New E-Books Available for Februrary

Welcome to the spring semester! One of the new e-books available at the Leatherby Libraries includes the title Introduction to Positive Media Psychology. Chapman University Communication Studies professor Dr. Sophie Janicke-Bowles is co-author of this book, which “summarizes and synthesizes the key concepts, theories, and empirical findings on the positive emotional, cognitive, and behavioral effects of media use.”

Take a look at other featured books for February:

• Allies and obstacles : disability activism and parents of children with disabilities
• A companion to Australian cinema
• The pedagogy of pathologization : dis/abled girls of color in the school-prison nexus
• Distant strangers : how Britain became modern
• Diagnosis for physical therapists : a symptom-based approach
• Fresh fruit, broken bodies : migrant farmworkers in the United States
• What really happened in the Garden of Eden?
• Unequal childhoods : class, race, and family life
• A history of horror
• The myth of the addicted army : Vietnam and the modern war on drugs
• Coming of age in Second Life : an anthropologist explores the virtually human
• Hollywood independents : the postwar talent takeover
• Hollywood’s censor
• On political equality
• Traditions in world cinema
• American eugenics : race, queer anatomy, and the science of nationalism
• Smartups : lessons from Rob Ryan’s Entrepreneur America boot camp for start-ups
• Wilde the Irishman

To read an e-book, click “Connect to electronic book” on the title page for the book you would like to read and log in using your Chapman or Brandman University credentials.