New Arrivals

The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students, by Jessica Minahan (Behavior Analyst) & Nancy Rappaport, MD (Child Psychiatrist) from Harvard Education Press (2012), divulges ways to both analyze problem behavior and help students head in the right direction to succeed academically. The book also provides worksheets and resources. (Call Number: LB3031.M56 2012

Ready, Willing and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success, by Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne M. Bouffard, from Harvard Education Press (2012). The authors go beyond the usual college and work preparation skills for students, such as improving reading comprehension and test taking skills, to instead focus on “the missing piece: supporting adolescent development.” (Book jacket)   (Call Number: LB1620.5.S27 2012)

Schooling in the Workplace: How Six of the World’s Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life, by Nancy Hoffman from Harvard Education Press (2011).  The author researched vocational educational programs in six countries, prompted by urgency to adapt practical approaches to learning that would prepare youth in developing the necessary 21^st Century skills for the workplace and their lives.(Call Number: LC1081.H64 2011)

HEALTH/MEDICINE

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, by David Quammen from W.W. Norton & Company (2012). “A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field—netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo—with the world’s leading disease scientists. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?” (From the publisher’s website).(Call Number: RA639.Q83 2012)

The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health, by T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell and Howard Lyman from BenBella Books (2006). “The China Study is part diet, part medical study…this exhaustive presentation of the findings from The China Study conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Referred to as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” by the New York Times, this study reveals the dramatic effect proper nutrition can have on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity and calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the western world.” (From the publisher’s website)  (Call Number: Amer Corner-General RA784 .C235 2005; also available as an e-book)