Ilakaka, Madagascar
Ben’s place of the week is Ilakaka, Madagascar.
A Very Merry Unblogday to You
Get ready for book club discussion day!
National Autism Awareness Month: Stress and Coping
Autism confounds researchers but one way of understanding it is to look through the lense of stress and coping.
National Autism Awareness Month: Helping Children With Autism Learn
Helping Children With Autism Learn: Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals, by Bryna Siegel, is a practical guide to treating the learning differences associated with Autism. Siegel, the Director of the Autism Clinic at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, gives practical guidance for fashioning a unique program for each child’s problem, effectively empowering families. In the excerpt below Siegel explains how to help verbal children use their words.
National Poetry Month: Fashioning Keys For Freedom
An essay for National Poetry Month.
National Poetry Month: An Untitled Poem
We are pleased to bring you another poem by Noah Levin (an OUP employee also!) Feast your eyes below. by Noah Levin
National Poetry Month: A Video
A video for Poetry Month.
National Poetry Month: POEM FOR THE OUP
A poem for Poetry Month by King Otho.
Happy Birthday to The Simpsons!
I’ve been a vegetarian for over a decade and inevitably, when I meet someone new, they end up asking me questions. How and why did I stop eating meat? Do I miss it? Do I cheat? Long ago I stopped telling them the real story (which is dreadfully boring) and started recounting the scene below […]
The ABC’s of GBS: Part 2
Got Discoverability? Now what?
Consumer choice and publisher dilemma in the era of Google Book Search.
Hamlet and Other Lads and Lasses:
Or, From Rags to Riches
Anatoly’s weekly column.
James McCune Smith
John Stauffer, the editor of The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist, has organized McCune Smith’s writings around genre and chronology. Stauffer, along with three other distinguished historians will discuss Smith’s life, work, and legacy at The New York Historical Society.
Brave New Words: Expletives & Profanity
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction is edited by Jeff Prucher. Prucher’s entertaining entries are a window to the entire science fiction genre, through the words invented and passed along throughout the years.
Memory and Birds
Earlier today we mentioned that last week, Nobel-prize winning scientist Eric Kandel wrote about the five most unforgettable books on memory for The Wall Street Journal. One of the titles in the article was Memory From A to Z by Yadin Dudai. Below is an entry excerpt from the book.
Facing The Digital Reality
Evan Schnittman wrote an article for Publishing News last week entitled “Facing The Digital Reality.”
An Honor For Memory
Today we will look more closely at two of these titles, Memory and Brain by Larry R. Squire and Memory From A to Z by Yadin Dudai. Below is an excerpt from the beginnin of Memory and Brain. Check back later today to learn more about Memory From A to Z.