A new batch of books have arrived. Even though required reading has commenced I suggest you take a look at these new titles, because reading is always just a little bit more pleasurable when it is just for you. Here are a few titles I have pulled from the cart:
Surgery Junkies by Victoria Pitts-Taylor. Rutgers University Press, 2007
RD119.P522007
“Drawing on years of research, her personal experience with cosmetic surgery, analysis of newspaper articles and television shows, and in-depth interviews with surgeons, psychiatrists, lawyers, judges, and others, Pitts-Taylor brings new perspectives to the promotion of “extreme” makeovers on television, the medicalization of “surgery addiction,” the moral and political interrogation that many patients face, and feminist debates on the topic.
While many feel that cosmetic surgery is a deeply personal choice and that its pathology is rooted in the individual psyche, Pitts-Taylor makes a compelling argument that the experience, meanings, and motivations for cosmetic surgery are highly social. A much needed “makeover” of our cultural understanding of cosmetic surgery, this book is both authoritative and thoroughly engaging.”-Amazon.com
The Fatal Sleep by Peter Kennedy. Luath Press Limited, 2007
RC186.T82 k46 2007
“Human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, continues to be largely neglected by the Western world and pharmaceutical companies. In this expos[sic], Kennedy pens the true story of Africa’s killer disease that had gone undiscovered for centuries and the doctors struggling to fight it.”-Amazon.com
Traveling at the Speed of Thought by Daniel Kennefick. Princeton University Press,2007
“David Kaiser, author of “Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics” : This book is a very impressive achievement. Kennefick skillfully introduces readers to some of the most abstruse yet fascinating concepts in modern physics stemming from Einstein’s gravitational theory. And he charts the often haphazard, meandering, at times contentious development of these ideas over the course of nearly a century. More than an intellectual history, this book is a kind of detective story. Amid unfolding clues, partial insights, evolving institutions, the play of personalities, and hard thinking, the reader is treated to larger lessons about how theoretical physics works. Until now, we had virtually no serious study of what happened to Einstein’s general relativity after he published his famous equations. Kennefick is among the first to begin to fill in this story.”-Amazon.com
Other New Books worthy of your attention:
Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War by Reuben E. Brigety II. Routledge, 2007
UA23.B7828 2007
Rickover by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar. Potomac Books, Inc, 2007
V63.R54 A55 2007
