Ramsey Library News

The new Americans : a guide to immigration since 1965
Immigrant America : a portrait
Hispanic Americans
Illegal immigration : a reference handbook
Immigration and American popular culture : an introduction
Immigration and crime : race, ethnicity, and violence
Immigration and asylum : from 1900 to the present
U.S. immigration : a reference handbook

online:
DHS: Immigration Statistics
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
NPR: The Immigration Debate
PBS: The New Americans
PBS: Destination America

Posted by Brandy at 04:50 PM | Permalink

Held upstairs in our Special Collections department are copies of Bluets, an unusually rich student literary magazine published between 1929 and 1962 by UNC Asheville's predecessor institutions Biltmore College and Asheville-Biltmore College. Wilma Dykeman, Biltmore College student and Bluets' most famous contributor, was honored recently by the NC Arts Council. Read her contributions to the following issues of Bluets online: January 1937, May 1937, January 1938, May1938 View the 2007 Wilma Dykeman Memorial Edition (PDF)

Posted by Brandy at 01:30 PM | Permalink

In the penultimate episode of HBO's The Sopranos, Dr. Melfi was called out by a colleague who'd Googled Stanton Samenow and Samuel Yochelson's research on psychotherapy and criminality. You can find their book, The Criminal Personality, in the library and search JSTOR and other library databases for critiques of their work.

also in the library:

The Sopranos on the couch : analyzing television's greatest series
Reading the Sopranos : hit TV from HBO
The Sopranos and philosophy : I kill therefore I am

online:
More on the mental health community's response to the final episodes.

Posted by Brandy at 11:54 AM | Permalink

NEW READINGS:

Black fathers : an invisible presence in America
My father's keeper : the story of a gay son and his aging parents
Where men hide
Scripting the Black masculine body : identity, discourse, and racial politics in popular media
Exposing men
Manly arts : masculinity and nation in early American cinema
Action figures : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives
Country boys : masculinity and rural life
Cultures of masculinity
Islamic masculinities
Transforming masculinities : men, cultures, bodies, power, sex and love
The myth of work-life balance : the challenge of our time for men, women and societies
Young men and masculinities : global cultures and intimate lives

Online:
Fatherhood Statistics from the US Census Bureau
Google Scholar: Fatherhood
Scholarly journal articles on fatherhood in North Carolina

Posted by Brandy at 10:29 AM | Permalink

The TedTalks conference series is invitation-only, but the videos are available online for anyone to watch or download. Browse the hundreds of talks by discipline (technology, entertainment, design, business, science, culture, arts, & global issues) or choose from some of the most interesting linked below.

>> Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
>> Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
>> Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
>> Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet
>> Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
>> Stewart Brand on squatter cities
>> Stefan Sagmeister on happy design
>> Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
>> Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
>> Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
>> Al Gore on averting climate crisis
>> Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
>> Bob Thurman on Buddha & the internet
>> Seth Godin on sliced bread
>> Michael Shermer on believing strange things
>> Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
>> Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
>> Filmmaker/Artist Gregory Colbert on "Ashes and Snow"
>> James Watson on how he discovered DNA
>> Phil Borges on endangered cultures
>> Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes

Posted by Brandy at 10:04 AM | Permalink

An animated film by Sasha Hussey, MMAS Student and Video Production intern for AET, is being featured on UNC-TV's North Carolina Visions.

Posted by Brandy at 04:52 PM | Permalink

Our regular summer schedule begins Tuesday.

Monday - Thursday
8 am - 9 pm
Friday
8 am - 6 pm
Saturday
CLOSED
Sunday
1 pm - 9 pm

more hours info

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