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STEPHEN BARTON ’71: J. Stitt Wilson: Socialist, Christian, Mayor of Berkeley (Berkeley Historical Society).

Barton tells the story of the vibrant Christian socialist movement of the early 20th century through the life of J. Stitt Wilson. A Methodist minister who resigned from the ministry to crusade for social justice, he drew crowds in the Midwest, on the West Coast, and in Great Britain, where he worked with the Labour Party. Wilson was elected mayor of Berkeley, California, as a Socialist in 1911, and became a supporter of the New Deal, whose reforms he had fought for.

ongoing, dynamic, two-way dialogue between the heart and the brain. The heart has its own nervous system composed of over 40,000 neurons. It’s like it has its own little brain that enables the heart to sense, regulate, and remember. The heart is sending as many signals to the brain as the brain does to the heart. And the signals from the heart affect function in multiple parts of the brain, including the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain. Heart rhythms, when regular and harmonious, can positively affect the brain’s motivation, pain perception, and emotional centers. Abnormal rhythms can lead to anxiety and panic attacks. And we’re finding that the heart produces oxytocin, the love hormone, in similar amounts to the brain. So ancient views of the heart may hold more truth than we thought.

Sari Harrar is a health and science journalist whose articles appear in AARP Bulletin, Consumer Reports on Health, Reader’s Digest and other national publications. A regular contributor to Haverford magazine, her feature article “Look to the Trees,” about some of the remarkable trees of the Haverford College Arboretum, appeared in the summer 2021 issue.

LAWRENCE COHEN ’80 and Anthony DeBenedet: Unplug and Play: The Ultimate Illustrated Guide to Roughhousing with Your Kids (Quirk Books).

Cohen, a licensed psychologist in Portland, Oregon, describes his book as a reboot of an earlier publication, The Art of Roughhousing, “with all new illustrations, some new content, and a few new moves. The focus this time around is getting kids (and yourself) off of screens and into high-energy play that builds connection, confidence, and joy. This book on roughhousing grew out of my book Playful Parenting, which has now been translated into 19 languages.”

JON HORVITZ ’85 and Barry L. Jacobs: Principles of Behavioral Neuroscience (Cambridge University Press).

How does brain activity give rise to sleep, dreams, learning, memory, and language? Do drugs like cocaine and heroin tap into the same neurochemical systems that evolved for life’s natural rewards? What are the powerful new tools of molecular biology that are revolutionizing neuroscience? This undergraduate textbook explores the relation between brain, mind, and behavior, clearing away the extraneous detail that so often impedes learning, and describes critical concepts step by step, in straightforward language. Illustrations