Strangers in a Foreign Land: The Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the United States by George E. Schultze, MBA ’83, highlights the failure of the Roman Catholic Church and the U.S. labor movement to work together to promote the welfare of Latino immigrants. (Lexington Books)

Duxbury College, a novel by Dan Hoffman ’61, tells the story of Daniel Tomlinson, a biology professor at a small college in Vermont. (iUniverse, Inc.)

In Understanding the Women of Mozart’s Operas, Kristi Brown-Montesano offers a detailed exploration of the female roles in Mozart’s four most frequently performed operas. (UC Press)

In Neoliberalism as Exception, anthropology professor Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as a governing system in which rights and benefits are distributed to citizens according to their marketable skills. (Duke University Press)

Tripoli: The United States’ First War on Terror by David Smethurst ’86, Ph.D. ’97, documents America’s early battle to overthrow the despotic regimes of the Barbary states. (Presidio Press)

In Out of the Pits, NYU professor Caitlin Zaloom, M.A. ’98, Ph.D. ’02, draws on her experiences as a clerk and a trader to consider how changes at the world’s leading financial exchanges have transformed economic cultures. (Chicago Press)

Robert Mayer ’61, J.D. ’66, gives step-by-step advice for common negotiating situations in How to Win Any Negotiation Without Raising Your Voice, Losing Your Cool, or Coming to Blows. (Career Press)

In Organic Agriculture: A Global Perspective, John Reganold ’71, M.S. ’74, and an international group of contributors review key aspects of organic agriculture’s successes and limitations. (Cornell University Press)

Focusing on the post–Cold War years, Carl Boggs and co-author Tom Pollard give a hard-hitting, radical critique of the growing fascination with American militarism in The Hollywood War Machine. (Paradigm Publishers)

Diane Wolf ’77 paints a compelling portrait of Holocaust survivors in Beyond Anne Frank. Based on interviews with 70 Jewish men and women who went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland, Wolf presents a starkly different experience of the Holocaust from those who suffered in concentration camps. (UC Press)

Historian Grace Moremen, M.A. ’87, compiles hundreds of letters of Cal student Agnes Edwards 1917–1921 in Student Life at the University of California, Berkeley During and After World War I. (Edwin Mellen Press)

In Berkeley Rocks: Building with Nature, Jonathan Chester brings the treasures of Berkeley’s rock formations to life with gorgeous color photographs. (Ten Speed Press)

John I. Todor, Ph.D. ’72, explains the psychological principles used to build trusting and committed customer relationships in Addicted Customers. (Silverado Press)

In Brazilians Working with Americans, Orlando R. Kelm and Mary E. Risner present ten short case studies that illustrate many of the cultural factors that come into play when North American business professionals work in Brazil. (University of Texas Press)

In From the Ground Up, Carol Chetkovich, MPP ’87, Ph.D. ’94, and Frances Kunreuther look at how social change organizations address challenges related to leadership, staff development, decisionmaking, resource needs, and collaborations. (Cornell University Press)

Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds, edited by Lowell Turner, M.A. ’85, Ph.D. ’90, and Daniel B. Cornfield, is a major contribution to the study of international and comparative labor. (Cornell University Press)

The House in the Garden by John Randolph, M.A. ’91, Ph.D. ’97, explores the role of home and private life in creating of Imperialist Russia’s intellectual traditions. (Cornell University Press)

The Ghosts of Plaka Beach: a True Story of Murder and Retribution in Wartime Greece by Stylianos Perrakis, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ’70, investigates a murder during the Greek Civil War. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)