http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home en-us http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-the-second-battle-for-africa-garveyism-the-us-heartland-and-global-black-freedom-em-by-erik-s-mcduffie-92/view The author, an associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and enduring incubators of Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and its offshoots Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-comprehending-cinema-em-by-scott-macdonald-professor-of-cinema-and-media-studies/view Oscar-winning documentarians, filmmakers, a cine-historian and video-essayist, the list goes on. Throughout this volume, which completes MacDonald’s “avant-doc trilogy,” readers will find interviews and essays that “model a generalist approach to modern audiovisual media, prioritizing remarkable cinematic accomplishments that can get lost within our overwhelming modern mediascape.&rdquo Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-party-on-the-point-stories-of-piedmont-people-em-by-john-engell-70/view This collection features 12 stories (11 of which have been previously published in literary magazines) set in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas. Also included is the first chapter of one of two novels the author has written in the last six years Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-diane-true-survivor-em-by-ward-v-b-lassoe-82/view Through a series of compelling conversations with Lassoe, a psychotherapist, a woman named Diane shares the story of how she overcame significant hardships and abuse with unwavering resilience. Her intimate memories as a white woman who spends most of her life in an African American community also offer a fascinating perspective on race relations Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-debt-ritual-em-by-katie-naughton-08/view Winner of the 2023 Bunny chapbook contest, Naughton’s slim book of poetry describes debt as something intensely private, yet significantly interconnected with global systems of power Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-how-to-stop-wars-and-save-the-world-lessons-in-settlement-negotiation-and-leadership-em-bob-worden-76/view By trade, Worden is a lawyer who focuses on helping people and corporations reach fair settlements in high-stakes lawsuits. In this book he shares several surprising stories about individuals and events that led to the three pivotal American wars Thu, 10 Apr 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-nowhere-to-live-the-hidden-story-of-america-s-housing-crisis-em-by-james-s-burling-76/view Skyhorse Publishing, 2024) For many families, homelessness is no longer someone else’s problem. It is right around the corner, a real threat in their own immediate future. The author goes on to maintain, “Our housing crisis is the result of a long history of government policies, court cases, and political manipulation. While these disparate causes make up a tangled web, they have one surprising root: the attack on private property rights. For more than a century, government policies and court decisions have attacked, undermined, and eroded private property rights. Whether it be exclusionary zoning, eminent domain abuse, rent control, or excessive environmental regulations, the cumulative impact of these assaults on private property is that it’s become increasingly difficult — or even impossible — to build adequate housing supplies to meet market demands. We are fast approaching a time when millions of typical Americans will, quite literally, have nowhere to live.”          &nbsp Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-old-songs-replayed-em-by-peter-weltner-64/view Marrowstone Press, 2024) In this, his fifth self-declared “last book” of poems (this time he probably means it!), Weltner devotes the first half to reflections on his time at Hamilton. The collection that fills the section “Late Winter Snow on College Hill” is dedicated to members of his Class of 1964 and in memory of his longtime friend Sam Crowl ’62. &nbsp Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-road-to-the-final-hour-the-catastrophic-tax-consequences-of-the-professionalization-of-college-sports-em-by-thomas-a-mcgovern-01/view self-published, 2025) The author draws on his financial and tax background to provide a survey into the growing monetization of today’s college athletics. He outlines what he calls the “brutal outcomes” of college sports becoming professionalized, including the loss of billions of dollars in tax breaks and foregone revenue that would permanently alter the student-athlete experience. “Massive cuts to the size, number, and quality of non-revenue sports will consequently rob thousands of students of scholarship opportunities and deny higher education to many in the college-enrolling population,” he adds Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/alumni/books/new-home/p/em-in-the-sun-king-s-cosmos-comets-and-the-cultural-imagination-of-seventeenth-century-france-em-by-claire-goldstein-94/view Northwestern University Press, 2025) A study of how unusually bright comets appeared not only in the sky in 1664-65 and 1680-81, but also in ballets and theater, letters and journalism, architecture and institutions, theology and literary style. The author, a French literature and culture professor at the University of California Davis, discusses how these comets — considered at the time to appear in random and unpredictable locations — sparked curiosity, scrutiny, resistance, and doubt regarding the epistemological status of observation Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 EST