Suzanne Gordon, coauthor of Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care, spoke at the Miami Dade College Medical Center Campus this week and the Miami Herald has some good coverage:
Sean Malloy uses three photographs from the Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives in his new book Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan. These images portray the aftermath of the Hiroshima explosion. Now Malloy is seeking information about the photographer responsible for these images (which are graphic in their documentation of a horrific scene). Read about it—and follow links to the photographs, if you wish, on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch photojournalism blog: Atomic Tragedy
Short review of Acid Rain in the Adirondacks in American Scientist (May–June 2008):
“Acid Rain in the Adirondacks chronicles everything that can go wrong when attending to environmental problems is put off for too long, but it also offers evidence that dangers can be addressed successfully through scientific research, public awareness and government regulation.” Read the whole review here.
A number of new and recent titles in American history are on sale for 20 percent off on the Cornell University Press website: Special Offers
In old but still interesting news, Episode 6 of Season 1 of House M.D. featured a guest appearance by the Cornell Yeats edition of The Wild Swans at Coole (Manuscript Materials). (Our sales manager provides a screencap as proof.) Coincidentally enough, there is a graffito of Hugh Laurie as House on a utility box next to the Press’s driveway.
Emily Monosson, the editor of Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory, has established a blog in support of the book—and of the parent/scientists to whom the book gives a voice! Pay her a visit at sciencemoms.wordpress.com.
Recent arrivals in our warehouse include:
The Many Lives of Khrushchev’s Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow’s Arbat by Stephen V. Bittner
The Life and Death of Images edited by Diarmuid Costello and Dominic Willsdon
Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out edited by Emily Monosson
Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics by Jeremy Pressman
Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz
Lines of Equity: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England by Elliott Visconsi
Diaries 1915–1923: Behind the Mask by Sergey Prokofiev
Magnetic Appeal: MRI and the Myth of Transparency by Kelly A. Joyce
Taking Southeast Asia to Market: Commodities, Nature, and People in the Neoliberal Age edited by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso
The Good Temp by Vicki Smith and Esther B. Neuwirth
Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present by Lesley Wheeler
To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast by Rachel Wheeler
There’s a great review of Diaries: 1915–1923: Behind the Mask by Sergey Prokofiev in The New Statesman (May 1, 2008):
Revolutions All Around
Terry Martin’s The Affirmative Action Empire got a mention in Anne Applebaum’s Better Read Than Red: The Best Recent Books About Communism on Slate.
The “John Talbott’s Paris” blog features a review of Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination, edited by Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson.
