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On Interning at Island Press: Not Your Typical Intern

In this week's installment, Sales and Marketing Intern Nashé Wainright discusses the importance of expanding your horizons in the working world. I’m an English major at George Mason University with a concentration in Creative Writing. Who would have thought I would be the Sales and Marketing intern here at Island Press? Surely, not the folks who assume every English major wants to be a teacher.  Admittedly, my career plans did go astray after I had transferred and considered teaching abroad.
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Complete Streets: Changing Design AND Decisions around the Nation

The stories of success keep rolling in. Portland Maine turned summer maintenance projects into Complete Streets improvement opportunities. Detroit’s Woodward Avenue will be redesigned as a major transit corridor, while Lansing has received the state’s first counterflow bicycle lane, courtesy of MIDOT. And Helena, Montana is requiring sidewalks in new subdivisions.
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Learning What Feels Green

There’s a great interview of anthropologist David Howes in the 14 September 2103 NewScientist (subscription access) about the role of synesthesia in marketing products.  Synestesia—the sense of mixing senses (experiencing color as a flavor, for example) is often portrayed as a special sense that all of us dabble in, but a select odd few (the Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov, for ex
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Hudson Valley World View: In Race for Farmland, Locals Lose

Imagine the Town of Poughkeepsie — all 31 square miles of it. Now imagine that this entire area is acquired by foreign land investors. And now imagine that the equivalent of 3,742 Poughkeepsies has been obtained by these financiers over the last decade.

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