Anthony M. DeStefano ’68, Latino Folk Medicine: Healing Herbal Remedies from an Ancient Tradition (New York: Ballantine Books, 2001) DeStefano’s second book deals with botanical substances used as folk cures by Latinos. The author talks to curanderes, lay healers who prescribe for the sick; visits botanicas, who sell medicinal plant products; and explains some of the herbal folk remedies used in centuries-old Latino traditions. Amy Grech ’94, The Art of Deception (Philadelphia/online: XLibris, 2000) Grech’s first novel is about a young woman, Joan Clifton, who devises an unusual way to exact revenge on the former employer who raped her. She creates a company in which he profitably invests his clients’ money --- until the stock plummets and he discovers who is behind his financial ruin. Grech has published many short stories in magazines. Paul Hamill, The Year of Blue Snow: Northern Poems (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Poetry Press, 2001) Hamill’s most recent collection of poetry may remind some of us of home --- the poems are all set in upstate New York. Hamill’s subject matter ranges from a gopher ("The Landlord") to the Cardiff Giant, a stone statue passed off as a petrified ancient man in the mid–19th century. Hamill, who is now director of academic funding and special programs in the College’s development office, is a former IC associate provost and former English professor. His poetry has been published in various literary magazines and chapbooks. Joseph Kahn, M.S. ’52, Principles and Practices of Electrotherapy, fourth edition (Kent, England: Churchill Livingstone, 2000) Kahn is clinical assistant professor emeritus at the School of Health Technology and Management, State University of New York at Stony Brook. His book is a how-to manual that describes the indications, contraindications, and application techniques of electrotherapy. Kahn emphasizes treatment techniques and clinical skills while also discussing the future of the profession and practical issues such as equipment purchase. This edition adds new material on magnetic field therapy and Qi-Gong, a chapter on treatment designs, updated references, and detailed illustrations and photographs. Georganne Scheiner ’73, Signifying Female Adolescence: Film Representations and Fans, 1920–1950 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000) Scheiner, an associate professor of women’s studies at Arizona State University, looks at films during this period and analyzes the messages they give about girls --- who they were and who they "should be." Sheiner studies the difference between actual experience of adolescence in each period and the film portrayal of it --- and examines how girls responded to the films. Using some nontraditional sources such as fan publications and fan mail, she concludes that films about adolescent girls were not only a formative part of early–20th century history in the United States, but a formative part of being a girl. Benjamin Sears ’75 and Bradford Conner, Rest You Merry: A Holiday Cabaret and Sears, Conner, Valerie Anastasio, and Tim Harbold, Noël and Cole Together with Music: The Songs of Noël Coward and Cole Porter (Boston: Oakton Productions, 2000) Recorded live in concert in 1997, Rest You Merry features vocalist Sears and pianist Conner, who have been performing as a duo since 1989. The CD includes holiday standards, some rarities, and first-time recordings of a "lost song" by Irving Berlin and one by Jerome Kern On Noël and Cole, Sears and Conner team with another Boston duo, Anastasio and Harbold, to bring 19 Coward and Porter tunes to disc. The two duos had performed the works in a series of 1999 concerts in celebration of Coward’s centenary --- engagements that one Boston critic called "a swell party." Patti Witten ’79 and Prairie Doll, Prairie Doll (Ithaca: Potent Folk Records, 2000) Having won a handful of songwriting and album awards for her 1999 folk-rock album Land of Souvenirs, Witten and her band, Prairie Doll, have now released this EP of mostly live-in-the-studio songs. It won a regional best of 2000 album award from the Elmira Star-Gazette, and one track was a finalist in the 2000 Great American Song Contest. Witten lives in Ithaca and performs solo and with Prairie Doll in coffeehouses and concert halls in the area and around the country.
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