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This LibGuide lists the newly activated electronic resources within the last three months.  This specific page is the most recent month and previous months are found in the resource archives pages.  This LibGuide is updated on a monthly basis.  

Mergent Online - A new platform has been launched, Mergent Market Atlas, and Mergent Online will be retired in June 2025! (August 2024)

Artstor on JSTOR - As of August 1, 2024 Artstor has officially been retired and the collections can now be found in JSTOR Images.  (August 2024)

This lists represents newly acquired and recently renewed titles.

September 2024

• Wrestling Ghosts
  • This documentary follows the epic inner journey of Kim, a young mother who, over two heart-breaking and inspiring years, battles the traumas from her past to create a new present and future for her and her family. In this intimate portrait, Kim shares deeply personal moments that most of us keep secret in shame, and invites us into her counseling sessions.
• Babies
  • Follows four babies from different parts of the globe as they navigate their first year of life.
• Matewan
  • Powerful re-creation of a West Virginia coal-miners strike in 1920.
• Cruise Boom
  • A small Alaskan town braces for a rapid expansion of cruise ship tourism, pushing residents to grapple with benefits, impacts and what they can control. A portrait of a community on the cusp of change in the face of the global tourism industry.
• Chronicle of a Summer
  • Simply by interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960, beginning with the provocative and eternal question Are you happy? and expanding to political issues, including the ongoing Algerian War, Rouch and Morin reveal the hopes and dreams of a wide array of people, from artists to factory workers, from an Italian èmigrè to an African student. Chronicle of a summer's penetrative approach gives us a document of a time and place with extraordinary emotional depth.
• Forest of Bliss
  • Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, India's most holy city. 
• Modern Times
  • With its barrage of unforgettable gags and sly commentary on class struggle during the Great Depression, Modern times, though made almost a decade into the talkie era and containing moments of sound (even song!), is a timeless showcase of Chaplin's untouchable genius as a director of silent comedy.
• A Right to Belong
  • In A Right to Belong, various Hill Tribe individuals discuss their personal experiences in attempts to gain citizenship, as well as explain how their communities as a whole have suffered.
• La Haine = Hate
  • Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris's outskirts.
• Camille Claudel
  • A lush depiction of the legendary romance between sculptor Auguste Rodin and his young pupil Camille, this is the true story of their passionate obsession with art, and with each other.
• District B13
  • Damien, an elite policeman is tasked to retrieve a nuke stolen by the gang of DISTRICT B13. Leïto, a vigilante whose goal is to save his sister from DISTRICT B13 knows them very well. Damien must convince Leïto to join his cause.
• Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy
  • Dive into the ethical questions of "designer babies," genetic manipulation, and human evolution at the heart of the movie Gattaca, a film which NASA once considered one of the most plausible sci-fi films ever made.
• The Headless Woman
  • A bourgeois woman (Maria Onetto) is driving alone on a dirt road, becomes distracted, and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident, she is dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone.
• Zama
  • Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate.
• Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
  • Based on the best-selling YA novel of the same name by Benjamin Alire Sáenz the film centers on the friendship between two teenage Mexican-American loners in 1987 El Paso who explore a new, unusual friendship and the magical road to self-discovery.
• People like us - Social Class in America
  • It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class?
• Mother Courage and her children
  • Set during the Thirty Years’ War, in the first half of the 17th century: Anna Fierling, also called Mother Courage, is a merchant with a wagonload of food and goods. She stays out of politics, following the armies as they move back and forth across Central Europe, and does not bemoan war’s injustices. She is passionately committed to her three children and tries to protect them. But one after the other, she loses them to the war from which she profits. 

September 2024

• Embattled Freedom : Journeys through the Civil War's slave refugee camps
  • Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war. 
• Policy Matters : Perspectives, procedures, and processes
  • Policy Matters: Perspectives, Procedures, and Processes demystifies policy, exploring how it may truly be transformative in combatting hegemonic and neoliberal incursions into the educational arena. 
• Health Organizations : Theory, behavior, and development
  • Health Organizations explores theories of organization and knowledge of organization behavior in ways that foster change in productive and sustainable ways resulting in better outcomes.
• Pathophysiology, Physical Assessment, and Pharmacology : Advanced integrative clinical concepts
  • This first-of-its-kind text integrates the 3 Ps—pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment—into an integrative whole that reflects the real-world of how students learn and nurses practice. This groundbreaking approach promotes a deeper understanding of these three essential and often challenging content areas, paralleling the importance of integration in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care.
• Transformative democracy in educational leadership and policy : social justice in practice / by Lisa Fetman and Linsay DeMartino
  • Transformative Democracy in Educational Leadership and Policy critiques education policies and practices that failed to deliver on their transformative promises, and explores more rigorous, nuanced transformative approaches within the context of the 2020s and beyond.
• Ambedkar in London / William Gould, Santosh Dass and Christophe Jaffrelot (eds)
  • Dr Bhimrao R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) was one of India's greatest intellectuals and social reformers; his political ideas continue to inspire and mobilise some of the world's poorest and most socially disadvantaged, in India and the global Indian diaspora. Ambedkar's thought on labour, legal rights, women's rights, education, caste, political representation and the economy are international in importance. This book explores his lesser-known period of London-based study and publication during the early 1920s, presenting that experience as a lens for thinking about Ambedkar's global intellectual significance.
• Chasing the stars : how the astronomers of Observatory Hill transformed our understanding of the universe / James Lattis, Kelly Tyrrell
  • Explore the remarkable story of Wisconsin astronomers whose curiosity, persistence, and innovation helped us better understand our universe. Chasing the Stars traces the history of the University of Wisconsin's Washburn Observatory, where some of the world's most cutting-edge astronomical inventions were born.
• Did I ever tell you? : a memoir / Genevieve Kingston
  • Did I Ever Tell You? reads like a novel but is an unforgettable true story. Genevieve (Gwen) Kingston was just eleven years old when her mother passed away, leaving behind a chest filled with gifts and letters to celebrate the milestones of Gwen's life and each of her birthdays until age thirty.
• Fair shake : women and the fight to build a just economy / Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levit
  • A stirring, comprehensive look at the state of women in the workforce—why women's progress has stalled, how our economy fosters unproductive competition, and how we can fix the system that holds women back.In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. 
• Hope and kinship in contemporary fiction : moods and modes of temporality and belonging / Gero Bauer
  • Explores the emphasis that contemporary novels, films and television series place on the present, arguing that hope emerges from the potentiality of the here and now, rather than the future, and as intimately entangled with negotiations of structures of belonging.
• The secret history of sharks : the rise of the ocean's most fearsome predators / John Long
  • From ancient megalodons to fearsome Great Whites, this book tells the complete, untold story of how sharks emerged as Earth's ultimate survivors, by world-leading paleontologist John Long.
• Triggered literature : cancellation, stealth censorship and cultural warfare / John Sutherland
  • Through dozens of case studies of triggered works, from Romeo and Juliet to Gender Queer, John Sutherland explores the recent phenomenon of triggering and its consequences for university English departments and literature itself.
• Classical Edinburgh : a city divided / Alan Balfour
  • This work is both a family history and a social history of Scotland with a particular focus on Edinburgh. The families are traced from their roots in the seventeenth century into the twentieth. However, all their wandering and failures, and births and marriages, are in themselves of no importance – they are merely the actions of helpless actors (one not so helpless) caught in the midst of changing worlds and realities. 
• Great college teaching : where it happens and how to foster it everywhere / Corbin M. Campbell   foreword by Jonathan Gyurko
  • Shows where and how exemplary teaching is practiced in US higher education and charts a course for cultivating teaching improvement throughout all types of institutions.
• On saving face : a brief history of Western appropriation / Michael Keevak
  • In On Saving Face, Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century colonialism. 

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