Childhood in Irish society
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Filming the End of the Holocaust
In his new book, Filming the End of the Holocaust: Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Bloomsbury, 2014), Professor of Fine Arts John Michalczyk tells the story of how the US Government commissioned filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation and the impact those films had the Nuremberg Trials. The evidence of the Nazis’ genocidal actions amassed in the films helped to indict Nazi officials. A noted documentary filmmaker, Michalczyk provides a thorough analysis of the footage in these films– some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder–and their historical significance. Michalczyk used research carried out at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the US National Archives and the film collection at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University to produce a book that explores the rationale for filming the atrocities and their use in the subsequent trials of Nazi officials in greater detail than anything previously published. BC Jesuit priest Raymond Helmick, SJ offers the book’s foreword.
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Book award for Derber
Capitalism: Should You Buy It? (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) co-written by Boston College Professor of Sociology Charles Derber and Yale Magrass (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) has been selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by the editors of Choice magazine, an academic library review magazine that is considered the premier guideline for library acquisitions. The prestigious list, which reflects the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice, is announced every year in the magazine’s January issue. The list of Outstanding Academic Titles is selective: it contains only about ten percent of the some 7,000 works reviewed in Choice each year. Capitalism was recognized in the Economics category. Derber and Magrass’ book casts a critical eye towards capitalism and questions whether it can provide a society that promotes the well-being, indeed the survival, of humanity. Derber is the author of some 20 books, including Greed to Green, Corporation Nation, Morality Wars, People Before Profit, and many more.
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Gasson Chair Frank Brennan, S.J.
Frank Brennan, S.J., who holds an appointment at Boston College Law School as the Gasson Chair, has written a review of Austen Ivereigh’s biography The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope for the Australian Broadcasting Co.’s “Religion and Ethics.” An expert in human rights law, Fr. Brennan is the author/co-author of several books, including The Wik Debate, One Land One Nation, Sharing the Country , Land Rights Queensland Style, Too Much Order With Too Little Law, Legislating Liberty and Tampering with Asylum. He is a professor of law at Australian Catholic University and an adjunct professor at the Australian National University’s College of Law and National Centre for Indigenous Studies. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to Aboriginal Australians, particularly as an advocate in the areas of law, social justice and reconciliation.
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A look at trade
Boston College Professor of Political Science David Deese is the editor of Handbook of the International Political Economy of Trade, which brings together leading researchers and writers from different countries to highlight the most important and promising research and policy questions regarding international trade from the past decade. The book looks at the topic from the disciplines of political science, political economy, law and economics. Deese talked about the book in this BC Libraries video.
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The notion of the hero
Professor Emerita of English Judith Wilt explores the topic of the hero in her new book, Women Writers and the Hero of Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). In perhaps the most personal book of her long career, Wilt draws from classics like Wuthering Heights and Middlemarch, epics from Ayn Rand and Dorothy Dunnett, and pop culture romances from Twilight to Fifty Shades of Grey in her analysis of heroes, heroines and romance. View this video where Wilt discusses her book with Brendan Rapple of BC Libraries.
Retirement reality check
Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2015), a new book by co-authored by retirement experts at Boston College, serves as both a wake-up call to Americans and policymakers about the coming shortfall in retirement savings and a call to action regarding changes that can be enacted to address the issue. Written by BC Center for Retirement Research Director Alicia Munnell, CRR Associate Director Andrew Eschtruth and investment consultant Charles Ellis, Falling Short predicts that without corrective action, millions of retirees will find that they have too little in savings. “We need more retirement income because people are living longer, they face rapidly rising health care costs, and rates of return are really low so they need a bigger pile of money,” says Munnell, the Drucker Professor in the Carroll School of Management. “At the same time that people need more, retirement resources are going down. Social Security will provide less relative to earnings before retirement; the 401(k) system, which could work, has very modest balances; and people don’t use their houses, which is often their major asset. So we’re approaching this big mismatch and people are going to be shocked and fall short of their standard of living when they get to retirement.” For more details, see these articles: Boston Globe | Boston College Chronicle | Money
New book on Eagles Hockey
The new book Tales from the Boston College Hockey Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Eagles Hockey Stories Ever Told (Sports Publishing, 2014) details the long and highly successful history of men’s ice hockey at Boston College, from the informal “ice polo” competition held among students at BC’s original campus in the South End of Boston in the 1890s to the emergence of Boston College hockey as one of the most successful programs in all of collegiate sports. Through interviews and archival research, co-authors Tom Burke and Reid Oslin (a BC alumnus and former BC sports information director) tell the story of legends like coaches John “Snooks” Kelley and Len Ceglarski, as well as modern era Eagles from Jerry York to Brian Leetch. More in this Boston College Chronicle Q&A with Oslin. Clark Booth praised Tales from the Boston College Hockey Locker Room in a recent column for The Pilot.
Award for Hargreaves
Lynch School of Education Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves and his co-author Michael Fullan have been named recipients of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education from the University of Louisville for the ideas expressed in their book, Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School (Teachers College Press). In their book, the authors state that teachers will automatically elevate their own competency when placed in a team environment that encourages individual contributions, group interaction and continuous learning and that this approach works much better than using performance-based education models to reward or punish individual teachers. The University of Louisville presents the Grawemeyer prizes annually for outstanding works in music composition, ideas improving world order, psychology and education and gives a religion prize jointly with Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. More from BC News
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