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EPA and Superfund, A Small Business Story
The Search for Crystal Key
The Final Score: It's About The Team
Unions and Class Transformation
Too Much of This World
Aquinas on Simplicity: An Investigation into the Foundations of his Philosophical Theology
Pennsylvania's Back Mountain
EPA and Superfund, A Small Business Story
Robert M. Cox '69 (Washington House, 2002)
The author relates the personal story of his family company's entanglements with Superfund. Gilbert Spruance Company was once a viable manufacturer of industrial coatings. Environmental regulatory pressures put the small company out of business; Cox outlines a program to improve the long-term health of the environment while keeping small businesses viable.
The Search for Crystal Key
Ellyn B. Dye '72 (Blue Lion Press, 2008)
In this fantasy adventure, a young heroine deepens her sense of self, learns about relationships and connections, and explores new ideas and concepts. Non-dogmatic spiritual principles are interwoven within this lively tale, inspired by what Dye calls the "New Children" and their quest for who we are and how life works.
The Final Score: It's About The Team
Granville Hibberd '69 (Sheridan Press, 2008)
The author spent 16 years as varsity coach at Francis Scott Key High School-. He chronicles the experiences of young players striving toward a common goal, learning teamwork and sportsmanship.
Unions and Class Transformation
Catherine P. Mulder, Assistant Professor of Economics (Routledge, February 2009)
How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindness lead to weak and often unintended results. Using the case study of the Broadway musicians' union, Mulder shows how unions can facilitate a class transformation that increases workers' control over their working conditions and enables them to make the changes needed to improve their lives.
Too Much of This World
Erin Murphy '90 (Mammoth Books, October 2008)
Winner of the Anthony Piccione Poetry Award, Murphy's new book is a collection of poems that "delight and teach by poking fun: at poets giving readings, Burger King signs, poetry contests, and men who say, 'I'll take care of those wasps for ya honey'. If you're tired of poems that try to be a little too smart for their own britches, these'll take care of 'em for ya, honey."—H. L. Hix
Aquinas on Simplicity: An Investigation into the Foundations of his Philosophical Theology
Peter Weigel, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2008)
This book offers an in-depth examination of what divine simplicity means for Aquinas and how he argues for its claims. Simplicity and other divine predicates are analyzed within the larger metaphysical and semantic framework surrounding Aquinas's philosophy of God. The work thus goes beyond the issue of simplicity to some of the fundamental tenets of Aquinas's philosophical theology and his views on divine predication. The author also engages with a variety of Aquinas's recent commentators, bringing the insights of this great figure to bear on contemporary discussions.
Pennsylvania's Back Mountain
Harrison Wick '00 (Arcadia Publishing, January 2009)
While working as an archivist at Pennsylvania's Misericordia University, the former history major joined the Back Mountain Historical Association and launched a book project focused on the region. The book, part of Arcadia's Images of America series, is a compilation of rare photographs and personal stories documenting the historic community and revealing a bygone era of amusement parks, hotels, railroads and steamboats. Wick is now special collections librarian and university archivist at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.