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These are separate subscriptions. An integrated index accessed via Web of Science, this tool helps to access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide since This resource offers a complete view of conference proceedings and their impact on global research, letting you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature.
Congress and the Nation has been the definitive resource for researchers studying the actions of the U. This well established series from CQ Press offers comprehensive and signature coverage of Congressional action from to Congress and the Nation is the only resource that makes the actions of Congress understandable to any reader. This database is designed to support the information needs of patients, and to foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine.
Consumer Health Complete offers a unique search interface designed to call attention to the full text content available from many important source-types, and to provide an intuitive means for searching this specific information. Information provided in this database should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization that works side by side with consumers to create a fairer, safer, and healthier world.
The database provides evidence-based product testing and ratings, rigorous research, hard-hitting investigative journalism, and public education that allows consumers to make better, more informed choices. Counseling and Therapy in Video Classic provides faculty and students with a first-hand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.
With over videos spanning from to , this expansive collection features world-renowned therapists demonstrating their methods and techniques as well as documentaries providing insight into the human condition and training in skills such as reflection and empathy. Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume V The Symptom Media Collection provides an extensive collection of over mental health videos to help your students better recognize mental health disorders and provide accurate diagnosis. First compiled and produced by publishers and subscriptions agents for area residents and patrons, these original histories represent difficult-to-find materials.
Included in this collection of titles are tables and lists of vital statistics, military service records, municipal and county officers, chronologies, portraits of individuals and views of urban and rural life not found anywhere else. The atlases provide additional information on land use and settlement patterns and scarce early town and city plans The atlases provide additional information on land use and settlement patterns and scarce early town and city plans.
CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's acclaimed reference titles on government and politics into a user-friendly, electronic format that offers a number of Web-enabled features that makes navigating this wealth of content intuitive and easy. Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Each issue reports in-depth on a single theme in the areas of political and social issues, health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.
CQ Weekly reports on the world's most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week. CQ Weekly Online includes an archive dating back to Search by topic, page number, committee, "exact phrases or words," bill number, byline or reporter and by Boolean full-text and date searches. Detailed floor votes dating back to August are easily retrieved. Congressional Quarterly's Politics in America is a definitive source for information on members of the U. Congress and their districts. Designed for use by political professionals, government officials, students, scholars, and interested citizens, it contains in-depth profiles of every member as well as data on their constituencies, apportionment, and redistricting.
An authoritative resource consisting of tables of data and current international recommendations on nomenclature, symbols, and units, its spans not only the physical sciences but also related areas of biology, geology, and environmental science. Includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology.
The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected in this database's coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world. Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains more than , records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for more than magazines and journals, as well as full-text books and monographs. Current Chemical Reactions delivers the latest synthetic methods reported in over of the world's leading organic chemistry journals. Each reaction provides complete reaction diagrams, critical conditions, bibliographic data, and author abstracts.
Complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from the world's leading scholarly journals and books. Each week the Current Digest presents a selection of Russian-language press materials, carefully translated into English. The translations are intended for use in teaching and research. They are therefore presented as documentary materials without elaboration or comment, and state the opinions and views of the original authors, not of the publisher of the journal.
This resource explores in detail the rich differences and surprising similarities of cultures outside the United States to those within the United States. Topics range from dating customs within a particular country to an overview of leisure time activities and other contemporary culture related topics. Access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output to understand data in context and maximize research efforts. The Data Citation Index on the Web of Science provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.
Through linked content and summary information, this data is displayed within the broader context of the scholarly research, enabling users to gain perspective that is lost when data sets or repositories are viewed in isolation. These connections allow researchers to efficiently access to an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output, to maximize research efforts and accurately assess importance.
DRAM is a not-for-profit resource which provides on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. One of DRAM's primary focuses is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace, recordings that may otherwise become lost or forgotten.
Currently DRAM's collection contains more than 3, albums worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 26 independent labels. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. Publications cover major foreign and domestic events such as the Cold War, Vietnam, and the civil rights movement. Useful for research in American history, foreign policy and international relations.
Derwent Innovations Index provides access to more than 14,, patents with links to cited and citing patents, cited articles, and full-text patent data sources. Patents are divided into three broad areas: This resource merges the value-added patent information from Derwent World Patents Index with the patent citation information from Derwent Patent Citation Index. Includes patent coverage to and patent citations to , from 40 patent-issuing authorities. Authoritative compendium of statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, provides a wealth of statistical information on education at all levels and from multifarious government perspectives.
Topics in the Digest include: More than 63, of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U. This collection includes streaming videos from Films for the Humanities and Sciences and Ambrose video producers with additional producers potentially added in the near future. Digitalia provides access to two collections of e-books: Database focusing on providing materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world.
Includes a searchable bibliography on Women and Gender issues in the Ancient Mediterranean world, course materials for instructors, and links to many other online resources, including articles, book reviews, databases and images. DOAB contains more than 1, academic peer-reviewed books from more than two dozen publishers. The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in a wide variety of subjects and disciplines.
There are currently more than 6, journals in the directory. One person in seven experiences disability, yet the story of this community and its contributions is largely absent from the scholarly record. Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement is a landmark online collection that fills the gap, with a comprehensive and international set of resources to enrich study in a wide range of disciplines from media studies to philosophy.
At completion, Disability in the Modern World will include , pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with hours of video. The content is essential for teaching and research—not only in the growing disciplines of disability history and disability studies, but also in history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked. The MU Libraries' subscription provides access to the abstracts version of this database and not to full text.
Citations for dissertations published from forward include word abstracts written by the author. PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. You can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to your discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access. The DMP Tool is a platform to help faculty create, review and share data management plans that meet institutional and funder requirements for submission with their grant applications.
It offers a variety of templates and step by step guidance. Miami University Libraries also provides customized automatic contextual guidance for members of the Miami University community as well as expert review of proposed data management plans. Provides the full text of works of 80 U.
This database comprises first editions of American novels and short stories written before by authors significant during their lifetimes. Provides the full text of most printed matter issued in what became the United States and Canada from , including books, pamphlets,and broadsides.
Based on the American Bibliography compiled by Charles Evans, with updates and corrections, EAI offers rich indexing author, title, subject, genre, publishing location, language, more and easy access to the print culture of Colonial and early republican America.
This growing collection of fully searchable historical American newspapers is the most extensive resource of its kind. With nearly 1, titles from all 50 states, Early American Newspapers provides an unparalleled record of the topics, people, issues and events that have shaped America for nearly three centuries. Database includes letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of encounters between native cultures and colonizers in North and South America although Canada and the United States dominate. Aside from a keyword search, indexes include characteristics of authors, place, peoples, cultural and personal events, year, environment and images.
Early English Books Online EEBO contains over , books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed matter printed in England or its Colonies or in English anywhere during the years EEBO titles appear as digital images and can be downloaded as pdf files. This Elsevier Reference Modules on Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences include thousands of cross-references and links to the related book chapters and journal articles available on ScienceDirect, providing the full spectrum of the subject on one easy platform. This resource provides access to thousands of peer-reviewed articles from Elsevier's Major Reference Works along with articles exclusive to the Reference Module, selected and organized by an expert external Editorial Board for each subject.
The Editorial Board continuously reviews the module, ensuring it covers the most significant recent developments in the field. Time stamps mark the date of the most recent review or update and new content is commissioned for the Reference Module as necessary to ensure its currency and breadth of coverage. See entry at Academic Search Complete for link. A collection of more than 15, electronic books on a variety of topics.
These e-books can be viewed online or downloaded onto a computer or portable device. You must have Adobe Digital Editions installed on your computer in order to download these e-books. EconLit indexes scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, and working papers throughout the field of Economics.
Topics covered include economic development, forecasting, history, fiscal and monetary theory, business and public finance, healthcare economics, and international, regional, and urban economics. A comprehensive collection of economic data on the web. Includes access to the Economagic database of over , economic time series, on-demand custom charts of all series in the database gif or pdf format , Excel spreadsheets for 8, of the most popular series, and advanced features that enable users to work with database series online.
The complete texts of eleven major, historical editions of Shakespeare's works, the pre-Folio quartos, and many adaptations, burlesques, and sequels. Includes works from the First Folio to the Cambridge edition of , twenty-four separate contemporary printings of individual plays the quartos , selected apocrypha and related works, and more than adaptations, sequels, and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Searchable by title, editor, and keywords in texts and cast lists and over all editions in EAS, a single edition, or a group of editions.
Education in Video provides a large and rich online collection of video available for the study of teaching methods and education theory. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 1, video titles totaling hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for over 1, journals, and full text for more than of them.
Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. It also has the full text for over monographs and numerous education-related conference papers. This collection does not include all of the culture groups from the original HRAF files so be sure to consult the Encyclopedia of World Cultures if a culture group is not included in this collection.
The Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a comprehensive digital collection of nearly , English-language titles covering all subjects published between and in the United Kingdom and North America and including foreign-language titles printed in the UK. It allows both full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material and sophisticated searches by subject, author, publisher, and back-of-the-book indexes. Eighteenth Century Fiction contains the complete text of 96 works of English prose fiction from the period , by writers from the British Isles.
All of the most widely-studied texts are in the database, alongside others long neglected or unavailable. First editions have been used unless considered unreliable. View a list of titles with links in the EBC. Provides the full text of electronic journals from specific publishers in the Sciences, and to a lesser extent in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. The Electronic Journal Center EJC also provides notification via email about new relevant articles according to subject, author, or journal title.
Doctoral dissertations and master's theses from 13 Ohio institutions are now submitted and stored in electronic form and are freely available to the public. The papers are added to the database as they are approved by the departments accepting them. Several institutions are also submitting undergraduate honors theses as well. Emerging Sources Citation Index ESCI expands the citation universe and reflects the growing global body of science and scholarly activity. Inclusion in ESCI provides greater discoverability which leads to measurable citations and more transparency in the selection process.
Provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures, Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition is important to scholars, general readers and students. Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations is a collection of physics demonstrations available for viewing and downloading.
Each video illustrates a particular principle of physics. The demonstrations are augmented by slow-motion photography and animation. Videos are available in RealVideo format and may be streamed or downloaded. Hundreds of key energy-focused industry and market reports are also included. This database also features tens of thousands of additional energy industry articles, benchmarks and best practices, selected from thousands of trade and industry publications.
It offers exhaustive coverage of the prodigious dramatic literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, as well as Restoration plays, medieval morality plays and mystery cycles, and nineteenth-century closet dramas. Synge, English Drama includes the dramatic writings of many more neglected writers long inaccessible in print form. English Poetry Database provides full text access to over 4, poetry collections , poems by 1, poets listed in the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
Excluded are English translations after , verse drama, non-English language works, hymns after , and unpublished poems or poems published in contemporary newspapers, magazines, or miscellanies, as well as writers once considered non-canonical. Search by author, title, words-in-titles and in the full text of poems. Complemented by the 20th Century English Poetry database and similar collections of American and African American poetry. A full text database of over 1, plays by English authors from the 13th to the end of the 19th century, based on entries in the "New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.
The editions chosen are usually contemporary with their authors. See also "English Verse Drama. The English Short Title Catalog ESTC catalogs and describes works printed in any language in England or its dependencies and works printed in English anywhere in the world, to the end of the eighteenth century. Simple and advanced searches are possible, using author, title, subject, imprint, and other features.
English Verse Drama provides full text access to over 2, plays by English authors and anonymous works from the 13th to the end of the 19th century, based on entries in the "New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The database is searchable by author, title, and specific fields such as cast list, genre, date of first performance, speaker, stage direction, etc. See also "English Prose Drama. Entrepreneurial Studies Source offers users full text for hundreds of periodicals and reference books, numerous case studies, thousands of company profiles and hundreds videos with transcripts and related articles from the Harvard Faculty Seminar Series and Vator.
TV, one of the world's largest social network sites for high-tech entrepreneurs. This database can be utilized by students for their entrepreneurial assignments or case studies ranging from solo projects to major entrepreneurial undertakings. Primary coverage is from present, with limited coverage from The ERIC collection includes bibliographic records, with extensive abstracts, for more than 1. ERIC currently indexes more than journals. These materials are generally part of the recent "grey literature" such as conference papers and reports, rather than journal articles and books.
Older ERIC documents that are not free on the web are available on microfiche, but must be recalled from storage. ESI is a compilation of statistical information publication, citation, and cites-per-paper counts for scientists, institutions, countries, and journals. It is based on 10 years of Thomson Reuters data. Interdisciplinary, bilingual English and Spanish and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
It also has statistics on consumer market size data for over product categories across 52 counties. Euromonitor also known as GMID contains more than 4, US and international full-text market research reports, offering in-depth strategic analysis for consumer, industrial and service sectors.
This database provides political and economic information for more than countries and territories. Information includes regional and country profiles, information on physical and social geography, history, economy, and country and comparative statistics. Directory information for governmental, society, media, and business enterprises is also provided as is a bibliography.
It includes documents, whether published in that country. Based on the authoritative bibliography "European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed in Europe Relating to The Americas, ", this database is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.
Explora for Primary Schools is a colorful, mobile-friendly search for students in grades K Explora provides an easy to use interface to find magazine articles, pictures, and encyclopedias. Searching is organized by topic, and topic overviews are available for many subjects. This resource was previously known as Kids Search. Explora for Secondary Schools is a search interface designed for students in grades It provides students with research tools to obtain appropriate types of content magazines, newspapers, biographies, etc. This resource was previously known as Student Research Center.
It also includes television and radio transcripts, and business and trade journals as well as company reports and financial data. Fashion Snoops provides design inspiration, practical forecasting, and trend information on trends for girls, boys, junior women and young men, plus news items, reports of runway shows and retail stores.
FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports are full-text, transcribed and translated intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. Many of these materials are first-hand reports of events as they occurred. Key historical events are accessible directly through predefined, hyperlinked collections. The FBIS Daily Reports constitute a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news from different countries, with other countries to be added via content updates.
The Medieval Feminist Index covers journal articles, bookreviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages. The time period covered is C. To use the subject browse the list of subjects or broad topics. The Film Literature Index FLI annually indexes film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television.
The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. This complete online fully-searchable facsimile edition of the Financial Times offers the complete run of the London edition of the paper, from its first issue to the end of Every individual article, advertisement and market listing is included and shown individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day.
Food Science Source includes more than 1, key food industry and market reports, as well as tens of thousands of additional food industry articles, benchmarks and best practices, selected from thousands of trade and industry publications. Designed for food industry experts and information professionals of all types, this database offers the foremost full-text collection of food industry-related content available today. One cannot truly study culture, economics, business, politics, and the process of globalization without understanding the important role of food and food systems.
Alexander Street's Food Studies Online provides researchers rich archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore how food shapes the world around us. Food studies is a relatively new field of study, but its importance is felt in many major disciplines. It has social, historical, economic, cultural, religious, and political implications that reach far beyond what is consumed at the dinner table.
Foreign language video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, and daily life. Provides 25, entries and is searchable by keywords within the articles. Entries are short with no bibliographies. Gale Primary Sources integrates literature resources from Gale and Literature Criticism Online into a single research environment. Cross-searchable access is provided for all of the collections below:. Index of academic and popular articles about plants and gardening.
Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture, garden and landscape design and history.
More than core titles, mostly English-language, are indexed and abstracted. Gender Studies Database combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected and important websites. This database includes more than , records, with coverage spanning from and earlier to the present. GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focuses on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas and countries. Indexed are journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports.
Geobase provides comprehensive bibliographic references to important journals in the fields of physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies.
International in scope, Geobase provides coverage from over 1, primary journals, books, monographs, reports, and theses. Geobase pulls together the information from seven abstracts journals - Geological Abstracts, Geomechanics Abstracts, Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography, Geographical Abstracts: Physical Geography, Ecological Abstracts, International Development Abstracts to enable comprehensive multidisciplinary searches of international literature. Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, this comprehensive geosciences database contains bibliographic records for geosciences literature from around the world.
GeoRef contains a vast amount of indexed information, including 3. Other records featured within the database include indexed books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations. Coverage within the database includes the geology of North America from to the present, as well as global coverage dating back to It is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and is inter-operable with GeoRef.
Mellis and available from the Blackwell website. GMID also known as Euromonitor contains more than 4, US and international full-text market research reports, offering in-depth strategic analysis for consumer, industrial and service sectors. It consists of Country Guides of topics each. Searches the full text of the U. View images of original patents online, or save and print them for offline use. Government information, including free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. In addition to providing an advanced, metadata-powered search experience, GovInfo also includes a content management system and a standards-compliant preservation repository.
Publications cover a wide range of subjects in the social sciences and sciences. This index also includes citations to government resources on the Internet. Publications received in microfiche are in Microform Storage. Check the library catalog and use "Request item". GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Publisher Greenwood provides an interface to search thought its printed Daily Life series'. Texts explore the daily life of culures and countries and cover history and current topics. Also included are primary documents, images, maps, vetted weblinks, Tours through Time features, Spanning the Globe features, and thousands of folk and fairy tales. Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying in the United States offers a thematic analysis of interest groups and lobbying in American politics and over the course of American political history.
It explores how interest groups have organized and articulated their support for numerous issues, and have they grown — both in numbers and range of activities — to become an integral part of the U. Beginning with the foundations of interest groups during the late 19th Century Gilded Age, to the contemporary explosive growth of lobbying, Political Action Committees, and new forms of interest group cyberpolitics, readers are provided with multiple approaches to understanding the complex and changing interest advocacy sphere.
The Handbook of Latin American Studies HLAS abstracts scholarly books, chapters, articles, conference papers and more recently electronic resources in the social sciences and humanities of interest to Latin Americanists. This database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. It provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education.
From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews through , documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
Harpweek contains the full text of Harpers Weekly, an important magazine that reflects 19th century American culture. This index includes every word of the text, all advertisements, as well as four separate subject indexes subject, illustrations, literature and publishing, and advertising. Harpweek can also be browsed by date. The Health Advocacy Database at Miami University is a collection of electronic materials made by professionals who advocate for human health and well being.
All the information contained in the earlier volume has been updated and included in Ker-Splash 2. The Tiddler Invasion is the complete story of how Hon. Interview with Jay Leno. Settle down now, folks Our first guest tonight is noted author of books about cars and motorcycles, Floyd M. Let's welcome Floyd to the show. I'm thrilled to be here! I'm glad I am finally getting to meet the author of The Tiddler Invasion: Small Motorcycles of the Sixties. That was one whopper of a book! A new era was created when Honda brought its first motorcycles to America in The hard part is separating sales and personal favorites from the data.
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Let's begin with full disclosure. The author of this article's most recent book is The Tiddler Invasion: The book is almost three pounds of pages, photographs, and charts on the subject of this article.
If you wish to read a lot more detail on this subject, you will find it there. This is obviously a subject close to my heart or I would not have spent years researching it. Now on to the big picture! I have been literally obsessed with classic v. Classic Honda Motorcycle Photos. The new book The Tiddler Invasion contains photos of classic bikes from The Kawasaki Triples, early Singles, and '60's Twins are included. Small Motorcycles of the Sixties has just been released at Amazon. It will always be available as an alternative to the print edition at a somewhat lesser price, although the price differential may be minimal.
This is not your average Kindle book. It is a substitute for what would have to be a high-priced print book, and a color print version would have to be a severely edited edition! The release of these two particular editions was planned from. The Tiddler Invasion is now at Amazon. The following information was written to describe the book at Amazon, but this material has not yet appeared on the page with the book.
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This is the book collectors, restorers, and nostalgic fans of the machines of our youth have been waiting to arrive! After years of extensive research through archives of motorcycle magazines, books, and. America, We Have Been Invaded! This is a copy of the front and back covers of the largest book project I shall ever dare to undertake. This monster began with a small idea for my first book back in The oldest story in it was typed on my IBM. It's time for a look back and a look forward. You can read the prognostications I made on this date last year on my post. How did I do, eh? Did most of that stuff not fall into place just as I predicted?
As a person whose career was in the financial field, including eleven years at the IRS in various capacities, of course I have been following the Fiscal Cliff Fiasco closely. I don't have many issues with the outcome of the negotiations as we know them at this point. Back to the Future. Let's wander into the darkness for a while, meandering through the canyons of both the past and the future. Modernism and Sound 4 Credits. This course attends to the auditory dimensions of modernism, examining how urbanization, industrialization, and mechanized warfare violently changed modern humanity?
We will immerse ourselves in modernist texts from the early and mid-twentieth century to understand how modernism represents sound and listening as both every day? In addition to reading experimental literature, we will contextualize auditory modernism within the technologies of sound recording and communications that changed how people listen to each other and radically altered music composition and film. Explores ways writers from disparate communities in the U. Literary texts from several genres are situated in their historical contexts and the writing strategies of each author is examined.
Also includes essays, journalism, and films to learn how diverse cultural texts work to represent America. Ishii , Nicole Dutton. Coming of Age in Troubled Times 4 Credits. What defines a childhood? How might we, as readers, subvert traditional understandings of childhood in order to shift away from? These are just some of the questions we will engage with in this course. We will close read literary works from writers who position their narrators on the edge of both the recognizable and the unrecognizable terrain of childhood.
Asian American Literature 4 Credits. Though Asian Americans are often viewed as newcomers to the literary and cultural scene, this course will introduce readers to the two centuries of Asian American literatures. Examines fiction, poetry, and other genres by 19th- and 20th-century American women such as Jacobs, Dickinson, Chopin, Kingston, Welty, Rich, and Morrison.
Courses focus on literature produced outside the United States in locations affected by imperial expansion. All topics include literature in at least three genres selected from poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. Traces the protest tradition and radical thinking in African American literature. Using landmark essays by W. B Du Bois and Alain Locke to frame the debate and then moving from David Walker to Malcolm X and beyond, this course engages questions about the development of the Jeremiadic tradition in African American literature, the role of the black artist in promoting social change, gendered differences in protest literature, and whether politics informs and elevates art or strangles it.
Considers how Latin American authors use poetry, drama, essay, and fiction to provide alternative versions of national foundations, revolutionary movements and political repression. Students view literary writing in relationship to the languages of scientific inquiry, myth, history, anthropology, psychology and journalism. LI - Literature of the Gothic 4 Credits. Focuses on literary and aesthetic tradition known as the Gothic, following its various manifestations from 18th century England up to present-day America. Students read novels, poetry, short stories and plays.
Students interested in postmodern expressions of the Gothic, from graphic novels to film, will be invited to bring these to the table. Is Dracula really about the anxiety of empire? What is Frankenstein saying about social theory and the dangers of Romanticism? And finally, why does Gothic material retain its fascination in the 21st century, when so many aesthetic movements lie moldering in their graves?
Examines the literature, art, and culture of Native and non-Native America and consider how these two very different traditions have affected the environment. Initially, students focus on Native Creation stories and on Genesis in order to better understand the definition of "wilderness. As students progress to the 20th and 21st centuries, they consider the work of artists, writers, and filmmakers who acknowledge and attempt to come to terms with a drastically changed and oftentimes degraded landscape in their work. Examines a broad range of literary nonfiction works, present and past, paying particular attention to the craft within the nonfiction work but identifying relationships and similarities that literary nonfiction has with the novel and short story.
Includes readings from such diverse forms as historical narrative, adventure travel and survival, memoir and the creative nonfiction essay, and other forms of factual writing artfully constructed. The Prose Poem 4 Credits. To paraphrase Charles Simic, reading a prose poem is like trying to catch a fly in a dark room. The fly isn't even there, the fly is inside your head, still, you keep tripping over and bumping into things while in hot pursuit.
The prose poem is a burst of language following a collision with a large piece of furniture. Making it Strange 4 Credits. The course will examine pieces of short fiction from a variety of language traditions that attempt to demonstrate rather than discuss, just how very strange the familiar is. These will include works by writers like Borges, Gogol, Kafka, Pynchon, Robbe-Grillet and others that attempt to subvert rather than fulfill the expectations of the reader.
Explores seminal works in the European literary tradition, with a particular focus on close reading, textual and rhetorical analysis, and aesthetic criticism. Through reading and discussion of poems from different historical periods, students learn the technical aspects of poetry such as meter, rhyme, and structure and how poets use these techniques to create meanings and effects, giving students a critical vocabulary for reading and practicing poetry. For students who want to enhance their ability to discuss and write about poetry by learning the essentials of the poet's art.
Explores a broad range of short stories and novels by American and international authors. Teaches students to look at fiction from the perspective of the writer's craft, and emphasizes such elements as structure, narrative, characterization, dialogue, and the differences between shorter and longer forms. Students gain an appreciation of the fiction writer's craft and an enhanced sense of the drama inherent in effective storytelling.
Ben Brooks , Frederick Reiken. LI - Topics in U. The Urban Experience in U. This course examines literary representations of the U. Specifically, we will be concerned with literature that addresses two major phenomena that impacted how American people interacted with their environment and with each other in cities. These phenomena were massive international and internal migration to North American metropolises and the resulting division of urban space along social and racial lines. We will look closely at urban literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when cities were growing rapidly, and post WWII, when the inner cities were experiencing urban decline.
We will also look at several major U. Our main focus will be particular U. Studies works in several genres, including consideration of how traditional myth, story, and ritual contribute to contemporary fiction and poetry, and how the literature reflects and responds to historical and contemporary conditions. LI - Shakespearean Tragedy 4 Credits. Carefully examines selected tragedies from Romeo and Juliet to Antony and Cleopatra, emphasizing the development of the tragic form.
LI - Shakespearean Comedy 4 Credits. Surveys African American literature prose, poetry, and drama from Olaudah Equiano through Toni Morrison and examines African American literature as part of the field of Diaspora studies. Also explores connections between African American and Caribbean American literatures conceived as literatures of the African Diaspora.
LI - American Novel 1 4 Credits. Studies representative American novels written before the 20th century, including works by such authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Chopin, Wharton, and James. LI - American Novel 2 4 Credits. Studies representative works of 20th-century American fiction. Explores works by contemporary international women writers within their social and political contexts.
Special offerings in the study of prominent and emerging poets and schools of poetry. Emphasis on exploring the intersection between individual technique and aesthetic traditions, from the formal to the avant-garde to culturally and politically conscious expressions of the art. The course is principally concerned with poets writing in the English language, though important figures from other language traditions may be read in translation. LI - The Forms of Poetry: Theory and Practice 4 Credits.
Students study forms of poetry as used by historical and contemporary poets, and then write original poems in those forms such as the sonnet, villanelle, haiku, sestina, syllabic, and renga , and genre forms such as Surrealist, Expressionist, Anti-poem, Open Field, and Language poetry. LI - After the Disaster: Post-War European Literature 4 Credits.
Explores post-war European literary works that are marked by a profound sense of loss, disorientation, and pessimism, with a particular focus on the practices of close reading, textual analysis, and theoretically oriented criticism. Explores how the events of the war- most notably the Holocaust -affected the literature of Europe in their wake. LI - Topics in Global Literature: Transnational Englishes 4 Credits. This course explores the spread and diversification of English, its interactions with other languages, and its production and use in literature, politics, and everyday life.
The course considers debates about "linguistic imperialism" and the "inevitability" of English as a global lingua franca, the complicated relations of power between metropolitan and other varieties of English, and the cross-fertilizations of English and other languages as literary, political, and cultural resources.
Indigenous Literature of Oceania 4 Credits. With the recent success of Disney? Ragnarok, the indigenous peoples of Oceania have entered into the mainstream of global popular culture. At the same time, Oceania? LI - Imagining the Caribbean 4 Credits. When you think of the Caribbean, you may imagine: It all depends on whose Caribbean you imagine. Making the Caribbean visible from local? In this course, students examine the literary strategies used by writers to imagine the Caribbean and the literary cultural, and political products of these strategies. LI - Cultural Criticism 4 Credits.
Surveys the dominant theoretical approaches to the study of culture. The course traces their main arguments and helps students develop a sense of what it means to be a producer and a consumer of culture today. This course takes as its starting point early modern, Romantic, and Victorian visions of utopian worlds, 20th-century dystopian visions, and some contemporary apocalyptic fictions. Special offerings in the novel, novella, and other modes of short fiction from various periods. LI - Topics in Poetry: Or, Singing and Sensibility 4 Credits.
This course is about the intersection of craft and sensibility? Our discussions will focus initially on the work of five essential poets each of whose work entails how the art of poetry can reflect, and even construct, a vision of reality. Archival Research for Writers 4 Credits. Open to writers in all genres, this course will introduce students to a number of Boston area archives, including the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Center, and show them how to search there for subjects they may use in their work.
Online historical research will be treated as well. There will be readings in historical fiction, historical narrative nonfiction, and historical narrative poetry. Literature of Evil 4 Credits. An exploration of European literary works that are haunted by a sense of evil, as defined by Georges Bataille whose Literature and Evil provides something of a framework for the course , with a particular focus on the practices of close reading, textual analysis and theoretically oriented criticism.
The Writer, the Daemon, and the Craftsman 4 Credits. Why the over-emphasis on form and technique? This course seeks to restore the balance between wildness and craft by exploring the intersection between Dionysus and Apollo in the works of modern and contemporary masters. Course requirements will include weekly annotations on the readings, an oral presentation by each student, and one ten-page literary essay due at semester's end.
LI - Travel Literature 4 Credits. Home and away, placement and displacement, and location and dislocation are all themes that abound not only in contemporary literature in all its forms fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama but also in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. This course explores the theme of travel in literature across its historical terrain in order to understand not only the evolution of its forms but also its role in the construction of identities, familiar and foreign.
LI - Seminar in the Novel 4 Credits. Examines particular narrative strategies in storytelling. Students examine such practices as multiple points of view, chronology, indirect discourse, focalization, etc.