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The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has attracted one of the country's academic power couples, Cathy N. Davidson and Ken Wissoker.

Florida chef Norman Van Aken's memoir is finalist in the International Association of Culinary Professionals awards.

Greenberg, G. . Manufacturing depression: The secret history of a modern disease.

Resins specialist CCP Composites has updated its Applications Guide, released two new instructional videos and published the 2014 CCP University schedule.

Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt, on view at the Blanton Museum of Art February 23-May 18, 2014, celebrates the close friendship between two of the most significant American artists of the post-war era: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt .

Jimmi Mayes, 71, a Jackson native who makes his home in Chicago, has enjoyed a 50-year career playing drums for some of the biggest names in American music.

Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource, by David Sedlak Photo: Yale University Press A freeway sign in Los Angeles - one of 700 in the state - advises motorists to save water because of the drought.

Equity Profile Report expands its NYSE Active Stock Weekly Watch List adding Ultra Petroleum Corp. and Yamana Gold, Inc. .

For all the ways that adults enhance real-life relationships with social media, many have a hard time believing that online connectivity is anything but terrifying in the hands of teenagers.

While the Puerto Rican independence movement was a political failure, it has contributed immensely to the Puerto Rican identity, influencing both literature and culture.

Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations . Edited by Nina Hachigian.

At the end of each year, people around the world look back on what's passed and what they've accomplished - including the books they've read and the knowledge they've learned.

DIANE COYLE is a freelance economist and a former advisor to the UK Treasury. She is author, most recently, of GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History , from which this essay is excerpted.

"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites , a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae , loosely tied" by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" .

Cork University Press has entered into an agreement to co-publish books with Bucknell University Press in its Contemporary Irish Writers Series .

The 2014 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, which includes an award of $50,000, will go to co-winners Allen C. Guelzo of Gettysburg College, for "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion," and Martin P. Johnson of Miami University Hamilton, for "Writing the Gettysburg Address" .

The traditional view is that the third century was one both of militarism and of urban decline.

Dr. Sylviane Anna Diouf, Curator of Digital Collections at The New York Public Library 's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture , will deliver "an in-depth look at who the maroons were in the larger context of resistance during American slavery in" based on her book Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons , in the Langston ... (more)

"Fast Food Nation" author Eric Schlosser is among the finalists for this year's Canadian-founded Lionel Gelber Prize for books on foreign affairs.