Archive for June 20th, 2009
New Research Database: American History in Video
Posted by: Liz Bagley on: June 20, 2009
McCain Library recently subscribed to the Alexander Street Press database American History in Video. American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles to be included on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze [...]
New York Times Book Review
- The Pop Art EraJames Rosenquist writes about growing up to be a painter, while other authors dissect the Warhol phenomenon afresh.
- John Ashbery, Toying With WordsThe master of sinuous syntax has performed surgery in this collection, often bringing his poems into the wry epigrammatic domain of Dickinson.
- George Packer, Chronicler of the Age of TerrorThis book of essays from the Bush-era coheres better than most in the genre because of George Packer’s unusually coherent worldview.
- Grigori Perelman’s Beautiful MindA dogged portrait of an eccentric Russian mathematician who solved a famously unsolved problem, then dropped out.
- Twilight of the Ice BearA digest of the history of human-polar bear relations, a pretty shameful record even before global warming.
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