Affinity Groups Raise Awareness of & Appreciation for Differences in Identity
At D-E, affinity groups are tightly knit spaces of community, growth, and identity. Always striving to engage with other students, spread culture and awareness, and celebrate diversity, they are an essential part of school life and co-curricular opportunities in particular. Below are some of D-E’s affinity groups and their accomplishments, memories, and hopes for this year and beyond!
Big Impact: Insights & Stories from America’s Non-Profit Leaders
Vivien Hoexter ’78 and Linda C. Hartley BookBaby December 2017 Big Impact: Insights & Stories from America’s Non-Profit Leaders shares perspectives on solving some of our greatest, most vexing societal problems. The authors interviewed nearly 50 leaders of...
Danger Signs! Contraindications and Proper Applications of Spinal Manipulation
Dr. Andrew Rodgers P ’19 ’21 Page Publishing, Inc. December 2016 Danger Signs! The Contraindications and Proper Applications of Spinal Manipulation is a medical text to be used by chiropractors and other practitioners of spinal and pelvic manipulation, and as a useful...
Experiences of Women of Color in an Elite US Public School
Catherine Simpson Bueker ’92 Palgrave-Macmillan March 2017 This study explores the experiences of women of color who attended an elite, predominantly white public high school in the Northeastern United States through one of three points of entry: as town residents...
African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events
Karen Juanita Carrillo ’84 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood August 2012 One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history is to look at it as a continuum. African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides just such an opportunity. Organized in the form...
African American-Latino Relations in the 21st Century
Karen Juanita Carrillo ’84 Praeger May 2017 This provocative look at the connections and conflicts between Latinos and African Americans in the United States assesses the challenges facing both groups as they strive to achieve the American Dream.
Night Vision
John Foy ’78 St. Augustine’s Press April 2017 In Night Vision, wars go on in the Middle East, violence is never far away, and the creatures of the field are “much the worse/for having been beneath the rotor blades.” Written in an uncluttered idiom, these poems,...
War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918
Michael Kazin ’66 Simon and Schuster February 2017 The untold story of the movement that came close to keeping the United States out of World War I. This book is about the Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in one of history’s most destructive wars...
Namaste Mumbai
Kavita Shah Bafana ’96 and Rachana Chandaria-Mamania Little Ustaads Arts February 2017 The first children’s book on Mumbai that brings the bustling city alive through characters, colors and couplets. Children will relate to endearing characters as they travel from...
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court
Kathryn Stanchi ’83, Linda Berger and Bridget Crawford Cambridge University Press August 2016 What would United States Supreme Court opinions look like if key decisions on gender issues were written with a feminist perspective? Feminist Judgments brings together a...
The Empire’s Ghost: A Novel
Isabelle Steiger ’07 Thomas Dunne Books May 2017 Isabelle Steiger has crafted a powerful and masterful debut with The Empire’s Ghost, the first book in a haunting new epic fantasy series. The empire of Elesthene once spanned a continent, but its rise heralded the...