Books judged by their cover. Global warming culprits. Working sick.

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• CBC.ca posts what it deems are the fifteen best Canadian book covers of 2015, including the cover toAsbestos Heights (Coach House Books), a collection of poems by David McGimpsey, a part-time faculty member in the Department of English. The article includes a link to an audio excerpt of an interview of McGimpsey on CBC's Radio Noon Montreal, where he reads a poem about iceberg lettuce, taken from his new book. Asbestos Heights has won the Quebec Writer's Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.
• The work of Damon Matthews to identify national contributions to global warming is referenced in an article in International Business Times (UK) about the COP21 Paris Climate Conference and the world's leading global warming culprits.
• Coverage continues of research on the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism, by management professor Gary Johns and University of East Anglia academic Mariella Miraglia. The Duluth News Tribune is the latest to report on the study examining the factors that spur people to report for work when they are sick.

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