SUMMER 2008

1. New Databases!

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Nursing Resource Center

2. The Last Lecture Phenomenally inspirational talk from Professor, Randy Pausch

New Books

3. New Books

1. New Databases! From our InfoTracWeb service: two one-stop-shopping, multimedia resources.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Pro & Con research

Great information resource for argumentative and debate topics. Includes primary and secondary sources like:

• books • statistics • websites

• articles • images • podcasts

Nursing Resource Center: One-Stop Multimedia database

Designed for nursing students, this database utilizes an easy to use interface to present disease and drug overviews, nursing care plans, periodical articles, exam and disease process animations, and more.

2. The Last Lecture

Phenomenally inspiring lecture by terminally ill Carnegie Melon Professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction and Design. Randy Pausch gives this lighthearted lecture on achieving your dreams and enabling the dreams of others. Full length video available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo.

3. New Books

Humanities & Drama

A challenge for the actor by Uta Hagen / PN2061 .H27 1991

Designing the obvious : a common sense approach to Web application design TK5105.888 H618 2007

Drama activities for K-6 students : creating classroom spirit PN3171 .P57 2006

Every intellectual's big brother : George Orwell's literary siblings / PR6029.R8 Z7753 2006

Editorial and opinion : the dwindling marketplace of ideas in today's news / PN4888.E28 H35 2007

The handbook of stage costume PN2067 .B53 2006

Laugh lines : short comic plays PS627.C65 L38 2007

Moral disorder : stories / by Margaret Atwood / PR9199.3.A8 M66 2006

Respect for acting by Uta Hagen / PN2061 .H28 1973

The San Francisco Mime Troupe reader PN2297.S25 S26 2005

The sea captain's wife : a true story of love, race, and war in the nineteenth century / HQ1413 .C66 H63 2006

Stage directors handbook : opportunities for directors and choreographers PN2053 .S68 2006

Women directors and their films PN1998.2 .H86 2007

History & Political Science

The boys from Dolores : Fidel Castro's schoolmates from revolution to exile F1788 .S96 2007

Comrades! : a history of world communism HX39 .S414 2007

The Egyptian renaissance : the afterlife of ancient Egypt in early modern Italy DG445 .C93 2007

Family ties in Victorian England HQ615 .N45 2007

In Europe : travels through the twentieth century D424 .M3513 2007

Food and cooking in Victorian England : a history TX717 .B754 2007

Forgotten wars : freedom and revolution in Southeast Asia / DS526.7 B38 2007

Global passage : transformation of Panama and the Panama Canal / F1569.C2 M339 2006

Immigrant America : a portrait / JV6450 .P67 2006

Island at the end of the world : the turbulent history of Easter Island / F3169 .F475 2006

Lincoln's rise to the presidency / E457.3 H37 2007

Nixon and Kissinger : partners in power / E856 .D35 2007

Noah's other son : bridging the gap between the Bible and the Qur'an / BP134.B4 B76 2007

New geographies of the American West : land use and the changing patterns of place / HT384.U52 W48 2007

A people at war : civilians and soldiers in America's Civil War, 1854-1877 / E415.7 N36 2007

Slave revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804 : a brief history with documents / F2151 .D86 2006

The voice, the Word, the books : the sacred scripture of the Jews, Christians, and Muslims / BL221 .P395 2007

The world of the Vikings / DL65 .H33 2007

Science & Geography

A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / T15 .F774 2007

Bomb scare : the history and future of nuclear weapons / U264 .C57 2007

Dark cosmos : in search of our universe's missing mass and energy / QB982 .H66 2006

Endangered species : how we can avoid mass destruction and build a lasting peace / HM886 .Y68 2007

Exposed : the toxic chemistry of everyday products-- who's at risk and what's at stake for American power / HC110.E5 S386 2007

The late Palaeo-Indian Great Lakes : geological and archaeological investigations of late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments / E78.G7 L27 2004

Lights out : the electricity crisis, the global economy, and what it means to you / HD9685.U5 M326 2007

A movable feast : ten millennia of food globalization / TX353 .K55 2007

Primates in perspective / QL737.P9 P679 2007

Riddled with life : friendly worms, ladybug sex, and the parasites that make us who we are / RB112 .Z85 2007

The robot : the life story of a technology / TJ211 .N63 2007

The state of the Earth : environmental challenges on the road to 2100 / GE195.7 C66 2007

The state of the ocean's animals / QH541.5.S3 S738 2007 dvd

Science and technology in world history : an introduction / Q125 .M414 2006

Seeds for the future : the impact of genetically modified crops on the environment / SB123.57 T494 2007

Will the world run out of fresh water? / TD348 .W54 2007

Health & Medicine

Breath sounds made incredibly easy! / RC734.A94 B74 2005

Change your career : nursing as your new profession / RT82 .A75 2006

The chemistry of joy : a three-step program for overcoming depression through western science and eastern wisdom / RC489.R3 E48 2006

Introduction to massage therapy / RM721 .B785 2008

Natural causes : death, lies, and politics in America's vitamin and herbal supplement industry / RA1250 .H87 2006

Surgical consent : bioethics and cochlear implantation / RF305 .S85 2007

To die well : your right to comfort, calm and choice in the last days of life / R726.8 W36 2007

The world's healthiest foods : essential guide for the healthiest way of eating / RA784 .M3625 2007

Internet & Marketing & Business

Designing the obvious : a common sense approach to Web application design / TK5105.888 H618 2007

For the common good : the ethics of leadership in the 21st century / HM1261 .F67 2007

Lights out : the electricity crisis, the global economy, and what it means to you / HD9685.U5 M326 2007

Second Life: in-world travel guide? / GV 1469.25 .S425 2008

The soulful science : what economists really do and why it matters / HB74.P8 C58 2007

The Wal-Mart revolution : how big-box stores benefit consumers, workers, and the economy / HF5429.215.U6 V43 2006

YouTube 4 you / TK5105.8868.Y68 M45 2007

Criminal Justice

The color of justice : race, ethnicity, and crime in America / HV9950 .W33 2007

Marked : race, crime, and finding work in an era of mass incarceration / HV9304 .P23 2007

Psychology

Body language / BF637 .F37 2002

A crowd of one : the future of individual identity / BF697.5.S65 C58 2007

Everyday goodbyes : starting school and early care : a guide to the separation process / LB1132 .B338 2006

Five minds for the future / BF432.3 G365 2006

I want it now : navigating childhood in a materialistic world / HQ772 .B43 2007

Partner stalking : how women respond, cope, and survive / HV6594 .P36 2006

Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness / BF575.B3 L35 2007

Teenage : the creation of youth culture / HQ796 .S284 2007

Under pressure and overwhelmed : coping with anxiety in college / LA229 .V94 2007

Why youth is not wasted on the young : immaturity in human development / HQ772 .B4795 2007

Psychological Disorders Series:

Addiction / RC564.3 T33 2006

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder / RJ506.H9 P45 2008

Child abuse and stress disorders / RJ507.S77 O45 2007

Depression and bipolar disorder / RC537 .T475 2006

Eating disorders / RC552.E18 K44 2006

Personality disorders / RC555 .P472 2007

Schizophrenia / RC514 .V43 2007

Suicide / RC569 .S9312 2007

Religion & Culture

China A to Z : everything you need to know to understand Chinese customs and culture / DS705 .C414 2007

Christian belief : a short history for today / BT21.3 E93 2006

Hare Krishna transformed / BL1285.835.U6 R63 2007

Seeking a sanctuary : seventh-day Adventism and the American dream / BX6153.2 B85 2007

Social Science

2do before I die : the do-it-yourself guide to the rest of your life / BF637.S4 O33 2005

The age of American unreason / E169.Z83 J33 2008

Child labor and sweatshops / HD6231 .C455 2006

A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / T15 .F774 2007

Divorce : causes and consequences / HQ814 .C55 2006

Fighting for air : the battle to control America's media / HE8689.8 .K625 2007

Gandhi's truth : on the origins of militant nonviolence / by Erik H. Erikson / DS481.G3 E7 1993

Global extremism and terrorism / HV6431 .G555 2007

God needs no passport : immigrants and the changing American religious landscape / BL2525 .L484 2007

Help! I'm a maxed-out mom / HQ759 .W382 2007

Help! my adult child won't leave home / HQ755.86 B594 2006

Immigrant America : a portrait / JV6450 .P67 2006

This land : the battle over sprawl and the future of America / HT384.U5 F55 2006

Single by chance, mothers by choice : how women are choosing parenthood without marriage and creating the new American familie / HQ536 .H48 2006

Wants, wishes, and wills : a medical and legal guide to protecting yourself and your familie in sickness and in health / RC81 .W577