The following gems from the Cornell University Press backlist are now available as ebooks from Amazon, Google, and Kobo: The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations …... more >>
Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson, O.P. is reviewed by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker in Our Sunday Visitor: A fresh look at a familiar saint: Francis of Assisi. Here’s an excerpt: “In this extensive work, based on all the... more >>
Recent arrivals in our warehouse include: The Contagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia by Simon Finger Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969 by Dean J... more >>
Recent arrivals in our warehouse include: Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation by Frank Ankersmit No Family Is an Island: Cultural Expertise among Samoans in Diaspora by Ilana Gershon She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare... more >>
The past month brought a remarkable string of prizes for Cornell University Press books. Recent award winners include: Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician by Elizabeth Eva Leach Winner of the 2012 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize (Renaissance... more >>
May 2012
This week (May 6–12) is National Nurses Week in the United States! Since 2003, Cornell has been a leading publisher of books for and about nurses, honoring and assisting a profession that embraces dedicated people with varied skills, strengths and passions. For the next month (through June 8), receive a 25% discount off the list price of all of our books for nurses:
From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public, Second Edition by Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon
Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines by Suzanne Gordon
Nursing against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care by Suzanne Gordon
When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Stories of Nurses Standing Up for Themselves, Their Patients, and Their Profession edited by Suzanne Gordon
Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care by Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton
Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety by Suzanne Gordon, Patrick Mendenhall, and Bonnie Blair O'Connor
Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy by Mireille Kingma
First, Do Less Harm: Confronting the Inconvenient Problems of Patient Safety edited by Ross Koppel and Suzanne Gordon
The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered edited by Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon
Notes on Nightingale: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon edited by Sioban Nelson, Anne Marie Rafferty
Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing by Dana Beth Weinberg
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