This month’s Recommended Reading selections describe and analyze various social problems connected with the environment. Most of these involve the concept of “Environmental Justice” but many other topics arise as well. Please take special note of the web links at the end.
Books:
The environment: a human crisis / [by] Michael D. Piburn.
301.31 P584e
Only one world : [...]
The Highline Community College bookstore is having an excellent sale tomorrow (March 29th) from 9am-2pm. Save 5% on textbooks and 10% on supplies. What a deal! Check it out!
Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers: An American Portrait offers astonishing visual representations of statistics charting American consumerism. This and other examples of and information about visual literacy are available through the Information Literacy Faculty Toolkit.
Books:
All girls : single-sex education and why it matters / Stabiner.
371.822 S775a 2003
Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment / Collins.
305.4201 C712b 2000
Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy.
796.082 H662b 2003
Failure is impossible : Susan B. [...]
The Library has put together a Subject Guide that lists sources of information about the 2008 elections. Including election information, political news, fact checking, statistics and data, candidate information, organizations, survey research and polling, campaign finance, and more. Elections 2008.
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