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Yambar, DeBlasioto sign copies of books
BOARDMAN -- Chris Yambar will be signing copies of "Big Bad Book of Bart Simpson" Friday at 7 p.m. at Barnes & amp; Noble in The Shops at Boardman Park. Yambar, a local writer and artist, wrote several of the stories in the book.
On Saturday at 2 p.m., Donna DeBlasio will be signing copies of her book "Youngstown: Postcards from the Steel City" at Barnes & amp; Noble. DeBlasio is an assistant professor of history at Youngstown State University. She also is the director of the Center for Historic Preservation at YSU.
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An anthropological lookat the U.S. military
"Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Pamela Frese and Margaret Harrell (Palgrave Macmillan, $22.95)
Pamela Frese, a professor of anthropology at The College of Wooster, collaborated with Margaret Harrell, a senior social scientist at the nonprofit research think tank RAND, to edit "Anthropology and the United States Military." The book is a collection of ethnographic research that seeks to provide visions of and for U.S. military culture from a solid anthropological base.
The two editors along with six other contributors examine such issues as anthrax vaccines, weight control and physical readiness, the role of the military advisor, gender roles among current enlisted Army spouses, the wives of retired military officers and anthropology in the curriculum of the United States Naval Academy.
Reissued book revealsthe people Wyeth painted
"Wyeth People," by Gene Logsdon (Swallow Press, $16.95)
Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, recently reissued a book by Ohio author Gene Logsdon. "Wyeth People" was originally published in 1969 and is a chronicle of Logsdon's search, in Pennsylvania and Maine, for the colorful people painted by Andrew Wyeth. The book is an effort to explain a famous artist, his work and the people who love it.
"Wyeth People" has been updated with enlarged photographs and a new forward. This is the first time it has appeared in paperback.
Logsdon lives near Upper Sandusky. He has written 20 books and was awarded the Ohioana Library Association Career Award in 2000.