ShelfLife@Texas October 2009 Blog Archive

CONTENTS: A Q&A with the Authors of “Why Women Have Sex” -- Next Paisano Fellow shares tall tales, not-so-tall tales and “Birdisms” -- Lightning Strikes Twice -- BookPeople reading features law professor's journey from Alaska to Gitmo -- Digital Media: Exploration of Social Networking and New Media -- Winners of the Hamilton Book Awards Announced -- Texas Book Festival Begins this Weekend || WORKS MENTIONED IN CONTENTS: "Why Women Have Sex" by Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss -- “Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein’s Relativity” by Alberto Martínez -- “Justice at Guantanamo: One Woman’s Odyssey and Her Crusade for Human Rights” by Kristine A. Huskey -- “The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future” by Craig Watkins -- “Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War” by Jacqueline Jones -- “The Origin of Speech” by Peter MacNeilage -- “Reforming the Moral Subject: Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930” by Tracie Matysik -- “Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics” by Karen Rascati -- “Minerva’s Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought” by Jeffrey Abramson -- "Amigoland" by Oscar Casares -- “You Majored in What?: Mapping Your Path from Chaos to Career” by Kate Brooks -- “The Supreme Court and the American Elite” by Lucas A. Powe, Jr. -- “Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the Brisket” by Elizabeth Engelhardt -- “Prophets & Princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the Present” by Mark Weston