Norton, Trevor Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth: A Celebration of Scientific Eccentricity and Self-Experimentation
R 853.S44 N67 2011
Stepan, Nancy Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
RA 643 .S74 2011
Aczel, Amir D. A Strange Wilderness: the Lives of the Great Mathematicians
QA 21 .A29 2011
Schwalbe, Michael Smoke Damage: Voices From the Front Lines of America’s Tobacco Wars
RA 1242.T6 S33x 2011
More information: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4966.htm
From the book’s website: “The Calculus Diaries is the fun and fascinating account of her year spent confronting her math phobia. With wit and verve, Ouellette shows how she learned to apply calculus to everything from gas mileage, diet, and the rides at Disneyland, to surfing in Hawaii, shooting craps in Vegas, and warding off zombies famished for tasty fresh brains.”
According to the Bio on this website, Ouellette is a recovering English major who stumbled into science writing.
“An accessible graphic introduction to evolution for the most science-phobic reader.”
Jay Hosler is a professor of biology at Juniata College and the author/illustrator of two graphic novels and several science cartoons. Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon, illustrators of numerous graphic novels and comic books, live in Minneapolis.
One interesting thing about the 9th floor of the Houston Cole Library is the variety of subjects and viewpoints that are included in the science and medicine subject areas in the Library of Congress Q and R classifications housed here.
A recently arrived title is Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog, a Western Carolina University professor of psychology. The call number is QL 85 .H47 2010.
See more about Herzog and the book at the author’s website, the publisher’s website, or the professor’s Facebook page.
For more information, consult books in the LC subject area of Human-animal relationships, which encompasses other subject areas such as animal rights and animal welfare. To conduct a subject search in our online catalog, select Subject from the Search By: menu to the right of the search box. Read the rest of this entry »
Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives, a book published by the University of Alabama Press, has been added to the circulating collection on the 9th floor. More information about the book may be found here.
Ogard, Paulette Haywood Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives QL 551 .A2 O33 2010
The Library is pleased to announce the availability of the following new electronic books in subject areas found on the 9th floor:
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
Business Web Strategy: Design, Alignment, and Application
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (Rev Ed)
Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications
Online Social Networks (Technology 360)
Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior (3rd Ed).
These electronic books, as well as many more in other subject areas, are available through the Library’s catalog, Biology, Computer Science and Emergency Management Electronic Resources subject pages, and the Electronic Book listing.
A sub-collection of electronic books in Science and Health allows you to search all of the e-books in this area at once, if you would like to do so. This link lets you conduct a simultaneous search in:
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative medicine
Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
The new books pictured below, as well as many others, have recently arrived on the 9th floor. Have a drink or a snack at our new Jazzman’s Cafe and come up and check out the new books, work on an assignment or use the wireless network with your laptop. To find new arrivals in your area of interest, use the New Books tab in our online catalog.
Clegg, Brian, Before the Big Bang : the Prehistory of our Universe, New York: St. Martin’s Press
QB 981 .C627 2009
Collins, James P. and and Martha L. Crump, Extinction in Our Times, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.
QL 644.7 .C65 2009
Barrow, John D., 100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know : Math Explains Your World, New York : W.W. Norton & Co.
QA 99 .B188 2009
The Public Library of Science has launched a new website, PLoS Currents: Influenza, to facilitate sharing of information.
The open access site “is built on three key components: a small expert research community that PLoS is working with to run the website; Google Knol with new features that allow content to be gathered together in collections after being vetted by expert moderators; and a new, independent database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) called Rapid Research Notes, where research targeted for rapid communication, such as the content in PLoS Currents: Influenza will be freely and permanently accessible.”
The JSU Field Schools and DeSoto State Park will offer Ethnobotany Weekend: Medicinal and Edible Plants at DeSoto State Park June 5-6. Please see this flyer for more information. Ethnobotanist Francine Hutchinson will conduct campfire talks and workshops on identifying and growing these useful plants.
If ethnobotany interests you, there are a number of books on the 9th floor in that subject area. As this is a cross-disciplinary field, some books are found on 3rd floor as well. A selected list of titles from online catalog subject searches for ethnobotany, traditional medicine, and medicinal plants includes these:
Buhner, Stephen Harold, The lost language of plants: the ecological importance of plant medicines RS164.B785 2002
Bellamy, David J., Bellamy’s New world : a botanical history of America
QK115 .B45 1983
Daniel, M, Medicinal plants: chemistry and properties
QK 99 .A1 D36 2006
Pieroni, Andrea, Eating and healing: traditional food as medicine
RS 164 .E26 2006
Solomon, Jack, Cracklin bread and asfidity: folk recipes and remedies GR110.A2 C73
Patton, Darryl, Tommie Bass : herb doctor of Shinbone Ridge.
RS164 .P37x 1988
(This book about an Alabama herbalist is located in the Alabama Collection on the 10th floor.)
