Home Care & Hospice Periodical

Mon, 02/09/2009 - 4:52pm by iralax

AADL (Downtown) now subscribes to Caring, a monthly magazine published by the National Association for Home Care & Hospice. Its focus is home health care, hospice, and supportive services. Every issue in 2009 will feature one of the top chronic diseases, including how to understand the major challenges and provide quality in-home services. The January issue focuses on Diabetes, with articles about self-management education, working with nurse practitioners, dilated eye exams to prevent diabetic retinopathy, and more.

Pulp

Tue, 12/16/2008 - 8:59am by Stewart

Buffett or Buttons?

SmartMoney - December 2008 Issue
Page 17 - Make Money Like Buffett - Find out how preferred shares are sometimes yielding more and why.
Some books about Warren Buffett in our collection:
Even Buffett isn't perfect... Buffettology... Warren Buffett and the interpretation of financial statements...

Threads - November 2008 Issue
Page 30 - For the Love of Buttons - The stock market is not your only source of wealth, look to your buttons. Use the tricks provided (using your teeth, hot needles and your sense of smell and hearing) to determine exactly what your buttons are made of (china, glass, shell, porcelain, metal, or ivory).
Some books about buttons in our collection:
The book of buttons Buttons : the collector's guide...

Sportsman of the Year

Fri, 12/05/2008 - 5:13pm by jimmyg

Sports Illustrated has announced its annual Sportsman of the Year award and it goes to...drumroll...Michael Phelps! All the details are in the December 8 issue or you can find it on their website. SI.com also has a list of the 38 other nominees (along with essays justifying why), such as: Usain Bolt, Tiger Woods, Joey Cheek, Nnamdi Asomugha, Stephen Curry, Rapahel Nadal, Dara Torres, and many more.

Pulp

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 11:52am by Stewart

Find events in Metro Detroit using our magazine collection.

Hour Detroit November 2008
Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade Information!
Page 64 - Read about David Danielson, the director of the Thanksgiving Parade Company and check out the giant Bob Seger head.

Visit Detroit Fall 2008
Page 40 - Look ahead at Metro Detroit events in 2009:

North American International Auto Show Jan 11 - 29

Plymouth International Ice Sculpture Spectacular Jan 23 - 25

Rocky Horror Picture Show Feb 27 - Mar 1

NCAA Men's Final Four April 4 and 6

Movement: Detroit's Electronic Music Festival Memorial Day Weekend

Detroit International Jazz Festival Aug 28 - 31

Plants In The News

Mon, 10/27/2008 - 10:39am by Stewart

So when you bring the green indoors this winter the plants may say "thank you".

Maybe you heard about Midori the blogging houseplant. Midori lives in Donburi Cafe in Kamakura Japan.

Just as plants are finding a voice in Japan the government of Switzerland has placed a ban on the humiliation of plants.

Read about the botanical interface that makes plant blogging possible and check out a product that will help you listen to your own plant.

Interested in this topic, check out these books: Plantwatching: how plants remember, tell time, form partnerships, and more / Malcolm Wilkins and Natural affairs: a botanist looks at the attachments between plants and people / Peter Bernhardt

Pulp

Tue, 10/21/2008 - 11:38am by Stewart

Learn how to say it with our magazine collection...

Anime Insider
November Issue Page 87
Each issue provides an opportunity to learn a little Japanese. This month you'll learn Japanese words used when bargain-hunting. For example, HYAKUEN-YA (hee-yah-koo-en-yah) otherwise known as the 100 Yen Shop is the equivalent of the U.S. dollar store.

Horticulture
October/November Issue Page 70
Check out the "Plant Index & Pronounciation Guide". I learned that I've pronounced the name of a few plants incorrectly. Take your lungworts for example, I thought they were called "Pul-mon-AIR-ree-a" you know, becuase of the lung in lungwort... But, no no no! It's "Pul-mon-AH-ree-a". You say Ver-BAY-na, I say Ver-BEE-na...let's call the whole thing off.

Pulp

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 5:01pm by Stewart

What I learned while browsing our magazine collection:

India Today September 22 Issue
Page 3 – Picture this, you’ve just finished a great dinner at a restaurant and rather than a bill you get to decide what you’ll pay. This “pay what you want” business plan is only possible due to the fact that the restaurant is staffed by volunteers who prepare and serve the rotating menu. Often times the volunteers are well-off folks looking to connect with and serve the community. Seva Café in Ahmedabad, Gujarat India provides a tasty avenue for public service. This is a good thing…right Martha?

Taiwan Panorama September 2008 Issue
Page 106 – Half of the water plants in Taiwan are facing extinction and there are efforts to save them. The water plants are not only natural environmental cleaners that purify the air and water, they are also a food source. Examples of water plants are: Lotus roots, water caltrop, and water bamboo.

Pulp

Tue, 09/16/2008 - 11:24am by Stewart

In our magazine collection...

SAVEUR September 2008 Issue

Page 46
"The Best Brownie Recipes in the World"
Three recipes, one from Katharine Hepburn. The recipes have only four ingredients in common: unsalted butter, sugar, vanilla extract, and salt. One recipe uses 1 cup of chocolate covered espresso beans.

Page 73
"Why We Love Watermelon"
Fall approaches and this article gives one last taste of summer...
- A brief history of watermelon,
- A list of things that go well with watermelon,
- Cool recipes for watermelon salad and pickled watermelon,
- Beautiful pictures of the many varieties of watermelon,
- Watermelon art.

Pulp

Sat, 08/30/2008 - 4:50pm by Stewart

In the September 2008 issue of Scientific American:

Page 72 "RFID TAG - You're it"

I didn't know that RFID tags were used in WWII to identify allied aircraft...so maybe the Brits call it the RAFID. :)

RFID tags are embedded in the electronic U.S. passports. China is using the RFID tag in the national ID.

Read a related blog from 2006.

WHoa! Wild Animals! - Jeff Corwin Books

Tue, 08/19/2008 - 1:32pm by ryanikoglu

You see him on TV! Here's the Jeff Corwin Experience on our NEW BOOKS Shelves.

Into Wild Amazonia;
Into Wild Galapagos;
Into Wild Africa;
Into Wild Madagascar; and more.

If you LOVE to read about wild life, checkout the Kids Magazines:
ZooBooks;
Cousteau Kids;
Ranger Rick;
National Geographic Kids.

Looking for gift ideas?
Magazine subscriptions make a wonderful gift that goes all year!