Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science MatterMost scientists and researchers aren’t prepared to talk to the press or to policymakers—or to deal with backlash. Many researchers have the horror stories to prove it. What’s clear, according to Nancy Baron, is that scientists, journalists and public policymakers come from different cultures. They follow different sets of rules, pursue different goals, and speak their own language. To effectively reach journalists and public officials, scientists need to learn new skills and rules of engagement. The keys to success are clear thinking, knowing what you want to say, understanding your audience, and using everyday language to get your main points across.

The Babe and the Baron

When her husband dies, Lady Laura Chamberlain is left without a spouse, without means and with a child. Her unlikely savior is the bachelor, Lord Wyckham, who deems it his duty to protect his cousin's widow. But when he takes note of Laura's winsome charms, he begins experiencing tender feelings for her. Could he be falling in love? A Regency romance original.

Dark Side of the Street

Someone is breaking Britain's most notorious criminals out of jail. His code name is the Baron, and the only way to stop him is to put an operative inside prison walls--and let the Baron get him out. From the author of On Deadly Ground.

Italo Calvino (Bloom's Major Short Story Writers)

It is difficult to find a modern author writing in Italian more revered than Italo Calvino. Most critics choose to view his fantasies not as escapes from reality but as alternate ways to perceive it. Works studied in this text include Invisible Cities, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, and The Nonexistent Knight.