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| REF D840R57 | M.L. Rossi | What Every AMERICAN Should Know About the Rest of THE WOLRD | "...a contextual mapping of the world's geopolitical hot spots and a familiarity with the names, terms and ideas you need to know to decipher global events" (Rossi) |
| REF E176.1D43 | W.A. Degregorio | The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents | A comprehensive single-volume resource updated through 2002. |
| REF E169.1.H614 | E.D. Hirsch, Jr. | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy | Reference work that identifies and defines common cultural knowledge organized with an index, subject section, definitions, cultural associations, cross-references, and pronunciation. |
| REF E185.A448 | Miles, Davis, Ferguson-Roberts and Giles | Almanac of African American Heritage | "A book of lists featuring people, places, times and events that shaped black culture". (Cover) |
REF E185.D63 and E185.D63 (2nd copy circulates) |
H. Dodson | Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture | "Jubilee reveals the self-actualizing, creative, and self-determining acts of enslaved Africans that transformed them and our nation," (Wynton Marsalis) |
| REF GT3930.O5 | S. Whiteley | On This Date... | "A Day-by-Day Listing of Holidays, Birthdays and Historic Events and Special Days, Weeks and Months" (Cover) |
| REF GV865.A1W4 | D. Peary. editor | We Played the Game | "Memories of Baseball's Greatest Era" written by baseball legends and complied into one volume. |
| REF HF5803.A38 2003 | J. McDonough and The Museum of Broadcast Communications | The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Adertising (3 volume set) | Comprehensive advertsing resource which included profiles of more than 120 ad agencies. |
| REF HV2474.G73 | G. Grayson | Talking With Your Hands Listening With Your Eyes | "A Complete Photographic guide to American Sign Language". (Cover) |
| DS 195.5B3532003 | Balakian, Peter | The Burning Tigris | Often referred to as the "forgotten holocaust" or "secret genocide" this book describes the Armenian massacre and the U.S. response to the crisis. |
| KF 539G472003 | Gerstmann, Evan | Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution | Attention students! This controversial topic would make a good research paper. |
| REF LC5803.C65.E44 | Bourne and Moore | Element's of Quality Online Education | "'Learning Effectiveness, Cost Effectiveness, Access, Faculty Satisfaction" (Cover) |
RC451.5N4I52003 |
Brown and Keith | In and Out of Our Right Minds | The mental health and well being of African-American women. |
| REF PS613.F76 | I. Reed | From Totems to Hip-Hop | "A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002" (Cover" |
| REF QA76.575.E5368 | S. Jones | Encyclopedia of New Media | A 2003 reference work in one volume on communication and technology. |
| RM666.M32003 | McMahon & Largen | Prescription Pot | The battle to legalize medical marijuana. |
| RC 450G7G35 2003 | C. Gale & R. Howard | Presumed Curable | Sixty stories taken from records near the end of the Victorian era of Bethlem Hospital, a London institution dedicated to the treatment and cure of mental illness since medival times. |
| RM 316K84 2003 | C. Kuhn, S. Swartzwelder & W. Wilson | BUZZED The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs From Alcohol to Ecstasy | Updated and revised source on how drugs work and their effects on the body and one's behavior. |