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The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions

Undermine the Middle ClassEdward Conard, M.B.A. ’82

Top Ten NY Times Bestselling Author, Larry Summers: “a valuable contri-bution.” www.EdwardConard.comAvailable on Amazon, at local bookstores.

Summing Up: A Professional MemoirBertram Fields, J.D. ’52

A delightfully readable tour of a re-markable career among the rich and famous. Fields has spent his entire professional career as an attorney. Get it at Marmont Lane Books.

Gloriana: Exploring The Reign Of Elizabeth I

Bertram Fields, J.D. ’52A breathless account of Eliza-beth’s rise to power. Was she “The Virgin Queen?” Did she sanction murder? Fully illustrated in color. Get it on Amazon.

Gloriana: Exploring The Shylock: His Own StoryBertram Fields, J.D. ’52

Now, Bertram Fields gives us Shake-speare’s enigmatic Shylock’s full story, his dangerous background, his loves and challenges, and his motiva-tion for the demand of a pound of flesh. Get it on Amazon.

Shylock: His Own StoryThe Upside of Inequality:

Destiny: A Novel Of Napoleon & JosephineBertram Fields, J.D. ’52

Napoleon & Josephine. A story of loyalty, betrayal, and tempestuous love set against a sweeping back-ground of intrigue, terror, and war. Get it on Amazon.

Hamlet on the CouchJames Groves ’68, M.D. ’72

Weaves a close reading of Shake-speare’s Hamlet with a large variety of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological theory, looking at the interplay of ideas between the two. Available on Amazon.

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their

Astonishing Odyssey Home Richard Bell, Ph.D. ’06

A gripping true story about � ve boys kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to free themselves.

My City of DreamsLisa Gruenberg, HMS Faculty

In this second-gen. Holocaust memoir, Gruenberg, confronted with her elderly father’s � ashbacks, begins to inhabit the story of his sister, who disappeared into Germany in 1941. For more information, go to www.mycityofdreamsbook.com

The Mithras ConspiracyMichael J. Polelle, J.D ’63

When Detective Leone � nds a Vatican scholar dead in the Tiber, he must over-come a neo-fascist conspiracy inspired bythe Mithras cult. The plotters threaten to topple the Italian government and unsettle Christianity. On Amazon. Mjpolelle.com.

The Mithras ConspiracySplit Rock: A Martha’s Vineyard Novel

Holly Hodder Eger ’82 “A very Vineyard book … a great, mov-ing read.” – Carly Simon. Winner, Interna-tional Book Awards, Best Women’s Fiction. “Intelligent, sensitive storytelling with a strong sense of place” (Kirkus Reviews).

Split Rock: A Martha’s The Great Connecting: The Emergence of Global Broadband

Jim Cashel, M.D. ’89, M.P.P. ’91Initiatives by SpaceX, Amazon, Google, and others will bring affordable broad-band to half the planet that has little or no Internet access. That creates both great opportunities and challenges.

Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist

Gospel, & The Christianity We Haven’t Tried Yet

Meggan Watterson, M.T.S. ’01The gospel of Mary Magdalene tells a very different love story from the one we’ve come to refer to as Christianity.

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Mutual Rescue: How Adopting a Homeless Animal Can Save You, TooCarol Novello, M.B.A. ’91

With Ginny Graves. Pro� les the impact that shelter pets have on humans, ex-ploring the emotional, physical, and spir-itual gifts that rescue animals provide.

Mutual Rescue:

Dr. Abbo’s Guide to a Healthy, Long Life: Why do we age?How can we slow it down?

Fred E. Abbo ’50Provides a comprehensive guide to a healthy lifestyle, with the aim of provid-ing valid current information and useful health rules. Available on Amazon.com

The Molecular and Cellular Biology of Viruses

C. Phoebe Lostroh, Ph.D. ’01Viruses are fascinating and provide a unique window into cellular life. This book teaches contemporary and histor-ical experimental evidence that supports current understanding of the virosphere.

The Molecular and Cellular

Inside the Hot ZoneMark Kortepeter ’83, M.P.H. ’95A physician expert in biological weapon threats takes the reader on a shocking, eye-opening ride as he describes in grip-ping detail how he navigated threats relat-ed to anthrax, botulism, smallpox, plague, and Ebola in the nation’s “hot zone.”

The Ninth Amendment, The Benchwarmer

Judge Howard Lewis Fink (ret.), LL.B ’60

“What is the Ninth Amendment, why hasn’t it been used and how can it pro-tect your liberty?” Available at Shake-speare & Co, NYC. shakeandco.com

Inside the Hot Zone Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great

War through the Cold WarJonathan Rosenberg, Ph.D. ’97Rosenberg explores the relationship between classical music in America and critical international develop-ments in the twentieth century.

Dangerous Melodies: Classical The Ninth Amendment,

Mastering the Game: Strategies for Career SuccessSharon E. Jones ’77, J.D. ’82 with Sudheer R. Poluru ’15

There’s nothing more frustrating than playing a game without knowing all the rules. Learn ten key unwritten rules of U.S. workplace culture.

Mastering the Game: Treasure ShipDennis M. Powers, M.B.A. ’69

The true story of a gold-laden ship of history. Lost for over 125 years, a band of adventurers discovered the multi-mil-lions in gold off the California coast–along with lawyers and the Supreme Court. 2nd edition: Amazon/Kindle.

Treasure Ship

Solitary SubversivesRalph D. Sawyer, A.M. ’70

Striving to prevent a suicidal war with England, two Bostonian brothers resort to deception, theatrical façades, sabotage, and the “ploy of suffering � esh” in a quest to undermine British arrogance and resolve just prior to the War of 1812.

Solitary Subversives

The Raging Sea: The Powerful Account of the

Worst Tsunami in U.S. HistoryDennis M. Powers, M.B.A. ’69

The shocking events of the tsunami that devastated the U.S. West Coast, a Northern California town, and contin-ued away. 2nd Edition: Amazon/Kindle.

Noise Matters: The Evolution of CommunicationR. Haven Wiley ’65

Harvard University Press 2015. Why communication, perception, and signaling cannot be perfect. Self-awareness and cancer happen! See amazon or rhwiley.bio.unc.edu

Now And ThenSelected Longer Poems J. Chester Johnson ’66

“The same amplitude of intelligence,passion and formal achievement as…Melville’s Moby Dick, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and Ginsberg’s Fall of America.” - Lawrence Joseph

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Truth over Fear: Combating the Lies about Islam

Charles Kimball, Th.D. ’87To combat religious misunderstand-ing in the U.S., Charles Kimball offers a primer on Islam and paves the way for Christian-Muslim engagement and cooperation. Available on Amazon.

Economic Statecraft and US Foreign Policy: Reducing the

Demand for ViolenceLeif Rosenberger ’72

Too often, militarized US foreign policy and economic coercion fail. Instead, try social inclusion and shared prosperity to mitigate root causes of con� ict.

Economic Statecraft and US Keeping the Dream AliveContributing author: Julia C. Davis,

Ed.M. ’73, Jeanne C. DeFazioContains full color images of Harriet Lorence Nesbitt’s art giving an over-view of her unique life and style. This monographic collection explores the historic background of Nesbitt’s art.

Keeping the Dream Alive

Success Factors for Minorities in Engineering

Jacqueline Fleming, Ph.D. ’74 Irving Pressley McPhail, M.A.T. ’71By encompassing a large range of pro-grams, this research adds to the evidence base for the importance of hands-on exposure to the work of engineering.

The Innovator’s Discussion: The Conversational Skills of

Entrepreneurial TeamsBetsy Campbell, Ed.M. ’93, Ph.D.The founder of Harvard Alumni Entre-preneurs describes the conversational moves that facilitate entrepreneurial success. #TheInnovatorsDiscussion

The Innovator’s Discussion: Success Factors for Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film: Secret Messages

and Buried TreasureSteven F. Walker, A.M. ’66, Ph.D. ’73Deliberately hidden in the text by the author, but ultimately discernible via a series of clues, cryptic subtexts provide new possibilities for reinterpretation.

Cryptic Subtexts in Literature

Bubble in the SunChristopher Knowlton ’78

The former Fortune writer and author of Cattle Kingdom takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression. Simon & Schuster will publish the book on January 14, 2020.

Bubble in the Sun

Ironies and Complications of Free Speech

Marjorie Heins, J.D. ’78Topics include loyalty oaths, junk science, the FCC’s censorship of “indecency,” copyright issues involv-ing James Joyce, Tennessee Williams, and fantasy baseball, and much more.

Ironies and Complications

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Alan I W Frank HouseThe Modernist Masterwork by

Walter Gropius & Marcel BreuerAlan I W Frank ’54, Kenneth

Frampton, Ezra StollerA rare opportunity to explore the largest and most important house designed by Gropius and Breuer.

Democracy for the New MillenniumMichael Karath, M.P.A. ’06

This book examines the baser elements of capitalism that overwhelm and under-mine democracy and concludes that a constitutional amendment restoring cam-paign spending limits is the only reform that can truly “get money out of politics.”

They Hate If You’re Clever and Despise a Fool, Race and Class: A View from the Bottom UpValeriano Diviacchi, J.D. ’88

A conceptual analysis of race and class based on the author’s life going from an emigrant uneducated working-class back-ground to Harvard and then back down.

They Hate If You’re Clever and Democracy for the New MillenniumBeethoven Unbound: The Story of the Eroica

Allan S. Haley ’66, J.D. ’70How Beethoven fastened on the her-oism of the chain-bound Prometheus to surmount the crisis of his growing deafness and generate the compo-sition that changed music forever.

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The Turnstile of Time: A NovelDavid P. Boyd ’65

A cosmopolitan tale that begins at Oxford University and leads you on an amorous odyssey, a road that winds through a sorrowful interlude on the East Coast to lasting ful� llment in the Wild West. To order: info@coastal181.com

The Turnstile of Time: A Novel

The Book of Exile: The Bible for Curious BibliophobesSusan B. Merwin ’59

An account of what is on the page from Genesis to Revelation. Avoiding faith-based judgments, Merwin focuses on the Bible’s creation of the greatest art from our most painful human experiences.

Evolution of an EducatorJoel O. Nwagbaraocha, Ed.D. ’72From Nigerian Student to American College Administrator. A man’s education begins in the British Cameroons and Nigeria, continued at Norfolk State University, and � nished with a doctorate at Harvard.

Fugitive SheriffEdward Massey, M.B.A. ’67

Sheriff Simms pins on his father’s star, ful� lls his calling, hunts his father’s killer, and eludes the U.S. Marshal who hunts him for the bounty on his head. Avail-able on Amazon and wherever books are sold. edwardmasseybooks.com

Fugitive Sheriff KOBBWilliam Goodson, M.D. ’71

In a world that’s dry and changing, six-year-old Jack Kobb feels alone as he struggles to understand why he has a birth defect and what it means to be different. Find it at your local bookseller and on Amazon.

KOBB The Practice: What They Do Not Teach In Law SchoolStanley E. Harris Jr. ’58

Gordon Graham grows up, attends Harvard, navigates his law education, makes life-directing choices about his career path and embarks on many legal, personal, and humorous adventures.

The Exchange Order: Property and Liability as an Economic

SystemRichard Adelstein, M.A.T. ’70

The principle of exchange, an eye for an eye, unites the domains of tort, crime, and ordinary markets, reconciling those who cause harm and those who bear it.

Wasting Time Constructively: A Guide to a Balanced Life

Peter J. Solomon ’60, M.B.A. ’63Does Harvard make a difference? In his fast-paced memoir, Peter J. Solomon an-swers this question in terms of his life in business, government and not-for-pro� t. Available online and at the Harvard Coop.

Wasting Time Constructively:

Seeing Patients: A Surgeon’s Story of Race and Medical Bias

Augustus A. White III, HMS Faculty, with David Chanoff

Dr. White is professor of orthopedic surgery and Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education at HMS. bit.ly/seeingpatients

Discrimination and DisparitiesThomas Sowell ’58

Half of all Americans are in the “top 10%” in income at some point in their lives. Time and turnover are ignored in most income statistics. But not in this book, where considering such factors changes many conclusions radically.

Discrimination and Disparities Stamford ’76, A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and

Feminism in the 1970sJoeAnn Hart, A.L.B. ’97

(University of Iowa Press, 2019) The au-thor revisits the bow-and-arrow murder of a white female and the subsequent police killing of her black boyfriend.

You’re Going to Heaven Whether You Like It Or Not

Laurence McKinney ’66, M.B.A.’69Cutting-edge neuroscience provides fresh perspectives on eternal questions. “Your book has given me peace. I no lon-ger fear death”–David Goodstein. Re-views and more at GoingtoHeaven.org

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The Parallel EntrepreneurRyan Buckley, M.P.P. ’09

How to start and run B2B businesses while keeping your day job. Building a product on the Internet is easy these days. It’s the making money part that’s hard. Learn how to build multiple pro� t-able businesses and run them in parallel.

The Parallel Entrepreneur

Dirty ScienceBob Gebelein ’56

Establishment scientists assert that there is no reality beyond the physical. This has not been proven, so they use unscienti� cmethods to block whole dimensions of knowledge, mental and spiritual. Now on Amazon.com and store.bookbaby.com

Mindfulness: A Better Me; A Better You; A Better WorldAnnabel Beerel, Ph.D. and

Tom Raf� o ’78, FLMIHow to build mindfulness into your workplace culture. The Bookery (Man-chester, N.H.); Gibson’s Bookstore (Concord, N.H.); or Amazon.com

There Are No Do-Overs: The Big Red Factors for

Sustaining a Business Long TermTom Raf� o ’78, FLMI, Dave

Cowens, and Barbara McLaughlinInsight on creating a winning team at the of� ce by reviewing lessons from the basketball court. Amazon.com

Your Plastic Surgery Companion: A Consumer’s Guide to Facial

Plastic SurgeryRoss A. Clevens, M.D. ’89, M.P.H. ’90 A must-read guide for anyone considering facial plastic surgery. Proceeds bene� t the Clevens Family nonpro� t Face of Change. Learn more at www.DrClevens.com

The Rule of Culture: Corporate and State Governance in

China and East AsiaHong Hai, M.P.A. ’88

Culture has an abiding in� uence on gov-ernance. East Asian traditions can accept benevolent authoritarian forms of gover-nance, including “meritocratic democracy.”

The Rule of Culture: Corporate

To purchase one of the books listed below, please visit the publisher’s website, search amazon.com, or visit your local bookstore. To advertise your book in our next Harvard Authors’ Bookshelf section, email: classi� eds@harvard.edu or call 617-496-6686.

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Black EyeSharon Dennis Wyeth ’70

Poems with themes of domestic vio-lence and racial identity. Wyeth is a Cave Canem poet. Available at Finishing Line Press or Amazon. “What was hidden and shadowed by ghosts...emerges in bruis-ing, burning race and sex.” - Francis Klein

Abraham Lincoln and Making a Case: The Story of a Master

Joseph F. Roda ’71Explore Lincoln’s remarkable talent for persuasion on his journey from a small-town lawyer to one of our nation’s great-est leaders in this debut scholarly work. A must-read for attorneys and professors.

Defense of the Scienti� c Hypothesis: From Reproducibility

Crisis to Big DataBradley E. Alger, Ph.D. ’77

The status of the scienti� c hypothesis is crumbling; eroded by neglect and overt hostility. Now consider the issues; weigh the defense. From OUP or Amazon.

The If Borderlands: Collected Poems

Elise Tompkins Partridge ’80‘In their ample, embracing, nuanced appe-tite for sensory experience, [these poems] achieve an ardent, compassionate, and un-sentimental vision’ –Robert Pinsky. ‘A poet of brilliant precisions’ –Rosanna Warren.

Mastering Money: How To Beat Debt, Build Wealth, and Be

Prepared for Any Financial Crisis Norman Champ, J.D. ’89

For Americans who are living in fear of � nancial problems and want to re-capture the American Dream. Champ, author of Going Public, lecturer at HLS.

Mastering Money: How To Beat The If Borderlands: THE PASHA: How Mehmet Ali De� ed the West, 1839-1841

Letitia Wheeler Ufford ’58From French politicians to Egyptian cavalry, “The Pasha lets the diplomatic crisis unfold as understood and experienced by the principal actors, giving it the dramatic qual-ity of theatre.” –L.C. Brown, Foreign Affairs.