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.

Carne Ross, author of Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite, is featured in Time Magazine with regard to his firm’s work with Kosovo.

We would like to congratulate the Cornell University Press authors just named Guggenheim Foundation Fellows:

Edward Fowler (author of San’ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo and translator of A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer)

Samuel Moyn (author of Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics)

Kathryn Sikkink (author of Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America and coauthor of Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics)

Li Zhang (coeditor of Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar)