More Alumni Titles continued from page 25 ADAM S. CIFU ’89 and Vinayak K. Prasad: Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives (Johns Hopkins University Press). “Medical reversal” hap-pens when doctors start using a medication, pro-cedure, or diagnostic tool without a robust evidence base—and then stop using it when they learn that it does not help, or perhaps even harms, patients. Cifu and his co-au-thor narrate stories from every corner of medicine to explore why medical reversals occur, how they are harmful, and what can be done to avoid them. Cifu is a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, a practicing general internist, and the coau-thor of Symptom to Diagnosis: An Evidence-Based Guide . CYRUS COPELAND ’86: Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret, a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest (Blue Rider Press). Meanwhile, he struggles to conceal and control his new powers, pursues his first crush, befriends a classmate who also has strange secret powers, and learns the shock-ing truth about his family. Curtis is a free-lance journalist in New York and frequent contributor to Haverford magazine. CAITLIN R. KIGHT ’03: Flamingo (Reaktion Books). Flamingo Kytle is an associate professor of history at California State University, Fresno. BARRY SCHWABSKY ’79: Trembling Hand Equilibrium (Black Square Editions). This is a new examines the scientific research on this unusual bird and looks at its role in popular culture and the arts through the ages, from the croquet mallet in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to the flocks of pink plas-tic birds on lawns across the U.S. Kight, who lives in Cornwall, England, works in communications and marketing for the University of Exeter and is an editor and writer for Current Conservation . KAREN KOHN ’00: Collection Evaluation in Academic Libraries: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Rowman & Littlefield). Kohn provides collection of poems by Schwabsky, whose previous volumes of poetry include Book Left Open in the Rain and Opera: Poems 1981-2002 . He is also the author of Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice , a collection of critical essays on art writers and art writing. Schwabsky lives in New York and is the art critic for The Nation . ANDREW M. SHANKEN ’90: Into the Void Pacific: Building the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair ( University of California Press). In his architectural In 1979, during the height of the hostage crisis, Copeland’s father, an American business executive, was arrested in Iran for spying and put on trial in a Revolutionary Court. His Iranian mother eventually negotiated a reprieve from the firing squad, and more than 30 years later, Copeland set out to find the truth. Was his father an intelligence operative, caught red-handed by the Iranian regime, or was he innocent all along? CHARLES CURTIS ’04: Strange Country Day (Month9Books). In this four methods for measuring the appropriateness of a library collection with regard to user needs, ownership of important works, and com-parison with peers. The book is designed to help librarians make decisions about what to purchase or remove and communicate with administrators about the value of the library. ETHAN J. KYTLE ’95: Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era (Cambridge University Press). This book tells history of the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair, Shanken, an associate professor of architec-ture at UC Berkeley, explores how the fair’s buildings supported the event’s cultural and political agenda and fashioned a parallel world in a moment of economic depression and international turmoil. H. YUAN TIEN ’53: The Party Empire: Saga of a Nightmare (Xlibris). young-adult novel, 13-year-old Alexander Graham Ptuiac, the son of an inventor, sudden-ly exhibits mysterious superhuman powers during tryouts for his school’s football team. When those abilities come to the attention of evil forces, Alex’s life is endangered. 26 Haverford Magazine the story of how ante-bellum America’s most important intellectual current, romanticism, shaped the course of the nation’s bloodiest conflict, and highlights the dynamism of the antislavery struggle in its final decade. In this work of political history, Tien looks at the rule of the Communist Party in China from the ascension of Chairman Mao to the present. An emeritus profes-sor at Ohio State University, he is also the author of a short-story collection, You Just Never Know: Tales From Contemporary China , and a work of “autobio-fiction,” Dongqu Xilai (Going East, Returning West) . FORD AUTHORS: Do you have a new book you’d like to see included in More Alumni Titles? Please send all relevant information to hc-editor@haverford.edu.