Winter 2023 /Choosing the Difficult/
 

Bookmarks: Winter 2023

Seeding the Tradition: Musical Creativity in Southern Vietnam

Seeding the Tradition: Musical Creativity in Southern Vietnam

Alexander Cannon ’05 explores southern Vietnamese traditional music while suggesting revised approaches to studying creativity in contemporary ethnomusicology.


Dreaming of Space

Dreaming of Space

In this children’s book, Grant Collier ’96 combines photos with illustrations to tell the story of a boy who dreams that aliens take him on a journey across the universe.


Tanum: A Story of Bumping Lake and the William O. Douglas Wilderness

Tanum: A Story of Bumping Lake and the William O. Douglas Wilderness

Susan Summit Cyr ’85 P ’13 recounts the history of the little-known pocket of Bumping Lake in Washington state and the conservationists who fought to preserve it.


Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians: The Story of Books in Modern Spain

Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians: The Story of Books in Modern Spain

Robert Ellis ’77 examines how books are represented in modern Spanish writing and how Spanish bibliophiles reflect on the role of books in their lives.


Preserving Whose City? Memory, Place, and Identity in Rio de Janeiro

Preserving Whose City? Memory, Place, and Identity in Rio de Janeiro

Geographer Brian J. Godfrey ’74 describes preservation projects undertaken in Rio de Janeiro since the 1930s and the role of memory in placemaking.


Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother

Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother

Through weaving her personal narrative with stories of her patients, Christine Henneberg ’05 deals with the complexities of motherhood and choice.


Applying Lean Six Sigma in the Healthcare Setting

Applying Lean Six Sigma in the Healthcare Setting

Scott Lisbin ’77 advises healthcare professionals on improving access, quality, safety, service and affordability in the healthcare environment.


A Midnight Train to Everywhere

A Midnight Train to Everywhere

This paranormal fantasy novel by Ryan Mims ’99 takes readers on an adventure through the afterlife and across the multiverse.


Wishbone Behind the Scenes

Wishbone Behind the Scenes

Denise Noe ’81 goes behind the scenes to show how this educational children’s TV program starring a Jack Russell Terrier was created.


Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico

Evading the Patronage Trap: Interest Representation in Mexico

Brian Palmer-Rubin ’04 unpacks how reliance on economic interest organizations undermines interest representation in developing democracies.


The Traces

The Traces

In this memoir, Mairead Small Staid ’10 draws on the fields of physics, history, architecture and cartography to explore the nature of happiness and memory.


To Be Enlightened 

To Be Enlightened 

This fantasy novel by Alan J. Steinberg ’79 passes on lessons on meditation and enlightenment by following the life of a fictional philosophy professor at Pomona College.


Disrupting Corporate Culture

Disrupting Corporate Culture

David G. White Jr. ’83 uses cognitive science research to provide a guide on how to sustainably change culture in the business world.


McKenzie Rising: An American Frolic

McKenzie Rising: An American Frolic

Miles Wilson ’66 satirizes contemporary America and its institutions in this novel about MegaMax Corporation’s venture to turn the McKenzie Valley into an upscale development.