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New Webcast: Jeanne Guillemin's American Anthrax (2011)
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<br>Jeanne Guillemin discusses her new book, American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterrorist Attack (2011) , a definitive account of the five-year investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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New Science Reference Guide: Bioterrorism and Bio-Weapons
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May 2, 2012 |
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<br>This guide represents a selection of books, technical reports, and Internet resources on bioterrorism and bio-weapons. |
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New Science Tracer Bullet: Science and Technology in South Korea
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May 2, 2012 |
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<br>This bibliographic guide provides English language sources available in the Library of Congress on scientific and technological developments in South Korea from antiquity to the present. |
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Upcoming Lecture: A Rare Astronomical Event- Transit of Venus
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On June 5, 2012, the planet Venus will move across the face of the sun. Such transits of Venus are among the rarest of planetary alignments, and they come in pairs that are eight years apart but separated by more than a century. Only six such events have occurred since the invention of the telescope, according to NASA scientist Sten Odenwald. |
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<br>Odenwald will discuss "A Rare Astronomical Event: Transit of Venus" at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 8, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor o |
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<br>The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not needed.
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New Reference Guide: National Recovery Administration (NRA)- an Inventory of Publications in the Collections of the Library of Congress
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This guide from our Business Reference Service represents an inventory of several of the major series issued by the United States National Recovery Administration between 1933 and 1935, such as administrative and statistical materials, codes of fair competition, and press releases. |
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<br>In a short two years, 557 Codes were approved by the President, and hundreds more were proposed and either revised or not approved. There is over 11,000 documented press releases, almost one hundred sets of working papers, |
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and innumerable amendments, supplements, and revisions- most of which are housed in the General Collections of the Library of Congress.
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New LC Science Tracer Bullet: Economic Botany- Useful Plants and Products
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This guide offers a systematic approach to the wide variety of published materials on the use of plants by people. It includes references to materials on food plants, fiber plants, dye plants, edible plants, medicinal plants, oilseed plants, as well as plants used in ceremonies, cultivated for commercial purposes, or used as shelter. |
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New Science Reference Guide: Chemistry
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This new guide lists reference books on the various branches of chemistry available in the Science and Business Reading Room. Also, listed is a selection of online chemistry resources guides. |
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Upcoming Lecture: Author Jeanne Guillemin to Discuss "American Anthrax" April 3
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Jeanne Guillemin, author of "American Anthrax: Fear, Crime and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterrorist Attack" (2011), will discuss the case in a lecture at the Library of Congress at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3, in the Mary Pickford Theater on the third floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. |
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edical anthropology at Brandeis University. Guillemin has done research on infectious diseases and biological weapons throughout her career. Her other published works include "Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak" (19 |
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005), which covers the biological weapons history of several countries.
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