Database spotlight: CountryWatch
Posted by: asclibrarian on: October 2, 2008
CountryWatch database
One feature of our new database, CountryWatch is its Country Reviews, which are comprehensive, regularly updated reports on every country! These reports include today’s news as well as political, economic, social, and environmental overviews, which include information such as the status of women, detailed statistics, and more!
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New York Times Book Review
- Arthur Koestler, Man of DarknessMichael Scammell examines the complex intelligence and shifting allegiances of the author of “Darkness at Noon.”
- Led Zeppelin, Gods of Rock on the Celestial StaircaseMick Wall examines the salacious, diabolical career of Led Zeppelin, and the phenomenal music the band made.
- J. M. Coetzee, a Disembodied ManIn the third volume of his genre-bending autobiography, the Nobel-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee imagines himself as already dead and invents his own biographer.
- Out of the ShadowsIn this muted and gently probing novel, Charlotte Brontë finds liberation through her dauntless, self-reliant heroine and fictional alter ego, Jane Eyre.
- Shanghai ExpressA nameless hero is sent on a mysterious errand in this wonderfully stylized existential mystery.
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