Library Closed Friday, February 28

The Library will be closed on Friday, February 28 for staff training.

New Books List

Looking for something to read?   Here is the latest new bookshttp://www.century.edu/files/library/newbooksjanuary.pdf list! Go to http://www.century.edu/library/whatsnew.aspx and click on "New Books, January 2014".

Films on Demand Adds New Titles

Here are the titles added in February to our Films on Demand database.  To get to Films on Demand, go to the Articles, Databases, and More tab on the library's home page, choose the Databases A-Z link, and select Films on Demand.

1960-1964: Poisoned Dreams

A Change of Key

A Conversation on Race: Black, White, or Other?

A Family Affair

A Home Far Away

A Journey Back: From Rape to Healing

A Leap of Faith

A Vision for the Future: Species Protection in Africa—The African Game

Access to the Danger Zone

Advanced Swordplay for Stage and Screen: Multiple Weapons & Opponents—Super Swordfighting Series

Africa Come Back: The Popular Music of West Africa

After Photography? Photo

Agitating for Change: The Alliance Schools Initiative

Alexandra David-Neel: One Woman's Journey

Alice Walker: Possessing the Secret of Joy

Allen Ginsberg

Alternative and Charter Schools: Educating Outside the Box

Alvar Aalto: Technology and Nature

Alyaa: The Naked Revolutionary

America: What Went Wrong? (Part One)

Another Night on Earth

Attachment Theory

Bartok, Shostakovich, Lutoslawski: Three Journeys Through Dark Landscapes

Beginners Swordplay for Stage and Screen: Super Swordfighting Series

Between Friends and Family

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas

Blessed Deception

Blue Ghosts: Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

Blueprint Fundamentals: Interpreting Symbols and Specs

Breaking the Silence: Women's Reproductive Rights in Central and Eastern Europe

Budget Overview: Independent Movie Making—On Budget, On Schedule

Budget Review Pre-Production: Independent Movie Making—On Budget, On Schedule

Building Relationships: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Bullying and Suicide: Think About It

Buzzfeed: King of the Internet

Calculating Pi

Call and Promise

Careers in Technology

Caribbean Crucible

Children and Divorce: Children Teaching Children About Divorce

Chilean Mine Rescue: The Unstoppable Team-A Case Study in Group Decision Making

China's Nuclear Bomb

Chinua Achebe: African Literature as Celebration

Cluny: A Light in the Night

Color

Composing

Computer Peripherals

Computers at Work

Conceptual Photography: Photo

Conjugacy and Fixed Points

Crime Tech: New Tools for Law Enforcement

Crimes Against Nature: The Exotic Trade

Crops of the Future

Cultural Studies and the Scholarship of Journalism: James W. Carey—Media Researchers Series, with Cindy Lont and Susan Kehoe

Curtain of Water: Understanding the U.S. Trade Embargo Against Cuba (in Spanish)

Dancing Girls: Life in China's Fast Lane—China from Within

De-cluttering the Office: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Development Communication and Communication Technology: Everett M. Rogers—Media Researchers Series, with Cindy Lont and Susan Kehoe

Dignity Harbor

Dizzy Gillespie: Bop and a Bent Trumpet

Dreams: Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture

Earthshaker: The Sam LaBudde Story

Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

Effective Schools

Ella Fitzgerald: The Singer, Not the Song

Ellsworth Kelly and Jasper Johns: Modern Masters?

Embracing New Ideas: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

English: The Standard Deviants(r) Core Curriculum

Ennio Morricone: The Man Behind the Music

Ensembles in Performance

Ensuring a Respectful Workplace: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Eradicating Eden: Eco-Colonialism in Africa—The African Game

Ernesto Cardenal: "Cantico Cosmico"

Essential Automotive Tasks, Volume 1

Essential Automotive Tasks, Volume 2

Essential Automotive Tasks, Volume 3

Exile

Facing Hate

Facing Social Media: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Factors Affecting Global Tourism

Financial Innovation: A Risky Business?

Finding Your Purpose

Fog and Friction: Media Impact on Battle Chaos

Following a Score

Foreign Markets and the U.S. Economy

Found Images: Photo

France: Cheeses of the Alps--Cheese Slices (Series 3)

France: Soft Washed Rind Cheeses--Cheese Slices (Series 3)

France: Traditional Cultured Butter--Cheese Slices (Series 6)

Freya

Generations: American Women Win the Vote

Giving Hygiene Feedback: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Giving Managers Feedback: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Global Civics: Social Ethics in an Interdependent World

God Wrestling

Gorillas on the Edge

Graduate Interview Skills

Great Expectations: French Intellectuals in the 20th Century

Guardians of the Lagoon: Tales from Belize

Haiti: Year Zero

Hardy's Wessex

Heidegger and Modern Existentialism

Henry IV and Henry V: The Salic Empire Besieged

Hidden Treasures of African Art

Hidden Treasures of Australian Art

Hidden Treasures of Indian Art

How Computers Operate

Hunting the Anthrax Killer: History’s Secrets

I Am the River: Maori Heritage on the Auction Block

If the Shoe Fits

Imagining the Pacific: Global Trade and Geopolitics

In God's Image

In Touch with Nature: Saving Africa’s Game Reserves—The African Game

Intermediate Swordplay for Stage and Screen: Tricks & Terror—Super Swordfighting Series

Invasion of the Giant Tortoises

Inversive Geometry

Iran: The Hundred-Year War

Jan Vermeer

John Updike: In His Own Words

Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent

Juries on Trial

Keepers of the Koalas

Landscapes: The Sculpture Diaries

Last Journey for the Leatherback?

Leaders: The Sculpture Diaries

Learning to Hate

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci: The Restoration of the Century

Listening Actively: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Living with Nature: The Problem with Elephants—The African Game

Looking at Equations

Making Connections: Understanding the Convergence of Phones, TV, Cable, and Computers

Making Government Work

Making Our Neighborhoods Safe

Maneuverability Made Easy

Maps

MAR: Marine Animal Rescue

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride

Media Manipulation: New Game for Big Business

Mehboob and the Garland of Math

Mermaids of the Mangroves: Tales from Belize

Middletown: Continuity or Change?

Miro: The Catalan Master

Miro: The Catalan Master—In Spanish

Moyers & Company: A New Case for Gun Control

Moyers & Company: America’s Drone Wars

Moyers & Company: Being Alone Together

Moyers & Company: Gunfighter Nation

Moyers & Company: How Dollarocracy Is Destroying America

Moyers & Company: Incarceration Nation

Moyers & Company: Inequality for All

Moyers & Company: Progressives Pick Up the Pieces

Moyers & Company: Saving the Earth from Ourselves

Moyers & Company: Shores of Knowledge

Moyers & Company: The Collision of Sports and Politics

Moyers & Company: The Path of Positive Resistance

Moyers & Company: The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About

Moyers & Company: Wendell Berry, Poet and Prophet

Moyers & Company: Why Wall Street May Be Getting Off Easy

Music Today

Nasseredin Shah and His 84 Wives

New Vision: Experimental Photography of the 1920s—Photo

No Turning Back: Part 2—The Gulf War

Not in My Backyard

On Earth As It Is in Heaven

On Parenting

On the Battlefield: Gospel Quartets

Opera: Words and Music

Oren Lyons the Faithkeeper

Pablo Picasso

Paradise in Peril: Tales from Belize

Pathways to Success: Making the Transition from School to Work

Paul Cezanne: A Life in Provence

Peter Ackroyd's Charles Dickens

Philosophy: The Social Context

Photographing Intimacy: Photo

Pi and e

Pictorialism: Photo

Pity the Pilot Whale

Planning and Organizing: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Playing God: Active Environmental Management—The African Game

Political Communication and Mass Communication: Steven H. Chaffee—Media Researchers Series, with Cindy Lont and Susan Kehoe

Politics, People, and Pollution

Pop Goes Islam

Post-War Music: After the Wake

Power: Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture

Press Usage: Photo

R. K. Narayan: India's Chekhov

Raphael: Hidden Lives of Works of Art

Ratings vs. Journalism: Going Live with Breaking News

Raw Visions: Art of Survival

Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From

Reading Ireland: Contemporary Irish Writers in the Context of Place

Rebuilding Communities

Reflecting on Conics

Religion and the Media

Religion in the New Age

Remembering Fred Friendly: Changing the Face of TV News

ReSisters: Women in Movement

River on the Edge: Tales from Belize

Roots and Wings: A Jewish Congregation

Safety On Set: Crew Safety Procedures in Film and Video Production

Salman Rushdie

Science for Future World Leaders: EMP Bomb

Set Over Nations: Saints and Sinners—The History of the Popes

Seymour Melman: Peace Dividend

Sit Down and Listen: The Story of Max Roach

Social Climbing: Who's Aping Who?

Solving for X: A Quantitative Approach to Human Rights Data

Special Advice on Student Disclosure and Keep Me Safe

Staged Photography: Photo

Stalin and Hitler: Appeasement Leads to War

Stalin and Hitler: Strange Bedfellows

Stalin and Hitler: The Confrontation

Staying Motivated at Work: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Stop Advertising to Help Your Business

Successful Teamwork in Filmmaking: Making It in Hollywood—The Directors Series

Supervising Effectively: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Supporting Others: Cutting Edge Communications Comedy Series

Surrealist Photography: Photo

Surviving Being Laid Off

Swimming with Sharks: Tales from Belize

Symmetry Counts

Syrian Diaries: Women of the Uprising

Taking Note

Temptation

The Abraham File

The American Pragmatists: C. S. Peirce, William James, and John Dewey

The Building of Bath

The Call of the Wild

The Digital Dump: Exporting Reuse and Abuse to Africa

The Eagle Has Landed: Saving America's National Bird

The Endangered Teacher

The Farallon Islands: Past, Present, and Future

The First Murder

The Future of Destiny: The Future Of… (Series 2)

The Good Society: Atlanta

The Good Society: Los Angeles

The Great Indian Railway: Part 2

The Great Invasion

The Great Seal of Hawaii: Endangered Monk Seals

The Hold-Up: An Editing Exercise with Roger Ebert

The Inventors: Photo

The Jew of Malta

The Legacy of the Mexican Revolution

The Lithium Revolution: Unlocking Bolivia’s Lithium Wealth

The Men's Movement

The Netherlands: Cheese Slices (Series 3)

The New German Objectivity: Photo

The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors-Episode 1

The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors-Episode 2

The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors-Episode 3

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Presidency: A Personal Perspective

The Presidency: Hail to the Chief?

The Primitives of Photography, 1850-1860: Photo

The Promised Land: Threats to Elephant Sanctuaries—The African Game

The Rise of the Television Talk Show

The Science of Staying Young: Unlocking the Secrets of Longevity

The Secret Life of Alban Berg

The Secret Mecca

The Self-Made Society

The Spiritual Quest of Generation X

The Test

The Troubles in Northern Ireland

The Underground Railroad: Searching for Roots

The Values Issue and American Politics: Values Matter Most

The View from Within: The Reality of Consciousness—The Real Thing

Theater Sound and System: Your Sound—The Art of Mixing Live Entertainment

Thelonious Monk: Playful Keys

Theory and Practice

Third Parties in American Politics

Twilight Cameraman: The Remarkable Craft of Optical Printing

Two Views on Feminism

Ulithi Marine Turtle Project

Unamuno: Abel Sanchez

Under Fire: Journalists in Combat

Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil

Up in Smoke: Can Slash-and-Burn Agriculture Be Replaced?

Video Principles and Practices: Editing Aesthetics

Violence and Television: George Gerbner—Media Researchers Series, with Cindy Lont and Susan Kehoe

What Price the Drug War?

Whatever Happened to George Washington?

Who Owns Our Government?

Wind of Change

Wisconsin, USA: Cheese Slices (Series 4)

Witness: The Ecological Poetry of W. S. Merwin

Women: The Sculpture Diaries

World Sikhism Today

Wynton Marsalis: All That Jazz

Thursday, Feb. 20, Library Closed at 4 pm

Due to severe weather, the library closed at 4 pm today.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

Just in Time for Valentine's Day: Your Favorite Romantic Novels

We've put our portable whiteboard to good use this week.  Students, staff, and faculty have been sharing the titles of their favorite romantic novels.  If you want to enhance your Valentine's Day, check out these titles:

We even got some movie titles.  Up or Pretty Woman, anyone?  If these don't tickle your fancy, take a look at our display case that has even more titles.