Posted on April 14th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of April 15, 2013
In the News: Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, the 50th British prime minister and the first woman to hold that office, died on April 8, 2013 at the age of 87.
The Disenchanted Isle: Mrs. Thatcher’s Capitalist Revolution
By Charles Dellheim. W.W. Norton, 1995
Call Number: HC256.6 .D448 1995
The Downing Street Years
By Margaret Thatcher. HarperCollins, 1993
Call Number: DA591 .T47 T472 1993
Global Capitalism and National Decline: The Thatcher Decade in Perspective
By Henk Overbeek. Unwin Hyman, 1990
Call Number: HC256 .O94 1990 Read more »
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Posted on March 31st, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of April 1, 2013
In the News: Chinua Achebe and African Literature
Award-winning Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82. His works include Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Beware, Soul Brother: Poems (1972), and the children’s book, Chike and the River. At the time of his death, Achebe was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and a Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.
Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
By Ode Ogede. Continuum, 2007
Call Number: PR3987.9 .A3 T5366 2007
African Literature as Political Philosophy
By M.S.C. Okolo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Call Number: PR9340.5 .O56 2007
Anthills of the Savannah
By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Press, 1988
Call Number: PR3987.9 .A3 A83 1988 Read more »
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Posted on March 29th, 2013 by O. Erica Cabezas-Marchese
April 2013 Database of the Month
The Birds of North America (BNA) Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada. In two centuries of American ornithology, The Birds of North America (BNA) is only the fourth comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North America’s breeding birds. Following in the footsteps of Wilson, Audubon, and Bent, BNA provides a quantum leap in information beyond what those historic figures were able to assemble. BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing plumages, behaviors, habitat, nests and eggs, and more.
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Posted on March 24th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of March 25, 2013
In the News: Women in STEM
Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies presented its 2013 Women’s Leadership Forum on March 15. This year’s event focused on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and featured a keynote address by former NASA astronaut, Jan Davis, Ph.D. Women’s History Month at FAU concludes this week with a meditation workshop, a discussion on women and leadership, Pampered OWLS, and a symposium on “Boundaries, Bodies and Dissidence: Negotiating New Spaces of Feminist Knowledge.” For more information visit the Women’s History Month events page and a recent article published in the UP, FAU’s student magazine. A very thorough library guide on Women’s History Month is available here.
Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology
By Henry Etzkowitz et al. Cambridge University Press, 2000
Call Number: Q130 .E85 200 (Also available online via EBSCOhost)
Between Monsters, Goddesses, and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace
Edited by Nina Lykke & Rosi Braidotti. Zed Books, 1996
Call Number: Q158.5 .B48 1996
Building Inclusive Science: Connecting Women’s Studies and Women in Science and Engineering
Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000
Call Number: Q130 .B85 2000 Read more »
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Posted on March 20th, 2013 by Jane Strudwick
FAU Libraries are asking faculty to participate in reviewing the Libraries’ subscribed databases. The survey can be accessed at http://libweb.fau.edu/ec_survey/and will be available until Monday, April 8. The results will be used to help identify how the library resources are being used, what databases are important to faculty research and instruction, and what resources should be considered for purchase. We appreciate your time and effort in assisting in the development of the Libraries’ online collection. If you have any questions, please contact your College library liaison.
If you are not a member of the faculty and would like to offer your comments, please submit the Library Comments & Suggestions Form.
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Posted on March 10th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of March 11, 2013
In the News: Hugo Chávez (1954-2013)
Venezuelan president, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, has died. (From Encyclopædia Britannica: “Chávez styled himself as the leader of the “Bolivarian Revolution,” a socialist political program for much of Latin America, named after Simón Bolívar, the South American independence hero. Although the focus of the revolution has been subject to change depending on Chavez’s goals, its key elements include nationalism, a centralized economy, and a strong military actively engaged in public projects. His ideology became known to many as simply chavismo.”)
America’s Blind Spot: Chavez, Oil, and US Security
By Andres Cala. Continuum, 2012
On Order
Axis of Unity: Venezuela, Iran & the Threat to America
By Sean Goforth. Potomac Books, 2012
Call Number: JZ1314 .G64 2012
The Bolivarian Revolution
By Simon Bolivar. Introduction by Hugo Chávez. Verso, 2009
Call Number: F2235.3 .A25 2009 Read more »
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Posted on February 28th, 2013 by O. Erica Cabezas-Marchese
March 2013 Database of the Month
Inter-University Consortium For Political And Social Science (ICPSR) acquires, preserves, enhances, and distributes original social science research data for research and instruction.
ICPSR data span many disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology, history, education, demography, gerontology, international relations, public health, economics, and psychology.
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Posted on February 24th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of February 25, 2013
In the News: The Catholic Church
Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will resign as leader of the Catholic Church on February 28, 2013. Born Joseph Ratzinger, he becomes the first pope in almost 600 years to step down from the papacy. Pick up one of these books to learn more about Pope Benedict, popes of the past, and the Catholic Church.
Against Ratzinger
By Anonymous. Translated by Antony Shugaar. Seven Stories Press, 2008
Call Number: BX1378.6 .C6613 2008
Agony in the Garden: Sex, Lies, and Redemption from the Troubled Heart of the American Catholic Church
By John Van der Zee. Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2002
Call Number: BX1912.9 .V36 2002
The Catholic Church and American Culture: Why the Claims of Dan Brown Strike a Chord
By Eric Plumer. University of Scranton Press, 2009
Call Number: BX1406.3 .P58 2009 Read more »
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Posted on February 17th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of February 18, 2013
In the News: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
The novel The Bell Jar, about a college woman who suffers through a mental breakdown in the 1950s, was originally published fifty years ago under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. It would turn out to be the only novel published by poet Sylvia Plath. Like the book’s main character, Plath herself had gone through periods of depression that required psychiatric hospitalization. Approximately one month after the book’s release, Plath committed suicide.
The Bell Jar
By Sylvia Plath. HarperPerrenial, 2005
Call Number: PS3566 .L27 B4 2005
Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath
By Anne Stevenson. Houghton Mifflin, 1989
Call Number: PS3566 .L27 Z9134 1989
The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plat
Edited by Jo Gill. Cambridge University Press, 2006
Call Number: PS3566 .L27 Z595 2006 Read more »
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Posted on February 11th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of February 11, 2013
In the News: Drone Strikes
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or drones, used in warfare to kill militants have recently come under intense public scrutiny as John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee for director of the C.I.A. and current counterterrorism advisor, met with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for his confirmation hearing. A 16-page White House paper obtained by NBC News outlines what the Administration deems to be the legal use of drone strikes against suspected Al Qaeda operatives, including those who are American citizens.
The Age of Airpower
By Martin van Creveld. Public Affairs, 2011
Features the following chapter: “Missiles, Satellites, and Drones”
Call Number: UG630 .V285 2011
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base
By Annie Jacobsen. Little, Brown and Co., 2011
Features the following chapter: “Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous Requires Drones”
Call Number: UA26 .N4 J33 2011
The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign against Terror
By Ronald Kessler. St. Martin’s Press, 2003
From the book’s summary: “The CIA at War tells the inside story of how Tenet, a son of Greek immigrants, turned around the CIA from a pathetic, risk-averse outfit to one that has rolled up three thousand terrorists since 9/11, that was critically important to winning in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that now kills terrorists with its Predator drone aircraft.”
Call Number: JK468 .I6 K42 2003 Read more »
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