Selected New Books for November!
Please note that the November New Resources List (download the file on the right) also includes a large collection of the writings of Elizabeth Harrison located in the Archives in the Chicago Campus Library.
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The puzzle of the platypus : and other explorations of science in action - Jack Myers ; illustrated by John Rice
Located at the Chicago campus library.
Scientists travel the world to solve eleven of nature’s most intriguing puzzles. The stories are true cases of science in action--the challenging and often creative process of revealing nature’s secrets.
The Black nation novel : imagining homeplaces in early African American literature - Adenike Marie Davidson
Located at the Chicago campus library.
Martin R. Delany issues the call and sets the template with Blake; or, The huts of America -- Double consciousness and racial uplift in Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in imperio -- Pauline E. Hopkins calls for gender inclusion in Of one blood -- W.E.B. Du Bois, the folk, and racial uplift in The quest of the silver fleece -- Imagining global unity: W.E.B. Du Bois rethinks talented tenth in Dark princess.
El ciclo de vida del mosquito [Life Cycle of a Mosquito] - Bobbie Kalman
Located at the Lisle Campus Library.
Spanish. Describes the cycle of a mosquito’s life from the egg and larva to adulthood.
Violent video game effects on children and adolescents : theory, research, and public policy - Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile, Katherine E. Buckley
Located at the Lisle campus library.
1. Violent video games : background and content -- 2. Effects of exposure to violent entertainment media -- 3. The general aggression model -- pt. 2. New studies -- 4. Study 1 : Experimental study of violent video games with elementary school and college students -- 5. Study 2 : Correlational study with high school students -- 6. Study 3 : Longitudinal study with elementary school students -- 7. Risk factor illustrations -- pt. 3. General discussion (What does it all mean?) -- 8. New findings and their implications -- 9. Interpretations and public policy -- 10. Reducing violent video game effects
Size matters : how height affects the health, happiness, and success of boys--and the men they become - Stephen S. Hall
Located at the Lisle campus Library.
With a bracing mix of fresh research, incisive reportage, and personal candor, Size Matters uncovers the causes and effects of societyʾs bias against shortness and reveals how short people can and do thrive in spite of this insidious bigotry. Drawing on his own childhood experience (he was shorter than 99 percent of boys his age) and extensive investigation and interviews, Stephen Hall explores the fraught phenomenon of bullying and charts its lifelong consequences.
Stand tall, Abe Lincoln - Judith St. George ; illustrated by Matt Faulkner
Located at the North Shore campus library.
Growing up poor in the backwoods of Kentucky and Indiana, Abraham Lincoln lost his mother before he was ten. But Sally Johnston, who married Abe’s father a year later, brought a library of books to their log cabin home and turned young Abe’s life around.
Independent dames : what you never knew about the women and girls of the American Revolution - Laurie Halse Anderson ; illustrated by Matt Faulkner
Located at the North Shore campus library.
Educating against extremism - Lynn Davies
Located at the Wheeling campus library.
Extremism is a huge concern across the world right now, fuelled by its links to terrorism and religious fundamentalism. This book explores the relationship of education to extremism and examines how education could counter its more dangerous forms.
Diversity at work - edited by Arthur P. Brief
Located at the Wheeling campus library.
Where the sweet spot is : studying diversity in organizations / Dolly Chugh and Arthur P. Brief -- Stereotypes and prejudice create workplace discrimination / Susan T. Fiske and Tiane L. Lee -- Promoting racial diversity at work : challenges and solutions / William T. Bielby -- Identity negotiation processes amidst diversity / Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heather M. Caruso -- Diversity, conflict, and their consequences / Karen A. Jehn, Lindred L. Greer, and Joyce Rupert -- Shifting frames in team-diversty research : from difference to relationships / Robin J. Ely and Laura Morgan Roberts -- Putting your own down / Naomi Ellemers and Manuela Barreto -- Diversity initiative effectiveness / Carol T. Kulik and Loriann Roberson -- 1964 was not that long ago : a story of gateways and pathways / Dolly Chugh and Arthur P. Brief.
New Videos/DVDs
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- The secret life of babies (2005)
Explores the extent of the baby’s vast world of perceptions, from intrauterine life to the first months following birth. Some dialogue in French with English subtitles. - Dialogue among generations (2003)
Program demonstrates basic rules of Dialogue as applied to communication among generations.
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