Witches!  The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
Rosalyn Good Schanzer, DAAP '64

One freezing winter night in the little Puritan farming town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two young girls began to twitch and choke and contort their bodies into strange abnormal shapes and speak in words that made no sense. Their family tried every remedy in the book.  They fasted and prayed, but nothing worked. Finally, a doctor pronounced his dire diagnosis: the girls were BEWITCHED! And then the accusations began. The riveting true story of the victims, accused witches, crooked officials, and mass hysteria that turned a mysterious illness affecting two children into a witch hunt that took over twenty people's lives and ruined hundreds more unfolds in chilling detail in this young adult book by award-winning author and illustrator Rosalyn Schanzer. Among many other awards, "Witches" was named a New York Times Best Book of 2011. Find out more about the author and her many other books.

Legendary Locals of Cincinnati
Kevin Grace, MA (A&S) '77, university archivist and head of UC’s Archives and Rare Books Library

Grace's latest book reveals the educators, politicians, medical pioneers, civil rights leaders, philanthropists, entertainers, sports figures, beer barons and characters – some well known and some unknown – that defined the city of Cincinnati. The University of Cincinnati is prominently represented in its ties to the people who shaped the Queen City. Out of the 150 people featured, more than 70 hold ties to UC. Read more about the book.

Lunch Bucket Paradise: A True-Life Novel
Fred Setterberg, A&S '75

It's 1950, and the great suburban experiment has begun. A new house with three small bedrooms, a garage where you can spend all Saturday tuning up the Chevy or Ford, the promise of a sycamore blooming someday out front by the edge of the postage-stamp, golf-course green lawn. Working people never had it so good. At least, for now.  But over the next twenty years, life will change for the narrator's blue-collar family as tract homes proliferate, wages soar and then collapse, the inner cities burn, and another war begins in a faraway place called Vietnam. Lunch Bucket Paradise is a rare find, a book that in so many scenes and shades of story has an eerie prescience for the future of California, even as Fred Setterberg helps us to remember the state's time of innocence and boom and new asphalt and post-war, all laid over the landscape of possibility. Get more about the book.

The Invisible Chain That Enslaves Us
The Clergy's Misuse of the King James' Version of the Bible
Haywood Turrentine, A&S '74

Do you wonder if the Bible, the one book most accepted as the word of God is truly from that divine source? Most churches base their teachings on the King James Version and tout it as the one and only true word of God. But is it? This book takes a hard look at this issue and reveals little-known facts about other translations and other writings that have been discovered by historians and theologians to be the word of God. Before King James commissioned his translation, what other versions existed and where did they originate? Turrentine's years of study about the various writings extant creates a new understanding of how the clergy misuses the King James Version to suit their own beliefs and adendas. More about the book.

Design Elements: Form & Space
Dennis Puhalla, DAAP '72, professor emeritus of design

Design principles never change. They serve as the foundation of the designer's thought process and are the essential tools that define a visual language. With hundreds of fundamental principles for creating successful design compositions, this work establishes a basis for visual organization strategies and serves as a comprehensive manual for graphic designers. Understanding how elements interact in a layout is a critical step in stimulating visual thinking and compositional decision-making, and this book illustrates these principles in numerous diagrams, drawings, and practical examples of application. You'll also learn how conventional color harmonies effect form and space and how to apply elements to images and type to create balanced layouts. Plus, the authors hopes readers will gain a deeper aesthetic understanding of form in the context of ordering space.

The ABC's of Site Selection
Frank Raeon, A&S '74

Designed to help business people succeed, this work provides the tools they need to make "smart" location decisions for their retail and restaurant businesses. Site selection is neither an art nor a science. Rather, it is a combination of both. In the long run, doing homework is the only way to justify making what will surely turn out to be a major financial investment. Readers looking for help finding the ideal location will benefit from Raeon's six keys and the site selection scorecard.

Heirlooms To Live In
Mark Hutker, DAAP '82

The 25 diverse residential projects represented in this stunning book illustrate a process, not a preordained style. The common thread through Hutker Architects more than 200 homes in coastal New England is use of the life equity principle: a home should generate social and emotional equity over time. The conversation between the architect and each client unveils how to design and build this home once well to ensure positive, enduring social and emotional outcomes. A home with life equity provides for the owner’s long term needs both physical and psychological, uses materials best suited to the spaces needed and accommodates ever-changing family arrangements. Hutker homes fit clients so well that they are rarely sold outside the families that build them. Whether small or large, owners treat these homes as heirlooms to be preserved and handed down to the next generation. Read 2002 feature story on Hutker. Check out the firm's website.

Go The Distance: A True Story of a Father and Son's Road to Recovery
by Jim Serger, A&S '67, and Jim Serger Jr. Univ. '91

Jim Serger Jr. shares how far he and his family went to save the relationship with his father, through his dad's battle with his disease.  This is a heartfelt and personal journey; one that will resonate with anyone who has struggled to pull a loved one from the depths of addiction back into the joy of life. Jim Serger was a third baseman for UC in the 1960s who hit a homerun to put the Bearcats within a series of the College Baseball World Series. He includes an entire chapter about UC baseball as well as a great deal throughout the book about the Cincinnati area. Get more details about the book.

Cincinnati's Historic Findlay Market
by Liz Tilton, MA (A&S) '03, PhD (A&S) '08

It's not individual people or events that have made Findlay Market so special to Cincinnati; instead, in an age when technology allows for rapid flux and change, it is the stability of generations of family businesses and generations of family shoppers who continue to meet every week and exchange produce or meats or dairy products across Findlay Market counters that makes it unique. Established in 1852, Findlay Market is Ohio's oldest public market in continuous operation. The market was originally opened outside Cincinnati's city limits---in an area referred to as the Northern Liberties. Because the Northern Liberties lay just beyond city jurisdiction, the area was then known for a host of social liberties, such as prostitution, bootlegging, and thievery taken there. Findlay Market was born to this rebellious spirit, a spirit which may account for one reason it has become such a beloved Cincinnati Institution. Get more details about the book.

Proof of Heaven
by Mary Curran Hackett, English adjunct

He might be young, but Colm already recognizes the truth: that he's sick and not getting better. His mother, Cathleen, fiercely believes her faith will protect her ailing son, but Colm is not so sure. With a wisdom far beyond his years, Colm has come to terms with his probable fate, but he does have one special wish. He wants to meet his father who abandoned his beloved mother before Colm was born. But the quest to find the dying boy's missing parent soon becomes a powerful journey of emotional discovery — a test of belief and an anxious search for proof of heaven. One reviewer called the debut novel "a beautiful and unforgettable exploration of the power of love and the monumental questions of life, death and the afterlife." Read more about the book and the author at her website.

Beer: A Genuine Collection of Cans
Dan Becker, DAAP '09, & Lance Wilson, DAAP '09

Ever crack open a can of Chief Oshkosh of Wisconsin, or sample Pabst's Big Cat Malt Liquor? Remember the original St. Pauli Girl, Tennent's bevy of lager lovelies, or Olde Frothingslosh ("the pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom")? Presented alphabetically by brand, the nearly 500 cans collected here come from thirty countries and range from the iconic to the obscure to the downright bizarre. From long-forgotten brews to classic brands that have changed their look but never gone out of style, Beer offers a peek into the last century of beer culture, exploring what we drank, how we drank it, and why we picked it off the shelf. While it may not be as refreshing as a frosty cold can of Bud, cracking open this book is certain to stimulate beer lovers and design fans alike. Connect at the book's Facebook page or read more in this profile.

Price's Lost Campaign: The 1864 Invasion of Missouri
Mark A. Lause, history professor

In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final, desperate attempt to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri. Price's Raid, the last of these attempts, has too long remained unexamined by a book-length modern study, but now Civil War scholar Mark A. Lause examines the problems during the campaign and the myths propagated about it. He provides new understanding of the two distinct phases of the campaign and shows that both sides used self-serving fictions, including the term raid, to provide a rationale for their politically motivated brutality.

Come Back Early Today: A Memoir of Love, Alzheimer's and Joy
Marie Marley, CCM '73, M(CCM) '75, D(CCM) '78

Come Back Early Today tells the story of the author's 30-year relationship with Edward Theodoru, PhD, a delightfully colorful, wickedly eccentric and considerably older Romanian gentleman and their subsequent triumph over his Alzheimer's disease. Their story shows that love can adapt and endure despite all obstacles, and that there can be hope - even joy - amidst the darkness of dementia. The narrative is interspersed with inspirational guidance and advice for caregivers everywhere. Both Marley and Theodoru earned PhDs at the University of Cincinnati in the 1970s. More about the book and author.

A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess
Paul Phillips, CCM '82

This is the first book to examine the musical side of Anthony Burgess, an astonishingly prolific and talented composer, revealing how his lifelong involvement in music is an essential key toward understanding his life and work. Whether explaining the sonata form structure of "A Clockwork Orange" or the musical underpinnings of dozens of his other novels, his distinctive views on the interrelationship between music and literature, music's role in his ties to his father and wives, or what his compositions tell us about his troubled relationship with his son, "A Clockwork Counterpoint" illuminates Burgess's dual creative life, providing the first complete portrait of a prodigious artist whose musical accomplishments have remained largely unknown until now. More about the author.

Advertising in the Age of Persuasion: Building Brand America, 1941-1961
Dawn Spring, D(A&S) '09

During the 1940s and 1950s, American advertisers made themselves vital to business, media, government, and religious institutions. They envisioned an American-led global consumer order supported by advertising based media where the brand took precedence over the corporation that owned it, and advertising, propaganda, and public relations were considered the same thing. To support these ideas and ensure that the advertising industry remained of value, they established relationships with the federal government and national security agencies, developing a network and process for disseminating persuasive information that survives into the twenty-first century. Get more details about the book.

Bandits, Farmers, Military Leaders, Patriots, Politicians and Prophets
Retracing the Vanishing Footprints of our Ancestors
Louis E. Adams, emeritus professor of medicine

One interpretation of early American history suggests that many of the immigrants who fled Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries were seeking freedom from the intolerable social, economic and religious injustices that were prevalent at the time. Even after arriving here, they encountered more hardship. They had to overcome what seemed to be, at times, insurmountable obstacles in their day-to-day survival. Some of the tragedies and heartaches of our ancestors can be reviewed from limited records, while most of the information can only be retold from hearsay stories passed down from generation to generation. Such may be the history, and could well symbolize the migration patterns of the Adams, Cannon, Hobson, and Pattie families presented in this book.

What are Stem Cells? Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
by John Lynch, assistant professor of communication

In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human life? Or do limitations imposed on stem cell research harm patients who might otherwise benefit? Lynch's book identifies the moral stalemate between the rights of the embryo and the rights of the patient and uses it as the framework for a larger discussion about the role of definitions as a key rhetorical strategy in the debate.

The Search Committee
Tim Owens, D (Eng) '95

A mismatched team of seven hits the road in an Econoline church van on a mission to find a new pastor. They don't agree on much other than the stops at Hardee's for coffee and a biscuit. But they stick to the call, trying to slip undetected into worship services across the Southeast in hopes of stealing a preacher for their congregation. All are wrestling to balance their own busy lives and personal struggles. And they're trying to keep their issues to themselves. Forced to spend countless hours together, these diverse personalities from different generations begin to bond. And their lives are profoundly changed as they love and support each other through the challenges they face. More details about the book.

Brand Rewired
by Anne Chasser, UC associate vice president of research, and Jennifer Wolfe, MA (A&S) '99, JD '99

It's generally accepted that to achieve an increase in margin, market share, revenue and market value, a company must innovate and create for consumer needs and wants. But renowned IP strategists Anne Chasser and Jennifer Wolfe argue in Brand Rewired that in the future — i.e., now — companies must add another layer of thinking to the creative process: an interdisciplinary approach that considers long-lasting intellectual property from the start of the creative process.

Hidden History of Mississippi Blues
by Roger Stolle, A&S '89

Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home. These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to Mississippi. They didn’t simply play the blues, they lived it. Travel through the hallowed juke joints and cotton fields with author Roger Stolle as he recounts the history of Mississippi blues and the musicians who have kept it alive. Some of these bluesmen remain to carry on this proud legacy, while others have passed on, but Hidden History of Mississippi Blues ensures none will be forgotten.

Handbook of War & Society: Iraq & Afghanistan
Steve Carlton-Ford, UC professor of sociology

The new handbook provides an introduction to current sociological and behavioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Twenty-five empirically oriented contributions are anchored in four main parts: Part I: War on the Ground: Combat and Its After-math; Part II: War on the Ground: Non-Combat Operations, Noncombatants, and Operators; Part III: The War Back Home: The Social Construction of War, Its Heroes, And Its Enemies; and Part IV: The War Back Home: Families and Youth on the Home Front. Selections include such topics as military recruiting and retention, storytelling, morality, and war, social network analysis and counterinsurgency, Abu Ghraib, information management in war, evaluating psychological operations, self-esteem and Iraq adolescents, the social construction of war, heroes, and enemies, military child well-being, an undergraduate attitudes toward the war, among other topics.

Not an Oxymoron: Standards-Based Fun in the Classroom! 30 Projects and Activities for Middle School Language Arts
Garrett Carter, Ed'06, MEd '09

This book is comprised of 30 projects and activities that are standards-based and/or support skill development of the English Language Arts Standards (as determined by the Common Core State Standards Initiative). Many of these projects and activities may be used over and over again as they are developing skills that students will use throughout the year. This is not your typical book that advises teachers on what types of projects and activities are effective. It is filled with those projects and activities, so the work has already been done for you. The author says students will be so engaged flipping coins, rolling dice, viewing movies, and working collaboratively, they won't have time to complain about completing school work. Connect with the book's Facebook page, view on Amazon or read more about Carter's motivation.

Cincinnati and Soup: Recipes from the Queen City and Great Soup
Cheri Brinkman A&S '74, MA (A&S) '77

Cincinnati and Soup presents great Cincinnati recipes, Cincinnati Chili, goetta, mock turtle soup as well as vintage recipes from Shillito's, Pogue's, Hotel Sinton, Ruth Lyons and Uncle Al. Don't miss these local stories and a great soup cookbook.

Sexuality Matters
Paradigms and Policies for Educational Leaders
by James Koschoreck, UC associate professor of educational leadership

Sexuality Matters brings together scholars from a variety of epistemological perspectives to explore the multiple ways in which sexuality does indeed matter in the arena of public education. The special features of this collection, which Koschoreck edited with Autumn Tooms, include a focus on the implications of sexuality for educational leadership as well as a multi-perspective approach to the exploration of these concerns.

Body Trade
by Gary Kraus and Paul Popp, A&S '74, Bus '75

After successful clinical research, Dr. Garrett Fielding's nerve tissue growth accelerator N-CellGen receives widespread acclaim by medical researchers. The potential for recovery from nerve and spinal cord injury is far-reaching, but Fielding has even higher goals. What if a life could be saved by transplanting one person's brain into a different body? Taking the brain from a human donor is more science fiction than science. Yet, the possibility is intriguing. Unlike other organ transplants, the donor is the beneficiary. Is it legal? Is it ethical? Where can Fielding find test subjects for what his research associate calls a Body Trade? A tragic car accident leaves a young African American boy with irreparable internal injuries, and the woman driver who hit his bicycle with a terminal brain injury. The perfect opportunity presents itself in the hospital's ER and Dr. Fielding attempts to save the boy's life by transplanting his brain into the body of the middle-aged Caucasian woman. The extraordinary surgery is a success but results in unanticipated consequences for the boy, his family and the neurosurgeon. Fielding is now the target of legal action, and his life is threatened by people who question his motives. And that’s only the beginning of the doctor’s dilemma. The potential financial benefit from N-CellGen catches the interest of a wealthy businessman who is motivated to create a real body trade.

A Thin Blue Line
Pat Daulton Belanoff, A&S '54, MA (A&S) '55

A woman finds herself lying on a beach she doesn't recognize but knows that she has fled a life she no longer wants to live.  Gradually she sets up a new world for herself, constructed by the intertwining of memories, fictions focused on both her past and present as well as ruminations on well-known literary works. The path of her new life makes its way through the natural and human environments that cause her both to stumble and fall and yet continue.