Looking at presidential elections
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Irish sporting life
With two new books to join his previous title, Mike Cronin, academic director of Boston College – Ireland, now has “three entries in the top ten of Best Irish Sports Books Ever,” according to a reviewer for the Irish Independent. One of his new books is The GAA: County By County, co-written with Mark Duncan and Paul Rouse. The second major publication from the team behind the Gaelic Athletic Association Oral History Project, it tells the story of how the GAA has left a unique imprint on every Irish county and Irish communities overseas. Cronin’s other new book is Places We Play: Ireland’s Sporting Heritage, co-written with Róisín Higgins. In this look at the history of Ireland’s sporting sites, the authors have created a “masterpiece …chock full of revelation,” according to the Irish Independent.
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In her memoir, Lay the Favorite, Beth Raymer tells the story of her years in the high-stakes, high-anxiety world of sports betting. She will speak on Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in Devlin Hall, room 101. The movie adaptation of the book, starring Bruce Willis, is slated to be released in 2012. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Lecture Series
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The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan
On Oct. 27, Gerard Magliocca, author of The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash, will take part in a panel discussion on his book with BC Associate Professor of Political Science Ken Kersch, director of the Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy at Boston College; Professor Michael Kazin of Georgetown University, and Professor M. Elizabeth Sanders of Cornell University. The discussion will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at Indiana University School of Law. Sponsor: Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy
Wave: a poetic journey
Award-winning poet Andrew Sofer, an associate professor in BC’s English Department, will read from his book WAVE, a poetic journey across three national landscapes linked by water, on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 305. Sponsors: English Department and Jewish Studies Program
Humanitarian hero
Eric Greitens, author of The Heart and The Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, The Making of a Navy SEAL, will give a the Chambers Lecture and conduct a book signing on Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in the Murray Room of Yawkey Center. As a U.S. Navy SEAL, Greitens was deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and Southeast Asia. He is the recipient of several military awards, including the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. A Rhodes Scholar and graduate of University of Oxford, his doctoral thesis, Children First, investigated how international humanitarian organizations can best serve war-affected children. He is also author of the award-winning Strength and Compassion, a book of photographs and essays drawn from his humanitarian work in Rwanda, Cambodia, Albania, Mexico, India, the Gaza Strip, Croatia, and Bolivia. He is the CEO of The Mission Continues, a nonprofit organization that helps returning veterans serve again as a citizen leaders. Sponsor: The Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics
Super Sad True Love Story
Gary Shteyngart, author of the New York Times best-seller Super Sad True Love Story, will speak on Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 1oo. Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the U.S. seven years later. His first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, Absurdistan, was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Lecture Series
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The video gamer and the therapist
A new book by Graduate School of Social Work adjunct faculty member and licensed independent clinical social worker Mike Langlois challenges healthcare providers to rethink how they understand and work with patients who play video games. In Reset: Video Games & Psychotherapy, Langlois casts a psychoanalytic eye on video games, technology and the practice of psychotherapy and has some resounding criticisms of therapists’ often disdainful attitude toward gamers and the video games they love. Using examples from World of Warcraft, Epic Mickey and The Legend of Zelda among others, Langlois shows how understanding video games may not only improve therapists’ ability to treat their patients who play, but improve their clinical and business skills.
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