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2010-09-30T17:26:00.010-05:00

The Loss of Self: A family resource for the care of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders - RC 523 .C65, Click here
Forget Memory: Creating better lives for people with dementia - RC 521 .B376 2009, Click here
Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease - BV 4910.9 .H35, Click here
Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease - RC 523 .E2, Click here
The Last of His Mind: A year in the shadows of Alzheimer's - eBook, Click here
Losing My Mind: An intimate look at life with Alzheimer's - RC 523 .D43 A3, Click here
Future Opportunities to Leverage Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - eBook, Click here
The Estrogen Errors: Why progesterone is better for women's health - RG 186 .B39 2009, Click here
Stand by Her: A breast cancer guide for men - eBook, Click here
Understanding Breast Cancer Genetics - eBook, Click here
From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental BreastCancer Movement - eBook, Click here

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2010-07-31T11:42:00.004-05:00

Autism's False Prophets: Bad science, risky medicine, and the search for a cure is a work by Paul A. Offit, M.D., the chief of Infectious Diseases and Dir. of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as Professor of Vaccinology and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to the Autism Science Foundation. Dr. Offit's book

"is a compelling story of heart-broken parents, understandably desperate for an explanation of autism, being taken in by false hopes unsupported by genuine science...Are public policies to be determined by evidence and reason or by emotions that, however intense they may be, have nothing to do with reality?"- Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason.

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2010-07-31T11:26:00.005-05:00

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards is a work intended to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching the skills of drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.

"Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes: the very latest developments in brain research; new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education; instruction on self-expression through drawing; an updated section on using color; and detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving." - taken from Amazon

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Reference

2010-05-05T17:38:00.005-05:00

The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler is considered the best "the best" work of reference currently available on the Civil War. There are some 1600 alphabetically arranged, concise articles on every aspect of the period, supplemented by informative battle maps and many of the most famous period black-and-white photographs in crisp, clear reproductions. Ranging from a few paragraphs to several pages, the entries create a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war. They include not only detailed discussions of the major and minor battles and military life in general, but also the war's effects on society, from government, politics, and technology to journalism, commerce, and home life. 4 volume set- SLJ Reviews May 2001.
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2010-03-01T12:02:00.005-06:00

Tennessee Women: Their lives and times edited by Sarah Wilkerson Freeman and Beverly Greene Bond "examines women's private and public experiences within the context of more than two centuries of history and the South's rich diverse geography and cultures. These eighteen biographical chapters focus on women whose stories are familiar and others whose lives have remained in the shadow, revealing a history that is often unexpected and complex."

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2010-02-03T15:11:00.005-06:00

Scar Tissue by Charles Wright is a collection of poetry which was the International winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Wright is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Scar Tissue "investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality...it is a groundbreaking work from a poet who "illuminates and exalts in the entire astonishing spectrum of existence'. - Booklist

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2010-02-03T14:43:00.004-06:00

Michael Zager's book Writing Music for Television and Radio Commercials (and more) succinctly describes the process of composing and arranging commercials for these two very different media. Includes an overview of the commercial music business while addressing tools of composition and arranging and giving helpful instruction of jingle writing and composing for commercials.

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2010-01-21T16:16:00.003-06:00

Tom Sleigh's essays entitled Interview with a Ghost investigate poetry from Sleigh's conviction that "while art and life are separable, they aren't separate." The works of poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney are examined, as are Sleigh's own poems and translations in the contexts of history and private life, disease and health, the realm of the spirit and the realm of the day to day.

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2009-11-20T13:49:00.007-06:00

The forgetting: a portrait of Alzheimer's is a DVD documentary published by PBS that explores the real-world experiences of Alzheimer's patients and caregivers, the history and biology of Alzheimer's and the ongoing struggle to end the disease. David Hyde Pierce hosts a half-hour follow-up program entitled "Alzheimer's, the help you need" with experts providing practical advice on coping with Alzheimer's disease.

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2009-10-23T11:32:00.006-05:00

Andy Lee and Pat Foreman's book entitled Chicken Tractor: the Permaculture of Happy Hens and Healthy Soil claims to be a "revoloutionary, practical, hands-on book for gardeners and poultry growers. It has already helped thousands of gardeners have better gardens and has literally changed the lives of millions of chickens all over the world. A chicken tractor is a bottomless, portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavor. Chicken tractors have helped thousands of gardeners have better gardens and taken chickens out of factory farms and put them in the garden where they are your personal helpers." Taken from back cover.

Social Justice Through the Eyes of John Wesley: John Wesley's Theological Challenge to Slavery by Irv A. Brendlinger brings to light Wesley's strong convictions "about slavery and demonstrates how his theology compelled him to work to abolish it. Wesley's legacy to Methodism is extensive, but his contribution to the antislavery movement is singularly significant in bringing down the institution of slavery. This is his story." Taken from back cover.

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2009-10-16T15:58:00.011-05:00

How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students is a new title by Susan M. Brookhart. In this work Brookhart describes important elements of feedback content (focus, comparison, function, valence, clarity, specificity, and tone) and strategy (timing, amount, mode, and audience). This book provides practical suggestions and classroom examples that demonstrate what to do and not to do to have a positive impact on students.

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Constitution Day Sept. 17, 2009

2009-09-16T08:58:00.006-05:00

Waggoner Library celebrates the Constitution of the United States. Originally signed on this date in 1787 by thirty-nine men bravely penned their names to this radical document. Constitution Day is the time we remember this event as well take time to relflect on the significance of our constititution on our daily lives.

Things you can do to celebrate our Constitution include:

The History Channel has a video about the creation of the constitition.
Take the Naturalization Test to see what it's like for those who must pass this to become U.S. Citizens.
There will be a special Naturalization Ceremony at 2 p.m. where immigrants from around the globe will take the Oath of Citizenship to officially becomes citizens of the United States
If you are in Philadelphia you can visit the National Constitution Center
View a timeline of the Constitution
Search the Constitution interactively by topic, by keyword and by Supreme Court cases

2009-05-07T12:51:00.004-05:00

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Songwriter's Market 2009 is completely revised and updated. It includes hundreds of listings for music publishers, record companies, booking agents, record producers as well as resource listing for networking and support-professional organizations, conferences, music Web sites and online communities. The 2009 Songwriter's Market gives you the tools to help you build a successful songwriting career. Be sure to check out SongwritersMarket.com as well.

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2009-05-07T12:39:00.003-05:00

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Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew's book Toolbox for Sustainable City Living provides the tools you need to create self-sufficient ecologically sustainable cities. They are co-founders of the Rhizome Collective, an educational and activist organization. Toolbox developed out of R.U.S.T.- Radical Urban Sustainability Training-their intensive weekend seminar in urban ecological survival skills. The Toolbox uses "vibrant illustrations along with descriptive text to explain how to build and grow with cheap, salvaged, and recycled materials."

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2009-04-15T12:58:00.005-05:00

The clamour over new digital technologies has obscured the fact that film-maker's have experimented with computers for several decades. Malcolm Le Grice, a pioneer of 'structural film' in the 1970's, exhibited his first video and computer works in the late 1960's. The book, Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age, is a collection of Le Grice's most notable essays and features transcripts of two public debates engaged in by Le Grice with the film-maker Stan Brakhage, and critic and historian P. Adams Sitney.

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2009-03-04T09:13:00.004-06:00

Media in the Digital Age by John V. Pavlik is a critical examination of our current digital innovations -blogs, podcasting, peer-to-peer file sharing, on-demand entertainment, and the digitization of television, radio, and satellites-and their positive and negative implications. Pavlik also 'peers into the future, foreseeing a media landscape dominated by a highly fragmented, though active, audience, intense media competition; and scarce advertising dollars.' Pavlik shows how professional journalism and media can hold on to their role as a vital information lifeline and continue to operate as the tool of a successful democracy.

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2009-03-04T08:56:00.005-06:00

Scott L. Marcus' book entitled Music in Egypt highlights the dynamic nature of Middle Eastern musical culture, exploring its fascinating blend of traditional art music, modern popular music, and religious music. Marcus also introduces features that are common amongst these different types of music. The book concentrates on three themes: the concepts of melodic and rhythmic music that underlie the art; the folk and popular styles of the region; and the deep connections between Islam and music and westernization and modernization. The book is packaged with an audio CD that contains representative examples of the music discusses in the book. Numerous listening activities encourage readers to engage actively with the music. This title is part of the 14 book Global Music Series which includes Music in Bulgaria; Music in North India; Mariachi Music in America, and Teaching Music Globally.
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2009-02-10T11:17:00.010-06:00

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Dr. Steven D. Hsi (pronounced 'she'), a family physician and father of two young sons, was diagnosed in 1995 with a rare coronary disease that caused his death five years later at the age of forty-four. Throughout his ordeals as a patient, including three open-heart surgeries, Dr. Hsi’s outlook on the teaching and practice of medicine changed. In 1997 he began a journal intended for publication after his death. Written with the assistance of newspaper columnist Jim Belshaw and completed posthumously by Hsi’s widow, Beth Corbin-Hsi. Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine is Dr. Hsi’s writings that urge his colleagues to become healers, to look at their patients as human beings with spiritual as well as physical lives.
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2009-02-10T11:06:00.003-06:00

Leadership Jazz written by Max De Pree has firmly placed itself among the great business classics. Former President Bill Clinton called it "astonishing," and the late Peter Drucker advised "Read this slowly. This book is wisdom in action." Now updated for the first time in well over a decade, this powerful book reveals why today, more than ever, leadership is more an art than a science...Filled with insightful stories from DePree's experience as the chairman of Herman Miller and from people he's met along the way, Leadership Jazz reveals how to:

Hold people accountable and give them space to reach their potential
See the needs of employees and those of the company as the same
Inspire change and innovation
Work effectively with creative people

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2009-01-29T14:50:00.004-06:00

A Worldview Approach to Ministry Among Muslim Women edited by Cynthia A. Strong and Meg Page "is a ground-breaking exploration into the way culture and worldview affect ministry among Muslim women. Using original field research from eight different language and culture groups, the book explores a variety of ministries among Muslim women and provides tools to analyze their effectiveness. With contributions from scholars, field workers and agency administrators, readers are given a holistic Muslim ministry perspective through in-depth studies in Muslim beliefs, anthropological tools, worldview analyses, explorations in strategic issues and discipleship, case studies and discussion questions."- from the back cover

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2009-01-29T14:39:00.004-06:00

Muslims, Magic and the Kingdom of God by Rick Love pioneers new ground with this book which links folk Islam, biblical perspectives, and church planting strategy among Muslims. Love's book is "in-depth study of the theology of God's kingdom in action, this book is relevant to all who live in spiritual power-oriented societies. Drawing on illustrations from the Muslim world, Love provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to encountering spiritual powers and expressing the message of Jesus clearly across cultures. His book is full of practical ideas for establishing communities of Jesus' followers." from editorial review on Amazon.com

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2009-01-05T13:59:00.000-06:00

Merchandising Made Simple by Jenny LaPerriere and Trish Christiansen is a guide that shows you how to create branding-and foster customer loyalty-through signage, arrangement, and displays. The authors demonstrate how [a library] can use [their] entire collection , from children's and YA materials to fiction and nonfiction, to promote your library and services-without spending a lot of money.

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Check out the NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon. This book is a unique source of support for next generation librarians, addressing the specific needs of GenXers and Millennials as they work to define themselves as information professionals and to make their mark on a rapidly changing field. The focus throughout is on how NextGens can move their careers forward and positively impact the profession."

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Gary Warren Niebuhr's book, Read 'Em Their Writes, is "a book club guide for mystery and crime fiction book discussions. Niebuhr tells you how to organize your group, how to get participants, how to select book titles, how to prepare for meetings, and how to conduct discussions. Book club themes, inside tips, background material and sample questions for 100 of the best mystery titles for discussion are included."

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The Alternative Media Handbook by Kate Coyer, Tony Dowmunt and Alan Fountain, "gives brief histories of alternative radio, video and film, press and activity on the Web, then offers an overview of global alternative media work through numerous case studies, before moving on to provide practical information about alternative media production and how to get involved with it. It includes both theoretical and practical approaches."

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2008-11-14T12:55:00.000-06:00

Psychology Basics Revised Edition, a new two volume set in our Reference Collection, contains 127 essays on important theories and issues in the dynamic field of psychology. Additions to the revised edition include photographs and medical drawings, helpful lists of diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV-TR, and two appendices: a Biographical List of Psychologists with brief profiles of major figures in the field, both past and present, and an annotated Web Site Directory for support groups, organization's, and on-line sources of information on this field. Topics include aging, cognition, depression, intelligence, memory, motivation, personality and psychotherapy.

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Check out this new database! - HaPI [Health and Psychosocial Instruments]

Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted into hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques and more.

2008-11-11T18:05:00.000-06:00

Today's Military Wife: Meeting the Challenges of Service Life by Lydia Sloan Cline provides up-to-date information essential for making the most of service life-marrying a service member means marrying into the military family and its way of life. Spouses of both active-duty and Reserve personnel will find information on: health care, socials and protocols, housing, financial affairs, moving orders overseas, separations, and leaving the service.

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How to Conduct Survey Research: A Guide for Schools by Alicia Williams and Nancy Protheroe takes the mystery out of the survey process by providing readable, practical information that will help school leaders plan and conduct surveys that yield usable data-and communicate the data in a way that will truly benefit the district decision-making process.

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Business as Mission: From Impoverished to Empowered edited by Tom Steffen and Mike Barnett is a collection of essays providing an overview of the concept of business as mission (BAM) which originated from a 2005 meeting of the Evangelical Missiology Society. "Because the Holy Spirit continues to stir the hearts of numerous business persons to become involved in missions. Not just to write checks for missionaries and mission endeavors,..but to personally participate in global missions through starting businesses at home and abroad."

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2008-10-28T17:01:00.000-05:00

Judith and Richard Wilde's book entitled Visual Literacy illustrates how "visual communication runs throughout our daily lives, whether it's as simple as a traffic light or as complex as sign language...[The Wildes] propose that the repertoire of principles and techniques needed for effective visual communication cannot simply be taught, but must be developed, through hands-on experience with broad-ranging visual problems. Visual Literacy documents this learning process by presenting 19 challenging visual assignments and more than 1,000 pieces of solution art executed by the Wildes students."

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Anatomy of a Park: Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design by Bernie Dahl and Donald J. Molnar enables the reader to experience the aesthetic and functional aspects of park design through the eyes of the people fr whom parks are planned, designed and build...The third edition includes a detailed treatment of creative funding solutions, including the ins and outs of grant writing and application. The authors engage the reader in thought-provoking discussions about multiple-use concepts, nature preservation and energy conservation, the increasing importance of cost-conscious budgeting, the value of good design and durable construction, and the latest in computer-assisted park design and maintenance."
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2008-09-14T15:22:00.000-05:00

2008-09-14T14:07:00.000-05:00

David Adams' second edition work entitled A Handbook of Diction for Singers "is a

complete guide to achieving professional levels of diction in Italian, German, and French, the main languages of classical vocal repertory...The book combines traditional approaches proven successful elsewhere, presenting the sounds of each language in logical order, along with essential information on matters such as diacritical marks, syllabification, word stress, and effective use of variety of foreign-language dictionaries."

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The 'Woman Question and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America edited by Ann Mari May "addresses one of the most compelling topics of our time and speaks to our need to understand the long struggle of women to gain an authoritative voice in higher education and the factors that underlie that struggle. It is a uniquely interdisciplinary study that offers a provocative, contemporary look at the 'Woman Question' in relation to higher education at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Leading feminist scholars from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines ... evaluate the role of biology, discrimination, and choice in rationalizing women's exclusion from fully participating in the process of knowledge production, as well as examining institutional impediments."

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New Resources September 6, 2008

2008-09-06T10:25:00.000-05:00

Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship by Sarah Banet-Weiser "examines

the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, and citizenship...Banet-Weiser argues that a key to its success is its construction of children as citizens within a commerical context. The network's self-conscious engagement with kids-its creation of a "Nickelodeon Nation" offering choices and empowerment within a world structured by rigid adult rules-combines an appeal to kids' formidable purchasing power with assertions of their political and cultural power."
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Keith Augustus Burton's book entitled The Blessing of Africa "traces the story of biblical Africa and the place of the Bible in the land of Ham. Beginning in the Old Testament, he explores the geography of biblical Africa...chronicles the African presence in the church from the New Testament onward...coming to the modern era, he examines the achievements of African Christianity and visionary efforts to adapt and reclaim Christianity for the African context."

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2008-09-06T10:09:00.000-05:00

The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: how to recognize the subtle signs and act before it's too late by Leigh Branham "is about the hidden, elusive motivations that cause capable employees to start questioning their decision to join your company, start thinking of leaving, eventually disengage, and finally, leave. The . root causes of voluntary employee turnover are hiding in plain sight...This book is ultimately more about solutions than it is about the reasons employees disengage and leave." Branham provides 54 practices for engaging workers and bonding them to your organization.
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Ndaelyo Uko's book entitled Story Building: narrative techniques for news and feature writers "demystifies the narrative style of writing by playfully undoing the knots of journalistic storytelling. It proivdes personalized guidance and practical advice on how to muster the passion and skills to gather compelling details needed to tell an engaging journalistic story on deadline. To write like a pro, you must think and report like a pro. More about this book

Family Abuse and Violence presents a new perspective for studying inter-and intragenerational forms of family abuse and violence. The authors [JoAnn Miller and Dean D. Knudsen] provide a framework for intergenerational existing theories and interpreting empirical data, in order to study socially deviant or criminal problems that occur within families. - from the back cover

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2008-08-07T16:29:00.000-05:00

Martha VanCise offers practical guidelines for mission team volunteers as they prepare in advance trips. Her book, Successful Mission Teams: a guide to volunteers, is considered the definitive guide for a 'safe and hassle-free mission trip'. Tips include spiritual preparation, what to wear and how to pack, healthy food choices, relating to missionaries and local people as well as dealing with reverse culture shock when you return from your trip.

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New York Times #1 Bestseller, Quiet Strength: principles, practices, and priorities of a winning life by Indianapolis Colts head coach Tony Dungy 'reveals the secrets to his success - principles, practices and priorities that have kept him on track despite overwhleming obstacles, including firings, stereotypings, and the tragic loss of a child. His thoughts on leading, succeeding, and attaining true significance will inspire you to take a long, hard look at the things that really matter in your own life.'

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New Resources for 7/31/08

2008-07-31T12:55:00.000-05:00

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions edited by Larry A. Nichols, George A. Mather and Alvin J. Schmidt.

Revised, updated and expanded this one volume reference work provides reliable information on the history and beliefs of nearly every form of religion active today.The authors evaluate the beliefs and practices of each group from the perspective of the Bible and the historic creeds of the Christian church. You'll find histories, numerous illustrations, current statistics, websites, bibliographies, and other useful information.

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Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence edited by Nicky Ali Jackson.

from Books in Print: "The coverage of the Encyclopedia is broad and diverse, encompassing the entire life span from infancy to old age. The entries include the traditional research areas, such as battered women, child abuse and dating violence. However, this Encyclopedia is unique in that it includes many under-studied areas of domestic violence, such as ritual abuse-torture within families, domestic violence against women with disabilities, pseudo-family violence and domestic violence within military families. It is also unique in that it examines cross-cultural perspectives of domestic violence. "

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New Resources for 7/17/08

2008-07-17T09:04:00.000-05:00

The Möbius strip : Dr. August Möbius's marvelous band in mathematics, games, literature, art, technology, and cosmology by Clifford Pickover is an "infinite fountain of strange and wondrous forms that can help explain how mathematics has permeated every field of scientific endeavor. Mathematics can help explain the colors of a sunset or the architecture of our brains, how to build supersonic aircraft and roller coasters, and depict faraway galaxies. Following the tortuous path of the Möbius strip, we learn how mathematics has changed the way we understand the cosmos.

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Why Should I Believe You? Rediscovering Clergy Credibility by

Thomas Brady"locates the real reasons for the crisis in clergy

credibility and suggests ways that congregational leaders can

become people who matter to a culture that desperately needs

Jesus, but doubts it needs the church. "

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New Resources for 6/19/08

2008-06-19T11:49:00.000-05:00

Announcing new database collections!

Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
1941 - current full text coverage of about
35 Sage journal publications including the following titles:

The Counseling Psychologist; Criminal Justice and Behavior ; Educational and Psychological Measurement ; Environment and Behavior; The Family Journal; Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences; Journal of Black Psychology; Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Psychology of Music; Research on Aging; School Psychology International

Custom Newspapers

This collection, part of Gale InfoTrac, allows you to search a collection of more than 650 newspapers, both national and international, with 42,791,472 articles updated as recently as June 19, 2008. Newspapers in this collection reflect regional and local newspapers.

Backfiles available for some newspapers from 1996.

New Resources for 6/17/08

2008-06-17T11:44:00.000-05:00

Principles of Convergent Journalism by Jeffrey Wilkinson, August E. Grant and Douglas J. Fisher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

From the back cover "From PDAs to cell phones to computer screens, journalism is no longer confined to the printed page; now journalists must learn to move confidently across a variety of media platforms."

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Gotcha for Guys! Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited About Reading by Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia Agness Kochel. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

From the back cover "Research indicates boys are interested in reading nonfiction materials ... Gotcha for Guys! deals specifically with books to pique the interest of middle grade boys... chapters with titles like "Creepy-Crawly Creatures" and "Disasters and Unsolved Mysteries"

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New Resources for 5/2/08

2008-05-20T12:10:00.000-05:00

Winning without Greed: a Servant Led Success Story by Irv Burling

From the back cover, "This book shows that you don't need greed to succeed. Irv Burling provided direction to a company in crisis and turned it around through servant leadership. Burling served as CEO of CUNA Mutual Life, a leading insurance company, where he proved that when leaders put others first, everyone wins!"

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...Isms: Understanding Religion by Theodore Gabriel and Ronald Geaves

From the jacket flap, "Following the very successful ...Isms: Understanding Art and Isms: Understanding Architectural Styles comes this handy visual guide that offers synopses of the religions of the world and highlights their artistic and architectural manifestations. In any culture, religion has always inspired art, architecture, and design. Each religion featured is illustrated by the outstanding aesthetic achievements for which it is known."

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