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 22, 2010
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
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