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Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae Oxford Classical Monographs by Alan J. Ross

Reviewed by: Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae Oxford Classical Monographs by Alan J. Ross Robert M. Frakes Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae Oxford Classical Monographs Alan J. Ross Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 253. ISBN 978-0-198-78495-1. The surviving eighteen books of the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus are important for our knowledge of the later Roman Empire, especially for political and military events in the years 353–378. The "former soldier and Greek" (31.16.9) had participated in campaigns [End Page 235] under Ursicinus, and later served during Julian's ill-fated invasion of Persia in 363. The short reign of Julian as sole emperor from 361–363 also includes that emperor's shift from Christianity to paganism. Ammianus' history, written in Latin even though his first language was Greek, preserves a first-hand account of Julian's reign (and can be used for comparison and contrast with other primary sources, such as Aurelius Victor, Gregory Nazianzus, Libanius, Ambrosiaster, and Julian's own works). This new book by Alan J. Ross, Lecturer in Roman History at the University of Southampton and Visiting Research Fellow at University College, Dublin, re-examines Ammianus' treatment of Julian. Based upon his 2011 D.Phil. thesis at the University of Oxford, Ross explicitly tries to avoid an analysis based on Ammianus' biography or his intended audience, but instead looks at the treatment of Julian in the Res Gestae from the point of view of narratology and intertextuality (building upon Gavin Kelly's 2008 Cambridge University Press book Ammianus Marcellinus: The Allusive Historian). After a twelve-page preface giving a distillation of the history of the reception of Ammianus' treatment of Julian, the first chapter ("In Search of a Latin Julian") lays out the argument of the book and posits that "Julian is the undoubted focus of the Res Gestae" (9). Ross suggests that the preface at the beginning of Book 15 was necessary because it was the "first complete book to deal with Julian's reign as Caesar" (10). While avoiding the issue of a specific intended audience, he argues that "Ammianus presents himself as a prime interpreter of Julian's reign to a western audience" (24). Explicitly in this chapter, and throughout, Ross is influenced by literary theory (following works by Irene De Jong) and suggests that "the participant may act as an interpretive guide for the primary narratee, and by extension for his readers" (28). He clarifies that "narratology will be used to evaluate how Ammianus' narrator presents Julian to the primary narratee. . . . Intertextuality, by contrast, necessarily looks at a text's external relationships" (29). Chapter 2 ("The Narrator and the Participant: Gallus and Silvanus in Preparation for Julian") analyzes how Ammianus presented those two historical figures and how they anticipate and foreshadow aspects of his later treatment of Julian's usurpation. Scholars have noted the murkiness of the narrative here. While partly due to Ammianus' desire to protect the memory of his general Ursicinus (as many scholars have suggested: 54 and 81), Ross makes some interesting observations about how Ammianus may have been shading his narrative here as part of a compositional strategy. Chapter 3 ("Julian's Elevation: Tradition and Innovation in Speech and Narrative") examines how Ammianus treats the elevation of Julian to Caesar by Constantius II. Influenced by the work of Sabine MacCormack, as well as by comparisons to Sallust and Tacitus, Ross analyzes how Ammianus uses speeches and ceremonies to frame and re-frame both Constantius and Julian. In Chapter 4 ("Strasbourg: Legitimizing Julian), Ross expands on how Ammianus uses the Battle of Strasbourg to describe Julian's growing strengths as a military commander, and as a contrast to Constantius II's adventus for his defeat of the usurper Magnentius. While this is not in and of itself radical, Ross carefully critiques Kimberly Kagan's argument for "face-of-battle" narrative style in her 2006 book The Eye of Command (itself [End Page 236] building on John Keegan's 1976 book The Face of Battle) to undercut Constantius by stressing his absence from the Battle of Amida, and thus supporting Julian who commanded in...

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Guest Editorial

E-Preferred Approval Books at the University of Manitoba: A Comparison of Print and Ebook Usage

Abstract
 
 Objective – To compare the usage of print and ebooks received on University of Manitoba’s e-preferred YBP approval plan as well as to examine cost per use for the approval print books and ebooks.
 
 Methods – Usage data was compiled for books received on approval in 2012/2013 to December 31, 2014. Counter reports were used to determine use and non-use of ebooks, while vendor reports from EBL and ebrary were used for the cost per use analysis. Print usage information was drawn from SIRSI and then ALMA when UML switched systems at the beginning of 2014.
 
 Results – Ebooks received more use than p-books overall, but when examined by subject discipline, significant differences could not be found for the “STM” and “Other” categories. With ebooks, university press books tended to be used more than those from other publishers, but the same result was not found for print books. Ebrary ebooks tended to be used more often than EBL, EBSCO, and Wiley ebooks, and single-licence books tended to be somewhat more used than multi-user ones. Cost-per-use data was much lower for print books, though the comparison did not look at staffing costs for each medium.
 
 Conclusions – This study finds that of approval books matching the same profile, ebooks are used more, but print books receive more substantial use. Both formats are needed in a library’s collection. Future comparisons of cost per use should take into account hidden labour costs associated with each medium. Usage studies provide evidence for librarians refining approval plan profiles and for budget managers considering changes to monographic acquisition methods and allocations.

E-Preferred Approval Books at the University of Manitoba: A Comparison of Print and Ebook Usage

Abstract
 
 Objective – To compare the usage of print and ebooks received on University of Manitoba’s e-preferred YBP approval plan as well as to examine cost per use for the approval print books and ebooks.
 
 Methods – Usage data was compiled for books received on approval in 2012/2013 to December 31, 2014. Counter reports were used to determine use and non-use of ebooks, while vendor reports from EBL and ebrary were used for the cost per use analysis. Print usage information was drawn from SIRSI and then ALMA when UML switched systems at the beginning of 2014.
 
 Results – Ebooks received more use than p-books overall, but when examined by subject discipline, significant differences could not be found for the “STM” and “Other” categories. With ebooks, university press books tended to be used more than those from other publishers, but the same result was not found for print books. Ebrary ebooks tended to be used more often than EBL, EBSCO, and Wiley ebooks, and single-licence books tended to be somewhat more used than multi-user ones. Cost-per-use data was much lower for print books, though the comparison did not look at staffing costs for each medium.
 
 Conclusions – This study finds that of approval books matching the same profile, ebooks are used more, but print books receive more substantial use. Both formats are needed in a library’s collection. Future comparisons of cost per use should take into account hidden labour costs associated with each medium. Usage studies provide evidence for librarians refining approval plan profiles and for budget managers considering changes to monographic acquisition methods and allocations.

Communicative Types of Self-Disclosure in Public Speaking Setting

The present paper focuses on the study of the communicative nature of self-disclosure as a technique of verbal influence on people. The phenomenon of self-disclosure is interpreted as the process of divulging private information to others. The aim of the study is to determine the specific features of self-disclosure in a public speaking context. The paper discusses the communicative conventions and parameters of the public speaking scenario as the factors that determine a certain manner of self-disclosing. The key assumption of the study is that public self-disclosure should be viewed as a tactic of self-presentation that promotes the speaker’s image building. In order to indicate the verbal forms that speakers use while disclosing private information in public the discourse and lexical-grammatical analyses of eight celebrity interview texts are conducted. The results of the research demonstrate that the speakers use recurrently certain verbal patterns which are identified as statements of self-description (it includes statements of self-confirmation, self-assurance, personal preferences and personal aspirations), self-narrative and attitude statements. The study also shows which types of the statements are used more frequently than the others, particularly, the statements of self-confirmation, personal aspirations and self-narratives are apparently preferred by the speakers as tactics of public self-disclosure. The paper highlights the fact that the self-disclosure tactics are employed by public speakers selectively and that their choice is motivated by the speakers’ strategic goal of impression management.
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Amerikos lietuviškos spaustuvės ir spaustuvininkai (1874–1919)

The paper discusses Lithuanian printing houses, an important field of American Lithuanian press (newspapers and books) history. The main focus of the article are printing house workers and other people related to the activities of printing houses and their work, mode of life, and other issues. Most of the information was found in the periodicals of the discussed period. Data and other important statements were also found in the works of the history of American Lithuanians. Those works were published later on. These sources are not about the history of the printing houses, but their chapters and sections contain factographic data related to the topic. The data were collected from bibliographic works. These works allow identifying various facts from a particular period: the number of printing houses, their place of activity, their owners, publishers, editors, printed material, etc. This paper takes into consideration the works of other scientists and authors and uses them. However, in the author’s opinion, there is no point in repeating what has already been done in covering the history of American Lithuanian printing houses (especially before the year 1904). The paper tries to raise and cover new issues and aspects. The article describes the printing houses of the further period (1904– 1919). Most of the information is about printing house workers, their working conditions, demands, professional unions, etc. Some of the issues of this topic are also reflected in the historiographic part which also includes some more distinct articles. The addendum “List of American Lithuanian Pressmen (1874–1919)“ attached to the article is based on the periodicals, bibliographic publications, encyclopaedias (especially The Boston Encyclopaedia), and other sources. This list should be considered as an attempt which contains gaps, inaccuracies, etc.

Guest Editorial: A path through quantum crystallography: a short tribute to Professor Lou Massa

Professor Lou Massa’s contributions since the late 1960s to the founding of the field now known as “Quantum Crystallography” (QCr) are briefly described. The term itself has been coined in 1995 by L. Huang, L. Massa, and J. Karle (1985 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry). Originally, QCr referred to the Clinton-Massa’s iterative approach that, for the first time, delivered N-representable electron densities that are consistent with the observed structure factors. These densities satisfy, at once, experimental observation and the necessarily underlying quantum mechanical requirement of being derived from an antisymmetric wavefunction. The single-determinantal quantum mechanical structure Huang, Massa, and Karle (HMK) imposed in their original work can be extended to any method that uses MOs including CI or DFT, as they demonstrate in their papers. HMK use the Clinton-Massa method to reconstruct approximations to the first order reduced density matrix of large molecules in a piecemeal manner from computationally-tractable fragments. The idea was also adapted by J. Hernandez Trujillo and R. F. W. Bader in the context of the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM). Massa et al. simplified and generalized this fragmentation method into what came to be known as the “Kernel Energy Method” (KEM) which delivers the properties of large molecules accurately, at a fraction of the computational time, and within any model chemistry as applications to DNA, tRNA, the proto-ribosome, insulin, and graphene, amply demonstrate. Lou Massa has also pushed the envelope in other directions as well. In 1992, he and W. Lipscomb (1976 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) published several papers predicting the structure and stability of Boron nanotubes and boron fullurene 12 years before they were eventually synthesized in laboratories at Yale and at Brookhaven. More recently, in 2006 L. Massa, J. Karle, and A. Yonath (2009 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry) (MKY) proposed a startling alternative to the then widely-accepted mechanism of the peptide bond formation in the active site of the ribosome. In sharp contrast with the accepted “shuttle mechanism”, MKY’s “direct” mechanism is simpler and, importantly, reproduces the measured thermodynamic and kinetic parameters. Massa has also contributed to other domains, for example interstellar chemistry, and to the policy, history, and philosophy of science. His TV program and Oxford University Press book (both titled “Science and the Written Word”) represent an invaluable and candid documentation of some of the key discoveries in the words of a dozen Nobel Laureates and a constellation of scholars representing the Who’s Who of current science. It is with both admiration and affection that this paper (and this issue) is dedicated to Lou Massa, the person and the scientist.

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor Kenneth L. Parker, Editor It is with great pleasure that I share the news that the Newman Studies Journal has entered into an agreement with The Catholic University of America Press, and will be working with their staff to produce and publish the journal, starting January 2018. CUA Press will also oversee subscriptions, advertising, and distribution, as well as promoting the NSJ at conferences and in its catalog. By joining other distinguished Catholic journals that currently work with CUA Press, the NSJ takes an important next step in heightening its profile among scholars of Newman and Newman-related topics. A few practical points related to this transition should be noted here. Starting in January 2018, the NSJ will be published on a Summer (July) and Winter (December) schedule, rather than a Spring/Fall timetable. CUA Press has also assisted with a redesign of the journal. Among the changes planned will be a return to the original dimensions of the journal, the incorporation of a new presentation of its contents, and the use of a new range of fonts to enhance its appearance. In addition to advertising CUA Press's books and journals, space will be made available for other publishers to include notices of their Newman and Newman-related publications. I am grateful to Elizabeth Farnsworth, our Managing Editor, for her coordination of these developments. It is with joy that I welcome Dr. Ryan Marr as our new Associate Editor. Dr. Marr became the Director of the National Institute for Newman Studies in September, and graciously agreed to assist in the work of the journal as part of his responsibilities at NINS. He brings his own network of scholarly relationships, and his keen editorial eye, to the work of the journal. His input on this issue has been greatly appreciated. I wish to thank Professors Matthew Muller, John Sullivan, and Thomas Wren for their fine contributions to this issue. You will notice that, with the assistance of established and emerging scholars, we have greatly expanded the number of reviews of translations of Newman's works and Newman-related monographs and collections of essays. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive review of works related to Newman and his context. I urge our readers to bring to our attention volumes that are in production, so that they can be reviewed in a timely manner. The editorial staff is grateful for our loyal readership and hope that the changes we have undertaken will make the Newman Studies Journal an even more valuable resource for your scholarship and reflection on John Henry Newman. We encourage your continued involvement in the growth of the journal, and welcome your scholarly manuscripts for peer-review, as we look toward this new phase in the history of the Newman Studies Journal. [End Page 4] Copyright © 2017 National Institute for Newman Studies

Mediated Histories: How Did Victorian Periodicals Parse the Past?

Mediated Histories:How Did Victorian Periodicals Parse the Past? Leslie Howsam (bio) Victorian periodicals put historical knowledge at the centre of readers' experience along with the news of the day and the fictions of the moment. Printed and reprinted, revised and reiterated, a body of more-or-less familiar narratives of the past appeared in the same range of generic and material formats as did news, fiction, essays, and poetry. Journalists, editors, and other contributors recast well-known events afresh for an eager readership. The same stories, from Alfred and the cakes to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, were told over and over again in daily newspapers, weekly and monthly magazines, and quarterly and annual reviews. This ubiquity has been largely overlooked, however, by scholars of nineteenth-century British historiography and is just beginning to be investigated by those who study the Victorian periodical press.1 This article has two purposes. First, I posit that historical writing was published in two basic forms, two journalistic genres, in the Victorian periodical press. One was the account of an event or a moment in time. Long accounts were aimed at various target audiences—from adolescents who liked a hero's story to adult readers who knew there was an anniversary to celebrate. Shorter accounts, seemingly pointless little paragraphs, may have served primarily to fill space on a page being put together in a hurry or to celebrate a local event. The other genre, the book review, was a complex combination of evaluation and reiteration (often through excerpting), which offered an opportunity to comment on the relevance of the past to current events. I argue that the proliferation of both accounts of the past and reviews of historical books in the Victorian periodical press reinforced the contemporary sense that history should be accessible to anyone, in [End Page 802] different flavours and increasing levels of complexity. Articles reinforced national pride, denominational identity, imperial ambition, or xenophobia. Historical content might reinforce concepts of national greatness, selfless heroism, or individual agency in a format that was accessible to readers. It had to be, because accounts and reviews of history were commissioned and paid for by editors and were written by the journalist-authors for whom they constituted the bread and butter of a literary life. My second purpose in this essay is to frame this preliminary study and its limited conclusions within the context of changing methodologies for the study of historical print. My research on history and the periodical press began in 2005 when I gave the Michael Wolff lecture at the RSVP conference in Washington, DC, and my engagement with the topic intensified in 2007 when I received a research grant to investigate proprietary online databases (which at that stage offered untested new resources for scholars in periodical studies). The project stalled after 2009 when administrative responsibilities intervened. This retrospective essay, then, is a reflection on how the field has transformed over these years and serves as an apologia for a research methodology that no longer passes muster as up-to-date scholarship. I am aware that my sample is flawed and my figures are of little value. Short of redoing everything from scratch, my objective is to frame my report in the context of how the methodology of researching history and the periodical press has changed, in the hope that other scholars will take the subject further. Where Is the History in Book History and Periodical Studies? Whenever I comment on disciplinary boundaries in the history of the book, my interdisciplinarity has a territorial edge to it. I try to ensure that history (as an academic discipline) is given due respect, and I'm aware that, despite the term "book history," the field is overpopulated by literature scholars and librarians, with historians in the minority. We are a distinguished minority, including three former presidents of the American Historical Association who are book historians (Natalie Zemon Davis, Robert Darnton, and Anthony Grafton). But the disciplinary priorities of historians sometimes get swamped by an interdisciplinary agenda. The same goes for book history's close cousin, the study of the Victorian periodical press. Although I have discussed this situation in print, I've also...

Reparative readings: re-claiming black feminised bodies as sites of somatic pleasures and possibilities

ABSTRACTBlack girls and women in the west reside at the nexus of racism and sexism, pinned down by a vitriolic hate for the black feminised body that is wedded to legacies of slavery. Dominant discourses configure these bodies as animalistic and other (than human), thus informing a range of (educational) policies, practices, and programmes. These narratives shape teachers’ curricular and pedagogical practices in ways that potentially objectify and wound black girls. In this paper, we use Andrea Lee’s Sarah Phillips [Lee, Andrea. 1984. Sarah Phillips. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press] and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia [Senna, Danzy. 1999. Caucasia. New York: Riverhead] to trouble said dominant discourses by engaging in ‘reparative readings’ [Sedgwick, Eve. 2003. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham: Duke University Press Books] of the texts’ black female protagonists. We re-read these main characters' bodies as sites of pleasure and possibility, not singularly or solely harm. In doing so, we show how curriculum theorising can be mobilised for repair, and can function to humanise othered and marginalised bodies.

Star Making: A Publishing History of Thea Astley

This article focuses directly on Thea Astley’s publishing history from the time of her involvement with Brisbane’s avant garde in the 1950s, her early inclusion in regional collections, and her emergence as a Miles Franklin prize-winning author, through the enabling pen and advocacy of one of Angus & Robertson (A&R)’s finest fiction editors, Beatrice Davis, to the establishment in the 1980s of Astley’s ultimate author-publisher relationship with Penguin Books and her own overseas literary agent. It will also examine the publishing trajectory of selected novels released and re-issued by the University of Queensland Press (UQP) and Penguin Books, and revisit the divides between writer and editor, publisher and publicist, and the dis/enabling inspiration of difference in the tropics, in the context of the gendered histories of publishing at A&R, Penguin Books and UQP.

Modernist legacies: trends and faultlines in British poetry today

Modernist Legacies: Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today. Edited by Abigail Lang and David Nowell Smith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 263pp. $99.00The book sets out, therefore, to address some of the power imbalances at work within experimental circles, which remain overwhelmingly well-educated and white, if arguably less male-dominated than in previous generations. In this sense it is in line with current critical tendencies: Andrea Brady's essay for Conversation, The White Privilege of British Poetry Is Getting Worse (October 2015); Sandeep Parmar's essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Not a British Subject: Race and Poetry in the (December 2015); and the Race and Poetry and Poetics in the UK (RAPAPUK) symposium in London (February 2016) all attest to a desire to assess and begin to reverse this longprevailing wind. argument that an anticolonial politics of dialect and accent is especially pertinent and localized within the British Isles, where class and the politics of voice are hopelessly striated and inextricable, is an important one, made obliquely or explicitly by several essays in this collection.Part of the justification for using the genetic language of inheritance is that such a tradition is not self-evident or-at least not yet-self-reinforcing. In comparison with the North American experience, Lang and Nowell Smith write, assembling such a legacy is not straightforward; the dots cannot be easily j oined between dozens of strong poets and movements as in the US. Instead, the connections are those forged between fugitive outriders such as Basil Bunting, W S. Graham, and David Jones and the poets of the 1960s and 70s whose brief stints in charge of the mainstream organs that govern taste-the Poetry Society and Poetry Review-ended in a messy coup and decades of subsequent obsolescence. first section of Modernist Legacies goes over this contested ground. Allen Fisher and Robert Hampson return to the transatlantic connection that catalyzed much experimental poetic practice in Britain from the early 1960s. Romana Huk, meanwhile, sees lying behind British poetry's continual worrying at lyric's political complicities and efficacies a need to let messy materiality into the form. That impulse, she suggests, comes at an often uncontrollable cost to subjective coherence, so that the lyric I is revealed as a fiction constituted all along by those material forces.Of course, part of the vibrant, samizdat feel of British innovative or Revival work since the 1960s is owed to its pelagic presence, gliding below mainstream currents that, by and large, regarded as an historical aberration, thankfully now defunct. In recent years, however, it has been breaking the surface: key figures from the British Poetry Revival, such as J. H. Prynne, Andrew Crozier, Tom Raworth, and Barry MacSweeney, been published in collected formats by larger presses, and the academy-as this book and the conference that generated it attest-has been catching up. One of the main virtues of Modernist Legacies is that it widens the circle considerably beyond those more familiar names, with work (among others) on Jeff Hilson, Caroline Bergvall, Wendy Mulford, Geraldine Monk, Anthony Barnett, Sean Bonney, Peter Manson, Maggie O'Sullivan, and Tom Leonard. It also shines light on such projects as the cassette series Balsam Flex, which Will Montgomery retrieves from the obscurity of archiving procedures that have never been on a par with those for small press books and little magazines.In his own contribution Nowell Smith groups Monk, from Lancashire and now based in Sheffield, and the Glaswegian poet Leonard along with Anglophone Caribbean and black vernacular poetry from the UK. This is a powerful intersectional move that brings together the exclusions of class, geography, and race where they meet, in accent and the voice. Nowell Smith asks how modernism can be a useful term for thinking about traditions excluded from or peripheral to its central practices. …

LANGLAND, Victoria. Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2013. 352p.

LANGLAND, Victoria. Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2013. 352p.

The Studio of Literature: An Interview with Tom Lutz

The Studio of Literature:An Interview with Tom Lutz Jeffrey J. Williams (bio) Tom Lutz started with a simple idea: newspapers were shrinking their review pages and there was no West coast version of the New York book reviews, so, a longtime resident of Los Angeles, he founded the LA Review of Books (LARB). Since its first appearance as a Tumblr account in 2011, it has quickly grown to a major site, now publishing more than 1500 new pieces per year, sponsoring several channels (such as Avidly, which covers television), a book club, a print quarterly, a radio show, and a blog, and enlisting an extensive network of donors and members. Lutz has crossed between academic and public spheres throughout his career, with two university press books and two trade books. His first book, American Nervousness: An Anecdotal History (Cornell UP, 1991), traces the motif of nerves that runs through a wide range of American literature and culture circa 1903, in figures such as Teddy Roosevelt and Hamlin Garland. He continued to look at the realm of feeling in the trade book, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears (Norton, 1999), which covers a capacious range, this time from the ancients to the contemporary U.S. In his third book, Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value (Cornell UP, 2004), he returned to academic precincts, showing that American literature has long been caught in the tension between inclusiveness and selectivity. Moving back to a wider public, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), examines the idea of slacking—and work—in a tour through American figures from Ben Franklin to the Beats, along with likeminded writers such as Samuel Johnson. Born in Connecticut in 1953, Lutz had a fitful academic start, working jobs from cook to contractor to musician before he went to college. He attended the University of Dubuque and University of Massachusetts, from which he received his BA in 1980. He went on to do his PhD in Modern Thought at Stanford University (1988), from there taking a position at the University of Iowa, where he was a professor from 1988-2006. After a year visiting at CalArts, he moved to UC-Riverside in 2006 to chair the creative writing program, although he resigned the chairmanship in the face of massive budget cuts to the California system in 2011 (see http://chronicle.com/article/Mad-as-Hell-in-California-and/127760/). [End Page 543] While still teaching at Riverside, he has devoted a good deal of work since then to editing LARB. This interview took place on 7 February 2015 at the offices of LARB in Atwater Village, Los Angeles, CA. It was conducted and edited by Jeffrey J. Williams, Professor of English and of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, and transcribed by Souri Somphanith, an MA student at Carnegie Mellon. Jeffrey J. Williams: You founded LARB three or four years ago and it has become a major clearinghouse reviewing literature. How did you come to start LARB? Tom Lutz: LARB started somewhat accidentally. Howard Junker, who ran ZYZZYVA, which is a Bay Area literary magazine that was very hip in the 90s, asked me if I would be interested in taking over for him because he was getting ready to retire. “Zyzzyva” is the last word in the dictionary—it’s a beetle—and the journal is a classic literary quarterly, publishing fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. He had published a fun piece of mine on academic interviews. I wrote it when I was at CalArts for a talk I wanted to give on experimentalism. JJW: What year was this? TL: It was around 2008 or 2009. Anyway, Junker liked that piece and he was reading Doing Nothing, and he asked if I was interested in taking over the journal. I thought it would be a great thing to have a literary journal—one that has some reputation already—for our creative writing department and for our graduate students, so I said to my colleagues, “What do you think about us doing this as a collective?” There were about a dozen of us...

Attitudes and awareness towards eating disorders among students: a preliminary study

Aim of the studyThe aim of the present study was two-fold. The first purpose was to evaluate eating attitude and behaviours as well as knowledge about eating disorders in young adults women and men. The second purpose was to assess the relationship between measurable variables in both groups.Subject or material and methodsThe research consisted of 34 female and 32 male young adults aged 19-21 years. The Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire and the Eating Disorders Awareness Test were distributed to all participantsResultsFemale undergraduate students were more concerned about their weight and shape than male undergraduate students. Differences in eating disorders awareness between female and male groups were significant. In women knowledge of issues relevant to eating disorders was higher than in male. Among all participants, 52.9% of female and 18.75% of males declared an interest in eating disorders. Both women (72.2%) and men (50%) most often derived their knowledge about anorexia and bulimia nervosa from science press books and publications.DiscussionModerate positive correlations between avoidance of eating and shape concern as well as weight concern were found in both groups. In addition, in female university students restraint was related to eating concern.ConclusionsSince weight and shape concerns are considered to be integral to the psychopathology of eating disorders, it is definitely worth paying attention to the prevention of eating-related attitudes and behaviour in youth, particularly in female

The Price of University Press Books, 2012–14

The three previous studies about the suggested retail prices (SRPs) and the new title output of new scholarly books (covering the years 1989–2000; 2000–8; and 2009–11) revealed certain well-defined patterns for books published by university presses and commercial scholarly publishers. During those years, the price for commercial scholarly published books exceeded the SRP for university presses in the humanities, the social sciences, and in the scientific, technical, and medical categories, and commercial presses annually released more than three times the number of scholarly books than university presses did in these major book categories. Were these new title output and pricing trends between 1989 and 2011 also evident in 2012–14? What pricing and marketing theories and practices did commercial scholarly publishers use to enable them to charge higher SRPs than university presses? In a period of economic uncertainty, when far too many university presses face fiscal questions from university trustees and administrators and several presses have been on the verge of closing in recent years, what strategies can university presses utilize to generate more revenues for their books and remain a vitally important part of the entire scholarly publishing ecosystem?

Advanced Electric Drive Vehicles [Book News

This book appeared in the CRC Press book series Energy, Power Electronics, and Machines with Dr. Ali Emadi from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as series editor and also as the editor of this book containing 17 chapters. Each chapter is a contribution from specialists in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The author is a world-recognized author and editor of several books and handbooks. This latest book has textbook attributes and gives comprehensive basics in advanced electric drive vehicles for graduate and senior-level undergraduate students in engineering. It can also be recommended for researchers and engineers who are interested in the automotive-related industry and technology.

Kennewick Man: coming to closure

Few human remains from the distant past have achieved the public visibility and notoriety of Kennewick Man (the Ancient One). Since his discovery in July 1996 in the state of Washington, he has appeared on one of America's best-known television news programmes,60 Minutes. He has been on the cover ofTimemagazine and in the pages ofPeople,NewsweekandThe New York Times.He has been the subject of popular press books (Downey 2000; Thomas 2000; Chatters 2001), and for many years running there were almost annual updates on his whereabouts and status inScience(some 30 in the decade following his discovery). That is saying nothing of the scholarly notice and debate he has drawn (e.g. Swedlund & Anderson 1999; Owsley & Jantz 2001; Steele & Powell 2002; Watkins 2004; Burkeet al. 2008), including a recently issued tome marking the culmination of almost a decade of study (Owsley & Jantz 2014a).

Generational Differences in the Workplace: There Is Complexity Beyond the Stereotypes

The topic of generational differences in the workplace has been immensely popular over the past decade, spawning a large number of academic publications and a far greater number of consulting reports, popular press books, magazine articles, media reports, blogs, and infographics. Indeed, a new industry of consultants and public speakers seems to have emerged primarily to capitalize on the popularity of this topic. As Costanza and Finkelstein (2015) note, the research on this “hot topic” has often seemed opportunistic, lacking rigor and depth. The relative ease of cutting existing cross-sectional data by age and calling it a generation study has tempted researchers to hop on the bandwagon, resulting in a large number of empirical studies with nearly identical literature reviews that overrely on popular press and opinion-based literature. There has been a lamentable tendency toward blind empiricism with little or no connection to theory, as has been stated elsewhere (Lyons & Kuron, 2014; Parry & Urwin, 2011).

Borscht – A Love Story

Research Article| August 01 2015 Borscht – A Love Story Bryan Demchinsky Bryan Demchinsky Bryan Demchinsky is a Montreal-based writer and editor. He is the author or co-author of five books, including After Auschwitz: One Man’s Story (McGill-Queen’s University Press). The American Library Association picked After Auschwitz as its best university press book published in Canada in 2007. “Borscht: A Love Story” will be part of a family memoir the author is writing. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gastronomica (2015) 15 (3): 69–74. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2015.15.3.69 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bryan Demchinsky; Borscht – A Love Story. Gastronomica 1 August 2015; 15 (3): 69–74. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2015.15.3.69 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentGastronomica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2015 by The Regents of the University of California2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.