On behalf of my entire team, I hope that your holiday break thus far has been wonderful and you are refreshed for the upcoming 2008 academic term. And, speaking of the next term, it is absolutely not too late to submit your custom publishing project! We're here, ready, and willing to help you kick off the New Year with custom content that reflects your passion for teaching while saving your students money. Please keep in touch, and we look forward to working with you in 2008! Best Wishes, Bassim Hamadeh, Founder and CEO

Online Library Project Hits 1.5 Million Book Milestone Carnegie Mellon University says it has digitized an astounding 1.5 million books as part of its Universal Digital Library project. The ambitious task, launched in 2002, set out to digitize nothing less than all of humanity's published works... Overly-Broad Copyright Law Has Made USA a "Nation of Infringers" How many copyright violations does an average user commit in a single day? John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, calculates in a new paper that he rings up $12.45 million in liability over the course of an average day... Anti-Peer-to-Peer College Bill Advances in House The U.S. House of Representatives has taken a step toward approving a Hollywood-backed spending bill requiring universities to consider offering "alternatives" and "technology-based deterrents" to illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. Opponents question fairness and privacy issues...

Price Tag for State Retiree Benefits: $2.73 Trillion States have set aside about $2 trillion to cover the cost of pensions and health insurance promised teachers, police officers and other public-sector workers, but retiree benefits are still underfunded by about $731 billion... Virginia Tech's Norris Hall To House Peace Center Virginia Tech announced that the second floor of Norris Hall, where 30 students and faculty members were slain in the nation's deadliest college campus shooting, will be used in part to create a Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention... On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data Each day about 1,700 juniors at an East Coast college log on to Facebook.com to accumulate "friends," compare movie preferences, share videos and exchange cybercocktails and kisses. Unwittingly, these students have become the subjects of academic research...

Tenure at MIT Still Largely a Male Domain Just one out of 25 faculty members granted tenure this year at MIT is female, a gender imbalance that appears to contrast with the university's decade-old effort to boost the status of women... Bell Labs Is Gone. Academia Steps In. Pay me now, and pay me later. That's the new mind-set at some leading research universities in dealing with business - and the essence of an emerging model for how corporations can tap big brains on campus without having to pay their salaries... College Cashes In on Diabetes Pain Drug Northwestern University has sold part of its royalty interest in a painkiller made by Pfizer for $700 million in cash...

Too Costly for Even the Well-to-Do Now Harvard will also provide generous aid to students whose annual family incomes reach as high as $180,000. It is a welcome move, but also a disturbing admission that the priciest colleges are now beyond the reach of even many upper-middle-class families... Haverford College Moves Away from Loans Haverford College is the latest exclusive school to replace loans with grants in an effort to increase accessibility in a climate of skyrocketing tuition...

Colleges Move Boldly on Student Drinking When Mindy and Tom Gunn sent their son away to college this fall, they expected the school to send them a bill. They didn't expect a letter saying he'd been caught drinking... Princeton Student Faked Attack, E-Mail Threats A Princeton University student who argued that his conservative views were not accepted on the campus confessed to fabricating an assault and sending threatening e-mail messages to himself and some friends who shared his views... Duke Law School Applicants Warned of Possible ID Theft About 1,400 Duke Law School applicants and two current students are being warned about identity theft concerns after hackers broke into the law school's Web site, where their Social Security numbers were stored in a connected database...

The Human Body Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology - 2nd color edition Paperback, Full Color, 480 pages - $124.95 The Human Body is recommended for use in 1-semester courses at universities, colleges, vocational schools, and high schools. It is specially designed to help students learn by using the process of concept building. Learning becomes easier and lasts longer because of the mental connections that are forged. Did You Know? Images are also available for students to access online in digital format! The Scientific Approach to Hitting Research Explores the Most Difficult Skill in Sport Paperback, 280 pages - $34.95 In his new book, Dr. Coop DeRenne of the University of Hawaii – Manoa carefully analyzes the core components of a swing from a scientific standpoint. His research, in conjunction with BioKinetics Inc., has deciphered the intricacies of the ideal swing. This is a great book for coaches and athletes who want to improve hitting skills. Did You Know? A DVD is also available to accompany The Scientific Approach to Hitting by Coop DeRenne for only $20 more! Evaluating Accountability and Transparency in Mexico National, Local, and Comparative Perspectives Paperback, 220 pages - $25.00 Understudied justice-reform issues within the Mexican bureaucracy are the focus of the Justice in Mexico Project of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego (director David A. Shirk). In its first monograph, five distinguished contributors from Mexico and the United States address problems related to the responsibility and answerability of the state and its representatives to their constituencies.

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