Thursday, July 22, 2010

New DVDs Available

Here are the latest DVDs that have been added to the Library's collection. Faculty may check out DVDs for classroom use and students may view them while in the library. Bring your SWC photo ID card and the DVD call number to the Circulation Desk.

BF723 .S4 D58 2008 dvd
Divide of the Sexes : Gender Roles in Childhood
Why do boys underachieve? How does celebrity culture influence the self-esteem of young girls? In an atmosphere dominated by sex and consumerism, are children growing up too quickly? This program addresses those issues, reporting on a group of 25 eight-year olds as they adjust to gender roles and expectations.

DS557.73 .H43 2002 dvd
Hearts and Minds
Examines the American consciousness that led to involvement in Vietnam. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland; former Secretary of Defense, Clark Clifford; Senator William Fulbright; Walt Rostow; and Daniel Ellsberg.

E99.E7 N24 1998 dvd
Nanook of the North
Presents a documentary on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs.

GN281 .H86 2010 dvd
The Human Spark
Alan Alda takes a look at how humans first appeared on Earth millions of years ago, and how our species not only survived, but thrived, through some unimaginable conditions. Alda visits with dozens of scientists on three continents, and participates directly in many experiments - including the detailed examination of his own brain.

HF5389 .W67 2009 dvd
Workplace Etiquette : Why Being Polite Counts on the Job
Teaches viewers what employers expect in terms of professional and respectful behavior.

HF5415.1255 .E94 2009 dvd
Everything 2.0 : Redesign your Business through Foresight and Brand Innovation
A presentation addressing ways in which businesses can apply the Web 2.0 phenomenon as a basis for rebranding and creating culture rather than products.

HN80.F54 R6 2003 dvd
Roger & Me
A documentary about Flint, Michigan native Michael Moore and his efforts to meet with General Motors' president Roger Smith in order to persuade the executive to visit Flint, a city which is economically depressed due to the closure of a General Motors plant.

HQ281 .L58 2007 dvd
Lives for Sale
"This program exposes the most painful, disturbing, and hidden dimension of illegal immigration: the growing black market trade in human beings."--container.

JV6475 S242 2009 dvd
Coyote : an immigration case study
"...the film echoes the heady and traumatic experiences known to millions of undocumented immigrants..."

LB 2343.32 R322 2009 dvd
Researching, reading, and writing
"Faced with a mountain of research to conduct, reading to do, and papers to write, students must work both efficiently and shrewdly. This three-section program tells how to identify and cite reliable online and offline sources of information, carve textbook chapters into manageable chunks, and outline and revise papers - all elements that are essential to getting the job done well. Correlates to National and State Educational Standards including the NCLB Act."--Container.

ML3558 .L38 2009 dvd (2 DVDs)
Latin music USA.
Highlights the great American music created by Latinos, and celebrates the Latin rhythms at the heart of jazz, rock, country, and rhythm and blues. It's a fresh take on American musical history, reaching across five decades to portray the rich mix of sounds created by Latinos and embraced by all. Set features a CD with 8 Latin music tracks.

PN 1995.75 C45 2008 dvd
Man with the Movie Camera
An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, etc.) to present a dawn to dusk view of urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities to study the relation between cinema and reality.

PN1995.9.S85 U53 2005 dvd
Un Chien Andalou
Filmed in the subjective language of the unconscious, this early avant-grade film appears as fresh today as when it first appeared.

PN1997 .S78 2006 dvd (2 DVDs)
A Streetcar Named Desire
Based upon the original play : A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951 -- Elia Kazan, Director, with Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, and Kim Hunter.

PS3608.O832 K58 2008 dvd
The Kite Runner
Based on the book by Khaled Hosseini.

RC1230 B544 2008 dvd
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* : the Side Effects of Being American
Using his own family's uneasy relationship with performance enhancing drugs, Christopher Bell links steroid abuse to an emphasis in American popular culture on being bigger, stronger and faster.

RG556.5 T39 2008 dvd
Teenage pregnancy and adoption
ABC News goes to the Gladney Center for Adoption in Forth Worth, Texas and follows two pregnant teenagers, Erin and Brookanne, as they work through their decisions to have their babies adopted after childbirth.

TJ808.U6 B54 2009 dvd
The Big Energy Gamble
This program explores the pros and cons of California's controversial program to slash carbon dioxide emissions and promote energy efficiency, which could be adopted nationwide during the Obama administration.

TJ810 .C384 2008 dvd
Catching the Sun : the Physics of Solar Energy
Two forms of energy that we use every day are electrical energy and heat. During the 20th century we came to rely on fossil fuels as the ultimate source of these energy forms but now, energy from renewable sources is becoming more commonly used. Explains the science involved in each type in straightforward terms.

Southwestern College Dance Productions:

GV1795.S6 A22 2010 dvd (2 DVDs)
Accept Dance, 2010

GV1795.S6 C67 1987 dvd
Choreographer's Concert, 1987

GV1795.S6 D3636 1999 dvd
Dance Scapes

GV1795.S6 S675 2010 dvd (2 DVDs)
Spring Dance Concert, 2010

GV1795.S6 S78 1997 dvd
Studio Dance Concert

Thursday, July 8, 2010

New Books Available

No need to line up, just come on in and checkout one of our 116 new book titles listed below and now on display at the Southwestern College library.

Don't forget to bring your SWC photo ID card with you.


Title / Call No.
The best American science and nature writing. 2007 / 3054

Make the most of your time on earth : a Rough guide to the world. / 3080

The Diana chronicles / 3086

What you should know about politics-- but don't : a nonpartisan guide to the issues / 3197

Naomi's breakthrough guide : 20 choices to transform your life / 3200

Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder / BF353.5.N37 L68 2008

Chocolate for a teen's heart : unforgettable stories for young women about love, hope, and happiness / BJ1651 .C47 2001

Global rebellion : religious challenges to the secular state, from Christian militias to al Qaeda / BL80.3 .G542 2008

How does religion influence politics? / BR 115.P7 A74 2010

Holy warriors : a modern history of the crusades / D157 .P55 2009

Pakistan / DS389 .O55 2010

The scholar and the tiger : a memoir of famine and war in revolutionary China / DS734.9.C3 A3 2009

Thunder and herds : rock art of the High Plains / E78.G73 L64 2008

Four generations of norteños : new research from the cradle of Mexican migration / E184.M5 F694 2009

Lincoln's virtues : an ethical biography / E457.2 .M643 2002

Civil War wives : the lives and times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant / E628 .B47 2009

Cheney : the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president / E840.8.C43 H39 2007

A bubble in time : America during the interwar years, 1989-2001 / E881 .O54 2009

A sense of belonging : from Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, one man's pursuit of the American dream / E901.1.M37 A3 2008

Winning the future : a 21st century Contract with America / E902 .G56 2006

Developing Zapatista autonomy : conflict and NGO involvement in rebel Chiapas / F1256 .B36 2009

To be like gods : dance in ancient Maya civilization / F1435.3.D34 L66 2009

Lula of Brazil : the story so far / F2538.5.L5 B68 2008

The rising sea / GC89 .P48 2009

Willie Mays : the life, the legend / GV865.M38 H57 2010

The case for the living wage / HD4918 .W264 2004

Make job loss work for you : get over it and get your career back on track / HD5708 .D44 2010

Forced out : older workers confront job loss / HD5708.55.U6 R65 2009

A Dolores Huerta reader / HD6509.H84 D65 2008

Food chains : from farmyard to shopping cart / HD9000.5 .F5938 2009

The tyranny of e-mail : the four-thousand-year journey to your inbox / HE7551 .F74 2009

Alternative lending / HG3701 .O55 2010

Europe's promise : why the European way is the best hope in an insecure age / HN373.5 .H55 2010

The marriage-go-round : the state of marriage and the family in America today / HQ535 .C416 2009

Abortion / HQ767 .O55 2010

Victorian childhoods / HQ792.G7 F76 2009

Mixed messages : multiracial identities in the "color-blind" era / HT1521 .M58 2006

A guidebook to human service professions : helping college students explore opportunities in the human services field / HV10.5 .I4 2009

The mistress's daughter / HV874 H66 2008

At home on the street : people, poverty, and a hidden culture of homelessness / HV4505 .W26 2010

The Guantánamo effect : exposing the consequences of U.S. detention and interrogation practices / HV6432 .G826 2009

The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror / HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009

Federal law enforcement careers : profiles of 250 high-powered positions and tactics for getting hired / HV8143 .A64 2006

From immigrants to Americans : the rise and fall of fitting in / JV6450 .V54 2009

Immigration / JV6456 .C87 2010

Mexican migration and the U.S. economic crisis : a transnational perspective / JV6471 .M49 2010

Immigrants and modern racism : reproducing inequality / JV6475 .M47 2008

Should the U.S. close its borders? / JV6483 .A74 2010

Migration from the Mexican Mixteca : a transnational community in Oaxaca and California / JV7409.Z6 .S366 2009

Red families v. blue families : legal polarization and the creation of culture / KF505 .C34 2010

The great American university : its rise to preeminence, its indispensable national role, and why it must be protected / LA227.4 .C64 2009

Helping college students find purpose : the campus guide to meaning-making / LA227.4 .N36 2010

No Child Left Behind : past, present, and future / LB2806.22 .H395 2008

The paradoxes of high stakes testing : how they affect students, their parents, teachers, principals, schools, and society / LB3051 .M368 2009

Música norteña : Mexican migrants creating a nation between nations / ML3570.9 .R35 2009

Unnatural wonders : essays from the gap between art and life / N6490 .D242 2005

Bill Viola : hatsu-yume = first dream. N6537.V56 A4 2006

The art of Bill Viola / N6537.V56 A8 2004

Airbrush : the complete studio handbook / NC915.A35 V48 1983

Gerhard Richter / ND588.R48 G47 2009

Supermarket / PL845.R246 S56 2009

Shot by both sides : a novel / PL851.O83 H313 2008

Life, once more : forms of reenactment in contemporary art / PN1584 .L54 2005

Latina/o stars in U.S. eyes : the making and meanings of film and TV stardom / PN1995.9.H47 B45 2009

Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power / PN4874.P8 M67 2010

The angel's game / PQ6668.U49 J8413 2009

The whole island : six decades of Cuban poetry, a bilingual anthology / PQ7384.5.E5 W56 2009

Lady Chatterley's lover / PR6023.A93 L2 2001

The grass is singing / PR6023.E833 G7 2000

The tenderness of wolves / PR6116.E58 T46 2007

Strong medicine / PR9199.3.H3 S7 1984

Metropolitan lovers : the homosexuality of cities / PS169.H65 A37 2009

Book of the dead / PS3553.O692 B65 2007

The life all around me by Ellen Foster / PS3557.I13917 L54 2006

Secret windows : essays and fiction on the craft of writing / PS3561.I483 S44 2000

A gesture life / PS3562.E3347 G4 2000

A lion among men / PS3563.A3535 L56 2008

Son of a witch : a novel / PS3563.A3535 S66 2006

Trespass : a novel / PS 3563 .A7295 T728 2008

Shanghai girls : a novel / PS3569.E3334 S53 2009

A simple plan / PS3569.M5379 S57 1994

A bride most begrudging / PS3607.I55 B75 2005

The girl who played with fire / PT9876.22.A6933 F5713 2009

Itty Bitty / PZ7.B3889 I7 2009

A practical introduction to computer architecture / QA76.9.A73 .P34 2009

Elementary & intermediate algebra / QA152 .S88 2007

The day we found the universe / QB15 .B37 2009

The case for Pluto : how a little planet made a big difference / QB701 .B69 2010

The universe : order without design / QB981 .C345 2009

Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity / QC981.8.C5 H825 2009

Dinosaur odyssey : fossil threads in the web of life / QE861.4 .S26 2009

The biology of caves and other subterranean habitats / QH89 .C85 2009

Plant biology / QK45.2 .P575 2010

California plant families : west of the Sierran crest and deserts / QK149 .K34 2009

Surviving your doctors : why the medical system is dangerous to your health and how to get through it alive / R729.8 .K64 2010

Why our health matters : a vision of medicine that can transform our future / RA395.A3 W443 2009

Universal health care / RA412.2 .C87 2010

Defending the cavewoman : and other tales of evolutionary neurology. RC359 .K578 2000

Food allergies / RC596 .R53 2009

Normal at any cost : tall girls, short boys, and the medical industry's quest to manipulate height / RJ482.G76 C63 2009

Hardy succulents : tough plants for every climate / SB438 .K45 2008

The Media Lab : inventing the future at MIT. T 171 M49 B73 1987

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 : user guide. T385 .A36 2000

Adobe Illustrator CS4 how-tos : 100 essential techniques / T385 .K35234 2009

Should the Internet be free? / TK5105.875.I57 A74 2010

Digital radio production / TK6562.D54 C66 2004

Mapplethorpe : a biography / TR140.M347 M67 1995

Electronic moviemaking. TR850 .G76 2000

The little digital video book : a friendly introduction to home video / TR896 .R83 2009

MEL scripting : a character rig in Maya / TR897.7 .D467 2009

Adobe Premiere 6.0 : user guide. TR899 .A35 2000

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 classroom in a book : the official training workbook from Adobe Systems. TR899 .A36 2009

Premiere Pro CS3 for Windows and Macintosh / TR899 .B6529 2008

Video editing : a postproduction primer. TR899 .B725 1997

The untold war : inside the hearts, minds, and souls of our soldiers / U22.3 .S44 2010

Biological warfare / UG447.8 .O55 2010