@BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", editor = "Anne F. Thurston and Karen Turner-Gottschang and Linda A. Reed", title = "China Bound, Revised: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC", isbn = "978-0-309-04932-0", abstract = "Being prepared in China, says one researcher, can mean \"the difference between a headache and a productive day.\" Acclaimed by readers, this friendly and practical volume\u2014now updated with important new information\u2014offers all the details academic visitors need to make long-term stays in China productive, comfortable, and fun.\nAcademic opportunities have been revived in the years since the Tiananmen Square event, and the book opens with an overview of what we have learned from our academic exchanges with China, the opportunities now available, and resources for more information.\nTo help visitors prepare for daily life, the book covers everything from how to obtain the correct travel documents to what kinds of snack foods are available in China, from securing accommodations to having the proper gift for your Chinese dinner host.\nFrank discussions on the research and academic environments in China will help students, investigators, and teachers from their initial assignment to a danwei, or work unit, to leaving the country with research materials intact. The book offers practical guidelines on working with Chinese academic institutions and research assistants, arranging work-related travel, managing working relationships, resolving language issues, and\u2014perhaps most important\u2014understanding Chinese attitudes and customs toward study, research, and work life.\nNew material in this edition includes an expanded section on science and social science field work, with a discussion of computers: which ones work best in China, how to arrange to bring your computer in, where to find parts and supplies, how to obtain repairs, and more. Living costs, health issues, and addresses and fax numbers for important services are updated. Guidance is offered on currency, transportation, communications, bringing children into China, and other issues.\nBased on the first-hand reports of hundreds of academic visitors to China and original research by the authors, this book will be useful to anyone planning to live and work in China: students, researchers, and teachers and their visiting family members, as well as business professionals.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2111/china-bound-revised-a-guide-to-academic-life-and-work", year = 1994, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "A Relationship Restored: Trends in U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-1984", isbn = "978-0-309-03678-8", abstract = "In what The Wall Street Journal calls \"the first comprehensive analysis of Sino-American educational exchanges,\" this volume provides information on the numbers and attributes of American and Chinese students and scholars who have moved between China and the United States since 1978. This book not only supplies quantitative data on their fields of study, length of stay, and financial resources, but also discusses such qualitative issues as the problems students and scholars have encountered in carrying out their work, the adequacy of their preparation, the \"reabsorption\" process that students and scholars from China face upon their return home, and the impact of the exchange process on fields of study in both countries.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/899/a-relationship-restored-trends-in-us-china-educational-exchanges-1978", year = 1986, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Karen Turner-Gottschang and Linda A. Reed", title = "China Bound: A Guide to Academic Life and Work in the PRC", isbn = "978-0-309-07843-6", abstract = "This comprehensive, highly readable handbook simplifies the sometimes complex aspects of day-to-day life in China. Based on the experience of Americans who have recently studied, done research, and taught there, China Bound gives the invaluable \"inside\" information that only those who have been there can provide. Written primarily for students, scholars, and teachers, the book describes Chinese academic life and work and how Americans can fit into it. And, because it covers such a broad spectrum of topics--from customs regulations, taxation, and medical care to hotel life and how to get laundry done--China Bound is also must reading for anyone who is already planning or just trying to decide whether to plan an extended visit to China. Academic Library Book Review states, \"China Bound is one of those books that is absolutely essential.\"", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/990/china-bound-a-guide-to-academic-life-and-work-in", year = 1987, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition", abstract = "While the mechanisms of evolution are still under investigation, scientists universally accept that the cosmos, our planet, and life evolved and continue to evolve. Yet the teaching of evolution to schoolchildren is still contentious.\nIn Science and Creationism, The National Academy of Sciences states unequivocally that creationism has no place in any science curriculum at any level.\nBriefly and clearly, this booklet explores the nature of science, reviews the evidence for the origin of the universe and earth, and explains the current scientific understanding of biological evolution. This edition includes new insights from astronomy and molecular biology.\nAttractive in presentation and authoritative in content, Science and Creationism will be useful to anyone concerned about America's scientific literacy: education policymakers, school boards and administrators, curriculum designers, librarians, teachers, parents, and students.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6024/science-and-creationism-a-view-from-the-national-academy-of", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 59", isbn = "978-0-309-04198-0", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs: Volume 59 contains short biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1652/biographical-memoirs-volume-59", year = 1990, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 87", isbn = "978-0-309-09579-2", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs Volume 87 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11522/biographical-memoirs-volume-87", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 75", isbn = "978-0-309-06295-4", abstract = "Biographical Memoirs is a series of essays containing the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences. The series provides a record of the life and work of some of the most distinguished leaders in the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers. They form a biographical history of science in America\u2014an important part of our nation's contribution to the intellectual heritage of the world.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9649/biographical-memoirs-volume-75", year = 1998, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 89", isbn = "978-0-309-11372-4", abstract = "On March 3, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Act of Incorporation that brought the National Academy of Sciences into being. In accordance with that original charter, the Academy is a private, honorary organization of scientists, elected for outstanding contributions to knowledge, who can be called upon to advise the federal government. As an institution the Academy's goal is to work toward increasing scientific knowledge and to further the use of that knowledge for the general good.\nThe Biographical Memoirs, begun in 1877, are a series of volumes containing the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased members of the Academy. Colleagues familiar with the discipline and the subject's work prepare the essays. These volumes, then, contain a record of the life and work of our most distinguished leaders in the sciences, as witnessed and interpreted by their colleagues and peers. They form a biographical history of science in America\u2014an important part of our nation's contribution to the intellectual heritage of the world.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12042/biographical-memoirs-volume-89", year = 2007, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 69", isbn = "978-0-309-05346-4", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs: Volume 69 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5193/biographical-memoirs-volume-69", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 84", isbn = "978-0-309-08957-9", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs Volume 84 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10992/biographical-memoirs-volume-84", year = 2004, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 65", isbn = "978-0-309-07359-2", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs: Volume 65 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4548/biographical-memoirs-volume-65", year = 1994, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 82", isbn = "978-0-309-09286-9", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs Volume 82 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10683/biographical-memoirs-volume-82", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", editor = "Rita Guenther and Micah Lowenthal and Lalitha Sunderesan", title = "India-United States Cooperation on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism: Summary of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-31296-7", abstract = "India and the United States are the world's two largest democracies with distinguished scientific traditions and experts in a wide range of scientific-technical fields. Given these strengths and the ability to learn from one another, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences together with the National Institute for Advanced Studies in Bangalore, India, held a joint Indian-U.S. workshop to identify and examine potential areas for substantive scientific and technical cooperation that can support counterterrorism efforts through the Homeland Security Dialogue and through direct cooperation. India-United States Cooperation on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism is the summary of that workshop. This report examines topics such as biological threats; protection of nuclear facilities; security (physical and cyber) for chemicals, chemical facilities and other critical infrastructure; and monitoring, surveillance, and emergency response. The report also identifies and examines promising areas for further Indian-U.S. cooperation. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18960/india-united-states-cooperation-on-science-and-technology-for-countering-terrorism", year = 2014, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 57", isbn = "978-0-309-03729-7", abstract = "This distinguished series contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. A cumulative index for all 57 volumes is now included. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.\nVolume 57 includes biographies of: Arthur Francis Buddington, J. George Harrar, Paul Herget, John Dove Isaacs III, Bessel Kok, Otto Krayer, Rebecca Craighill Lancefield, Harold Dwight Lasswell, Jay Laurence Lush, John Howard Mueller, Robert Franklin Pitts, John Robert Raper, Karl Sax, Gerhard Schmidt, Leslie Spier, Hans-Lukas Teuber, and Warren Weaver.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1000/biographical-memoirs-volume-57", year = 1987, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "David B. Roe and Jay G. Wilpon", title = "Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines", isbn = "978-0-309-04988-7", abstract = "Science fiction has long been populated with conversational computers and robots. Now, speech synthesis and recognition have matured to where a wide range of real-world applications\u2014from serving people with disabilities to boosting the nation's competitiveness\u2014are within our grasp.\nVoice Communication Between Humans and Machines takes the first interdisciplinary look at what we know about voice processing, where our technologies stand, and what the future may hold for this fascinating field. The volume integrates theoretical, technical, and practical views from world-class experts at leading research centers around the world, reporting on the scientific bases behind human-machine voice communication, the state of the art in computerization, and progress in user friendliness. It offers an up-to-date treatment of technological progress in key areas: speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural language understanding.\nThe book also explores the emergence of the voice processing industry and specific opportunities in telecommunications and other businesses, in military and government operations, and in assistance for the disabled. It outlines, as well, practical issues and research questions that must be resolved if machines are to become fellow problem-solvers along with humans.\nVoice Communication Between Humans and Machines provides a comprehensive understanding of the field of voice processing for engineers, researchers, and business executives, as well as speech and hearing specialists, advocates for people with disabilities, faculty and students, and interested individuals.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2308/voice-communication-between-humans-and-machines", year = 1994, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 90", isbn = "978-0-309-12148-4", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs Volume 90 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12562/biographical-memoirs-volume-90", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science", isbn = "978-0-309-05293-1", abstract = "What activities might a teacher use to help children explore the life cycle of butterflies? What does a science teacher need to conduct a \"leaf safari\" for students? Where can children safely enjoy hands-on experience with life in an estuary? Selecting resources to teach elementary school science can be confusing and difficult, but few decisions have greater impact on the effectiveness of science teaching.\nEducators will find a wealth of information and expert guidance to meet this need in Resources for Teaching Elementary School Science. A completely revised edition of the best-selling resource guide Science for Children: Resources for Teachers, this new book is an annotated guide to hands-on, inquiry-centered curriculum materials and sources of help in teaching science from kindergarten through sixth grade. (Companion volumes for middle and high school are planned.)\nThe guide annotates about 350 curriculum packages, describing the activities involved and what students learn. Each annotation lists recommended grade levels, accompanying materials and kits or suggested equipment, and ordering information.\nThese 400 entries were reviewed by both educators and scientists to ensure that they are accurate and current and offer students the opportunity to:\n\n Ask questions and find their own answers.\n Experiment productively.\n Develop patience, persistence, and confidence in their own ability to solve real problems.\n\nThe entries in the curriculum section are grouped by scientific area\u2014Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Multidisciplinary and Applied Science\u2014and by type\u2014core materials, supplementary materials, and science activity books. Additionally, a section of references for teachers provides annotated listings of books about science and teaching, directories and guides to science trade books, and magazines that will help teachers enhance their students' science education.\nResources for Teaching Elementary School Science also lists by region and state about 600 science centers, museums, and zoos where teachers can take students for interactive science experiences. Annotations highlight almost 300 facilities that make significant efforts to help teachers.\nAnother section describes more than 100 organizations from which teachers can obtain more resources. And a section on publishers and suppliers give names and addresses of sources for materials.\nThe guide will be invaluable to teachers, principals, administrators, teacher trainers, science curriculum specialists, and advocates of hands-on science teaching, and it will be of interest to parent-teacher organizations and parents.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4966/resources-for-teaching-elementary-school-science", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 72", isbn = "978-0-309-05788-2", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs: Volume 72 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5859/biographical-memoirs-volume-72", year = 1997, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Sciences", title = "Biographical Memoirs: Volume 70", isbn = "978-0-309-05541-3", abstract = "Biographic Memoirs: Volume 70 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works. Each biographical essay was written by a member of the Academy familiar with the professional career of the deceased. For historical and bibliographical purposes, these volumes are worth returning to time and again.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5406/biographical-memoirs-volume-70", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Thomas Eisner and Jerrold Meinwald", title = "Chemical Ecology: The Chemistry of Biotic Interaction", isbn = "978-0-309-05281-8", abstract = "Chemical signals among organisms form \"a vast communicative interplay, fundamental to the fabric of life,\" in the words of one expert. Chemical ecology is the the discipline that seeks to understand these interactions-to use biology in the search for new substances of potential benefit to humankind.\nThis book highlights selected research areas of medicinal and agricultural importance. Leading experts review the chemistry of:\n\n Insect defense and its applications to pest control.\n Phyletic dominance\u2014the survival success of insects.\n Social regulation, with ant societies as a model of multicomponent signaling systems.\n Eavesdropping, alarm, and deceit\u2014the array of strategies used by insects to find and lure prey.\n Reproduction\u2014from the gamete attraction to courtship nd sexual selection.\n The chemistry of intracellular immunosuppression.\n\nTopics also include the appropriation of dietary factors for defense and communication; the use of chemical signals in the marine environment; the role of the olfactory system in chemical analysis; and the interaction of polydnaviruses, endoparasites, and the immune system of the host.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4979/chemical-ecology-the-chemistry-of-biotic-interaction", year = 1995, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }