University Times

This is an addendum to the 2007 Books, Journals and More supplement, which was published in the University Times April 5. The supplement can be accessed electronically at http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory&-lay=a&-format=d.html&storyid=7490&-Find.

BOOKS

Bike Rides Out of Pittsburgh: 425 Out-of-Town Bicycle Rides, From 6 to 110 Miles

by Oscar E. Swan, Slavic languages and literatures.

Lektorek.

Western Pennsylvania has some of the best and most varied cycling available anywhere, according to the author. This manual gives ride suggestions and includes more than 200 photographs documenting what makes southwestern Pennsylvania distinctive.

Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

translated by Oscar E. Swan, Slavic languages and literatures.

Ohio University Press.

This is the first translation of this 1945 novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski, post-war Poland’s best-known novelist. It includes notes and critical commentary by Oscar Swan.

Tales Told by My Wife

edited by Oscar E. Swan, Slavic languages and literatures.

Slavica.

This book by Miroslaw Zulawski is a collection of anecdotal short stories, based on events taken from a real family history spanning four generations, as told by the narrator’s wife to a group of close friends. This collection is intended for supplementary use in Polish classes at any college level beyond the first year, or as the primary text in a Polish reading and translation course.

Everyday OCT: A Handbook for Clinicians and Technicians

edited by Joel S. Schuman, ophthalmology; James G. Fujimoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carmen A. Puliafito, Basxom Palmer Eye Institute.

Slack.

This book provides clinicians and technicians with the tools to best utilize OCT technology.

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“Tearings Passion and Apotheosis Glimpses”

composer: Florencio Asenjo, mathematics.

Albany Records.

This is a composition for six instrumentalists.