Bonus In the News – The Periodic Table

Week of June 15, 2009

News Item: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has officially recognized element 112. This super-heavy element, which was first produced in 1996, is 277 times heaver than hydrogen and has been temporarily named, “ununbium.” It sits to the right of Roentgenium (Rg) and below Mercury (Hg) in the periodic table.

The Elements
By John Emsley. Oxford University Press (3rd ed.), 1998
Call Number: QD466 .E48 1998

The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
By Phillip Ball. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Elements and the Periodic Table: What Things Are Made Of
By Theodore S. Abbgy. Mark Twain Media, 2001
Call Number: QD467 .A23 2001x (At Treasure Coast)

In the News: Anne Frank’s 80th Birthday

Week of June 15, 2009

News Item: Annelies Marie Frank was born eighty years ago on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. At the age of 13, she was given a diary which she used to detail her life in the Netherlands where the Frank family had fled shortly after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came into power. The Franks lived in hiding for two years but were eventually transported to Auschwitz in 1944. Anne’s diary remained in Holland, but she would never write another entry again. Shortly after being sent to a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, Anne died of typhus in March 1945. Her diary, which consisted of short stories and fables along with descriptions of her thoughts and surroundings, was originally titled Het Achterhuis and published posthumously in 1947. Since then millions of copies have been sold throughout the world and translated into more than 30 languages.

Anne Frank: Reflections on her Life and Legacy
Edited by Hyman Aaron Enzer and Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer. University of Illinois Press, 2000
Call Number: DS135 .N6 F73 2000

Anne Frank and After
By Dick Van Galen Last. Amsterdam University Park, 1996
Call Number: DS135 .N6 G36 1996

Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum: Inscribing Spirituality and Sexuality
By Denise de Costa. Rutgers University Press, 1998
Call Number: DS135 .N6 F732613 1998

In the News: Tiananmen Square – 1989

Week of June 8, 2009

News Item: June 4th marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of students and other pro-democracy demonstrators who had sought political, social, and economic reforms against the Chinese government. Although similar events had taken place throughout China, media coverage was spotlighted in Beijing with over a million people participating. During the evening and early morning hours of June 3 and 4, 1989, armed military troops and tanks attacked protestors in the Square killing and injuring thousands. The Chinese government has since banned public memorials of the protests with some news outlets recently reporting that social networking and email outlets, such as Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail, have been blocked as a way of censoring access to information about the Tiananmen incidents.

Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
By Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price. Basic Books, 2001
Call Number: HQ76.8 .U5 M97 2001

Almost a Revolution
By Tong Shen. Houghton Mifflin, 1990
Call Number: DS779.32 .S47 1990

Behind the Tiananmen Massacre: Social, Political, and Economic Ferment in China
By Chu-Yuan Cheng. Westview Press, 1990
Call Number: DS779.32 .C46 1990

In the News: SCOTUS: The Supreme Court of the United States

Week of June 1, 2009

News Item: President Barack Obama recently nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David H. Souter who is retiring in June from the Supreme Court. If approved by the Senate, Sotomayor will become the third woman and only the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court. Sotomayor, a self-described Nuyorican, is a 1979 graduate of Yale Law School and currently serves as a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge.

Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
By Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price. Basic Books, 2001
Call Number: HQ76.8 .U5 M97 2001

Developments in the National Security Policy of the United States Since 9/11: The Separate Roles of the President, the Congress, and the Supreme Court
By Leonard Cutler. Edwin Mellen Press, 2008
Call Number: KF4850 .C88 2008

The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom
By Robert A. Levy and William H. Mellor. Sentinel, 2008
Call Number: KF8742 .L485 2008 (At Jupiter)

In the News: Asian Pacific Americans

Week of May 18, 2009

News Item: Since 1992, May has been designated as Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Initially, President Jimmy Carter had signed a Joint-Resolution in 1978 proclaiming the first ten days of May as Asian Pacific Heritage Week. It eventually became a month-long celebration under George H. W. Bush. This year’s theme is” Lighting the Past, Present and Future,” and honors the “contributions and accomplishments of our nation’s Asian and Pacific Islander citizens, past, present and future.” Visit http://asianpacificheritage.gov for online audio, video, and image collections, and other resources from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and the National Gallery of Art.

Florida Atlantic University celebrates Asian Pacific American Culture Day on Wednesday, May 20, 2009.

American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora
By Sunil Bhatia. New York University Press, 2007
Call Number: E184. E2 B497 2007 (At Jupiter) – Also available online via NetLibrary

American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America
By Allan Punzalan Isaac. University of Minnesota Press, 2006
Call Number: E184 .F4 I73 2006

Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970
Edited by Gordon H. Chang. Stanford University Press, 2008
Call Number: N6538 .A83 A835 2008

In the News: US–Cuba Relations in 2009

Week of May 11, 2009

News Item: The Obama administration recently announced that it is revising its policies on family travel to Cuba, remittances to family members, and regulations on gift parcels. According to a White House fact sheet, these changes are being made in order to “help bridge the gap among divided Cuban families and promote the freer flow of information and humanitarian items to the Cuban people.”

Adrift: The Cuban Raft People
By Alfredo Fernández. Arte Publico Press, 2000
Call Number: E184 .C97 F46 2000

Castro: Man and Myth (DVD)
Directed by Stephan Lamby and Volker Skierka. Distributed by The Cinema Guild, 2005
Call Number: F1788.22 .C3 C35 2005 (Media Center)

Cuba After Communism
By Eliana Cardoso and Ann Helwege. MIT Press, 1992
Call Number: F1788 .C2575 1992

In the News: Reproductive Technology

Week of April 27, 2009

News Item: A few months have passed since a Southern California woman gave birth to eight babies, all of whom were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). What are the social, cultural, political, medical, ethical, and economic ramifications of IVF and other reproductive technologies? Some starting points…

Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology
By Susan Merrill Squier. Rutgers UP, 1994
Call Number: RG133.5 .S98 1994 (At Jupiter)

Beyond Second Opinions: Making Choices about Fertility Treatment
By Judith Steinberg Turiel. U of California Press, 1998
Call Number: RC889 .T87 1998

Bodies of Technology: Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine
Edited by Ann Rudinow Saetnan et al. Ohio State UP, 2000
Call Number: RG133.5 .B625 2000

In the News: Earth Day

Week of April 20, 2009

News Item: April 22nd is Earth Day…Green Living • Sustainability • Recycling • No Pesticides • Ecofeminism • Environmentally Friendly • Hybrid Vehicles • Paper or Plastic? Neither–Bring Your Own Bags! • No PEG Compounds • Community Supported Agriculture • Stainless Steel Water Bottles • Carbon Footprint Reduction • Public Transportation • Fair Trade • Renewable Energy…

Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth

Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise
By Gaylord Nelson. U of Wisconsin P, 2002
Call Number: GE195 .N45 2002

Bringing Society Back in: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainability Communities
By Edward P. Weber. MIT Press, 2003
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Building with Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid Home (DVD)
Directed by Ted Owens. Syncronos Design, 2005
Call Number: TH4818 .S77 B85 2005 (Media Center)
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In the News: College Athletics

Week of April 6, 2009

News Item: March Madness is over. Now it’s on to the Big Dance for the Michigan State Spartans, the UConn Huskies, the North Carolina Tar Heels, and the Villanova Wildcats. The 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball champion will be crowned on April 6 in Detroit. Have some spare time before the final game tip-off? – check out some of these books on sports in higher education.

Air Ball: American Education’s Failed Experiment with Elite Athletics
By John R. Gerdy. UP of Mississippi, 2006
Call Number: GV346 .G468 2006 (also available online via NetLibrary)

Athletics and Academe: An Anatomy of Abuses and a Prescription for Reform
By Wilford S. Bailey and Taylor D. Littleton. Maxwell Macmillan, 1991
Call Number: GV351 .B34 1991

Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education
By Murray Sperber. Henry Holt, 2000
Call Number: GV351 .S63 2000