New Materials for April

April is National Poetry Month. Celebrate by checking out one of our many poetry books, such as Like a fat gold watch: meditations on Sylvia Plath and living or Martin rising: requiem for a King. Excited for baseball season AND interested in science? Try picking up The physics of baseball. Film students: would you like advice from a successful director, producer, screenwriter, and composer? Check out Live cinema and its techniques by Francis Ford Coppola. See below for more offerings.

The new materials display is located behind the reference desk and everything is available for check-out.

Featured DVD’s:

Featured Books:

Science and Technology

• The physics of baseball

Humanities

• Like a fat gold watch: meditations on Sylvia Plath and living
• Hamlet on the couch: what Shakespeare taught Freud

Business and Economics

• The millennial millionaire: how young entrepreneurs turn dreams into business
• Branding yourself: how to use social media to invent or reinvent yourself

Film/TV

• Live cinema and its techniques
• Boyhood: a young life on screen

Education

• Nothing rhymes with Orange: a children’s history of Orange County
• Martin rising: requiem for a King
• Becoming Kareem: growing up on and off the court
• Between the lines: how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery

Music

• Scholarly research for musicians
• Sicilienne, op. 78: for clarinet in B-flat and piano

Fine Arts

• Cartoons in hard times: the animated shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in depression and war 1932-1945
• A man & his watch: iconic watches & stories from men who wore them

Social Science

• Lady of the dance: the choreographer who helped Michael Flatley conquer the world
• Rethinking gender in popular culture in the 21st century: Marlboro men and California gurls