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Chimpanzee Politics on stage

In a zoo in Holland, a modern day Macbeth unfolds. Hominid is based on the true story of conspiracy, murder, and suicide captured by Frans de Waal in Chimpanzee Politics.

Hominid, commissioned for The Playwriting Center at Emory, is a play based on the research of Emory's own Frans de Waal, one of the world’s leading behavioral scientists. After reading a handful of de Waal's books, interviewing his associates, and hanging out with the chimps, Ken Weitzman and his team returned to de Waal’s very first book Chimpanzee Politics, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. He realized de Waal's story had everything they needed for their story line.

And, even stranger, a book published by an academic press is made into a play! A leader and innovator in scholarly publishing since 1878, the Johns Hopkins University Press publishes and distributes books, journals, and online collections for a worldwide audience of students, professionals, and general readers.

Hominid opens November 12, 2009, at the Mary Gray Munroe Theater at Emory University and runs through the 22nd. For more information please visit www.theater.emory.edu/Theater-Emory/09-Hominid.php.

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Prescribing by Numbers wins Carson Prize

Jeremy A. Greene's Prescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease is Hopkins’ latest award-winning book, having taken the Society for the Social Studies of Science's (4S) Rachel Carson Prize at the organization's annual meeting this past weekend.

The Carson Prize is awarded annually to the best socially or politically relevant book focused on science and technology studies. Called "one of the best, and most significant, books published recently on the development of medical practice and the pharmaceutical industry in the USA " by the journal Social History of Medicine, Greene's heralded book explores the relationship between preventative medical practice and pharmaceutical marketing.

Commenting on Prescribing by Numbers at the 2009 4S meeting, Sergio Sismondo, editor of the Society's journal, saluted Greene's "multivalent constructivism . . . that happily moves from classical sociology of knowledge through a material turn to questions about what scientists put in their laboratories to questions about how to build technologies and back to classical sociology of knowledge."

For more information about the Rachel Carson Prize, visit the 4S website, http://www.4sonline.org/carson.htm.

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Contested Paternity takes third book award

The American Historical Association (AHA) announced that Rachel Fuchs is the winner of its 2009 J. Russell Major Prize for her book Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France.

The Major Prize is awarded annually for the best English-language book on any aspect of French history. Professor Fuchs's book draws on judicial and other paternity-related records to probe the complex notions of paternity and fatherhood in modern France and how these concepts play out culturally and among individual men and women. She will receive the prize at the Association's annual conference this coming January.

Contested Paternity won two other awards, the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians and the Charles E. Smith Award from the European History section of the Southern Historical Association.

J. Russell Major (1921–1998), for whom this prize is named, was a Hopkins author as well. His book, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates, won the AHA's Leo Gershoy Award in 1995. For more information on the J. Russell Major Prize, please visit, http://www.historians.org/prizes/awarded/MajorWinner.htm.

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Hopkins author wins USA Book News Award

USA Book News just announced its Best Books of 2009 and Jill Grimes's Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs took the honor in the Health: Sexuality and Sex category.

Dr. Grimes's book relates the real-life stories of young people infected with sexually transmitted diseases to show that the all-too-common "it can't happen to me" attitude of many sexually active teens and young adults is a myth. Her narrative explains the physical symptoms that accompany infection and recounts the emotional reactions that often go hand-in-hand with such a diagnosis. The book has received numerous glowing reviews from publications ranging from Library Journal and the Sacramento Book Review to Healthbot.net and GetBetterHealth.com.

For more information about the honor, please visit http://www.usabooknews.com/health/sexuality.html.

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2009: International Year of Astronomy

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named 2009 the International year of Astronomy. The theme for this celebratory year is "The Universe, Yours to Discover". Explore these new and recently published JHUP astronomy titles:

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