Peter Bordi, assistant professor of hotel, restaurant and recreation management, and Carolyn Lambert, associate professor of food systems management, both in the School of Hotel, Restaurant and Recreation Management, have helped create a cookbook with recipes designed to provide a family of four with tasty and nutritious meals for less than $100 a week.
Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals has been created by the pair in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The book is designed for anyone who wants to eat a healthy diet that meets federal dietary guidance at minimal cost.
The recipes in the book were developed and tested in the Food Service Research Kitchen at University Park in cooperation with the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP). Four-person families with limited incomes prepared and evaluated the menus and recipes for taste and quality.
The menu and recipe book, which has more than 40 recipes, also contains information on shopping, cooking healthy meals and food safety. Copies of the book can be downloaded in pdf format from the Web site of the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion at: http://www.usda.gov/cnpp.
Christopher Clausen, professor of English, has written a new book.
Faded Mosaic: The Emergence of Post-Cultural America, published by Ivan R. Dee.
In his book, Clausen argues that the United States has become the world's first post-cultural society. He said that America no longer has a single dominant culture that bestows on people a stable identity -- or sets limits on their thoughts and behavior -- as traditional cultures once did. He said Americans need to study other cultures in a penetrating and disciplined way to sort out some ways of living, some ways of making choices that we have to make, in a society where no culture places any demand on us. Clausen said we need to emphasize the positive aspects of this post-cultural condition while avoiding the shallowness, conformity and aimlessness that are its negative aspects.
E. Willard Miller, professor emeritus of geography and associate dean emeritus in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Penn State; S.K. Majumdar of Lafayette College; H.S. Pitkow of Temple University; and L.P. Bird of Eastern College have co-edited a book.
Ethics in Academia has been published by the Pennsylvania Academy of Science.
In Ethics in Academia, authors tackle a wide variety of subjects surrounding issues in higher education. Topics such as the role of ethics education, college student development and minority education are also discussed. Other sections deal with curriculum, teaching and examinations, and also ethical and legal concerns surrounding the use of humans and animals in research. The rationality of affirmative action is also discussed, as well as the peer review criteria in faculty hiring, promotion and tenure processes.
The following Penn State faculty contributed chapters to the book: Roger M. Downs, professor of geography and department head; Laurel S. Terry, professor of law; Stephanie A. Shields, professor of psychology and women's studies; George R. Simms, family medicine; Kenneth J. Clarke Sr., director of the Center for Ethical and Religious Affairs; Thomas G. Poole, associate vice provost for educational equity; Clyde Woods, associate professor of African and African American studies; James B. Stewart, professor of labor studies and industrial relations and African and African American studies; George J. Bugyi, executive secretary, University Faculty Senate; and E. Willard Miller.
E. Willard Miller, professor emeritus of geography and associate dean emeritus in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and Ruby M. Miller, retired associate librarian at Penn State, have authored a book. This is the ninth book co-authored by the couple.
Natural Disasters: Floods is published by ABC/CLIO of Santa Barbara, Calif.
The book discusses the origins of floods, flood prediction, flood control, flood plan management and flood insurance. It also focuses on flood organization and laws regulating flood control, as well as provides a chronology of floods. A major bibliography lists books and studies in journals and the first chapter presents an annotated list of audiovisual materials.
Antonio Vallone, associate professor of English at Penn State DuBois, has had his latest collection of poems published by Damballah Press of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Golden Carp is Vallone's third published collection.
The book centers on such popular themes as nature and the human condition, as well as explores the important role mystery plays in life. The poems were written, according to Vallone, for people who don't think they like poetry. The book's title is derived from the poem Vallone believes is most representative of the others in the set. In the poem "Golden Carp," a tranquil canoe ride triggers the reminiscence of a fishing trip taken on a summer day long ago.
Readers will find a sequence of artwork created by Michael Fels of State College, assistant professor of art at Penn State DuBois, in the center section of the book.
Vallone's other collections are The Blackbird's Applause and Grass Saxophones.
Stanley Weintraub, professor emeritus of arts and humanities, is author of a new book.
MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero, published by Free Press, a division of Simon and Schuster.
The book offers a detailed account of the flawed command of the famed Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who initially was in charge of the U.N. and U.S. forces in the Korean conflict but later was fired by President Harry Truman. Covering events from June 1950 to April 1951, Weintraub conducted extensive research through Communist and American sources to create a rich tale in the voices of its participants. Go to http://www.psu.edu/ur/2000/koreanwar.html for more information.
Ann S. Pancake, assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Penn State Erie, is the author of a new short story collection.
Given Ground, which will be published by the University Press of New England in 2001, recently won the Bakeless Prize, a national award sponsored by Bread Loaf Writers' Conference for a first book of fiction. Pancake will receive a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference next year.
Adam J. Sorkin, professor of English at Penn State Delaware County, has published a book containing translations of 32 poems by the Romanian poet Magda Cârneci.
Poeme/Poems is a dual-language volume titled in both Romanian and English. The English translations were all done by Sorkin in collaboration with the poet. The 139-page volume was published in the "Colectia Gemini" series in Pitesti, Romania, by Editura Paralela 45.
Cârneci is both a prominent poet who first came to be known in her native literature in the 1980s and an art historian with a doctorate from the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. Cârneci works as senior researcher at the Institute of Art History in Bucharest and an associate professor in the American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest.
Adam J. Sorkin, professor of English at Penn State Delaware County, has translated 63 poems for a recently published book.
Triumph of the Water Witch, published by Bloodaxe Books in Newcastle upon Tyne, contains 63 poems by Romanian poet Ioana Ieronim. The 96-page volume was supported by a grant from the Arts Council of England and contains a foreword by Sorkin and extensive notes to the poems.
The Triumph of the Water Witch, which consists largely of prose poems, is Ieronim's lament for the loss of the thriving German community of Râsnov where she was reared. The town survived for eight centuries before being destroyed in four decades through the imposition of Soviet-style control and the restrictive political climate of Romania under Nicolae Ceausescu. Written during the worst years of the Ceausescu period, these are poems Ieronim never expected to see published.
The Triumph of the Water Witch is Sorkin's 13th book of poetry translations from the Romanian.
Francis T.S. Yu, professor of electrical engineering, is the author of a new book.
Entropy and Information Optics, a 338-page text, has been published by Marcel Dekker Inc. of New York.
The book focuses on developing more efficient optical communication and information processing systems. Entropy and Information Optics examines the relationship between entropy and information optics as the impetus for the research and development of high-speed, high-data-rate and high-capacity communications systems. The text serves as a reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering who wish to specialize in optics, photonics and optical communications. Research engineers, scientists and technical staffs working in optical communication, photonic devices, sensing, storage, switching and networking also may find the book useful.
The book's numerous topics include Shannon's entropy theory of information; Gabor's communication theory; Brillouin's negentropy concept; Wigner signal representation, recovering and detection; linear systems; coherent and digital image restoration, differences and constraints; and optical channel encode.