continues the conversation he began in his study of race and nation titled "There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack," arguing that the melancholic reactions that have obstructed the process of working through the legacy of colonialism are implicated not only in hostility and violence directed at blacks, immigrants and aliens but in an ability to value the ordinary, unruly multiculture that has evolved organically in urban centers. He proposes that it is possible to celebrate this multiculture and live with otherness without becoming fearful or violent.


An Old Blue Corpse: A New Haven Mystery
John Morton Blum, professor emeritus of history
(Publish America)

New Haven -- and Yale -- provide the setting for this murder mystery, John Morton Blum's first venture in fiction. In his novel, a longtime Yale employee who works in the Secretary's Office is found poisoned, and the trail to her murder begins 18 months earlier with the search for a new president of the University. Pursuing that search are history professor Jerry Walsh and law professor Lilith Furman, who work in an environment charged by the inner secrets of the leading candidates, one involved in an illicit love affair, another in love with a rival's wife, and a third the creature of perverse sexual desires. In order to find crucial clues to the crime, the two professors must break a secret computer code.


T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Renowned Harvard scholar named dean of Yale SOM

F&ES group gets lessons in global, local activism during Kenya trip

Champion archer aims to achieve state of grace when wielding her bow

Report details University's progress on environmental issues

'Mugsy' proves to be top dog in Handsome Dan competition

Whistler works, recent acquisitions showcased in exhibitions

Scholar of womanist theology and expert on the art of preaching . . .

Researchers illuminate how bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics

YALE LIBRARY NEWS

Grants from Seaver Institute support medical and library projects

African-American women report wider range of menopausal symptoms

International array of scholars to discuss 'Culture in the World'

Events to examine the risks and benefits of biopharming

MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS

Awards to two faculty members support improved race relations

Engineer wins grant for research in nanotechnology

Painting at the Y

IN MEMORIAM

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes

From sneakers to playgrounds


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