In response to the often-cited need to improve science literacy in the United States, this book examines how popular science information resources contribute to this goal and recommends nearly 2,500 significant titles―70 percent published since 1990―representing all fields of modern science. This guide provides librarians, educators, and other information specialists with an understanding of science literacy, as well as the knowledge of the skills and principles necessary to evaluate works of popular science. The annotated bibliographies are organized into nine subject areas and represent the body of current, significant popular literature for the entire discipline, including reference works, autobiography and biography, history of the discipline, and specific topics within the discipline. Nonprint resources are evaluated as well. This work will be valuable for collection development, making reference recommendations, and designing programmatic learning activities and is intended for public, high school, community college, and college and university librarians, as well as for science teachers.
Librarians and information specialists must develop representative collections and be able to evaluate and recommend scientific information resources effectively. This work is unique in developing a unifying contextual background and linking popular science library collections to science literacy. Part One, Scientific Information, Popular Science, and Lifelong Learning, discusses historical and current issues related to popular science, science literacy, and information resources. Included is the most exhaustive discussion available of how to evaluate works of popular science. Part Two, Subject Guides to Popular Information Resources, is an annotated bibliography of 2,500 recommended print and nonprint works in general science, astronomy and space sciences, biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics, medicine and health sciences, natural history, physics, and technology and applied science. Each core entry contains a complete bibliographic citation, a 25-75 word descriptive and evaluative annotation, and a list of review sources. Annotations consider the resource's level of relevance, scope, comprehensibility, and uniqueness, and compare resources, especially the ways in which they complement or contrast with one another. Additional recommended titles contain a brief annotation.

Building a Popular Science Library Collection for High School to Adult Learners: Issues and Recommended Resources

Sapp, Gregg

Reference

Greenwood

As we enter a new millennium, librarianship and other information professions are swept up in a period of rapid, almost frantic, change. But while there is widespread recognition that libraries in the future will be vastly different from what we know today, precisely how this change will occur is and always has been a matter of considerable speculation. To this end, Gregg Sapp has analyzed library-based predictions made between 1978, the year F.W. Lancaster published Toward Paperless Information Systems, and 1999;and compared them with seminal works published since 1876, the publication of the first issue of American Library Journal. Includes [between 500 and 700] annotated entries.

A Brief History of the Future of Libraries: An Annotated Bibliography

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Scarecrow Press

This sprawling, footnoted, comedic epic centers around Vonn Carp, who travels to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio, for a funeral. He is returning disgraced and destitute, when, after a long and productive career in higher education, he was discovered to have falsified his academic credentials 20 years prior. Recently divorced and suddenly unemployable, he reluctantly agrees to join his father, Milt, in what he considers an iffy business venture—Dollarapalooza, a family-owned dollar store.For Milt the shop is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream for old fashioned mercantilism, a \u201cgeneral\u201d store. The store falls on hard times when a massive, big box \u201cWow-Mart\u201d opens across the street and after a nearly tragic armed robbery in his store, Milt disappears. To the surprise and chagrin of the Carp family, Vonn insists on re-opening Dollarapalooza. Along with the storeÆs eccentric staff, Vonn fashions an alternative business model aiming to make a difference in peopleÆs lives \u201cone dollar at a time.\u201d For just one dollar, Vonn will answer anybodyÆs question on any topic, and the citizens of Columbus come to him seeking his opinions on subjects like love, celibacy, anthropology, metaphysics, the Internet, and the true meaning of value. Through his interactions with the storeÆs staff and customers, he conceives a new way of life with a changed outlook and a restored sense of purpose.

Dollarapalooza or The Day Peace Broke Out in Columbus (Switchgrass Books)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Northern Illinois University Press

This reference aims to enable the reader to locate rapidly fictional biographies of the famous and not so famous, ranging from Absalom to Queen Victoria. It gives the name of the novel, author's name, reading level, publication date, any awards the book may have won, and guidance on reviews.

Historical Figures in Fiction

Politics & Social Sciences

Hartman, Donald K.

Social Sciences

Historical Figures In Fiction:

History & Criticism

"I happen to believe that genius makes people weird," a storyteller once said, explaining how Johnny Appleseed could be at once so peculiar and so profound.
A Novel based upon the True Mythology of Johnny Appleseed
Between 1801 and 1812, Ohio and the Old Northwest territory runs wild and brutal, with a fragile peace, savage living conditions, and the laws of civilization far away. Still, settlers stake everything they own on the chance of building better lives for themselves in this new frontier.
John Chapman--aka Johnny Appleseed--knows this land better than any white man. Everywhere he goes, he shares the "Fresh News Straight from Heaven," which he hears right from the voices of angels who chat with him regularly. God had promised him personally that he could build peace by growing fruit.
Convincing people of that vision, though, is no easy task. Most folks consider him mad.
This land teems with a miscellaneous assemblage of soldiers, scoundrels, freebooters, runaway slaves, circuit riders, and religious cultists. Ambitious politicians, like Aaron Burr and William Henry Harrison, dream of creating a new empire there. Meanwhile, a reformed drunkard emerges among the Shawnee as a Prophet, one who spoke with the Great Spirit, Waashaa Monetoo. Along with his brother, the war chief Tecumseh, the Prophet begins building an Indian coalition to take back their land.
Even while the tensions mount, Johnny, with angels urging him on, skates blithely through the crossfire and turmoil, spreading his message, impervious to the mockery and derision being heaped upon him. Finally, however, his faith is challenged when war breaks out in the land, leading to the bloody battle of Tippecanoe between Harrison's army and the Shawnee Prophet's warriors, and ultimately to the declaration of the War of 1812. A violent massacre near the northern Ohio town of Mansfield leaves its citizens terrified and vulnerable.
In a desperate act of faith, Johnny promises the people that he can save them. Thus, he dashes off on a midnight run, seeking to spread peace across a land on the brink of war. With so many lives at stake, Johnny must confront the ultimate test of his convictions.
"Gregg Sapp presents a superbly researched, highly entertaining, and thoroughly enjoyable historically based novel surrounding the exploits of Johnny Appleseed; intertwined with some of the most noteworthy persons and events of the time period. If your initial reaction to the topic is that it may be rather trite---I assure you it is NOT. The historical references and characterizations are intricately researched, creating an exceptional description of lifestyles and living conditions in the cruel harsh frontier at the onset of the nineteenth century." Tim Terry
EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS an adult story of one of America's endearing historical figures: Johnny Appleseed. [DRM-Free]
Books by Gregg Sapp: <ul>
<li>Fresh News Straight from Heaven</li> <li>Holidazed - Book 1: Halloween from the Other Side</li> <li>Holidazed - Book 2: The Christmas Donut Revolution</li> </ul>
More Great Fiction from Evolved Publishing: <ul>
<li>Circles (Shining Light's Saga - Book 1) by Ruby Standing Deer</li> <li>Flirtation Walk (Journey of Cornelia Rose #1) by J.F. Collen</li> <li>Galerie by Steven Greenberg</li> <li>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky by David Litwack</li> </ul>

Fresh News Straight from Heaven: A Novel based upon the True Mythology of Johnny Appleseed

United States

Evolved Publishing

All Huck wants for Christmas is a revolution... and donuts. Vive la Revolution!The American Revolution began with the Boston Tea Party. If Huck Carp has anything to do about it, the next people's revolution will begin in the drive-thru of a sleepy donut shop in a working-class neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.It started as a single random act of kindness when an early morning customer paid forward the next person's order, and so did the next, and the next, and the streak had been going all day long.The crew at the Drip 'n' Donuts shop don't agree on many things, but they come together, each doing their parts to keep the streak alive. As word gets out through social media, people come from across the city to share in the holiday pay-it-forward phenomenon.Forces are conspiring against them, however. First, a December blizzard is blowing into Columbus. Second, a jealous billionaire is determined to crush the Christmas Donut Revolution, and it will take only one person to ruin it for everybody.EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a satirical, down-right funny novel sure to keep a smile on your face.

The Christmas Donut Revolution (Holidazed)

Oh, the irony! Billionaire ladies' man Adam Erb is murdered by lethal valentine candy. On Valentine's Day, notorious bad boy and right-wing podcaster Adam Erb is found dead in the back of his limousine, his mouth stuffed full of erectile dysfunction pills disguised as candy hearts. Huck Carp, an adversary of Erb's and a doctoral student in applied sociology, suggests to police that the perpetrator is a severe psychopath. Imagine his surprise when, in front of his would-be girlfriend, they arrest him for the crime. To prove his innocence, and save his relationship, Huck must utilize all his academic research skills. Aided by friends from his favorite donut shop, he follows the trail of evidence from viral social media hashtags to private performances at the Booti Tooti Gentlemen's Club, and behind the velvet curtain at the mysterious Society of Enlightened Celibate Savants (SECS). Huck is an intellectual, not a lover, but the deeper he probes, the more he realizes that solving this crime will require him to look into his own heart. EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS a satirical, down-right funny novel sure to keep a smile on your face. BOOKS BY GREGG SAPP: <ul> <li>"Fresh News Straight from Heaven"</li> <li>Holidazed - Book 1: "Halloween from the Other Side"</li> <li>Holidazed - Book 2: "The Christmas Donut Revolution"</li> <li>Holidazed - Book 3: "Upside-Down Independence Day"</li> <li>Holidazed - Book 4: "Murder by Valentine Candy"</li> </ul> MORE GREAT FICTION FROM EVOLVED PUBLISHING: <ul> <li>"Hannah's Voice" by Robb Grindstaff</li> <li>"The Colonel and the Bee" by Patrick Canning</li> <li>"Deep Mud" by Ty Spencer Vossler</li> <li>"Indivisible" by Julia Camp</li> </ul>

Murder by Valentine Candy (Holidazed)

Mother-Fracking Earth Day (Holidazed)

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