New & Featured Books for April 2024
Every month, the Library is excited to feature a new selection of books that have been recently added to the collection. This month we are highlighting new ebooks! The Library routinely licenses ebook titles that support the teaching and learning of the College. This list spotlights just sampling of new ebooks across different disciplines. Explore all of the Library’s ebooks by visiting the ebooks guide.
Each month we will feature a different selection of new books. In May we will be featuring new titles in the Popular Reading and Graphic Novels collections. Be sure to check back then!
Featured New Books for March 2024
Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U. S. History. Yale University Press, 2023.
“A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.” - Yale University Press
Cheetham, Mark. Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the ’60s. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.
“Dedicated to an articulation of the earth from broadly ecological perspectives, eco art is a vibrant subset of contemporary art that addresses the widespread public concern with rapid climate change and related environmental issues. In Landscape into Eco Art, Mark Cheetham systematically examines connections and divergences between contemporary eco art, land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the historical genre of landscape painting.” - Penn State Press
Francis, Mary Anne. Mixed Forms of Visual Culture: From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
“This book celebrates and seeks to understand the overlooked appearances of hybrid forms in visual culture; artefacts and practices that meld or interweave incongruous elements in innovative ways. … Focusing on key phenomena in the last half millennium such as the cabinet of curiosities, the broadside ballad and the chapbook as early forms of image-text, the scrapbook, assemblage, and, in digital times, so-called ‘mixed reality,’ the book argues that while the quality of inconsistency is traditionally dismissed, its expression nevertheless plays a vital role in social life.” - Bloomsbury
Hasen, Richard L. Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–And How to Cure It. Yale University Press, 2022.
“An informed and practical road map for controlling disinformation, embracing free speech, saving American elections, and protecting democracy. With piercing insight into the current debates over free speech, censorship, and Big Tech’s responsibilities, Richard L. Hasen proposes legal and social measures to restore Americans’ access to reliable information on which democracy depends. In an era when quack COVID treatments and bizarre QAnon theories have entered mainstream, this book explains how to assure both freedom of ideas and a commitment to truth.” - Yale University Press
Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane. Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales. Columbia University Press, 2018.
“Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in English, Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist, and visual culture largely unknown today outside of Japan.” - Columbia University Press
Lanham, J. Drew. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. Milkweed Editions, 2016.
“Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way to somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity”—to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field.” - Milkweed Editions
Patrin, Nate. The Needle and the Lens: Pop Goes to the Movies from Rock ‘n’ Roll to Synthwave. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
“Tracking the link between film and song through the past fifty years, Nate Patrin reveals the power of music used in movies to move the needle in popular culture. As he surveys the scene—musical and cinematic—across the decades, expanding into the deeper origins, wider connections, and echoed histories that come into play, The Needle and the Lens offers a new way of seeing, and hearing, these iconic soundtrack moments.” - University of Minnesota Press