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World English rights sold to the University of California Press
for Too Hot: China’s New Economy and Global Warming by Robert Collier.
Collier is a former San
Francisco Chronicle reporter and Global Warming Fellow at the Goldman
School of Public Policy. This first-hand account of China's disastrous (and growing)
"carbon footprint" is his first book and will be published in 2008. His editor at UC Press is Naomi Schneider.
North American Rights to THE PHYSICS OF NASCAR: The
Science Behind the Speed by Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska sold to Stephen Morrow
at Dutton (Penguin Group), for publication February 14, 2008, just in time for Daytona.
This entertaining popular science book
will use behind-the-scenes interviews from the race circuit to demonstrate everything from how friction holds tires to
the track to why so many NASCAR drivers and crew chiefs need advance engineering degrees. It will draw on Professor
Leslie-Pelecky's National Science Foundation grant to develop a NASCAR-sponsored curriculum to improve science teaching.
Check out: www.stockcarscience.com
ON PROCRASTINATION by William Pannapacker
World English publication book rights sold
to Atria (Simon & Schuster):
Hope College English professor and Whitman scholar William Pannapacker's ON PROCRASTINATION, a celebration of the virtues of avoidance and postponement, based on the Chronicle of
Higher Education column which the author writes as Thomas H. Benton. Editor: Peter Borland at Atria.
Web link for William Pannapacker:
www.hope.edu/academic/english/pannapacker
Including samples of his writings (both scholarship and journalism), as well as a video link
to Pannapacker’s appearance on the 2005 PBS Emmy-nominated “American Originals” piece about Walt Whitman.
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Subsidiary Rights:
OVERCOMING HEARING AID FEARS by John M. Burkey, Rutgers University
Press 2004
Large Print Rights sold to Thorndike
WISDOM OF EARTH’S ELDERS by Jerry Friedman
(Earth's Elders Foundation, 2005)
Spanish Volume Rights sold to Jorge Lis, Valencia Spain
FYI, ideas we like
 WHO Supports Net Giveaways, by Gretchen Vogel Science NOW Daily
News 16 August 2007
"In areas hard-hit by malaria,
one of the best defenses is an insecticide-treated net. But for years, malaria experts and health advocates have debated about
the best way to get nets to the people who need them. New data from Kenya suggest that the answer is clear: Hand them out
for free. . . ."
Sometimes thinking small can get things done. To bring artificial light to an isolated village or refugee camp could require
building an enormous hydroelectric dam, followed by laying hundreds of miles of cable. Or it could take the donation of a
$10 solar flashlight. -- NYT May 2007
SunNight Solar’s BOGO Light helps solve the most daunting issues in the developing world: poverty,
literacy and education, health and safety, environmental impacts, the empowerment of women, and family security.
Josephine McKee recommends this international
medical aid program: www.projectpacer.org.
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