October 24, 2007 at 11:07 pm (Uncategorized)
Join the 9th Floor Science Center Staff and your fellow students for a little caffeine, conversation and relaxation. Coffee @ Coles is a perfect time to chat with a science librarian about your research. And, best of all it’s FREE!!!
Date: Thursday November 15th, 2007
Time: 3:00-5:00PM
Place: Coles Science Center, Bobst Library-9th FLR
October 9, 2007 at 6:18 pm (New Books, Uncategorized)
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
July 2, 2007 at 7:42 pm (Uncategorized)
The New Books display cases and cart are filling up with more tasty titles. Here is a brief review of one of our exciting new selections!
The Silent Deep by Tony Koslow. The University of Chicago Press, 2007.
QH541.5.D35 K67
“…an encyclopedic overview of 200 years’ worth of oceanographic discoveries, research and resource exploitation. Organized chronologically, part one begins with ancient thinkers like Aristotle before profiling the work of pioneering oceanic naturalists of the early 19th century like Forbes, Milne-Edwards, Sars and Darwin. Part two explores 20th-century methods for tackling the mysteries of the deep sea, including spectacular discoveries of unknown species, hydrothermal hot springs, methane seeps and whale falls. The third section considers the deep-reaching impact of humanity-not only through fishing, mining and dumping, but also global climate change-whose effects touch every region of the sea. This volume provides helpful information on any given sea-centric query and a thorough bibliography for finding additional material. Illustrations and figures range from reproductions of early drawings to high-resolution, in situ photographs, startling in beauty and detail. Informative, gorgeous and extremely well written, this title may be the only marine-life reference you’ll ever need.” – Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review
Also check out:
The Life of Numbers by Antonio Duran, Georges Ifrah, and Alberto Manguel.
QA141. L54 2006
For more recent arrivals, refer to our New Books List, organized by subject.
July 6, 2006 at 10:13 pm (Acquisitions, Trial Subscriptions, e-journals)
Now through the end of 2006, the Electrochemical Society (ECS) is pleased to provide your users with free trial access to the 30-year online archive of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society (JES).
The JES online archive is now accessible back to 1975, and ECS plans to make the complete archive available beginning with the first volume in 1902. Articles will be available as full-text PDFs, and all online back issues offer HTML-formatted tables of contents, abstract pages, and searchable database records.
If you are authenticated through an NYU IP address, simply follow this link to access the journal: www.ecsdl.org/JES
