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Welcome to the Fall 2005 issue of Cover Shots!
In this issue, we cover the human being from the inside and out. We take a look at everything from the world of color and its impact on our emotions through the analysis of motion pictures to how the development of new materials has made our daily existence easier. If you would like to learn more about the titles by our featured authors and editors, just click on the links below.
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Editor, Learning About Learning Disabilities 3rd Edition
Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University
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"We can help children who have learning disabilities, but the learning disabilities don’t disappear. It’s like a medical condition that has to be controlled—we can halt its progress, but it doesn’t go away. It’s the same thing with learning disabilities. The condition remains."
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Editor, Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics
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"Our ability to understand and provide controls over material characteristics has impacted our lives in many arenas such as via semiconductors in computers, analytical equipment in the medical arena, etc. Materials have been and continue to be the cornerstone of technology advancement. Many technology limitations are due to limits set by the materials and advances in the materials frequently are the key to major advances today."
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Editor-in-Chief, Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine |
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"The problem with forensics is that you’re not curing people, you’re not curing cancer and things like that. But increasingly people are recognizing that issues of human rights, ethics, people’s liberty and how they are treated, and how people behave toward each other is becoming increasingly important."
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Editor-in-Chief, Microvascular Research Biology and Pathology
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"I always had a penchant for looking for orphan cells. Cells that people would write about in textbooks year after year, but there was no additional insight as to what these cells would do. That’s why we started working on the mural cells of microvessels, because there are only two cells there, sometimes three."
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Author, If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling
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"We are talking about something that is universal and that’s why this book is so important. So, for example, take the idea of rage and that rage somehow is always red, or has red as a component in expressing that emotion. It may be that red in New York is rage. Red in Hong Kong might be joy. But the one thing rage and joy have in common, they both inspire intense, visceral emotions."
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