CALS in Print

Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role by Christopher B. Barrett and Daniel G. Maxwell (CARE International)

The authors use a combination of research evidence and operational insights to interrogate food aid myths and to lay out a strategy by which food aid can be much more effective.

The Social Economics of Poverty: On identities, communities, groups, and networks edited by Christopher B. Barrett

An eminent team of scholars turn to one of the most enduring questions in economics: why does poverty persist in a world of abundant resources?

Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions and Other Many-Legged Creatures by Thomas and Maria Eisner and Melody Siegler (Emory University)

Complete with the Eisners’ signature photographs, this new book details weapons—from froth to venom—of insects and other bugs.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct05/book.insect.defenses.ssl.html

The Grail Bird by Tim Gallagher

This new publication gives a detailed account of the long search for the ivory-billed woodpecker by the researcher who first sighted the mysterious bird.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May05/Grailbird.Review.kr.html

Resource Guide for Organic Insect and Disease Management by Tony Shelton and Christine Smart

This 169-page book, written by an entomologist and a plant pathologist, is available in printable PDF format at http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pp/resourceguide/. For a release about the book, see www.nysaes.cornell.edu/pubs/press/current.

Marketing Nutrition: Soy, Functional Foods, Biotechnology, and Obesity by Brian Wansink

This book, intended for brand managers, health professionals, public policy officials, and researchers, gives strategies for developing 'win-win' ways to encourage people to eat better.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct05/book.wansink.ssl.html