SPRING 2015 - Week of April 27, 2015 - New Books in the Library ARCHIVE - Research Guides at Honolulu Community College

FEATURED BOOK

Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting by Beverly Deepe Keever
Call Number: DS559.46 .K44 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of the nation's bloodiest and bitterest wars. Keever’s trove of tissue-thin memos to editors, along with published and unpublished dispatches for New York and London media, provide the reader with you-are-there descriptions of Buddhist demonstrations and turning-point coups as well as phony ones. Two Vietnamese interpreters, self-described as “darling spies,” helped her decode Vietnam’s shadow world and subterranean war. These memoirs, at once personal and panoramic, chronicle the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige.

NEW BOOKS

Books are in call number order

Buddhism for Beginners by Thubten Chodron
Call Number: BQ4022 .T48 2001
Offers an introduction to the doctrines and philosophies of Buddhism, including Buddhist perspectives on such current issues as euthanasia, abortion, and animal rights.
The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky; James Peck (Editor)
Call Number: E840 .C472 1987
Political essays examine topics including equality, Soviet-American relations, the Vietnam War, and the conflicts in Central America.
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Call Number: GV796 .B76 2014
Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant.
The Smartphone: Anatomy of an Industry by Elizabeth Woyke
Call Number: HE9713 .W69 2014
This book offers not only a step-by-step guide to how smartphones are designed and manufactured but also a bold exploration of the darker side of this massive industry, including the exploitation of labor, the disposal of electronic waste, and the underground networks that hack and smuggle smartphones. Featuring interviews with key figures in the development of the smartphone and expert assessments of the industry’s main players—Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung.
The One-Page Proposal: How to Get Your Business Pitch onto One Persuasive Page by Patrick Riley; Patrick G. Riley
Call Number: HF5718.5 .R55 2002
Lean. Trim. Clear. Concrete. In a world where decisions are made between two rings of a cell phone, this is what a successful business proposal must be. Step by step, the author outlines how to create the perfect attention-grabbing pitch, offering dozens of strategies to help organize your research, focus your message, eliminate unnecessary language, and anticipate potential reservations.
Talk with Your Kids by Michael Parker
Call Number: HQ769 .P277 2012
Conversations About Ethics. A guide for parents to help their children better understand the world around them by helping them think through the questions they face regarding honesty, friendship, sensitivity, fairness, dedication, individuality and 103 other character-building issues.
Assessing Writing, Assessing Learning: A Practical Guide to Evaluating and Reporting on Writing Instruction Programs by Dudley W. Reynolds
Call Number: LB1631 .R49 2010
Seeks to support teachers, administrators, program directors, and funding entities who want to make the best use of the resources at their disposal to understand what students are learning and why and to then take actions based on what they have learned. It also seeks to provide a common basis for communication among all the interested parties - the writing professionals, the people who identified the need for the program, and the students.
Bullying and Cyberbullying: What Every Educator Needs to Know by Elizabeth Kandel Englander
Call Number: LB3013.3 .E645 2013
Written in an accessible, conversational tone and informed by careful research, this timely book is an essential guide for educators. Key takeaways include the impact of technology on social behavior, a framework for responding effectively to bullies--including innovative ideas about the role of social peers--and suggestions for working with parents.
Teaching Composition: Background Readings, 3rd Ed. by T. R. Johnson
Call Number: PE1404 .T375 2008
Addressing the concerns of both first-year and veteran writing instructors, this collection includes 30 professional readings on composition and rhetoric, accompanied by introductions and activities for the classroom. This edition offers advice on helping students avoid plagiarism, improving online instruction, blogging, and more.
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Call Number: PR6001.M6 L8 2012
Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh.
Microbiology Demystified by Tom Betsy; Jim Keogh
Call Number: QR41.2 .B48 2012
This practical guide eases you into this field of science, starting at the cell level. As you progress, you will master microbiology essentials such as bacteria, algae, viruses, pasteurization, and more. You will understand the difference between friendly and unfriendly microorganisms as well as the microscope's role in shaping microbiology. Detailed examples make it easy to understand the material.
The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human by Vint Virga
Call Number: SF613.V57 V57 2014
The author draws from his decades in veterinary practice to reveal how, by striving to perceive the world as animals do, we can enrich our own appreciation of life, enhance our character, nurture our relationships, improve our communication with others, reorder our values, and deepen our grasp of spirituality. He discerningly illuminates basic traits shared by both humans and animals and makes animal behavior meaningful, relevant, and easy to understand.

New DVDs

JFK by Warner Home Video
Call Number: DVD 0360
Publication Date: 2010
Director Oliver Stone blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Parkland by Millennium Entertainment
Call Number: DVD 0361
Publication Date: 2013
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event. Thrust into a scenario of unimaginable consequences, the young doctors and nurses at Parkland Hospital, the Secret Service and FBI Agents, the unwitting cameraman who captured the tragedy and the Vice President respond with shock, outrage, determination and courage. Woven together, their seemingly disparate perspectives create one of the most thrilling and powerful stories never told.

Gays in the Military

My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, World War II to the Present by Mary A. Humphrey
Call Number: UB418.G38 H86 1990
The result of hundreds of interviews and years of research, this is an oral history of gay men and women in the military, ranging over the past five decades, describing in detail the military's long-standing persecution of lesbians and gay men. With stories from the famous - Leonard Matlovich, Miriam Ben-Shalom, and Perry Watkins.
Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. military by Randy Shilts
Call Number: UB418.G38 S55 1993
The author investigates the situation of lesbians and gays in the military over the past three decades, revealing for the first time that some of the most celebrated soldiers in American history were homosexual (including the Father of the United States Army). Five years of interviews with nearly 1,100 gay service people have uncovered extraordinary stories of heroism, persecution, and increasing resistance while documenting the creation of a vast gay subculture within the armed forces.
Exclusion: Homosexuals and the Right to Serve by Melissa Wells-Petry
Call Number: UB418.G38 W45 1993
Clear-headed, highly readable, precise, and meticulously documented, it is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand both sides of the debate on homosexuals in the military.

HAWAII PACIFIC

Adjourned with a Prayer: The Minutes of Siloama & Kanaana Hou churches, Kalawao and Kalaupapa, Molokai, 1866-1928
Call Number: DU629.K24 K25 2011 Hawaii Pacific Reference
Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to remembering everyone who was sent to Kalaupapa, has published “Adjourned With a Prayer,” a book based on the minutes kept by the congregations of Siloama and Kanaana Hou Churches from 1866 to 1928. Siloama Church, a member of the United Church of Christ, was the first church organized and built at Kalawao, the original settlement on the Kalaupapa peninsula where people with leprosy were sent.
The Polynesian Tattoo Handbook by Roberto Gemori
Call Number: GN419.3 .P65 2011 Hawaii Pacific
A practical guide to creating meaningful Polynesian tattoos. Features include: list of symbols and their meanings; quick reference; positioning the elements; case studies; Maorigrams creation.

FASHION

The Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism by Katherine Gleason
Call Number: GT596 .G58 2013 Oversize
Originally conceived as a literary genre, the term "steampunk" described stories set in a steam-powered, science fiction-infused, Victorian London. Today steampunk has grown to become an aesthetic that fuels many varied artforms. Steampunk has also widened its cultural scope. Illustrated with color photographs of the creations of numerous steampunk fashion designers, this book serves as a sourcebook and presents the looks and stories of these creative fashion artists.

Internet History

100 Ideas That Changed the Web by Jim Boulton
Call Number: TK5105.888 .B675 2014
This innovative title looks at the history of the Web from its early roots in the research projects of the US government to the interactive online world we know and use today. Fully illustrated with images of early computing equipment and the inside story of the online world's movers and shakers, the book explains the origins of the Web's key technologies, such as hypertext and mark-up language, the social ideas that underlie its networks, such as open source, and creative commons, and key moments in its development, such as the movement to broadband and the Dotcom Crash.

More on SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability: A History by Jeremy L. Caradonna
Call Number: GE195 .C379 2014
The author situates sustainability and reveals what has led to its ascendency and ever-widening scope. He traces its origins to the emergence of planned yield forestry in the late 17th and 18th centuries in England and North America, through the challenges of and reactions to the Industrial Revolution in the 19th, the birth of the environmental movement in the 20th, and finally the emergence of a concrete effort today to create a society that is stable, prosperous, ecologically minded, and forward looking.
Making Sustainability Work, 2nd Ed. by Marc J. Epstein; Adriana Rejc Buhovac
Call Number: HD60 .E67 2014
Subtitle: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts

This is a complete guide to implementing and measuring the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives. It draws on the authors' solid academic foundation and extensive consulting work and includes best practices from dozens of companies...This is the ultimate how-to guide for corporate leaders, strategists, academics, sustainability consultants, and anyone else with an interest in actually putting sustainability ideas into practice and making sure they accomplish their goals.

Popular Fiction

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Call Number: Flynn
Returning to her hometown to investigate the murders of two girls after an eight-year absence and a short stay at a psychiatric hospital, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings. Dogged by her own demons Camille must confront what happened to her years ago to survive this homecoming.
Night and Day by Robert B. Parker
Call Number: Parker
Publication Date: 2010
Paradise, Massachusetts, Police Chief Jesse Stone must deal in his own laconic way with the town's rights and wrongs, including lewd conduct, the Paradise Free Swingers, and a firestorm of protests at the junior high school. A peeping Tom known as the Night Hawk is on the loose and his notes to Chief Stone indicate he's about to take his obsession to the next level.
The Professional by Robert B. Parker
Call Number: Parker
Publication Date: 2010
The wives of some of Boston's wealthest men have a mutual secret: they've all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired to stop him." But when the women start turning up dead one by one, Spenser's new assignment becomes murder.
Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
Publication Date: 2011
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston private investigator Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange - money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen. Prince had secrets - and these secrets put Spenser in danger.
Split Image by Robert B. Parker
Call Number: Parker
Publication Date: 2011
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will. Jesse and Sunny realize how much they have in common with their victims and with each other.

New Books in the Library ARCHIVE: SPRING 2015 - Week of April 27, 2015

FEATURED BOOK

NEW BOOKS

New DVDs

Gays in the Military

HAWAII PACIFIC

FASHION

Internet History

More on SUSTAINABILITY

Popular Fiction