EurekAlert! - Books

Public Release: 19-Jun-2013
Paralysed with fear: The story of polio
Thanks to vaccination, polio has been pushed to the brink of extinction-- but can we finish the job? This is one of the big questions which a University of Bristol academic addresses in his new book, published next week.

Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
The verdict on tiger-parenting?
Long before Amy Chua's provocative 2011 memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," raised the bar for tough-love parenting, psychologists at UC Berkeley were studying the effects of three kinds of child-rearing: authoritarian (too hard), permissive (too soft) and authoritative (combo). Now, with the recent release of Berkeley alumna Kim Wong Keltner's memoir, "Tiger Babies Strike Back," along with other scholarly works and testimonials, the results are in.

Public Release: 18-Jun-2013
A guide for the study of the potential environmental impacts of offshore renewable energies
The global operator of renewable energy ACCIONA-Energy in collaboration with the Marine Research Unit of AZTI-Tecnalia has developed a guide that will facilitate the writing of the Environmental Impact Studies of Marine Renewable Energy Projects.

Public Release: 17-Jun-2013
10 virtues of outstanding leaders: Leadership and character
What makes a great leader? While most of us may find it easy to recognize good leadership qualities -- honesty, diligence, fairness to name just a few -- finding the words to define exactly what inspires people to follow a single individual is not always so straightforward.

Public Release: 14-Jun-2013
'Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers'
The work of ten great scientists is presented in the new book Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers -- Ten Physics Nobel Laureates Tell Their Story. The author Kristian Fossheim describes who they were and are, their personal background and how they achieved their outstanding results and took their prominent place in science history. The book follows one of physics and science history's most enigmatic phenomena, superconductivity, through 100 years, from its discovery in 1911 to the present.

Public Release: 13-Jun-2013
A new approach for managing investment funds
A new book by a University of Luxembourg Professor provides new insights, ideas and empirical evidence that will improve tools and methods at our disposal for fund performance analysis. Associate-Professor Virginie Terraza, from the Centre for Research in Economics and Management, in the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance together with Associate-Professor Hery Razafitombo from the University of Lorraine, have written �Understanding Investment Funds : Insights from performance and risk analysis� which is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
The 'art' of money laundering: An expert's vantage point
Art is said to be subjective, and in the eye of the beholder. But what is unquestionably true is that criminals have found effective means of using art to engage in illegal activities, specifically money laundering. In the new book, Money Laundering Through Art: A Criminal Justice Perspective (Springer, 2013), author Fausto Martin De Sanctis offers a bird's-eye view of these activities.

Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
Books by UC Riverside researchers tackle global environmental issues
"Bridges over Water" by Ariel Dinar at UC Riverside and others places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines, such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics. Dinar and UC Riverside's Amnon Rapoport are co-editors of "Analyzing Global Environmental Issues," an attempt to illustrate the usefulness of game theory and experimental economics in policy-making at multiple levels and for various aspects related to global issues.

Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
Turning plant matter into fuel
A University of California, Riverside professor in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department edited a recently published book that provides in-depth information on aqueous processing of cellulosic biomass, which includes wood, grasses, and agricultural and forestry residues, for conversion into fuels.

Public Release: 12-Jun-2013
Down the wrong path: Book details psychiatry's lack of objective science
Psychiatry -- which uses well-intentioned coercion, unscientific diagnoses and psychoactive drugs that do as much harm as good -- is a science that is off course, according to a new book co-written by Tomi Gomory, an associate professor in the Florida State University College of Social Work.

Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
New book explains extraordinary gender differences in animal kingdom
What does it mean to be male or female in the animal kingdom? Why do adult male elephant seals weigh more than four times as much as an adult female? And why are male octopuses forty thousand times lighter than females? UC Riverside's Daphne Fairbairn examines these and other cases of extreme differences between males and females of the same species in her book "Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom."

Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
Society of Interventional Radiology publishes definitive literature review
The Society of Interventional Radiology announces the release of "Updates in Interventional Radiology 2013," a concise reference of the current literature most relevant to the specialty. The book is a prime source for interventional and diagnostic radiologists and interventional radiology fellows and residents. "Updates in Interventional Radiology 2013" is edited by Charles E. Ray Jr., M.D., Ph.D., FSIR, and Brian Funaki, M.D., FSIR.

Public Release: 11-Jun-2013
Children's cognitive abilities relatively unaffected by having working mothers
Children's literacy, maths ability and behavior are not on average harmed if their mothers go out to work during the first years of their lives, a leading researcher said today [11 June].

Public Release: 10-Jun-2013
Rules for the world of economics
A Swedish energy corporation sues the Federal Republic for damages based on its change in energy policy? The EU is against the import of beef from America that has been treated with hormones? Such problematic cases from global trade, investment and business relationships are governed by "international economic law." Law professor Prof. Dr. Matthias Herdegen from the University of Bonn studies the principles of this complex matter, and he has now presented them in a book with more than 500 pages.

Public Release: 4-Jun-2013
Book by UC Santa Barbara music professor studies noise music in Japan
Noise music is a difficult phenomenon to describe. It falls outside conventional ideas about music. It has no rules about structure, and no definitive provenance. It has little or no monetary value, and it hasn't been assigned the status of art in any cultural institution. We can't learn it the way we learn typical music, nor is it composed or played or judged like most other forms of music.

Public Release: 4-Jun-2013
New book debunks myth of knowledge economy
Ever wondered why there are so many "Vice Presidents" at your workplace? Or how everyone can have a complex-sounding degree, when there are university courses on Star Trek? Do you feel like the nice suits, Power Points and corporate speak are increasingly meaningless?

Public Release: 4-Jun-2013
Elsevier author Dr. Paul Auerbach updates popular book: Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that Paul S. Auerbach, M.D., one of the world's leading authorities on wilderness medicine, has teamed up with Benjamin Constance, M.D., and Luanne Freer, M.D., to release a new edition of the Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine (4th ed., Elsevier 2013).

Public Release: 3-Jun-2013
Vacations part of Soviet Union's 'good life,' with Sochi the dream resort
The Soviet Union had ideals about vacation and how it fit within "the good life" under communism, says University of Illinois historian Diane Koenker, in "Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream." Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics, was the most sought-after of resort destinations, and was a focus of Koenker's research. Paradoxically, she says, the Soviet regime used travel and tourism as a means to encourage independence and self-reliance in its citizens.

Public Release: 30-May-2013
Huddersfield duo publish 5th edition of Practical Psychiatry of Old Age
Professor John Wattis and Professor Steven Curran, of the University of Huddersfield, have published the latest edition of this key text on psychiatric conditions in old age.

Public Release: 29-May-2013
UCSB music professor's book examines composer Charles Ives and the shifting American identity
With growing immigrant populations, industrialization, and colonial ventures changing the country, America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was bustling and chaotic. Composer Charles Ives gave voice to these dramatic transformations, creating pieces in which traditional classical music and musical Americana collide. In his new book, "Charles Ives in the Mirror," David Paul, assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara, describes Ives's music as "full of familiar tunes that have been radically distorted," and "often haunting and dissonant."

Public Release: 29-May-2013
A sustainable environment and a new American dream
A new book by Wildlife Conservation Society senior conservation ecologist Dr. Eric W. Sanderson published by ABRAMS shows that the root of many of America's biggest problems -- economic recessions, foreign wars and foreclosures -- is an economic model built around oil, cars and suburbs.

Public Release: 29-May-2013
The University of Huddersfield produces the first book on child sexual abuse in the Caribbean
Professor Adele Jones has written several chapters, and acted as overall Editor for the first academic book to be published on the issue of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean.

Department for International Development

Public Release: 28-May-2013
Guatemala's jaguars: Capturing phantoms in photos
The Wildlife Conservation Society today released this photograph of a male jaguar taken by a remote camera trap in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve. Activated by motion or heat differentials, camera traps "capture" pictures of secretive and elusive animals in the wild. Because each jaguar's pattern of spots is unique, the photographs can be used to identify individuals and estimate abundance.

Public Release: 28-May-2013
'Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike'
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. Few movies have examined life, what it means to be human and our relation to other animals, more than "Planet of the Apes." John Huss, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Akron, has edited and compiled a collection of essays in a new book, "Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike."

Public Release: 28-May-2013
The relationship between place names and surnames in the German language
The German Surname Atlas documents the spatial distribution of German surnames in 2005 in a six-volume work containing some 2,000 annotated maps. The fourth volume in the series was recently published.


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