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Implicit negation is easy to miss

By Edwin L. Battistella
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Endless trouble with breeches

By Anatoly Liberman
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Americana: enter hillbilly. Moby Dick follows

By Anatoly Liberman
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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 […]

Books and Buddies

It was a typical law school classroom, long desks, stadium style seating, a whiteboard and a podium in the front, but this was far from a typical class. In fact, it was not a class at all. It was Books and Buddies, a program at the University of Miami School of Law that pairs law […]

The ABC’s of GBS: Part 2
Got Discoverability? Now what?

Consumer choice and publisher dilemma in the era of Google Book Search.

Friday procrastination: link love – guns, gambling and gaffs

There are so many great posts showing up in my bloglines today I had to share some of them! Check these tidbits out.

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.