Rosemary Caffarella, professor of education, and co-authors Sharan Merriam and Lisa Baumgartner are the winners of a 2007 Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education for their book, Learning in Adulthood: A Comprehensive Guide (Third Edition; San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006). The Houle Award is given annually by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education for a book published in English in the previous year that reflects universal concerns of adult educators, is relevant to adult educators in more than one country, and exemplifies outstanding literature in adult education. This is Caffarella's second Houle Award.
Cornell Cooperative Extension has published a new, 125-page, self-teaching workbook for grape growers in New York and the Northeast about sustainable grape growing. The workbook, New York Guide to Sustainable Viticulture Practices, is available in both print and online versions. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct07/viticulture.workbook.html
Tarleton Gillespie, assistant professor of communication, examines three recent controversies over digital copyright in Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (June 2007, MIT Press): the failed effort to develop copy protection for portable music players with the Strategic Digital Music Initiative (SDMI); the encryption system used in DVDs and the film industry's legal response to the tools that challenged them; and the attempt by the FCC to mandate the "broadcast flag" copy protection system for digital television. In each, he argues that, whether or not such technical constraints ever succeed, the political alignments required will profoundly shape the future of cultural expression in a digital age. http://www.wiredshut.org/.
The Pond Guidebook, a new Cornell Cooperative Extension booklet published by the Natural Resource, Agriculture and Engineering Service, provides practical advice, remedies and management tips about large ponds, says co-author Cliff Kraft, associate professor of fishery and aquatic sciences. It addresses such key topics as pond water chemistry, pond construction, safety, aquatic weed management options, pond fish selection and stocking, dealing with nuisance wildlife, enhancing ponds with vegetation, beach construction and leaking ponds. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct07/pond.book.sl.html
Bernard F. “Bud” Stanton, professor emeritus of applied economics and management, has published a new biography: George F. Warren, Farm Economist. The book tells the story of Warren's formative years as a farm boy, student, and teacher in Nebraska, his move to Cornell University to study with Liberty Hyde Bailey, and his productive years as a Cornell professor. It tells of the surveys of orchards in Wayne and Orleans Counties which became his Ph.D. thesis, his developing interest in the business side of agriculture, the great success of his first book, The Elements of Agriculture, and his key roles in the development of farm management as a field of study in the years before World War I. http://aem.cornell.edu/news/warren.htm