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Zami A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography Used at University of California Santa Barbara
Zami A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography by Audre Lorde is being used in a Feminist Studies Course, Women, Representation, and Cultural Production, Spring 2010.University of California Santa Barbara.
“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.”—Off Our Backs
Audre Lorde is also the author of Sister Outsider: Essays & Speechs. For more information on Lorde’s books, visit http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart
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Add comment March 3, 2010
FREE Advance Reader’s Copy Available for Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
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FREE Advance Reader’s Copy* Available for Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky (*while supplies last). Email: rhacademic@randomhouse.com
Coming in April 2010, this indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, is based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour. A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallace’s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer—of being young generally—trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with and—as he tells it—what it was like to become David Foster Wallace.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Adopted at Sweet Briar College and California State University Los Angeles
**Book is being used in several classes at Sweet Briar College in Virginia and California State University Los Angeles in the Spring 2010 semester
In 1951, an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks, stricken with cervical cancer, became an involuntary donor of cells from her cancerous tumor, which were propagated by scientist George Otto Gey to create an immortal cell line for medical research. These cells are now known worldwide as HeLa. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, award-winning science writer Rebecca Skloot brilliantly weaves together the Lacks’s story–past and present–with the story of the birth of bioethics, the story of HeLa cells, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans. Important, powerful, and compassionate, this is a remarkable work of science and social journalism.
“The Immoral Life of Henrietta Lacks is an ideal book for classroom discussions in bioethics, history of science, and science journalism. Author Rebecca Skloot does an exceptional job of raising critical issues that should encourage both scholars and students to reevaluate the research decision making process, the way research subjects are treated, and the balance of power in this country as determined by race, economics, and even education. An incredibly readable and smart text that should be a part of countless university discussions.” — Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, and Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“This book not only describes the enormous contributions of Henrietta Lacks, her family and the many physicians and scientists to the history of science – it humanizes their contributions. In this way the public owes a debt to Rebecca Skloot for explaining science and its ethical issues in a way that should enlighten and inform. In my mind, she’s written the perfect bioethics book.”– Eric M. Meslin, Ph.D. Director, Indiana University Center for Bioethics
“Deftly weaving together history, journalism and biography, Rebecca Skloot’s sensitive account tells of the enduring, deeply personal sacrifice of this African American woman and her family…A stunning illustration of how race, gender and disease intersect to produce a unique form of social vulnerability, this is a poignant, necessary, and brilliant book.”—Alondra Nelson, associate professor of sociology, Columbia University
Science journalist and author Rebecca Skloot will be the “Lunch With an Author” session at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) conference on Saturday, March 6, 2010 and also “Author Meets the Critics” session on Saturday, March 6, 2010, 4-5:30pm. For more details, visit the APPE website at http://www.indiana.edu/~appe
Author website: rebeccaskloot.com/
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For Booklist’s Story Behind the Story: Rebecca Skloot’s Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks go to: http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=3886330
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Now FREE Exam Copy Offer to Professors Make the Impossible Possible Chosen for 2009–2010 Common Freshman Reader at IUP and Winthrop University
NOTE: Now FREE Exam Copy Offer to Professors. Email LELEE@randomhouse.com for a free examination copy.
Bill Strickland’s Make the Impossible Possible: One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary has been selected as Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Common Freshman Reader for 2009–2010.
The book was selected by a panel of faculty and staff at IUP. To qualify, a book must relevant to today’s students, offer interdisciplinary appeal, and provide opportunities for additional and diverse programming.
From the Ghetto to Harvard Business School…Make the Impossible Possible is Strickland’s personal story. It has been positively reviewed by many publications, including Publisher’s Weekly, which says: “It’s the American dream with a twist: for Strickland, it was never about shedding his past and getting ahead but about following his bliss and making a difference.”
Strickland is president and CEO, Manchester Bidwell Corporation and its subsidiaries, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, and Bidwell Training Center.
And in the news…. Harvard Business School Selects Bill Strickland and Bidwell Training Center for a Fourth Case Study. Go to
http://www.bill-strickland.org/BeckhamMedia-BillStricklandHarvardCaseStudy.html
Special Note: Award-winning journalist María Hinojosa interviews America’s foremost artists, writers, activists, and civic leaders in the new fourth season of María Hinojosa: One-on-One. Bill Strickland interview airs in January, nationwide. Link to interview: http://wwe.wgbh.org/programs/programDetail.cfm?programid=12
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http://www.bill-strickland.org/
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Add comment November 8, 2009
Boston College’s Sociology Dept is Using The Translator as a Primer for its course named “African World Perspective” this fall
Boston College’s Sociology Dept is using The Translator: A Memoir for its course named “African World Perspective” this fall. In 2003, Daoud Hari, a Zaghawa tribesman in northern Darfur, fled his village, which was under attack by Sudanese militiamen. Here is Daoud’s harrowing and life-changing, eyewitness account of the brutal genocide in the Sudan.
Zine Magubane, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston College says “I chose this book because The Translator offers American students a superb opportunity to hear about the realities of the Darfur situation through the voice of an African person. The book is both an excellent primer on the political situation in Darfur and a deeply moving personal story that gives students a sophisticated, yet accessible, view into the Darfur conflict.”
We are pleased to say The Translator is also a book pick by Colorado Mountain College and Mars Hill College for First-Year Experience.
Website: www.SaveDarfur.org
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Add comment September 9, 2009
Hungry Planet Book Selection at University of Tennessee
For the Fall 2009 semester, Hungry Planet, published by Ten Speed Press, is the book of choice at the University of Tennessee. Course Name: Geography 101. The book is by cultural geographers and award-winning authors Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. What is your favorite food? For a fascinating and informative look at the foods consumed around the world, go to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5005952
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Add comment August 25, 2009
