Month: September 2019 (Page 1 of 2)

In the past week 211 titles were added to the library’s collection; below is a sample. Click on a link for more information.

Accelerators in Silicon Valley: building successful startups /P. Ester.
This title describes how ‘schools of startup entrepreneurship’ operate and empower startups.

All things shining: reading the Western classics to find meaning in a secular age /Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly.
An overview of Western philosophy, this title reveals how society have lost the passionate engagement with the things that gave individuals purpose, and show how, by reading our culture’s classics anew, we can once again be drawn into intense involvement with the wonder and beauty of the world.

Bang Chan: social history of a rural community in Thailand /Lauriston Sharp.
This title traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century, and sums up the major findings of a pioneering interdisciplinary research project that began in 1948.

Chinatown no more: Taiwan immigrants in contemporary New York /Hsiang-shui Chen.
Focusing on the social and cultural life of post-1965 Taiwan immigrants in Queens, New York, this book shifts Chinese American studies from ethnic enclaves to the diverse multiethnic neighborhoods of Flushing and Elmhurst.

The good wife’s guide (Le Ménagier de Paris): a medieval household book /Christine M. Rose; Gina L. Greco.
This title is the first complete modern English translation of an important medieval text that taught young women the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society. The original work is recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages.

The historiography of music in global perspective /edited by Sam Mirelman.
This volume examines the perception of music’s past, in all its historical, geographical and cultural breadth. The wide-ranging collection of papers address the interpretation of past music cultures from the earliest records of antiquity until the present.

In search of the free individual: the history of the Russian-Soviet soul /Svetlana Alexievich.
Nobel laureate in literature (2015), Svetlana Alexievich traces the origins of her deeply affecting blend of journalism, oral history, and creative writing.

The playful citizen: civic engagement in a mediatized culture / Imar de Vries, Joost Raessens, Michiel de Lange, René Glas, Sybille Lammes.
This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

Star Wars and the history of transmedia storytelling /edited by Sean Guynes and Dan Hassler-Forest.
This title demonstrates the ways in which transmedia storytelling and the industrial logic of media franchising have developed in concert over the past four decades, as multinational corporations have become the central means for subsidizing, profiting from, and selling modes of immersive storyworlds to global audiences.