Author Archives: Bookworm
Loving someone who’s dying
Reflections of a Loving Partner: Caregiving at the End of Life by Boston College Connell School of Nursing adjunct faculty member and certified hospice and palliative nurse C. Andrew Martin is both a guide for caregivers and a personal story … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, Connell School of Nursing, death, hospice
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Embedded intelligence
Smart Products, Smarter Services: Strategies for Embedded Control, a new book by Carroll School of Management Professor of Information Systems Mary Cronin, looks at business strategies behind the technology embedded in smart phones, intelligent autos, and medical and energy devices. … Continue reading
Literature meets neuroscience
Boston College Professor of English Alan Richardson’s The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts brings recent work in cognitive neuroscience to bear on some famously vexed issues in British Romantic studies, and demonstrates in unprecedented ways how developments in … Continue reading
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Tagged British Romanticism, English Dept., neuroscience
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The beauty of BC’s stained glass
The enchanting beauty and stirring majesty of the stained glass windows of Bapst Library, Gasson Hall and St. Mary’s are vividly depicted in a keepsake book, Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College (Linden Lane Press). The stunning photography … Continue reading
A misfit sock for Christmas
A pile of mismatched socks on a laundry room floor was the only inspiration Karen Kiefer of the Church in the 21st Century Center needed to discover a special way her family could spread some Christmas cheer to others. The … Continue reading
Britain’s history depicted in a new light
A hoard of beautiful gold military objects found in 2009 in a Staffordshire, England field drew attention to the mysterious world of 7th and 8th century Britain. This time period is the focus of Boston College History Professor Robin Fleming’s … Continue reading
The war on crime
Since the mid-1960s, the war on crime has reshaped public attitudes about state authority, criminal behavior and the responsibilities of citizenship. In Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn, Boston College Professor of English Christopher … Continue reading
A seaside dream
Career Center Associate Director Janet Costa Bates is the author of a new children’s book, Seaside Dream. The book is about a young girl named Cora who is seeking a birthday present for her grandmother, who is homesick for her … Continue reading
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Tagged Cape Verde Islands, Career Center, children's book, family
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How TV transformed Irish society
In A Loss of Innocence?: Television and Irish Society, 1960-72, author Robert Savage, an adjunct associate professor of history at Boston College, explores how television helped facilitate a process of modernization that slowly transformed Irish society during the 1960s. Television … Continue reading
Cardinal George
Cardinal Francis George, OMI, archbishop of Chicago and past president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), will speak on Dec. 7 in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons about his book The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision … Continue reading
