ALTERNATIVE make important contributions to the PRESS PUBLISHERS field of multicultural literature by providing children with information and perspectives typically not found in books from corporate presses. This article profiles several alternative presses that currently publish for children and describes the nature of the literature each publishes. Particular attention is given to independent...

A simple nanoimprinting method creates arrays of ferroelectric polymer structures suitable for low-cost, non-volatile memories. With the development of nanoimprinted high-quality ferroelectric nanomesa arrays, it seems that we now have all the necessary ingredients to print inexpensive, disposable organic memory chips. Figure 1. The nanoimprinting method and the two ways it can be used in non-v...

So carried away was I in my last book review by a cadre of his book on its that I and his beat in the Aegean with his materials Handbook, a concise and desktop reference also although not so captivating as the earlier book, no doubt because it lends itself is readily to a sitting duck missions, that he has handled issues for an error but completion. Balls of it consists of separate chapters on ...

This paper analyzes U.S. university press datasets (2001-2007) to determine net publishers’ revenues and net publishers’ units, the major markets and channels of distribution (libraries and institutions; college adoptions; and general retailer sales) that these presses relied on, and the intense competition these presses confronted from commercial scholarly, trade, and college textbook publishe...

David S. Nolen is Assistant Professor and Assistant Editor/Reference Librarian in the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library/Congressional and Political Research Center, Mississippi State University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2014 David S. Nolen, Attribution-NonCommercial (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC This study examined references found in thre...

International discussion on university presses appears to be dominated by Anglo-American concepts and concerns, passing over many continental European presses that operate in their national contexts. In our article, we provide a case study of Germanlanguage university presses that highlights challenges and opportunities when publishing in languages other than English. A common thread across tho...

Rats undergoing extinction of lever-pressing for food after the attenuation of an external feedback for this behavior, exhibit excessive lever-pressing unaccompanied by an attempt to collect a reward, which may be analogous to the excessive and unreasonable behavior seen in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Given that one of the most salient features of OCD is its selective response to treat...

Compaction simulators are designed as machines which can provide an in-depth analysis of the powder compaction process. Characterization compression and process, well material characterization, play important role in formulation manufacturing process design development, creating a strong knowledge basis for scale-up tablet troubleshooting further stages product lifecycle. Although to simulate o...

In the past few five years, academic presses are publishing books advocating decriminalization of prostitution, policy prescription buttressed by attempts to minimize harm sex trade industry as well sex-trafficking. This review essay explores presses’ eager embracing this approach, reasons for it, and effects their publications on violence against women. These include silencing survivors’ voice...