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RIGHTS HELDAUTHOR Mark Denny Alan McFadzean TITLE Engineering Animals How Life Works CATEGORY science trade NUMBER OF PAGES 386 18 halftones, 100 line illustrations PUBLICATION MONTH May AUTHOR BIO Mark Denny was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, England in 1953. Educated at the University of New Brunswick and Edinburgh University he is now retired from the Avionics Group in Edinburgh and the Theoretical Chemistry department at Oxford University. He is the author of a number of books, most recently Super Structures published by John Hopkins University Press in 2010. Alan McFadzean is an oil and gas industry consultant BOOK DESCRIPTION Looking at animal design from the standpoint of an engineer, this book describes the wonderfully varied and astonishing capabilities of animals. This book provides an accessible explanation of how living animals actually work by considering them as exercises in engineering. With a light touch and some gentle humor the authors guide the reader through the engineering principles that underlie animal structure and behavior, leaving the reader with a greater understanding of just why living creatures are the way they are. Examples include discussion of how animals are optimized for their different modes of locomotion and how animal communication follows good engineering practice with physics dictating vocalization. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Gerald L. Early TITLE A Level Playing Field African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports CATEGORY African American studies academic trade NUMBER OF PAGES 236 PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO BOOK DESCRIPTION Offers three case studies of the social and cultural significance of the high performance athlete in post-World War II America. Athletes are a special sort of socially constructed mirror that reflects a romanticized version of cultural honor and virtue. They can be celebrated for their heroism in their performance in the way no others can be for they symbolize the honor of a group or nation in dramatic, even melodramatic, terms. High performance athletes are perhaps the most theatrical and emotional form of ritualized honor that we have left in the world. African American athletes offer an instructive and complex view as well as a compelling ironical perspective of athletic honor as they are the most imposing figures in American sports but represent a group that was historically considered socially without honor. Alain Locke Lecture Series of the Du Bois Institute. RIGHTS HELDAll rights in all languages AUTHOR Umberto Eco TITLE Confessions of a Young Novelist CATEGORY literature trade NUMBER OF PAGES 200 4 line drawings PUBLICATION MONTH April AUTHOR BIO Umberto Eco, born in 1932, is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. Eco is President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna, and an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. He has also written academic texts, children's books and many essays. BOOK DESCRIPTION Based on the Richard Ellman Lectures he delivered at Emory University, Umberto Eco provides a delightful and entertaining exploration of his vocation as scholar, avocation as novelist, and the evolving relation between the two. Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these “confessions,” the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist, and explores their fruitful conjunction. He begins by exploring the boundary between fiction and nonfiction—playfully, seriously, brilliantly roaming across this frontier of interpretation. Good nonfiction, he believes, is crafted like a whodunnit, and a skilled novelist builds precisely detailed worlds through observation and research. Taking us on a tour of his own creative method, Eco recalls how he designed his fictional realms. He began with specific images, made choices of period, location, and voice, composed stories that would appeal to both sophisticated and popular readers. The blending of the real and the fictive extends to the inhabitants of such invented worlds. Why are we moved to tears by a character’s plight? In what sense do Anna Karenina, Gregor Samsa, and Leopold Bloom “exist”? At once a classicist, medievalist, and scholar of modern literature, Eco astonishes above all when he considers the pleasures of enumeration. He shows that the humble list, the potentially endless series, enables us to glimpse the infinite and approach the ineffable. This “young novelist” is a master who has wise things to impart about the art of fiction and the power of words. Richard Ellman Lectures Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. 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