LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 120 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 140 full-text monographs and books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
In light of recent news from Cuba, you may be interested in checking out the excellent PBS biographical film, Fidel Castro. Thanks to the partnership between PBS & NCLive that we announced last month, we now have access to it and many other PBS documentaries online. You can also check out the DVD from our media collection.
More new readings on Cuba and Castro:
From civil rights to human rights : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for economic justice
At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 / Taylor Branch
Social solutions to poverty : America's struggle to build a just society
The Civil Rights movement in American memory
Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965
The spirit and the shotgun : armed resistance and the struggle for civil rights
Christianity and human rights : influences and issues
Religion, terrorism and globalization : nonviolence : a new agenda
Gandhi and beyond : nonviolence for an age of terrorism
The dream long deferred : the landmark struggle for desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina
Dreams of peace and freedom : utopian moments in the twentieth century
Many minds, one heart : SNCC's dream for a new America
Challenging U.S. apartheid : Atlanta and Black struggles for human rights, 1960-1977
Frontiers of justice : disability, nationality, species membership
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
Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing
Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing : engineering and the technical sciences
How to write a lot : a practical guide to productive academic writing
How to do a research project : a guide for undergraduate students
Writing history essays : a student's guide
Writing to teach; writing to learn in higher education
Good essay writing : a social sciences guide
Engaged writers and dynamic disciplines : research on the academic writing life
Visual research methods : image, society, and representation
The sociology student writer's manual
Researching and writing : a portable guide
See also:
EndNote Web Tutorials
Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy
The architecture of happiness
A brief history of happiness
Renewing American culture : the pursuit of happiness
Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications
The nature of happiness
Happiness: a history
Happiness: lessons from a new science
Happiness: the science behind your smile
Happiness : personhood, community, purpose
Journal of Happiness Studies
Plato on pleasure and the good life
The art of happiness at work
The psychology of happiness
Happiness and benevolence
The science of happiness : how our brains make us happy--and what we can do to get happier
The happiness hypothesis : finding modern truth in ancient wisdom
Stumbling on happiness
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online:
The Happiness Formula (BBC)
World Database of Happiness
"Pleasure" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
"Is Happiness All in Your Head" (Talk of the Nation)
New subscription databases available:
SPORTDiscus. 1800-present. Covers sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, disabled persons, facility design & management, health, health education, physical therapy, nutrition, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.
Wiley Interscience. Journals covering business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environment, education, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials, psychology, and social science.
America against the world : how we are different and why we are disliked
The shape of things to come : prophecy and the American voice
Windows on nature : the great habitat dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History
The arrogance of American power : what U.S. leaders are doing wrong and why it's our duty to dissent
Dark ages America : the final phase of empire
Philosophy Americana : making philosophy at home in American culture
Who are we? : the challenges to America's identity
Light and liberty : reflections on the pursuit of happiness
The European dream : how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream
Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications
The old, weird America : the world of Bob Dylan's basement tapes
Americans and their land : the house built on abundance
Making America work
What matters in America : reading and writing about contemporary culture
online:
FedStats: U.S. government agency statistics portal
American FactFinder
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
The OECD Factbook
The World Factbook (CIA)
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
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
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
also in our collection:
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures
Islam and human rights : tradition and politics
Women shaping Islam : reading the Quran in Indonesia
Basic principles of the Islamic worldview
Islam in the world
Jihad in Islamic history : doctrines and practice
Islam and the abolition of slavery
Mecca and Main Street : Muslim life in America after 9/11
Islam obscured : the rhetoric of anthropological representation
The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
on the web:
Muslims (PBS)
Religion & Ethics -- Islam (BBC News)
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other (Pew Global Attitudes Project)
Folkstreams.net is a national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. Offers free, high quality streaming video.
Check out films on Appalachian or African American culture or browse films by subject.
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