Encyclopedia of Human Development
Ed. by Neil J. Salkind
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.
Call# REF HM626 .E53 2006

From Sage Publications:

“The field of human development focuses on the growth and development of the human being including physical, social, psychological, and emotional development. Under the broad umbrella of the term human development you find countless topics that range from charting the emotional attachment of an infant to his or her parents and its long-term effects on well-being, media violence and adolescents’ behavior, or factors moderating the natural decline in physical and mental abilities associated with aging.

The Encyclopedia of Human Development is the first comprehensive, authoritative, and informative reference work that presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts from the fields of psychology, individual and family studies, and education in a way that is not too technical. With more than 600 entries, this three-volume Encyclopedia covers topics as diverse as adolescence, cognitive development, education, family, gender differences, identity, longitudinal research, personality development, prenatal development, temperament, and more.

Key Features

• Provides cross-disciplinary coverage, with contributions from experts in the fields of psychology, education, human development and family studies, and gerontology
• Highlights classic studies and theories and provides brief biographies of notable researchers and theorists
• Takes a lifespan approach by including several “anchor essays” that cover specific phases of development such as prenatal, infancy, childhood, adolescence, early and middle adulthood, later adulthood and aging
• Begins with an Introduction that details the scope, rationale, and audience for the work”

An Atlas of the Clinical Microbiology of Infectious Diseases (2 vol)
By Edward J. Bottone
London : Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Call# REF QR67 .B67 2006

From CRC Press Online:

Volume 1:
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• Presents diagnostic microbiology photographs of a range of bacterial agents augmented with many photographs of patients’ clinical presentation
• Provides a little pearl of additional knowledge with each illustration
• Includes coverage of newly described microbial agents and their identifying characteristics
• Draws on the expertise of a distinguished clinical microbiologist

Filled with highly instructional visual images, An Atlas of the Clinical Microbiology of Infectious Diseases, Volume 1: Bacterial Agents contains typical and atypical presentations and identifying characteristics of microorganisms, including newly described microbial agents, covering the breadth of clinical microbiology. The book presents more than 425 color photomicrographs harvested over the author’s 40-year career augmented by up-to-date text describing each microbial entity included and offering insightful comments on their clinical significance.”

Volume 2:
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• Presents clinical microbiology photographs of a range of bacterial, viral, parasitic, and fungal agents augmented with many photographs of patient presentation
• Provides visual images derived from an extensive personal collection of slides depicting the salient and unusual presentations of microorganisms encountered in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• Draws on the expertise of a distinguished clinical microbiologist
• Includes coverage of newly described microbial agents and their identifying characteristics

An Atlas of the Clinical Microbiology of Infectious Diseases, Volume Two: Viral, Fungal, and Parasitic Agents is the second of a series and partner to Volume One, which deals with Microbiological and Clinical Attributes. Filled with highly instructional visual images, this atlas covers typical and atypical presentations of viral, fungal and parasitic agents and offers insightful comments aiding their identification and clinical significance. Drawing on the expertise of a distinguished clinical microbiologist, it presents more than 240 colored photomicrographs derived from an extensive personal collection of slides depicting the salient and unusual presentations of microorganisms.”

Microbiological analysis of red meat, poultry and eggs
by G. C. Mead
Cambridge : Woodhead, 2007.
Call# QR117 .M524 2007

From Woodhead Publishing:

“- reviews key issues in food microbiology
- discusses key aspects of microbiological analysis such as sampling methods, detection and enumeration of pathogens
- includes chapters on the validation on analytical methods and quality assurance in the laboratory
- written by a team of international experts

Red meat, poultry and eggs are, or have been, major global causes of foodborne disease in humans and are also prone to microbiological growth and spoilage. Consequently, monitoring the safety and quality of these products remains a primary concern. Microbiological analysis is an established tool in controlling the safety and quality of foods. Recent advances in preventative and risk-based approaches to food safety control have reinforced the role of microbiological testing of foods in food safety management.

In a series of chapters written by international experts, the key aspects of microbiological analysis, such as sampling methods, use of faecal indicators, current approaches to testing of foods, detection and enumeration of pathogens and microbial identification techniques, are described and discussed. Attention is also given to the validation of analytical methods and Quality Assurance in the laboratory. Because of their present importance to the food industry, additional chapters on current and developing legislation in the European Union and the significance of Escherichia coli 0157 and other VTEC are included.

Written by a team of international experts, Microbiological analysis of red meat, poultry and eggs is certain to become a standard reference in the important area of food microbiology.”

The health of sexual minorities : public health perspectives on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations
by Ilan H. Meyer
New York : Springer, 2007.
Call# HV1449 .H42 2007

From Springer.com:

“This is the first concise handbook on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) health in the past few years. It breaks the myths, breaks the silence, and breaks new ground on this subject. This resource offers a multidimensional picture of LGBT health across clinical and social disciplines to give readers a full and nuanced understanding of these diverse populations. It contains real-world matters of definition and self-definition, meticulous analyses of stressor and health outcomes, a extensive coverage of research methodology concerns, and critical insights into the sociopolitical context of LGBT individuals’ health and lives.”

Culturing life : how cells became technologies
by Hannah Landecker
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
Call# QH585.2 .L36 2007

From Harvard University Press:

” How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker’s book. She shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such central questions of the human condition as individuality, hybridity, and even immortality and asks what it means that we can remove cells from the spatial and temporal constraints of the body and “harness them to human intention.”

Rather than focus on single discrete biotechnologies and their stories–embryonic stem cells, transgenic animals–Landecker documents and explores the wider genre of technique behind artificial forms of cellular life. She traces the lab culture common to all those stories, asking where it came from and what it means to our understanding of life, technology, and the increasingly blurry boundary between them. The technical culture of cells has transformed the meaning of the term “biological,” as life becomes disembodied, distributed widely in space and time. Once we have a more specific grasp on how altering biology changes what it is to be biological, Landecker argues, we may be more prepared to answer the social questions that biotechnology is raising.”

arXiv is an archive of full text journal articles in the areas of physics, mathematics, and computer science.

The mathematics arXiv was formed from a number of smaller mathematical archives, with some in the arXiv system and some elsewhere, at the beginning of 1998. The system as a whole has over 200,000 articles in physics, over 20,000 in mathematics, and over 2,000 in computer science. The ultimate goal is to distribute all new research literature in all three disciplines worldwide, to store it permanently, and to keep it freely available.