Please enjoy some of the New Books and the Services the Library is offering this month

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OCTOBER Newsletter

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Please enjoy some of the New Books and the Services the Library is offering this month.

What you can find this month!

NON-FICTION	FICTION	RESOURCE
BLOG POST	EVENT	SPOTLIGHT

NON-FICTION

Professor Stewart's incredible numbers

Stewart, Ian

The man who wasn't there : investigations into the strange new science of the self

Ananthaswamy, Anil

The age of sustainable development

Sachs, Jeffrey

The curious Mister Catesby : a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds

The narrow edge: a tiny bird, an ancient crab, and an epic journey

Cramer, Deborah

The soul of an octopus : a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness

Montgomery, Sy

Cubism : the Leonard A. Lauder Collection

STEM the tide : reforming science, technology, engineering, and math education in America

AUTHOR

The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

Sheinkin, Steve

Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex

Hiltzik, Michael A

Plankton: wonders of the drifting world

Sardet, Christian

The tale of the dueling neurosurgeons: the history of the human brain as revealed by true stories of trauma, madness, and recovery

Kean, Sam

FICTION

Me and Earl and the dying girl

Andrews, Jesse

Daredevil: Miller and Janson Volume 1

Miller, Frank

LIBRARY RESOURCE

Signing Up for a SWAN Account

Did you know you can order books and movies from other Libraries or put holds on books that are not out yet using the SWAN Catalog? Check out this article to find out how you set up your account.

BLOG POST

5 ways to tell if an article is Scholarly (or Peer-reviewed … or Academic)

Want your studets to be better at determining what a Scholarly or Peer Reviewed Source is? Have them read through the library guide to knowing what a Peer Reviewed article is.

LIBRARY EVENT

One Book One Community: Faculty Lecture Submissions

If you have interest in being a lecturer for the One Book One Community program, contact Matt Steele with a working title of the lecture, and a brief paragraph summary of what you would like to discuss.

Lectures will occur towards the end of November. Each lecture come with a $125 stipend.