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The Never-Ending Feast: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Feasting, by Kaori O’Connor ’68 (Bloomsbury, 2015). Throughout human history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been at the heart of life. Why were they important and what purpose did they serve? Kaori’s pioneering work draws on anthropology, archaeology, and history to look at the dynamics of feasting among the great societies of antiquity renowned for their magnificence and might. The focus shifts beyond the medieval and early modern periods in Western Europe, eastwards to Mesopotamia, Assyria and Achaemenid Persia, early Greece, the Mongol Empire, Shang China, and Heian Japan.

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DaVinci’s Baby Boomer Survival Guide: Live, Prosper, and Thrive in Your Retirement, by Barbara Rockefeller ’68  (a DaVinci guide published by Newsmax, 2015). Barbara and cowriter Nick Tate provide a comprehensive guide to financial, health care, and lifestyle issues for those anticipating retirement. Barbara is the founder of the foreign exchange forecasting firm Rockefeller Treasury Services and has written several books.

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Interplay: Traditional Tunes, Classical Elegance, by Terry Boyarsky ’70, piano, and Oleg Kruglyakov, balalaika, is a compilation of 13 tracks, everything from French baroque to tango to folk tune to film score. A review on clevelandclassical.com calls Interplay a “must-have” CD.

“The Hidden Wonders of the Musée des Arts et Métiers—Paris’ Museum of Art and Invention,” by Gary Rogowski ’72, was published in Craftsmanship in spring 2015.

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True Tales from a Physician Assistant, by Seth Wittner ’73 (Chimney Rock Books, 2015). “Physician assistants [PAs] are an important, albeit too little recognized part of the American healthcare system,” writes Seth. “I felt it was time for the profession to have a book of its own.” Unlike most physicians, PAs often enter medicine after working in other fields. Seth has gathered these memorable anecdotes— intriguing, disturbing, or inspiring—during his 15 years as a PA.

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Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789–1848, by Sven-Erik Rose ’91 (Brandeis University Press, 2014). Sven-Erik’s book illuminates the extraordinary creativity of Jewish intellectuals as they reevaluated Judaism with the tools of a German philosophical tradition fast emerging as central to modern intellectual life. While previous work emphasizes the “subversive” dimensions of German-Jewish thought or the “inner antisemitism” of the German philosophical tradition, Sven-Erik shows the tremendous resources German philosophy offered contemporary Jews for thinking about the place of Jews in the wider polity. Offering a fundamental reevaluation of seminal figures and key texts, he emphasizes the productive encounter between Jewish intellectuals and German philosophy.

Susan Lynch ’10 has published the  poem “A Brief Explanation of the Fourth Dimension” in Bombay Gin (41st issue, 2015).