Category: Forthcoming

Category: Forthcoming

When hostile conditions compromise research protocols: An excerpt from Science in an Extreme Environment

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When hostile conditions compromise research protocols: An excerpt from Science in an Extreme Environment

It’s 1963, and a team of nineteen Americans are embarking on the first expedition that will combine high-altitude climbing with scientific research. The primary objective of the six scientists on the team is to study how severe stress at high altitudes affect human behavior. Ultimately, the expedition will land the first American on the summit of Mount Everest. Science in an Extreme Environment by Philip W. Clements, examines the relationship between extreme environment and scientific inquiry, and investigates the expeditions science program for the first time. Below, we share the introduction from Clements new book:   A frigid gale rose as night fell across Mt. Everest…

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Chuck Noll Biography Featured in Pittsburgh Magazine

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Chuck Noll Biography Featured in Pittsburgh Magazine

Chuck Noll: A Man for All Seasons In a conversation with Pittsburgh Magazine’s Mike Prisuta, MacCambridge provides a glimpse of how this long-awaited biography came to be. Book Excerpt: Head of the Class Noll’s affinity to educate — ‘Play the way you’ve been coached’ — leads to a super start. Immaculate Misconception Biographer Michael MacCambridge reveals Noll to be a thinker, a private family man, a connoisseur and a consummate leader — as four Super Bowl wins attest. View the FULL PDF.

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Legendary Steelers Coach Chuck Noll Fact Blitz

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Legendary Steelers Coach Chuck Noll Fact Blitz

from the new biography Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by Michael MacCambridge To be published by University of Pittsburgh Press October 28, 2016 Chuck Noll won four Super Bowls and presided over one of the greatest football dynasties in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s. But Noll was an intensely private man, never revealing much of himself, not even to the players and fans that revered him. For the first time, Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by national sports writer Michael MacCambridge tells the compelling human story of the legendary Steelers coach. MacCambridge traces Noll’s journey from a Depression-era…

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Forthcoming History and Philosophy of Science books Fall 2015

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Forthcoming History and Philosophy of Science books Fall 2015

  What Makes a Good Experiment?: Reasons and Roles in Science by Allan Franklin   The Crown and the Cosmos: Astrology and the Politics of Maximilian I by Darin Hayton   Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem Edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering   World’s Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937–1942 by Robert Kargon, Karen Fiss, Morris Low, and Arthur Molella    

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Sneak Peek: Forthcoming Poetry Books Fall 2015

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Sneak Peek: Forthcoming Poetry Books Fall 2015

Chard deNiord, Interstate Lynn Emanuel, The Nerve of It—Poems Selected and New Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn Circe Maia and Jesse Lee Kercheval, translator, The Invisible Bridge/El Puente Invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia Nathaniel Marshall, Wild Hundreds Iliana Rocha, Karankawa Ronald Wallace, For Dear Life.    

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