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April 1, 2010 - June 30, 2010



W.M. Hunt's talks on art. Second series
By: Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879
Call No:   ND1135 .H92 1883
Subject: Painting 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Wachst die Seuchengefahr. English The new plagues : pandemics and poverty in a globalized world
By: Kaufmann, S. H. E. (Stefan H. E.)
Call No:  Main Collection  RA643 .K3913 2009
Subject: Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- epidemiology Communicable Disease Control -- economics Disease Outbreaks -- economics Healthcare Disparities Poverty Socioeconomic Factors Epidemics -- Social aspects Communicable diseases -- Social aspects Epidem 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Walden Walden and, Resistance to civil government : authoritative texts, Thoreau's journal, reviews, and essays in criticism
By: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Call No:  Main Collection  PS3048 .A1 1992
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-482)
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography Solitude Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Civil disobedience Civil disobedience 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The Wall Street primer : the players, deals, and mechanics of the U.S. securities market
By: Pedersen, Jason A
Call No:   HG4910 .P422 2009
Subject: Includes index
Securities industry -- United States Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) Stock exchanges -- United States Investments -- United States Stocks -- United States 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Wallander [videorecording]
By: Ahlqvist, Daniel, Producer. Moseley, Simon, Producer. Branagh, Kenneth, Actor. Mankell, Henning, 1948- Martin, Philip, Director. Cottan, Richard, Author of screenplay. MacCormick, Niall, Director. McBrien, Richard, Author of scre
Call No:  Videos  PN1992.77.W35 2009 DVD
Subject: Wallander, Kurt (Fictitious character) -- Drama Police -- Sweden -- Drama Sweden -- Drama Detective and mystery television programs Fiction television programs Television series Television adaptations Video recordings for the hearing impaired 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More War
By: Junger, Sebastian
Call No:  Browsing Area  DS371.4123.K67 J86 2010
Subject: Includes bibliographical references Fear -- Killing -- Love Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley
Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Korangal Valley United States. Army. Airborne Brigade, 173rd 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More War and ethics : a new just war theory
By: Fotion, N
Call No:  Main Collection  U22 .F65 2007
Subject: War -- Moral and ethical aspects Just war doctrine 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More War powers in the 21st century : hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, April 28, 2009
By: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
SUDOC:  Gov. Documents  Y 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.111-255
Subject: United States. War Powers Resolution War and emergency powers -- United States Executive power -- United States Legislative power -- United States Separation of powers -- United States Legislative oversight -- United States 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The war that killed Achilles : the true story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War
By: Alexander, Caroline, 1956-
Call No:  Main Collection  PA4037 .A5955 2009
Subject: Homer. Iliad War in literature Trojan War -- Literature and the war Achilles (Greek mythology) 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Warrant and proper function
By: Plantinga, Alvin
Call No:  Main Collection  BD161 .P57 1993
Subject: Includes index
Knowledge, Theory of Belief and doubt Cognition 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Warranted Christian belief
By: Plantinga, Alvin
Call No:  Main Collection  BT1102 .P57 2000
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and index
Apologetics Christianity -- Philosophy Faith and reason -- Christianity 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The Washington Monument
By: Schaffer, Julia
Call No:  CRC  F203.4.W3 S34 2010
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index The importance of the Washington Monument -- George Washington's early years -- General and president -- Building a national monument -- Visiting the Washington Monument today
Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.) -- Juvenile literature Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Monuments -- Washington (D.C.) -- Juvenile literature Washington (D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Juvenile literature 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More We feed the world [videorecording]
By: Grasser, Helmut Wagenhofer, Erwin FVSterreichisches Film Institut Filmfonds Wien (Firm) Kino International Corporation
Call No:  Videos  S439 .W4 2009 DVD
Subject: Documentary Title from container Originally released in 2005 Photography, Erwin Wagenhofer DVD Dolby Digital, NTSC English, German, French or Portuguese dialogue, English subtitles A globe-trotting expose of our modern agricultural system. From struggling fishermen and long-distance truckers, to agronomists and multi-national corporate executives. Presents a sobering portrait of the people who define the contemporary food industry, where the constant pursuit of profit takes precedence over the health of the workers, the hungry, and the environment. Reveals the distressing problems of the industrialized world food system and what world hunger has to do with us. Nearly 1 billion of the 7 billion people on Earth are starving, but the food produced could feed 12 billion people
Agricultural systems Food crops Agriculture Plant biotechnology Sustainable agriculture Documentary films Feature films 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Weimar cinema : an essential guide to classic films of the era
By: Isenberg, Noah William
Call No:  Main Collection  PN1993.5.G4 W357 2009
Subject: Motion pictures -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Silent films -- Germany -- History and criticism 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More What can you do with an old red shoe? : a green activity book about re-use
By: Alter, Anna, 1974-
Call No:  CRC  TT157 .A46 2009
Subject: Christy Ottaviano books What can you do with one flip-flop? -- What can you do with a raggedy T-shirt? -- What can you do with a ripped shower curtain? -- What can you do with an old red shoe? -- What can you do with a worn blanket? -- What can you do with empty berry baskets? -- What can you do with little odds and ends? -- What can you do with empty tin cans? -- What can you do with bits of old crayon? -- What can you do with an old calendar? -- What can you do with used wrapping paper? -- What can you do with too many toys? -- What else can you do to support reuse and recycling? -- Hand sewing tips Features step-by-step instructions that teach children the importance of recycling through creative projects and challenge them to come up with recycling ideas of their own
Handicraft -- Juvenile literature Waste products -- Juvenile literature Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Juvenile literature Salvage (Waste, etc.) -- Juvenile literature 


What do you know about American art? : Eighty questions covering the whole field of American art fully answered
By: Berry, Rose V. S
Call No:  Special Collections  N6506 .B57 1928
Subject: Art, American Women -- Societies and clubs -- Programs 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More What the moon saw : a novel
By: Resau, Laura
Call No:  CRC  PZ7.R2978 Wha 2008
Subject: A yearling book. 4.8 9-12 Fourteen-year-old Clara Luna spends the summer with her grandparents in the tiny, remote village of Yucuyoo, Mexico, learning about her grandmother's life as a healer, her father's decision to leave home for the United States, and her own place in the world A Junior Library Guild selection
Self-perception -- Juvenile fiction Grandparents -- Juvenile fiction Healers -- Juvenile fiction Country life -- Mexico -- Juvenile fiction Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction Mexico -- Juvenile fiction 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More When a crocodile eats the sun : a memoir of Africa
By: Godwin, Peter, 1957-
Call No:   DT2999.G63 A3 2008
Subject: Includes a reading group guide
Godwin, Peter, 1957- Godwin, Peter, 1957- -- Family Zimbabwe -- History -- 1980- -- Biography Family secrets -- Zimbabwe -- Case studies Fathers and sons -- Zimbabwe -- Case studies Harare (Zimbabwe) -- Biography Whites -- Zimbabwe -- Biography Journalists -- Biography Godwin, Peter, 1957- -- Travel -- Africa, Southern Africa, Southern -- Description and travel 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More When giants walked the earth : a biography of Led Zeppelin
By: Wall, Mick
Call No:  Main Collection  ML421.L4 W35 2008
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-475) and index Ascension! The dawn of now -- Daze of my youth -- Light and shade -- Going to California -- High in the sky -- Cannons! -- Cracking the whip -- A bustle in your hedgerow -- The curse of King Midas. So mote it be -- All that glitters -- We are your overlords -- The golden gods -- The devil in his hole -- Caesar's chariot -- The outhouse -- To be a rock-- Veteran rock journalist Wall tells the comprehensive and yet intimately detailed story of Led Zeppelin--the band that pushed the envelope on both creativity and excess, even by rock 'n' roll standards
Led Zeppelin (Musical group) Rock musicians -- England -- Biography 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More When God took sides : religion and identity in Ireland : unfinished history
By: Elliott, Marianne, 1948-
Call No:  Main Collection  BR792 .E45 2009
Subject: Catholic Church -- Ireland Protestant churches -- Ireland -- History Identification (Religion) Ireland -- Religion 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More When Jack goes out
By: Schories, Pat
Call No:  CRC  PZ7.S37645 Wh 2010
Subject: Jack the dog plays happily in his backyard with visitors from outer space, but is not so sure that he wants to go home with them A Junior Library Guild selection
Dogs -- Juvenile fiction Extraterrestrial beings -- Juvenile fiction Stories without words 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Where two or three are gathered : Christian families as domestic churches
By: Bourg, Florence Caffrey
Call No:  Main Collection  BX2351 .B66 2004
Subject: Families -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church Pastoral theology -- Catholic Church Catholic Church -- Doctrines 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Where we lived : discovering the places we once called home : the American home from 1775 to 1840
By: Larkin, Jack, 1943-
Call No:  Main Collection  E159 .L33 2006
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 266)
Historic buildings -- United States Dwellings -- United States Historic buildings -- United States -- Pictorial works Dwellings -- United States -- Pictorial works United States -- History, Local United States -- Description and travel Travelers' writings United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865 Home -- United States -- History -- 18th century Home -- United States -- History -- 19th century Architecture, Domestic -- United States -- History 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Whipping girl : a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity
By: Serano, Julia
Call No:   HQ77.9 .S47 2007
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-384) and index Coming to terms with transgenderism and transsexuality -- Skirt chasers : why the media depicts the trans revolution in lipstick and heels -- Before and after : class and body transformations -- Boygasms and girgasms : a frank discussion about hormones and gender difference -- Blind spots : on subconscious sex and gender entitlement -- Intrinsic inclinations : explaining gender and sexual diversity -- Pathological science : debunking sexological and sociological models of transgenderism -- Dismantling cissexual privilege -- Ungendering in art and academia -- Experiential gender -- Deconstructive surgery -- Bending over backwards : traditional sexism and trans woman-exclusion policies -- Self-deception -- Trans-sexualization -- Submissive streak -- Love rant -- Crossdressing : demystifying femininity and rethinking male privilege -- Barrette manifesto -- Putting the feminine back into feminism -- The future of queer/trans activism
Transsexualism Transsexuals Feminism 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More White light, black rain [videorecording] : the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By: Okazaki, Steven HBO Documentary Films Farallon Films HBO Video (Firm)
Call No:  Videos  D767.25.H6 W45 2007 DVD
Subject: Nuclear Warfare -- history -- Japan -- Personal Narratives Nuclear Weapons -- Japan -- Personal Narratives Survivors -- Japan -- Personal Narratives World War II -- Japan -- Personal Narratives Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- P 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Whitewashed : America's invisible Middle Eastern minority
By: Tehranian, John
Call No:  Main Collection  E184.A65 T45 2009
Subject: Arab Americans -- Social conditions Iranian Americans -- Social conditions Turkish Americans -- Social conditions Arab Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc Iranian Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc Turkish Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc Whit 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Whose church? : a concise guide to progressive Catholicism
By: Maguire, Daniel C
Call No:   BX1396.2 .M34 2008
Subject: Includes bibliographical references Good sex (even Catholics can have it) -- Male and female were we made (with some variations on those themes) -- The perennial orphans of American conscience -- War is for dummies (antidotes in lost traditions) -- Upwardly mobile poverty : an unnecessary metastasis -- Earth threats, earth hopes
Liberalism Catholic Church -- History -- 21st century 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Why architecture matters
By: Goldberger, Paul
Call No:  Main Collection  NA2540 .G63 2009
Subject: Architecture -- Psychological aspects Architecture and society 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Why Arendt matters
By: Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth
Call No:  Main Collection  JC251.A74 Y688 2006
Subject: Series from jacket Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-218) and index Works by Hannah Arendt : p. [219]-220 The origins of totalitarianism and the twenty-first century -- The human condition and actions that matter -- Thinking about The life of the mind
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 -- Political and social views Political science -- Philosophy Totalitarianism 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Why photography matters as art as never before
By: Fried, Michael
Call No:  Main Collection  TR642 .F75 2008
Subject: Photography, Artistic Photography -- Philosophy 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Why poetry matters
By: Parini, Jay
Call No:  Main Collection  PN1031 .P34 2008
Subject: Poetry 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Why the Dreyfus Affair matters
By: Begley, Louis
Call No:  Main Collection  DC354 .B44 2009
Subject: Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935 Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935 -- Influence Trials (Treason) -- Political aspects -- France Antisemitism -- France -- History -- 19th century France -- History -- Third Republic, 1870-1940 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Why translation matters
By: Grossman, Edith, 1936-
Call No:  Main Collection  PN241 .G75 2010
Subject: Literature -- Translations Translating and interpreting 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Wierna rzeka. English The faithful river
By: Zeromski, Stefan, 1864-1925
Call No:  Main Collection  PG7158.Z4 W5514 1999
Subject: Poland -- History -- Revolution, 1863-1864 -- Fiction 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Wild child : stories
By: Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Call No:  Main Collection  PS3552.O932 W53 2010
Subject: Balto -- La conchita -- Question 62 -- Sin dolor -- Bulletproof -- Hands on -- The lie -- The unlucky mother of Aquiles Maldonado -- Admiral -- Ash Monday -- Thirteen hundred rats -- Anacapa -- Three quarters of the way to hell -- Wild child
United States -- Social life and customs -- 21st century -- Fiction 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The wild Muir : twenty-two of John Muir's greatest adventures
By: Muir, John, 1838-1914
Call No:  Main Collection  QH31.M9 A3 1994
Subject: Includes bibliographical references Good scootchers -- Near drowning -- At the bottom of the well -- Blind! -- Fever! -- The brink of the Yosemite Fall -- An interview with a bear -- In the midst of the Yosemite Fall -- Climbing the ice cone -- The snow avalanche ride -- Rattlesnakes -- The earthquake -- The ascent of Mount Ritter -- A geologist's winter walk -- The tree ride -- A perilous night on Mount Shasta -- Mono Lake windstorm -- Thirst -- The rescue on Glenora Peak -- Stickeen -- A sled trip on the Muir Glacier -- Nearly crushed by an iceberg -- Milestones in the life of John Muir An entertaining collection of John Muir's most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing. Each adventure has been selected to show the extent to which Muir courted and faced danger, i.e. lived wildly, throughout his life. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent riding out a windstorm at the top of a tree to death-defying falls on Alaskan glaciers, the renowned outdoorsman's exploits are related in passages that are by turns exhilarating, unnerving, dizzying and outrageous.--From publisher description
Muir, John, 1838-1914 Naturalists -- United States -- Biography 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Wild Pacific [videorecording] : an ocean of extraordinary discoveries
By: Cordey, Huw, Producer. Bellati, Chiara, Producer, Director. Brownlow, Mark, Producer, Director. Clay, Jonathan, Producer, Director. Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1977- Narrator. British Broadcasting Corporation BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc Discovery Chann
Call No:  Videos  GC771 .W55 2009 DVD
Subject: Title from container BBC Earth. Special features: Each episode concludes with a special 10-min. making of video diary Ocean of islands -- Castaways -- Endless blue -- Ocean of volcanoes -- Strange islands -- Fragile paradise DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., DVD-9, NTSC Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch Explores the sheer scale and majesty of the largest ocean on Earth, the isolation of its islands, the extraordinary journeys wildlife and humans have gone through to reach these specks of land, and what happened to both after their arrival
Pacific Ocean Islands of the Pacific Natural history -- Pacific Ocean Natural history -- Islands of the Pacific Nonfiction television programs Documentary television programs Nature television programs Television programs for the hearing impaired 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Wille zur Macht. English The will to power
By: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
Call No:  Main Collection  B3313 .N5 1968
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and index
Nihilism (Philosophy) Values Power (Philosophy) 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Willie Mays : the life, the legend
By: Hirsch, James S
Call No:  Main Collection  GV865.M38 H57 2010
Subject: Mays, Willie, 1931- Baseball players -- United States -- Biography New York Giants (Baseball team) 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More The Willoughbys
By: Lowry, Lois
Call No:  CRC  PZ7.L9673 Wi 2008
Subject: Walter Lorraine books. Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-174) In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become deserving orphans after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction 


Windows : a book about stained & painted glass
By: Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910
Call No:  Special Collections  NK5304 .D3 1902
Subject: Glass painting and staining 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Windy city wars : labor, leisure, and sport in the making of Chicago
By: Gems, Gerald R
Call No:   GV584.5.C4 G46 1997
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and index
Sports -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History Leisure -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History Popular culture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History Chicago (Ill.) -- History 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Wired for war : the robotics revolution and conflict in the twenty-first century
By: Singer, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Call No:  Main Collection  UG450 .S45 2009
Subject: Military art and science -- Forecasting Robotics -- Military applications Military robots Military weapons Twenty-first century World politics -- 21st century 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More With burning hearts : a meditation on the Eucharistic life
By: Nouwen, Henri J. M
Call No:  Main Collection  BX2169 .N68 1994
Subject: Lord's Supper -- Catholic Church -- Meditations 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Women filmmakers in early Hollywood
By: Mahar, Karen Ward, 1960-
Call No:   PN1995.9.W6 M32 2008
Subject: Originally published as hardcover: 2006 Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-276) and index
Women in the motion picture industry -- United States Women motion picture producers and directors -- United States Women in motion pictures Motion pictures and women -- United States 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Women in the age of Shakespeare
By: Kemp, Theresa D
Call No:  Main Collection  PR2991 .K46 2010
Subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women Women -- England -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 Women -- England -- History -- 17th century Women -- England -- Social conditions Women in literature 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Women of blaxploitation : how the black action film heroine changed American popular culture
By: Sims, Yvonne D., 1969-
Call No:   PN1995.9.N4 S56 2006
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index Includes filmography: p. 193-200 Reshaping African American femininity: Mammy, Aunt Jemima, Sapphire and action heroine -- Cultivating the seed -- Here comes the queen -- Call me Cleo -- Love that woman and watch the dynamite -- The end of blaxploitation -- Aliens, terminators and outlaws: the mainstreaming of the action heroine -- Metamorphosis of the Black action heroine This study examines ways blaxploitation heroines reshaped the presentation of African American actresses on screen and the perception of African American females in general. It discusses the social, political and cultural context in which blaxploitation films emerged. The work focuses on four African American actresses providing critical and audience response and insight into perspectives of the actresses themselves --Provided by publisher
Blaxploitation films -- United States -- History and criticism African American women heroes in motion pictures Culture in motion pictures 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Women's Bible commentary
By: Newsom, Carol A. (Carol Ann), 1950- Ringe, Sharon H
Call No:   BS491.2 .W66 1998
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-501)
Bible -- Commentaries Women -- Middle East -- History Women -- Rome -- History 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Women's human rights : seeking gender justice in a globalizing age
By: Reilly, Niamh
Call No:   K644 .R45 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-193) and index Women's human rights advocacy -- Human rights, gender and contested meanings -- Women's human rights as equality and non-discrimination -- Violence and reproductive health as human rights issues -- Women's human rights in conflict and post-conflict transformation -- Development, globalization and women's human rights -- Fundamentalism and women's human rights -- Conclusion
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc Women's rights Human rights advocacy -- International cooperation Women's rights -- History Women (International law) 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Women's painted furniture, 1790-1830 : American schoolgirl art
By: Salm, Betsy Krieg
Call No:  Main Collection  NK2406 .S35 2010
Subject: Painted furniture -- United States -- History -- 18th century Painted furniture -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- 18th century Women -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Woodrow Wilson : a biography
By: Cooper, John Milton
Call No:  Main Collection  E767 .C695 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. [601]-668) and index Tommy -- Woodrow -- Professor -- Bold leader -- Academic Civil War -- Governor -- Nominee -- The great campaign -- Preparation -- Beginnings -- Taken at the flood -- Triumph and tragedy -- Irony and gift of fate -- The shock of recognition -- Second flood tide -- To run again -- Peace and war -- Victory -- Covenant -- Peacemaking abroad and at home -- The league fight -- Disability -- Downfall -- Twilight Evaluates the parallel worlds of the twenty-eighth president's personal and political arenas, examining his World War I leadership, his failed efforts to bring the United States into the League of Nations, and his contributions toward the creation of the United Nations
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 Presidents -- United States -- Biography United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921 


World book [electronic resource]
By: World Book, Inc
Call No:   AE5 .W56e
Subject: Title from home page (viewed Jan. 19, 2009) World book kids -- World book student -- World book advanced -- World book discover -- Enciclopedia estudiantil hallazgos -- Gran enciclopedia Hispanica -- Living green -- Early peoples -- Inventions and discoveries -- Dramatic learning Access restricted by subscription Text (electronic database) Based on the World Book encyclopedia, this web site serves as a gateway to its various dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias, images, maps, videos, timelines, current news, links to external articles, and more Mode of access: Internet
Electronic encyclopedias Encyclopedias and dictionaries Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More World cinemas, transnational perspectives
By: Durovicova, Natasa Newman, Kathleen
Call No:   PN1995.9.T6855 W67 2010
Subject: Includes bibliographical references and indexes The geopolitical imaginary of cinema studies. Notes on transnational film theory: decentered subjectivity, decentered capitalism / Kathleen Newman -- On the plurality of cinematic transnationalism / Mette Hjort -- Tracking global media in the outposts of globalization / Bhaskar Sarkar -- Time zones and jetlag: the flows and phases of world cinema / Dudley Andrew -- Vector, flow, zone: towards a history of cinematic translation / Natasa Durovicova -- Cinema as transnational exchange. Chinese cinema and transnational film studies / Yingjin Zhang -- National cinema abroad: the new international division of cultural labor, from production to viewing / Toby Miller -- Aural identity, genealogies of sound technologies, and Hispanic transnationality on screen / Marvin D'Lugo -- How movies move (between Hong Kong and Bulawayo, between screen and stage-- ) / Lesley Stern -- The new paradoxes of black Africa's cinemas / Olivier Barlet -- The transnational other: street kids in contemporary Brazilian cinema / Joao Luiz Vieira -- Comparative perspectives. Fantasy in action / Paul Willemen -- Vernacular modernism: tracking cinema on a global scale / Miriam Hansen -- Globalization and hybridization / Fredric Jameson -- From playtime to the world: the expansion and depletion of space within global economies / Jonathan Rosenbaum
Motion pictures and transnationalism Motion pictures and globalization 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More World economic outlook : a survey by the staff of the International Monetary Fund
By: International Monetary Fund
Call No:  Main Reference  HC10 .W7979
Subject: Some issues have also unique subtitles Issues Oct. 2007- will only include Part A of the Statistical Appendix Part B will be available online only Latest issue consulted: Oct. 2007 Has occasional updates called: Interim assessment Update for Dec. 1998 issued for both: World economic outlook, and: International capital markets, titled: World economic outlook and International capital markets interim assessment Also available online through the International Monetary Fund's homepage. Address as of 05/24/04: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/weorepts.htm Has companions: Staff studies for the World economic outlook, 1986-1997 and: World economic outlook (International Monetary Fund). Supporting studies, 2000- Companion publication to: International capital markets
Economic history -- 1971-1990 -- Periodicals Economic history -- 1990- -- Periodicals 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Worse than war : genocide, eliminationism, and the ongoing assault on humanity
By: Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah
Call No:  Main Collection  HV6322.7 .G65 2009
Subject: Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-628) and index The choice -- Clarifying the issues. Eliminationism, not genocide Worse than war : our age of suffering -- Explaining eliminationist assaults. Why they begin How they are implemented Why the perpetrators act Why they end -- Modern eliminationist politics. Sources and patterns Thinking and acting Actual minds, actual words -- Changing the future. Prologue to the future What we can do A paradigm-changing investigation into the phenomenon of genocide and mass killing--explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end why societies support them and why they happen so frequently and how the international community should and can successfully stop them
Genocide -- Psychological aspects Genocide -- Prevention Racism -- Psychological aspects Prejudices -- Psychological aspects Hate -- Case studies Group identity -- Case studies 


Click here: Summary, Reviews and More Writing a screenplay
By: Miles, Liz
Call No:  CRC  PN1996 .M615 2010
Subject: Motion picture authorship 

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