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Timely Books for Holiday Gifts
For the business colleague, boss, or person hard to
please, consider a gift of a book on investing, careers, or finance
by an author with a Princeton connection:
So What Are You Going to Do with That?: A Guide for M.A.’sand Ph.D’s Seeking Careers Outside the Academy. PrincetonUniversityalumnae Maggie Debelius, Class of 2000, and Susan Elizabeth Basalla,Class of 1997, provide tips to students and recent graduates onmarketingtheir degrees. Here is an excerpt from a Booklist review:”Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that thenumber of tenure-track academic teaching positions had fallen andwould continue to decline. Citing this trend, Basalla and Debeliuswarn that graduate students and faculty might now want to considerthe alternative job market. Both authors have successfully made atransition to what they call the `post academic world.’ Basalla isa medical journalist, and Debelius is an editor at an Internetstart-up.They tailor standard job-hunting advice to those who are halfway tograduation and suddenly wondering if teaching is the right choice.Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and theOrigins of American Express Financial Advisors. Princeton residentCarol Heher Peters, along with co-author Kenneth Lipartito, tracesthe biography of the founder of Investors’ Diversified Services (IDS),which was acquired by American Express in 1984. Here is an excerptfrom a Publishers Weekly review:Tappan applied the smalltown and rural door-to-door sales techniquesof life insurance to agricultural banking and eventually branchedout into other investment products, including insurance. With productstailored to the needs of small Midwestern investors and borrowers,the company competed successfully with larger and less personal EastCoast institutions. Unlike other investment companies, IDS survivedthe Depression with reputation and finances intact. It grew swiftlyduring World War II as its salespeople spread throughout the armedservices and provided a home for savings in those cash-rich,goods-poordays.The Essential John Nash. Editors Harold Kuhn and SylviaNasar, author of A Beautiful Mind, present the story of West Windsorresident John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner, in his own words. Kuhn isprofessor emeritus of mathematics at Princeton University. He wonthe 1980 von Neumann Prize in Theory for laying the foundations ofgame theory and linear and non-linear programming.In his preface, Kuhn offers personal insights on his longtime friendand colleague; and in introductions to several of Nash’s papers, heprovides helpful scholarly context. This book is for the mathematicianon your gift list.John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years. John Bogle,Princeton Class of 1951, and one of the most influential investorsof the century, gives his alma mater credit for his career direction.From his never-before-published Princeton thesis to more than twodozen essays covering five decades of investing, the book is a 50-yearcompendium of the work and wisdom of one of the world’s significantinvestment gurus.B>Next: The Future Just Happened. Princeton alumnusMichael Lewis, Class of 1982, visits improbable investment whizzes,including a New Jersey teen-ager, for a look at business developmentsin the over-heated decade just passed. Here is an excerpt of aPublishersWeekly review.”Putting an engaging and irreverent spin on yesterday’s news,Lewis (Liar’s Poker; The New, New Thing) declares that power andprestigeare up for grabs in this look at how the Internet has changed theway we live and work. Probing how Web-enabled players have exploitedthe fuzzy boundary between reality and perception, he visits threeteenagers who have assumed startling roles: Jonathan Lebed, the15-year-oldNew Jersey high school student who made headlines when he netted$800,000as a day trader and became the youngest person ever accused ofstock-marketfraud by the SEC.”Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. Authors Jenny McPhee, Laura McPhee, and Martha McPhee are thedaughtersof Princeton photographer Pryde Brown and Pulitzer Prize-winningauthorJohn McPhee. The sisters traveled around the country interviewingand photographing girls between the ages of 6 and 19 to see if theyare different from girls raised in the ’60s and ’70s.Jenny, a writer and translator, recently completed her first novel,The Center of Things. Laura, a professor of photography at theMassachussettsCollege of Arts, has written No Ordinary Land in collaboration withVirginai Beahan. Martha, author of Bright Angel Time, is working onher second novel.Previous StoryCorrections or additions?This page is published by PrincetonInfo.com— the web site for U.S. 1 Newspaper in Princeton, New Jersey.
