The Global HIV/AIDS Crisis: Resources to Inform Decision Making
In 2008, more than 33 million people across the globe had HIV/AIDS, 67 percent of whom were in Africa. In addition, more than 90 percent of the 2.7 million new infections reported that year occurred in Africa, and only half of Africans who should have received antiretroviral therapy (ART) according to World Health Organization guidelines [...]
Free from NAP: Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited; The Future of Nursing; and more
The National Academy of Sciences is committed to making its headquarters, built on the National Mall in 1924, more energy efficient and environmentally advanced. Learn more about this major restoration project. Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are [...]
Five New Books: Weather Science, Drug Safety, and more
Our usual collection of the new publications to NAP.edu this week includes a number of books on health and medicine, as well as a prepublication on weather. Four of the five new books this week have Free PDFs available to download. All New Publications This Week When Weather Matters: Science and Service to Meet Critical [...]
16 New Books: Greenhouse Gases, Gulf War and Health, Helium Reserve, and more
I hope that those of you in the U.S. had a happy and relaxing Independence Day weekend. We welcome you back to the working week with one of the biggest lists of new books that we’ve had since we’ve started posting them once a week here on Notes From NAP. There’s sixteen of them, the [...]
PDFs, Video, and Podcasts on Nutrition and Health
The research concerning what foods to eat and how much is not new. So why are Americans still indulging in unhealthy habits? What can be done to help the general public understand and act on the findings of researchers and nutritionists? We’ve put together a collection of free resources to address these questions. Free PDFs [...]
Eight New Books: Health Care, Mental Health Counseling, and more…
Another Monday brings us another roundup of the new books on the NAP website in the past week. As always, any books that have Free PDFs are labeled as such below. Check out the full article to see all the new books released this week.
Sounds of Science Podcast: Reducing the Sodium Intake in the United States
There’s a new episode available of our podcast, The Sounds Of Science. This week’s episode is on sodium intake and is based on our report Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States. You can listen to this episode below, and you can subscribe to the podcast to get all the episodes delivered to [...]
New Books: Health, Water Management, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and more
It’s Monday, so we’re doing our usual roundup of the publications that were new to the nap.edu catalog in the last week. As with many of our publications, all of the new publications this week have PDFs available to download for free. Featured Publication Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods to Support International Climate Agreements (prepublication) [...]
New From NAP: Mathematics Education, US Construction Industry and more
It’s the end of the week, so it’s time to round up the books new to our website this week. Check back here every Friday afternoon to get all the latest, or better yet, subscribe to the New From NAP RSS feed to get the newest books every day. Featured New Book Mathematics Learning in [...]
New Books This Week on NAP
Friday brings us once again to the end of the work week and a roundup of the books that were new to nap.edu this week. Almost all of our books can be read online for free, and many have free PDFs to download, so check under each book’s title in this post for links to [...]
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