Ramsey Library News

Appetite for change : how the counterculture took on the food industry
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways
The international politics of genetically modified food : diplomacy, trade and law
Safe trip to Eden : 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown
Agroecology in action : extending alternative agriculture through social networks
Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Food biotechnology in ethical perspective
Evolution of the human diet : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable
Medieval cuisine of the Islamic world : a concise history with 174 recipes
Curry : a tale of cooks and conquerors
Food in world history
Food in the ancient world
Organic, inc. : natural foods and how they grew
Two for the road : our love affair with American food
Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet
Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power
The hundred-year lie : how food and medicine are destroying your health
The end of food
Alcohol : a social and cultural history
Food, film and culture : a genre study
Crunchy Cons
Voracious children : who eats whom in children's literature
The way we eat : why our food choices matter
Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating
Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food
Food is love : food advertising and gender roles in modern America
Worlds of food : place, power, and provenance in the food chain
Eating in Eden : food and American utopias
Ethical markets : growing the green economy
The revolution will not be microwaved : inside America's underground food movements
Everyone eats : understanding food and culture
The classical cookbook
Manly meals and mom's home cooking : cookbooks and gender in modern America
Eat my words : reading women's lives through the cookbooks they wrote
Recipes for reading: community cookbooks, stories, histories
Cooking the Gullah way, morning, noon, and night
Around the Roman table : with more than 150 original recipes
Fields of plenty : a farmer's journey in search of real food and the people who grow it
A thousand years over a hot stove : a history of American women told through food, recipes, and remembrances
Recipes for reading : community cookbooks, stories, histories (online)
The American cookbook : a history
The women in God's kitchen : cooking, eating, and spiritual writing
Food in colonial and federal America
From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies : critical perspectives on women and food

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Access Historical Statistics of the United States online.

This standard source for the quantitative facts of American history is now available online.

Download, manipulate and customize tables of data on a range of topics, from Asheville population stats from 1930-present to the amount of silk traded between England and the Carolinas in the 1700s.

More info

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IMPROVED ELECTRONIC RESOURCE

The library is very pleased to announce the availability of a new version of Infotrac, long one of our most useful and popular sources for journal articles in all disciplines. The new version, Academic OneFile, has nearly twice the content, indexing Over 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. Covered subject areas include the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. Other features: Persistent urls so you can add an article link to an email or web page (TIP: use the "bookmark" link to do this), Email & RSS search alerts and Direct links to JSTOR & Web of Science content. Read more about it at:

Ramsey Library News
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/mt/2007/09/new_eresource_infotrac_onefile.html

OneFile Web Site
http://gale.cengage.com/pdf/facts/AcademicOneFile.pdf

NEW BOOK ABOUT ASHEVILLE

Helen Wykle, Curator of Special Collections, is very pleased to announce an exciting program!!

EVENT: Nan K. Chase, author Reads from her new book "Asheville: A History"
WHERE: D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections
WHEN: October 22, 2007
TIME: 6:00 p.m.

RECEPTION AND BOOK-SIGNING TO FOLLOW

Nan Chase’s exciting new book published by McFarland & Co., a North Carolina publishing company, uses a substantial number of images from the UNCA Special collections and is one of the first well-researched books to look at Asheville's urban development with a fresh and critical eye. See http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3176-2 and also the recent note regarding her reading at Malaprops, Saturday Oct. 6th. http://www.malaprops.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=358219

For more information, visit the Special Collections web site at:
http://toto.lib.unca.edu/WNC_women/chase_nan_k.htm

NOT THAT ANYONE THOUGHT COMPUTERS MADE THINGS EASIER, BUT . . .

From the 17 August Chronicle of Higher Education ~ “Shakespeare didn't have a word processor, but almost all writers today do. Scholars must play a major role in deciding how to preserve and study the various electronic versions of literary works, writes Matthew Kirschenbaum, an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park.”

“Hamlet.doc? Literature in a Digital Age”
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i50/50b00801.htm

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