BOOKS DIGEST

LOCAL

YSU professor contributes to world’s largest atlas

YOUNGSTOWN — Craig Campbell, a professor at Youngstown State University, has contributed to an endeavor that takes cartography and publishing to new heights with EARTH, the world’s largest atlas.

EARTH is produced by Australian publisher Millennium House, which contacted Campbell and asked if he would contribute the written content.

Campbell, a world geography and human geography expert, contributed to both the European and Middle Eastern chapters. As a teacher in Map Reading and Interpretation and Thematic Map Design and Symbolization, Campbell was perfectly suited to provide the details required.

The book contains 580 pages of maps and information and measures 24-by-18 inches and weighs more than 44 pounds. It has two editions: Royal Blue EARTH has 2,000 hand-bound and hand-numbered copies. The more exclusive Imperial Gold has 1,000 copies and is available only through the International Private Collections at Millennium House.

STATE

Ohio poet releases new body of work

PITTSBURGH — “View From a Temporary Window,” a book of poetry by prize-winning author Joanie Mackowski, has just been released by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Pitt Press also published her debut volume, “The Zoo,” winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The paperback book is available for $14.95.

Mackowski is assistant professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.

Historical society offers 2 books on Barberton

BARBERTON — In honor of the Centennial of the Anna Dean Farm, The Barberton Historical Society is publishing its ninth and 10th Barberton History books simultaneously and in time for Christmas.

The first book, “Construction of O.C. Barber’s Anna Dean Farm,” takes a look at 1909-13, when Barberton founder Ohio Columbus Barber spent $1,000 per day on construction of his superfarm.

The second book, “Ghosts Along the Tuscarawas,” tells the story of Barberton’s rich history through ghostly legends and historic photographs.

Each book is $21.95 postpaid, but both can be preordered together at $36.95 from the Barberton Historical Society at P.O. Box 666, Barberton OH, 44203. All proceeds from the sale of the two new books will help restore the remaining barns on the Anna Dean farm.

E-Matters

Knopf to withhold e-edition of Andre Agassi’s memoir

NEW YORK — If you’re eager to read Andre Agassi’s memoir, don’t expect to download it any time soon. Agassi’s “Open” will not be available as an e-book when the hardcover comes out, Nov. 9, and publisher Alfred A. Knopf has not set a date for a digital version.

E-editions also have been withheld for Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” Edward Kennedy’s “True Compass” and Stephen King’s “Under the Dome” as publishers worry that the growing e-market will take business from the more expensive hardcovers.

In Agassi’s book, No. 9 on the best-seller list of Amazon.com as of Thursday, the tennis great acknowledges using crystal meth in the 1990s and then lying to the Association of Tennis Professionals tour after failing a 1997 drug test.

Vindicator staff/wire reports