Nuclear Energy

March 21, 2011

Nuclear Energy

In the News: The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11th triggered a tsunami that swept over the country’s Pacific coast line. The death toll will likely exceed 10,000. Three nuclear reactors suffered partial meltdowns while another saw the release of radioactive material into the atmosphere. These devastating events have brought the debate over the pros and cons of nuclear energy to the forefront.

20 Years After the Chernobyl Accident: Past, Present and Future
Edited  by Elena B. Burlakova and Valeria I. Naidich. Nova Science Publishers, 2006
Call Number: QH652 .A12 2006

At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation?
Edited by Richard Falk and David Krieger. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Call Number: JZ5675 .A89 2008

Atomic Culture: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Edited by Scott C. Zeman and Michael A. Amundson. University Press of Colorado, 2004
Call Number: E169.12 .Z46 2004

Atoms for Peace: A Future after Fifty Years?
Edited by Joseph F. Pilat. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Call Number: HD9698 .A2 A837 2007 Continue reading

Chile / Karaoke

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Week of October 18, 2010

Chile / Karaoke

In the News: All eyes were on Chile this past week as the 33 men who had been trapped nearly half a mile underground were rescued more than two months following the August 5 accident at a gold and copper mine in northern Chile.

Also In the News: The Karaoke World Championships, an annual event since 2003, were held last month in Russia.

CHILE

The Changing Faces of Chilean Poetry: A Translation of Avant-Garde, Women’s, and Protest Poetry
By Sandra E. Aravena de Herron. Edwin Mellen Press, 2008
Call Number: PQ8063 .E5 A73 2008

Communal Feminisms: Chicanas, Chilenas, and Cultural Exile: Theorizing the Space of Exile, Class, and Identity
By Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs. Lexington Books, 2007
Call Number: PS153 .M4 G885 2007

Copper Workers, International Business, and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile
By Angela Vergara. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008
Call Number: F3099 .V38 2008

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In the News: Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Week of August 11, 2008

News Item: Last week marked the 63rd anniversaries of the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to Democracy Now!, approximately 14,000 people were instantly killed or died within a few months of the bombings after the Hiroshima attack, and about 80,000 were killed after the attack on Nagasaki.

The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edited by Kyoko and Mark Selden. M.E. Sharpe, 1989
Call Number: D767.25 .H6 A87 1989

Beclouded Visions: Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Art of Witness
By Kyo Maclear. SUNY Press, 1999
Call Number: Available online through NetLibrary

The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb
By Michael Kort. Columbia University Press, 2007
Call Number: D767.25 .H K68 2007 (At Jupiter – May be borrowed through ILL
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