The journal kept by James Gordon Hindes ’32 as he walked the first long-distance hiking trail in the United States with John Eames ’32 offers an entertaining look at the early days of long-distance hiking in So Clear, So Cool, So Grand: A 1931 Hike on the Long Trail (The Green Mountain Club).

Michael Jubien ’65, professor of philosophy at the University of Florida, discusses metaphysical ideas of necessity and the doctrine of essentialism in his third book, Possibility (Oxford University Press).

Gina Barreca ’79, a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut, uses humor to raise serious questions about the pressures women face in It’s Not That I’m Bitter…or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World (St. Martin’s Press).

Dani Klein Modisett ’84, producer and director of Afterbirth, a live storytelling show in which well-known actors and writers perform funny stories about how becoming a parent changed their lives unexpectedly, has gathered 37 of these stories in Afterbirth: Stories You Won’t Read in a Parenting Magazine (St. Martin’s Press).

Roy S. Andersen, Adv’48, recounts his experiences aboard the USS Mannert L. Abele, sunk by enemy forces in World War II, in Three Minutes Off Okinawa (Jana Press).

Charlie Coe ’65 and his wife, Marty, draw on their more than 20 years experience counseling engaged and married couples through the Catholic Marriage Encounter program in Love Is a Decision: A Marriage Enrichment Handbook (White Oak Communications).

Frederick Schauer ’67 presents an original exposition of legal concepts emphasizing the formality and rule-dependence of law in Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Harvard University Press).

Director Jon Fauer ’72, who interviewed 55 cinematographers from around the world for Volume 1 of Cinematographer Style (Cinematographer Style), follows with 55 more discussions on how and why movies look the way they do for Volume 2.

Warren D. Allmon ’82, a Cornell paleontology professor and director of the Paleontological Research Institute in Ithaca, New York, coedits a range of essays from earth scientists arguing against creationism in For the Rock Record: Geologists on Intelligent Design (University of California Press).

Matthew Biberman ’88 follows an impulsive son who promises his dying father to build a hybrid motorcycle never assembled in the United States in his memoir, Big Sid’s Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime (Hudson Street Press).

Danielle Brune Sigler ’96, a curator of academic affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, has coedited a collection of essays on African American religion in The New Black Gods (Indiana University Press).

Christina Katz ’88, who also wrote Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids, offers a how-to guide to developing your platform as a writer with Get Known Before the Book Deal (F+W Publications).

Michael Dorr ’90, a visiting assistant law professor at Amherst College, blends social, legal, medical and cultural history in his examination of eugenic theory in Segregation and Science: Eugenics & Society in Virginia (University of Virginia Press).

News and documentary producer Jason Maloney ’91 investigates hometown gallantry in Your America: Democracy’s Local Heroes (Palgrave Macmillan).

Coeditor Melissa Crane Draper ’99, assistant director of the Democracy Center in San Francisco, weaves together essays about the Bolivian struggle against global integration as coeditor of Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia’s Challenge to Globalization (University of California Press).