AUGUST 2000
WANT SOMETHING TO READ?
CONVERSATIONS WITH CUBA
by C. Peter Ripley, FSU history professor and alumnus (B.A. '66,
M.A. '67, Ph.D. '73)
The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., and London
Peter Ripley traveled to Cuba six times between 1991 and 1999 and came away with a story not about politics or political personalities, but about a passionate, struggling, sometimes discouraged but always proud country, told by citizens whose confidence in their revolution is both enduring and conflicted.
CROSSING JORDAN
by Adrian Fogelin, technical assistant, FSU library
Peachtree Publishers Ltd. Atlanta
This work of fiction for young readers deals with a friendship between a white and a black girl who are neighbors in Tallahassee. The parents of the girls don't want them socializing with each other - but the girls persist.
THE SMILE OF THE ACROBAT England, Tallahassee,
Europe
by Audrey Wilson, retired FSU professor of humanities and alumna
(B.A. 68, M.A. '69, Ph.D. '72)
Prospect Press, Sistersville, W.Va., New York, N.Y.
A collection of poetry that runs a gamut of interests - place, time, opportunities missed and realized, and a deep appreciation of music and art. Wilson conveys that she is an observer of life and shares her vision and voice with the reader in a simple, elegant style.
ANGER FREE Ten Basic Steps to Managing
Your Anger
by W. Doyle Gentry (B.A. '65, M.S. '67, Ph.D. '69 psychology)
Quill, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
In ten steps, anger researcher and psychologist W. Doyle Gentry offers a mind/body approach to alleviating dysfunctional anger. He presents a perspective on anger management with clinically tested methods that draw on the psychobiological elements of toxic anger.
SURVIVAL Diary of an American POW in
World War II
by Sam Higgins (Ph.D '82, education)
Hellgate Press, Central Point, Oregon
This book is based on the daily entries Sam Higgins made on
the margins of his New Testament while he was a prisoner of war.
Built around the actual entries, horrors such as segregation
of the American-Jewish soldiers, the filth and stress of cramped
living conditions and the meager food rations, as well as lighter
moments, are recaptured.
GOD'S OTHER CHILDREN Protestant Nonconformists
and the Emergence of Denomina-tional Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700
by Richard L. Greaves, FSU history department chairman and professor
Stanford University Press, Stanford, California
This is the first full-length work on the fate of the Protestant nonconformists in Ireland following the restoration of the monarchy and the Church of Ireland in 1660.
THE QUICK & EASY AYURVEDIC COOKBOOK
by Eileen Keavy Smith, FSU associate librarian and alumna, (M.S.
'80, information studies)
Journey Editions, an imprint of Tuttle Publishing, Boston, Tokyo,
Singapore
With more than 70 vegetarian and non-vegetarian recipes and
illustrations, this book offers a family-style approach to eating
and staying well.
Smith claims there is a correlation between our environment,
what we eat and how we feel, all based on the ancient Indian
system of healing called Ayurveda.
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