Selected Poems 1931-2004 (Ecco Press) presents the first posthumous selection of poems by the late Czeslaw Milosz, Nobel poet and former professor emeritus in Slavic languages and literature. Milosz was widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time.

Jackie Orr, Ph.D. '99, explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic in 20th-century America in Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder (Duke University Press). The book is grounded by diaries kept by the author while she participated in clinical trials for the anti-anxiety drug Xanax.

In James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights, Richard Labunski '75 (Oxford University Press) shows how Madison triumphed over Patrick Henry in the debate over whether Virginia should ratify the Constitution and, consequently, had a crucial role in laying the groundwork for our current form of government.

Adriana Petryna, M.A. '94, Ph.D. '99, and Andrew Lakoff '93, Ph.D. '00, co-edited Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices (Duke University Press), a collection of ethnographic case studies that focus on the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical industry and the global inequalities resulting from market-driven medicine.

A new children's book by Dashka Slater '86, Baby Shoes (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc), shows what happens when baby gets his first pair of brand-new white shoes.

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (ReganBooks), compiled by Frank Warren '90, showcases the best of his PostSecret Project—a collection and Web site of more than 30,000 postcards mailed anonymously in response to the instructions: "Reveal anything—as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before."

Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? (Cornell University Press) by Steven McKay '89 challenges the myth of globalization's homogenizing power by documenting how multinational firms secure worker control and consent by reaching beyond the high-tech factory and into local labor markets.

Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships (Harrington Park Press) by William Benemann, archivist for the law school and adjunct curator for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender materials for The Bancroft Library, provides a comprehensive overview of the role of male homosexuality in the early years of American history.

In helping companies achieve business growth through dynamic sales strategy and training programs, Joanne Schlesinger Black '63 created a breakthrough referral-selling system. Her guide No More Cold Calling: The Breakthrough System That Will Leave Your Competition in the Dust (Warner Business Books) explains how to land new customers through the power of referrals.

Suzy Anger '85 investigates the relationship of Victorian interpretation to the ways in which literary criticism is practiced today in Victorian Interpretation (Cornell University Press).

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