at the congress the leadership used to present in a sense the history of the last four years. not the party program, but the political and organizational report. and then the party people would debate. that history is not correct. this is actually should be added in, that should be added in. ..

>> they argue over contemporary history. we don't have the ability to have a speedy analysis. the way i recognize this is this is my submission as the draft, political and organizational report of the last 30 years for my friends who are involved in different movements, and i'm hoping very much that they will read it, trash it, say this is wrong, this is wrong, but reflect on the contemporary history in order to think through strategy. it's not worth having a strategy that's not working and pursue the strategy. that is like -- that would be basically -- one needs to have constant rethinking of strategy, not based on what you are doing, but on the dynamics in which you are involved. part of the story is to root what we are doing in dynamics. i'm very much looking forward to people trashing the book because only then i know it's helpful in

some way. thanks a lot. [applause] >> you from the an newspaper american librarian association's conference, a panel of librarians from throughout the country present their picks for the best upcoming titles from university publishers. it's just under an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the best of the best from the university presses. my name is kim miller, and i am the marketing and membership coordinator at the association of american university presses. the aaup is a cooperative, nonprofit organization that promotes the work and influence of university and scholarly

presses. we provide cooperative marketing, professional development, and sales efforts to our members, and we help them respond to publishing changing environments. the aaup has a membership of over 130 member presses. in the interest of time, i strongly encourage everyone to have the the aaup website at www.aaupnet.org. there you can find ample information about the association and the work that we do including our upcoming university press week scheduled to take place from november 10th to the 16th, 2013. today, four members of the university press book committee will each present titles they feel to be the best of the best from the titles they reviewed

for the 23rd edition of university press books for public and secondary school libraries, which is the bibliography you all have in your hands right now. from the dawn of the renaissance to warriors of the plains, you're sure to see something in the presentation that exemplifies the wide range of disciplines that university and scholarly press publishers have to offer. there are additional print copies of this publication available here at this session as well as at the combined book exhibit booth, which is booth number 2325 in the exhibit hall. at the end of the presentation, three attendees will be selected to win the book raffle to win a predetermined set of the four or five of the 13 titles presented today, so if you have not already, please be sure to put your business card or a card with your name and contact information, including your

e-mail address in the raffle box in the back of the room. one more thing before this starts, because this is taped, silence your phones or anything else you have. also, if you need to leave the room, do so without crossing the camera's view when you leave. last, but certainly not least, thank you to the wonderful ladies op the panel who have taken time out of their very busy schedules to prepare these presentations and here to present them. our first presenter today is ann lane from vines vincent public library. thank you very much for coming. >> kim, thank you very much for the introduction, and it is certainly a pleasure for all of us on the committee to work with

you throughout the year as we select books, find out the subject areas, and then is a wonderful time getting back so that we can open and write reviews. if -- i'm very glad that kim said that i did not actually have to bring the books for my presentation today. my first book, which is florence: dawn of the renaissance," how do i -- it weighs six pounds. it was published to coincide with an exhibit at the getty museum of art; however, it's not just an exhibit catalog. it's scholarly and read l essay about the artists in which they worked. florence in 1300 was the greatest and happiest state in which had it been, great in nobility, and ruled over toc cayny. the city doubled in size from

45,000 to 90,000 due to industrial entrepreneurship, and in 1330, there were more than 200 workshops devoted to world manufacturerrer and the production of all luxury goods. the shops employed skill craftsman members of guilds. the guilds ran the city's republican commune. it was an extremely wealthy city, and all of the factors combined to produce some of the finest art in western civilization on a grand scale, large paintings, panels, fresco, and on a small scale, many illuminated manuscripts. page 38 to 39 is a double page from the address of pronto to robert of andrews. it's 18 inches high, 13 inches wide, chris enthrowned on the left, and mary on the right. therethey enjoyed the interwovet

and illustration. page 95 is a snip from a larger page. the small illustration amid texts are appealing. you see the faces all have individual characteristics. these are dominican impressed priors at lecterns from the bible. one entire spectrum of the book is devoted to the logario, and as shopkeepers and traders were involved in civic life, they performed charitable works and gathered to sing. their hymns were compiled in -- in a song book, and this one is a really splendid song book. the leads of this manuscript were long ago disassembled, but the getty found 28 of them in different collections and brought them back together for the first time in several

hundred years. page 216, which you see there, you really look at the detail, graphic novels have nothing on the pictures. this is a closeup of the illustration of the page, the ab rigs of sam michelle. the arc angel battling is a ton in the form of a dragon, and the tail drew the stars of help and cast them to earth. look at all the dark demons in the picture. some are derived from animals, monkeys, rams, owl, and lion, and others are just monsters. page 2 -- whoops. page 264 shows st. agnus enthrowned, and you see the staff. that was part of the music that they sang. this -- the final part is called "technical studies" which is faze nateing because it's an

analysis of how the art was made from the preparation to the sketches, the ink, and the pens. on page 346, you see the lines under the text. this is a cross section of the artists work. this is a technical description showing the upper paint colors only, no ground layer, cross light, filters, a nonoriginnal varnish layer is also present. it's fascinating what historians do beyond analyzing the content of the pictures, but looking at how the pictures were put together. who would like this book? those who are interested in renaissance history encompassing art and culture, those interested in the forensics of art, and those interested in the history of books and printing, so i commend to you "florence at

the dawn of the renaissance." most books i review i donate to the library, but this one i wrote to kim immediately and said, i get to keep this one! this is one for me. it is canadian folk art to 1950s. so exciting to get this. last year i reviewed a history of folk art, and now i go up north to the canadians. folk art covers a multitude of generas and techniques, easy to know what it is, but hard to state what it is. it grabs mystery from everyday life, cannot be assigned to a historical period or cite specific culture unlike the renaissance book. albert said, i don't think of myself as an artist, but as a fix-it fellow, a dabbler. it's narrative laying out daily life and common experience.

i think that folk art was the spirit. there was a bit of humor, a bit of story telling, and a lot that anyone can relate to. this is another hefty book weighing 4.75 pounds with more than 300 examples of folk art across canada, difficult for me to choose the best, oh, i need to show them this one, oh, this one. here's some of my favorites, that is, until i read the book again and find some more. so -- the pictures that were taken took out the text, so i'm going to share with you what these are. this is a wood carving of a cowboy. it was inspired by popular westerns coming out of hollywood in the 1920s. the sly look that this character has shows the bold style of carving, and the only thing missing is his horse.

this is a trade sign for a book finder. it is from ontario, circa 1890. it closed in 1978, and frank union, an apprentice in the shop, bought it in 1880. there's an ad for the sign of the big book that appeared in the weekly herald in 1891. this is an open cross from branford, ontario. this could work well with our vermont members recently as well because it shows cows. clocks with animal images are rare in ontario stoneware production, but the cows put a vision classified itself. at the exhibition, this crock awarded first prize for the best assortment of stoneware.

this is a temple holder. it is from ontario, the maker was alex, made about 1940. it was a scolding wren and they say that this is a small, but practical pencil holder. it's interesting because the maker, alex cuppage was african-canadian, and had various shops following the years of world war ii. these are portable musical scales from southwestern on ontario, probably devised by a teacher or musician, a portable roll, scales arranged in vertical columns, and it dates to the last quarter of the 19th century. this charming red rocking horse was made for the 1900s. the lines of the body, neck, and

head capture the quality of the animal with the elegance of simplicity, and the legs on such toys are often broken and repaired, but the metal rods for these legs did not seem to be replacements. a dancing figure of a man from noaf nova scotia, wearing a uniform sunlighting he was an rcmp sergeant. why this should be the maker's choice is the fact that the mownties are the police of nova scotia where this was -- nova scotia. this is a common future of community dances, and this example of a jumping jack inspired by such gathering barred it subject from the uniformed authority figures such as of such as a soldier. we have an owl book on the agenda coming up, so i had to share the lovely owl. it's also from ontario, about 1950, so it's a little late, and

it is made out of pine, oak, and brown paint. it was designed by ls tucket, meant to look realistic as possible and perch on a tree branch or rooftop. you can see why i loved all of these. this is a hunter catching a bear. it is from quebec from the 20th century. it is about 12 inches by 28 inches, so you can get an idea of the scale of it. i think it's just charming the way that bear is laughing at the hunter who is aiming at him. this is a mat. i actually own one. i'm delighted. i got it for a quarter at a garage sale, but that is not this particular mat. william founded a medical mission in newfoundland, and a

fundraiser they had were hooked rugs or mats sold down to the boston states, meaning new york to sell rugs to the hospital. the rugs were made out of stockings, and in the -- in the boston states, in boston and new york, they told women, when your stockings run, let them run to newfoundland because they used them to hook the rugs. this is, obviously, a bear with geese in the back. next we have scarecrows that scare the birds from your garden, looking realistic with real clothing and stoic expressions from the valley in the 20th century. this is a checker board depighting two players at one end with their pipes and smoke

in action while the dog turns his back. at the other end, if you can stand on your head, you'll see a hunter just bagging a bird. it is the same dog, but he's poised in anticipation of retrieving a prize. this came from quebec about 1850 made out of pine. another hooked rug. this is modeled after a painting by lawrence daniel in quebec showing the generic architecture of the village in winter. those of you who know me know i make quilts, so i had to have at least one quilt picture in here. this is a red cross quilt from alberta in 1942 made from cotton with a flannel backing. red cross quilts made to aid british war victim, and they were delivered to dislocated and relocated families in britain. sally ward said whenever we talked to anyone about the quilts, you must impress upon

them recipients i found tell me how much the color and patterns met aside from the physical warmth. the world in those days were so dark and dirty, and these provide some cheer. finally, the two iconic symbols of canada, a beaver and maple leaf. this is the back board for a tavern game from quebec from 1934, probably ndv was the club where the game was played. these are just a dozen of the wonderful illustrations in the book. what a delight it would be, actually, to get to find some of these, and, of course, they are all in collections now, but as i said, folk art lifts the spirit, and i hope your spirits have been lifted as well. you saw florence, canada, and now we're going back to prehistory with the complete

dinosaur. >> more so, who doesn't like dinosaurs? i remember my first library, they came in the library, and she was two, two and a half, and she would come and come march up to the desk and say, i want more dinosaur books, and so we had to deliver. i thought of her as i read the book. dinosaurs are a part of the contemporary culture, think about the flinstones, jurrasic park, and hard to realize modern pail yentology is a science only 2 # 00 years old. they coined the term "dinosauria," a fairly new word meaning fearfully great, a lizard. since then, it's been incorrectly translated as

terrible lizard, but owen, well versed in greek as english scholars at the time were used the form of danos so to be faithful to owen's meaning, dinosaurs are not lizards nor terrible, but, indeed, the world's most famous sue perlative. for american scholars and scientists, early knowledge of the newly discovered reptiles came from england and the material from english rocks. each chapter in the book updates an aspect of dinosaur studies because as you can see, it's in the lower right hand corner, the second edition. we learned -- we go from the historical about robert owen in the early scholarly cohort across the globe to dinosaur studies in europe, asia, south america, and africa. this gives you an idea of the kinds of illustrations in the book so it is serious stuff. what we are learning here on

page 440, this is a family chart of the clades of dinosaurs, and this is an example, obviously, of the detailed charts that are in here. these are dinosaur eggs because there's a chapter on the paleo biology on dinosaurs, and there's an entire section on what dinosaurs eat, and they find out what dinosaurs ate from fossilized feces called copperlites. they go into dinosaur reproduction, which they've been able to figure out, not antedoal, but they figured it out, how dinosaurs grew, dinosaur diseases, actually a science called paleo pathology. they had a lot of arthritis and bone diseases, not surprising considering how big and heavy they were.

studying dinosaur tracks, of course, is a way we found out a lot about dinosaurs, and this is -- these are ct scans from a chapter about technology and palentology. this shows, on the right-hand side, how they breathed. dinosaur evolution is involved, and there is a chapter charting the region for how it ended. there's a lot of controversy, of course, gradual extinction or catastrophic extinction, and i will now spoil things for you because what it -- what the author of that chapter says is among the public, asteroid impact is the most widely recognized cause, and it's also popular among scientists, but there remain many unanswered questions. there's a chapter two on life

after death, and the history of phos fossils in human hands, how museums put skeletons together, and, of course, you don't want to put too many finger marks and our body oils on these pieces so the care and display of the leftovers is important. in addition to the charts, graphs, and line drawing illustrations that i showed you and photos of fossils and skeletons, there is a colored plate section. one of the classic reference questions, and those in the audience might nod, is someone who says, "do you have a photograph of a dinosaur"; right? well, with these pictures, you can say that you do? here's a picture of -- and i didn't write down what they all were, but you see the wonderful -- this wonderful picture, and i do not know what his red pouch did, but he looks rather like a very prehistoric

turkey. here we have a dinosaur taking the waters, and this one, shades of jury -- jurrasic park in prehistoric forrests, and my favorite. dinosaurs dance. you saw it in this book, it's a splen dead edition to a collection from grade school to university because, as i said, who doesn't like dinosaurs? thank you very much. [applause] good>> good afternoon, everyone. i am a library at a high school in vermont, and i have two books that i want to share with you.

the first one is called ethical chic, and it's the inside story of the companies we think we love. we consumers want the impossible, products and producers that will assure us that we are fashionable. we want productses that we use to come from companies that don't pollute, don't harm an animals, or contain weird chemicals that run on alternative energy, pay workers good salaries, recycle their scrapts, use natural ingredients, buy from local suppliers, donate generously to charity, and donate, in particular, to our own neighborhoods, and don't throw weight around by lobbying, and hard as it is to be so many things to so many consumers, a handful of companies and products like apple, ben and jerry's ice cream, converse sneakers, and trader joe's hit the bull's eye, at least for a time. no matter what they do, they maintain an image of being cool,

fun, and innovative, and at the same time, have an equally strong image as green politically progressive, and ethical. the result is fiercely loyal customers and businesses try to find the local and image to brand themselves as the apple or trader joe's of their industry. the author of the book gave examples of companies like unilever to market the chemical laiden knor soup mixes, reaching out to the organic crowd by reaching ben and jerry's, and clorox, bleach that is disputed bought burt's bees. ethical chic asks questions is it possible for a product to be both trendy and socially responsible, be trusted and love. yes, a few companies like apple and trader joe's are all of

those things. ethical shek set out to analyze six companies and see if it is so. i -- this is a slide of the table of contents you cannot read. i made a slide. this is not from the book. the book has no illustrations. i made the slide to show you six companies that "ethical shek" covers, and they are toms of main, timberland, starbucks, apple, trader joe's, and american apparel. this book looks at how they operate, what customers and activists say about them, and why they are viewed as ethical and cool, what they do to try to achieve these image, and whether they actually deserve reputations. the one i'll focus on and mention, some things the author covers, is trader joe's.

no one loves gresh grocery shopping, but people love trader joe's and travel great distances to shop at one. i live in a state, vermont, where there are no trader joe's, but i am a trader joe's customer. i have to admit, and i travel to the three states that surround vermont so that i can get to the stores. how does trader joes differ from typical grocery stores? well, they specialize in unusual foods that are not available in standard supermarkets. they do not try to sell all things to all people, for example. they do not sell baby food or diapers or diet coke. while a typical grocery store sells 30,000 to 50 # thoarks i teems, trader joe's has 4,000. they are small in comparison. there is the argument that most family shoppers have to go to the typical grocery store, the large supermarket in addition to a trader joe's, and therefore

waste gas and not be so green by doing so. i must have hit something. well, that's okay. it's just the slide with the -- with those logos. thank you. their decor, this is the next book -- the decor has a nautical theme, staff is friendly, but are they green and environmentally conscious? well, yes and no. yes, they're a private brand, mostly what they sell are green, but they sell other companies' products, and they may not be. yes, they encourage customers to bring their own bags, but they also provide you with brown paper bags. are they a neighborhood grocery store? well, they claim to be, and yet

as a store that has a company that has stores in 30 different states, a neighborhood store. they give off the image of being owned by a couple surfers somewhere in california, but, actually, they are owned by a very secretive global conglomerate in germany. they have no pr department, zero advertising, make no political contributions, employees have no union. do they deserve a reputation as app example of ethical chic? parole -- probably not, but they succeeded in winning customer loyalty of those who believe they are. in fact, none of the six companies this book covers are completely succeeding in being ethically chic, but somehow they succeeded in obtaining the image we consumers believe they are. read this fascinating book for the real story behind all six

companies, a book i look forward to adding to my high school library collection, and i think it's a great addition to a public library as well. the next book is called "perfect fit," and this beautiful, scholarly, well-researched book is a history of the fashion industry as well as a jewish history. it is the time step in exhibition project that began in 1996, and it is a result of the research for that exhibition. it represents the work of a group of researchers who criss cross the country locating, investigating, and examining collections in universities, corporate archives, industry work rooms, synagogues, museums, libraries, jewish communal organizations, and private collections. it is so much more than a history of garments. it is an economical, political,

technological history touching on topics like immigration policies, the industrial revolution, the rise of organized labor unions, the depression, and world war ii. it is the saga of 19th century immigrants seeking success in america as tailors, pressers, and cutters. most of the more than 200,000 jews who immigrated to the u.s. between 1825 and 1875 found work as peddlers and small shopkeepers. it was the massive demand for uniforms for both north and south in the civil war that was the everyonetous for standardizing sizing for men's ware, and by the first decades of the 20th century, jewish immigrants built the new york based garment trade into a billion dollar a year industry. i have a couple ads on this slide. you see the little ad on the

left is from 1877, and it's just a jumble of fonts, no picture, no sales pitch, and 20 years later, the ad from a paper called "the hub" on the right-hand side became a little more organized, a little more visual, and more focused on persuasion, although still very unsophisticated, and you can see that, the pictures of the men's clothing are almost like clip art. a few years later, this slide from early 1900s shows you that they have changed -- it was actually something called apirl art. it was a men's trade wear quarterly, and it went on to esquire, but it shows how men's suits shifted from custom

sewing, and the clip art image has disappeared. although she catered to wealthy customers, the popular designs were widely copied and influenced american lifestyle at all price points, and this looks a little blue, but, actually, this is black. she's credited with popularizing the little black dress, and especially known for designing both of eisenhower's inaugural ball gowns in 1953 and 57. the perfect fit offers readers a remarkable window into the garment industry, profusely full of ads, photos, tieing the garment business to the national culture and identity. it traces the role american jews have played in fashioning together a multibillion dollar industry from its origins, and

it is the qint sensual rags to riches story and document of a development of a distinctly american style. it serves as a resource for the casual reader or the serious research student and everyone in between. i think it's an outstanding choice for any library collection. thank you. [applause] >> hi. while books get more expensive, university press books often become the most expensive, i found the bibliography we put out has become incredibly useful making collection development decisions. having the opportunity here with other librarians give my library the chance to enhance collections that otherwise slide by because they come from a university press. i hope that when you take home the bibliography, you use it

carefully issue and it's amazing what gems, some quite inexpensive, you discover like the two i present today. the frankenstein is a wonderful work showing an exans that it's appropriate for all libraries. the details helps any student better understand how and why the book was written. mary shellily with was her husband, lord buy ron, and others, when they told ghost stories. from that night comes mary shelly's idea and creature and novel. for example, the creature is victim versus the creator of the victim.

the art work used in the book comes from various editions of the novel. for example, this one by lynn ward woodcut, and the film, the same scene here depicted from the 1931 film as well as art from the contemporaries of mary shelly. the variety enhances the reader's experience with an opportunity to grasp more from the knowledge of the setting which shelly is writing about as well as imaginations of artists internetting the work. the wood cuts and films depict the first encounters with the creation. the text is taken from the first edition in three volumes, the annotations far from interrupting the text prove to enhance it. there's referrals throughout the work, and this explains them, and also much of the language may be different or hard to understand and the annotations assist in the area as well. there are actual dates used from

frankenstein with real life events to give readers a sense of when things happened. it was great for the book to have the opportunity to see where and when the creature could have been. it's a great choice for public and school library, and it's not cost prohibitive like many volumes. i tell you that this at $35 is a great buy. a totally different path is "bright wings," and this is an anthology of poems about birds edited by billy collins, a delightful book. the illustrations are beautiful and accurate renderings that make you want to reach for binoculars. there's a descriptive prose about the book at the bottom of the page on which the artwork rests. you don't need to think about

the bird, but it's a wonderful touch indeed. unfortunately, billy coal lips didn't include every poet who wrote about birds, and there's a shortage of african-american poets, but the selections included are admiralble indeed and beautiful, and i've chosen three to read today. this first one is falcon, new york city. on the 56th floor, he joked about the thrall of words with no purpose other than to make too much. he saw the wings, plummeted, swerved to a halt, wings hovering, office computers click behind me, below the slaps of the lunch crowds and taxis drifting without the will the others. the bird was brought in to clean up the city's problem of too many pigeons.

he remained at the tint the glass windows watching the falcon give much poise to the air that carried it, it's sheer falls, breaking the mirror of self-reflections of glass off the towers. he tried it himself. this is how the gods deliver message or taunt, confirm moments the falcon seemed to wait for the response, the air was a wander and terror, and then it was gone. he waited at the glass until he felt the diminishment of whatever had unsettled him, and though the tin edge of the falcon's wings opened and slightly physical injuriered in him, and he he wandered far in thought, he felt back turning for a words for an ad, the falcon's power is emblem for something. this next poem is called "i have a burden spring," and it's based on a robin.

i have a bird in spring which for myself sings. the spring decoys and as the summer appears, robin is gone, yet i do not repine knowing that bird of mine, the flown, leaning towards the sea, melody new for me and will return, fast in a safer hand, held in truer land are mine, and though they now depart until i am, my doubting heart, their vine. in a bright, a more golden light i see every doubt and fear, every little discord here removed, then i will not repine knowing that bird is mine, though flown, shall in a distant tree bright melody for me return. >> this is my favorite, the cardinal. not to conform to any other color is the secret of being colorful, shocks us when he flies, goes through the blue evenings to the roost, turning purple, soon to be black.

in the farrest dark i think of him, no cardinals here, only a woman in a red dress. thank you. [applause] >> hello, i'm gai lesh from charlotte, north carolina, and it's good to see you fellow librarians and get the opportunity -- a pleasure to share with you some of the books, so there's a few outstanding books this year. let me get myself set up here. first one we'll talk to you about is the natural history of

canadian mammals by donna, published by the university of toronto press. this is just a hefty volume, comprehensive, and it's stunningly illustrated, and, again, it's one of the bigger books. it's an updated volume of an earlier publication by the same name. it begins with the first part, with a general introduction of the species, and the ways to identify a mammal, the physical features of them, and colorful plates of each order. the colored plates refer to later pages that will help other

people find mammals they are looking for. you are looking at -- well, in a minute you'll look at, looking at the wrong screen that i'm thinking is up there, but that's one of those plates, this one of the animals that get a realistic picture of all the ones considered in there. the remainder of the book covers animals individually with a coloredded photograph, description of the animal, notations on similar species, its size, its diet, its range, and you can see a range map because the closeups of these, but i wanted you to see the text and how they used pencil drawings really and illustrations to make it easily

understood. it's scholarly, someone in high school or middle school would be able to use it. this is a sample of the skull of each animal, and they'll show the foot prints as well. they'll also talk about the reproduction, the behavior and signs and vocalization making it very use. for professionals as well as students. this last one is showing us -- this is a -- being and educator at heart, this shows visually what we try to show to the students about the difference, and you can see the dorsal fin and how they are are different, and that's a way of educating

without even having too many words, just through pictures, and they've done it very well. the mammal, the line drawings, give a wealth of information very realistic. the drawings point out the differences between similar specie, and this title is just extensive, extremely informative, easy to use, and it can be enjoyed by anybody on the planet, even though it says "canadians," and from interested adults and students on to the scientific community. this is one i highly recommend for any library. the next one i'll talk to you about is not quite as he hefty s the other one, and it is large, but it is about owls. i can test elementary school

students enjoy this and grandchildren enjoy looking through this book, and this is owls by maryann taylor published by cornell university press, and it features exquisite owl action photography from many different photographers, not just one, and candid closeups along with comprehensive information on the owl, and every page has a picture, either small or large of an owl. this is a picture that was dissh there's text above it that really there's a visual and explanation of how that works. you can see this is an idea so that you can see the text to the picture, but the opposite picture, the opposite page has a full page picture of an owl so

that you can really see the distinctive markings of its feathers. you can see the claws up close so it seems real to you. you can see in the anatomy, depending on what they research, nesting, has habitat, courtship, threats, conservation measures, and it gives you a good covering of what is included. the second -- the last two-thirds of the book is devoted to specific individual species related in detail about the owl, and this, again, will be like the other book. you're going to see range maps. you're going to see evolution facts, you're going to see geographic variations. you're going to see things on voice, you're going to see breeding, and you're going to

see conservation. here you see a brown hawk owl, and this one actually is a burrowing owl, and they -- you can see -- it's just awesome photography, and the extensive and specific information along with the crisp realistic photography make this an outstanding title for all ages. even though youngsters may not read the text, they will be fascinated be a line drawings and the photo captions, and it will draw them to maybe read a little more while birders and those studying birds discover a comprehensive information about these night creatures. the next topic i'm going to talk to you is the third book, is on abraham lincoln. i might have had ten books that -- more than ten books,

that dealt with lincoln with the emancipation proke clay -- proke mages anniversary, there was a variety of information. i wanted to share this one because -- oh, i'll put them up here, to give you an idea of how tiny these are. these are very scholarly, have references in the back, all primary information so these are excellent to use in the high school with a common core we're talking about, and it integrates history with the information on there, and i chose the lincoln in medicine by glenn lip by southern illinois university press, all by the press, and the

title, because i thought about the allied science curriculum and how we have that, like, a school within a school. this would be super for them. the first third gsh well, all through it really, the controversy over mental and physical conditions of the 16th president's family's health, and, yeah, examines in lighted of today's knowledge, how we approach it today so there's enough information there, and it's really fascinating shedding light on the lincoln family, and how maybe decisions were made. the medical history integrates this period of history and the practices at that time and can

provide things that, like, they could compare. they could contrast. they can analyze, they can do all those things with what knowledge they have of diseases and med sip of today. the -- i'll name just the three other of the titles, but there's more than that. lincoln and race by richard shiner, the constitution by brian r. derek, and lincoln as hero by frank williams. this the titles are clear, insertion, constitution, expansion, wartime presidential rights, succession, the perils of the time of lincoln's presidency, and it truly can be used, information even for the scholarly not revealed before this. longe's hundred days seen in

public libraries published by hair very was another one, and it's very interesting, but for schools it has eight pages in the middle that show some of the editorial cartoons of the time about slavery and lincoln, and for that reason alone, i choose it for a high school library, and i think a real gem is that kevin and patsy discovered at an auction, 165 letters that he suspected were civil war letters, and they were. this is a new find so this would be new information. it is all primary information, those letters that were written by guy c. taylor. the title is letters home to

sarah, civil war letters published by the university of wisconsin press, and edited by patsy and kevin. it contains 165 handwritten letters from march of 1864 to july of 1868. he was a union volunteer, farmer, and he had a young wife and a son, so as you read it, you hear about the conditions of the war. you hear about the outbreak of malaria and me sills, and the lack of food and clothing, endless waiting, trudging through forests from around dc and petersburg, all the things they study in history, and it brings it alive because she -- the -- the family has put together and got permission from library of congress so that as the letters go along, there are the black and white photos that

they have from library of congress, and so the whole thing is just rich in all of these primary resources. the book speaks from the soldiers' point of view, and i would just encourage you all -- we cannot stand up here and tell you about all the great finds that we have, but look through that book that you have and the outstanding ones in particular, and then we enjoyed presenting you a handful of them, and have fun. [applause] >> okay. unfortunately, we have one panelist that was not able to present today, and she was going to prented on these books.

its continental divide, last launch, and worries of the plains. the books are amazing. i can show you photos that we intended to use, but they are listed in the bibliography, and i strongly, strongly, strongly invite you to read reviews on them and, you know, get more information about them because they are definitely well worth the presentation. we just had a situation. okay. so this concludes the presentation for today. we appreciate you all coming out. i hope to see you all next year, and i have the raffle readers. i'll read them now, and if you hear your name, could you please come up to the front so i can verify that i have your correct information to get you the books. thank you, all, again.

>> here's a look at books published this week:

.. >> host: judith flanders now joins us. judith flanders writes about the victorian era in of her books. ms. flanders, what is the victorian era when we talk about that? >> guest: well, the victorian era is technically