Book Report

Books by UMW alumni 

• The Inequality Equalizer: Want It, Claim It, Own It – and Maximize Your Career Success
  By Jena Efird Abernathy ’84 with Kelli Christiansen
  Abernathy illustrates how everyday experiences can affect the career objectives of business professionals.
  – Ankerwycke Books, the American Bar Association, June 2016

• The Golden Apple: Redefining Work-Life Balance for a Diverse Workforce
  By Mason Donovan ’91
  Donovan lays out steps corporate leaders can take to create a healthy culture of work-life balance.
  – Bibliomotion Inc., September 2016

• The Politics of Staying Put
  By Carolyn Gallaher ’91, associate professor in the School of International Service at American University
  Gallaher assesses a Washington, D.C., law that allows tenants to purchase apartment buildings that otherwise might be sold for condo conversion.
  – Temple University Press, March 2016

• Coalition Challenges in Afghanistan: The Politics of Alliance
  Edited by Gale A. Mattox ’72, professor of political science at the U.S. Naval Academy, and Stephen M. Grenier
  The editors review commonalities and differences among 15 coalition member countries in the Afghan conflict and discuss lessons learned and application to future alliances. – Stanford University Press, December 2015

• When Someone You Know Is Living in a Dementia Care Community
  By Rachael Wonderlin ’11
  Wonderlin explains types of dementia and details the range of care communities available for people in need. The book speaks to the worry and guilt many feel when they must make decisions for loved ones, and it answers questions caregivers commonly ask.
  – Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2016

Books by UMW faculty

• Hallow This Ground
  By Colin Rafferty, associate professor of English
  Beginning outside the boarded-up windows of Columbine High School and ending on the fields of Shiloh National Military Park, Hallow This Ground revolves around monuments and memorials. Rafferty explores places as familiar as his hometown of Kansas City and as alien as the concentration camps of Poland in an attempt to understand our common histories and his own life.
  – Indiana University Press, January 2016

• Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature
  By Scott M. Powers, UMW associate professor of modern foreign languages
  Noting that religion and secularity influence modern French thought, Powers sets out to explain the survival of religious themes in the works of Baudelaire, Zola, Huysmans, and Céline.
  – Purdue University Press, April 2016