Carter Elwood ’58, a professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, provides a new picture of the Marxist revolutionary as a fallible individual in The Non-Geometric Lenin: Essays on the Development of the Bolshevik Party 1910-1914 (Anthem Press).

Hartford, Connecticut-based attorney John F. Murphy ’58 compiles his recollections as a trial lawyer in May I Approach the Bench? The True Tales of a Trial Lawyer (Antoca).

Executive coach and corporate psychologist John Reed ’75, Tu’79, provides an objective way to evaluate executive coaches in Pinpointing Excellence: The Key to Finding a Quality Executive Coach (Bright Sky Press).

Through black-and-white drawings based on his standard poodle, author and illustrator Robert Haslach ’68 chronicles a poodle’s day in his children’s book, Rowley’s Very Fine Day (5516 Publisher Co.).

Dirk Olin ’81, editor and publisher of Corporate Responsibility Magazine, proposes practical solutions to improve the efficiency, accessibility and integrity of America’s civil courts in Rebuilding Justice: Civil Courts in Jeopardy and Why You Should Care (Fulcrum).

Yoga teacher and comedy writer Rob Dinsmoor ’80 explains how to survive and thrive in a universe full of auras, guardian angels and lost souls in The Yoga Divas and Other Stories (CreateSpace).

Law professor and stand-up comedian Brian J. Foley ’87 maps out his own partially real, partially fictional financial journey—with essays, poems and haiku—in A New Financial You in 28 Days! A 37-Day Plan (Gegensatz Press).

Former Glamour relationship expert Maura Kelly ’96 offers relationship advice borrowed from the most famous characters in literature as coauthor of Much Ado About Loving: What Our Favorite Novels Can Teach You About Date Expectations, Not-So-Great Gatsbys, and Love in the Time of Internet Personals (Free Press).