Miraba's Journal: Book crunch time

AGU's annual meeting is 2 months away and most departments are undergoing a crunch. I've been taken off my usual job and set to checking the chapters for the books that are scheduled for release at the meeting.

Post-Perovskite: The Last Mantle Phase Transition This is complete and will be sold at the meeting.
A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand This is almost complete and will probably be sold at the meeting.
A book on the exploration of Venus (title unconfirmed) This book wasn't even scheduled to be printed until 2008, but almost all of the material has been submitted and it will likely be sold at the meeting. This is my favorite by far. I find myself reading the first line of a paragraph, thinking "Really?" and then finishing the rest of the section. Incidentally, this one will have the smallest print run.