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Pitzer College Alumna Susan Patron ’69 Authors New Book Lucky for Good
Claremont, Calif. (November 4, 2011) – Pitzer College alumna Susan Patron ’69 has authored Lucky for Good published by Simon & Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Lucky for Good is the final installment of the Lucky trilogy, a series of children’s books, which explores the vast rocky landscape of the human heart. Susan Patron specialized
[Read More...]Pitzer College Professor Carina Johnson Authors New Book
Claremont, Calif. (October 10, 2011) — Pitzer College Associate Professor Carina Johnson has authored Cultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans published by Cambridge University Press. Johnson teaches history at Pitzer College. The book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman
[Read More...]Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman Authors New Book
Claremont, Calif. (October 4, 2011)— Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman has authored Faith No More, published by Oxford University Press and available November 1, 2011. During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of “Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus–and nonbelievers.” It was the first time an American president
[Read More...]Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman Authors New Book Faith No More
Claremont, Calif. (October 4, 2011)— Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman has authored Faith No More, published by Oxford University Press and available November 1, 2011. During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of “Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus–and nonbelievers.” It was the first time an American president
[Read More...]Pitzer College Professor Alexandra Juhasz Publishes Video-Book About YouTube
Claremont Calif. (February 7, 2011) —Pitzer College Professor of Media Studies Alexandra Juhasz authors Learning from YouTube, an innovative video-book published by MIT Press. This video-book contains a series of more than 200 texts and videos – “texteos” – that encourage users to think about YouTube by experiencing and learning within this digital entertainment platform.
[Read More...]Pitzer College Alumnus Max Brooks ’94 Authors New York Times Best Sellers
Claremont, Calif. (January 19, 2011) — Pitzer College alumnus Max Brooks ’94 is the author of two bestsellers: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (2003, Three Rivers Press) and World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006, Crown.) The Zombie Survival Guide was #12 in the December 2010
[Read More...]Pitzer College Professor of Mathematics Authors A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings
Claremont, Calif. (December 13, 2010) — Pitzer College Professor of Mathematics Judith V. Grabiner, PhD has authored A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings published by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Judith Grabiner has written extensively on the history of mathematics. This collection, highlights the benefits of studying the development
[Read More...]Associate Professor Bill Anthes Publishes New Photography Textbook
Claremont, Calif. (November 23, 2010) — Associate Professor Bill Anthes co-authored Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice (Routledge) with Rebekah Modrak, an associate professor at University of Michigan. Anthes teaches art history at Pitzer College. Reframing Photography explores photographic theory, history and technique to bring photographic education up-to-date with contemporary photographic practice. It is a broad
[Read More...]Pitzer College Alumnus Authors The Gravedigger
Claremont, Calif. (November 2, 2010) — Rob Smith’91 has authored a new book entitled The Gravedigger published by University of New Orleans Press. Smith majored in philosophy and psychology while at Pitzer. The Gravedigger, which won the Gold Medal for Novel in the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner-Wisdom Competition, is Smith’s debut novel. He is the 2009-10
[Read More...]Emeritus Professor’s Book Now Available in Chinese Edition
Claremont, Calif. (April 29, 2010) – Emeritus Professor Peter Nardi’s book, Interpreting Data: A Guide to Understanding Research, is now available in a Chinese edition, co-published by Pearson and Chongqing University Press. Nardi taught sociology at Pitzer College. Written in non-technical, everyday language, this supplementary text is a quick guide to understanding data. Readers learn to work
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