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Award Winning Physicist and Author, Robert "Bob" C. Hilborn, Picked to Serve as AAPT Associate Execu

Award Winning Physicist and Author, Robert "Bob" C. Hilborn, Picked to Serve as AAPT Associate Execu

Sex before the sexual revolution: intimate life in England, 1918-1963

What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. These award-winning authors look beyond conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition. Based on vivid, compelling and frank testimonies from a socially and geographically diverse range of individuals, the book explores a spectrum of sexual experiences, from learning about sex and sexual practices in courtship, to attitudes to the body, marital ideals and birth control. It demonstrates that while the era's emphasis on silence and strict moral codes could for some be a source of inhibition and dissatisfaction, for many the culture of privacy and innocence was central to fulfilling and pleasurable intimate lives.

The Albanians

The Albanians

Commentary: Writing Picture Books

In this interview Jane Yolen, award-winning author of children’s picture books, talks of how her books come into being and the sometimes long period between the first spark of an idea and the time writing begins. She explains the many types of research that can be required for different types of books, giving examples from her own work. She also provides insight as to the role of the writer, the illustrator and the editor in creating the final version of a children’s picture book. Finally, she reveals her own favourite children’s picture books and gives advice to those wishing to write in this genre.

Debating Detente in the Twenty-first Century

“T and Iran are the only Muslim countries in the Middle East where democracy is deeply rooted. This makes their future bright. It also makes them America’s logical partners.”1 With this sweeping proclamation, veteran journalist and award-winning author Stephen Kinzer cleans out America’s foreign policy closet. He advocates nothing less than a radical rebalancing of United States-Middle East alliances in his latest book Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future. The United States should tilt away from Israel and Saudi Arabia, toward Turkey and Iran, to improve regional and national security because Cold Warera politics is long dead, argues Kinzer. Kinzer’s professional role is that of an expert-outsider to the American foreign policy establishment, having served as bureau chief for the New York Times in multiple continents over the course of two decades. Though not an academic or policymaker, he does not hesitate to put on these hats and deconstruct American strategic thinking. In Reset, we learn how the masses, and sometimes governments, in Turkey and Iran have strived to see the “American project”—meaning modern notions of liberty and democracy promotion—in a bright light. The two nations’ republican founders, Kemal Ataturk in Turkey and Reza Shah in Iran, threw off the yoke of the Caliphate and Islam’s Shia clergy respectively to radically reform their countries. Their goal was to bring their nation’s culture and political climate up to speed with the West, which entailed emancipating women, implementing new legal codes, banning religious garb in public, sending unprecedented numbers of children to school, and giving voice to public opinion, rich and poor. Despite the autocratic ruling styles, these men were quite progressive in implementing most of their policies. In his fairly straightforward storytelling Kinzer succeeds in explaining these histories, though one does not walk away with a full understanding of what would happen if his grand recommendation—which would amount to a major recalibration of American foreign policy in the Middle East—is implemented. One does however sense the gravity of the political earthquake Kinzer proposes—one ironically designed to solve a Middle East set-up (i.e., U.S.-Iran tensions and the Israel-Palestine conflict) already on shaky ground. The first

King Philip's War: colonial expansion, Native resistance, and the end of Indian sovereignty

King Philip's War was the most devastating conflict between Europeans and Native Americans in the 1600s. In this incisive account, award-winning author Daniel R. Mandell puts the war into its rich historical context. The war erupted in July 1675, after years of growing tension between Plymouth and the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, also known as Philip. Metacom's warriors attacked nearby Swansea, and within months the bloody conflict spread west and erupted in Maine. Native forces ambushed militia detachments and burned towns, driving the colonists back toward Boston. But by late spring 1676, the tide had turned: the colonists fought more effectively and enlisted Native allies while from the west the feared Mohawks attacked Metacom's forces. Thousands of Natives starved, fled the region, surrendered (often to be executed or sold into slavery), or, like Metacom, were hunted down and killed. Mandell explores how decades of colonial expansion and encroachments on Indian sovereignty caused the war and how Metacom sought to enlist the aid of other tribes against the colonists even as Plymouth pressured the Wampanoags to join them. He narrates the colonists' many defeats and growing desperation; the severe shortages the Indians faced during the brutal winter; the collapse of Native unity; and the final hunt for Metacom. In the process, Mandell reveals the complex and shifting relationships among the Native tribes and colonists and explains why the war effectively ended sovereignty for Indians in New England. This fast-paced history incorporates the most recent scholarship on the region and features nine new maps and a bibliographic essay about Native-Anglo relations.

Mothers and Daughters Make Sparks Fly [Pipelining: Attractive Programs for Women

If there's one person whose passion is evident in motivating more girls nationwide to enter engineering fields, it's Celeste Baine. Award-winning author of books including Is There an Engineer Inside You: A Comprehensive Guide to Career Decisions in Engineering and Engineers Make a Difference: Motivating Students to Pursue An Engineering Education, Baine doesn't stop there when it comes to promoting engineering to students. She is one of the founders of The Mother/Daughter Technology Engineering Aptitude (TEA), a one-day event that lets middle school girls complete hands-on activities and interact with an engineering professional to learn about the engineering industry.

Financial globalization, economic growth, and the crisis of 2007-09

In the debate over globalization's economic implications, trade liberalization remains at the forefront of discussion, but in an important new book, award-winning author William dine changes direction to focus on the overlooked but pertinent growth benefits of financial globalization. In a post-crisis environment, how dangerous is financial openness? Does the global financial crisis of 2007--2009 warrant major policy changes that affect the degree of financial openness? Through a chronological overview of the policy interventions implemented during the crisis, dine--a noted financial expert--examines the role that the financial crisis will play in the construction of future policy and provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial globalization and economic growth. Cline asserts that financial globalization represents a significant factor in economic growth of emerging market economies. In his analysis of the fiscal legacies of the crisis, he looks at why financial sector innovation helped create a massive downturn in the economy rather than a period of growth. Ultimately, Cline argues that present-day GDP levels are a result of the cumulative influence of financial openness.

Wolf: the lives of Jack London

Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coastby turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed, best-selling books: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf. London was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest-paid writer in America, he was nevertheless constantly broke. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice, he burned himself out at forty: sick, angry, and disillusioned, but leaving behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Wolf, award-winning author James L. Haley explores the forgotten Jack Londonat once a hard-living globetrotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Wolf resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.

Gender, humiliation, and global security: dignifying relationships from love, sex, and parenthood to world affairs

An award-winning author and transdisciplinary social scientist offers a must-read guide to paradigm change for creating a socially and ecologically sustainable future.

Christianity: the first three thousand years

The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read-a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill. Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity is such a book. Breathtaking in ambition, it ranges back to the origins of the Hebrew Bible and covers the world, following the three main strands of the Christian faith. Christianity will teach modern readers things that have been lost in time about how Jesus' message spread and how the New Testament was formed. We follow the Christian story to all corners of the globe, filling in often neglected accounts of conversions and confrontations in Africa and Asia. And we discover the roots of the faith that galvanized America, charting the rise of the evangelical movement from its origins in Germany and England. This book encompasses all of intellectual history-we meet monks and crusaders, heretics and saints, slave traders and abolitionists, and discover Christianity's essential role in driving the enlightenment and the age of exploration, and shaping the course of World War I and World War II. We are living in a time of tremendous religious awareness, when both believers and non-believers are deeply engaged by questions of religion and tradition, seeking to understand the violence sometimes perpetrated in the name of God. The son of an Anglican clergyman, MacCulloch writes with deep feeling about faith. His last book, The Reformation, was chosen by dozens of publications as Best Book of the Year and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. This awe-inspiring follow-up is a landmark new history of the faith that continues to shape the world.

How Hard Can It Be?

Jane Yolen, the award-winning author of over 300 books, shares her writing process and invites us to understand the differences between writing for picture books, writing narratives, and collaborating on a graphic novel, as she experienced while writing her first graphic novel Foiled. The relationship between the illustrations and the text is central in creating graphic novels and essential to producing a quality book. Not only is the author asked to be “part art director, part movie director, part set designer and costume designer, part storyboarder,” the production of graphic novels necessitates collaboration between author, artist, and editor. The sophistication with which graphic novels are written and, as a result, read has helped Jane Yolen embrace this art form, and she encourages us to do the same. “How Hard Can It Be?” Copyright ©2009 by Jane Yolen. All rights reserved.

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This delightful story demonstrates how the award-winning author, Niki Daly, cleverly examines cultural differences in a context which all children can relate to – reality television.

A paradise built in hell: the extraordinary communities that arise in disaster

startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.

The deadly dinner party & other medical detective stories

Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers. In these stories a notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. Written for the lay person who wishes to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms they often encounter, each story presents a very different case where doctors must work to find the accurate diagnosis before it is too late. Edlow uses his unique ability to relate complex medical concepts in a writing style that is clear, engaging and easily understandable. The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans, and the environment.

A Kid's Look at Colorado

Children, Youth and Environments Vol. 20 No. 1 (Spring 2010) ISSN: 1546-2250 A Kid’s Look at Colorado Perry, Phyllis J. (2005). Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing; 204 pages. $15.95. ISBN 1555918565. A Kid’s Look at Colorado, written by Phyllis J. Perry, provides a comprehensive look at Colorado’s history, landmarks and state symbols, as well as current information about the state for students in grades 3-8. A former teacher in theBoulder Valley School District, the author incorporates her knowledge of both the state curriculum and Colorado history to paint a delightful mosaic of many of the diverse events, people, and places that have made Colorado the state it is today. Perry is an award-winning author of more than 40 books for children, parents, and educators and is an expert in Colorado history. Although this book is intended for children, it can also be used as a valuable resource for parents and educators to further their knowledge aboutColorado. The book is divided into 15 chapters, each dedicated to a different facet of Colorado history, its natural resources, and state symbols. The last chapter takes a look at present-dayColorado. Perry has designed the book so that it can be used either as a reference (including a table of contents and topic index) or simply an enjoyable read. Because of the wide range of topics covered, it is likely even native Coloradans will learn something by reading this book. For every topic presented in the book, Perry has collected interesting stories from across the state. She scatters these vignettes throughout the text with engaging photographs in order to provide a detailed and intimate look at some of the characters, battles and the native vegetation for whichColorado is known today. For example, Perry describes the unique and unlikely tale of Rocky Mountain Jim and Lady Isabella Bird who climbed Longs Peak together in 1873, the story of William Bent and the construction of Fort Lyon, and John Wesley Powell’s contribution in compiling a dictionary of Ute vocabulary. 349 Although Perry wrote A Kid’s Look at Colorado in kid-friendly language, she does not shortchange readers with a lack of details in the topics she presents. When describing the history of branding cattle, for example, Perry not only defines it and describes the traditions around this practice, but also provides a full-page display of typical brand designs, how to read them, and what they mean. At the end of each chapter Perry lists practical ideas for further exploration and learning extensions specifically designed for kids. These activities include map-making, website links, additional book titles, and song-writing. Perry’s talents as an educator as well as her extensive knowledge and passion for Colorado history neatly combine for an engaging read. Reviewer Information van Vliet, Tamar Tamar van Vliet is an ESOL teacher at Ison Springs Elementary in Atlanta. She has a Master's Degree in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education from the University of Colorado at Boulder. ...

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Secrets of Successful Writers

Understanding Lorrie Moore

This is the first book-length critical approach to the fiction of the award-winning author of Birds of America. Understanding Lorrie is a comprehensive companion to the works of this wickedly humorous writer, whose fiction shows a deep sensitivity to the dynamics of contemporary gender relations and an abiding interest in portraying and critiquing the American national character. The recipient of the 1998 O. Henry Award and the 2004 Rea Award for the Short Story, Lorrie Moore is best known for her short fiction. Alison Kelly shows that Moore's virtuosic prose, wry humor, and sense of irony are tools for registering how Americans face the discomfort of their daily lives as individuals and as a nation. Kelly traces Moore's emergence as a writer in the 1980s and her artistic development up to the present day, illuminating the distinctive narrative methods, aesthetics, and thematic preoccupations of Moore's major works. Kelly follows Moore's recurrent characters, situations, metaphors, and motifs in order to promote understanding of the texts and appreciation for their wordplay, wit, and imagery. Viewing her subject as a subtly political writer, Kelly discusses Moore's major themes, techniques, and stylistics as evidence that her characters' private pains are symptomatic of a wider national malaise.

Children and Nature

There is a growing disconnect between children and the natural world, described by award-winning and best-selling author Richard Louv as "nature-deficit disorder." Co-founder with Louv of the Children and Nature Network (www.childrenandnature.org), Dr. Charles describes this disconnect and offers suggestions for addressing it. While stressing the importance of reconnecting children with nature, for their health and well-being, she suggests that the remedies involve caring for communities and designing for life. All of this commentary has implications for museums, and she offers specific suggestions for actions that museums can take to help address nature-deficit disorder.

Brooks And Chernyavskiy, Lenin And The Making Of The Soviet State - A Brief History With Documents

With this latest work, award-winning authors Jeffrey Brooks (Johns Hopkins University) and Georgiy Chernayavskiy (Kharkov University, Ukraine) have crafted a superb supplemental text for the classroom. Well-written, logically-ordered, brimming with documents, yet concise in its presentation, this slim volume is an engaging and easy read. Undoubtedly, many will find it an authoritative work as well, but leftists might be dissatisfied with the image of Lenin that it projects.