New Reference Books
March 28, 2025
We've got some new reference books to help with quick look-ups and getting background information on a topic. A selection is listed below. Ebooks are available from wherever you are, while our print reference books are shelved on the 1st floor of the Library Addition and generally can be borrowed for 4 days.
A wide-ranging survey of the history, development, and current state of African American political activism and influence in American life and culture.
This book aims to provide useful information to those planning, developing, or using AI, which has the potential to transform industries and shape the future.
A leading reference resource for Asian American studies that provides up-to-date information about Asian ethnic groups, historical and contemporary events, important policies, and notable individuals.
Comprehensive in its scope, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to know more about well-known creatures of myth and legend, such as the Chupacabra and the Jersey Devil, and discover lesser-known animals, such as the Bunyip of Australia and the Mamlambo of South Africa.
Explores the depiction of the LGBTQIA+ community in over 200 works from the past fifty years of American film history. It will not only educate and inform, but also help guide readers to see injustice more clearly and to inspire art that is both inclusive and thoughtful.
Surveys family violence and abuse in America and the many forms that it can take. Provides extensive coverage of widely recognized forms of violence and abuse in family settings, including physical, verbal, and emotional abuse of spouses and intimate partners female as well as children.
Offers a timely overview of book bans and challenges, their context, and how working librarians have handled them.
Each entry provides the history and origins of a dish, the preparation and variations of the dish, its legacy and cultural significance, a recipe, and further readings.
Recognizes and honors 2,000 barrier-breaking trailblazers and history-making events in multiple fields-arts, entertainment, business, sovereignty, education, government, religion, science, sports, music, and more.
Key figures and genres central to Latrino literature, covering the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Detailed historical and cultural accounts of Latino diasporas also enrich readers' understandings of the writings that have and continue to be influenced by changes in cultural geography.
Covers a broad spectrum of topics related to how we perceive and understand disability and the language, constructs, constraints and communication behavior that shape disabililty discourse within society.
The book brings together leading contributors from across three continents and numerous fields to provide an interdisciplinary exploration of boredom, its theoretical underpinnings, experiential properties, and the applied contexts in which it occurs.
Contains full-page historical, scientific, cosmology, and specially commissioned maps, stunning photos from NASA's archives, and biographical sidebars.
An inspiring collection of pithy, easy-to-recall one-liners and quotable short passages from historic and contemporary thought leaders throughout the African Diaspora.
In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements.
