Recent Faculty and Alumni Books

 
 

Nancy Ramage, Judith Snyder Schaeffer, and Crawford H. Greenewalt Jr., The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1997).

This illustrated volume presents imported Greek pottery found at Sardis, capital of the Lydian kingdom in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. The pottery found on mainland Greece is catalogued and discussed. The authors study the styles of the painted pottery, comparing the Sardis finds with those of other sites in ancient Greece and Turkey. Art history professor Ramage wrote the sections on the Athens pieces.

Toni Seger '69 and James Wilfong, Taking Your Business Global: Your Small Business Guide to Successful International Trade (Franklin Lakes, New Jersey: Career Press, 1997).

Designed to introduce small business owners to global trade, this book presents the basics of small business exporting. It introduces ways to develop support systems and identify potential mishaps. Step-by-step explanations show entrepreneurs how to evaluate their likelihood of success and create their own strategies for going global.

Keith Styrcula '82, The Velocity of Money (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1997).

A Wall Street thriller, this novel centers on a group of evil financiers who have secretly gained control of a New York firm's computerized trading mechanisms and plan to use a supercomputer to trigger a worldwide stock market crash. A securities lawyer stumbles onto the plot and joins forces with a computer-savvy college dropout to thwart the scheme before time runs out. The book was written under the pen name of Stephen Rhodes; it is the Park graduate's second novel.

 
 


 

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