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The best nonfiction science books and articles demonstrate that accurate science can be presented to the public so that it is understandable, yet as gripping as fine fiction. Some of these works serve as examples for students taking science-writing workshops. However, programs in science writing, journalism, English, the sciences, and medicine may benefit from offering a course that explores science writing as literature. Nonfiction books published each year outnumber fiction books by more than six to one, yet relatively few nonfiction literature courses exist, and science-writing-as-literature courses are rare, although popular with students. Courses in science writing as literature are known to have been taught at six universities. Courses have varied in emphasis (biology, medicine, general) and approach (one compared scientists and nonscientists as science writers). This report surveys the readings and features of existing courses.

Early modern Germany saw the dissemination of vast quantities of information at unprecedented speed. Popular knowledge, scientific inquiry, and scholarship influenced the political order, poetic expression, public opinion, and mechanisms of social control. This collection presents twelve essays by distinguished scholars regarding the transcendent nature of the Divine, the natural world, the body, sexuality, intellectual property, aesthetics, demons, and witches. The contributors are Thomas Cramer, Walter Haug, C. Stephen Jaeger, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Jan-Dirk Måller, James A. Parente, Jr., Stephan K. Schindler, Gerhard F. Strasser, Lynne Tatlock, Elaine Tennant, Horst Wenzel, and Gerhild Scholz Williams.

V. 2, 1851. ; "Text . is based upon the well-known 'Bilder atlas zum conversations lexicon' . The second volume . has been entirely rewritten."--Pref. ; Atlas in ten "divisions," each of which, except the 4th, has special t.-p. ; I. Mathematics and astronomy, physics and meteorology, chemistry, mineralogy, geognosy and geology.--II. Botany, zoology, anthropology, and surgery.--III. Geography and planography, history and ethnology, military sciences, naval sciences.--IV. Architecture, mythology, the fine arts, technology.--Plates. 2v. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Text . is based upon the well-known 'Bilder atlas zum conversations lexicon' . The second volume . has been entirely rewritten."--Pref. ; Atlas in ten "divisions," each of which, except the 4th, has special t.-p. ; I. Mathematics and astronomy, physics and meteorology, chemistry, mineralogy, geognosy and geology.--II. Botany, zoology, anthropology, and surgery.--III. Geography and planography, history and ethnology, military sciences, naval sciences.--IV. Architecture, mythology, the fine arts, technology.--Plates. 2v. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Text . is based upon the well-known 'Bilder atlas zum conversations lexicon' . The second volume . has been entirely rewritten."--Pref. ; Atlas in ten "divisions," each of which, except the 4th, has special t.-p. ; I. Mathematics and astronomy, physics and meteorology, chemistry, mineralogy, geognosy and geology.--II. Botany, zoology, anthropology, and surgery.--III. Geography and planography, history and ethnology, military sciences, naval sciences.--IV. Architecture, mythology, the fine arts, technology.--Plates. 2v. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This article examines social science research into the socioeconomic and cultural factors associated with immigrants who naturalize. Few of the studies in this review use statistical methodologies and many of the findings are highly impressionistic. Yet, several of the studies find common factors to explain the decision to naturalize. These include: length of residence in the United States, varied potentials for acculturation among different national origin groups, motivation for immigration and formal education and language skills. However, no single study is found that examines all of the variables influencing the naturalization decision.

Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. In this book - brought to English-language readers here for the first time - Vincent Debaene puzzles out this phenomenon, tracing the contours of anthropology and literature's mutual fascination and the ground upon which they meet in the works of thinkers from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille to Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Climate Change and the Contamination of the Anthropocene -- 1 Contaminating Psychology with Biology: Descartes, Spinoza, Freud and Žižek -- 2 Contaminating the Visible with the Invisible: From Einstein via H. G. Wells to Hannah Arendt, Luhmann and Derrida -- 3 Contamination of Nature with Society: The Collapse of Natural Order from Melville to Wells and Ellison -- 4 Contaminating Judgement with its Suspension: Guilt and Punishment in Walter Benjamin, Herman Melville and Henry James -- 5 Contaminating the Digital: Action and Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock -- 6 Contaminating the Sacred with the Profane: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Biopolitics -- 7 Contaminating Posthumanism -- Bibliography -- Index

Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and postcolonial theory, Inventing Maternity surveys a wide range of sources--medical texts, political tracts, religious doctrine, poems, novels, slave narratives, conduct books, and cookbooks. The first half of the volume, covering the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries, consid

International audience ; The European research policy is to foster open science. The Open Science Monitor has been created as one particular source among others before the European Commission will make proposals for policy in cooperation with the member states of the EU and stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to assess the real and potential place of grey literature in the EC Open Science Monitor, in their data sources, in the methodology and indicators, in published surveys and case studies etc. Additionally, as among the objectives of the new French National Plan for Open Science is the creation of a monitoring system, the paper provides comparative information about the French approach to open science monitoring.

International audience ; The European research policy is to foster open science. The Open Science Monitor has been created as one particular source among others before the European Commission will make proposals for policy in cooperation with the member states of the EU and stakeholders. The purpose of this paper is to assess the real and potential place of grey literature in the EC Open Science Monitor, in their data sources, in the methodology and indicators, in published surveys and case studies etc. Additionally, as among the objectives of the new French National Plan for Open Science is the creation of a monitoring system, the paper provides comparative information about the French approach to open science monitoring.