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A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life by Gary A. Olson

Reviewed by: A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life by Gary A. Olson Vicki J. Rosser A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life. Gary A. Olson. 2013. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 207 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4384-4577-9 ($75.00). Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4384-4578-6 ($24.95). The dearth of qualified and competent candidates within administrative search pools is disheartening. While the reasons are not fully clear, many colleagues speculate as to why applicant pools are limited: fiscally tough times scare the experienced or aspiring away, little or no substantive decision making power, unit repercussions for challenging senior administrators, foci tends to be external (e.g., fund raising) rather than an internal emphasis, and the pay and pain are not worth the headache. Fiscal austerity, decision making, underlying repercussions, external constituencies, and administrative pay are just a few academic leadership challenges that Gary Olson examines in his book, A Creature of Our Own Making: Reflections on Contemporary Academic Life. In his book, Olson presents a compilation of short essays or mediations examining various academic workplace and administrative leadership challenges. It’s not a leadership book per se, nor a heavily cited scholarly read, but rather offers a selection of essays that are clearly practical and relevant to the recently appointed or novice administrator, and/or to the faculty member contemplating an administrative role. Rather than being a “tiresome to read” treatise or a series of opinion pieces critical of past faculty and administrative debacles, these essays focus on providing helpful and concise advisory points for those considering leadership positions within the academic enterprise. At first glance these essays are more targeted toward recently appointed academic administrators such as chairs, deans, and provosts, but presidents as well as junior faculty members and academic support professionals may also gain big picture insights from the experiences presented in the essays. Six titled sections of essays comprising academic subtopics are shared with the reader: “Campus Culture,” “The Craft of Administration,” “Campus Reform,” “Faculty Concerns,” “Faculty Recruitment,” and “Special Topics.” Depending on your positional viewpoint, some areas are likely to be more relevant or applicable than others. Though at times the proposed guiding points within each essay scream common sense, these scenarios continue to be problematic across academe and they bear repeating. Some subtopics within “Campus Culture” include conspiracy, ax murderers, accountability, respect, and big brother is watching. While Olson’s intent is to be professional rather than humorous, on occasion, humorous thoughts from the reader will emerge such as typical faculty antics, and typical administrative incompetence. However, it’s also difficult [End Page 433] to realize how highly educated individuals can be so childish (e.g., walking out of meetings) and hurtful (e.g., personal unconstructive attacks), and at the detriment to our students, colleagues, departments, and institutions. “The Craft of Administration,” alternately termed “the dark side,” is a very thoughtful section focusing on issues such as protocol, confidentiality, disputes, rules, and rejection. While Olson honors the faculty voice and perspective, and the questioning of administrative processes, he does observe that protocol and confidentiality are lost arts within the academic profession. With respect to the former, it is noted that often faculty members insist they “must be heard” at senior levels, and as a result immediately go above the chair, dean, or provost, without giving their immediate administrative leader the opportunity to help or refuse a request or complaint. As far as confidentiality, Olson notes that issues relating to personnel decisions such as the termination of a staff member, the dismissal of a graduate student, or a colleague’s denial of promotion are often attacked mercilessly without the entire story and associated facts, when the decision to dismiss or deny cannot be defended publicly. Another helpful perspective within the craft section, “We Can’t Do That Here,” presents the differences between a rule, a policy, a procedure, and a guideline (p. 61). Frequently, new administrators with a fresh perspective will innocently ask why a particular policy exists. As a result, a defense or excuse for maintaining a policy becomes the cultural norm when in fact it’s an easily changeable rule or...

A two-edged sword: The navy as an instrument of Canadian foreign policy, by Nicholas Tracy

Nicholas Tracy A two-edged sword: navy as an instrument of Canadian foreign Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012. 496pp., $49.95 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-7735-4051-4Nicholas Tracy's comprehensive and thoroughly researched book, A Two-edged Sword: Navy as an Instrument of Canadian Foreign Policy, appeals two audiences: readers of naval history, because of its focus on the actions of the Royal Canadian Navy from its autonomy in 1910 until the present day, and readers concerned with the navy's role in Canadian international relations. Of particular interest the international relations community are Tracy's closing chapters that discuss post-Cold themes involving navy constabulary and humanitarian actions, Arctic concerns, and future strategic directions. Certainly, for those interested in Canadian defence policy, Tracy's detailed study would be a great supplement David McDonough's National Security in the Post-9j 11 World: Strategy, Interests, and Threats {2012).The genesis of the title, A Two-edged Sword, becomes clear in the concluding chapters, which outline the paradox that navy must navigate between independence and integration with Canadian naval allies. Although the navy remains a critical component of national autonomy, the degree of operational freedom from historic allies is questionable. Integration and interoperability with British and American naval counterparts in terms of command and control, communication, and equipment continues be essential, since foreign encourages its forces to remain in a position play a meaningful role in global security affairs (257). Coalition efforts in Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of how such integration comes at the price of saliency and operational influence. This proviso presents (299), Tracy argues, as Canada's partnership with the United States has come replicate the degree of integration that existed within the British Empire (299). Indeed, as Tracy continues, The management of relationship with the United States has been at the heart of naval strategy and this objective has been largely... successful but it is one that constantly challenges the independence of Canadian policy (300). Tracy's argument certainly rings true when one considers that the procurement policies of the Royal Canadian Navy are this day governed in large part by their need for C4ISTAR interoperability and are therefore heavily influenced by British and American suppliers (submarines and helicopters, respectively).1 Indeed, with a small defence budget, for Canada remain internationally relevant, compromises between command and control and practical sovereignty concerns are inevitable (13).2Although Tracy queries the costs of integration with its southern neighbour, he underlines the leveraging effect soft-power relations between the Canadian navy and her allied counterparts play in mitigating gun-boat intervention. 1995 Turbot War between Spain and Canada off the coast of Newfoundland, for example, was settled peacefully by international leverage brought bear by inter-service camaraderie. In this case, These unquantifiable relationships with the US Navy and the historic relationship with the Royal Navy, Tracy explains, were far more important than the easily assessed power of [naval] units (250). …

Greg Malone Don't tell the Newfoundlanders The true story of Newfoundland's confederation with Canada

Greg Malone Don't tell the Newfoundlanders The true story of Newfoundland's confederation with Canada Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. 314pp., $29.95 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-370-40133-5The incorporation of Newfoundland (and Labrador) as Canada's tenth province remains a highly contested political event for many, including Greg Malone, the author of the recently published Don't Tell the Newfoundlanders} Malone, perhaps best known as founding member of the comedy troupe CODCO, holds both a BA and an honorary doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and is well known in the province for his political activism, an activism that inspired him to write this serious book.1 2 The Newfoundlanders offers a detailed exposition of primary and secondary historical documents. The result is an expose of particular value to anyone interested in the complexity of post-WWII geopolitics. Malone's primary argument is that the Terms of Union are something rotten at the heart of the Canadian state, negotiated as they were illegally without the involvement of a democratically elected government of Newfoundland. Above all, his work reveals how those processes if not quite qualifying as a conspiracy at the very least reveal the Janus-faced nature of great power politics. The collection of primary sources, and the racialized and gendered discourses they reveal at the highest level of colonial and imperial geopolitics, is of particular value for those readers inter- ested in the practices of international elites during the fervent era that followed the Second World War.The Newfoundlanders can be logically divided into three chronological units. The first section covers the pre-1933 history of Newfoundland and explains the unique constitutional arrangement of the Island at the start of the Second World War. Chapters five through twelve cover the actual processes of Confederation, including the various delegations to Ottawa and London, the national convention, the referenda of 1948, and the negotiations of the Terms of Union with Canada. Finally, the author provides a personal interpretation to put the historical record into perspective for the current era, considering the implications of the Terms of Union for Newfoundland and Canadian politics in the 21st century.Opening with an overview of 19th and 20th century political history of Newfoundland, Malone emphasizes what he believes are the finer points of colonial administration in North America to set the stage for his primary argument: that Newfoundland's confederation with Canada was illegal based on the suspension of responsible government in 1933 by the British. From there he moves through the tale of confederation from 1941 to 1949, allowing the primary sources to speak for themselves in places. Intermixed with lengthy excerpts from both primary and secondary sources, Malone's prose, however, serves less as analysis of the historical record than as a thread connecting the myriad sources together in a narrative structure, providing background information on the cast of characters involved, and attempting to draw the reader to the author's point of view.The documents include excerpts from correspondence within the Department of External Affairs, communiques between Canadian High Commissioner Scott MacDonald and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, as well as documents composed by John Maynard Keynes, Sir Winston Churchill, and Lords Amulree, Beaverbrook, and Cranborne. From the interweaving of the words of practitioners of high geopolitics, readers gain a glimpse into the back room dealings that led to the disappearance of the little country that couldn't: the little country that couldn't exercise its right to self-determination laid out in the Atlantic Charter, ironically signed off its own shores, guaranteeing to the peoples of Europe the right to choose their own destiny; the little country that couldn't forge an alliance between sectarian and class divides that great powers have exploited since ancient times to divide and conquer those they rule. …

Kelly A. Parker and Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, ed. Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century: Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. 330 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-7391-7336-7.

Kelly A. Parker and Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, ed. Royce for Twenty-First Century: Historical, Ethical, and Religious Interpretations. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012. 330 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-7391-7336-7.Although he has often been relegated to fringe status among figures constitutive of American philosophical tradition, in recent years there has been a renewal of scholarly attention to Royce's thought. Royce for Twenty-First Century is one of latest testaments to this resurgence of interest in The essays of this volume are collected Fourth Annual Conference on American and European Values held in Opole, Poland in 2008. The conference was co-organized by John Lachs, Kelly Parker, Jason Bell, and Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski. Parker and Skowronski serve as editors of collection, which reflects rather open-ended nature of theme of conference: Josiah Royce. Contributors are diverse, representing international interest in Royce younger scholars to more established. Diverse, too, are contributions, organized in these headings: Reinterpretations, Ethics: Interpretations of Loyalty, Religious Philosophy, and Contemporary Implications. Readers new to Royce will find, in content of these essays, a number of engaging entrees into his corpus. Readers already acquainted with Royce, including those who have worked very closely on his thought, will almost certainly find something in pages of this volume that will provoke further interaction with Royce's ideas. Consequently, I recommend this volume of interesting and well-written engagements of Royce's philosophy to all readers with any level of interest in Royce.Readers of this journal may be particularly interested in implications of title: What does volume offer to those interested in contemporary pragmatism, in application of pragmatist to problems of (to quote title of volume) the twenty-first century? In introduction to volume, Parker holds that Royce's has potential for sharpening and refining contemporary versions of pragmatism and appears poised to emerge as an influential voice in what is admittedly only a nascent post-pragmatist, post-analytic, and post-Continental style of thought (Parker and Skowronski, 3). What is more, in looking back at Royce, we follow Royce's lead, as he used philosophical past to develop innovative concepts that are startlingly relevant a century later (Parker and Skowronski, 7). In short, if we revisit Royce's attempts to deal with philosophical problems of his day, we may be led in new and fruitful directions as we grapple with philosophical problems of our own time.Explicit spelling out of contemporary relevance of these engagements with Royce is most conspicuously absent, though perhaps least surprisingly so, in Part I, Historical Reinterpretations. In a shortened version of a chapter of his Time, Will, and Purpose: Living Ideas Philosophy of Royce,1 Randall E. Auxier examines Royce's theory of individuality and how individuals both experience and exist. Auxier argues that Royce's theory of individuality is more complex and nuanced than has been understood in interpretive literature, and seeks to remedy this deficiency. Focusing on notion of uniqueness in Royce's thought, Auxier traces its meaning from psychological individuality, through phenomenological individuality, and, employing ethical imperatives Royce embraces, through moral philosophy and up to borders of metaphysics (Auxier, 42). One gains a sense for comprehensiveness intended in Auxier's fuller study.Marc M. Anderson examines Royce's argument regarding conditions for possibility of error (first articulated in The Religious Aspect of Philosophy), holding that Royce's argument arises out of a Kantian framework. In fact, Anderson describes argument as Royce's bid to update Kant, making a transition world of moral postulation to one of scientific postulation (Anderson, 49). …

DANGOODLEY, Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. London: SAGE Publications Ltd., 2011, 232 p. http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book233075/reviews, Paperback ISBN: 9781847875587, $40.95, Hardcover ISBN: 9781847875570, $104.00.

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologieVolume 48, Issue 4 p. 454-457 Book Review DAN GOODLEY, Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction. London: SAGE Publications Ltd., 2011, 232 p. http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book233075/reviews, Paperback ISBN: 9781847875587, $40.95, Hardcover ISBN: 9781847875570, $104.00. Tanya Titchkosky, Tanya TitchkoskySearch for more papers by this author Tanya Titchkosky, Tanya TitchkoskySearch for more papers by this author First published: 21 November 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-618X.2011.01272.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume48, Issue4November 2011Pages 454-457 RelatedInformation

Book Review: Signs of Science - Linguistics meets Biology

„Biosemiotics“ is an integrative and interdisciplinary research effort that investigates living systems with concepts borrowed from linguistics and the communication sciences. Life is seen as an entanglement of communicative processes relating entities with each other by defined rules. Those “rules” are the very heart of (bio)semiotic analysis. A hallmark of life is the existence of rules that are very different from natural laws. We can find such rules embedded in the genetic code, for example, where a transfer RNA relates a codon in mRNA to an amino acid. Nevertheless, it could have evolved in another way as well as genetic code engineering shows. Apparently arbitrary relationships are inherent to all levels of biological organization: from cells to organisms. Parts are connected in ways that can hardly be inferred from physical (thermodynamic) principles and still await reconciliation in a reasonable manner. Essential Readings in Biosemiotics Anthology and Commentary Series: Biosemiotics, Vol. 3 Favareau, Donald (editor) 1st Edition., 2010, 880 p., 219,94 €, Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9649-5

Book Review: Signs of Science - Linguistics meets Biology

„Biosemiotics“ is an integrative and interdisciplinary research effort that investigates living systems with concepts borrowed from linguistics and the communication sciences. Life is seen as an entanglement of communicative processes relating entities with each other by defined rules. Those “rules” are the very heart of (bio)semiotic analysis. A hallmark of life is the existence of rules that are very different from natural laws. We can find such rules embedded in the genetic code, for example, where a transfer RNA relates a codon in mRNA to an amino acid. Nevertheless, it could have evolved in another way as well as genetic code engineering shows. Apparently arbitrary relationships are inherent to all levels of biological organization: from cells to organisms. Parts are connected in ways that can hardly be inferred from physical (thermodynamic) principles and still await reconciliation in a reasonable manner. Essential Readings in Biosemiotics Anthology and Commentary Series: Biosemiotics, Vol. 3 Favareau, Donald (editor) 1st Edition., 2010, 880 p., 219,94 €, Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9649-5

Review: The Globalization of NATO Intervention, Security and Identity

THE GLOBALIZATION OF NATO Intervention, Security and Identity Veronica M. Kitchen London and New York: Routledge, 2010. 153pp. US$125.00 hardcover ISBN 978-0415570176That the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is currently crisis should not come as a surprise to analysts and informed observers of transatlantic affairs. The mission in Afghanistan has set off a storm of disagreement on a number of issues, including equipment, strategy, and logistics - to name just a few. National caveats on troop movements and areas of operation have further strained relations among the allies. According to some, these national restrictions have produced higher casualty rates for the countries that operate in regions where the insurgency is strong. The caveats have also rekindled old arguments about burden-sharing within the alliance. The current debates about NATO's new strategic concept testify to the difficulty of the alliance's out-of-area missions.The Afghan mission is only the latest in a series of out-of-area operations that have prompted arguments about the role of the alliance and allies' responsibilities towards one another. This story, which goes back at least to the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, is the central theme of Veronica M. Kitchen's new book. Kitchen argues that the allies' public debates about the necessity and importance of overseas military interventions have repeatedly redrawn the Atlantic community's geographical and ideational boundaries. The consequences have been significant. They have developed, reinforced, and changed transatlantic ideas about how the allies should act together (2). The process has yielded regulative and constitutive norms that privilege mutual defence missions over out-of-area operations. These norms have helped to resolve conflicts and have reinforced the sense of an Atlantic community. Kitchen concludes, however, that the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 drastically reduced the sway that the norms had previously enjoyed.Kitchen focuses on the Suez Canal crisis, the Vietnam War, the civil wars in Bosnia, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the current mission in Afghanistan. Speeches by the political leaders of five countries - Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States - comprise her main source of evidence. She contends that elite political discourse explains changes within the transatlantic alliance. In her view, political discourse, which shaped normative predispositions about out-of-area operations, has constructed transatlantic identity. The alliance has developed a norm that accords greater importance to mutual defence than to out-of-area operations because debates about the latter threaten NATO's integrity. By regulating the allies' behaviour, this norm helps to keep the alliance together.Considering the current debates over the new strategic concept, Kitchen's book is very timely and complements the work of other scholars, including Ellen Hallams, Gulnur Aybet and Rebecca Moore, and Gunther Hauser and Franz Kemic. …

The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (review)

Reviewed by: The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise Tom Shippey The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise, ed, Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperCollins. 2010. xxxviii, 1,2–82[dual facing pages, paginated the same],[1],83–100pp. £40.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9780007416967. The volume reviewed here is HarperCollins’s print-on-demand fiftieth-anniversary reissue of the edition of The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise, produced by Christopher Tolkien in 1960 for Thomas Nelson & Sons’ series of facing-page text-and-translation works in Old Norse. The reissue is very welcome both to those interested in the works of Tolkien sr. and to those who would like to know more about literature in Old Norse—copies of the first edition are still selling for upwards of $360. But the re-appearance does provoke a few melancholy thoughts about the “long defeat” of philology, the Tolkiens’ favorite discipline, in the intervening half-century. The Nelson series, which produced editions of The Saga of the Volsungs, The Saga of the Jomsvikings, and The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, was supposed, like the parallel series of student texts produced by the Viking Society, to stimulate and enable Old Norse studies in British and American universities. Fifty years later, it has long been defunct, and though the Viking Society has made all its publications and many others (including the one reviewed here) available online—see www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk—Old Norse/Icelandic studies are now confined to a small number of university locations, mostly with just one faculty [End Page 136] enthusiast still teaching. Yet popular interest in Vikings and their literature has never been greater. The discrepancy may well be caused by the modern academics’ habit of writing only for each other. If more of them had cultivated Christopher Tolkien’s style, at once clear and rigorous, at once scholarly and imaginative, even dashing, the subject would have had more support from students, deans and faculty committees. The 1960 volume was Christopher’s fourth work dealing with the same text (I refer to him by first name to save continuous disambiguation from his father). An edition of it formed the basis of his Oxford B. Litt. thesis: the old Oxford B. Litt. was, in spite of its name, a two-year postgraduate degree. Presumably as a result of the thesis, he was invited by Gabriel Turville-Petre, the Oxford Professor of Ancient Icelandic Literature and Antiquities (a position no longer extant), to write the “Introduction” to Turville-Petre’s 1956 edition of the saga for the Viking Society. Turville-Petre added notes and a glossary to his edition, so that it could be used as a student text, and titled it Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks, that is, “The Saga of Hervör and Heidrek.” At about the same time Christopher published a long article in Saga-Book of the Viking Society 14 (1953–7): 141–163, on “The Battle of the Goths and Huns.” This considered only one part of the saga, the poem incorporated into its later chapters and titled in English “The Battle of the Goths and Huns,” and in Norse, Hlöðskviða, or “The Lay of Hlöd.” It also considered only one question, though an extremely fascinating one: if “elements of [the poem] do indeed descend from [remote antiquity], do they derive from any actual event under the sun, recorded in any book that may still be read today?” (141). Many scholars had previously considered the question, and Christopher gives a scrupulous, if in the end rather damning account of them, before coming to a negative but by no means discouraging conclusion. Finally, in 1960, we have the work reviewed here, with a long “Introduction,” facing-page text-and-translation, and several “Appendices” containing related texts, including verses found in Örvar-Odds saga, “The Saga of Arrow-Odd,” or in manuscripts of Heiðreks saga different from the one chosen as base-text for Christopher’s edition. What makes “The Saga of King Heidrek” so fascinating? It is one of the fornaldarsögur,” the “sagas of old times,” of which the most famous is “The Saga of the Volsungs,” which was a major inspiration for...

CORRECTING DARWIN'S OTHER MISTAKE

Review of: Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods and Applications of Selection Experiments. Edited by Theodore Garland, Jr. and Michael R. Rose, 2009. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, California. 752 pp. Hardcover ISBN 9780520247666, $75.00; Paperback ISBN 9780520261808, $45.00. It has become a cliche to say that evolutionary biologists need multiple types of approaches to be effective. Comparative approaches help us identify interesting patterns, theoretical approaches help us clarify important processes, and experimental approaches help us infer causation between processes and patterns. Because of their complementary strengths and limitations, different approaches are more effective when used together than separately. With his well-known Anolis lizards, for example, Jonathan Losos has elegantly demonstrated the power of the combined use of comparative and experimental approaches (Losos 2009; Vamosi 2010). Many evolutionary biologists, however, practice only one or two types of approaches, even though they may consult findings by others who use other approaches. This is understandable, given the difficulty for an individual to master all existing approaches, but perhaps because of the limited use of different approaches by individual researchers, there is still ongoing discussion and even confusion in the literature regarding which approach can do what. Experimental Evolution: Concepts, Methods and Applications of Selection Experiments, edited by Theodore Garland, Jr. and Michael Rose, is a collection of chapters by practitioners of experimental approaches. The primary goal of the book is to “foster selection experiments and experimental evolution as a central component of evolutionary biology.” The editors have come up with a catchy way of introducing this goal: in the introductory chapter, they say that the book is about “correcting Darwin’s other mistake.” Because Darwin got most key points right about evolution, the few mistakes he did make get highlighted, and rightly so, because his mistakes are as illuminating as his correct discoveries. Darwin’s primary mistake was, of course, to think of blending inheritance as a mechanism of heredity. Rose and Garland point out that another major mistake was to assume that natural selection always act very slowly, with its effect too miniscule to be observed in experiments. The editors suspect that, as a consequence of this mistake by Darwin, experimental approaches have not been as fully exploited by evolutionary biologists as comparative or theoretical approaches. The book’s purpose is to remove what the editors refer to as the “Darwinian inhibition,” that is, the incorrect notion that evolutionary changes always happen too slowly to manipulate and observe in action in experiments. In doing so, they seek to promote a wider and better use of experiments in evolutionary biology. The book covers an impressively wide range of topics including behavior, morphology, demography, life history, ageing, altruism, evolution of sex, speciation, adaptive radiation, phylogenetics, and genome evolution. The coverage of topics is so comprehensive that it seems as though any evolutionary biologist can find their favorite subject in this book. As such, the book readily succeeds in showing how effective experiments can be in studying evolution. Case studies used are also highly variable, with a broad taxonomic spread of study organisms ranging from bacteria to insects to mammals. Study organisms are, however, dominated—although by no means entirely—by a handful of model organisms, such as Eschericia coli, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Saccharomycetes cerevisiae, Drosophila species, and

Jews, race and popular music

Jews, Race and Popular Music Jon Stratton, Jews, Race and Popular Music. Surrey: Ashgate, 2009. 238 pp. $99.95 USD (Hardcover) ISBN: 978 0 75466 804 6 In Jews, Race and Popular Music Jon Stratton tells a good story with academic rigour and care for detail. His true focus is the cultural arena where ideas of blackness, Jewishness and whiteness have overlapped, and his most telling chapters focus on the way that Jewish performers and composers positioned themselves in American music by adapting styles commonly understood as black. This phenomenon can be traced to the 1920s and 1930s when, in the American mainstream, themselves were thought of as being racially negroid. Stratton describes, with attentiveness to specific and vocal stylings, the shared characteristics of early torch singers, such as the Jewish Fanny Brice and Sophie Tucker, alongside figures like Mamie Smith and Ethel Waters. He conveys the kind of singing shared by these performers--emotionally expressive, robust, often making use of contralto and falsetto in ways that were considered hot. As well, he examines the connotations of such singing for black and white audiences. (Aspects of this were not American at all, but brought from Paris by Florenz Ziegfeld, through his presentation of the French singer Mistinguett.) Further complicating this picture is the fact that the great majority of torch songs of the era were written by Jews. This latter point reflects the complicated way that musical forms were shared by Jewish and black singers and composers. It is probably too simple to say, as Stratton does, that were mediators of blackness on its way to white audiences, when in fact, something more complete in terms of shared creative influence was in play. Stratton's study avoids stereotypic arguments about what represents authentic black or Jewish art forms. But issues of authenticity arise in his chapter Jews and Blues: The Jewish Involvement in the 1960s Blues Revival. Here Stratton draws a sharp distinction between the American folk revival of the early 1960s, whose resources he sees rising out of a recovery of white Appalachian and styles and the more rebellious effort on the part of young blues devotees to reinvigorate the black Chicago blues tradition. He attributes the desire after black styles and voicings to Jewish musicians' disillusionment with an incomplete and unsatisfying whitening of post-war Jewish life in the American suburbs. The blues, he argues, allowed Jewish musicians to express an uncivility, which was offensive to the white middle class, and, as well, to assert what Stratton describes as a new, if sublimated, assertion of ethnic identity. …

Poetry's Bridge

New From HADLEY RILLE BOOKS SENTINELS IN HDNDR DF ARTHUR C. CLARKE EDITED BY GREGORY BENFDRD & GEORGE ZEBR0WSK1 SENTINELS In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke Edited by Gregory Benford & George Zebrowski Here is a collection of stories and essays by some of Clarke's many colleagues and friends who were influenced by his writings and thoughts about human possibilities, and who continue as his sentinels by the doors to the future that he opened, even as the world strives too often to close them. * Summer 2010 * Hardcover ISBN 978-0-9825140-7-8 www.hadleyrillebooks.com letters Poetry's Bridge At first, after read ing Margaret Randall's essay "Can Poetry Mat ter?" (WIT, March 2010, 20-22), I was immedi ately reminded of two other works that have profoundly affected me: Audre Lorde's "Poetry Is Not a Luxury," in which she writes of poetry as "the way we give name to the nameless so it can be thought," and bell hooks in her essay "An Aesthetic of Black ness: Strange and Oppositional," where she describes "the yearn ing for beauty that... is the predicament of heart that makes our passion real." But Randall's essay both differs from and augments these essays, I believe, in a profound way. Randall does not give us answers; rather, she confronts us with questions that move us on our own journey. In many ways my own experience parallels hers. As an avid reader, I also put poetry at the bottom of my list, having learned to feel a total disconnect in high school and even, in the 1950s, in col lege. Until, that is, I began to hang out with the poets in Berkeley and San Francisco, to read what they were reading?the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Black Mountain school, Rilke and Lorca and Neruda?and I began to feel a real connection to poets and to poetry, to love it and want to write it myself. Whether in an audience of hundreds, in a smaller coffee house or caf?-setting, in a workshop, a one-on-one setting, or even on my own,,in silence, I began to understand that poetry is a process of questioning, of moving us to interrogate our world and ourselves, not by intellect alone, or emo tion, not consciously or unconsciously but by acting as a bridge that brings all these elements together. As a reader and writer and lover of poetry, this is what "Can Poetry Matter?" meant to me when I read it, what it evoked in me. In another reader, Randall's essay will no doubt mean something differ ent. I will keep it by me with those oth?r two essays that mean so much to me to remind me, when I forget, what poetry is really all about. Susan Sherman Parsons The New School for Design Have a comment or suggestion? Send a letter to the editor via the feedback link on our website or mail to: WLT Letters 630 Parrington Oval, Suite 110 University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019-4033 USA ...

Wekusta: Luftwaffe Meteorological Reconnaissance —Units and Operations 1938–1945 By John A. Kington and Franz Selinger Flight Recorder Publications, Ottringham, UK, 2006 256 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978‐0‐9545605‐8‐4

WeatherVolume 64, Issue 5 p. 125-125 Book Review Wekusta: Luftwaffe Meteorological Reconnaissance —Units and Operations 1938–1945 By John A. Kington and Franz Selinger Flight Recorder Publications, Ottringham, UK, 2006 256 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-9545605-8-4 Eric Harris, Eric HarrisSearch for more papers by this author Eric Harris, Eric HarrisSearch for more papers by this author First published: 27 April 2009 https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.375AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume64, Issue5May 2009Pages 125-125 RelatedInformation

Brushing Your Teeth Can Be Fun: And Lots of Other Good Ideas for How to Grow Up Healthy, Strong, and Smart

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