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Author: Aurora Wallace Publisher: University of Illinois Press Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This book is about the history of New York City as the media and communications capital of the United States, signified by the construction of numerous large buildings starting from the 1830s. The study of such ‘media architecture’ and the people who owned the media organizations that wanted construct the edifices is the focus of this book. Many large news organizations in the past owned large or tall buildings in New York City. As part of newspaper rivalry, it was the media moguls’ way of asserting...

Author: Duana Fullwiley Publisher: Princeton University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar According to Wikipedia, the prevalence of sickle cell disease – wherein the red blood cells become abnormally shaped like crescents instead of their normal round shape – is highest in West Africa. About 25 percent or one of every four people in that part of the world may be afflicted with sickle cell anemia. This region includes Senegal with a 2012 population of some 12,855,000 people. If we were to use the 25 percent figure, we come up with some 3.2 million Senegalese afflicted with sickle cell...

Author: Kathleen Desmond Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Book Review by: Laxmi Chaandi On page 34 of this book is a narrative that takes us to the heart of this question: what is art? Because the reactions to a picture or an object can vary greatly – ranging from one person calling it “beautiful” all the way to the other extreme, a person calling it “garbage” – it is difficult (at least for the non-artist) to objectively state what art is. On that page, the story is told of an artist walking on the beach of a small town who encounters there...

Author: Frank Heppner Publisher: Jossey-Bass, an Imprint of Wiley Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram When the first edition of this book was published in 2007, the author Frank Heppner had already logged 38 years of experience teaching large college classes. He had completed more than 40 years of work as a professor when he retired in 2010. What are large college classes? Typically they are introductory courses with around 1,000 students or so conducted in auditoriums or lecture halls that most freshmen have to take before they get into courses relating to their major. Frank Heppner writes that in...

Author: Luke Hunter Illustrated by: Priscilla Barrett Publisher: Princeton University Press Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar Many of us learned in our high school biology courses that living things belong to either the animal or the plant kingdom. You may also recall classification of these kingdoms into phylum, class and order, and further breakdown into family, genus and species. Well, carnivores belong to the order Carnivora and there are 245 terrestrial species of them, belonging to 13 specific families: bears; cats; civets, along with genets and oyans; the African palm civet; dogs; fosa and allies; hyenas; linsangs; mongooses; raccoons;...