March 2010

Take some time for yourself by sitting down with one of Champlain College Library's new books. Our print collection continues to grow with carefully selected titles in support of the College's curriculum. This month you can learn about the history and culture of China with selections from the New Books display:

• China: A New History by John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman
• The State of China Atlas: Mapping the World's Fastest-Growing Economy by Robert Benewick and Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
• China Entrepreneur: Voices of Experience from 40 International Business Pioneers by Juan Antonio Fernandez and Laurie Underwood
• 1,000 Days in Shanghai: The Story of Volkswagen - The First Chinese-German Car Factory by Martin Posth
• China, East Asia and the Global Economy: Regional and Historical Perspectives by Takeshi Hamashita
• Advertising and Chinese Society: Impacts and Issues edited by Hong Cheng and Kara Chan
• The Internet in China: Cyberspace and Civil Society by Zixue Tai
• Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements by James DeFronzo
• Women and the Family in Chinese History by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
• Chinese Magical Medicine by Michel Strickmann
• Medicine in China: A History of Ideas by Paul U. Unschuld

As always, there are many more new books on display in the Miller Information Commons across from the Circulation Desk. For a complete list of titles, check out our web page at https://cosmos.champlain.edu/library/pages/new_books/new_books_current.html.

Michele Melia
Cataloging and Systems Librarian

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"We've always been serious about technology in the Library. You might say that we LOVE technology-related topics, and our latest new books display reflects that, reports Michele Melia, Cataloging and Systems Librarian. 

Some of the titles you'll find are:

• Playing with Videogames by James Newman
• The Ethics of Computer Games by Miguel Sicart
• A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players by Jesper Juul
• Die Tryin': Videogames, Masculinity, Culture by Derek A. Burrill
• Studying Videogames by Julian McDougall & Wayne O'Brien
• Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
• Using Wikis for Online Collaboration: The Power of the Read-Write Web by James A. West, Margaret L. West
• i am 8-bit: Art Inspired by Classic Videogames of the '80s by Jon M. Gibson
• Engineering Play: A Cultural History of Children's Software by Mizuko Ito
• Beyond Game Design: Nine Steps Towards Creating Better Videogames by Richard Bartle, et al.
• Design and Use of Serious Games by Marja Kankaanranta and Pekka Neittaanmäki
• Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies by Noah Wardrip-Fruin
• The Manga Guide to Databases by Mana Takahashi, Shoko Azuma, Trend-pro Co., LTD.
• Emerging Technologies: From Hindsight to Foresight edited by Edna F. Einsiedel
• Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel by Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy

As always, there are many more new books on display in the Miller Information Commons across from the Circulation Desk. For a complete list of titles, check out our web page at https://cosmos.champlain.edu/library/pages/new_books/new_books_current.html .

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The latest new books display is up at the Library! Please visit us and browse titles such as:

• The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past by Sam Wineburg
• Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories of World War II by Marilyn Mayer Culpepper
• The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
• Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History by Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett
• Stories of Inclusion?: Power, Privilege, and Difference in a Peace and Justice Network by Deborah A. Piatelli
• Telling Political Lives: The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States edited by Brenda DeVore Marshall and Molly A. Mayhead
• The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11 by John Farmer
• Reflections/Refractions: Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century by edited by Wendy Wick Reaves
• Language and Minority Rights: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Language by Stephen May
• Depression and Narrative: Telling the Dark edited by Hilary Clark
• Kazan on Directing by Elia Kazan
• The Soul is Here for its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures edited by Robert Bly
• Reasons to Live: Stories by Amy Hempel
• Google Speaks: Secrets of the World's Greatest Billionaire Entrepreneurs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page by Janet Lowe

As always, there are many more new books on display in the MIC across from the Circulation Desk. For a complete list of titles, check out our web page at https://cosmos.champlain.edu/library/pages/new_books/new_books_current.html .

 

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For more information: Michele Melia, Cataloging and Systems Librarian
Champlain College Library, Miller information Commons