New Books: January 31 - February 6

We received a large haul of new books in the past week. Check New Titles in GIL for more new arrivals!

Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-
Title: Engaged surrender : African American women and Islam
Call Number: BP173.4 .R68 2004

Author: Hazlewood, Nick.
Title: Queen's slave trader : Jack Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the trafficking in human souls Call Number: DA86.22.H3 H39 2004

Author: Black, Edwin.
Title: Banking on Baghdad : inside Iraq's 7,000-year history of war, profit and conflict
Call Number: DS70.6 .B58 2004

Author: Wilson, William Scott, 1944-
Title: Lone samurai : the life of Miyamoto Musashi
Call Number: DS872.M53 W55 2004

Author: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
Title: Kennedy assassination tapes
Call Number: E842.9 .J6425 2004

Author: McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
Title: Girl who married a lion and other tales from Africa
Call Number: GR358.62.N34 M23 2004

Author: Tracy, Robert.
Title: Ailey spirit : the journey of an American dance company
Call Number: GV1786.A42 T73 2004

Author: Cook, Christopher D., 1967-
Title: Diet for a dead planet : how the food industry is killing us
Call Number: HD9000.9.A1 C65 2004

Author: McWilliams, Brian (Brian S.)
Title: Spam kings: the real story behind the high-rolling hucksters pushing porn, pills and @*#?% enlargements
Call Number: HE7551 .M38 2005

Author: King, J. L.
Title: On the down low : a journey into the lives of "straight" Black men who sleep with men Call Number: HQ74.2.U5 K56 2004

Author: Dow, Mark.
Title: American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons
Call Number: JV6483 .D69 2004

Author: Rooks, Noliwe M., 1963-
Title: Ladies' pages : African American women's magazines and the culture that made them Call Number: PN4882.5 .R66 2004

Author: Farr, Judith.
Title: Gardens of Emily Dickinson
Call Number: PS1541.Z5 F265 2004

Author: Judson, Horace Freeland.
Title: Great betrayal : fraud in science
Call Number: Q175.37 .J84 2004

Author: Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951-
Title: Differential equations demystified
Call Number: QA371 .K63 2005

Author: Gee, Henry.
Title: Jacob's ladder : the history of the human genome
Location: Decatur Books Call Number: QH437 .G44 2004

Author: Murkoff, Heidi Eisenberg.
Title: What to expect when you're expecting
Edition: 3rd ed., completely rev. & updated.
Call Number: RG525 .M87 2002

Author: Sluby, Patricia Carter.
Title: Inventive spirit of African Americans : patented ingenuity
Call Number: T39 .S57 2004

2005 African-American Read-In

The Decatur Creative Writing and Honors Clubs are participating in the 2005 African American Read-In on Monday, February 7th in the Student Center. The African American Read-In is a national reading chain which promotes literacy and an appreciation of the rich body of writing by African American authors. At host sites across the country, people will be reading from novels, short stories, poems, and essays of published and unpublished African-American authors. Now in its 16th year, the AFRICAN AMERICAN READ-IN is sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English and endorsed by the International Reading Association.

To read, sign up in the Decatur Campus ISS lab (1110 B Building) or call 404-244-2917. Or just come out and listen to some great literature on the 7th.

New Books: January 24 - 30

Author: Storey, William Kelleher.
Title: Writing history : a guide for students
Call Number: D16 .S864 2004

Author: Langley, Lester D.
Title: Americas in the age of revolution, 1750-1850
Call Number: E18.82 .L36 1996

Author: Cahill, Sean (Sean Robert)
Title: Same-sex marriage in the United States : focus on the facts
Call Number: HQ1034.U5 C34 2004

Author: Hammond, Robert J.
Title: Identity theft : how to protect your most valuable asset
Call Number: HV6679 .H36 2003

Author: Freeborn, Richard.
Title: Dostoevsky
Call Number: PG3328 .F75 2003

Author: Ogunyemi, Yemi D.
Title: Literatures of the African diaspora
Call Number: PN841 .O33 2004

Author: Parini, Jay.
Title: One matchless time : a life of William Faulkner
Call Number: PS3511.A86 Z9445 2004

Author: Cassidy, David C., 1945-
Title: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American century
Call Number: QC16.O62 C37 2005

Author: Upgren, Arthur R.
Title: Weather : how it works and why it matters
Call Number: QC981 .U64 2000

Author: Berger, E. Roy, 1944-
Title: Updated guidelines for surviving prostate cancer
Call Number: RC280.P7 B475 2004

Author: Shelton, Jay, 1942-
Title: Homeopathy : how it really works
Call Number: RX71 .S485 2004

Author: Waters, John, 1942-
Title: Real business of web design
Call Number: TK5105.888 .W365 2003

See New Titles in GIL for more new arrivals.

Intercampus Loans

Like to request books from other GPC campuses? Good news! You can now request most circulating items directly through the GIL library catalog without coming into the library. Simply pull up the detailed record for a book, click on request and follow the instructions. The steps are the same as requesting a GIL Express item through the Universal Catalog.

As always, intercampus loans are processed and delivered in two business days. See the Intercampus Loans page for more detailed instructions and policy information.

New Books: January 17 - 23

Author: Phillips, Jonathan (Jonathan P.)
Title: Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople
Call Number: D164 .P48 2004

Author: Hastings, Max.
Title: Armageddon : the battle for Germany, 1944-45
Call Number: D743 .H36 2004

Author: Lee, Christopher.
Title: 1603 : the death of Queen Elizabeth, the return of the Black Plague, the rise of Shakespeare, piracy, witchcraft, & the birth of the Stuart era
Call Number: DA391 .L425 2004

Author: Kagan, Donald.
Title: Peloponnesian War
Call Number: DF229 .K34 2003

Author: Camp, Stephanie M. H.
Title: Closer to freedom : enslaved women and everyday resistance in the plantation South Call Number: E443 .C36 2004

Author: Hersh, Seymour M.
Title: Chain of command : the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
Call Number: E903.3 .H47 2004

Author: LaPlante, Eve.
Title: American Jezebel : the uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the Puritans
Call Number: F67.H92 L37 2004

Author: Valentino, Benjamin A., 1971-
Title: Final solutions : mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century
Call Number: HV6322.7 .V35 2004

Author: Sullivan, Bob, 1968-
Title: Your evil twin : behind the identity theft epidemic
Call Number: HV6684.U6 S85 2004

Author: Junkin, Tim, 1951-
Title: Bloodsworth : the true story of the first death row inmate exonerated by DNA
Call Number: HV8701.B56 J85 2004

Author: Le Couteur, Penny, 1943-
Title: Napoleon's buttons : 17 molecules that changed history
Call Number: QD37 .L34 2004

Author: Smith, Shawn Michelle, 1965-
Title: Photography on the color line : W.E.B. Du Bois, race, and visual culture
Call Number: TR23 .S63 2004

See New Titles in GIL for more new arrivals.

Closing For Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Just a reminder that the library will be closed on Monday, January 17 to observe the MLK holiday. We will be open our regular hours over the weekend and will return bright and early on Tuesday, January 18.

You can also celebrate the holiday by attending the 9th Annual Georgia Perimeter College MLK Birthday Celebration on Saturday, January 15th. See the MLK Celebration website for more details.

Civil War Maps - Library of Congress

The Library of Congress American Memory project has added a new collection of full image primary source maps for the Civil War era entitled Civil War Maps.

Excerpt from description:
"Civil War Maps brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are the detailed battle maps made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss for Generals Lee and Jackson, General Sherman’s Southern military campaigns, and maps taken from diaries, scrapbooks, and manuscripts—all available for the first time in one place."

The collection is searchable and browseable by place, subject, map creator and map title. This exciting new resource is an excellent source of primary information for American history projects.

New Books: January 10 - 16

Author: Levi, Anthony.
Title: Renaissance and reformation : the intellectual genesis
Call Number: CB359 .L48 2004

Title: Alexander the Great : man and God
Call Number: DF234 .A4894 2004

Author: Matsusaka, Yoshihisa Tak.
Title: Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
Call Number: DS849.C6 M32 2003

Author: Greaves, Adrian, 1943-
Title: Isandlwana
Call Number: DT1879.I83 G74 2001

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Title: Canterbury tales
Call Number: PR1870.A1 C6 2003

Author: Hannon, James J.
Title: Black Napoleon : Toussaint L'Ouverture, liberator of Haiti
Call Number: PS3558.A479 B55 2000

Author: Leveque, C.
Title: Biodiversity
Call Number: QH541.15.B56 L48412 2003

Author: Ward, Thomas J., 1969-
Title: Black physicians in the Jim Crow South
Call Number: R695 .W37 2003

Author: Henninger, Maureen, 1940-
Title: Hidden web : finding quality information on the net
Call Number: ZA4201 .H47 2003

See New Titles in GIL for more new arrivals.

Emergency Closing: Friday, January 7th

The library will be CLOSED on Friday, January 7th due to repairs to the electrical system. The repairs will require the lights to be out for a good portion of the day. We apologize for any inconvenience and will resume regular hours on Monday, January 10th.