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What’s New in Science

Kathryn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:30:09 +0000

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!

New in September

Kathryn — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:12:42 +0000

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

Halloween is coming

Kathryn — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:41:22 +0000

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?

LibGuides

Kathryn — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:19:45 +0000

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

Hot Titles

Kathryn — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:00:13 +0000

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

Database Spotlight: ARTstor

Kathryn — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:57:48 +0000

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

To enter the Digital Library, go to ARTstor and click on the “Go” button in the upper right hand corner.

Ongoing Crisis in Darfur

Kathryn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:00:02 +0000

Displaced Sudanese women seeking medical treatment line up outside the Egyptian military field hospital at Abu Shouk refugee camp, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Sudan Thursday, March 26, 2009.

(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Darfur Awareness Events
9/29 – 10/1 – Exhibit Darfur (Sakowich Campus Center)
9/29 7-9 p.m. – The Devil Came on Horseback (Alumni Hall, McQuade Library)
9/30 7-9 p.m. Investing in Genocide: What You Can Do To Stop It (Cascia Hall)
For more information on the above events, contact Dr. Mark Allman at (978) 837-3508 or allmanm@merrimack.edu.

Library Materials on Darfur

Beyond humanitarianism : what you need to know about Africa and why it matters
Crimes of war : what the public should know

Darfur diaries
The devil came on horseback
Encyclopedia of politics and religion
God grew tired of us
A journey to Darfur
On our watch
Cheadle, Don – Not on our watch : the mission to end genocide in Darfur and beyond
Daly, M. W – Darfur’s sorrow : a history of destruction and genocide
Dau, John Bul – God grew tired of us
De Waal, Alexander – Famine that kills : Darfur, Sudan
Flint, Julie – Darfur : a short history of a long war
Iyob, Ruth – Sudan : the elusive quest for peace
Johnson, Douglas Hamilton – The root causes of Sudan’s civil wars
Kiernan, Ben – Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Prunier, Gérard – Darfur : the ambiguous genocide (rev ed, 2007)
Prunier, Gérard – Africa’s world war : Congo, the Rwandan genocide, and the making of a continental catastrophe
Prunier, Gérard – Darfur : the ambiguous genocide (2005)
Spilsbury, Louise – Moving people : migration and settlement
Steidle, Brian – The devil came on horseback : bearing witness to the genocide in Darfur

Constitution Day

Kathryn — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:18:43 +0000

Campus Constitution Day Events at the Sak 1:00pm

Some selected materials on the U.S. Constitution

Lane, Eric – The genius of America : how the Constitution saved our country– and why it can again
Maddex, Robert L. – The U.S. Constitution A to Z
Meacham, Jon – American gospel : God, the founding fathers, and the making of a nation
Mohawk, John – Exiled in the land of the free : democracy, the Indian nations, and the U.S. Constitution
Price Hossell, Karen – The Bill of Rights

Database Spotlight: ACLS Humanities Ebooks

Kathryn — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:12:29 +0000

ACLS Humanities E-Book
This electronic resource includes over 1700 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected by scholars for their continuing importance for research and teaching. Areas include: African, American, Asian, Latin American, European (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern), Middle Eastern, World/Comparative, Byzantine/Mediterranean and Australasian/Oceanian history, plus history of the Native Peoples of the Americas and of Science and Technology. Plus archaeology, art history, folklore, religion, musicology, and political science.

Labor Resources and Labor Day Weekend Hours

Kathryn — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:03:37 +0000

Mill workers, Lawrence MA, 1911

Labor LibGuide — a guide to resources on labor and labor history at McQuade

Library Hours for Labor Day Weekend 2009
Fri, Sept 4		7:30 A.M.- 5:00 P.M.
Sat, Sept 5		10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
Sun, Sept 6		11:00 A.M.- midnight
Mon, Sept 7		7:30 A.M.. – midnight