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Newly activated electronic resources list and electronic resources updates.

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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.  

Platform Updates & Announcements

Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination - New Platform coming January 14th, 2025!

  • Any embedded links directly to the content will need to be updated.  Here is a link to an excel file that maps the old links to the new links.  No redirects will be in place. (December 2024)

SpringerNature Link - SpringerLink has been renamed SpringerNature Link! (October 2024)

 

New Streaming Films

This lists represents newly acquired and recently renewed titles.

November 2024

  • Dead man
    • William Blake, a young man in search of a fresh start, travels west during the latter half of the nineteenth century to a frontier town to take a post as an accountant. 
  • Miss Representation
    • The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.
  • Joyland
    • The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque, and he quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
  • A clockwork orange
    • In a futuristic welfare state, Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a vicious young hoodlum, sleeps all day and spends his nights roaming the city with his droogs (friends), assaulting innocent people in the streets and in their homes. 
  • The man who would be king
    • Two cunning British soldiers of misfortune travel to a remote part of Afghanistan, where one of them is accepted as king and begins to believe his own deception, leading to disaster for himself and his faithful partner-in-crime after the ruse is inadvertently exposed.
  • If Beale Street could talk
    • A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiancé Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.

New Ebooks

November 2024

  • Helping college students write: a guide for educators
    • This book provides a detailed roadmap for college educators to help students make substantial improvements in their writing, particularly in courses where writing is a component, but not the primary focus.This accessible guide offers conceptual tools and practical strategies, including lesson plans, stock comments instructors can use to explain frequently occurring writing problems, and writing prompts to help struggling students address writer's block. 
  • Pediatric nutrition care manual
    • Evidence-based, clinical nutrition information for adults written for and by registered dietician nutritionists.
  • Cambridge comparative history of ancient law
    • The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. 
  • Antisemitism in the Arab-Israel conflict
    • Drawing on multiple scholarly sources, Professor David Stone summarises the overwhelming evidence that eliminationist antisemitism is the ‘ elephant in the room'- the underlying cause and principal driver of the hundred-year long Arab-Jewish (now misleadingly reframed as Israeli - Palestinian) conflict - and is the main reason it remains unresolved.
  • Deluge: Gaza and Israel from crisis to cataclysm
    • Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way forward? The book's expert contributors address these and other questions, which have never been more urgent. 
  • Everything is predictable : how Bayesian statistics explain our world
    •  At its simplest, Bayes's theorem describes the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions that might be related to the event. But in Everything Is Predictable, Tom Chivers lays out how it affects every aspect of our lives. He explains why highly accurate screening tests can lead to false positives and how a failure to account for it in court has put innocent people in jail. 
  • Fifty years of the concept album in popular music : from the Beatles to Beyonce
    • The concept album is one of popular music's most celebrated-and misunderstood-achievements. This book examines the untold history of the rock concept album, from The Beatles to Beyoncé.  The roots of the concept album are nearly as old as the long-playing record itself, as recording artists began using the format to transcend a mere collection of songs into a listening experience that takes the listener on a journey through its unifying mood, theme, narrative, or underlying idea.
  • Holding it together : how women became America's safety net 
    • Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.  America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. 
  • Let this radicalize you : organizing and the revolution of reciprocal care
    • What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
  • The pornography wars : the past, present, and future of America's obscene obsession
    • In The Pornography Wars, Burke does a deep dive into the long history of pornography in America and then turns her gaze on our present society to examine the ways this industry touches on the most intimate parts of American lives. She offers a complete understanding of the major players in the debates around porn's place in society: everyone from sex workers, activists, therapists, religious leaders, and consumers. In doing so, she addresses and debunks the myths that surround porn and porn usage while showing how everything from the way we teach children about sex to the legal protections for what can be published is tied up in the deeply complicated battles over pornography.
  • Colonizing Palestine : the Zionist left and the making of the Palestinian Nakba
    •  Based on extensive empirical research in local colony and national archives, Colonizing Palestine offers a microhistory of frontier interactions between Zionist settlers and indigenous Palestinians within the British imperial field. 
  • The empusium : a health resort horror story
    • The Nobel Prize winner's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas September 1913.
  • Post-crisis leadership : resilience, renewal, and reinvention in the aftermath of disruption
    • This book introduces a research-informed framework for this critical, and often neglected, phase of crisis leadership. With an underlying commitment to values-based, principle-oriented, and people-centered practices, this framework consists of five leadership practices that are recognized as especially critical in the aftermath of crisis: (a) encourage learning, (b) inspire growth, (c) stimulate meaning-making, (d) pursue reinvention, and (e) advance renewal. 
  • The resilient university : how purpose and inclusion drive student success
    •  Drawing from lessons learned in real scenarios, the authors provide practical recommendations for empowering colleagues, cultivating resilience and courage, and sustaining purpose and inclusion within institutions. Building on Hrabowski's previous book.

 

New EJournals

More items coming soon!

List Updated Monthly!

See the New Ejournals - Archives page for other recently purchased ejournals!

New Databases

November 2024

  • Iter Italicum
    • Iter Italicum, the most comprehensive finding list available of previously uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued Renaissance humanistic manuscripts found in libraries and collections all over the world. 

New - Other

More items coming soon! 

List Updated Monthly!

See the New Other - Archives page for other recently purchased electronic resources!