The Rev. Robert Harvey ’38 details how the British Isles acted as the crossroads of Christianity in the 1st century in To the Isles Afar Off (Four Directions Press).

William Davidow ’57, Th’58, a high-tech industry executive and venture investor, explores how the success of the Internet in connecting the world has also created a unique set of hazards in Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet (Delphinium).

Michael Groden ’69, a leading James Joyce scholar and English professor at the University of Western Ontario, offers a highly personal set of essays and recollections in Ulysses in Focus: Genetic, Textual, and Personal Views (University Press of Florida).

Jonathan Silverman ’87, an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, focuses on what Johnny Cash means to Americans in Nine Choices: Johnny Cash and American Culture (University of Massachusetts Press).

Military historian David Jablonsky ’60 examines Dwight Eisenhower’s career from his West Point years to the passage of the 1958 Defense Reorganization Act in War by Land, Sea and Air: Dwight Eisenhower and the Concept of Unified Command (Yale University Press).

Lance Tapley ’66, who has written about incarceration for Prison Legal News and The Boston Review, contributes a chapter about the American “supermax” system of mass solitary confinement in the anthology The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse (New York University Press).

Nora Odendahl ’77, a test developer at Educational Testing Service for 16 years, lays out the fundamental principles in assessment as well as possibilities for innovation in Testwise: Understanding Educational Assessment, Volume 1 (Rowman & Littlefield Education).

Former Washington Post reporter Brad Parks ’96 follows his Shamus Award-winning debut with street-wise reporter Carter Ross investigating the latest tragedy to befall Newark, New Jersey, with Eyes of the Innocent (St. Martin’s Press).

Thomas Seeley ’74, a beekeeper and biology professor at Cornell University, tells the story of house hunting and democratic debate among honeybees in Honeybee Democracy (Princeton University Press), described by the Financial Times as 2010’s “most enchanting science book.”

Florida International University psychology professor Bennett Schwartz ’88, Adv’93, explores the science and methodology of memory in the textbook Memory: Foundations and Applications (Sage Publications).

Christopher Rea ’99, an assistant professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of British Columbia, has edited and translated a collection of satirist Qian Zhongshu’s works in Humans Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays (Columbia University Press).

The short story “Souvenirs” by Aimee Loiselle ’92, an intimate portrayal of a disintegrating family and a disturbingly unreliable narrator, has been selected for publication in American Fiction, Volume 11: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors (New Rivers Press).

Freelance photographer and former studio art major Austin Lord ’06 shares his images of calm in Amidst the Noise and Haste (Blurb).

Photographer Peter McBride ’93 illuminates the historical, geographical and environmental significance of the Colorado River in The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict (Westcliffe).