NEW BOOKS PUBLISHED 2023-
B – PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, RELIGION
Call Number: BL2005 .D38 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780691199269
Publication Date: 2024-11-26
The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand years From its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial rituals and rigorous regimes of personal austerity to psycho-spiritual experimentation and utopian visions. In this ambitious and wide-ranging chronicle, Richard Davis offers a history of India's myriad religious cultures that spans two thousand years, from 1300 BCE to 700 CE.
C – AUXILIARY SCIENCE OF HISTORY
Call Number: CB450 .K67 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780674296244
Publication Date: 2024-10-08
An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity. As we learn from The Odyssey and the Argonauts, Greek dramas frequently played out on a watery stage. In particular, antiquity's key events and exchanges often occurred on coastlines. Yet the shore was not just a site of conquest and trade, ire and yearning. The seacoast was a singular kind of space and was integral to the cosmology of the Greeks and their neighbors. In The Ancient Shore, award-winning historian Paul Kosmin reveals the influence of the coast on the inner lives of the ancients: their political thought, scientific notions, artistic endeavors, and myths; their sense of wonder and of self.
D – WORLD HISTORY AND HISTORY OF EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ETC.
Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions by
Call Number: D974 .I83 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780691181707
Publication Date: 2023-07-11
An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutionary movement emerged in the southern peripheries of the continent. In this groundbreaking study, Maurizio Isabella examines the historical moment in the 1820s when a series of simultaneous uprisings took the quest for constitutional government to Portugal, Spain, the Italian peninsula, Sicily and Greece. Isabella places these events in a broader global revolutionary context and, decentering conventional narratives of the origins of political modernity, reveals the existence of an original popular constitutional culture in southern Europe.
Call Number: DE8 .M87 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780674297456
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which successive generations have reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary worlds. Thus, in the eighteenth century, the conflict between Athens and Sparta became a touchstone in the development of republicanism, and in the nineteenth, Athens came to represent the democratic ideal. Amid the ideological conflicts of the twentieth century, the Greeks were imagined in an age of suffering, inspiring defenses against nationalism, Nazism, communism, and capitalism. Oswyn Murray draws powerful conclusions from this historiography, using the ever-changing narrative of ancient Greece to illuminate grand theories of human society.
A Social History of Italian Fascism by
Call Number: DG571 .D64 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9783031750823
Publication Date: 2025-01-09
This book uncovers how fascism reshaped Italian society according to its ideological and historical interpretation of the Italian nation and people and identifies the strengths of this transformation, but also the resistance encountered from, for example, women and minority groups, to accept it in everyday life. It analyzes the success achieved by some policies aimed at popular masses in order to integrate them into the nation, and how fascism initiated an early welfare state project to address specific categories of society such as veterans, families, mothers and children. The book also questions the concept and practices of social citizenship reserved only for those who gave evidence of formal adherence to fascism.
Call Number: DG847.5 .F4613 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781590511039
Publication Date: 2024-11-26
A fresh perspective on the origins of the mafia, this gripping history illustrates the previously unknown extent of crime families' power in the early nation states of Europe.
Call Number: DK258 .H37 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781541606166
Publication Date: 2024-12-03
"Elegantly written and magisterially researched" (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world's foremost expert. When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas's life is often described as tragic, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs--it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy. Based on a trove of new archival discoveries, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas's resistance to reform doomed the monarchy.
Call Number: DK268.5 .P47 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780674987586
Publication Date: 2024-10-08
In the tense years of the early Cold War, American and Soviet women conducted a remarkable pen-pal correspondence that enabled them to see each other as friends rather than enemies. In a compelling new perspective on the early Cold War, prizewinning historian Alexis Peri explores correspondence between American and Soviet women begun in the last years of World War II and continuing into the 1950s. Previously unexamined, the women's letters movingly demonstrate the power of the personal, as the pen pals engaged in a "diplomacy of the heart" that led them to question why their countries were so divided.
Call Number: DS110.D38 A754 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780300259421
Publication Date: 2025-01-28
A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores. The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms--even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its shores for centuries. The protagonists in its story are not only Jews and Arabs, but also Greeks, Nabataeans, Romans, Crusaders and Mamluks. Today it has become a tourist hotspot, but its drying basin is increasingly under threat. In this panoramic account, Nir Arielli explores the history of the Dead Sea from the first Neolithic settlements to the present day. Moving through the ages, Arielli reveals the religious, economic, military, and scientific importance of the lake, which has been both a source of great wealth and a site of war. The Dead Sea weaves together a tapestry of the lake's human stories--and amidst environmental degradation and renewed conflict, makes a powerful case for why it should be saved.
Call Number: DS326 .F76 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780520398559
Publication Date: 2024-09-03
This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters. World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ancient port cities that dotted its coastlines created the first global seaboard, a place from where faiths and cultures from around the world set sail and made contact. More than a history, The Center of the World shows us that contradictions that define our modern age have always been present. For over four thousand years, the Gulf--sometimes called the Persian Gulf, sometimes the Arabian Gulf--has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world's greatest empires. In its history, we see a world of rapid change, fluctuating centers of trade, a dependency on uncertain global markets, and intense cross-cultural encounters that hold a mirror to the contemporary world. Focusing each chapter on a different port around the Gulf, The Center of the World shows how the people of the Gulf adapted to larger changes in world history, creating a system of free trade, merchant rule, and commerce that continues to define the region today.
Rethinking Japan's Modernity by
Call Number: DS881.4 .S84 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780674297562
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
History is not one story, but many. In Rethinking Japan's Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with Japan's engagement with modernity, starting with American Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Japan in 1853. In many cases, this new look derives from visual sources, such as popular broadsheets, satirical cartoons, ukiyo-e and other woodblock prints, postcards, and photographs. The book illustrates the diverse, and sometimes conflicting, perceptions of people who experienced the unfolding of modern Japan. It focuses both on the experiences of people living the events "at that time" and on the reflections of others looking back. Also included are three new translations--two of them by Japan's pioneer Westernizer, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and another by Mantei Ōga--parodying Fukuzawa's monumental work advocating Western learning. These and other stories show how Japanese views of modernity evolved over time.
E & F – HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS
My Buffalo Nickel and Other Stories from a Portuguese American Life by
Call Number: SP COLL E184.A95 F73 2023 Ray
Location: Special Collections
ISBN: 9781962561075
Publication Date: 2023-10-31
Follow the life and works of the son of Azorean immigrants, Joseph George Ray, during the Great Depression, World War II, the lacemaking industry, and his struggle with Parkinson's Disease. Be inspired by his humor, resilience, and grit as one of the many stalwarts of The Greatest Generation viewed through his memoirs, poetry, sketches, and the eyes of his loving daughter.
Exclusion and the Chinese American Story by
Call Number: CRC E184.C5 B58 2024
Location: Curriculum Resource Center
ISBN: 9780593567630
Publication Date: 2024-03-26
Until now, you've only heard one side of the story, but Chinese American history extends far beyond the railroads. Here's the true story of America, from the Chinese American perspective. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection If you've learned about the history of Chinese people in America, it was probably about their work on the railroads in the 1800s. But more likely, you may not have learned about it at all. This may make it feel like Chinese immigration is a newer part of this country, but some scholars believe the first immigrant arrived from China 499 CE--one thousand years before Columbus did! When immigration picked up in the mid-1800s, efforts to ban immigrants from China began swiftly. But hope, strength, and community allowed the Chinese population in America to flourish. From the gold rush and railroads to entrepreneurs, animators, and movie stars, this is the true story of the Chinese American experience.
Call Number: E184.I8 C6537 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781438497617
Publication Date: 2024-11-02
An in-depth sociological investigation of "hope" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar suburb of Chicago Heights between 1910 and 1950. Hopelessly Alien is an in-depth study of Italian immigration to Chicago Heights, Illinois, between 1910 and 1950. Drawing upon oral histories, interviews, historical documents, and census materials, Louis Corsino examines the critical concept of hope, which most immigration studies have cast in privatized, psychological terms as the motivation to emigrate in search of a better life. This investigation offers a more contentious, sociological perspective, depicting hope as both an ideological lure to recruit and manage the "foreign element" and as a resource immigrants employed to purchase acceptance and avoid a disparaging label as a "hopelessly alien" stranger. These dialectical processes are illustrated through the Italian immigrants' pursuit of occupational mobility and homeownership, and the appropriation of their children's hopes. Each became forms of cultural capital that demonstrated a public commitment to the American ethos of "joyful striving." Each provided measures of success, but these individual pursuits came at the expense of upsetting the necessary tension between individual and communal hopes.
The First and Last King of Haiti by
Call Number: F1924.C47 D38 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780593316160
Publication Date: 2025-01-07
The essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. In The First and Last King of Haiti, a brilliant, award-winning Yale scholar unravels the still controversial enigma that he was.
Call Number: CRC F2258.5 .L39 2024
Location: Curriculum Resource Center
ISBN: 9781728491608
Publication Date: 2023-08-01
Lush rainforests, soaring mountains, and ancient stone monuments--Colombia has it all! From the Andes Mountains to the Amazon, Colombia is full of culture and beauty. Learn about the country's rich history and the lives of the people who call it home. Plus, explore the diverse music, art, and celebrations of their vibrant culture.
Built by the People Themselves by
Call Number: F234.A7 B47 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781643364971
Publication Date: 2024-11-07
The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington, Virginia Arlington, Virgina, sits on the bank of the Potomac River, just opposite the nation's capital city of Washington, DC. This proximity shaped the history of Arlington and the economic, social, and political lives of its Black residents. In Built by the People Themselves, Lindsey Bestebreurtje traces the history of Arlington's Black community from the first days of emancipation through the era of civil rights in the twentieth century. She highlights individual stories of how Black families, neighborhoods, institutions, and communities were affected by politics, planning, and policy in Arlington and Virginia. A core insight of Bestebreurtje's account is how common people developed strategies to survive and thrive despite systems of oppression in the Jim Crow South. Moving beyond the standard story of suburbanization that focuses on elite white community developers, Bestebreurtje analyzes African American-led community development and its effects on Arlington County.
G – GEOGRAPHY, ANTROPOLOGY, RECREATION
Call Number: GF71 .B37 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780520398696
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Shifts the conversation from abstract "global warming" to the deeply human impacts of heat--and how our efforts to keep cool have made the problem worse. Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What acquired habits and conveniences allow us to turn a blind eye with an air of detachment? Using examples from the hottest places on earth, Heat, a History shows how scientific methods of accounting for heat and modern forms of acclimatization have desensitized us to climate change. Ubiquitous air conditioning, shifts in urban planning, and changes in mobility have served as temporary remedies for escaping the heat in hotspots such as the twentieth-century Middle East. However, all of these measures have ultimately fueled not only greenhouse gas emissions but also a collective myopia regarding the impact of rising temperatures. Identifying the scientific, economic, and cultural forces that have numbed our responses, this book charts a way out of short-term thinking and towards meaningful action.
H – SOCIAL SCIENCES
Call Number: HC79.E5 B354 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781108491006
Publication Date: 2023-11-02
While large literatures have separately examined the history of the environmental movement, government planning, and modern economics, Pricing the Priceless triangulates on all three. Offering the first book-length study of the history of modern environmental economics, it uncovers the unlikely role economists played in developing tools and instruments in support of environmental preservation. While economists were, and still are, seen as scientists who argue in favour of extracting natural resources, H. Spencer Banzhaf shows how some economists by the 1960s turned tools and theories used in defense of development into arguments in defense of the environment. Engaging with widely recognized names, such as John Muir, and major environmental disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, he offers a detailed examination of the environment, and explains how economics came to enter the field in a new way that made it possible to be "on the side" of the environment.
Call Number: HD30.215 .R44 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781398610828
Publication Date: 2023-07-25
People and Data is an innovative exploration of the relationship between non-data professionals and data in an organization's success, and why it is only when they work together that a business can unlock its full potential. This book explains how most companies are yet to take advantage of the value that data offers. Their structures and processes are unfit for data and their biggest mistake is that regular employees are not included in the data-driven effort. People and Data illustrates how to change this. It shows how and why improving data quality should be an organization's first priority, how to tackle the tough organizational issues, such as departmental silos, that get in the way and how to upskill the whole workforce to get the best out of the organization's data.
Call Number: HD30.23 .R42 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780262548014
Publication Date: 2024-05-14
Why successful leaders must embrace simple strategies in an increasingly uncertain and complex world. Making decisions is one of the key tasks of managers, leaders, and professionals. In Smart Management, Jochen Reb, Shenghua Luan, and Gerd Gigerenzer demonstrate how business leaders can utilize heuristics-simple decision-making strategies adapted to the task at hand. In a world that has become increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA), the authors make the case against complex analytical methods that quickly reach their limits. This against-the-grain approach leads to decisions that are not only faster but also more accurate, transparent, and easier to learn about, communicate, and teach.
Call Number: HD57.7 .B87 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781394232246
Publication Date: 2024-06-12
Through stories and beautiful imagery, with the look and feel of a coffee table book, Love, Hope & Leadership illustrates today's dynamic environment - while offering leadership advice for executives and professionals to consider. The book explores the attributes of what makes leadership not only personal, but also Special: Selflessness - knowing that improving an organization starts by improving ourselves; Potential - helping others exceed more than what they thought possible; Empathy - meeting others where they are to embrace who they are; Connection - adopting a horizontal mindset across communities and even society; Inclusion - creating a sense of belonging by consciously including everyone; Authenticity - ensuring others trust what we say, so they can believe in what we do; Love - leading with our hearts as we seek to understand. Timely and thought-provoking, Love, Hope & Leadership will speak to managers, executives, entrepreneurs, and other leaders, with the reminder that hope and humanity are not luxuries, but necessities for leading in today's world.
Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone by
Call Number: HD57.7 .K394 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781503640528
Publication Date: 2025-01-07
A research-backed guide to leading with confidence and resilience in an age of anxiety. Leading is inevitably frustrating and emotionally demanding, yet leaders get little training in how to deal with painful emotions. Since the global pandemic, stresses on leaders have only grown. To lead effectively in an age of anxiety, leaders must build the capacity to act in spite of unpleasant emotions, and bring a learning mindset to challenges that can otherwise feel overwhelming. Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone draws on a wide body of research to show how well-being and resilience emerges from this struggle; leaders grow by adopting a learning mindset in the face of unpleasant emotions.
Organizational Learning Communities by
Call Number: HD58.82 .L3 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781398615496
Publication Date: 2024-06-25
Learning communities transform organizations through sharing knowledge, spearheading practice, solving problems, seeding innovation and supercharging development. So how can you develop a culture of learning in your organization? Organizational Learning Communities answers this question and explains how and why this approach can improve individual employee performance and drive overall business results. Written by a leading voice in the learning profession, this book contains everything that Learning and Development (L&D) practitioners need to know to successfully embed learning communities in their organizations.
Call Number: HD62.5 .M3556 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781541704350
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Based on extensive research and real-world examples, this book upends accepted wisdom about how to achieve success when launching a startup or creating a new product. The breakthrough concepts of Pattern Breakers come from the observations of Mike Maples Jr., a seasoned venture capitalist, who noticed something strange. Start-ups like Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft had achieved extraordinary success despite their disregard for "best practices." In contrast, other startups deemed highly promising often failed, even when they seemed to do everything right. Seeking answers, Maples and coauthor Peter Ziebelman set out to discover the hidden forces that drive extraordinary start-up success.
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century by
Call Number: HD2731 .K395 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780300280197
Publication Date: 2025-01-07
In the world of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, capitalists built and controlled mills and factories. That relationship between capital and labor continued in the automobile assembly lines and petrochemical plants of the twentieth century. But no longer: products and production have dematerialized. The goods and services provided by the leading companies of the twenty-first century appear on your screen, fit in your pocket, or occupy your head. Ownership of the means of production is a redundant concept. Workers are the means of production; increasingly, they take the plant home. Capital is a service bought from a specialist supplier with little influence over customer businesses. The professional managers who run modern corporations do not exert authority because they are wealthy; they are wealthy because they exert authority. John Kay's incisive overhaul of our ideas about business redefines our understanding of successful commercial activity and the corporation--and describes how we have come to "love the product" as we "hate the producer." This is a brilliant and original work from one of the greatest economists.
Call Number: HD4855 .P84 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780691240817
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs requiring high levels of human interaction are no longer safe. The Last Human Job explores the human connections that underlie our work, arguing that what people do for each other in these settings is valuable and worth preserving.
Call Number: HD4966.H84 C355 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781541603516
Publication Date: 2025-03-18
Women do more than three-quarters of all the world's unpaid care work, contributing over $9 trillion to the global economy each year. Dishes don't clean themselves; dinner is not magically made; children must be cared for. But why is this work not compensated? Wages for Housework is the fascinating international story of Selma James, Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Wilmette Brown, and Margaret Prescod, whose movement demanded wages as a starting point for remaking the world as we know it. Drawing on their campaign's roots in 1970s America, Italy, and the UK, with original archival research and interviews, historian Emily Callaci explores the revolutionary potential of paying women for their work in the home, and how Wages for Housework reimagined potential futures under capitalism--and beyond--in ways that continue to be relevant today. Wages for Housework is an essential feminist history of an overlooked movement for economic and social justice.
Call Number: HD9506.U63 W427 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781479821259
Publication Date: 2024-03-12
Through meticulous research and poignant storytelling, Land of Extraction unravels the complex web of relationships between humans, places, and the environment, all bound by the concept of private property. It presents a thought-provoking analysis of how settler colonial culture imposes limits on environmental politics.
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King by
Call Number: HD9696.63.U62 G37429 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781668006726
Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first hailed as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when he fashioned himself into a global do-gooder. Along the way, Gates influenced how we think about tech founders, as the products they make and the ideas they sell continue to dominate our lives. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he also set a new standard for high-profile, billionaire philanthropy. But there is more to Gates's story, and here, Das's revelatory reporting shows us that billionaires have secrets and philanthropy can have a dark side.
Call Number: HD9940.I82 F34 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781526155245
Publication Date: 2024-12-03
Becoming couture is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second World War. It draws on a wide range of primary sources, some of them newly unearthed, to demonstrate that the Italian fashion industry in the Republican era continued to rely on business practices and professionals established during Fascism. Analysing changes in promotional discourses and press coverage, the book traces the shift that occurred when manufacturers were encouraged to expand their exports of accessories to include sportswear, knitwear and moda boutique. This ultimately led to the legitimisation of Italian dressmaking as creatively independent of French influences and therefore worthy of the label 'couture'.
Call Number: HD9999.M782 S36 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781839764554
Publication Date: 2023-09-19
Platform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their own platform--an internet where platforms such as Twitch, Twitter, and Roblox were owned by their streamers, users, and creators. What if small fishing communities in Mexico or farmers in Kerala had the power to determine what data they collected about their work and how they utilized that data? Platform cooperatives are not a figment of the utopian imagination, but rather a reality that is transforming industries today. Collectives that leverage technology offer an urgent and practical solution to shift how businesses are owned and controlled, allowing workers to make decisions together. In this book, researcher and activist Trebor Scholz explores how these new forms of business, powered by peer principles, are paving the way for a more equitable economy that benefits everyone.
Call Number: HF5387 .H434 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781039173989
Publication Date: 2023-03-17
Ethics for Capitalists offers a powerful new statement of the Market Failures Approach to business ethics. While the competitive context of the market economy provides economic actors greater freedom to pursue their interests, it also imposes moral constraints on the range of strategies they may employ. The pursuit of profit must be consistent with the overall objective of market institutions, which is to promote efficiency in the production and allocation of goods and services. Ethics for Capitalists draws out the implications of this view for business strategy, corporate governance, managerial authority, and shareholder primacy. The result is a philosophically rigorous, comprehensive approach to business ethics that will be foundational for all future reflection in the field.
Call Number: HF5415.1263 .B465 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781398615281
Publication Date: 2024-12-31
Have you ever wondered how your B2B brand could use influencers to drive revenue? Ever seen B2C brands killing it in the creator economy and wanted to do the same? B2B Influencer Marketing is a comprehensive guide for B2B brands looking to leverage the creator economy to drive revenue and enhance campaign effectiveness. This book demystifies influencer marketing for B2B businesses, offering actionable insights and strategies to build successful influencer partnerships.
High-Impact Content Marketing by
Call Number: HF5415.1265 .V57 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781398608436
Publication Date: 2023-07-25
Create meaningful engagement, drive conversion rates and boost customer retention with this crucial resource to unlocking the true potential of your content marketing strategy. High-Impact Content Marketing shows how to succeed by taking a simplified yet strategic approach to standing out and driving revenue impact. It covers time-proven strategies to create video, audio, social media and longer-form content that audiences will actually want to consume and how to do so in a genuinely inclusive way. It also shows how to master content distribution across channels such as websites, blogs, email and social media networks to maximize reach, engagement and impact.
Call Number: HF5415.5 .A27 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781647826277
Publication Date: 2024-10-15
Personalized is a playbook for delivering true personalization at scale. In this book, Boston Consulting Group's Mark Abraham and Harvard Business School's David C. Edelman describe Five Promises of Personalization: Empower Me: Understand each customer's needs and how best to meet them. Know Me: Win customers' trust and permission to use their data to improve their experience. Reach Me: Reach out to the right customer, in the right channel, at the right time. Show Me: Tailor unique content to be relevant to each customer, enabled by generative AI. Delight Me: Design new ways of working and ensure continuous improvement, so a customer's experience feels magical. With detailed examples across industries--including retail, health care, banking, technology, and travel--this book will help executives learn how to put personalization at the center of their strategy, accelerate growth, and capture their share of the $2 trillion personalization prize.
Call Number: HF5416.5 .W33 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781637426067
Publication Date: 2024-07-22
Pricing power is a simple concept, yet so many successful people overlook it, leaving money on the table. It's not about charging more; it's about discovering the only type of value your customers will pay more for. Not all value is equal. Want to 2X your earnings? If you operate with a 15-percent profit margin, you could grow your business by 100 percent, managing twice the resources and doubling your complexity. Or you could simply increase your pricing power by 15 percent. While few know how, the companies, leaders, and productive individuals embracing the lessons of Re-Valuing do it every day. Join the Re-Value Revolution and Ignite Your Team to: Discover what your customers are willing to pay more for. Identify where your business is leaking value and intervene. Cut through competing priorities by asking the right questions. Ensure your strategies will stand the test of time. REVALUE shares a wealth of game-changing insights within an easy-to-apply framework, distilling a 20+ year pursuit into an entertaining read that you can easily digest on your next domestic plane ride.
Call Number: HM851 .W387 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781398614321
Publication Date: 2024-05-28
AI promises to transform our world, supercharging productivity and driving new innovations. Taming the Machine uncovers how you can responsibly harness the power of AI with confidence. AI has the potential to become a personal assistant, a creative partner, an editor and a research tool all at once. But it also represents a threat to your livelihood, data and privacy. Taming the Machine offers the practical insights and knowledge you need to work with AI with an ethical and responsible approach. In this book, celebrated AI expert and ethicist Nell Watson offers practical insights on how you can ethically innovate with AI. It delves into the ethical issues of unbridled AI, highlighting the challenges that it will bring to society and business unless we fortify cybersecurity, safeguard our data, and understand the dangerous potential of artificial intelligence. Step into the future and supercharge your performance safely by Taming the Machine.
Call Number: SP COLL HQ1061 .W3925 2025 Weiss
Location: Special Collections
ISBN: 9781965733080
Publication Date: 2024-11-30
Taking Charge, Volume 3: Even More Stories of Aging Boldly, like the first two volumes, continues to put a spotlight on a broad range of issues from, care, retirement and leisure, mental health, caregiving, state and federal aging policy, also providing sage advice on how to age gracefully. Through these stories readers are provided with research findings, aging policy updates and practical tools to live a happy, fully engaged and empowered life in their later years.
Masculinity from the Inside by
Call Number: HQ1090 .F574 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781032180489
Publication Date: 2022-09-29
Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author's experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a disconnect between academic discourses on "masculinity," based as these are on theoretical positions that describe the world from a position of "outsidership," and the reality of most men's experience--or, the way in which men see themselves. With an erroneous view of men dominating the airwaves, most men simply fail to engage, leaving the mistaken conceptions of masculinity to circulate and allowing policies to develop that treat men as predators and aggressors. Presenting insights into masculinity drawn from experience with young men drawn toward military life, Masculinity from the Inside seeks to address the gulf between scholarly understandings of men and men's own understandings of themselves. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, to anyone with interests in contemporary masculinity and the question of what it means to be a man.
Call Number: HQ1149.I8 R663 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780674295810
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
An illuminating study of early modern efforts to regulate sound in women's residential institutions, and how the noises of city life--both within and beyond their walls--defied such regulation. Amid the Catholic reforms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the number of women and girls housed in nunneries, reformatories, and charity homes grew rapidly throughout the city of Florence. Julia Rombough follows the efforts of legal, medical, and ecclesiastical authorities to govern enclosed women, and uncovers the experiences of the women themselves as they negotiated strict sensory regulations. At a moment when quiet was deeply entangled with ideals of feminine purity, bodily health, and spiritual discipline, those in power worked constantly to silence their charges and protect them from the urban din beyond institutional walls.
The Portable Feminist Reader by
Call Number: HQ1150 .P556 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780143110392
Publication Date: 2025-03-25
For Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is subjective and always evolving. A feminist canon represents a long history of feminist scholarship, embraces skepticism, and invites robust discussion and debate. Selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices include Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Anna Julia Cooper, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Eileen Myles, Mona Eltahawy, bell hooks, Sara Ahmed, Cherríe Moraga, Audre Lorde, The Guerrilla Girls, and many more. With an introduction, headnotes, and an inspired list of multimedia recommendations, Roxane Gay presents multicultural perspectives, ecofeminism, feminism and disability, feminist labor, gender perspectives, and Black feminism. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.
Call Number: HQ1169 .N48 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780252045578
Publication Date: 2024-01-09
White feminists performing to maintain privilege Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy, sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its affect, form, and content from racial oppression and protest while aiming meanness toward people in marginalized groups. Kim Hong Nguyen's feminist media study examines four types of white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular culture: the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple, and the global mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment, and resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups. Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place within established power structures, present as intellectually superior, substitute nonpolitical playacting for a politics of solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more enlightened masters than patriarchy. But, as Nguyen shows, the racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects performative civility in favor of turning anger into liberation.
Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern Italy by
Call Number: HQ630.15.F56 M673 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9789462984578
Publication Date: 2024-12-09
Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they negotiated interpersonal relationships and lineage concerns to actively contribute to their families in early modern Italy. Women were located at the center of social networks through their work in bridging their natal and marital families, cultivating commercial contacts, negotiating family obligations and the demands of religious institutions, facilitating introductions for family and friends, and forming political patronage ties. This book argues that a network model offers a framework of analysis in which to deconstruct patriarchy as a single system of institutionalized dominance in early modern Italy. Networks account for female agency as an interactive force that shaped the kinships ties, affective relationships, material connections, and political positions of these elite families as women constructed their own narratives and negotiated their own positions in family life.
Call Number: HT901 .R63 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780226723457
Publication Date: 2024-11-29
A Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor. The industrializing North and the agricultural South--that's how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early nineteenth century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery's long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South. Using plantation goods--the shirts, hats, hoes, shovels, shoes, axes, and whips made in the North for use in the South--historian Seth Rockman locates the biggest stories in American history in the everyday objects that stitched together the lives and livelihoods of Americans--white and Black, male and female, enslaved and free--across an expanding nation.
Slavery in Early Christianity by
Call Number: HT913 .G53 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9798889830887
Publication Date: 2024-03-12
A classic work that exposed the centrality of enslaved people and slaveholders in early Christian circles. In this expanded edition, the distinguished scholar Jennifer A. Glancy reflects upon recent discoveries and future trajectories related to the study of ancient slavery's impact on Christianity's development. What if the stories traditionally told about slavery, as something peripheral or contradictory to Christianity's emergence, are wrong? This book contends that some of the most cherished Christian texts from Jesus and the apostle Paul prioritized the perspectives of slaveholders. Jennifer A. Glancy highlights how the strong metaphorical uses of slavery in early Christian discourse can't be disconnected from the reality of enslaved people and their bodies. Deftly maneuvering among biblical texts, material evidence, and the literary and philosophical currents of the Greco-Roman world, she situates early Christian slavery in its broader cultural setting. Glancy's penetrating study into slavery's impact on early Christianity, from the pages of the New Testament to the branded collars used by Christians who held people in bondage, will be of interest to those asking questions about slavery, power, and freedom in the long arc of history.
Call Number: HV1559.G7 J33 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781529156058
Publication Date: 2024-10-15
A wonderfully witty and fiercely passionate memoir on living with a disability, and how we can redefine what it means to be disabled. In this heartfelt, thought-provoking and often hilarious book, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability: from the pitfalls of going shopping on a mobility scooter, and the headache of defining oneself on a tick-box form, to a slapstick scuffle with the so-called 'easy-pull' tights aid, and the intense pleasure of finally swapping a hospital gown for a slinky dress. Lottie captivatingly expresses the raw vulnerabilities, injustices and untold joys of disability, as well as the bizarre everyday occurrences that able-bodied people usually don't experience. Lottie powerfully explores the ways in which we undervalue and underrepresent disabled people in our society, and demonstrates how negative stigmas about 'abnormal' bodies seep into all aspects our lives. In this dazzling debut, Lottie reveals why we must strive for change and redefine what it means to be disabled in every facet of life.
Call Number: HV1597 .E393 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780197778029
Publication Date: 2024-07-01
In the 2010s, leaders of the DeafBlind community in Seattle called into question the communitys dependence on sighted interpreters and sought new ways of communicating, interacting, and navigating through touch. This effort became the protactile movement, and it spread quickly across the country. In Going Tactile, Anthropologist Terra Edwards draws on thirty months of ethnographic fieldwork with DeafBlind artists, intellectuals, political leaders, and community members, to show how autonomous spaces away from sighted norms were created and life was re-imagined. In doing so, she offers a new perspective on the nature of language, its limits, and what it means to find a new way of being in the world.
Direct social work practice by
Call Number: HV40 .H53 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780357630594
Publication Date: 2022-01-01
Considered the profession's ideal learning resource, DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: THEORY AND SKILLS, Eleventh Edition, prepares you for effective real-world practice. Packed with case examples, illustrations and relevant learning experiences from the authors and other social work practitioners, the text integrates the major theories and skills needed for contemporary direct social work practice. Part of the Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series, the Eleventh Edition is completely up to date, exploring evolving ethical and practice challenges, the impact of COVID-19, implications of electronic service delivery, social injustice, Black Lives Matter and other issues related to racial inequity. In addition, the authors have carefully revised the text to incorporate gender-neutral language and explore key structural implications affecting clients and practice. The text thoroughly integrates the core competencies and recommended practice behaviors outlined in the 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) set by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). As you're preparing to practice social work in today's complex world, this trusted text is an ideal resource to equip you for exam and career success.
Call Number: HV553 .T86 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9783110772234
Publication Date: 2023-05-08
Sociology has developed theories of social change in the fields of evolution, conflict and modernization, viewing modern society as essentially unstable and conflict driven. However, it has not seriously studied catastrophe. A Theory of Catastrophe develops a sociology of catastrophes, comparing natural, social and political causes and consequences, and the social theories that might offer explanations.
Call Number: HV640.4.I8 C65 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9783031457333
Publication Date: 2023-12-08
This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associations have used the name "Lampedusa" as a means of restoring a sense of subjectivity or agency to migrants themselves. Jacopo Colombini argues that the work of the Archivio delle Memorie Migranti (Rome), the self-organised refugee group Lampedusa in Hamburg, and the Lampedusa-based Collettivo Askavusa offers an alternative to the stereotypical, often racially connoted, public discussion of migrant presence in Italy and Europe. He also demonstrates, however, that the marginalisation of migrant and refugee voices in the public discourse is also partially and unavoidably reproduced in the cultural projects that wish to restore their agency.
Legends of the security services industry : profiles in leadership by
Call Number: HV8290 .O756 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781032259048
Publication Date: October 30, 2024
The global contract security market now totals over $200 billion, with the number of private security officers exceeding that of public law enforcement officers. But this wasn’t always the case. Legends of the Security Services Industry: Profiles in Leadership presents the unique stories of 15 industry legends, who transformed the industry from early private detective and small night watch companies into large-scale contract security companies. The large-scale companies include, but are not limited to, Pinkerton, Burns International, The Wackenhut Corporation, Guardsmark, Wells Fargo, and U.S. Security Associates; as well as today’s leading security companies, Allied Universal, Securitas, G4S, Prosegur, and GardaWorld.
Call Number: HV9104 .H46 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780593080900
Publication Date: 2023-02-07
Drawing upon twenty-five years of experience representing Black youth in Washington, D.C.'s juvenile courts, Kristin Henning confronts America's irrational, manufactured fears of these young people and makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to Black children.
Call Number: HV9471 .T98 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781620978399
Publication Date: 2025-04-08
A meticulous exposé of who profits from incarceration, culminating in a compelling case for abolition Based on years of research by the criminal justice organization Worth Rises--best known for campaigns that have revolutionized prison telecom and made prison and jail communication free in cities and states around the country--The Prison Industry maps the range of ways in which private corporations, often with their government partners, make money off incarceration. It further details the gross extraction of wealth from incarcerated people and their families, who have been brutalized by overpolicing, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance.
J – POLITICAL SCIENCE
Call Number: JZ1308 .A343 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780300214987
Publication Date: 2025-01-14
A study of why the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean took different paths to peace and stability and its lessons for international order today In this book Amitav Acharya and Manjeet S. Pardesi compare the interplay of power and ideas in the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean to explain why the two regions took divergent paths to peace and stability. While the ancient Mediterranean order was shaped by the hegemony of Rome, the Indian Ocean developed an open and inclusive international order without the dominance of any single power. Moreover, the Indian Ocean provides a more robust example of the peaceful spread of ideas and culture in contrast to the ancient Mediterranean, where Hellenization, or the spread of Greek ideas, was often accompanied by violence and imperialism.
Governing the Feminist Peace by
Call Number: JZ5578 .K57 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780231205122
Publication Date: 2024-04-02
The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda is celebrated as a landmark global framework for achieving gender equality in peace and security governance. Its power is visible in two decades of United Nations resolutions, national action plans, regional initiatives, and countless activist, academic, and philanthropic projects. Yet despite this vitality, it is haunted by failure, as a lack of political will and stubborn patriarchal resistance frustrate its promise.
K – LAW
Call Number: KF8742 .C273 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780197680537
Publication Date: 2023-08-18
Appointments to the United States Supreme Court are now central events in American political life. Every vacancy unleashes a bitter struggle between Republicans and Democrats over nominees; and once the seat is filled, new justices typically vote in predictable ways. However, this has not always been the case. As late as the middle of the twentieth century, presidents invested little time and effort in finding and vetting nominees, often selecting personal cronies, who senators briskly confirmed. Media coverage was desultory, public opinion was largely non-existent, and the justices often voted independently and erratically.
L – EDUCATION
Call Number: LC152.S6 B533 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780300272826
Publication Date: 2025-01-14
The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments tried harder to suppress literacy than did those in the South. Everyone understood that knowledge was power: power to keep a person enslaved in mind and body, power to resist oppression. In the decades before the Civil War, Southern governments drove Black literacy underground, but it was too precious to be entirely stamped out. This book describes the violent lengths to which southern leaders went to repress Black literacy and the extraordinary courage it took Black people to resist. Derek W. Black shows how, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of Reconstruction, literacy evolved from a subversive gateway to freedom to a public program to extend citizenship and build democratic institutions--and how, once Reconstruction was abandoned, opposition to educating Black children depressed education throughout the South for Black and white students alike. He also reveals the deep imprint those events had on education and how this legacy is resurfacing today.
Call Number: LC191.94 .S63 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781603296571
Publication Date: 2024-11-08
Essays and reflections to spark work toward change Addressing both veterans of justice work and novices seeking points of entry, the essays in this volume showcase practical approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion: ways to build community, earn trust, tell unheard stories, and develop solutions to problems. Emphasizing values such as empathy, self-reflection, and integrity, the volume is rooted in humanities work but also features contributions from fields as diverse as the performing arts, architecture, and evolutionary biology and represents settings beyond the college campus, such as schools, libraries, museums, and prisons. While bringing insights from higher education, it critiques the system as well, exploring the ways that institutions reinforce power structures and exclude marginalized voices. Interspersed with the essays, brief reflections by activists and artists offer testimony and inspiration.
M – MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSIC
On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone by
Call Number: MT6 .E885 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780472055029
Publication Date: 2023-04-24
Since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, American music theory has been framed and taught almost exclusively by white men. As a result, whiteness and maleness are woven into the fabric of the field, and BIPOC music theorists face enormous hurdles due to their racial identities. In On Music Theory, Philip Ewell brings together autobiography, music theory and history, and theory and history of race in the United States to offer a black perspective on the state of music theory and to confront the field's white supremacist roots.
N – FINE ARTS
Call Number: N5220.N672 E35 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780300272291
Publication Date: 2024-03-12
A dynamic look at the vast creative production of contemporary women artists from around the globe A celebration of the work of women artists of color, this book explores the ways in which struggles for freedom and equality are deeply intertwined with shared feminist practices, art techniques and movements, and the notion of diaspora through the extraordinary collection of social activist and patron Eileen Harris Norton.
Call Number: N6512.7 .D39 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9798890180834
Publication Date: 2024-07-16
Day Jobs examines the overlooked, powerful impact of day jobs on the visual arts. Success for artists is often measured by their ability to quit a day job and focus full time on their practice. Yet these jobs can often spur creative growth by providing artists with new materials and methods, hands-on knowledge of a specific industry that becomes an area of artistic investigation, or a predictable paycheck and structure that enable unpredictable ideas. The book is comprised of thirty-nine chapters, one for each included artist, with images of their work, commissioned essays, and interviews.
Call Number: N6512.75.C55 M85 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780300272963
Publication Date: 2023-11-28
An engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Building on a technique that has roots in European and American traditions, Black artists have turned to collage as a way to convey how the intersecting facets of their lives combine to make whole individuals. Artists have assembled pieces of paper, fabrics, and other, often salvaged, materials to create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite the fragmentation of our times.
Call Number: N6537.C37 A4 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780226836577
Publication Date: 2024-10-04
Accomplished printmaker and sculptor, avowed feminist, and lifelong activist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) built a remarkable career around intersecting passions for formal rigor and social justice. This book, accompanying a major traveling retrospective, offers a revelatory look at the artist and her nearly century-long life, highlighting overlooked works alongside iconic masterpieces.
Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding by
Call Number: N6537.M857 A4 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781955161343
Publication Date: 2023-11-07
Álvarez Muñoz's photo/text works and installations reflect on the complexities of childhood on a bicultural and bilingual border. This is the first major publication on the seminal Texas-based Latinx artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz (born 1937). Accompanying her first museum career retrospective, it surveys her decades of colorful photo and text-based artworks, book projects, large-scale installations, public works and associated unpublished archival materials. Color images and scholarly texts illuminate Álvarez Muñoz's themes--childhood learning and perception, bicultural and bilingual experience, slips of mind and tongue--and her often playful, first-person approach using conceptual tools. Breaking the Binding provides the definitive volume on an influential yet understudied artist. Alongside images, the book features a conversation between Álvarez Muñoz and longtime interlocutor and friend Roberto Tejada, as well as essays by exhibition cocurators Kate Green and Isabel Casso, and Josh Franco, Head of Collecting at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Deborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/Work by
Call Number: N6537.R5727 A4 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781955161107
Publication Date: 2023-12-05
By using images from American history, Black culture, pop culture and Black history, Roberts critiques perceptions of ideal beauty and challenges stereotypes. She combines found and manipulated images with hand-drawn and painted details to create hybrid figures, often young girls and increasingly Black boys, whose well-being and futures are equally threatened because of the double standard of boyhood and criminality that is projected upon them at such a young age. Each child has character and agency to find their own way amid the complicated narratives of American, African American and art history.
Call Number: N8217.B535 W37 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780063272415
Publication Date: 2023-01-31
2024 NAACP Image Awards Nominee: Outstanding Non-Fiction A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world. Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyoncé and Jay-Z break the internet by blending modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully subverts European masterworks. Calls resonate for diversity in museums and the resignations of leaders of the old guard. It's clear that modern day museums can no longer exist without change--and without recognizing that Black people have been a part of the Western art world since its beginnings. Quietly held within museum and private collections around the world are hundreds of faces of Black men and women, many of their stories unknown. From paintings of majestic kings to a portrait of a young girl named Isabella in Amsterdam, these models lived diverse lives while helping shape the art world along the way. Then, after hundreds of years of Black faces cast as only the subject of the white gaze, a small group of trailblazing Black American painters and sculptors reached national and international fame, setting the stage for the flourishing of Black art in the 1920s and beyond. Captivating and informative, BLK ART is an essential work that elevates a globally dismissed legacy to its proper place in the mainstream art canon. From the hushed corridors of royal palaces to the bustling streets of 1920s Paris--this is Black history like never seen before.
Call Number: ND553.M648 S74 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781606069028
Publication Date: 2024-04-02
This stunning volume is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to French artist Louise Moillon. The life and career of Louise Moillon (1609/10-1696) offers a fascinating case study of a supremely talented artist whose posthumous reputation has been mired in invisibility. Born and raised in Paris, Moillon was the sole woman in a circle of Calvinist Protestant émigrés who brought their tradition of still-life painting with them from Flanders. During her lifetime, she was able to enjoy a degree of professional independence and attract enough recognition to be regarded as on a level with her male counterparts, yet her exquisite work and enigmatic story are little known today. This illustrated biography examines some of the ways in which Moillon's story has been represented since the revival of interest in her work and draws on recent scholarship to situate the painter in her rightful place. Offering a sweeping exploration of the genre of still life, this book also chronicles how a woman in early modern France was able to capture the attention of the artistic world while dissecting why her prominence waned in the centuries following her death.
Call Number: ND623.F595 A4 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781911716006
Publication Date: 2023-07-25
Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker explores this female Renaissance artist's fascinating biography and the cultural climate that enabled her to become the first woman artist in Western Europe to gain commercial success beyond the confines of a court or a convent. Bringing together several strands of scholarship on Fontana and her contemporaries, it provides context to her career and examines areas underrepresented in current scholarship on the painter, including information on her workshop practice. Focusing on the portraiture for which she was renowned, Lavinia Fontana tells stories that will be universally familiar--tales of family bonds, sibling rivalries, engagements, weddings, births, and deaths. Written by Aoife Brady, with contributions from one of the leading scholars on Fontana, Babette Bohn, and a foremost expert on Renaissance fashion, Jonquil O'Reilly, this engaging book explores Fontana's world and how she forged a successful career in the male-dominated world of Renaissance Italy.
A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects by
Call Number: NK839.3.A35 A93 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781797228549
Publication Date: 2025-02-04
Ten beautifully illustrated essays tell the stories of handcrafted objects and their makers, providing inspiration and insight into Black history and craftsmanship. Black artisans have long been central to American art and design, creating innovative and highly desired work against immense odds. Atlanta-based chairmaker and scholar Robell Awake explores the stories behind ten cornerstones of Black craft, including: The celebrated wooden chairs of Richard Poynor, an enslaved craftsman who began a dynasty of Tennessee chairmakers. The elegant wrought-iron gates of Philip Simmons, seen to this day throughout Charleston, South Carolina, whose work features motifs from the Low Country. The inventive assemblage art and yard shows of Joe Minter, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, and others, who draw on African spiritual traditions to create large-scale improvisational art installations. From the enslaved potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, to Ann Lowe, the couture dressmaker who made Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, to Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket makers, to the celebrated quilters of Gee's Bend, A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects illuminates the work of generations of Black craftspeople, foregrounding their enduring contributions to American craft.
Call Number: NK839.W45 A4 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9798890181077
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
The inaugural monograph of multidisciplinary artist Cameron Welch presents a vivid, comprehensive look into a young artist's practice. Welch's work has straddled sculpture, collage, and textiles, but in early 2017, he shifted to mosaic as his primary medium. As a child, the artist was introduced to mosaic by his grandmother, an experience that has a lasting impact on the way he works the age-old medium to piece together disparate materials and histories. Welch treats mosaic as a physical manifestation of intertextuality, referring to the colliding contexts he unearths in the work as a kind of "infiltration."
Cold War American Exhibitions of Italian Art and Design by
Call Number: NK1452.A1 G36 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781032205465
Publication Date: 2023-07-11
Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after the Second World War. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, design history, museum studies, Italian studies, and American studies.
Call Number: NK1510 .P746 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9783791388472
Publication Date: 2024-02-06
Previously marginalized, overlooked, or even erased from history, Black designers are finally given their due in this first book to celebrate a century of ground-breaking work by Black graphic artists, architects and fashion designers whose work has helped define key cultural moments and movements.
Call Number: NX652.G38 K49 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781646143764
Publication Date: 2024-11-19
Growing up in Seale, Alabama as a Black Queer kid, then attending the Rhode Island School of Design as an undergraduate, Jon Key hungered to see himself in the fields of Art and Design. But in lectures, critiques, and in the books he read, he struggled to see and learn about people who intersected with his identity or who GOT him. So he started asking himself questions: What did it mean to be a graphic designer with his point of view? What did it mean to be a Black graphic designer? A Queer graphic designer? Someone from the South? Could his identity be communicated through a poster or a book? How could identity be archived in a design canon that has consistently erased contributions by designers who were not white, straight, and male? In Black, Queer, & Untold, acclaimed designer and artist Jon Key answers these questions and manifests the book he and so many others wish they had when they were coming up. He pays tribute to the incredible designers, artists, and people who came before and provides them an enduring, reverential stage - and in so doing, gifts us a book that takes its place among the creative arts canon.
P – LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Call Number: PL2675 .P38 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780674297548
Publication Date: 2024-10-15
Facing a transformed socio-political landscape after the An Lushan Rebellion (756-763), Tang dynasty elites questioned inherited understandings of tradition and anxiously reflected on their relations to both recent and ancient pasts. Du Fu (712-770), widely considered China's greatest poet, presciently addressed these concerns in his late work on memory and the means by which the past survives. In Elegies for Empire, Gregory Patterson maps out a poetics of memory in Du Fu's poems from his prolific period of residence in Kuizhou, a remote border town in the Yangzi River Three Gorges. Patterson argues that, for Du Fu, memory held the promise of rebuilding frameworks of belonging under conditions of displacement and dynastic crisis. Remembering also led the poet to think through the material underpinnings on which cultural transmission depends; therefore, these late poems are distinguished by a highly creative, often melancholy engagement with the forms and media that preserve memory, such as monuments, paintings, and poetry. Elegies for Empire elucidates the vital roles of place, memory, and media in poems that are among the most influential in the Chinese literary tradition.
Call Number: PL4659.M87 H43 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781916751163
Publication Date: 2025-04-08
Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize; Winner of a PEN Translates Award; A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of India's highest literary honors. In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq's years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women's rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.
The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century by
Call Number: PN1993.5.C27 R57 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781683403715
Publication Date: 2023-08-29
The first book in English dedicated tothe study of Central American film, this volume explores the main trends, genres, and themes that define this emerging industry. The seven nations of the region have seen an unprecedented growth in film production during the twenty-first century with the creation of over 200 feature-length films compared with just one in the 1990s. This volume provides a needed overview of one of the least explored cinemas in the world.
The Disaster Film As Social Practice by
Call Number: SP COLL PN1995.9.D55 Z67 2025 FacPubn
Location: Faculty Publications
ISBN: 9781032432601
Publication Date: 2024-06-01
The Disaster Film as Social Practice examines environmental science, history, film and literature in its interdisciplinary analysis of the disaster film genre. It explores the interplay, and the dichotomy, of "restorative" and "reflective" disaster narratives. An analysis of cinema's role in symbolizing and managing collective anxiety around disaster and death narratives examines how disaster films, through their narrative structures and symbolic elements, contribute to the public's understanding and emotional processing of real-world threats, and how cinematic narratives shape and are shaped by public and private ideological discourses, reflecting deeper psychological and environmental truths. Finally, the book offers an overview of how the transformation of the disaster film genre over time tells a history through imagining the worst. Providing a nuanced understanding of the disaster film genre and its significance in contemporary culture and thought, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, cultural studies, media studies, and environmental studies.
Call Number: PN1998.3.F365 A58 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780231215497
Publication Date: 2024-06-25
Harun Farocki was one of the world's most celebrated experimental filmmakers at the time of his death in 2014. In a career spanning over fifty years, the German artist produced more than one hundred works, including political cinema, nonfiction film and video, and art installations, which have been exhibited globally. After his early politically engaged films in Super 8 and 16 mm, Farocki spent many years making independent films and commissions for German public television. In the last phase of his career, he transitioned to creating digital and multichannel installations. He also collaborated with the director Christian Petzold on a dozen films. In addition to his prolific media-making career, Farocki was an incisive critic and editor. This groundbreaking book is an incisive and comprehensive analysis of Farocki's oeuvre, shedding new light on his media experimentation and writings across platforms and venues. Nora M. Alter examines how Farocki's work investigates film and media images: their history, nature, manipulation, changing function, and strategic use. Focusing on interconnected ideas surrounding labor, critique, and war, she shows how his politically committed art is informed by pedagogical strategies that drive viewers to perceive how the media world they inhabit functions. Alter also argues that Farocki's career provides a lens on the history of avant-garde and experimental filmmaking amid shifts in materials and exhibition platforms. Tracing the transformations of Farocki's artistic practice and thought, this book offers new insight into the body of work of one of the most significant media makers of the late twentieth century.
Call Number: PQ6651.L484 U513 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780063349766
Publication Date: 2024-09-24
Making his English language debut, the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche, and gothic fiction. With this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodóvar delivers a tantalizing glimpse into his world, formed by twelve stories carefully selected from his personal writings dating from the late '60s to the present. Almodóvar writes: “I've been asked to write my autobiography more than once, and I've always refused. . . . I've never kept a diary, and whenever I've tried, I've never made it to page two; in a sense, then, this book represents something of a paradox. It might be best described as a fragmentary autobiography, incomplete and a little enigmatic.”
Call Number: PS3545.R815 Z6674 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780300269321
Publication Date: 2024-06-18
A biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism. Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of Chicago, seemingly raping and killing without regrets. His story has electrified readers for more than eight decades, and it continues to galvanize debates around representation, respectability, social justice, and racism in American life. In this book, distinguished scholar Trudier Harris examines the literary life of Bigger Thomas from his birth to the current day. Harris explores the debates between Black critics and Communist artists in the 1930s and 1940s over the "political novel," the censorship of Native Son by white publishers, and the work's initial reception--as well as interpretations from Black feminists and Black Power activists in the decades that followed, up to the novel's resonance with the Black Lives Matter movement today. Bigger, Harris argues, represents the knotted heart of American racism, damning and unsettling, and still very much with us.
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 Z5465 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780190673284
Publication Date: 2023-02-10
When Toni Morrison declares that she "can't wait for the ultimate liberation theory to imagine its practice and do its work," she raises an issue at the heart of modern political thought: How should we understand freedom? And what does freedom mean in the shadow of racial slavery and colonialism? In this study of Toni Morrison's writing, Lawrie Balfour explores Morrison's reflections on the idea of freedom in her novels and nonfiction. While Morrison's literary achievements are widely celebrated, her political thought has yet to receive the same attention. Balfour shows how Morrison's writing illuminates the meanings of freedom and unfreedom in a democratic society founded on both the defense of liberty and the right to enslavement.
Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel) by
Call Number: YA PZ7.C6837 Su 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781546171461
Publication Date: 2025-03-18
The unforgettable fifth book in the Hunger Games series: Haymitch's story. When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch's name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He's torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who's nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he's been set up to fail. But there's something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.
Call Number: SP COLL PZ7.5.V46 Saf 2025 RIColl.
Location: Special Collections
ISBN: 9780593112502
Publication Date: 2025-01-21
An uplifting novel in verse about an immigrant girl adjusting to life in the US through her love of nature, music, and poetry. When Geetha and her mom move from India to Rhode Island after her parents' divorce, they leave everything Geetha loves behind-her family, her friends, her dog, and all that's familiar. As if that's not hard enough, Geetha is bullied at her new school for her clothes, her food, and her English (who knew so many English words could be spelled or pronounced differently in the US-or just be altogether different!). She finds some solace in playing her flute and writing poetry, and even more when she meets Miguel, a kid with whom she has a lot in common, and the two of them help rescue an injured harp seal stranded on the beach. But Geetha can feel her anger building over lots of things-careless people who pollute the sea and hurt animals, and her mom for making her move. She's never been so sad and angry. She can see a lot of her fears mirrored in the injured seal when she visits it at the Marine Mammal Rehabilitation Center, and this broadens her understanding of survival skills. And when she and Miguel start a beach-clean-up venture, she's surprised to find how many kind kids are out there. Geetha is torn as the time comes to let the seal go, knowing she'll miss him, but wanting the best for him. She's learning to live with mixed feelings and accept that while there will always be rough waters, there are plenty of safe harbors too.
Q – SCIENCE
Call Number: Q335 .C48298 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9780262548731
Publication Date: 2024-10-08
A concise and illuminating history of the field of artificial intelligence from one of its earliest and most respected pioneers. AI & I is an intellectual history of the field of artificial intelligence from the perspective of one of its first practitioners, Eugene Charniak. Charniak entered the field in 1967, roughly 12 years after AI's founding, and was involved in many of AI's formative milestones. In this book, he traces the trajectory of breakthroughs and disappointments of the discipline up to the current day, clearly and engagingly demystifying this oft revered and misunderstood technology. His argument is controversial but well supported: that classical AI has been almost uniformly unsuccessful and that the modern deep learning approach should be viewed as the foundation for all the exciting developments that are to come.
Call Number: CRC QH541.5.D35 B78 2024
Location: Curriculum Resource Center
ISBN: 9780823452286
Publication Date: 2024-06-04
Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal. Follow a blue whale's enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustling new ecosystem to flourish. All living things must one day die, and Earth's largest creature, the majestic blue whale, is no exception. But in nature, death is never a true ending. When this whale closes her eyes for the last time in her 90-year life, a process known as whale fall is just beginning. Her body will float to the surface, then slowly sink through the deep; from inflated behemoth to clean-picked skeleton, it will offer food and shelter at each stage to a vast diversity of organisms, over the course of a century and beyond.
Call Number: CRC QL737.C23 C647 2023
Location: Curriculum Resource Center
ISBN: 9781623542382
Publication Date: 2023-01-24
Explore the beauty and biodiversity of our spectacular border area and see how the Wall impacts plants and animals. As two endangered ocelots attempt to cross the border, they face obstacles that drive home the catastrophic effects of the Wall--and the many benefits of keeping the border barrier-free. Powerful storytelling introduces young readers to the wildlife that thrives along the border and urges budding nature buffs to value and protect our environment. 2024 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Call Number: QM25 .T75 2025
Location: 1 Week Reserves
ISBN: N/A
TribeRN's Anatomy Flashcards is designed for interactive, engaging learning anywhere, anytime. Perfect for medical students, nursing students, or anyone interested in healthcare. Cards are organized into different tabulated sections, color-coded, and are all hole-punched so they can be used with hinged metal rings. The tab card features a comprehensive index that lists all the cards included in the system
R – MEDICINE
Call Number: RT24 .M53 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781529672428
Publication Date: 2025-01-31
As a nursing or health and social care student, academic writing is one of the main ways you're assessed. However, how to approach your assignments can be a challenge. This is a short, simple guide to the academic writing process, helping you to grow in confidence, to write critically and engagingly, and to develop your voice.
Call Number: RT48 .J46 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781975176822
Publication Date: 2022-10-28
Awarded second place in the 2023 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Medical-Surgical Nursing category. Combining the fundamental coverage of a traditional nursing assessment text with a modern, student-friendly presentation and an enhanced emphasis on clinical judgment, Nursing Health Assessment: A Clinical Judgment Approach, 4th Edition, helps students easily develop the understanding, critical thinking, and decision-making skills to excel in any clinical setting.
Next Generation Nclex-Rn Exam Prep 2025 by
Call Number: RT55 .H378 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9798343440850
Publication Date: 2024-10-16
This comprehensive book is designed specifically around the NGN NCLEX FORMAT , ensuring you are fully prepared for what's ahead. Inside, you'll find not just one or two, but TEN SIMULATIONS. These include two full exam simulations plus Eight specific section simulations, meticulously crafted to mirror the real test.
Call Number: RT79 .N863 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9798218070625
Publication Date: 2022-11-17
Do you find the steps you need to take to get into nursing school daunting?Do you need help determining what order to complete all tasks required to move forward? Or are you looking for insider tips to help YOU succeed? Then this guide has you covered. Written by nurses for future nurses, this handbook offers you the tried-and-true steps you need to take to navigate the challenges you face. Get ready to learn how to pinpoint your dream school, then successfully apply and enroll! You can do this, and this book is designed to propel you forward! You’ll even find a BONUS chapter inside covering Diversity.
T – TECHNOLOGY
Call Number: TR647 .C325 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781955161404
Publication Date: 2024-01-09
Examining the deep emotional relationship between people and place, Louisiana-based photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery (born 1948) is recognized as a leading chronicler of the American South. Her shadowy, blurred, black-and-white images thoughtfully reveal shared human experience--childhood, spirituality, labor--and ultimately bring darkness to light. Debbie Fleming Caffery: Come to Light immortalizes in book form the artist's first major career retrospective presented at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The publication is her most comprehensive to date, showcasing projects produced in the American South and West, as well as in France and Mexico, and is the first to feature all series from across the course of her career.
Stephanie Syjuco: the Unruly Archive by
Call Number: TR655 .S95 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9798890180766
Publication Date: 2024-05-01
The artist's first monograph thoughtfully weaves her research-based practice with a substantial array of visual source material. Bound in a unique format with different types of paper, the pages are cut and layered to simulate the process of physically excavating folders in an archive. By examining the blind spots, holes, and fragments of these collections, she examines the ways photography, anthropology, and national archives produce and proliferate images of exclusion and cultural Othering.
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies by
Call Number: TR655 .W45 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9798890180858
Publication Date: 2024-07-02
Manifest: Thirteen Colonies is a photographic project and journey through the repositories of African American material culture found in libraries, museums, and archives of the original thirteen English colonies and Washington, DC. Conceived by photographer Wendel A. White, this project is a personal reliquary of the remarkable evidence of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public collections. Accompanying his imagery, White discusses his approach to finding, selecting, and photographing artifacts--from rare singular objects to more quotidian materials--and highlights their significance as forensic evidence of Black life and history in the United States.
Call Number: TR681.F28 S85 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781910164785
Publication Date: March 18, 2017
First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan's own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work.
Collaborative Spaces and FabLabs by
Call Number: TS171.57 .O67 2024
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9783031628283
Publication Date: 2024-06-28
Fab Labs are transforming work and organizational landscapes, representing a "new revolution" in production processes and learning. These collaborative spaces enable the creation of almost anything through free access to digital fabrication tools. Emphasizing innovation, Fab Labs value individual and collective human intelligence, crucial for collaborative success. This book explores the organizational and economic aspects of Fab Labs, offering insights into their impact on internal dynamics and the surrounding ecosystem. Filling a gap in existing literature, it provides an integrated view of collaborative spaces, contributing to a more comprehensive knowledge base. With an emphasis on management, barriers, and self-organization, this work aims to guide those in the rapidly growing collaborative space sector. Ideal for researchers, academics, and professionals in organizational management and innovation.
Z – BIBLIOGRAPHY, LIBRARY SCIENCE, INFORMATION RESOURCES (GENERAL)
Publish Your Photography Book by
Call Number: Z286.P47 H562 2023
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781955161251
Publication Date: 2023-09-12
This updated, expert guide covers: a history of the photobook; an overview of the publishing industry; the process of bringing your project to book form (with both traditional publishing and self-publishing options); how to market a photography book (including a dialogue with collectors on the limited edition and artist-made books); case studies with published photographers; and valuable resources on production materials, publishing and marketing timelines. Filled with educational wisdom, the book features interviews and contributions from artists, agents, editors, designers, printers, publishers, distributors, booksellers, curators and librarians who share their experiences and provide advice about each step on the path to publication and placement. A removable workbook helps readers address book preparation, draft submission guidelines, production timelines and marketing plans.
Trauma-Informed Leadership in Libraries by
Call Number: Z678 .T73 2025
Location: New Book Area
ISBN: 9781837978823
Publication Date: 2025-02-10
Trauma-informed practices have become an increasingly essential part of librarianship since the COVID-19 global pandemic. Trauma can result from a single negative event or repeated exposure to negative events over time and can manifest in many forms. Trauma-informed approaches to leadership seek to understand and consider an individual's holistic life experiences, particularly negative consequences of trauma, when determining how to best support and interact with them in the workplace.