McQuade Library Updates

Check out the display of books in the Reference Room–and take the quiz for a chance at a prize!

Science Books Received in October

• Reading and understanding research
  Locke, Lawrence F.
  Q180.A1 L63 2010
• Technology in the secondary science classroom
  Q183.9 .T43 2008
• A history of mathematics
  Boyer, Carl B.
  QA21 .B767 1991
• Head first algebra
  Pilone, Tracey.
  QA155 .P54 2009
• Global warming is good for business : how savvy entrepreneurs, large corporations, and others are making money while saving the planet
  Keilbach, K. B.
  QC981.8.G56 K45 2009
• The discovery of global warming
  Weart, Spencer R.,
  QC981.8.G56 W43 2008
• Why evolution is true
  Coyne, Jerry A.,
  QH366.2 .C74 2009

Remember to take a look at the Monthly New Materials lists on the Booklists page to keep up with new arrivals!

Claude Levi-Strauss seen in this Jan. 13, 1967 file photo. The Academie Francaise said Tuesday Nov 3 2009 that Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, had died. He was 100. Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.(AP Photo, HO)

Levi-Strauss library materials

Levi-Stauss biographical data

Read the fall edition of the library newsletter to catch up on this semester’s news:

From the Director’s Desk
What’s Happening
What’s New
Circulation Department Welcomes New Hires
ERC’s New and Improved Website

• Lehrer, Jonah – How we decide
• Davidson, Christopher M. (Christopher Michael) – Dubai : the vulnerability of success
• Axtell, Roger E – Essential do’s and taboos : the complete guide to international business and leisure travel
• McDonald, Lawrence G – A colossal failure of common sense : the inside story of the collapse of Lehman Brothers
• Cambron-McCabe, Nelda H – Legal rights of teachers and students
• Sax, Linda J. – The gender gap in college : maximizing the developmental potential of women and men
• Berona, David A – Wordless books : the original graphic novels
• Battistella, Edwin L – Bad language : are some words better than others?
• Seethaler, Sherry – Lies, damned lies, and science : how to sort through the noise around global warming, the latest health claims, and other
  scientific controversies
• Rumney, Avis – Dying to please : anorexia, treatment and recovery

Have a great time at Homecoming!
Schedule of events

Here are some films to put you in the mood!

30 days of night
1408
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
Batman begins
The birds
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
The bride of Frankenstein
Cloverfield
Dracula
The haunting in Connecticut
Mirrors
Quarantine
The ruins
Splinter
The Stepford wives
What ever happened to baby Jane?

Trying to find that webpage with all the info you need for your class research project? It’s on McQuade LibGuides.

Some recent guides:
FAA3960 Historiography and Methodologies of Art History
WRT1050 Intro to College Writing — Buxton

Recent additions to the Hot Titles collection. Make sure to tell us if you don’t see what you want!

• Albom, Mitch – Have a little faith : a true story
• Brown, Dan – The lost symbol
• Butcher, Jim – Turn coat : a novel of the Dresden files
• Griffin, Kathy – Official book club selection : a memoir according to Kathy Griffin
• Heymann, C. David (Clemens David) – Bobby and Jackie : a love story
• Hilderbrand, Elin – The castaways : a novel
• Hornby, Nick – Juliet, naked
• Kidder, Tracy – Strength in what remains
• Lindsay, Jeffry P – Dexter by Design : a novel
• Metz, Julie – Perfection : a memoir of betrayal and renewal
• Oates, Joyce Carol – Little bird of heaven : a novel
• Patterson, James – Alex Cross’s trial
• Pynchon, Thomas – Inherent vice
• Reichs, Kathy – 206 bones : a novel
• Russo, Richard – That old cape magic
• Shreve, Anita – A change in altitude : a novel
• Sparks, Nicholas – The last song
• Tropper, Jonathan – This is where I leave you
• Tóibín, Colm – Brooklyn : a novel
• Wickham, Madeleine – The wedding girl