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Showing releases 26-50 out of 55.

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Public Release: 31-Oct-2012
Best-selling author and 'ˇAsk a Mexican!' columnist speaks at UH, Nov. 15
The University of Houston has invited best-selling author Gustavo Arellano, whose work includes the nationally syndicated column "ˇAsk a Mexican!," to launch this year's Food for Thought Lecture Series at 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15, at the Roy G. Cullen Building, Room 104. The event is free and open to the public.
University of Houston Center for Public History

Contact: Melissa Carroll
mcarroll@uh.edu
713-743-8153
University of Houston

Public Release: 30-Oct-2012
What kind of hobbit are you? New book helps you discover your inner Took...
This is a release about the book, "The Hobbit and Philosophy: For When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard and Your Way," by Gregory Bassham and Eric Bronson, Series Editor, William Irwin.

Contact: Michelle Martella
mmartella@wiley.com
781-388-8577
Wiley

Public Release: 30-Oct-2012
'RACE: Are We So Different?'
Race is a short word with a long history in the United States of America. RACE: Are We So Different? explores the central idea of race and how this notion has been challenged and changed throughout history.

Contact: Michelle Martella
mmartella@wiley.com
781-388-8577
Wiley

Public Release: 29-Oct-2012
IU professor's new book: We live our lives within our media, rather than simply with it
In a new book, IU professor Mark Dueze takes on the prevailing notion of his peers in media and communications research think -- that the media and its related devices have an effect on us and that the more we use them, the more they shape our lives.

Contact: George Vlahakis
vlahakis@iu.edu
812-855-0846
Indiana University

Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
Nettles -- it's what's for dinner!
Capers, arugula and fennel and other darlings of the foodie set started out as peasants' fodder, foraged from rocky outcroppings, empty fields and roadsides, according to a new book by a UCLA Italian professor. Luigi Ballerini revisits this unfathomable past in A Feast of Weeds: A Literary Guide to Foraging and Cooking Wild Edible Plants (University of California Press), a forthcoming book that celebrates foraged foods, which are enjoying a renaissance in Italy and elsewhere.

Contact: Meg Sullivan
msullivan@support.ucla.edu
310-825-1046
University of California - Los Angeles

Public Release: 26-Oct-2012
2012 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition
From the Blue Ridge to the Coastal Plain
In their foreword to this new GSA Field Guide focusing on the Southeastern United States, editors Martha Cary Eppes of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Mervin J. Bartholomew of the University of Memphis invite the intrepid trekker to "grab your machete, your shovel, your bug spray, and perhaps even your night vision goggles, and set off to explore the amazing field experiences that our corner of the planet has to offer."

Contact: Kea Giles
kgiles@geosociety.org
Geological Society of America

Public Release: 25-Oct-2012
CWRU's Maxwell J. Mehlman's book examines issues emerging in genetic engineering
Men and women could soon have the option to change the course of human evolution through genetic engineering. In his newly published book, Maxwell J. Mehlman examines potential challenges to law and bioethics. Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering (Johns Hopkins University Press) is about balancing advances in "evolutionary engineering" with caution.
Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State University, Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law, Case Western Reserve University, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, and others

Contact: Marv Kropko
mrk107@case.edu
216-368-6890
Case Western Reserve University

Public Release: 25-Oct-2012
The modern view of nature has religious roots
All over the planet, people are fighting to save animals and plants from extinction – even though many species have no utilitarian value for us. In a new book, University of Copenhagen theologian Jakob Wolf takes up this aspect of the climate debate in the context of a religious ethic that spans cultures and religions.

Contact: Associate Professor Jakob Wolf
jwo@teol.ku.dk
(45) 61-70-68-62
University of Copenhagen

Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Health care history through humor
A new history of health care reform provides an entertaining review of 100 years of partisan wrangling over medical insurance through more than 200 political cartoons.

Contact: Susan Hagen
susan.hagen@rochester.edu
585-576-5945
University of Rochester

Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Beatrix Hoffman discusses her new book on history of US health care rights
Author Beatrix Hoffman talks about her new book examining the history of health care rights in the United States.

Contact: Tom Parisi
tparisi@niu.edu
815-753-3635
Northern Illinois University

Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Cops on the street: How many are needed?
A Michigan State University criminologist has created a research-based approach to police staffing and allocation that could ultimately improve police work for agencies stretched thin by layoffs and expanding police roles.
US Department of Justice

Contact: Andy Henion
henion@msu.edu
517-355-3294
Michigan State University

Public Release: 24-Oct-2012
Baycrest launches world's first science-based cookbook for the brain
With dementia rates expected to soar in coming decades as Canada's population gets older, a nutrition and cognitive scientist with the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Health Sciences has cooked up a strategy to help people maintain good brain health.
Cogniciti Inc., Baycrest Foundation

Contact: Kelly Connelly
kconnelly@baycrest.org
416-785-2432
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care

Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
Silver medal-winning sailor, technology test pilot launches book
Jenifer French, a sailor who won a silver medal at this summer's London Paralympics, describes in a new book how cutting-edge medical technology from the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center allowed her to resume an active life after being paralyzed 14 years ago.

Contact: Kevin Mayhood
kevin.mayhood@case.edu
216-368-4442
Case Western Reserve University

Public Release: 23-Oct-2012
New guide for compiling national species checklists
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility has published a new guide on policies and procedures to capture information for national species checklists. The Best practice guide for compiling, maintaining and disseminating national species checklists is a tool to help improve the capacity of a country to document, and thus better manage, its biodiversity.

Contact: Sampreethi Aipanjiguly
saipanjiguly@gbif.org
Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Public Release: 22-Oct-2012
200 years of American Indian persistence turned US into 'Indian Country'
Frederick Hoxie's new American Indian history tells a story far different from the one most Americans know. It's a story not of long-dead warrior chiefs, but of how generations of lawyers and activists persisted over 200 years in claiming rights and an equal place for American Indians in a country that once thought them irrelevant.

Contact: Craig Chamberlain
cdchambe@illinois.edu
217-333-2894
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Public Release: 22-Oct-2012
Latin for Gardeners--A useful, surprising, and beautiful resource
An essential addition to the library of botanists and gardeners, this colorful, fully illustrated book details the history of naming plants, provides an overview of Latin naming conventions, and offers guidelines for pronunciation. Readers will learn to identify Latin terms that indicate the provenance of a given plant and provide clues to its color, shape, fragrance, taste, behavior, functions, and more.

Contact: Lauren Salas
lsalas@press.uchicago.edu
773-702-0890
University of Chicago Press Journals

Public Release: 20-Oct-2012
American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition
American Academy of Pediatrics offers second edition of autism toolkit for clinicians
To help pediatricians in diagnosing and managing autism spectrum disorders in children, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is offering an extensively revised and updated second edition of its autism toolkit, "Autism: Caring for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Resource Toolkit for Clinicians." The toolkit will be launched Oct. 20 at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans.

Contact: Debbie Jacobson
djacobson@aap.org
847-434-7084
American Academy of Pediatrics

Public Release: 18-Oct-2012
Collaborative model for promoting competence and success for students with ASD
This book is a must-have reference for professionals working with children with ASD--clinicians, scientist practitioners, researchers, and graduate students across many disciplines

Contact: David Hosick
dhosick@iupiu.edu
317-274-4585
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Science

Public Release: 18-Oct-2012
Notre Dame professor examines mathematics and the world's greatest buildings
Notre Dame mathematician Alex Hahn examines the mathematics at work in great buildings in a compelling and richly illustrated new book "Mathematical Excursions to the World's Greatest Buildings," published by Princeton University Press.

Contact: Alexander J. Hahn
Hahn.1@nd.edu
574-631-6459
University of Notre Dame

Public Release: 18-Oct-2012
Surviving triple-negative breast cancer
Prijatel's guide and personal account of surviving triple-negative breast cancer.

Contact: Tara Kennedy
tara.kennedy@oup.com
212-726-6258
Oxford University Press

Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
CSHL Press releases new book on Wnt signaling
Written and edited by experts in the field and published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, "Wnt Signaling" covers all aspects of canonical Wnt signaling, as well as β-catenin-independent Wnt signaling and cross-talk with other pathways. It also includes discussion of Wnt signaling in human disease states.

Contact: Elizabeth Powers
powerse@cshl.edu
415-422-4101
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Advancing treatment for head and neck injury
Improving treatment and outcomes for people with life-threatening head and neck injuries is the aim of a comprehensive new book by one of Australia's eminent neurosurgeons.

Contact: Courtney Karayannis
courtney.karayannis@monash.edu
61-408-508-454
Monash University

Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials, 12th edition, 5 volume set
Since its inception in the early 1950's, these volumes have become an essential resource for those who need to evaluate the hazard of substances used in commerce.

Contact: Michelle Martella
mmartella@wiley.com
781-388-8577
Wiley

Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Unknown translation of modern Arabic classic discovered and published
A previously unknown Swedish translation of the Egyptian author Taha Husein's famous autobiography al-Ayyam (The Days) has been found by Goran Larsson, professor of religious studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, after having spent 60 years in an archive box. The book is now being published as an electronic facsimile edition. 'Besides its high literary value, it is of great ethnographic and cultural-historical interest,' he says.

Contact: Göran Larsson
goran.larsson@religion.gu.se
46-031-786-5315
University of Gothenburg

Public Release: 11-Oct-2012
'Jury Decision Making: The State of the Science'
Dennis Devine, Ph.D., and an assistant professor of psychology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, explores a new theory of how juries reach verdicts and what influences outcomes

Contact: David Hosick
dhosick@iupui.edu
317-274-4585
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Science

Showing releases 26-50 out of 55.

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