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The Daily Beast Features Christine Hartmann / SO FAR AWAY
Christine Hartmann, author of SO FAR AWAY: A Daughter's Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love, has written a piece for The Daily Beast about her mother's lifelong mission: suicide at age 70. Read it here.
LA Times Op-Ed, Jack Schneider
Jack Schneider, author of EXCELLENCE FOR ALL: How a New Breed of Reformers Is Transforming America's Public Schools, has a new op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, "Gutsy--But Not Always Right," in which he asserts that American politicians who go with their gut instincts aren't doing the hard work. Read it here. And for more about the book, click here.
Sana Loue on "The Jordan Journal"
Sana Loue, author of “My Nerves Are Bad”: Puerto Rican Women Managing Mental Illness and HIV Risk will be a guest on “The Journal Journal” hosted by Howard Jordan Friday, August 26, 3:00-4:00 pm Eastern (and archived for later listening)
Tune in to Pacifica Radio WBAI 99.5 FM, New York -- or listen online at WBAI http://stream.wbai.org/
Learn more about the long-running radio show “The Jordan Journal” and educator, attorney, journalist, and political activist Howard Jordan at http://howardjordan.net
A Library Journal "Best Consumer Health Book" of 2010
Library Journal has selected A LIFE OF CONTROL: STORIES OF LIVING WITH DIABETES as one of its Best Consumer Health Books of 2010.
“These books reflect developments in personalized medicine, controversies in the pharmaceutical industry, and the crisis of American health care. From incisive how-to guides to thought-provoking treatises, readers get the full picture of the year's outstanding literature,” Library Journal Book Review Editor Heather McCormick said.
Congratulations to authors Alan Graber MD, Anne Brown RN MSN, and Kathleen Wolffe RN MSN. Alan L. Graber is an endocrinologist; Anne W. Brown and Kathleen Wolff are certified diabetes nurse practitioners. In 1986, while in private practice, the authors organized one of the first Outpatient Diabetes Education Programs in the country recognized by the American Diabetes Association. They later worked together for many years at the Vanderbilt Eskind Diabetes Center.
Author Robert E. Cummmings to receive the MLA's Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize
Congratulations to our author, Robert Cummings, whose book Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia, has won the MLA's Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.
The committee's citation for the winning book reads:
With Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia, Robert E. Cummings ventures critically, open-mindedly, and thoughtfully into a new frontier. Cummings provides a sophisticated and original grounding of Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP) in economic theory, rhetoric, and information technology before offering it as a practice and model for writing classrooms. In taking a non-market-based perspective on the notion of laziness and defining it instead in terms of CBPP and networked writing, Cummings presents a new way of thinking about textual ownership, production, collaboration, and assessment. Cummings provides authentic ways of using Wikipedia to make student writing matter to them and others. For those who value such a collaborative platform and students' rights to a traditional liberal arts education but are insecure with new technology, this book offers clear pedagogical grounding in theory, history, and tradition-and then gives practical collegial help.
This is exciting news for a deserving project.
THEY CAME TO NASHVILLE Book Trailer
We've long thought that anyone who spent even five minutes with Marshall Chapman would be excited about reading anything she wrote.
With the aid of her new book trailer, now you can hang out--virtually--with Marshall as she tells Nashville tourists about her book. Watch it and delight in a true character and storyteller.
Slate.com Names WILLING AND UNABLE "Book of the Week"
Books in the News
Vanderbilt Titles Featured in ALA Panel and FDL Book Salon
THE GHOSTS OF HARLEM: Sessions with Jazz Legends by Hank O'Neal was cited as an Outstanding University Press for Public Libraries and was presented at a "Best of the Best" panel at the American Library Association Annual Meeting in June. C-Span broadcast the panel and the program can be seen at the C-Span website: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294276-1
SEEDS OF CHANGE: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group by John Atlas will be the subject of the Firedoglake.com Book Salon on August 15. Join the discussion here.
Check Out the New Fall/Winter 2010 Catalog Before Anyone Else!
It's not even back from the printer, but you can get the first look at the books in our our new Fall/Winter 2010 catalog here on the website.
The catalog features local Nashville photographer Chris Wage's work on the cover. That's the corner of 5th and Broadway, looking down towards the river.
PLAYING THE CHANGES Wins ARSC Award
We're very proud that Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs has receved a 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
A list of all winners can be viewed here.
