Information for the Spring 2016 (Vol. 19, No. 1) issue:
National and international news from the world of vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, advice for amateur and para-professional fossil collectors, updates on important issues in paleontology, paleoart &amp; photography, original book reviews, and many other features.
In the Spring 2016 issue:
-- a photo-essay on fossil radiolarians and other microfossils from a master photomicrographer
-- an account of the discovery of the world’s first fossil ambergris in Italy
-- a review/discussion of the Emmy-award-winning TV mini-series, Your Inner Fish
-- a field trip report on bat (and other rare fossils) from the Green River Formation of Wyoming
-- Dean Lomax’s exciting account of identifying a new species of ichthyosaur — in the storeroom of his hometown museum
-- reviews of new books and literature &amp; much more.

Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology

Science & Math

Ricketts, Wendell

Biological Sciences

FourCats Press

Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers contains work by twenty writers (Rigoberto González, Carter Sickels, John Gilgun, Judy Grahn, Tara Hardy, Keith Banner, and Renny Christopher, to name a few, who speak meaningfully—in short fiction, memoir, performance pieces, and prose poems—about queers in and from the working class.
Blue, Too entertains and challenges, but most of all provides a touchstone for queer working-class writers and readers, illuminating our realities, our struggles, and our resistance to assimilation and mental gentrification.
Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers contains some reader favorites from Everything I Have Is Blue (out of print since 2008) but includes nearly 400 pages of new material, including a reprint of a 1978 Judy Grahn story, a new translation from Italian, and excerpts from John Gilgun’s unpublished autobiography.
As a sourcebook for working-class and queer studies, meanwhile, Blue, Too features two special sections: “A Blue Study,” a guide for readers, writers, and scholars to using Blue, Too to examine the interlocking issues of queerness and social class, including discussion questions and prompts for writing and mini-research projects that connect the reader with working-class and LGBT scholarship; “Reading Blue,” an extensive annotated bibliography of more than 500 items that represents the first-ever attempt to create an exhaustive listing of materials related to queers and class; and “Class/Mates: Further Outings in the Literatures and Cultures of the Ga(y)ted Community,” an expanded theoretical and critical essay that reviews the history and present of working-class queers in literature, media, and pop culture.==========================“Blue, Too is, without a doubt, the authority on working-class queer writing in the English language.” (Lambda Literary Review)“Book of the Year…. Ricketts’ (essay) ‘Class/Mates: Further Outings in the Literatures and Cultures of the Ga(y)ted Community’ is worth the price of the book.” (GayToday)“[W]ill shatter your ideas of who and what queer people are.” (The Good Men Project)=====================

Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers

LGBTQ+ Books

A comic strip about nerdiness, friendship, sex, love ... and other maladies of the human condition.
As the title suggests, the heroes of Singloids are a group of unattached thirty-somethings who struggle with the universal themes of sexlovefriendship.... You may feel you’ve heard plenty on those topics ... but that’s where Singloids stands apart. The writing is exceptional, ironic, and sharp as a knife; the production values are excellent; the designs are expert; and the use of color is especially attractive. (fumettOnline)
Singloids is seasoned by embarrassing encounters with the opposite sex, belated post-adolescent reflections, compromising conversations with co-workers, and a defiant call for Nerd Pride.... (IlMioLibro)
The artwork is simple but enormously effective, and the character design is lean, streamlined, and utterly expressive. (Prevalente Anime e Manga)
Singloids jumps casually and playfully between social satire and intimate close-ups of (mostly disastrous) interpersonal relationships.... The humor that comes only from the intelligent observation of reality is ever-present.... Singloids is so well designed and constructed that it could easily find a place among syndicated American comic strips. (BALLOONS, The Comic Strip Blog)
The surreal adventures of Bob, Sid, and Ted are at least partially based upon the lives of the strip’s authors: One is a Java programmer, one is an IT systems engineer, and one is ... well, “he’s the guy who knows how to draw.” In case anyone ever asks, you can rest assured that no chocolate-chip cookies were harmed in the making of Singloids. (iPadWorld)

The Book of Singloids

Comics & Graphic Novels

Tartarotti, Stefano

Corda, Roberto

Frangi, Roberto

Graphic Novels

National and international news from the world of vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, advice for amateur and para-professional fossil collectors, updates on important issues in paleontology, paleoart &amp; photography, original book reviews, and many other features.
 In the Fall 2016 issue: 
-- The Mystery Tooth of Rodas, Cuba—A Mosasaur in the Cretaceous Caribbean?
-- Exploring Ammonite Diversity along England’s North Yorkshire Coast
-- The Laws of Burial: What Trilobite Preservation Reveals about Taphonomy
-- Going for the Cycle: Dark Matter, Mass Extinctions, and the Rebirth of Paleontological Periodicity
-- An Homage to Linnæus, the Father of Modern Taxonomy
-- Using binomial nomenclature correctly
-- the Fall issue’s featured paleoartist, Esther van Hulsen
- reviews of new books and literature &amp; much more!

Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology: Vol. 19, No. 3 (Fall 2016)

NB: Buy directly from our site and save National and international news from the world of vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, advice for amateur and para-professional fossil collectors, updates on important issues in paleontology, paleoart & photography, original book reviews, and many other features. In the Winter 2017 issue: -- Kemmerer, Wyoming: Headquarters for PaleoTourism -- In the Beginning: An Excerpt from The Lost World of Fossil Lake by Dr. Lance Grande-- Meet the Fossil Butte National Monument's Museum Curator-- A Photo Gallery of Specimens from the Extraordinary Collections at Fossil Butte-- A Map of Fossil Butte & Surrounds-- Kemmerer Area directories: Rock & Fossil Shops, Dig-Your-Own Quarries, and more-- A Visit to the Westmoreland-Kemmerer Coal Mine-- The Seven-Decade Dynasty of the Ulrich Clan-- Discovering & Photographing Ostracods in Eocene Green River "Turritella Agate"-- American Fossil: The "Education Quarry"-- A Monitor Lizard from Green River The Find of a Lifetime-- SVP to Sue to Block Reductions to Grand Staircase & Bears Ears National Monuments

Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology: Vol. 20, No. 4 (Winter 2017)

National and international news from the world of vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, advice for amateur and para-professional fossil collectors, updates on important issues in paleontology, paleoart & photography, original book reviews, and many other features. In the Spring 2017 issue: -- Featured PaleoArtist: Stanton Fink-- A tour of the amazing collections of Stuttgart's Am L wentor Natural History Museum, the home of "Swabian Dragons"-- The Leeds Museum's GeoBlitz Project-- A field report on work to preserve megafauna tracks at the McMinnville, Oregon Pleistocene Site-- A thoughtful essay by American Museum of Natural History paleontologist Carl Mehling on what we mean when we say "fossil"-- A preview of Mike Keesey's new comic, Paleocene: the "Rise of the Mammals"-- Book reviews, Check Your Paleo IQ, and more

Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology: Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2017)

National and international news from the world of vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, advice for amateur and para-professional fossil collectors, updates on important issues in paleontology, paleoart &amp; photography, original book reviews, and many other features.
In the Summer 2017 issue:
-- Featured PaleoArtist: Nobu Tamura
-- A Permian tropical forest on display at Chemnitz’s Museum für Naturkunde
-- The Cenozoic Secrets of Cuba’s Madruga Formation
-- A megalodon tooth from the center of Naples, Italy
-- An essay by Jon Tennant on PaleorXiv &amp; the promise of Open Access in paleontology
-- An exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming new edition of Oceans of Kansas
-- Book reviews, Check Your Paleo IQ, and more!

Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology: Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer 2017)

Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology: Vol. 20, No. 3 (Fall 2017)

Despite more than two centuries of research and theory regarding the nature of sexual identity-in religion, medicine, philosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis, law, anthropology, sociobiology, psychology, and myriad other fields-no unambiguous, universally adopted conceptual or operational definition, no objective way of assessing, sexual orientation has ever existed, nor does one exist today. Is real or perceived sexual behavior identity? When people discriminate against those they identify as "homosexual" or "bisexual," what is the nature of the "identity" to which they object? Little or no methodological examination of the beliefs and attitudes that inform research and theory on sexual identity has been postulated. This book is a sweeping analysis and critique of research and writing on sexual identity, on the historical and cultural processes that have contributed to the toxication and detoxication of "homosexual identity," and on the "normalization" of sexual relationships-from the nineteenth-century roots of the conceptualization of sexual identity to the end of the twentieth century. From The Homosexual and Heterosexual Identities: "The awesome inevitability of biological, psychological, or sociocultural forces has placed the control and responsibility of relationships well beyond the grasp of the partners involved in them. Indeed, the discourse on sexual identity has progressed as a moral pronouncement (no matter how intricately couched in the languages of "science") that narrowly circumscribes the exercise of sexual choice. Because the social sciences have scarcely explored possibilities for understanding sexual relationships from the perspective of moral choice rather than of moral obligation, three vast domains of action and agency in sexual relationships remain uncharted and largely neglected. First, the actual structure of relationships, which may be determined from the mentality and practices of the individuals who engage in them, no matter how accurately or inaccurately this reflects prevailing morality or convention. Second, the prerogative of the partners within relationships to make decisions about the nature, meaning, definition, and character of their sexual behavior. And, finally, the way in which rules governing relationships and establishing their boundaries may be envisioned as products of the relationships themselves rather than of pre-established moral, biological, cultural, or psychosocial parameters. The structural similarities of heterosexual and homosexual relationships go unrecognized when it is assumed that different sexual identities require dissimilar structures. Approaching relationships as if they were governed by lawful forces, in the manner in which physical and biological phenomena are organized, the social scientist is blinded to the boundless ingenuity individuals exercise in forming, maintaining, and ending sexual relationships. In that context, concern with sexual identity appears to be a narrow preoccupation."

The Heterosexual and Homosexual Identities: The Normalization of Sexual Relationships

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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Shively, Michael G.

Psychology & Counseling

In the Spring 2019 issue: -- Kate LoMedico Marriott's curly, bendy, loopy, fascinating heteromorph ammonites -- Understanding Heteromorph Ammonites plus images of Suborder Ancyloceratina from The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology -- Photo Essay: the extraordinary ammonites of the Musée-Promenade at Digne-les-Bains -- Dinosaurs, Sunny Side Up: Dinosaur Eggs at the Musée-Parc des Dinosaure -- Dino Eggshell Morphology and Structure: A UC Museum of Paleontology primer -- New articles, including "The Diversity of Non-Avian Theropods," "The Palaeobiologyand Palaeocology of Placodonts," and "The Hidden Divers ity of Ediacaran Worm Fauna" -- Check Your Paleo IQ! and more. Fossil News is a journal of national and international news from the world of vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology, advice for amateur and para-professional fossil collectors, updates on important issues in paleontology, paleoart & photography, original book reviews, and many other features.

Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology: Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 2019)

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