EurekAlert! - Books

Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
New book by USC professor details the economics of climate change policies
As the US Congress considers enacting historic "cap and trade" legislation, a newly published book by University of Southern California professor Adam Rose provides valuable lessons and reference points in evaluating the economic impacts of climate change policy.

Public Release: 2-Jul-2009
'Righteous Dopefiend'
"Righteous Dopefiend" is an anthropological and photographic study of the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the United States. Co-authors Phillipe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed two dozen heroin addicts on the streets of San Francisco, resulting in a "photo-ethnography" featuring 64 of Schonberg's black-and-white photographs embedded in a text that reveals racial boundaries and crossings, love stories, family relations, parenting, overburdened medical services and social service bureaucracies.

Public Release: 26-Jun-2009
New guide to tropical seedlings: Essential to climate change research
The enormous trees forming rainforest canopies bear little resemblance to their seedlings, many described for the first time in the new field guide, "Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the Neotropics," published in July 2009 by Cornell University Press.

Public Release: 25-Jun-2009
Does quantum mechanics show a connection between the human mind and the cosmos?
Does quantum mechanics show a connection between the human mind and the cosmos? Are our brains tuned into a "cosmic consciousness" that pervades the universe enabling us to make our own reality? Popular media makes such claims and argues that key developments in twentieth-century physics support the notion that God or a universal mind acts upon material reality. Physicist Victor J. Stenger examines these contentions in "Quantum gods: Creation, chaos and the search for cosmic consciousness."

Public Release: 24-Jun-2009
Trees and farms working together: Agroforestry comes of age
A new edition of "North American Agroforestry: An Integrated Science and Practice," published by the American Society of Agronomy adds to the popularity of agroforestry and builds upon the science. The book brings together leading scientists who explain the basic concepts and ecological foundations of agroforestry, present specific management practices and strategies, and discuss economic and policy issues.

Public Release: 24-Jun-2009
New book explores computational modelling
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is pleased to announce that the new book "Computational Modelling and Simulation of Aircraft and the Environment: Volume I: Platform Kinematics and Synthetic Environment" is now available through the AIAA Educational Series.

Public Release: 24-Jun-2009
Anatomy of the backbone of the Americas
The first two chapters of this new Special Paper from the Geological Society of America summarize the overall anatomy and evolution of North and South American segments of the orogenic system known as "the backbone of the Americas." Following these thorough overviews are 10 seminal articles dealing with salient aspects of the key geodynamic processes accompanying the geotectonic evolution of the American Cordilleras: forearc terrane accretion, arc magmatism, shallow subduction and backarc intracontinental deformation.

Public Release: 19-Jun-2009
Smallpox -- The Death of a Disease
For over 3000 years, hundreds of millions of people have died or been left scarred by the incurable disease smallpox. In 1967, Dr. D.A. Henderson led the worldwide campaign to eliminate it from the face of the Earth -- and succeeded in just one decade. "Smallpox -- the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer" recounts what some consider "the greatest scientific and humanitarian achievement of the past century."

Public Release: 19-Jun-2009
New book explores the global airline industry
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, The Global Airline Industry, available through AIAA's Library of Flight series. The book thoroughly analyzes today's rapidly changing air transport environment, with detailed coverage of air transportation economics, airline planning and operations, aviation's effect on the global environment, aviation infrastructure, aviation safety and security, industrial relations and human resources issues and airline pricing and distribution.

Public Release: 19-Jun-2009
Punishment and prisons -- leading criminologist argues for a new way of thinking
Prison should be abolished in its current form, according to Joe Sim, Professor of Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University. Writing in his new book, Punishment and Prisons, published last month by SAGE, he argues the current prison system is built on an endless series of reforms which have done little to alleviate crime or protect society.

Public Release: 19-Jun-2009
Science fiction turns into reality
It might be a long elevator ride, but sometime in the near future astronauts might be able to grab a ride for future space exploration. In his new book Space Tethers and Space Elevators, Michel van Pelt, a space analyst at the European Space Agency, examines the technology of space tethers.

Public Release: 18-Jun-2009
Newly revised handbook of space technology now available
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is pleased to announce that the third edition of the Handbook of Space Technology is now available through AIAA's Library of Flight series.

Public Release: 17-Jun-2009
UC Davis historian catalogs US secrets, lies and conspiracies
In "Real Enemies," UC Davis history professor Kathryn Olmsted reveals that US officials plotted to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro by planting an exploding seashell in his favorite scuba-diving bay, US officials once discussed blowing up John Glenn's rocket during his historic spaceflight (as a pretext for triggering war with Cuba), and US government-funded scientists dropped hallucinogenic drugs into the drinks of unsuspecting Americans in random bars. "Real Enemies" is Olmsted's third book about government secrecy and lies.

Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
'The Vision Revolution': Eyes are the source of human 'superpowers'
Reaching beyond "how," and instead inquiring "why" vision evolved as it has over millions of years, Mark Changizi made a startling discovery: human beings do, indeed, have superpowers -- telepathy, X-ray vision, seeing the future and speaking with the dead. And it turns out that these superpowers, all related to vision, have been instrumental in shaping the way we interact with and see the world.

National Institutes of Health

Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
'Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics,' the Excel edition
Countless nervous introductory statistics students -- and the professors who teach them -- have relied on the books in Neil Salkind's bestselling "Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics" series. His personable and clear approach for social and behavioral sciences students helps them become savvy consumers of statistics, if not necessarily statisticians.

Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
Technology guide: Principles -- applications -- trends
Our everyday lives are dictated by technical developments, and we will be increasingly molded and changed by them. We can only actively help to shape the future if we know what awaits us. So how can we maintain a clear overview? The "Technology Guide: Principles -- Applications -- Trends" can provide sound assistance. It contains over a hundred articles in which internationally renowned experts give clear descriptions of all the main fields of technology.

Public Release: 16-Jun-2009
Study: Ads attacking Supreme Court nominees damage public support of high court
Nasty, politicized Supreme Court nomination battles may erode public support of the high Court, according to a study of public reactions to the Samuel Alito nomination process. In a new book, researchers reveal how television advertisements that opposed Alito's nomination in 2005 had a disturbing side effect: Many people who viewed those highly political ads become less supportive of the Supreme Court as an institution.

Public Release: 15-Jun-2009
Are everyday products from cosmetics to household cleaners causing the high rates of breast cancer?
Has the key to reducing breast cancer gotten lost in the race for a cure? A new book, "No Family History," presents compelling evidence that exposure to everyday products such as cosmetics and toiletries, hormones in food, household cleaners and pesticides is behind the dramatic increase in breast cancer and argues that the solution is simple: prevention.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Public Release: 15-Jun-2009
New release: English technology guide provides an overview of current technologies
Our everyday lives are dictated by technical developments, and we will be increasingly moulded and changed by them. We can only actively help to shape the future if we know what awaits us. So how can we maintain a clear overview? The "Technology Guide: Principles -- Applications -- Trends" can provide sound assistance. It contains over a hundred articles in which internationally renowned experts give clear descriptions of all the main fields of technology.

Public Release: 15-Jun-2009
The nature of economic manias and crashes
Readers who have followed the trials and tribulations of the world economy and financial markets will find in Donald Rapp's new book, "Bubbles, Booms and Busts: The Rise and Fall of Financial Assets," a detailed explanation of the history of economic ups and downs in financial markets.

Public Release: 12-Jun-2009
'Weather's Greatest Mysteries Solved!'
For anyone intrigued by the erratic nature of Mother Nature, "Weather's Greatest Mysteries Solved!" answers the most provocative questions in the history of our climate -- just in time for hurricane season. Award-winning climatologist Randy Cerveny explains the science of climate study, and attempts to forecast the weather of the next 10,000 years.

Prometheus Books

Public Release: 10-Jun-2009
Does humanitarian intervention do more harm than good?
In his just-released book, University of Arizona historian David Gibbs uses new information to make the case that a negotiated settlement would have produced far less damage than the NATO military intervention in Kosovo that ended a decade ago.

Public Release: 10-Jun-2009
Moving past the battle between good and evil hormones in a compelling new book about women's health
The evidence is in. Estrogen does not halt aging or protect women from heart disease and dementia, nor is it the safest or best treatment for the hot flashes, night sweats and the insomnia that are associated with menopause and perimenopause. Quite simply, estrogen is not a good and magical hormone, as Susan Baxter, PhD., and Dr. Jerilynn C. Prior painstakingly prove in their book, "The Estrogen Errors; Why Progesterone is Better for Women's Health".

Public Release: 10-Jun-2009
New edition of widely read 'Evidence-Based Endocrinology'
One of the most widely read books in endocrinilogy recently came out in its second edition.

Public Release: 8-Jun-2009
'The Fibromyalgia Controversy'
As many as 15 million American women suffer from a disabling medical condition known as fibromyalgia. In the medical community, sides have been drawn over whether fibromyalgia is a genuine syndrome or a catchall diagnosis based on vague clinical criteria. In "The Fibromyalgia Controversy," M. Clement Hall, M.D., presents an unbiased overview of the fibromyalgia situation today and reviews the most up-to-date opinions and studies on this condition and its surrounding controversy.


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