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Bookshelf Lonnie Golden, associate professor of economics at Penn State Delaware County Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives, published by Routledge Press, London, N.Y. Golden co-edited this book with Deborah Figart, professor of economics at Richard Stockton College. The volume presents a comprehensive analysis of current trends, explanations, measurement issues and policy options regarding work time. It links discussions of overwork, underemployment, shortening of the work week, unpaid work time and flexible work practices, emphasizing the differential distribution of work hours across countries, demographic groups, occupations and industries. Sridhar Komarneni, professor of clay mineralogy Nanophase and Nanocomposite Materials III, published by the Materials Research Society, Warrendale. Komarneni is co-editor of the book, which compiles papers from 23 countries. The book is the result of a symposium held by the Materials Research Society. George Looney, assistant professor of English and creative writing at Penn State Erie Attendant Ghosts, published by Cleveland State University Press. This is a second collection of poetry from Looney. Pat Shipman, adjunct professor of anthropology The Man Who Found the Missing Link, published by Simon and Schuster. The book is a biography of the life of Eugene Dubois, the Dutch anatomist who in 1887 set out to find the transitional ape-man that would prove Darwin's theory of evolution. Dubois found the missing link he called Pithecanthropus erectus -- now known as Homo erectus-- in Java in 1891-1893. Unfortunately, Pithecanthropus did not fit the general preconceived notion of what a missing link should have looked like or where it should have lived. So Dubois, once scorned for quitting his professorship to "follow Darwin's crazy idea," later found his conclusions challenged by the scientific community in Europe. He was eventually vindicated more than 30 years later. |