While mental health figured prominently in the writings of classical sociologists, contemporary sociologists often view research on mental health as peripheral to the "real work" of the discipline. The essays in this volume reassert the centrality of research in mental health to sociology.

Scientific American, June 2007
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Breaking Network Logjams. Network coding could dramatically enhance the efficiency of communications networks.
PARTICLE COSMOLOGY When Fields Collide. The history of particle cosmology shows that science can benefit from wrenching changes
INNOVATIONS Seeing Triple. Anticipated for decades, machines are finally displaying real objects in three true dimensions
MEDICINE Lifting the Fog around Anesthesia. Learning why current anesthetics are so potent and sometimes dangerous will lead to a new generation of safer targeted drugs.
BIOLOGY A Simpler Origin for Life. Energy-driven networks of small molecules may be more likely first steps for life than the commonly held idea of the sudden emergence of large self-replicating molecules such as RNA.
ECOSYSTEMS Restoring America's Big, Wild Animals. Pleistocene rewilding--a proposal to bring back animals that disappeared from North America 13,000 years ago--offers an optimistic agenda for 21st-century conservation.

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Scientific American's The Memory Code - July 2007
Researchers are closing in on the rules that the brain uses to lay down memories. Discovery of this memory code could lead to new ways to peer into the mind.
Anyone who has ever been in an earthquake has vivid memories of it: the ground shakes, trembles, buckles and heaves; the air fills with sounds of rumbling, cracking and shattering glass; cabinets fly open; books, dishes and knickknacks tumble from shelves. We remember such episodes--with striking clarity and for years afterward--because that is what our brains evolved to do: extract information from salient events and use that knowledge to guide our responses to similar situations in the future. This ability to learn from past experience allows all animals to adapt to a world that is complex and ever changing.

The Elephants of Style: A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
Очень занятная книга по американскому правописанию, пунктуации - как правильно писать на американском.

Advice on good writing from everybody's favorite editorial curmudgeon
Persnickety, cantankerous, opinionated, entertaining, hilarious, wise...these are a few of the adjectives reviewers used to describe good-writing maven Bill Walsh's previous book, Lapsing Into a Comma. Now, picking up where he left off in Lapsing, Walsh addresses the dozen or so biggest issues that every writer or editor must master. He also offers a trunkload of good advice on the many little things that add up to good writing. Featuring all the elements that made Lapsing such a fun read, including Walsh's trademark acerbic wit and fascinating digressions on language and its discontents, The Elephants of Style provides:

Encyclopedia of the Great Depression -
Volume 1 - 2

by Robert S McElvaine;  Gale Group.

 

There are 542 articles in the Encyclopedia of the Great Depression arranged alphabetically for easy reference. The articles range in length from 300 to 5,000 words. Entries are written by 270 scholars from around the world, active researchers in history, American studies, economics, social science, geography, political science, radio and television, literature, and music. Each signed article features several carefully chosen cross-references to related entries as well as a bibliography of print and internet resources. A topical outline appears in Volume I, just after the alphabetical article list. It groups articles by broad categories, thereby offering teachers and readers alike an informed map of the field. A comprehensive index offers yet another entry point for the set, encouraging readers to explore the information contained in these two volumes.

Volume 2 added

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