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Image via Wikipedia FAP824: Tea scholarship, Amazon textbooks, international financial aid Listen now: Student Financial Aid News + Inside Higher Ed: The Subprime Solution: How Today’s Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It is a promising title for Princeton University Press. The topic couldn’t be more timely and the author is Robert Shiller, a Yale University economist who has managed with works such as Irrational Exuberance to attract big audiences for complicated topics. + The Princeton press is planning something new for the release: Two weeks before print publication the book will be available as a Kindle e-book. Kindle is Amazon.com’s portable reader that allows for downloading of complete books. Launched in November, and already attracting attention (and competition from other companies planning their versions), Kindle has been hailed as potentially opening up a new kind of reading experience. Of course, plenty of people have heard earlier such claims, but Kindle’s Amazon backing has given it a market that is attractive to many publishers — including university presses. + By the beginning of the fall, Princeton plans to have several hundred books available for sale through Kindle. Yale University Press and Oxford University Press already have a similar presence there. The University of California Press recently had about 40 of its volumes placed on Kindle and is ramping up. + Readers would save some on Kindle books, but at least now modestly, and only after recouping the costs of the reader (currently at $359). The Kindle version of an Oxford book called Punishment and Democracy: Three Strikes and You’re Out in California sells for $21.96, compared to $24.40 for the paperback through Amazon. The latter also takes two to four weeks to ship and requires shipping fees. A Yale book, Churchill’s Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft, is available for $25.20 via Kindle and $28 plus shipping in hardcover. + NASFAA: Need a student loan? Then your local credit union wants you, the Central Penn Business Journal reports. The current money crunch and rising college costs aren t stopping area credit unions from promoting student loans. One reason is to attract new members and keep the ones they have. Belco and other area credit unions have picked up borrowers since the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) suspended its major loan programs in February. Belco wants to spread the word to college admission counselors that loans are available. 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Jeffrey has an exploratory conversation with dance reviewer and author Dan Gesmer of Boulder, Colorado. Dan was born in Illinois in 1963. In 1986 he earned his undergraduate degree from Yale, where he wrote a thesis on Vaslav Nijinsky s artistic and philosophical vision. In the years following he became well-known as an artistic innovator in flatland freestyle skateboarding. In 1993 this led him to found Seismic Skate Systems, Inc., a prominent manufacturer of high-performance gear for skateboard long-boarding and racing. Since the late 1990s Dan has written about Nijinsky for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, international dance journals, and museum exhibition catalogs. Listen to an in depth examination of a remarkable dancer that transformed the world of dance forever with his major transcendent and consciousness expanding contribution to movement and dance and how deeply it has influenced the movement arts for the generations since. The Omni Art Salon theme music, When Angels Smile, is provided courtesy of Back To Earth

Dana Getman for Yale University booth at the ICFF in 2008.