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Heart of the Jaguar: The Extraordinary Conservation Effort to Save the America's Legendary Cat

Julia Maclean — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:17:53 +0000

Heart of the Jaguar: The Extraordinary Conservation Effort to Save the America's Legendary Cat Julia Maclean Mon, 09/22/2025 - 11:17

By James Campbell (MAeroEngr'94)

(W. W. Norton & Company; 336 pages; 2025)

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A fascinating story of the movement to protect the jaguar, and the man who devoted his life to saving the species.

Once indigenous to North America, the jaguar is one of the wildest creatures left on the planet, a resilient and efficient predator, with a natural habitat that extends throughout Mexico and Central and South America. But today, one million years after it appeared in the New World, the jaguar is struggling to survive. It has disappeared entirely from Uruguay and El Salvador, and is critically endangered across much of its range.

Heart of the Jaguar tells the story of the extraordinary undertaking to save the jaguar, as well as the impassioned conservationist who dedicated his life to the species. James Campbell tracks the legacy of Alan Rabinowitz, a complex personality and a formidable scientist whom Time magazine called “the Indiana Jones of wildlife protection.” Rabinowitz first studied jaguars in the jungles of Belize and the Brazilian Pantanal in the 1980s, and later led the charge for the Jaguar Corridor Initiative, making it his dying mission to protect the big cat’s historic habitat.

Campbell journeys across two continents in search of the species’ past, present, and future, taking readers from the Bering Land Bridge to pre-Columbian jungle temples and modern-day jaguar preserves. Despite the thriving trade in jaguar parts and the ravages of industrial agriculture and climate change, Campbell finds sources of hope: wildlife biologists, Indigenous organizers, ranchers, and park administrators who carry on Rabinowitz’s legacy. Compelling and clear-eyed, Heart of the Jaguar celebrates these protectors, who continue to make enormous personal sacrifices to ensure that jaguars, the most charismatic of all the big cats, always have a home on this planet.

A fascinating story of the movement to protect the jaguar, and the man who devoted his life to saving the species.

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Wildlife Through the Lens: Animal Stories From Montana and the Rocky Mountains

Julia Maclean — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:13:25 +0000

Wildlife Through the Lens: Animal Stories From Montana and the Rocky Mountains Julia Maclean Mon, 09/22/2025 - 10:13

By Scot Bealer (Bio'86) and Lea Frye

(Sweetgrass Books; 160 pages; 2025)

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Dive into the captivating world of wildlife photography with Lea Frye and Scot Bealer as they share their adventures in pursuit of stunning animal portraits.

Behind-the-Scenes Adventures: Join Lea and Scot on their journeys through the Rocky Mountains, from heartwarming encounters to unexpected laughs in the field.
Photography Insights: Learn Lea's approach to capturing wildlife personalities and behaviors, blending artistry with natural history.
Fun Facts and Natural Wonders: Explore fascinating tidbits about Montana's diverse wildlife, sprinkled throughout their captivating stories.

Immerse yourself in the wild world of Montana's creatures through Lea Frye's lens. Perfect for animal lovers and aspiring photographers alike, this book celebrates the beauty and resilience of nature.

Dive into the captivating world of wildlife photography with Lea Frye and Scot Bealer as they share their adventures in pursuit of stunning animal portraits.

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Just-In-Time: The Future of Enablement in a World of AI

Julia Maclean — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:26:05 +0000

Just-In-Time: The Future of Enablement in a World of AI Julia Maclean Wed, 08/27/2025 - 13:26

By Melanie Fellay (Acct'15)

(Spekit; 172 pages; 2025)

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We're living in the Change Economy. The age of AI is disrupting everything and your enablement strategy is no exception.

In Just-In-Time: The Future of Enablement in a World of AI, Melanie Fellay, co-founder and CEO of Spekit, delivers a powerful wake-up call to marketing, enablement and sales leaders: the playbooks that got us here won’t get us where we’re going. Traditional methods are failing because they weren’t designed for the pace of today’s workforce or the realities of an AI-driven world.

This book challenges the status quo and offers a bold new vision for enablement. It's a vision built on speed, agility, and continuous learning. With practical strategies and real-world examples, Melanie shows how organizations can unlock performance, scale knowledge, and thrive by embracing a Just-in-Time Enablement approach.

But this isn’t just a book about enablement. It’s about the future of work itself. The AI-driven changes we’ve been predicting for years are no longer on the horizon, they’re here. The clock is ticking, and the leaders who act now will build teams that are more adaptive, more productive, and more prepared for what comes next.

Just-In-Time is both a guide and a manifesto: a roadmap to transform enablement into a competitive advantage in the AI era.

We're living in the Change Economy. The age of AI is disrupting everything and your enablement strategy is no exception.

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Upward Bound

Julia Maclean — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:14:34 +0000

Upward Bound Julia Maclean Fri, 08/15/2025 - 11:14

By Karl Gustafson (ApMath'58; Fin'58)

(Filter Press; 188 pages; 2025)

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During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Karl "Gus" Gustafson and his closest friends were at the forefront of the sport of free climbing in Colorado, achieving many first ascents. Upward Bound details the adventures of ten teenage climbers who took on Colorado's fiercest rock faces and towering mountain peaks, discovering courage, character, and camaraderie in the process.

This coming-of-age memoir is filled with untold Colorado history, climbing lore, and historic climbing photographs.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Karl "Gus" Gustafson and his closest friends were at the forefront of the sport of free climbing in Colorado, achieving many first ascents.

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The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr

Julia Maclean — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:16:25 +0000

The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr Julia Maclean Wed, 08/06/2025 - 11:16

By Mark Archuleta (Engl’86)

(University of North Texas Press; 320 pages; 2025)

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In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Starr were not surprised. Before becoming a matinee idol, Starr had been the greatest bank robber of the horseback bandit era.

Born in 1873, Cherokee outlaw Henry Starr had survived shootouts and death sentences and lived long enough to witness the invention of moving pictures. In 1919, after Starr was released from the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, a hotshot movie producer convinced him he had the looks, charisma, and “wild and woolly” life story to become the next big movie star.

When filming began in 1920, powerful organizations aligned to censor Starr, attempting to prevent him from exposing Oklahoma’s corrupt legal system and the government’s mistreatment of the Cherokee. The Women's Christian Temperance Union pressured theater owners to ban his film, state and federal lawmakers drafted legislation to stymie theatrical distribution, and police and district attorneys threatened to send him back to prison.

Starr's only film, the biographical movie A Debtor to the Law, is lost to history, but through surviving memorabilia, newspaper accounts, and interviews with people who worked with him on set, author Mark Archuleta traces how the reformed gentleman bandit attempted to use the power of cinema to reframe his life story and redeem himself in the eyes of the public, his family, and the Cherokee Nation.

The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr is about more than heists and Hollywood glamor. Starr’s journey is about the American myth of reinvention, recidivism, and the founding of the motion picture industry when racial tensions were simmering to a boil.

In 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas.

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A Spy Walked Into A Bar: A Practitioner's Guide to Cocktail Tradecraft

Julia Maclean — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:12:20 +0000

A Spy Walked Into A Bar: A Practitioner's Guide to Cocktail Tradecraft Julia Maclean Wed, 07/30/2025 - 14:12

By Rob Dannenberg (IntlAf'78)

(Ci4 Publishing; 130 pages; 2025)

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A Spy Walked Into A Bar: A Practitioner's Guide to Cocktail Tradecraft by former senior CIA Officers Rob Dannenberg and Joseph P. Mullin Jr. is a real-life guide to spies and their favorite cocktails. Based on experiences from their clandestine operations backgrounds, Rob and Joe have collected, curated and perfected the cocktails that were enjoyed while celebrating milestone events during their CIA careers. From the drinks that were ordered after successfully recruiting assets, to marking the end of a major operation, this book features real life stories and homegrown photos by the authors themselves. A Spy Walked Into A Bar brings the reader into the real world of espionage with a tasty twist.

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Deprogram Diet Culture: Rethink Your Relationship with Food, Heal Your Mind, and Live a Diet-Free Life

Julia Maclean — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:29:41 +0000

Deprogram Diet Culture: Rethink Your Relationship with Food, Heal Your Mind, and Live a Diet-Free Life Julia Maclean Wed, 07/30/2025 - 10:29

By Dr. Supatra Tovar (Bio'95)

(Greenleaf Book Group; 192 pages; 2024)

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Dieting is one of the greatest contributors to weight gain. Yet the pressure to be thin is always present through advertising, social media, and even subtle influences from family and friends. As a young woman, Dr. Supatra Tovar was trapped in the frustrating cycle of dieting and disappointment and was determined to break free from the Diet Culture hamster wheel. Combining scientific research with clinical work as a licensed psychologist, registered dietitian, and fitness expert, Dr. Tovar developed a unique approach that has helped her and her clients naturally achieve sustainable health.

Now Dr. Tovar will teach you the steps to eliminate Diet Culture’s negative influence by explaining the science of why diets fail, while providing simple steps to help you achieve a healthy mind-body-soul relationship. By focusing on scientifically proven methods to change your mindset, tune into your body, and eat mindfully, she will help you reshape your relationship with food, heal your mind, and live a diet-free life.

Join a community of those seeking a healthier way. You will hear transformative stories, work through simple exercises, and gain access to valuable resources including meditation videos, a mindful eating journal, a workbook, and a cookbook—all in support of your journey to a more joyful, balanced, and self-accepting life.

Dieting is one of the greatest contributors to weight gain. Yet the pressure to be thin is always present through advertising, social media, and even subtle influences from family and friends.

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Shakespeare & Violence Prevention: A Practical Handbook for Educators

Julia Maclean — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:33:19 +0000

Shakespeare & Violence Prevention: A Practical Handbook for Educators Julia Maclean Wed, 07/09/2025 - 10:33

By Amanda Giguere (Thtr'10)

(University of Wyoming Press; 278 pages; 2025)

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Shakespeare and Violence Prevention is a handbook that guides educators through an exploration of Shakespeare’s potential to address the public health issue of youth violence. Amanda Giguere presents Shakespeare’s plays as a tool to understand, address root causes of, and prevent violence in our own communities. Performance-based engagement with the plays in an educational setting allows student

s to explore violence-prevention strategies, practice empathy, and build safer communities. Youth violence is an all too relevant topic, and this text helps educators, theatre companies, and academic theatre departments understand new ways in which the performing arts can positively impact young people.

Framed by examples from Giguere’s work with the Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program, an interdisciplinary outreach project for K–12 schools developed at the ��ɫ��Ƶ, the text offers helpful entry points, digestible research, and practical exercises to align a violence-prevention curriculum with Shakespeare’s plays. It provides a condensed overview of key findings from violence prevention, clear synopses of the plays, and practicable strategies to implement the program. Guided by firsthand experience with a tried-and-true school program that reaches thousands of K–12 students annually, Giguere shares the Colorado Shakespeare Festival method, which focuses on “upstander” roleplays to practice violence-prevention strategies. Using a clear distillation of Shakespeare studies and violence-prevention research, she shows how the two fields naturally reinforce the concepts of teamwork, empathy, change, and hope.

Shakespeare and Violence Prevention is a handbook that guides educators through an exploration of Shakespeare’s potential to address the public health issue of youth violence.

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Silver Echoes: A Historical Roaring Twenties Novel

Julia Maclean — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:24:41 +0000

Silver Echoes: A Historical Roaring Twenties Novel Julia Maclean Wed, 07/09/2025 - 10:24

By Rebecca Rosenberg (Engl; Psych'76)

(Lion Heart Publishing; 379 pages; 2025)

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Chicago, 1920s: Movie starlet Silver Dollar Tabor's glittering life shatters after a brutal attack awakens a hidden self who threatens to take over. Running from a vicious attack, Silver Dollar plunges into the city's dangerous underworld of burlesque speakeasies. The lines between ambition and destruction blur, testing her love for screenwriter Carl. This Jazz Age, Prohibition-era tale explores the dark side of fame and the fragility of identity.

Colorado, 1932: Haunted by Silver's disappearance, her mother, Baby Doe, fights to save their family's silver mine. A desperate search for her daughter unearths a shocking truth, rewriting their history. This dual timeline novel weaves a tale of resilience and the enduring bond between mother and daughter.

A Spellbinding Saga of Ambition, Identity, and Redemption. Based on a true story. From the dazzling heights of the Flapper era to the rugged legacy of silver mining, Rebecca Rosenberg's "Silver Echoes" delivers a gripping historical fiction experience. Baby Doe Tabor's relentless quest for truth unearths the secrets of Silver Dollar Tabor. Perfect for fans of strong women in historical novels and stories based on real events.

Chicago, 1920s: Movie starlet Silver Dollar Tabor's glittering life shatters after a brutal attack awakens a hidden self who threatens to take over.

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The Pilot's Wife

Julia Maclean — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:00:39 +0000

The Pilot's Wife Julia Maclean Wed, 07/09/2025 - 10:00

By Cynthia Anderson (Chin'87)

(Embla Books; 343 pages; 2025)

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1944. As darkness descends over Europe, nineteen-year-old Hedy chooses hope in the face of the ultimate evil that grips the continent and stalks the streets of her quiet Swiss hometown.

One night in the dark forest, with only the moonlight to guide her, Hedy stumbles across a wounded American airman. Second Lieutenant Samuel Reardon was dropping supplies to the French resistance when his plane crashed. Despite the grave danger it will bring to her family to harbour an Allied soldier, Hedy can't leave Samuel injured and alone, so she hides him in her father's mountain hut.

Hedy risks everything to care for Samuel in secret, and as burgeoning feelings grow between them, the danger of their resistance work becomes ever more deadly. And soon they will be faced with the ultimate choice that will tear them apart...

2018, America. Nineteen-year-old Gina looks at her grandmother's hands that tell the story of her whole life and wonders how much time they have left together. Since her mother died, Mamie Hedy is all Gina has left. But then her grandmother reveals a shocking secret that takes them back to her home in the Swiss mountains for the last time.

After all these years, can Gina and her grandmother find the key to unlock the secrets of their shared past?

1944. As darkness descends over Europe, nineteen-year-old Hedy chooses hope in the face of the ultimate evil that grips the continent and stalks the streets of her quiet Swiss hometown.

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