New Books by Faculty and Staff

Pictured top row from left: Robert Cody and Ron Goldberg; Middle row: Angela Amoia and Nikos Solounias; Bottom row: Larry Jaffee and Remi Charron

Remi Charron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Energy Management
Plan for a Turbulent Future: Your Roadmap to Personal Resilience for a Changing Climate
Climate change has been on the general public’s radar for many years now, and the grim reality, as addressed in Remi Charron’s Plan for a Turbulent Future, is that it may very well be inescapable. In the book, Charron details steps people can take to help prepare a plan to combat the effects of an ever-increasing turbulent climate.

Robert Cody and Angela Amoia
Teaching Associate Professor, Architecture., and Adjunct Associate Professor, Architecture
Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture
Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture by New York Tech colleagues and cofounders of Amoia Cody Architecture, Robert Cody and Angela Amoia, chronicles how technologies such as digital design and fabrication are shaping architecture and becoming a critical component in the way architects think and design. Finnish modern architect and designer Alvar Aalto, who had big ideas for integrating art, technology, and environmental considerations into his architecture, served as inspiration.  

Ron Goldberg
Web Content Editor
Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
This coming-of-age-memoir and telling of history details Ron Goldberg’s first experience with the AIDS activist organization AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), and the many years of committee chairing, protest planning, and meetings leading that followed. Boy with the Bullhorn provides insight to a life of activism in New York City during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic.

Larry Jaffee
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Communication Arts
Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century
Larry Jaffee’s Record Store Day tells the story of how the event Record Store Day, first held in 2008 for record users and enthusiasts to come together to celebrate the unique role of record stores in the modern age, wrangled the vinyl record format from the precipice of extinction and sent it hurtling toward an artist-backed revival no one saw coming.

Nikos Solounias, Ph.D.
Professor, Anatomy
Anatomy and Evolution of the Giraffe: Parts Unknown
In a close examination of the anatomical essence of the giraffe, Anatomy and Evolution of the Giraffe looks at now-extinct giraffe species in North Africa that suggest an okapi population may have once thrived in the area as well. The book describes skeletal differences, anatomical scrutiny, and locomotive features of the giraffe and compares the evolution of the animal to other Giraffidae, a family of even-toed, hoofed mammals that share a common ancestor with deer and bovids.