Leaning into the Wind: A Memoir of Midwest Weather, one of three books reviewed this issue with University connections.
From weather to wolves: books with U connections
Books with U connections
From M, spring 2004
Leaning into the Wind: A Memoir of Midwest
Weather
By Susan Allen Toth University of Minnesota Press, 2003
ISBN 0-8166-4262-1
$22.95 hc In this slim volume of 10 essays, distinguished author
and U alumna Susan Allen Toth (Ph.D. '69) turns from her well-known
topics of England and high school reunions to the weather of the
places she has called home--Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Toth
looks through the lens of weather and sees life in all its
frustration and grandeur, from mosquitoes to God.
Slowing Down to the Speed of Love: How to Create a
Deeper, More Fulfilling Relationship in a Hurried
World
By Joseph Bailey, M.A., L.P. Contemporary Books, McGraw-Hill
Companies, 2003
ISBN 0-07-140249-7
$19.95 hc Relationships with those we love suffer from busy lives.
Using methods such as speaking from the heart, forgiveness, and
conflict transformation, Bailey offers guidelines for finding and
rediscovering love unbound by time. Bailey is a community faculty
member with the U Medical School's Center for Spirituality and
Healing.
Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and
Conservation
Edited by L. David Mech and Luigi Boitani University of Chicago
Press, 2003
ISBN 0-226-51696-2
$49.00 hc Widely recognized as the most comprehensive and
authoritative book on wolves compiled since 1970, this big and
beautiful book is valuable to scientists and interested citizens
alike. Among the first species to be named endangered, wolves
remain controversial and could soon lose protected status. This
volume contains the latest research of 23 leading scientists,
including Mech, renowned wolf expert and adjunct professor in both
the College of Natural Resources and the College of Biological
Sciences.
For more information, contact University of Minnesota Bookstores, located in Coffman Memorial Union and the St. Paul Student Center, at 612-625-6000 or generalbooks@umn.edu. Look for faculty authors at http://www.bookstore.umn.edu/genref/faculty.html