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Great Apes & Humans: The Ethics of Coexistence
Tara
S. Stoinski, J91, Benjamin B. Beck et al., editors
Smithsonian institution press
The great apes—gorillas,
chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans—are known to
be our closest living relatives. The relation of apes
to humans raises important ethical questions. Are they
better protected in the wild or in zoos? Should they be
used in biomedical research? Should they be afforded the
same legal protections as humans? The editors, including
Stoinski, a coordinator at the primate research tech lab
at the Atlanta Zoo, present a spectrum of viewpoints on
human responsibilities toward great apes. They discuss
the declining numbers of wild apes and explore the role
of apes in the educational missions of zoos as well as
the need for sanctuaries for wild ape orphans and former
research subjects. |
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The Chopsticks–Fork Principle:
A Memoir and Manual
Cathy
Bao Bean, J64
We press
Bean, a writer and advocate for
the NJ Council for the Humanities, tells the story of
how she, a former Chinese Confucian philosophy professor,
and her husband, the American artist Bennett Bean, raised
their son to be “at least bicultural.” The
various eccentricities of the couple (when her husband
designs a kitchen, he neglects to include a stove) leave
their son, William, rebelling against his hippie parents
(he dresses up like his father on Halloween). As a Chinese
immigrant living in an area of New Jersey where there
were fewer Chinese people than Canada geese, Bean learned
how to be herself as well as raise a son whose father
painted the lawn. |
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Star Trek Star Charts: The Complete
Atlas of Star Trek
Geoffrey Mandel, A80
pocket books
Ever wondered just where the kingdom
Homeworld is? Or how close it is to Earth? Mandel, a writer
and graphic artist, has created a definitive guide to
the Star Trek worlds and their stars. From Qo’noS
to Bajor, from Vulcan to the farthest reaches of the Delta
Quadrant, his full-color star charts reveal the location
of every major Star Trek world and star system, as well
as the routes of each of the ships featured in the Star
Trek series, from Archer’s Enterprise to Janeway’s
Voyager to the latest Star Trek movie, Star Trek: Nemesis.
Includes 96 pages of full-color star charts and four gatefold
maps of the United Federation of Planets. |
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Dramatizing Greek Mythology
Louise Thistle, J63
smith and kraus
Thistle, an author and teacher,
offers a way for young people to develop their acting
and speaking skills as well as their appreciation of classic
literature. Written for teachers and recreational leaders
with varying degrees of dramatic arts experience, the
book includes plays suitable for students of all academic
backgrounds and English language learners. The book contains
five Greek myths dramatized to give everyone in a class
of up to 35 students significant roles and to integrate
dramatization with the study of Greek mythology. |
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Tell Joshua: The Wars of the
Judges
Sue Sandidge, G73
Xlibris Corporation
Sandidge tells the saga of how
Joshua led a landless nation in a five-year battle to
gain a homeland in Canaan and how the leaders that followed
him, known as the judges, fought to keep it. Living 3,000
years ago at the dawn of the Iron Age in a violent and
superstitious land, Joshua and the judges struggled to
protect their people and to keep faith with God. From
the saga of Samson to the military strategies of Joshua
and Gideon to the story of the spiritual leadership of
Samuel, the last judge, Tell Joshua recounts often overlooked
chapters of the Old Testament. |
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All the Math You Need to Get
Rich: Thinking with Numbers for Financial Success
Robert L. Hershey, E63
open court
publishing company
Most people who are independently
weathly are not born rich; they got that way by working,
saving and investing. Hershey, an engineering and management
consultant, shows how wise financial decisions require
familiarity with the simple math techniques provided in
the book. You can trust your calculator to do the tedious
work without any mistakes, he writes, but you have to
know how to tell your calculator what to do—how
to set up the problems for your calculator to solve. Hershey
explains percentages, simple probabilities, scientific
notation, interest rates and trade-offs, and includes
70 practical problems, fully worked out with everything
explained. |
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Hospice or Hemlock: Searching
for Heroic Compassion
Constance E. Putnam, G99
praeger publishers
End-of-life decision making is
often viewed from an academic perspective, which can obscure
the debate’s central human concerns. Putnam, an
independent scholar and writer, has written a guide that
introduces general readers to people with personal stakes
in the right-to-die conundrum, providing practical assistance
to readers and their loved ones, while simultaneously
incorporating the abstract and theoretical analysis essential
to examining how we die in contemporary Western society. |
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Visiting Scholar, Geoffrey Isherwood:
A Reader for Educational Leaders
Judith C. Isherwood and Patrick
A. Baker, editors
shoreline
When Geoffrey Isherwood, E58, a
professor at McGill University, died in 1998, he left
behind an unfinished manuscript—the story of his
career as an educator. Former students and colleagues
were invited to contribute personal narratives about Isherwood
and their own careers to complete the manuscript. Now
published, the book is a tribute to a man who left life
too early and an inspiration to teachers who wish to tell
their story about the impact they have on their students. |
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FACULTY
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary
Approach
Jonathan M. Harris
Houghton Mifflin
Environmental problems and their local, national and global
solutions have taken on ever-increasing importance in
today’s world. Economic analysis of environmental
problems is essential, but economic perspectives must
be complemented by an understanding of the principles
of ecological systems. Harris, the director of the theory
and education program of the Global Development and Environment
Institute at Tufts, offers an introduction to the broad
perspective of ecological economics together with standard
economic theory. The text covers traditional environmental
economics topics, including the microeconomic analysis
of resources and issues of resource allocation while presenting
an ecological perspective within a global context. |
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