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The following is a review of the text Shoptalk: Lessons in Teaching from an African American Hair Salon, by Majors (2017). In this text, the author asserts that adopting "shoptalk", a culture specific form of community discourse found in African American hair salons/barbershops, as a pedagogical practice, can sustain cultural pluralism of marginalized students in public education. This text is especially valuable to education research and practice in that it is one of the few, if not the only, text available on the market that attempts to provide a specific example for the implementation of culturally relevant pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "A Student's Guide to Einstein's Major Papers" by Robert E. Kennedy.

The article reviews the book "Collected Papers on Philosophy of Chemistry," by Eric Scerri.

The article reviews the book "Animals and People: Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug," edited by Shaw Badenhorst, Peter Mitchell and Jonathan Driver.

The article reviews the electronic book "Handbook on Book Paper and the Environment," published by the Association of American Publishers, available for download at www.publishers.org.

The article presents an analysis of the "Proceedings of the Fourth Tokyo Conference of Argumentation," a collection of papers presented at the convention held in Japan on August 2012. Among the papers discussed at the conference focus on topics like the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the role of nuclear power argumentation in the society and the characteristics and functions of the argumentation. Bridging the gap between the practical and theoretical analyses of the argumentation is noted.

Reviews the book "The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Vol. 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928,” edited by Esther Katz.

But, according to the authors, understanding pathogen history and evolution holds the key to saving technological humanity from the onslaught of those many EIDs that have yet to explore the immense opportunity space that climate change and human civilization have provided them with. By taking us on a whirlwind tour through the history of such diverse topics as evolutionary biology, the history of vaccines, past pandemics, and climate change, Brooks, Hoberg, and Boeger dismantle our preconceived notions about host-pathogen co-evolution, they explain how we got into the current mess, as they aptly call it, and propose a possible way to get out of it before it is too late. Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, Walter A. Boeger, The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease. [Extracted from the article]

A "cutt" above the rest: theory, practice, and challenges of naming species of iconic trout: Reviewing: Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy. The overarching goal of the workshop and the book is to reevaluate Cutthroat Trout biodiversity and taxonomy based on new species concepts, geological and fossil evidence, and molecular data. Four species are described: I O. clarkii i is retained for Coastal Cutthroat Trout, Lahontan Cutthroat Trout I O. henshawi i , Westslope Cutthroat Trout I O. lewisi i , and Rocky Mountain Cutthroat Trout I O. virginalis i . [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961 by W.E.B. Du Bois," edited by Herbert Aptheker.

The article reviews the book "Equids in Time and Space: Papers in Honour of Véra Eisenmann," edited by Marjan Mashkour.

The article reviews the book "The Boyle Papers: Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle," by Michael Hunter with contributions by Edward B. Davis, Harriet Knight, Charles Littleton and Lawrence M. Principe.

The article reviews the book "Stratigraphy and Geology of Volcanic Areas," edited by G. Groppelli and L. Viereck -Goette.

The article reviews the book "Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers With Commentaries," edited by M. V. Lomolino, D. F. Sax and J. H. Brown.

The article reviews three books including "Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions," by Tony Hallam, "Pavel Tichy's Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy," edited by Vladimir Svoboda, Bjørn Jespersen and Colin Cheyne and "The Essential Turing: The Ideas That Gave Birth to the Computer Age," edited by B. Jack Copeland.

Reviews the book "Assessing Ethnolinguistic Vitality: Theory & Practice. Selected Papers From the Third International Language Assessment Conference," edited by Gloria Kindell and Paul M. Lewis.

"A History of Scientific Journals" is a comprehensive account of the Royal Society of London's Philosophical Transactions from 1665 to its 350th anniversary in 2015. The book explores the development of the Transactions from a speculative commercial venture to the official publication of one of the world's oldest and most influential learned societies. It covers the evolution of scientific publishing, including the introduction of peer review and the growth of specialized journals. The book provides a nuanced and well-researched perspective on the history of science publishing and is recommended for scholars, scientists, students, and policymakers in science-related fields. [Extracted from the article]