Clovis Heimsath, Geometry in Architecture, Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today. Pioneer Texas Buildings 1968, University of Texas Press, 2001.

When Clovis Heimsath's Pioneer Texas Buildings - a Geometry Lesson was first published in 1968, it opened people's eyes. At a time when ''progress'' meant tearing down the weathered houses, barns, churches, and stores built by the original settlers of Central Texas, his book taught people to see the beauty, simplicity, and order expressed in the unadorned geometric forms of early Texas buildings. The forward to the original book was by Louis I Kahn. An award winning book, it inspired the preservation and restoration of many of the remaining pioneer buildings, as well as serving as a guide for many Texas architects eager to combine the heritage of Texas with a contemporary vocabulary.

Geometry in Architecture, a revised edition of Pioneer Texas Buildings, juxtaposes the historic structures with works by twenty contemporary architects who are inspired by the pioneer tradition to show how seamlessly the basic geometries translate from one era t9 another. As in the earlier book, sketches and a brief commentary by Clovis Heimsath explain how squares, triangles, and circles take shape in the cubic, triangular and cylindrical forms that comprise houses and other buildings. Then black-and-white photographs, the heart of the book, illustrate these geometric forms in historic and modem buildings. While the book focuses on Texas buildings, the geometry lesson has no state borders. The geometry lesson in Texas buildings is the geometry lesson of Cape Cod buildings as well.

This book also includes two introductions in which Heimsath discusses the factors that led him and his wife Maryann, the photographer, to document early Texas buildings and the results in historic preservation and timeless architectural design that have followed theirs efforts. As Robert T. Jackson, AlA, one of the contemporary architects in the book, observes" this revised edition should serve well as a new source book for many young architects who never saw the first printing. Of course, there is also a broader public interest and fondness for these examples of pioneer ingenuity, and this book will surely bolster the preservation of the remaining stock of buildings."

Clovis Heimsath, FAlA, founding partner of Heimsath Architects, is now Chief Designer with Maryann Heimsath in Heimsath Architects (www.Heimsath.com) owned and managed by their son, Ben Heimsath AlA in Austin, Texas. Fayetteville, Texas, a small Czech community between Austin and Houston, is their residence much of the week. Clovis is a recognized artist, depicting the architecture and landscape of Central Texas. (Clovis Heimsath,artist.com). Together with Maryann, Clovis runs the historic 1900 Country Place Hotel on the square in Fayetteville, a town soon to be recognized as an national Historic District.

Robert Moncreiff,Bart Giamatti, A Profile, Yale University Press, 2007.

Bart Giamatti, A Profile focuses on Glamatti's years at Yale University and his brief career as a major league baseball executive.

" This graceful biography provides profound insight into the connections between Bart Giamattl's scholarship and his compelling and sometimes controversial philosophy of life and of higher education"
- Gaddis Smith

George Dennis O'Brien,All the Essential Half-Truths About Higher Education, University of Chicago Press, 1998 (later paperback).

Why are books on higher education so boring? (And they are!) Because they talk about great pursuits like science, art and literature without noting that higher education is an institution. Science, art and literature have all developed mostly outside the institution of the university and very frequently in opposition to the very idea of the university. What happens to great tasks when you institute them with appointed faculty, a hierarchy of certifications, financial needs and plumbing. The result is that high truths like freedom of inquiry become the half-truth of tenure, teaching ignores the overall educational mission and universities do or do not teach moral value.

Gordon Rogoff,Vanishing Acts, Yale University Press 2000.

The official description of my book, Vanishing Acts, is as follows: Gordon Rogoff looks at live theater In America from the perspective of a man who is both a discerning and eminent critic and a lifelong participant in theater productions. In this outstanding collection of his critical writings, some published here for the first time, Rogoff ranges widely across topics from acting to Shakespeare productions to theater criticism, considering along the way the work of playwrights and performers from the 1960s to the present.

Peter Shaffer describes the book as "filled with an allusive, analytic rigour which takes on actors, directors, and those who become both, with an unremitting liveliness." The American playwright, Mac Wellman adds that "Gordon Rogoff may be our only indispensable critic; certainly he is our most searching, our most passionate."

Gordon Rogoff is professor of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at the Yale School of Drama and professor emeritus of Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is an Obie-award winning director and as one of America’s most respected theater critics, he received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.