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April 6, 2007|Volume 35, Number 24


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Laura Manuelidis, professor and section chief of surgery, published this collection of poems that she wrote over a 40-year period. Proceeds from the sale of the book will support research on a rare degenerative brain disorder.



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.


Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy (sixth edition)
Christopher Lovelock, adjunct professor at the School of Management and Jochen Wirtz
(Pearson/Prentice Hall)

This is the sixth edition of a text that has sold more than 250,000 copies on six different continents and has been lauded as one of the world's most effective on the subject of service marketing. The revised edition offers up-to-date insights into the realities of today's current service economy. Divided in four parts -- "Understanding Service Markets, Products and Customers," "Building the Service Model," "Managing the Customer Interface" and "Implementing Profitable Service Strategies" -- the book includes chapters on such topics as "Managing People for Service Advantage," "Improving Service Quality and Productivity," "Exploring Business Models: Pricing and Revenue Management" and "Balancing Demand and Productive Capacity."


Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style
Carter Wiseman, lecturer at the School of Architecture
(W.W. Norton & Company)

In "Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style," Carter Wiseman investigates the architect's biography, from his birth in Russia-controlled Estonia in 1901 to his childhood and first formal education in Philadelphia, from his grand tour of Europe to his early work and late-career successes, which included the Jonas Salk Institute in southern California, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Capital Complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Drawing on more than 100 interviews with Kahn's colleagues, clients and family members, Wiseman presents a portrait of an artist who rose from his status as a poor immigrant in a depression-era America to the apex of the international architectural scene. The book includes numerous photos of Kahn's life and work, most of them previously unpublished.


Out of Order: Poems
Laura Manuelidis, professor and section chief of surgery (neuropathology)
(iUniverse Inc.)

This selection of poems written over some 40 years includes a foreword by poet and cultural critic Clive Bush and an introductory essay by Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Bush hails Manuelidis by stating, "I ... know of few contemporary poets who can so convey the wonder of human existence so close to its terror, and in a voice intimate yet elusive in its authority -- that edges towards the visionary." John P. Loge Jr., dean of Timothy Dwight College, says of the volume: "We have in this collection a poetry that is direct and brave, from a knowing and felt intelligence that can come only from a life lived fully. And that life -- as scientist and doctor, mother, lover and friend -- is put before us with passionate honesty, to herself and to her reader. Poems and science, she writes, must 'make nature visible.' And she indeed does as she tells us of love and loss, of places remembered, and of life's wonder and life's pain." Manuelidis has published poems in The Nation, The Connecticut Review and other journals. Proceeds of this book will help support research on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare degenerative brain disorder.


The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being
Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery (gastroenterology)
(Random House)

Sherwin Nuland explores the impact of aging on the human mind and body, as well as on relationships and strivings. Acknowledging that aging brings unwelcome effects on the senses, appearance, reflexes, physical endurance and sexual appetite, Nuland maintains that getting older also has surprising blessings -- that for those who treat aging as an art and practice it well, aging can bring extraordinary rewards. Now in his mid-70s himself, Nuland draws on his own life and work as well as on the lives of friends both famous and not to portray the variability of the aging experience, showing how aging can enhance faith and inner strength, deepen relationships and bring an acceptance that some goals will remain unaccomplished. He also examines the latest research on extending life and the scientists who are pursuing it.


Written Into the Void: Selected Writings, 1990-2004
Peter Eisenman, the Louis I. Kahn Professor of Architecture
(Yale University Press)

This book is a companion volume to "Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings, 1963-1988." It gathers a selection of the later writings of Eisenman, a prominent architect, theorist and educator. In these texts, Eisenman offers theoretical analysis, close readings of his own works and assessments of the designs and writings of other architects and critics. This collection of 19 essays provides insight into the architect's own understandings and methodologies. In a major introduction to the volume, Jeffrey Kipnis looks at Eisenman's approach to language and writing, as well as at his context within a critical canon that includes Jacques Derrida and Rosalind Krauss.


Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean of executive programs and the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management, and Andrew Ward
(Harvard Business School Press)

In "Firing Back," Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward lay out a five-step recovery process to help executives recover from career disasters. Their advice: "Fight, not flight," "recruit others into battle," "rebuild heroic stature," "prove your mettle" and "rediscover the heroic mission." Anchored in original research and decades of scholarly studies across fields, the book features stories and first-hand accounts from humbled CEOs and executives from firms such as General Electric, The Home Depot, Morgan Stanley, Apple, Staples and Hewlett-Packard. The authors also identify common barriers to recovery to which even seasoned executives can fall prey and explain how to surmount them.


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

Symposium will consider future of India-U.S. relations

True potential for reform in China to be explored

Symposium, workshop look at Korean film, refugee crisis

Scholars to debate best way to preserve 'global past'

Yale applauds award-winning robotics team from city school

Chubb Fellowship hosts visit by 'America's greatest living composer'

Theater artists and scholars to honor legacy of playwright August Wilson

Library exhibit showcases books that feature images of trees

Award supports research on use of nanoparticles to treat prostate cancer

Carbon dioxide levels have affected Earth's climate for . . .

Exhibit on creation of city's Holocaust memorial features . . .

Shlomchik receives award for his research on memory T-cells

Two Yale researchers receive Donaghue Investigator Awards

Symposium to showcase 'Next Generation of Legal Scholarship'

'Donate Life Week' seeks to raise awareness for organ donation

In Memoriam: Sebastian Konstantinovich Shaumyan

Yale Books in Brief

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