Author: Maris Hayashi

Russian Spies

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Week of July 12, 2010

Russian Spies

In the News: Two weeks ago 10 individuals were arrested in the U.S. and accused of being Russian secret agents following a seven year FBI investigation. None of them faced espionage charges because officials had not found evidence that the individuals sent classified information to Moscow. The U.S. agreed late last week to trade the 10 spies with Russia in return for four men who had been accused of spying for the West.

Alger Hiss’s Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy
By G. Edward White. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: E743.5 .H55 W47 2004 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War
By David E. Murphy et al. Yale University Press, 1997
Call Number: E183.8 .S65 M86 1997 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History
By David A. Vise. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002
Call Number: UB271 .R92 H372 2002

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Vampires & Werewolves

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Week of July 6, 2010

Vampires & Werewolves

In the News: Eclipse is now playing in theaters, but bookstores and public libraries are not the only ones with resources for Twilight fans. We, too, have books and videos on vampires, werewolves, and, yes, even some of the titles from the Twilight Saga itself.

Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Edited and with an introduction by Leonard Wolf. Oxford University Press, 1997
Call Number: PR1309 .V36 B58 1997

Breaking Dawn
By Stephenie Meyer. Little, Brown, 2008
Call Number: PZ7 .M57188 Br 2008 (Children’s Literature Collection)

The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within
By Chantal Bourgault du Coudray. I. B. Tauris, 2006
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

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Generals & the Social Forum

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Week of June 28, 2010

Generals & the Social Forum

In the News: General Stanley McChrystal was relieved of his duties as the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Taking his place is General David Petraeus, Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and architect of the 2007 counterinsurgency operations in Iraq. This week we look at other U.S. generals from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Also In the News: The second U.S. Social Forum, an offshoot of the World Social Forum, was held in Detroit last week, but the event received very little news coverage by the mainstream media.

GENERALS

15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century
By Stanley Weintraub. Free Press, 2007
Call Number: DS919 .P43 2008

Daniel “Chappie” James: The First African American Four Star General
By Earnest N. Bracey. McFarland & Co., 2003
Call Number: E840.5 .J36 B73 2003

Eisenhower: The Prewar Diaries and Selected Papers, 1905-1941
Edited by Daniel D. Holt. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
Call Number: E742.5 .W372 1998

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The World Cup & Andy Warhol

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Week of June 21, 2010

The World Cup & Andy Warhol

In the News: Football? Soccer? Whatever you call it, there’s still time to catch the 2010 FIFA World Cup which continues in South Africa.

Also In the News: The exhibit “Andy Warhol: The Last Decade” begins its run at the Brooklyn Museum. Take a look at the Warhol books and videos we have in our collection.

THE WORLD CUP

90 Minutes: The Greatest Moments from the World Cup
Photographs by Robert Davies. Merrell, 2006
Call Number: GV943.49 .D38 2006

Āfsāīd: Offside (DVD)
Directed by Jafar Panahi. Sony Pictures, 2007
Call Number: PN1997.2 .A3373 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Football: A Sociology of the Global Game
By Richard Giulianotti. Blackwell Publishers, 1999
Call Number: GV943.9 .S64 G576 1999

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Women in Business —-> Women in Politics

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Week of June 14, 2010

In the News: Former women business executives are setting their sights on the government. Carly Fiorina, past CEO of Hewlett Packard, and Meg Whitman, former eBay chief executive, won their respective California Republican primary elections last Tuesday: Ms. Fiorina for U.S. Senate and Ms. Whitman for governor. Both candidates spent millions of dollars on their campaigns and will most likely attempt to outspend their rivals in the upcoming general elections.

Developing Women Leaders: A Guide for Men and Women in Organizations
By Anna Maria Valerio. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Call Number: HD6054.3 .V34 2009

Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics
Edited by Lynne E. Ford. Facts on File, 2008
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Full Cover Girl (DVD)
Directed by Folke Ryden. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2009
Call Number: HQ1735 .F85 2009 (Boca Raton Media Center)

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The World Bank Opens Access

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors recently approved a new Access to Information policy.  In keeping with this new policy, the The World Bank has made the following databases free to the public. You can also find these databases on the Libraries’ Indexes/Databases pages.

The World Bank Open Data
The World Bank’s Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data. The Development Data Group coordinates statistical and data work and maintains a number of macro, financial and sector databases. These databases are used by teams to prepare Country Assistance Strategies, poverty assessments, research studies and other forms of economic and sector work. Included are World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Africa Development Indicators and Global Economic Monitor.  Continue reading

Water

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Week of June 7, 2010

In the News: In the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill, there is a growing fear for the quality of water worldwide whether the water is used for drinking, bathing, recreation, or agriculture. Pick up one of these titles and learn more about this precious resource.

America’s Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?
By Harvey Blatt. MIT Press, 2005
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Arsenic in Ground Water
By Alan H. Welch. Kluwer Academic Pub, 2003
Call Number: TD427 .A77 A75 2003

Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World
By Rick Smolan et al. Earth Aware Editions, 2007
Call Number: TD345 .S66 2007

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North Korea & South Korea

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Week of June 1, 2010

In the News: South Korea has accused North Korea for the March 26 sinking of a naval warship near a disputed maritime border. Calling the accusations a “fabrication,” North Korea has indicated that a “full-scale war” on its neighbor to the South is not out of the question. This week, books and DVDs on the two Koreas.

Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee
By Hwasook Nam. University of Washington Press, 2009
Call Number: HD8039 .S52 K663 2009

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
By B. R. Myers. Melville House, 2010
Call Number: HN730.6 .Z9 M66 2010

A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
By Michael J. Seth. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010
Call Number: DS907.18 .S424 2010 (At Jupiter)

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One Hundred and Counting

We’re a few weeks late in celebrating our 100th In the News post, but better late than never. So…

Here’s to 104. Since October 12, 2007, we’ve covered an array of topics from Blackwater USA (now known as Xe) and media reform, to SCOTUS and Uub. If you’ve missed any of them, stop here. And don’t forget to take a peek at this week’s topic: Punk Rock.

Oh, and by the way, In the News has received some coverage in the blogosphere – The University of Minnesota Press blogged about one of our more recent posts on Immigration Reform.

-Maris

Punk Rock

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Week of May 24, 2010

In the News: John Lydon and his band Public Image Ltd (PiL) recently performed at Terminal 5 in New York City. Many remember Lydon from his days as Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols, a band that was at the forefront of the British punk movement in the late 1970s. This week we offer some titles on the punk subculture.

A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982
By Nicholas Rombes. Continuum, 2009
Call Number: ML3918 .R63 R66 2009

Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital
By Mark Andersen & Mark Jenkins. Akashic Books, 2009
Call Number: ML3534.3 .A53 2009

England’s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
By Jon Savage. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002
Call Number: ML421 .S47 S3 2002

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