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The Way We Eat Now:  How the Food Revolution has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World By Bee Wilson Call Number:  TX 631 .W5484 2019 Review and interview with the author from Vice Publisher's Description :   An award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats–and shows us how we can change it for the better.  Food is one of life’s great joys. So why has eating become such a source of anxiety and confusion? Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating, from bubble tea to quinoa, from Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers’ markets, and internet recipe swaps. Yet modern food also kills–diabetes and heart disease are on the rise everywhere on earth...

Last class held in Old Main (March 1979)  Check out the new installation of historical photos in the Lobby of Albertson Hall along the 2nd floor stairwell to celebrate the 125th anniversary of UWSP!  UWSP spring 2010 Commencement  UWSP Chemistry Class - 1894

Quichotte: A Novel By Salman Rushdie Call Number:  PR 6068 .U757 Q53 2019 (currently on the New Book Shelf) Review from The Guardian Publisher's description :   Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote  Don Quixote  to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quic...

What is Open access (OA)? It refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors.  “Open Access Week is an opportunity to take action in making openness the default for research—to raise the visibility of scholarship, accelerate research, and turn breakthroughs into better lives. It also is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress to build more equitable foundations for opening knowledge.” ( source: T he Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition ). While OA is a newer form of scholarly publishing, many OA journals comply with well-established peer-review processes and maintain high publishing standards.  There are many discipline...