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OpenDOAR, a directory of open-access digital repositories, brings together scholarly output and digital collections from 2,000 or so institutions worldwide including Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins,...
View ArticleI Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
I know who you are and I saw what you did : social networks and the death of privacy, by Lori B. Andrews. New York: Free Press, 2011. 253 pages. In SHU Library at: Popular Books collection, first...
View ArticleWhat is Open Access, anyway? PhDComics tells the story
From Piled Higher and Deeper, a.k.a. PhD Comics, Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen explain what this open access thing is and why it's important. Best of all, they're funny. (Duration: 8:24) -- Gavin...
View ArticleThe Innovative University: changing the DNA of higher education from the...
The innovative university : changing the DNA of higher education from the inside out, by Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring. San Francisco: Josey-Bass, 2011. 475p. SHU Library: LA227.4.C525...
View ArticleFrom Command to Community: a New Approach to Leadership Education in Colleges...
From Command to Community: a New Approach to Leadership Education in Colleges and Universities, edited by Nicholas V. Longo and Cynthia M. Gibson. Medford, Mass.: Tufts University Press, 2011. 277...
View ArticleThe Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity, by Jeffrey D. Sachs. New York: Random House, 2011 (paperback ed. with preface, 2011). 328 p.This timely book sets current...
View ArticleThe Swerve: How The World Became Modern
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblat. New York: Norton, 2011. 356 pages. Stephen Greenblatt is a literary mandarin --editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The...
View ArticleThinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman. New York: Farrer, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 499 pages. Sacred Heart University Library: BF441 .K238 2011Kahneman, a Nobel Prize winner in in Economics,...
View ArticleWould It Kill You To Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners
Would It Kill You To Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners, by Henry Alford. New York: Twelve, 2012. 242 pages. Sacred Heart University Popular Books Collection (see "A" for "Alford).It can be...
View ArticleThe Starboard Sea: A Novel
The Starboard Sea: A Novel, by Amber Dermont. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012. 308 pages. Available at Sacred Heart University in the Popular Reading section.This novel is a worthy,...
View ArticleWho Owns The Future?
Who Owns The Future, by Jaron Lanier. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 396 pages. Sacred Heart University Library: HC 79 I55 L365 2013. (Lanier will speak at SHU on Wednesday, October 9.)Jaron...
View ArticleIn The Garden of Beasts
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, by Erik Larson. New York: Crown, 2011. 448p. Sacred Heart University Library: E 748 .D6 L37 2011This book is a must...
View ArticleBeyond Sleep
Beyond Sleep [a novel], by Willem Frederik Hermans. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2007. 311 p. ISBN 9781585675388. One copy on order for Sacred Heart University Library.The young geologist , Alfred...
View ArticleMission in a Bottle: The Honest Guide to Doing Business Differently --and...
Mission In a Bottle: The Honest Guide to Doing Business Differently --and Succeeding, by Seth Goldman and Bary Nalebuff; illustrated by Sungyoon Choi. New York: Crown Business, 2013. Sacred Heart...
View ArticleThe Bible
The Bible. Varying editions (Collegeville, MN: St. Johns University Press; Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Press; Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press), varying dates. Sacred Heart University Library:...
View ArticleMy Beloved World
My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor. New York: Knopf, 2013. 315p. Sacred Heart University Library: KF8745 .S67 A3 2013 (New Book Display, Library First Floor)“I was barely awake, and my mother was...
View ArticleBeyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters, by Michael S. Roth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 228 pages. Sacred Heart University: LC1011 .R75 2014 (New Book Display, First...
View ArticleThrough the Eye of a Needle
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, by Peter Brown. Princeton: University Press, 2012. 759 pages.Peter Brown, whose writing...
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