Books by Alums
Intended as a guide for wildlife managers and ecotourism operators, as well as interested ecotourists, this book addresses the biological principles governing how ecotourism affects wildlife.
By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership.
A page-turning story about a teen grieving over her parents' tragic death who becomes entangled with a mysterious forest teeming with urban legends of strange disappearances and witchcraft.
From wands and racing brooms to a case full of beasts, the wizarding world is full of enchanted objects and magical devices.
A Messy, Beautiful Life balances a serious topic with humor as it tells the story of a teen improviser who copes with a heartbreaking diagnosis by entering a standup contest and falling in love.
In The Era of Lanterns and Bells, a lighthouse is haunted by the memory of lighthouse keepers, a train operator is forever changed by a subway suicide and a Golden Gate Bridge jumper saves lives with fortune cookies.
This unusual memoir immerses the reader in the fascinating story of a spirited girl in a remote, undeveloped region of Nepal near the border of Tibet.
Once a Wild West city tucked where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, it is now home to some of the biggest names in science.
The book tells a story of human anguish and betrayal, love and loss, recrimination and regret and shows how choices, once made, can change one’s life forever.
Travis Macy has summited glacial peaks in the French Alps, rappelled into vast limestone caves in China, and ran through parched deserts in Utah. His secret? A precise and particular outlook he calls the "Ultra Mindset."