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Please join us at the Free Library of Philadelphia on July 21st to welcome astronaut Buzz Aldrin who will talk and sign copies of his new book Magnificent Desolation – forty years and a day after the first moon landing.

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Title of Event: Free Library of Philadelphia - Harold Varmus - The Art and Politics of Science
When: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:30 PM
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215.567.4341
Description: A Nobel Prize-winning cancer biologist, former director of the National Institutes of Health, president of the world-renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and co-chair of President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Harold Varmus knows The Art and Politics of Science. His new memoir provides a glimpse into the world of high stakes, big-budget science, and exposes the tensions between laboratory researchers and clinical investigators, scientists, and politicians. “If you’ve ever wondered about the early life of a budding scientist … or the translation of brilliant work into public service,” comments writer Andrea Barrett, “read the account of this passionate, politically engaged, deeply humane scientist.”
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Affect Imagery Consciousness: The Complete Edition: Two Volumes by Tomkins, Silvan S. ..".brilliant..."--Malcolm Gladwell, Author of "Blink" Tomkins's magnum opus, "Affect Imagery Consciousness," was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories--neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human behavior. Tomkins challenged the status quo by developing--over the span of more than 1000 pages--a theory of consciousness and motivation that placed emotion at the core of the human experience. Because so few psychologists were studying emotion at that time, Tomkins drew liberally from other academic disciplines to help formulate his ideas and support his arguments: evolutionary biology, ethology, cybernetics, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurophysiology, among others. In the process, Tomkins practically invented the field of "nonverbal behavior" through close observation of emotional expressions in people, including his own infant son. His work was a brilliantly eccentric pastiche of ideas that adhered to no strict disciplinary or ideological boundaries. In time, however, "AIC" came to prominence through the research of his disciples, notably Paul Ekman and Carroll Izzard, who went on to become major researchers in the psychology of emotion. Today, Tomkins's book is influential not just in psychology but in philosophy, sociology, communication studies, even in "affective computing." Springer Publishing is delighted to re-release Tomkins's magisterial work in a beautiful new two-volume hardcover set, with a new prologue from prominent psychiatrist Donald L. Nathanson. The first volume of the set (978-0-8261-4404-1) contains the first two volumes of "AIC," "The Positive Affects" and "The Negative Affects" while the second volume (978-0-8261-4406-5) includes the final two volumes, "The Negative Affects: Fear and Anger" and "Cognition: Duplication and Transformation of Information."

The Age of Shiva by Suri, Manil Meera is a modern woman who is determined to take her life into her own hands, even if it means mean making one mistake after another. Manil Suri's places the young woman's life against the background of modern India -- with its combustible mixture of religion and politics. With this second novel, he displays an enormous versatility in style as well as subject.--Carla Cohen, Politics &Prose Books &Coffee (Washington, DC)

Art Deco Jewellery and Accessories: A New Style for a New World by Holzach, Cornelie