CONTENTS TRADE OFFERINGS The Secret Life of the Brain 2 Richard Restak, M.D. Eclipse 4 Duncan Steel In Search of the Lost Cord 6 Luba Vikhanski The Genomic Revolution 8 Rob DeSalle and Michael Yudell How Students Learn 10 National Research Council A Case of Chronic Neglect 11 Felicia Cohn, Marla Salmon, and John Stobo Previously Announced Books and New and Recently Published Books Adding It Up 13 Jeremy Kilpatrick, Jane Swafford, and Bradford Findell Educating Children with Autism 14 Catherine Lord and James P.McGee Knowing What Students Know 15 James Pellegrino, Robert Glaser, and Naomi Chudowsky Speaking of Health 16 Institute of Medicine Backlist Offerings 30 General Information 34 October General Interest Science ISBN 0-309-07435-5 $35.00 8 x 10, 224 pages, index Cloth with jacket Color photographs and illustrations A Joseph Henry Press book Rights: World MARKETING • Concurrent publicity with airing of PBS series in early 2002 • Full-color blads • National review attention • National print advertising campaign • National media attention: radio and television • Co-op available 2 THE SECRET LIFE OF THE BRAIN Richard Restak, M.D. with a foreword by David Grubin Companion to the five-part television series brought to PBS by award- winning producer David Grubin, The Secret Life of the Brain takes readers on a tour of the human brain. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully presented, the many mysteries of the brain are explored from infancy to old age. en years ago a presidential proclamation ushered in the “Decade of the Brain.”We have Dr. Richard Restak since realized enormous benefits from this decade of discovery. Scientists now have a is a prac- ticing neurologist and neu- better understanding and appreciation of the complexity of this rather unassuming T ropsychiatrist and the author three-pound mass of interwoven cells.We have even seen evidence of how a healthy brain of dozens of articles and contributes to our overall sense of wellness. And, perhaps most important of all, we now— more than 15 books on the more than ever—recognize the awesome power and potential of the human brain. brain, including The Brain, Each of the brain’s developmental stages provides its Mysteries of the Mind, and own opportunities and perils. Each is part of a marvelous The Longevity Strategy. The narrative—opening at the very moment of conception, Brain, also a companion building to peak adult neurological performance when the book to a PBS series, was a brain contains its full repertoire of cells, and slowly edging national bestseller. A mar- toward the denouement of old age. The Secret Life of the velous science communica- Brain tells this fascinating story by tracing the patterns that tor, Restak has appeared on only careful study has revealed to us. National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Equal parts fragile and tenacious, development continues unabated across the entire life Things Considered, PBS’s span through five specific stages: gestation, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. In McNeil-Lehrer Report, NBC’s each of these phases, the opportunities are abundant, while the dangers remain equally appar- Today Show, ABC’s Good ent. Deprive a baby’s brain of light and sound and human contact, and you stunt normal devel- Morning America, and the opment. Should a teenager take drugs, the brain becomes contaminated by the unnatural Discovery Channel. Restak chemicals that are introduced into the body. Like a muscle in our arms or legs, if we ignore the has served on various brain, leave it untended, it becomes flaccid and slow, especially as we move into old age, when national advisory councils the brain is more vulnerable to afflictions. for brain research and has The Secret Life of the Brain explores each of these five stages in detail. Like the PBS series of been a consultant to PBS the same name, the complex subject of leading-edge brain science is presented in terms and to NBC’s Today Show. accessible to all and brought to life through anecdotes and real-life stories.Told by best-selling Dr. Restak is a graduate of author Dr. Richard Restak, the majesty and the mystery of human intelligence are unveiled. Georgetown University School of Medicine. He lives and practices in Co-published with the Dana Press. Washington, D.C. 3 October General Interest Science/Astronomy ISBN 0-309-07438-X $24.95 5 x 7, 400 pages, index Cloth with jacket A Joseph Henry Press book Rights: U.S. Only MARKETING • National review attention • Advance readers copies • American Bookseller Association’s Advance Access Program • National Radio Campaign • Co-op available 4 ECLIPSE The Celestial Phenomenon That Changed the Course of History Duncan Steel with a foreword by Paul Davies Since the dawn of time, eclipses have been perceived as peculiarly porten- tous events. In his intriguing new book, Eclipse, Duncan Steel explains everything you will ever need to know about eclipses. Duncan Steel is an astronomer at the University hether interpreted as an auspicious omen or a sentinel of doom, eclipses have had a of Salford in Manchester, profound effect upon our cultural development.Throughout recorded history, they England, with a special Whave evoked consternation, fear, and dread—as well as awe and wonderment. interest in the dynamics of Ancient peoples were clearly disconcerted by them.The solar system objects and the Romans marked pivotal battles with the Greeks by references effects of celestial events on ancient civilizations. His first to an eclipse. The date of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ has book, Rogue Asteroids and been derived by using biblical mentions of an eclipse. Perhaps Doomsday Comets, was the most famously, Christopher Columbus extorted much-needed first popular book on the foodstuffs from some increasingly unfriendly native hosts by asteroid and comet impact purporting to demonstrate the wrath of his most powerful God hazard and was responsible when he accurately predicted a lunar eclipse. for the rash of television The pattern that eclipses follow—a cycle, called the saros— documentaries and was actually calculated thousands of years ago. However, it is Hollywood films on the sub- only with the help of modern computers that we have been ject. A native of the United able to analyze and appreciate the data. Eclipses provide Kingdom, Steel has also unique opportunities for today’s scientists to study such con- lived and worked in the trasting phenomena as the upper layers of the sun, the slow- United States, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. down of our planet’s spin rate, and the effects of celestial events on human psychology. He currently lives in In Eclipse, Duncan Steel expertly captures our continuing fascination with all manner of Knutsford, England. eclipses—including the familiar solar and lunar varieties and other kinds involving stars, plan- Asteroid 4713 Steel was ets, asteroids, and comets as well as distant galaxies and quasars. Steel helps us see that, in named for him by the astronomical terms, eclipses are really rather straightforward affairs. Moving beyond the mysti- International Astronomical cism and the magic, the science of eclipses is revealed. Union. 5 October General Interest Science / Biology ISBN 0-309-07437-1 $27.95 6 x 9, 275 pages, index Cloth with jacket A Joseph Henry Press book Rights: World MARKETING • National review attention • Advance readers copies • American Bookseller Association’s Advance Access Program • National Radio Campaign • Co-op available 6 IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CORD Solving the Mystery of Spinal Regeneration Luba Vikhanski A quiet revolution is taking place in laboratories and research centers around the world. What was once thought to be impossible, seems tantalizingly close to reality today. Indeed, it may not be too long before victims of severe spinal cord injuries take their first few tentative steps. n Search of the Lost Cord is a scientific detective story, the stuff of science fiction en route to Luba Vikhanski is a science science fact. People trapped by the limitation of paralyzed limbs, rendered useless by devas- journalist specializing in Itating, catastrophic injuries to their spinal cords, may one day medical and biomedical walk again. If the research is successful . if the scientists hit on the research. She is the author right strategy for approaching the problem, we may yet see mira- of An Informed Patient’s cles happen. Guide to Breast Surgery, In her new book, science journalist Luba Vikhanski profiles the which received the 1993 rapidly developing field of spinal cord injury research. She explains Rose Kushner Award from the field’s greatest scientific challenges and introduces us to the the American Medical pioneers who are working toward what would be a startling break- Association. A graduate of through. Perhaps the most riveting aspect of this international New York University in 1989, she was employed as effort is the fact that each of these scientists is approaching the a medical reporter for sever- problem in very different ways. In the worldwide race to claim the al years while living in prize of a cure, we witness a drama in the making. Manhattan. Now living in Who will cross the finish line first? Will it be the Swiss scientist Martin Schwab, who has actu- Israel, she is head of the for- ally managed to heal spinal cords in rats and has restored their ability to walk? Will it be Wise eign press section in the Young, a Rutgers scientist who is pinning his research hopes on drug therapies? Or could Lars public affairs department of Olson of the Swedish Karolinska Institute hold the key to success in his efforts to construct a the Weizmann Institute of bridge of slender nerve filaments to connect a once-severed spinal cord? His rats are already Science.