Books by Alums
Journalist Mindy Sink has lived in Denver for more than 15 years, and she shares her insider’s perspective on the Mile High City with interested travelers.
In this book, researchers from a range of disciplines, with expertise in a range of disabilities, investigate the causes and consequences of these health care disparities and offer plans for action to improve wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention among this broad yet consistently underserved population.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short is a collection of irreverent essays about life overseas.
In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein.
Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa carefully examines US policy towards the southern African region between 1974, when Portugal granted independence to its colonies of Angola and Mozambique, and 1984, the last full year of the Reagan administration's Constructive Engagement approach.
In 1959 when her mother dies, twelve-year-old Ayumi leaves her home in Japan to find her American father. Biracial, she is confronted with a resentful half-sister and a racist stepmother. She wants to be accepted by her new family, but how much of her true self must she give up? Ayumi’s only solace is her music. When she is deprived of her violin, she shocks even herself by doing the unthinkable.
Idols and Underdogs: An anthology of Latin American football fiction is a collection of 11 stories from each country in the South American World Cup qualifying group, plus Mexico. It includes some of the most prestigious names in Latin American literature.
Caregiving is the “new normal” for nearly forty-three million Americans who will relate to An Elder Care Journey: A View From the Front Lines with tears, laughter, sighs, outrage and nods of acknowledgement. Laura Katz Olson, a researcher of elder care, finds her studies inconveniently interrupted by a real person with ever-increasing demands—her own mother.
Modern Poisons introduces the uninitiated reader to some of the subtleties and nuances of toxicology, as well as some of the most pressing challenges created by chemicals today.
Enhanced with family photographs and skillfully edited, Will's diaries, short story, and candid 1910 memoir describe the travails of taking an uncommon route to the Yukon over the White Pass and Tutshi Trails. This narrative highlights the camaraderie and cooperation among working-class men.