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continued from page 21 and thought-provoking review questions further illuminate the relations between biological, behavioral, and mental phenomena. With writing that is focused and engaging, the book aims to make even the more challenging topics of neurotransmission and neuroplasticity enjoyable to learn. Horvitz is a professor of psychology and cognitive neuroscience at City University of New York.

ANDREW BUDSEN ’88 and Elizabeth Kensinger: Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory (Oxford University Press).

In his latest book, Dr. Budsen, a neurologist and memory expert, uses the science of memory to empower readers with knowledge that can help them remember better, whether they are a college student looking to ace an exam, a business professional preparing a presentation, or a healthcare worker needing to memorize the 600-plus muscles in the human body. Dr. Budsen’s previous books include Six Steps to Managing Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia and Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory.

ANDREW EPSTEIN ’92: The Cambridge

Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945 (Cambridge University Press).

This accessible book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the rich body of American poetry that has flourished since 1945 and offers a useful map to its current landscape. By exploring the major poets, movements, and landmark poems at the heart of this era, the book presents a compelling new version of the history of American poetry that takes into account its variety and breadth, its recent evolution in the new millennium, its ever-increasing diversity, and its ongoing engagement with politics and culture. Epstein is a professor in the English department at Florida State University.

MICHAEL FINE ’75: On Medicine as Colonialism (PM Press).

In this deeply researched book, Dr. Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system, which, he argues, has turned hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors into tools of health care profiteers. Those profiteers, he shows, are co-opting the state’s regulatory power, as well as Medicare and Medicaid, to extract resources from communities, deprive individuals and communities of agency, and use the profits to dismantle democracy itself. A community organizer, family physician, and public health official, Dr. Fine is the author of Health Care Revolt, as well as two works of fiction, Abundance, and The Bull and Other Stories

SARAH MELLORS RODRIGUEZ ’09: Reproductive Realities in Modern China (Cambridge University Press).

Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China’s onechild policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and is considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the 20th century. Drawing on archival research and oral history, Rodriguez, an assistant professor of history at Missouri State

University, analyzes how ordinary people, particularly women, navigated China’s shifting fertility policies before and during the onechild policy era. She examines the implementation of these policies and reveals that they were often contradictory and unevenly enforced, as men and women challenged, reworked, and co-opted state policies to suit their own needs.

ANDREW SHANKEN ’90: The Everyday Life of Memorials (Zone Books).

From the introduction of modern memorials in the wake of the French Revolution through the recent destruction of Confederate monuments, memorials have oscillated between the everyday and the “not-everyday.” The Everyday Life of Memorials explores how memorials end up where they do, grow invisible, fight with traffic, get moved, are assembled into memorial zones, and are drawn anew into commemorations and political maelstroms that their original sponsors never could have imagined. Finally, exploring how people behave at memorials and what memorials ask of people, the book reveals the strangeness of the commemorative infrastructure of modernity. Shanken is a professor of architecture at Berkeley College of Environmental Design.

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