Peruse our new science books in their brand new display! The new books are now located in the center of the reference area, next to the Test Prep books display. As always, to suggest new books for library purchase, fill out the online form here:
http://library.nyu.edu/forms/colform.html
Here are some brief reviews of recent additions:
The Last Normal Child, by Lawrence H. Diller. Prager, 2006.
RM315 .D5522
“This book is obligatory reading for anyone who wants to make sense out of the present confusion about medicating children to improve their behavior. Dr. Diller is a rare voice of moderation in this disputed area. He agrees that a few children are greatly improved in the short term by such medications, but he decries the excessive labeling, the unreasonable pressures from schools and parents, the aggressive advertising by the drug companies to parents and physicians, and the neglect of the essential psychosocial management of these children with such traditional techniques as effective discipline.”
- William B. Carey, M.D. Division of General Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. Author of Understanding Your Child’s Temperament and Coping with Children’s Temperament.
Noise, by Bart Kosko. Viking, 2006.
TD892 .K67
”Noise, USC professor Kosko (Fuzzy Thinking) says, may be properly defined as ‘a signal we don’t like,’ but as his book shows, there’s much more to noise than idling buses and loud neighbors. The author makes the claims that the universe itself may be no more than noise, and that life might not have evolved without it. And though white may be the most widely recognized color of noise, Kosko describes others, including pink and black. Particularly informative are his passages on the development and use of noise-canceling technology (used as commonly by racecar drivers to block out engine noise as by physicians to listen to a fetus’s heartbeat). Kosko’s book will appeal mainly to science buffs; despite the author’s accessible prose, swaths of the book assume an acquaintance with physics and electrical engineering. However, passages on topics such as actress Hedy Lamar’s patent for a WWII-era ‘secret communication system,’ hold some attraction for a wider audience.”
-from Publisher’s Weekly.
Reviews retrieved 12.5.2006 from Amazon.com
