Wave: A poet’s debut volume

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Bookworm
The winner of numerous poetry awards, Boston College English Department Associate Professor Andrew Sofer has written Wave, his first book of poems. Named a finalist for the Morse Prize, the Donald Justice Award and the New Criterion Prize, Wave is described by acclaimed poet Linda Gregerson  as “dense with the lived joys and sorrows that might easily, in lesser hands, amount to dissonance. But Andrew Sofer, in this fine and remarkably mature first book, has found their richer temper.”
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Congrats to Blair & Bloom

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Bookworm
Congratulations to Norma Jean Calderwood University Professors of Islamic and Asian Art Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, winners of the World Prize for the Book of the Year by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of Islamic Studies. The professors are being recognized for their three-volume Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture, published in 2009 by Oxford University Press.  The award will be presented to Blair and Bloom at a ceremony in Tehran on February 8.
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Deep Down True

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Bookworm
Deep Down True, the latest novel by BC alumna Juliette Fay, will hit bookshelves next week. Juliette has a number of book events both in Massachusetts and across the country in the coming days. According to the publisher, Deep Down True is the story of newly divorced Dana Stellgarten who finds that the tension between being true to yourself and being liked doesn’t end in middle school… and that sometimes it takes a real friend to help you embrace adulthood in all its flawed complexity. Listen to Juliette talk about her new book.
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Loving someone who’s dying

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Bookworm
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 of caring for a loved one facing a terminal illness. According to the publisher, “Andrew shows us that when we are open to its possibilities, the loving and selfless act of being a caregiver for someone who is at the end of life can teach us just as much about living as about dying.”
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Embedded intelligence

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Bookworm
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. Cronin, who teaches courses on e-commerce to undergraduates and IT management for MBA students, recently was interviewed by the Boston College Chronicle about her book.
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Literature meets neuroscience

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Bookworm
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 the neurosciences can transform the study of literary history. His analysis offers fresh perspectives on British Romanticism, pointing scholars to new developments in cognitive literary studies and providing an engaging introduction to this emergent field.
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The beauty of BC’s stained glass

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Bookworm
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 in the book is the creative product of award-winning Director of University Photography Gary Wayne Gilbert. Gilbert and the book are featured in the MetroWest Daily News and Boston College Chronicle.
“I was amazed at the subject matter. Where else would you find portraits of Mark Twain, Daniel Webster, George Washington, Longfellow, Lincoln, Emerson, Hawthorne – the list goes on and on – in stained glass?” Gilbert said. Transforming Light can be purchased through the BC Bookstore.
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A misfit sock for Christmas

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Bookworm
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 misfit socks, filled with wishes, recipes, treats and sweets, were decorated and delivered by the Kiefer children to neighbors and friends in need of a sign of gratitude and joy during the Christmas season.
The tradition has given rise to The Misfit Sock, a beautifully illustrated storybook written by Kiefer and sold with a one-of-a-kind magical misfit sock.
“My hope this that this project will help children …discover the true spirit of Christmas… [and] remind them that they are loved and they own their power, magic, happiness and inspiration,” said Kiefer.
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Britain’s history depicted in a new light

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Bookworm
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 Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070, which depicts life in Britain between the departure of the Roman legions and the arrival of Norman invaders nearly seven centuries later. Combining a wealth of research and imaginative engagement, it brings modern readers close to those tumultuous centuries and allows them to see Britain’s history in a new light.
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The war on crime

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Bookworm
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 P. Wilson examines how this war on crime has made its way into cultural representation and public consciousness, as Americans have been urged to regard crime as a risk of modern living and accept aggressive approaches to policing, private security and punishment. At its most scandalous, his study suggests, contemporary law enforcement has even come to mimic crime’s own operations.
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