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How Millennials Get News | CommPilings

commpilings.asc.upenn.edu Posted on May 26, 2015May 26, 2015 by Sharon Black Posted in Internet/New Media, Journalism, Political Communication Leave a comment 0 Likes How Millennials Get News According to the new study by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press – NO…

DIY phone app development. Tech manuals covering how to learn to program and create an app are online and available to Penn students through Safari Tech Books Online:

Safari Tech Books Online - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/7026

For books about developing apps, look at the category "Mobile Development."

Harvard Business School was created today, April 8, 1908. (The Wharton School was established in 1881.) In honor of HBS, here is a link to the HBR, the Harvard Business Review. You have access to the full archive going all the way back to 1922. Not

Harvard Business Review
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu/record.html?q=harvard%20business%20review&id=FRANKLIN_4179415&

"Finally we can see that the association of pranks with the first of April is logically and psychologically appropriate." - Alan Dundes, 1934-2005, folklorist at University of California at Berkeley.

April Fools! The quote actually appears in an academic article ( #1 below). A quick breeze through April Fools Day scholarship turns up the following:

1) Dundes, Alan. "April Fool and April Fish: Towards a Theory of Ritual Pranks." Etnofoor (1988): 4-14.
https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?&url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/25757645

2) Smith, Moira. "Arbiters of Truth at Play: Media April Fools' Day Hoaxes." Folklore 120.3 (2009): 274-290.
https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?&url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40646531

3) McEntire, Nancy Cassell. "Purposeful deceptions of the April fool." Western Folklore (2002): 133-151.
https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?&url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/1500334

4) "How April Fool Originated and Some Famous Pranks," (Mar 31, 1912). The New York Times.
https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?&url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/97333754?accountid=14707

Journal articles for my paper: yes, please. Magazine articles, fluffy news feature articles, four-sentence blurbs, updates about the Kardashians: no thank you.

When you search, use the checkbox for Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals only. This is a useful option in lots of databases, like the ones listed below!

EBSCO MegaFile - general database http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/14900

Business Source Complete - Business database
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/88405

Film & Television Literature Index - Film & TV database
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/121952

America: History & Life - U.S. History database
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6812

Historical Abstracts - World History database
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6930

CINAHL - Nursing database
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6860

(... and so many more we don't have enough space to list them all!)

Rock's Backpages is "the ultimate online archive of music journalism." Like an IMDB for all the reporting on major forces in popular music of the last 50 years.

Classic articles, interviews, and concert reviews that help document music criticism over the decades, covering rock, pop, electronic, hip hop and rap, metal, folk, country, indie, punk and hardcore, and postpunk, among other genres.

Rock's Backpages [Penn only]
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/114322

This Philadelphia Library Will Lend You Tools

popularmechanics.com It's a warehouse of 4,200 tools for all your DIY borrowing needs

50 Must-Read Social Psychology Books

If you are a Psychology or Business major, maybe you've heard of some of the books on this long list of Social Psychology* must-read titles.

50 Must-Read Social Psychology Books
http://www.sparringmind.com/psychology-books/

If you see something interesting, look it up in Franklin, the Library Catalog:
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu

Not available? Order from BorrowDirect or E-ZBorrow:
https://weblogin.pennkey.upenn.edu/login?factors=UPENN.EDU&cosign-library-accountsvcs-0&https://dla.library.upenn.edu/ils/resourcesharing/

* We'll admit, some of the books in this list are popular psychology and written for entertainment purposes, rather than a scientific or academic audience in mind. Even so, you will find some books here that could have been used as course texts. Enjoy!

sparringmind.com Reading is the supreme “lifehack” — distilled knowledge that often took years to assemble can be consumed in just a few hours. And in all honestly, the more you know about social psychology and human behavior, the better. By reading books related to intensive studies, you are able to essentially “ju…

Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern Web

What happens when you take a 27-year-old Mac and try to go online?

Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern Web
http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/12228/mac-plus-modern-web/?fb=dd&utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange

Imagine researching the early Internet... the History & Sociology of Science Research Guide could help with that:
http://guides.library.upenn.edu/content.php?pid=354839

You could also look at Franklin, the Library Catalog, searching books on Internet history and the history of the company Apple. When looking up the company Apple, it's important to use the subject search here, because otherwise you will end up with results about the history of growing apples:

Franklin - results for subject search Internet -- History:
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu/search.html?filter.subject_facet.val=Internet%20History

Franklin - results for subject search World Wide Web -- History:
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu/search.html?filter.subject_facet.val=World%20Wide%20Web%20History

Franklin - results for subject search Apple Computer Inc. -- History:
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu/search.html?filter.subject_facet.val=Apple%20Computer%2C%20Inc.%20History

kernelmag.dailydot.com Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to bring it forward three decades and introduce it to the modern Web.

Last Friday, March 21 was the Persian New Year. Spelled Nowruz, Nowrooz, Norooz, or Nawrūz depending on who you ask, it marks the first day of spring, which is also the first of the year in the Persian calendar.

More about history and culture in Iran -- and these are just a small number of the online books and resources we have about Iran:

Nawrūz. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World.
https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195305135.001.0001/acref-9780195305135-e-0592

A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008)
Ervand Abrahamian
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229290

Oxford Handbook of Iranian History
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1246890

The Cambridge History of Iran
- Volume 1, Land of Iran - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407784
- Volume 2, Median and Achaemenian periods - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407785
- Volume 3, Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian periods - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407787
- Volume 4, Period from the Arab invasian to the Saljuqs - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407788
- Volume 5, Saljuq and Mongol periods - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407789
- Volume 6, Timurid and Safavid periods - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407790
- Volume 7, From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407791

Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1260780

A Literary History of Persia, vols. 1-4 (Iranbooks, 1997)
Edward Granville Browne
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/490488

Online Persian music - rhythms, Persian classical, and santoor
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu/search.html?filter.subject_facet.val=Music%20Iran&filter.access_facet.val=Online

Iranian films at Van Pelt:
http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/vcat/search.html?fq=country_of_production_facet%3A%22Iran%22%20AND%20format_facet%3A%22DVD%22%20AND%20region_facet%3A%22NTSC%20%28North%20America%29%22

Entry on "Iranian-Americans"
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3405800087&v=2.1&u=upenn_main&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w&asid=528af70a0665dc21ac380ebbd3978ce3

Q: How do I make sure that a journal is legitimately academic?
A: Check to see if it is peer-reviewed. You can see this by looking up the title of a publication in Ulrich's Periodical Directory. There will be an icon of a little referee's jacket, if it is a refereed, or peer-reviewed, publication.
Direct link: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/7201

Planning better study spaces at Penn

pennwic.wordpress.com When it’s time to get work done, the right kind of space can make a real impact on your productivity. We want to know what you think makes a good study space - both for individual and group work. Where do you currently go to study? What works well, and what could be improved? Penn Libraries, College House Computing and SAS Computing are hosting a series of focus groups for students so we can hear your opinions. [ 94 more words. ]

Tired of NetFlix, Hulu, Amazon, iTunes...
Filmakers Library is a database of streaming full-length films we now have access to here at Penn.

Filmakers Library from Alexander Street Press gives you access to documentaries on global, cultural, and social issues.

Filmakers Library - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/123293

Browse the films here:
https://www.academicvideostore.com/publishers/filmakers-library

Browse films by subject:
https://www.academicvideostore.com/browse/subjects

Presenting... Engineering Entrepreneurship: The Research Guide!

Includes everything you need to do research on a specific industry, patents, competitor companies, and to make a business plan, get funding, be up on your news, and even get familiar with well-known execs by reading their bios.

Engineering Entrepreneurship Research Guide
http://guides.library.upenn.edu/EngineeringEntrepreneurship

* Originally created for EAS 545/546, but including resources that are accessible to all of Penn!

Whether or not you are Irish, if you have a PennKey, you have access to full books online that can tell you just about anything about Ireland and Irish culture and history that you may want to know.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Cambridge History of Irish Literature
- Volume 1, to 1890:
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407792
- Volume 2, 1890-2000:
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407793

Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/498736

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/7342

Oxford Companion to Irish History
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/111456

Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1330722

The Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary:
- English-Irish - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/28329
- Irish-English - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/28330
(A full Irish language course from DuoLingo: https://www.duolingo.com/course/ga/en/Learn-Irish-Online)

Textures of Irish America - Lawrence J. McCaffrey, Syracuse University Press, 1992
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/325799

Irish music from Contemporary World Music.. including classic ballads, rebel songs, pub songs, and jigs:
http://bit.ly/1GAFauB

Sadly, Spring Break is now over. That's OK. It's time to take on the world's problems* again. For example, fire ants and killer bees. What are you going to do about fire ants and killer bees?

The Earth & Environmental Studies Research Guide will help you get started:

Earth & Environmental Studies Research Guide
http://guides.library.upenn.edu/ees?hs=a

* Oil spills, nuclear accidents, drought, climate change, soil contamination, plastic gyres in the oceans, destruction of wetlands

Bruce Springsteen’s Reading List: 28 Favorite Books That Shaped His Mind and Music

What's on Springsteen's reading list?

Bios and lists of books about him:

- Encyclopedia of Popular Music
https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/epm/26611

- Grove Music Online
https://proxy.library.upenn.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/4594

brainpickings.org From Montaigne's philosophy to Flannery O'Connor's short stories, literary anatomy of the creative icon.

Have you heard of the massive media monitoring project, the Google-supported "Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone" (GDELT)? Want to search archives of international news?

Our International News Sources guide has links to international media and data, all in one place.

International News Sources and Data - from the Penn Libraries Global Research Guide
http://guides.library.upenn.edu/content.php?pid=538347&sid=4456777

Are these excellent people related to you?

There's one way to find out. A database that is used for both serious history research and personal family history research is Ancestry.com. If you're exploring family history: census schedules, records of birth, death, marriage, military service, and more...

If you're a Penn student, faculty or staff member, you have access and can explore it here:

Ancestry.com (Library Edition)
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/50298

Van Pelt is staying open through the afternoon, and will close at 5pm today due to snow.

The Rosengarten Undergraduate Study Center, on the Ground Floor of Van Pelt, will remain open for evening and late-night study.

Not a Computer Science major, but want to learn more about what's going on in Information Technology?

Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science could be a good place to start: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/25475 [Penn only]

SYNTHESIS is a digital library of 50- to 100-page electronic books that synthesize important research. Notes from many key areas of Computer Science. Among the series available: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Computer Architecture, and Mobile and Pervasive Computing. For the researcher, it provides an ideal introduction to new fields. For those of you in SEAS, it can keep you current on developments in research at university, corporate, and government labs.

Company background info, industry research, and investment reports for your paper, project, or job/internship search:

Lippincott Library's Finance Research Guide: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/finance

Wall Street Journal's Spring Break Reading List...
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/02/23/top-16-books-on-wall-streets-spring-break-reading-list/

Do a quick look-up in Franklin, the Penn Libraries Catalog:
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu

Already checked out? So new that we don't have it on the shelf yet? Order it through EZ-Borrow or BorrowDirect:
http://webdoc.library.upenn.edu/

Pictured:
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes - order through EZ-Borrow: http://bit.ly/1DKiJmi
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara - in Van Pelt: http://bit.ly/1EanbvU
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - order through EZ-Borrow: http://bit.ly/1DKiJmi
In the Kingdom of Ice: the Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the U.S.S. Jeannette by Hampton Sides - in Van Pelt: http://bit.ly/1BPErIf
Zero to One by Peter Thiel - order through EZ-Borrow: http://bit.ly/1DKiJmi
Red Notice by Bill Browder - order through EZ-Borrow: http://bit.ly/1DKiJmi

The New York Times: *free* to Penn students,faculty and staff. The full, searchable archive, going all the way back to the 19th century.

Here are the links to all your options for viewing NYT content:
http://faq.library.upenn.edu/recordDetail?id=709&action=&library=all&institution=Penn

Apps and software to use to keep track of articles and books sources: RefWorks, Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and Papers. What are the differences?

See the Citation Management Tools guide: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/citationmgmt

Largest World Religions

How many world religions can you name?

http://www.sporcle.com/games/g/popularreligions

If you are studying or writing about religious traditions, these online reference works are available through Penn:

Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/7376

Encyclopaedia Judaica
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/26189

Encyclopedia of the Bible and its reception (EBR)
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/88432

Encyclopedia of the Qu'ran
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/26178

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/77973

Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1262817

Oxford Bibliographies
- Biblical Studies
http://bit.ly/1wheDlY
- Buddhism
http://bit.ly/1Dfszwg
- Hinduism
http://bit.ly/1a7fs6M
- Islamic Studies
http://bit.ly/18glKk0
- Jewish Studies
http://bit.ly/1ADgQGS

sporcle.com Can you name the largest world religions?

One of the best places to search for International Public Health literature: the database Global Health.

Global Health
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/14614 [Penn only]

Another resource that has historical overviews of specific diseases, and how people have dealt with them over time is The Cambridge World History of Human Disease:

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/407881 [Penn only]

World History. All civilizations, and across any period of time. Ancient, medieval, or modern. You have access to these e-books that cover it all...

Cambridge Histories Online:
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/58590 [Penn only]

The best is, unlike Wikipedia which is usually off-limits, you can use and cite these Cambridge Histories as sources in your papers.

Pictures in the collage, from upper left and clockwise:
Porcelain figure of ancient Chinese priest; an illustration of Mansa Musa, the king of kings of the Mali Empire, ~1280-~1337, as depicted in the 1375 Catalan Atlas; a painting of Iranian female musicians from Hasht-Behesht Plalce in Isfahan, Iran; an ancient Japanese figure of a haniwa (埴輪), a funerary object; a portrait of Empress Xiaoxianchun (孝贤纯皇后), wife of Emperor Qianlong (乾隆帝); Selim I, ~1470-1520, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire who conquered Egypt; Ranavalona I, Queen of the Kingdom of Madagascar from 1828-1861; Jahangir, the Mughal Emperor, 1569-1627.

Language Quiz: Are You on Fleek?

Q: Is 'yolo' in the Oxford English Dictionary? (Answer below.)

You have access to the full Oxford English Dictionary online. When it comes to the history of words, the OED is completely unlike any dictionary you've seen. Just type OED into Franklin, the Penn Libraries Catalog, to get access [Penn only], or here's a direct link: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/7110

A: No, yolo has not yet arrived. It is not in the OED. Although you can see that the word yellow, at one point in time, could have been been written as yolowe, yolgh, yeolu, or yallow.
http://bit.ly/17rmGkk

To test your fluency of other Internet-derived words, here is a quiz:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/22/upshot/internet-language-quiz.html

nytimes.com Yolo. Rekt. Bae. Xans. Lordt. How well do you know your Internet slang?

Tired of "Best of" lists that are too short and full of the same books everyone else is reading? Here is a better Best List for you:

The Long, Long List for the 2015 Tournament of Books
http://www.themorningnews.org/post/the-long-long-list-for-the-2015-tournament-of-books

The Morning News, an online magazine that hosts an annual "Tournament of Books" each March, has released their lists of the best fiction of 2014. Their "Long, Long List" includes 62 books, some by fairly well-known writers, and others who may be new to you.

You can check to see if any of these books are available using Franklin, the Penn Libraries Catalog:
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu

If the book you want is checked out, request it using EZ-Borrow or BorrowDirect:
http://webdoc.library.upenn.edu/

大展鴻圖! Happy New Year from Van Pelt!

The libraries give you access to articles, news, books, film, but did you also know you have access to streaming music?

Naxos Music Library even has Chinese New Year music - hear the Lion Dance!
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1282805

Naxos Music Library (front page)
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/13716

Smithsonian Global Sound and Contemporary World Music are two more music databases that have Chinese music: classical, Chinese opera, vocal music, and folk songs:

Smithsonian Global Sound
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/15321

Contemporary World Music
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/72539

吉慶有餘!

CC Search

Let's say you're looking for images -- clarification, legal images -- to use in presentations, papers, Tumblr, a website...

A good place to search is the Creative Commons, or CC Search engine. It combs Flickr, Google Images, and Wikipedia Commons for images you can use outright or modify.

http://search.creativecommons.org/

search.creativecommons.org Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

If Valentine's isn't your thing, then let's get academic about what's real about Valentine's, with resources straight out of Van Pelt...

A Dictionary of English Folklore, which has the scariest book cover ever (but is available online), explains the custom of Valentine's Day: http://bit.ly/1FEgEsq

The academic literature in Psychology about relationships, perhaps a balance of the real and the scary, including legitimate studies on attraction and relationship initiation, is summed up here: http://bit.ly/1A1seMp

Here's is a handbook on relationships that receives mention in the entry on "Relationships" in the Oxford Bibliographies Online - Psychology (http://bit.ly/16ZSCMm) -- it's available in print in Van Pelt:

Vangelisti, Anita L., and Daniel Perlman, eds. 2006. The Cambridge handbook of personal relationships. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Link from Library Catalog: http://bit.ly/1vov1el

American Historical Association Announces the 2014 Prize Winners

Prize-winning and exceptional books in History from 2014: "the best of work in the discipline" from the American Historical Association. http://blog.historians.org/2014/10/american-historical-association-announces-2014-prize-winners/

The titles in featured in the attached image (which can be requested through BorrowDirect or EZ-Borrow, if they are currently checked out or on reserve):

- Trevor R. Getz and illustrator Liz Clarke, Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History (Oxford University Press, 2012)

- Daniela Bleichmar, Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

- Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: S*x and the American GI in World War II France (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

- Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2013)

- Charles K. Armstrong, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950–1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013)

- Deborah Cohen, Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2013)

- Michele Landis Dauber, The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

- Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple’s Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press, 2013)

- Sunil S. Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Harvard University Press, 2013)

blog.historians.org The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2014 prizes, to be awarded at the 129th Annual Meeting in New York, January 2-5, 2015.

Composer or Kanye?

Who said it, Kanye West or a classical composer? This is strangely difficult:
http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music/composer-or-kanye/

Try out these music reference sources for more background on certain composers (authoritative and vetted info, with references, of course):

Oxford Music Online - http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/6929
Contains the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., one of the largest reference works on Western music. Even includes a Kanye bio from the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (though no quotes): http://bit.ly/1CjufEE

Oxford Bibliographies in Music - http://bit.ly/16YZnOx
Overviews of topics in Music

Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (8th ed.) - http://bit.ly/1zaXS7C
Look up Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, or non-musicians. A good source for quotations to work into your class presentations or paper writing

More music reference works, databases, and streaming audio and video is available from the Music Library homepage: http://www.library.upenn.edu/music/

classicfm.com Who said it, Kanye West or a classical composer?

You can use the subject headings you find, as you use Franklin, the library catalog, to improve your search. Search by Subject Heading Keyword. For example, here's a search on all books about "Negotiation in Business": http://bit.ly/1zHvRrV

Franklin, the Library Catalog
http://franklin.library.upenn.edu

Looking for something to read over break? Want to read while you travel, but didn’t have time to get a book before you left campus? If you have your phone, iPad, or laptop, you’re in luck!

Here are 15 titles, fiction and non-fiction, from eDuke Scholarly Collections, which include e-books about Cuba, eBay and its community of users, filmmaking, the U.S. Supreme Court, Koreans living under Japanese rule, Tibet and the CIA, contemporary India, and a critique of the pharmaceutical industry. Happy holidays and happy reading!

Top Recent e-Books from eDuke – 15 Recommendations:

1. The Initials of the Earth by Jesús Díaz
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/368653
Considered by many the quintessential novel of the Cuban Revolution, this is the first book by the Cuban writer and filmmaker Jesús Díaz (1941-2002) to appear in English.

2. Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay
By Michele White
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1224363
In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule systems, and advertisements "configure the user," allowing eBay to indicate how the site is supposed to function while concurrently upholding and promoting particular social values, practices, and norms.

3. D-Passage: The Digital Way
By Trinh T. Minh-ha
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1322423
The world-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha discusses the potentials and impact of new technology on cinema culture and explores its effects on creative practice.

4. A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court
By Stephen Wermiel, Aaron Epstein, Kay Kindred, Tony Mauro, and David Savage
Edited by Rodney A. Smolla
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/368362
Despite its importance to the life of the nation and all its citizens, the Supreme Court remains a mystery to most Americans, its workings widely felt but rarely seen firsthand. In this book, journalists who cover the Court—acting as the eyes and ears of not just the American people, but the Constitution itself—give us a rare close look into its proceedings, the people behind them, and the complex, often fascinating ways in which justice is ultimately served. Their narratives form an intimate account of a year in the life of the Supreme Court.

5. Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels
By Katsuei Yuasa
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/368151
Translation of two novels written in the 1930s by Korean-born Yuasa Katsuei, who realistically depicted the lives of Koreans under Japanese colonial rule.

6. Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century
Edited by Lydia Chavez
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/368508
Focuses on the extensive changes that have taken place in Cuba since 1993, when Castro legalized the dollar, with essays including transformations in the economy, religious life, the literary world, ballet, and hip hop.

7. Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans
Edited by Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/368681
A collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans.

8. Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War
By Carole McGranahan
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/577244
Argues that some histories, including Tibetans armed resistance against the Chinese, are arrested, deliberately left untold until some future moment when changed circumstances favor their telling.

9. The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture
By Joseph Litvak
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/577099
Cultural study of Cold War film and theater that considers how Jewish assimilation into American culture during the blacklist period was characterized by a demand to be a stoolpigeon, or to become an informer.

10. Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat
By Tony Allen and Michael E. Veal
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1271859
Tony Allen is the autobiography of legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, the rhythmic engine of Fela Kuti's Afrobeat.

11. Nobody Does the Right Thing: A Novel
By Amitava Kumar
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/577161
A novel packed with telling details and anecdotes about life in contemporary India, set in the rural villages of Bihar and the metropolises of Bombay and Delhi.

12. Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968
By Kevin Heffernan
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/367896
The history of horror films and the horror film industry in the 1950s and 1960s.

13. Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It
By Steven Laurence Kaplan
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/368738
Leading French bread expert Steven Laurence Kaplan narrates the decline and rise of the French artisanal breadmaking tradition, explaining in detail the breadmaking process and the ideal characteristics of good bread.

14. Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
By Kali N. Gross
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/368511
This study of black women criminals suggests that we might understand more clearly the constructions of virtue, deviance, race, and gender by reading the crimes of women in the context of their lives and their historical moment.

15. Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
By Joseph Dumit
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1224341
Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment.

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