Eastoe, Jane, Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Remedies and Recipes
RS 67.G7 E195 2010

Mednieks, Zigurd R., Programming Android: Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile Devices
QA 76.76.A65 P7684x 2011
More information

Epstein, Paul R., Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do About It
RA 793 .E67 2011

I have posted some QR codes around 9th floor, in the call number areas that correspond to the ones on the Biology 103 Lab handout, available on the Web at http://www.jsu.edu/library/pdfs/handouts/BY103.pdf. If you scan the code with your smartphone’s camera using QR code reading software, it will display a link to the  URL for the handout.

Find QR code readers in the application store for your phone (iTunes Store, Android Market, Blackberry App World, etc.) by searching for QR. You may also find QR codes for various apps.

Russell, Matthew A.
Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other Social Media Sites
QA 76.9.D343 R87 2011

Burton, Rob
Nursing: Transition to Professional Practice
RT 86.7 .N9425 2011

Battenhausen, Leo J.
Defeating Depression: the Calm and Sense Way to Find Happiness and Satisfaction
RC 537 .B3454x 2011

National Weather Service
Weather Spotter’s Field Guide : a Guide to Being a SKYWARN Spotter
QC 941 .W433x 2011
Also in electronic book format

Have you filled out the Houston Cole Library Mobile Device Assessment Survey?  The link is available in an e-mail messages. Students can opt to enter a drawing for a $15 iTunes gift card.

This blog post doesn’t look bad in the WordPress Android App, which I used to post the first part. My smartphone typing skillz are not up to those of our students’.

According to Choice, “Parsons, a scientist and journalist, is an unabashed fan of Doctor Who and does a good job of making the convoluted plots and characters decipherable, even to non-aficionados, and of explaining the research and science, often cutting edge, that has even a change of making the plots possible… “

More information on this book  from Johns Hopkins University Press

Ouellete, Jennifer
The Calculus Diaries:How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
QA 303.2 .O94 2010

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.

Hosler, Jay S.
Art by Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon.
Evolution: The Story of Life On Earth
QH 367 .H675 2011

From the book’s website:

“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.

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.