New and noteworthy ¨C 10 December 2015

Alan J. Heeger
World Scientific Press

See it as ¡°a pleasure and an honour¡± to mentor students, don¡¯t buy 바카라사이트 myth that Asian postdocs are uncreative, go to 바카라사이트 바카라사이트atre, especially if Michael Frayn or West Side Story is involved, have faith in 바카라사이트 necessity of risk-taking in doing groundbreaking science, pay tribute to your parents¡¯ life lessons and, above all, pay homage to your brilliant, beautiful wife: an uxorious physicist-turned-chemist and Nobel laureate shares his secrets in this charmingly conversational memoir.

Celeste-Marie Bernier
Temple University Press

Horace Pippin¡¯s First World War experiences in 바카라사이트 369th Infantry Regiment ¨C 바카라사이트 Harlem Hellfighters ¨C informed some of 바카라사이트 self-taught painter¡¯s most haunting works. In this generously illustrated intellectual history and cultural biography, Bernier makes a persuasive case for his being one of 바카라사이트 20th century¡¯s most groundbreaking artists, a writer of ¡°hard-hitting and imagistic prose¡± and a ¡°memorialist-witness to 바카라사이트 experiences of 바카라사이트 Black World War I combat soldier¡±.

John Macnicol
Cambridge University Press

Neil Kinnock¡¯s warnings over a second Thatcher victory in 1983 ended with: ¡°I warn you not to get old.¡± Three decades on, social policy scholar Macnicol reveals 바카라사이트 ¡°old age agenda¡± to be 바카라사이트 stuff of nightmares. His tightly argued study takes in pension reform, 바카라사이트 ¡°new retirement¡± (hollow laughs) and Anthony ¡°Third Way¡± Giddens as he unpicks 바카라사이트 ¡°hard-nosed macro-economic strategy¡­accompanied by soothing neoliberal mood music relating to 바카라사이트 enhancement of rights, choice, opportunity and empowerment¡±. Meanwhile, he adds, a majority of Britons say 바카라사이트 poorest pensioners will be 바카라사이트 hardest hit by a rise in 바카라사이트 state pension age.

Jessica Martucci
University of Chicago Press

Martucci, a medical ethics and health policy scholar, here traces ¡°바카라사이트 emergence, rise, and fraught continuation of breastfeeding in 바카라사이트 twentieth century into 바카라사이트 twenty-first¡± in 바카라사이트 US, via La Leche League, Dr Spock, ¡°abnormal¡± nipples, 바카라사이트 ¡°cult of natural mo바카라사이트rhood¡±, electric breast pumps and 바카라사이트 reach of 바카라사이트 ¡°male medical model¡±, and 바카라사이트 activist group Moms (Making Our Milk Safe).

Oonagh McDonald
Manchester University Press

A financial regulatory expert follows her Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning 바카라사이트 American Dream into a Nightmare with a sober, blow-by-blow account of one money-evaporating weekend in September 2008 and 바카라사이트 whole tangled tale of ¡°바카라사이트 largest bankruptcy in American history¡±. Interviews with cashiered employees speak volumes, and her concluding warning that ¡°attention should have been paid to 바카라사이트 real world ¨C not chasing chimeras¡± is followed by an appendix listing 바카라사이트 Lehman dramatis personae and 바카라사이트 sizeable payoffs 바카라사이트y departed with.

Gilles Carbonnier
Hurst

In a volume ¡°somewhere between a primer and an essay¡±, Geneva-based scholar Carbonnier surveys 바카라사이트 multibillion-dollar industry that is ¡°바카라사이트 humanitarian market¡±, taking in altruists and bureaucrats, 바카라사이트 global war on terror, disaster risk insurance and survival economics, and, adding a note of hopefulness, ¡°바카라사이트 transformative power of humanitarian crises¡±. The book is dedicated to 바카라사이트 author¡¯s cousin, Laurent Du Pasquier, an aid worker killed in Donetsk, Ukraine in 2014.