ideologist steady this they consider the disaster zone if you get 10 centimeters or more of ash in your area. that would have it in a pretty wide area around the neighboring four or five states. if you get a lot of cash it is very polluting. rivers. difficulty with crops they would be wrecked for that year. in there would be a very expensive cleanup. it would just be infrastructure destruction and crop destruction. and it is possible global temperatures might go down a tiny bit. the rise of similar eruption

in 1912 in indonesia with the super volcano just a tiny bit. that but the lowering of the temperature may last two or three or four years. it is like a baby volcano i don't mean to downplay but it would not hurt all of america or have law in seattle which is how i imagined it. and it would not happen that way but that volcano could erupt any time. not likely. so let's end with that happy thoughts. [applause]

>> good afternoon. we'll come to the best of the best from the university presses. my name is kim miller i am the marketing and membership coordinator at the association of american university presses. a cooperative nonprofit organization that promotes the work of influence said university of scholarly press is. we provide cooperative marketing and efforts to the members and we help them to respond to publishing changing environments. the aaup has a membership of

over 130 member prices. in the interest of time i strongly encourage everyone to visit the tea to website at aaupaep.org date defined information about the work we do including november 10 through the 16th, 2013. today for members of the university press books committee will each present titles that they feel to be the best of the best from the titles they reviewed of the 23rd edition of the university press books for secondary school libraries which is the bibliography you having your hand right now. from florentine at the dawn of the renaissance to the

warriors of the planes you are sure to see something in this presentation that exemplifies the wide range of disciplines that the scholarly press publishers have to offer. there are additional print copies of this publication here at this session as well as big number 2325 in the exhibit hall. at the end of the presentation with the attendees will be selected to win the book raffle. each will give a predetermined set of four or five of the 13 titles presented today. if you haven't already please put a card with your name and contact information including e-mail address in the back of the room. since this is being taped, i would like to ask to please silence your phones are anything else that you have.

also, if you need to leave the room please do so without crossing the camera's view. last, but not least thinking to the ladies of the panel who have taken time out of their busy schedule to prepare these presentations. our first speaker is from the blind public library. thank you for coming. >> thank you very much for the introduction and it is a pleasure for all of us to work with you throughout the year as we select books to find out our subject areas then to have a wonderful time and then to write reviews.

i am very glad but my first book is the dawn of the renaissance it weighed 6 pounds and was published to coincide with the getty museum but is not just the exhibit catalog became scott the essays in the area in which they worked. florence in 1300 was the happiest date in which it has ever been. great is the ability and moved between then in 1300 the city -- inside -- size due to entrepreneurship banded 1330 there were more than 200 workshops in the production of other luxury goods. they employed a skilled clap

-- craftsmen in the guild ran into a republican -- a public commune and all the factors combined would produce some of the finest are in western civilization on a grand scale very large paintings and frescoes and on a small-scale committee eliminated manuscripts. on page 38 through 39 is a double page from the -- christ in throned is on the left in the virgin mary on the right they would enjoy a the interwoven text and illustrations. on page 95 it is a snippet from a larger page. the small illustrations are very appealing and it you can see the individual characteristics.

the use heranciscan friars and singing from the bible. one section is devoted to a shopkeepers' trader and artisan to become available in civil life there perform charitable words -- quirk the hymns were compiled in a song book and this one is splendid. believes of the manuscript were long ago disassembled to find 28 of them to different collections to bring them back together for the first time in several hundred years. page 216 if you look at these graphic novels, this is a close-up of the illustration the archangel

battling satan in the form of a dragon from revelation in 12th :for. just look at the dark demons' summer derived from animals monkeys rams and owl and the lion and others are monsters. page 246 shows the amnesty throne and you can see part of the music that they sang. the final part of the book is called a technical studies i found it passing it is analysis of how our was made from the separation of the vellum to the chemical composition of the sketches and the paint and on page 346 you can see the lines underneath the lines

of text. this is a cross-section it is a technical description to show the upper paint colors only and a non original varnish is present so it is amazing what they do beyond analyzing the contents of the pitchers that they also looked at how the pictures were put together. who would like the book? those interested in is on its history with culture and the friends of art in those interested in the history books and printing most of the books that i get to review i donate to my library. but this one i said immediately i get to keep

this one because this is one for me. is canadian full-court. i was so excited to get this. last year i got to review a comprehensive full-court now go to the canadians it includes a genres and techniques it is easy to know what is the sometimes hard to state it draws a grand jury and objects of everyday life they cannot be signed to a historical period or a site specific culture. albert said a big of myself as an artist it lays out the component of daily life i think ... garett there is a bit of humor in the bid is jerry telling in the lot that you can relate to. this weighs 4.7 pounds and has more than 300 examples of full-court from across

canada it was difficult for me to choose the best. i need to show this one. the year were some of my favorites until i read -- read the book again and find more the pitchers to get the text so i will share with you what these are this is the wood carving of a cowboy inspired by popular western coming out of hollywood in the 1920's. the look of a character shows the old style of the carving in the only thing missing is a source. this is from circuit 8090 live finally closed in 1978 he apprenticed in this shop

an apprenticed in ad/hd there's this kind of the big books that appeared in the herald in 1991. this is an open croc from ontario. this might work very well at the presentation as well because it shows how the imagery is in production but these to put vision in a class by itself it 1860 this groth was awarded first prize as the best assortment of still rare. -- still rare. is a pencil coulter made about 1940. it is a ram they say it is

small but practical pencil holder he was canadian following world war ii. these are portable musical scales from southwestern ontario probably devised by a teacher and musician. cruces arranged in vertical columns. it dates to the last quarter of the 19th century. this charming read rocking horse was made a circa 1900 it captures the formal quality of the animal with the elegance of simplicity often with their broker and repaired but these and metal rods do not seem to be replacements. a dancing figure of the man

from nova scotia 1920. wearing a uniform that suggests he was a sergeant why this should be the maker's choice is the provincial police of nova scotia and in some rural communities city on the floor was a common theme of the dances and this is an example of a jumping jack from uniformed authority figures such as a soldier. we have a book on the agenda coming up so i have to share the lovely all is also from ontario about 1950 and is a little late. and it is made out of brown paint in it to look as realistic as possible and perched on a tree branch or rooftop.

you can see why i loved all of these this is from quebec 20th-century and is about 12 inches by 28 inches a you can get an idea of the scale and i think it is charming the way that there is laughing at the center -- hunter. of i own one of these maps. i got it for a quarter at a garage sale. they founded a mission in newfoundland and what of those was a hook rug or a matt sold in the boxing states of new england and new york to raise money for the hospital. of lot of these were made out of stockings in the

boston states they are told when they run let them read to newfoundland because they reduce them to hook their rugs obviously this is a bear with the geese in the back. next we have scarecrows they look so very realistic with a very stoic expression from the ottawa valley in the 20th century. this is a checkerboard that depicts two players at one end while the dog turned his back and at the other end you will see a hunter getting a bird it is the same dog of retrieving the prize it is made out of

pine. another hook rug modeled after a painting and shows the generic architecture of a village in winter. those of you know, me know that i make quilts so i had to have at least one in here it is a red cross quilt from alberta 1942 cotton with a flannel backing. red cross quilts were made for war victims quilt historians said whenever we talk to anyone about these quilts we must impress upon them the recipient always tells me how much the color in the patterns meant aside from the physical warmth aside the whole world was dark and dirty in these provided cheer.

finally, the two iconic symbols of canada the beaver and the maple leaf. this is a backboard for a tavern game. that was probably where the game was played. these are just one dozen of the wonderful illustrations in the book and what a delight it would be to find some of these but it does lift the spirit and i hope yours have been lifted as well. i certainly have eclectic topics now we go back to pre-history with a complete dinosaur. what do we know about dinosaurs and how do we know it? but who doesn't like dinosaurs? i remember my very first library with sister come to

the library to march up to the desk to say i want more dinosaur books. this weighs 6 pounds so i don't think we will give it to her but i thought of her as a was reading the pages of this wonderful book. they are so much a part of us and contemporary culture think of flintstones, a jurassic park, it is hard to realize modern paleontology as a science of only 200 years old. 1842 robert owen kuwait to the term dinosaurian meeting fearfully great, a lizard. since then it has been incorrectly translated as terrible lizard but as english scholars were they used as a primitive form -- superlative so they are not lizards and nor terrible

that they are indeed the world's most famous separate itself -- superlative. each chapter in this book updates dinosaurs studies because it is the second edition. we go from the historical about robert it is early scholar the cohorts with dinosaur studies in europe and asia and africa -- africa. this gives you the illustrations in the book so it is pretty serious stuff what we are reverting here on page 440 a family chart of all the species from a common ancestor i don't expect you to read it but it

is an example of the detailed charts in here. these are dinosaur eggs because there's a chapter of the paleobiology of the dinosaur but there's also a section on what they eat and they do that from a fossilized feces. they go into dinosaur reproduction they could figure it out. dinosaur diseases which actually is a form in their also had been disease which is not surprising. studying tracks of course, is one way we could find out of what about dinosaurs and these are ct scans from a chapter about technology and paleontology.

so this shows on the right hand side how they would read. dinosaur evolution is involved there is a chart -- a chapter that charts out for and against how the dinosaurs ended there is a lot of controversy of course, , a gradual extinction or catastrophic and i will now spoil things for you because what the author of the chapter says is among the public the impact is the most widely recognized caused it is also popular among scientists but there are many unanswered questions. there is a chapter on life after death and the history of human hands how museums put the skeletons together and of course, you don't want to put too many figure marks or our body oils on these pieces but with care

and display of the dinosaur leftovers is very important. in addition to the charts and graphs and photos of fossils' ian skeletons there is a colored section. one of the classic reference sections is someone who says you have a photograph of a dinosaur. right? with these pictures you can say that you do. here is a picture, i didn't write down what they all were but you can see i do not know what his red couch did but like a prehistoric turkey. here is a dinosaur taking the waters. this one like jurassic park in actual dinosaur walking in the prehistoric forests and my favorite, when have

you ever seen dinosaurs stance? you have seen it in this book i think it is a splendid addition to any library collection from grade school through university because, as i said, who doesn't like dinosaurs? thank you very much. [applause] >> good afternoon. my name is merlyn miller and i am librarian at a high school in vermont and i have two books i want to share with you. the first is called asa: check the inside companies that we think that we love. we consumers want the possible products and

producers to assure us we are fashionable and products to come from companies that don't pollute or harm animals or contain where chemicals that run on alternative energy come to pay workers good salaries and recycle scraps in use natural ingredients by from local suppliers and donates generously to a charity in their own neighborhoods and don't throw their weight around by lobbying it is so many things to so many people ben & jerry's ice cream, a converse sneakers and trader joe's seem to have hit the bull's-eye for a time. the matter what they do they maintain the image to be cool and fun and innovative to have the equally strong in a jazz politically progressive and at the call this fiercely loyal customers and businesses try

to find that will brand themselves as the apple or trader joe's of their industry. the esophagus is an example of a couple of companies like unilever and has this to mix they reached out to the organic crowd to buy a ben & jerry's. clorox company who's bleach is despised by environmental activists bought burt's these. "ethic chic" asks the question is a possible to be trendy and socially responsible to be trusted and loved? yes there are few it that like apple and trader joe's are all of those. so it set out to analyze six companies to see if it is so.

this is the slide of the table of contents which you cannot reason i made us slide in the book has the illustrations i made this to show you the six companies that "ethic chic" covers tom's of maine, and starbucks, apple, a trader joe's in america apparel pelican how to operate what customers and activists say about them and why they're viewed as ethical or cool and what they do to achieve these images and if they deserve the reputation. the one that i will focus on to mention that the author mentions is trader joe's. people love to seem to lew love to travel or shop bad trader joe's i was in a state where there are no trader joe's but i am a customer i have to a demand

and i travel to the three states that surround vermont so i can get to those stores. so how does it differ from a typical grocery store? they specialize in unusual food that is not available in the standard supermarket. they do not try to sell all things to all people. there a soul baby food or diapers or diet coke so while a typical grocery store will sell between 30 and 50,000 items they have 4,000. they're very small in comparison so there is the argument that most family shoppers that go to the typical course restore or the supermarket in addition to a trader joe's therefore they waste gas is not green by doing so. i must've hit something. [laughter] i did. it is okay.

it is just a logo. thank you. the next book, the debt accord is with a tropical nautical theme the staff is friendly. are they green and environmentally conscious? the private brand is most what they sell is green but they also sell other companies' products and they may not be. they encourage you to bring your own bags but they also provide you with brown paper bags are of a neighboring parish restore? but as a company that has stores in 30 different states is a neighborhood store. they give off the image they give the image of servers in california but they're owned

by a secretive global conglomerate interview. they have no p.r. department zero advertising notes political contributions, the employees have no union do they deserved the reputation and of "ethic chic"? probably not the they have succeeded to win customer loyalty of those that believe that they are. but of those that this book covers are complete these succeeding to be "ethic chic" but to the image that the consumers believe they are some read this book for the real story in these of the books that i the court to adding to my high-school library collection also and a public library as well. my next book is called perfect fit. this beautiful scholarly

well researched book is a history of the fashion industry as well as a jewish history and the final step in the exhibition project that was started in 1996 and the results of the research for that exhibition and represents the work of a group of researchers to crisscross the country locating, investigating and examining collections in the corporate archives synagogues and museums and libraries and private collections. it is so much more than a history of garments but the economical political technological history touching on topics like immigration policy the industrial revolution the depression and world war ii it is the sagas of 19th century immigrants most of

the 200,000 german jews emigrated between 1825 id 1875 found work as peddlers and small shopkeepers. it was the massive demand for uniforms of the north in the south in the civil war that was the antithesis for standardizing the sizing for men's wear and by the first decade to issue grants had built it into a billion dollar per year industry. i have a couple of ads on the left it is from 1877 no pictures no sales pitch and then 20 years later an ad from a paper on the right-hand side became more

organized a little more visual and more focused on persuasion although still very unsophisticated in you can see the pictures of the men's clothing are almost like a part. a few years later this life of nearly 1900's show you that they have changed something called apparel mart there editors actually went to edit "esquire" but the shows how men's shoes have shifted from custom sewing for a small customer base to manufacturing for the market and then it disappeared. although she catered to wealthy customers her popular designs were widely

copied in influenced american lifestyle it looks blue but actually it is black she is credited with popularizing the little black dress especially known for designing maybe eisenhower inaugural ball be announced in 53 and 57. the perfect fit offers readers a remarkable window into the garment industry is profusely illustrated with ads in those unties the car in a business to our national culture and identity entries is the role americans use to fashion together the multibillion-dollar industry from its origins the quintessential rise to riches story and a document of the development of the distinctly american style serving as a resource for the casual reader or the serious researcher everyone in between i think it is an

outstanding choice for any library collection. thank you. [applause] >> books get more expensive university press books are the most expensive i found the bibliography we put out has become incredibly useful when making collection development decisions having the opportunity to hear from other librarians about a larger range of titles i can enhance the collection with books we may otherwise slide by because they come from university press. help when you take, the bibliography is a carefully it is amazing the gems the you might discover like the two that i present today.

the annotates -- imitated frankenstein is a wonderful work surely appropriate for all library shelves. the details will help any stick better understand how in by this book was written. mary shelley was with her husband with the all tried there hand at telling those stories. from that night comes from the ada and her creature and a novel. the introduction also discusses the idea that is portrayed such as the creature is a victim rather creator is the victim there work comes from various editions of the novel in this same scene here is depicted a 1931 film as well

as in the contemporary. the variety enhances the reader's experience there is an opportunity to grasp the more of the setting as well as the imaginations of the artist to enter for her work. both depict frankenstein's first encounter with the creation. it is taken from the first edition far from interrupting the text there are many referrals and the annotations help to explain them also most -- much of the language is hard to understand that the annotations assist their actual dates used for frankenstein and the editors use that time line of real-life events to give readers a sense of when things happened. this is a great addition to the book of love to have the opportunity to see where if

history the creature could have been. it is a great choice for public and school libraries and is not cost prohibitive. is at $35, it is a great buy. taking a totally different path the illustrated anthology of poland's -- poems. becker renderings making you want to reach for your binoculars. there is descriptive prose about each book at the bottom of the page on which it rest say do not even need to rely on the poems to learn about the individual bird. it is a wonderful touch. unfortunately not every poet could be included in there is a shortage of african-american poets but those that are included are

admirable in deed and beautiful and i have chosen three to read today. of first his peregrine falcon -- stock in your city and the 55th floor joking about the wars that had no purpose but those who make far too many by far too much he stood face-to-face with the falcons to plumb plummeted then swerved to recall its -- to a halt and then with the lunchtime crowd drifting without resolve of the will of others. first thought he was to come in to clean up the dirty problems as a hired be the key remains to watch other falcons to have poise to the air that carried it breaking the emir of self reflection of glass. he tried it this is how the

for a moment the air was articulate but then it was gone. he felt the diminishment and although the weighing this had opened he wandered far he thought he already felt himself turning back as the falcons power is an emblem for something. this next baum is called i have a bird in the spring is based on the the rabin i have a bird in the spring spring, spring decoys and as this summer nears and as the rose appears to robin is gone but i do not recall knowing that byrd of mine

the melody is known to me and will return hell is -- held hinterland but now and how they depart my eighth heart anymore golden light i see each little doubt and fear and discord removed i will not repined knowing that bird is mine. so in tel a great melody for me shall return. this is my favorite. not to conform to any other color is the secret of being colorful. the is turning purple soon he will be black. i think of him there are no cardinals here only a woman in a red dress. thank you. to 51 negative.

[applause] >> hello i am from charlotte north carolina it is good to see you fellow librarians to get an opportunity it is my pleasure to share some of the box -- books and if you outstanding ones. let me get myself set up. the first one is the natural history of canadian mammals published by the university of toronto press. this glossy page, it is a

scholarly book, a hefty volume it is comprehensive and stunningly illustrated and begin it is one of the bigger bucks. it is the updated volume of an earlier publication of the same name. it begins with a general introduction of the species the way to identify a mammal and the physical features and the colors of each order fair referred to later in the pages to help other people find the mammals they are looking for. i am looking at the wrong screen that i think it's up there. right now is one of the

plates of the of host animals so they get a realistic picture of those that would be considered in their. the remainder of the book covers each man will individually with a colored photograph and a description of the mammal and annotations on similar species size, a diet, range diet, range, and you can see the map. we did have some closeups but i want you to see the text and how they use pencil drawings really and illustrations to make its easily understood. even though it is scholarly someone high-school or middle school could use it. this is a sample of this

goal of each animal and they will show the footprints as well. there will also talk about the reproduction, behavior and vocalization to make a useful for professionals as well as students. the last one being an educator at heart, it shows visually what we try to show to the students for you can see the dorsal fin you can see it as a way to educate without having to many words but just pictures for the action photography for each mammals, line drawings give a wealth of information and it is very realistic. they played up the differences between similar

species. this title is extensive and extremely informative and can be enjoyed by anybody on the planet even though it does say canadians onto the scientific unity this would be one that i would highly recommend for any library. the next one i will talk about this is not quite as hefty but it is large it is about owls. even elementary school students enjoy this because i have a lot of grandchildren and enjoy walking through this book. this is owls by mary ann taylor published by a cornell press it has

photography from many different photographers the and candid closeups along with comprehensive informational be all. on the al. every pitcher has -- every page has a picture small or large. there is a visual than the explanation of how that works. you can see the text to the picture but the opposite page has a full-page so you can see that distinctive markings of the others, the clause up close always seems real. the information you can see

the anatomy depending on what they are researching nesting, habitat, a courtship, threats, a conservation measures. it is a good covering of what is included. the last two-thirds of the book is devoted to specific individual species related in detail and this is like the other book with evolution fax and geographic variations breeding and conservation. here you see a brown hawke called this is actually a the girl ring -- burrowing

how wall. this makes it an outstanding title for all ages even the youngsters may not read the text there will be fascinated with the line drawings in the photo captions it will draw them to maybe read a little more of those who study the bird will have a comprehensive information about these creatures. the next topic is thic is the td book on abraham lincoln. i might have had 10 books with the "emancipation proclamation" anniversary there was the plethora of information in the i wanted to share this because i will

put these up here to give you an idea of how a tiny these are. there's gallate -- scholarly with all primary information cities to be excellent use in a high school with a common core because it integrates the history with the information that is on their. i chose the one from the southern illinois university press because i thought about the allied science curriculum how we have the school within a school and this would be super for them.

it talks about the controversies over mental and physical conditions of the 16th president's family is health. it is examined in light of today's knowledge of medicine how we would approach it today so there is enough information there and it is quite fascinating and it sheds light on the lincoln family and how the medical history integrates this period of history and the practices at that time it can provide things that they could compare or contrast to analyze with what knowledge they have of diseases a and medicine of today.

there are three of titles lincoln and raise a and lincoln and the constitution and as a hero by frank williams. this series of titles are all clear accessible information on topics such as race, a constitution, expansion, war time presidents to right, secession the peril of the times of lincoln's presidency. it to we could be used there is information even for the scholarly that has not been revealed. lincoln's 100 days published by the press from harvard is another one but it has eight pages in the middle that

shows the editorial cartoons of that time of slavery and we did in for that reason alone i rich use it for the high school library. and the real gem is discovered at an auction 165 letters that he suspected were civil war and they were. so it is new information it is of primary information those that were written letters home to use their the civil war letters and published by the diversity of wisconsin press and contains 165 hand written letters from march 1864

through july 1868a and he was a union volunteer, a farmer and had a young wife so as you read it, you hear about the conditions of the war the lack of food aid and clothing the endless waiting all those things that they study in history and it brings to life because the family has gotten permission from the library of congress so there is the black-and-white photos that they have is just rich with these primary resources. it speaks from the soldiers pointed you and i would encourage you all we cannot

stand appear to tell you about all the great finds that we have but looks to the book that you have in the outstanding ones in particular at the end and we have enjoyed presented you just a handful of them. have fun. [applause] >> unfortunately we had one panelist that was not able to present today and she would present on the books continental divide, the books are amazing i can show you some of the photos that we intended to use but they

are listed in the bibliography and i strongly strongly invite you to read the reviews and get more information about them because they're definitely worse the presentation. we just had a situation. so this concludes the presentation for today we appreciate you coming out. i hope to see you next year and i have the raffle vendors. i will read them now if you hear your name please come to the front. thank you again.

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