Nutrition: Sports Health, Drug Usage, and Anorexia

Sports Science, Nutrition, Physical Education and all other Health-Related Majors, here are great resources for your next project!

Drugs in Sport (BOOK): edited by David R. Mottram

With the recent major updates in worldwide anti-doping laws and changes to the prohibited and therapeutic exemption lists, this fourth edition of the bestselling Drugs in Sport presents authoritative, hard science information about the actions of drugs, hormones, medication and nutritional supplements in sport.

Written by a well respected pharmacologist from one of the UK’s leading sports science universities, this much-needed new edition of a market leader continues to focus on one of the most high profile themes in sport science, providing high quality detailed information. Some of the key issues covered include:

* the latest doping control regulations of the WADA
* the use of therapeutic drugs banned in sport
* an assessment of the prevalence of drug taking in sport.

Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia (BOOK): edited by Kate Taylor

Edited by New York Sun reporter Taylor, this topical anthology showcases nearly 20 authors’ struggles with anorexia nervosa. The contributors include novelist Jennifer Egan, poet Louise Glück, and former New York Times reporter Joyce Maynard. Each author delineates his or her own personal battle with the disease, but by the fifteenth story, they begin to meld into a chorus. Young and old, men and women, all are included, and together they provide telling glimpses into the struggles of anorexics. The writing seems to be therapeutic for many, including Francine du Plessix Gray, who penned a bitter open letter to her deceased parents. Maura Kelly tells of her blue-collar widower father’s difficulty coping with her disorder as he tried to support and raise his family alone. Amanda Fortini discusses our obsession with thinness and the reactions of men and women to her weight loss after she acquired a parasite on a trip to Brazil. Each author provides a unique, often disquieting perspective on an increasingly common disease. --Katherine Boyle

Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology (BOOK): by Geoffrey C. Kabat

Hyping Health Risks provides a valuable counterpoint to the confusion and paranoia that seems to grow proportionate to the constant barrage of health risk studies. Examining four of the most persistent and controversial issues in public health, Kabat's lucid and well-written book gives the lay reader all the basic concepts and epidemiological tools she needs to understand the available evidence. His presentation allows us to better discriminate between what matters to our health and what matters to the 'hypers'-a wide array of stakeholders, some well-intentioned, some much less so. -- Ernest Drucker, Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Geoffrey C. Kabat, a respected epidemiologist, provides an insider's account of how a number of ostensible health hazards have been blown out of proportion. While we face a daily barrage of health scares, Kabat cuts through the confusion and provides a lucid and rigorous rationale for rejecting much of the fear culture that permeates our society. -- Shelly Ungar, University of Toronto

With clarity and dispassion, Geoffrey C. Kabat challenges widespread beliefs that secondhand smoke, low levels of radon, and other ostensible environmental nemeses are certain killers. In making his case, Kabat draws extensively on scientific evidence while shunning rhetoric and political posturing. The result is an admirable search for scientific truth amid a sea of conflicting and often uninformed opinions. -- Leonard Cole, Rutgers University

Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy (BOOK): edited by Robert F. Schoeni

The United States spends billions of dollars annually on social and economic policies aimed at improving the lives of its citizens, but the health consequences associated with these policies are rarely considered. In Making Americans Healthier, a group of multidisciplinary experts shows how social and economic policies seemingly unrelated to medical well-being have dramatic consequences for the health of the American people.

Film: Thelma and Louise

Thelma & Louise (DVD): An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot a rapist and take off in a '66 Thunderbird.

Geology, Geography, Ecology, and the Environment

For those that love earth, dirt, maps, and the history behind them.

Environmental History and the American South: A Reader (BOOK): edited by Paul S. Sutter and Christopher J. Manganiello

I applaud the editors for their efforts in pulling together this excellent collection. Geographically, chronologically, and topically, it offers good coverage of an incredibly diverse region and should be a boon to the study of southern people and the natural world they inhabit. --Timothy Silver, author of Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains: An Environmental History of the Highest Peaks in Eastern America

This book offers an original look, through the lens of environmental history, at what has made the South a unique region and at what has made the South a complicated place, as diverse in its culture and economy as in its climate, terrain, and biota. Well-chosen pieces and an excellent overview and bibliography will make this volume invaluable to American historians of every region or period. --Donald Worster, author of A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir

Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union (BOOK): edited by Julian Agyeman and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger

"In the quest for a middle ground of 'Just Sustainability,' fresh insight is provided by this eclectic portrait of a region where both justice and sustainability are in short supply."
—Michael R. Edelstein, Ramapo College of New Jersey, author of Contaminated Communities, and lead editor of Cultures of Contamination

"With in-depth field surveys, rich historical contextualization, and cultural assessments, this book shines a light on issues that have received little attention in Western publications. Citizens of the former Soviet Union give voice to environmental issues and their interrelation to ethnic conflicts, nationalism, criminality, and other issues. This book convincingly shows how environmental issues and their solutions are critically tied to other factors."
—Walter Richmond, German, Russian, and Classical Studies, Occidental College

Land-Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes (BOOK): edited by Andrew Millington and Wendy Jepson

The IGBP Land Use Land Cover Change program ended in November 2005 with sessions at the IHDP 6th Open Meeting in Bonn. This book is based on a session at that meeting convened by the editors, and presents other important topics and areas. Included are chapters based on papers presented at this meeting and invited contributions that cover important geographical and thematic issues not addressed at the meeting. In particular, there will be a balance between old agricultural regions (eg. Mediterranean, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Andes, Southern Africa, and upland Southeast Asia) and regions recently converted to agriculture, for example, the Brazilian Cerrado, the Yucatan Penninsula, and Bolivian Chapare.

Nature in Common?: Environmental Ethics and the Contested Foundations of Environmental Policy (BOOK): edited by Ben A. Minteer

“Nature in Common? brings together leading environmental philosophers to sharpen and clarify the divisions and critically examine the strengths and limits of moving environmentalists toward an agenda with which most can agree. This is an important and unique collection of essays. Minteer’s introductory framing is excellent, and each of the chapters, are clear and forceful. This volume is a major contribution and deserves to be read widely. “—Jan Dizard, Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of American Culture and the Pick Professor of Environmental Studies, Amherst College

Nested Ecology: The Place of Humans in the Ecological Hierarchy (BOOK): Edward T. Wimberley foreword by John F. Haught

"[Wimberley's] wise, readable, and convincing book awakens us to spheres of concern that even the most sensitive ecological treatises have often ignored or underemphasized. He has in mind a much more integral and nuanced ecological vision than is customary. Readers of many backgrounds and interests will find herein a carefully coordinated range of reflections on the multiple nesting and nested levels that make up the universe. Wimberley's sophisticated study of the plurality of ecological strata challenges us to develop a wider ecological awareness than even some of the most celebrated ecological visionaries have provided." -- John F. Haught, Georgetown University, from the Foreword

Systemic Management: Sustainable Human Interactions with Ecosystems and the Biosphere (BOOK): Charles W. Fowler (Seattle Native!) J

'Systemic management' is presented as a specialized process of pattern-based decision-making that avoids the inconsistency, subjectivity and error in current management practice. It clearly demonstrates how mimicking nature's empirical examples of sustainability can circumvent anthropocentric tendencies to overuse/misuse human values in management, and illustrates the science best suited for achieving sustainability through examples of research that address specific management questions.

Biology, Science, Chemistry: Cell - The Periodical

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The hard-copy of this periodical is also available on the 2nd floor of Brooks Library.

Some articles from this month's edition (pictured at left).

The Tumor Suppressor p53 Regulates Polarity of Self-Renewing Divisions in Mammary Stem Cells p1083

Angelo Cicalese, Giuseppina Bonizzi, Cristina E. Pasi, Mario Faretta, Simona Ronzoni, Barbara Giulini, Cathrin Brisken, Saverio Minucci, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci

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Detecting Folding Intermediates of a Protein as It Passes through the Bacterial Translocation Channel p1164

Hiroshi Kadokura, Jon Beckwith

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The Antioxidant Enzyme Prdx1 Controls Neuronal Differentiation by Thiol-Redox-Dependent Activation of GDE2 p1209

Ye Yan, Priyanka Sabharwal, Meenakshi Rao, Shanthini Sockanathan

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Synaptic PRG-1 Modulates Excitatory Transmission via Lipid Phosphate-Mediated Signaling p1222

Thorsten Trimbuch, Prateep Beed, Johannes Vogt, Sebastian Schuchmann, Nikolaus Maier, Michael Kintscher, Jörg Breustedt, Markus Schuelke, Nora Streu, Olga Kieselmann, Irene Brunk, Gregor Laube, Ulf Strauss, Arne Battefeld, Hagen Wende, Carmen Birchmeier, Stefan Wiese, Michael Sendtner, Hiroshi Kawabe, Mika Kishimoto-Suga, Nils Brose, Jan Baumgart, Beate Geist, Junken Aoki, Nic E. Savaskan, Anja U. Bräuer, Jerold Chun, Olaf Ninnemann, Dietmar Schmitz, Robert Nitsch

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Education: Teaching Technology, Making Better Writers, and Developing a Professional Portfoilio

New books for current and future teachers!

A Teacher's Guide to Using Technology in the Classroom (BOOK): by Karen S. Ivers

“Straightforward methods to integrate technology in the classroom are introduced in this title.”–Curriculum Connections/Supplement to School Library Journal

“Knowing that it is difficult to incorporate technology effectively, let alone keep up with the trends, Karen S. Ivers offers advice in A Teacher's Guide to Using Technology in the Classroom.”–Christian School Teacher

Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities (BOOK): by Patricia Hill Collins

“Patricia Hill Collins skillfully melds high theory with everyday practice. This is a timely book as we stand on the precipice of new national leadership and a call for a recommitment to public service and active participation in our democracy. This book is both a treat and a treasure.”—Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Professor in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin, author of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children

Basic Tools for Beginning Writers: How to Teach All the Skills Beginning Writers Need: From Alphabet Recognition and Spelling to Strategies for Self (BOOK): by Schultze, Betty

Basic Tools for Beginning Writers recognizes that story and image are good ways to introduce students to concepts. The making of a simple word such as "go" is told as a story, the combining of onsets with rhymes seen as a slide, and the learning of the alphabet is shown as a rap or jive. Game formats designed to stimulate learning incorporate all aspects of language—talk, phonemes, words, and sentences. Throughout the book, teachers will find "Making It Simpler" and "Increasing the Challenge" sections to help adapt activities to the needs of both struggling and more accomplished students.

Developing and Presenting a Professional Portfolio in Early Childhood Education (BOOK): by Nancy W. Wiltz

It demonstrates how to collect items for a professional Early Childhood Education portfolio and how to create/compile them in a professional manner in a binder for presentation upon graduation to obtain employment. As portfolios are sometimes started in Intro to ECE and compiled throughout the program, or introduced in a Curriculum course, or in a Student Teaching or capstone course, there are several points of entry for this supplement. Wiltz instructs the student what items to collect for the portfolio, how to compile/construct/label it, and then how to talk about it/present it.

Effective Teacher Induction & Mentoring: Assessing the Evidence (BOOK): by Michael Strong

''The most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of induction programs and their consequences. The book synthesizes the relevant research in a manner that is accessible, straightforward, and useful.'' --SirReadaLot.org, March 2009

''Finally, the information we have needed regarding support for new teachers is in one book. Well written, based on scientific research, and extremely important to the teaching profession, this book is a must-read.''-- Ed Pultorak, Former ATE President, Southern Illinois University Carbondale


''Dr. Michael Strong offers a detailed and well-balanced appraisal of the empirical evidence on the impact of teacher mentoring and induction programs. This is a 'must-read' for anyone who is interested in this topic.''-- Rodney T. Ogawa, Professor of Education, UCSC, Santa Cruz, California

Evidence-Based Interventions for Students with Learning and Behavioral Challenges (BOOK): edited by Richard J. Morris and Nancy Mather

This book assembles into one volume summaries of school-based intervention research that relates to those who deal on a regular basis with the growing body of students having high-incidence learning disabilities and/or behavior disorders: special educators, school psychologists, and clinical child psychologists. Chapter authors begin with an overview of their topic followed by a brief section on historical perspectives before moving on to the main section – a critical discussion of empirically based intervention procedures. In those instances where evidence-based prescriptions can legitimately be made, authors discuss best practices and the conditions (e.g., classroom environment, teacher expertise) under which these practices are most effective. A final section deals with policy issues.

Business, Marketing and Economics: Discovering How to Influence Performance, Learning the Ins and Outs of Institutional Investment...

Marketing Calculator: Measuring and Managing Return on Marketing Investment (BOOK): by Guy R. Powell

Marketing Calculator - Measuring and Managing Return on Marketing Investment describes the steps necessary to make data-driven marketing decision to improve results for your company, and your career.

Written with the right- and left-brained marketer in mind, this book demystifies marketing effectiveness for marketers and the rest of the executive team.

Money, Markets and Sovereignty (BOOK): by Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds

"Stimulating reading. Thoughtful and well written, bringing new perspectives."--Otmar Issing, first Chief Economist, European Central Bank

"Money, Markets, and Sovereignty offers an unusually wide-ranging and historically informed examination of contemporary controversies over globalization, and provides a searching exploration of the tensions between money as an emblem of national sovereignty and its role as a fundamental tool of individual choice."--Jerry Z. Muller, author of The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

"Money, Markets, and Sovereignty presents an extremely timely and valuable examination of the pros and cons of modern globalization, set against a background of illuminating historical precedents and debates." --William H. Donaldson, twenty-seventh chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Pensions, Social Security and the Privatization of Risk (BOOK): edited by Mitchell A. Orenstein

As Social Security, workplace pensions, and individual retirement accounts become more insecure, America's pension system is in serious need of rehabilitation. This timely volume argues that any reform of the U.S. pension system must address both future imbalances in the Social Security program and weaknesses in the workplace and individual retirement systems on which a growing number of Americans now rely. Weighing what is gained against what is lost as new proposals surface, this book offers a clear account and reasoned analysis of the looming crisis, as well as our collective alternatives both domestically and abroad.

Pioneering Portfolio Management:An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment (BOOK): by David F. Swensen

David Swensen's creative and disciplined approach to investment has given Yale the resources it needs to augment its capacity for excellence in scholarship and teaching. Those who absorb the wisdom in this book will likewise strengthen the institutions they serve. --Beinecke Professor of Economics and President, Yale University

Primal Management: Unraveling the Secrets of Human Nature to Drive High Performance (BOOK): by Paul Herr

"The biological approach lends a fresh aspect to the subject of employee performance enhancement, and the well-researched, entertaining presentation should make this is an appealing reference for progressive business leaders."-- Publishers Weekly

Taming the Search-and-Switch Customer: Earning Customer Loyalty in a Compulsion-to-Compare World (BOOK): by Jill Griffin
"What an excellent wake-up call! Your company's most valuable asset (your loyal customers) have more tools than ever to compare you to competitors and switch. Griffin does an excellent job identifying the risks to customer loyalty in an environment of immediate and abundant information, and defines a path to earn loyalty through delivery of enhanced value in the eyes of your customers. A truly important premise to building and maintaining a successful business."—Gerald Evans, president, Hanes Brands Supply Chain and Asia Business Development

"In this dynamic treatise on customer retention, Jill Griffin, The Loyalty Maker, provides updated solutions to meet today's challenge of changing consumer shopping habits. A must-read for all retailers and wholesalers."—Britt Jenkins, chairman of the board, Tandy Brand Accessories, Inc.

"Mandatory reading for anyone who manages customer loyalty. A truly thought-provoking read!"—Timothy Keiningham, global chief strategy officer, executive vice president, IPSOS Loyalty

"Every company is in the service business now, whether they realize it or not. Jill's book is a great start on how to make your service experiences better than they are today."—Robert Stephen, founder, The Geek Squad

"Griffin is pure loyalty genius!"—Kelly Cook, vice president, Customer Engagement/CRM, Waste Management

The Anatomy of Buzz Revisited: Real-Life Lessons in Word-of-Mouth Marketing (BOOK): by Emanuel Rosen

“Emanuel Rosen is to buzz marketing what Peter Drucker is to effective management. This book is the foundation upon which most buzz marketing knowledge is based.”—Guy Kawasaki, cofounder of Alltop.com

“Buzz marketing is bigger and better than ever, which is why it is more important than ever to read this smart, smart book.”—Robert B. Cialdini, author of Influence: Science and Practice, and coauthor of YES! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

"This is a must-read for marketers and an engaging book for anyone interested in social, digital or online media, or in social phenomena in general. Importantly, while acknowledging the power of the Internet, Rosen refuses to fall into the trap of focusing only on online buzz. Recent research indicates that the vast majority of word of mouth is offline."—Andrea Wojnicki, Financial Post