Monday, August 30, 2010

GOOD

An eye-catching magazine aimed at positive, community enhancing efforts and ideas. Need more? Check out their vibrant online presence at www.good.is.

GOOD
Find the current issue of GOOD in our Reading Area. Back issues of all our magazines are in alphabetical order along the back wall of the Library.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Animal Liberation

The recently updated classic that helped fuel the animal liberation movement, the 2009 edition includes current examples and research.

Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer
Find it in the Library at call number HV4708 .S56 2009.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Art of Eric Carle

Part autobiography and part portfolio from the author and illustrator of the classic kids book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

The Art of Eric Carle
by Eric Carle
Find it in the Library at call number NC975.5 .C36 2002

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Ad Infinitum

A biography of the Latin language that explores its broad importance to western culture from the Roman empire up to modern science and law.

Ad Infinitum
by Nicholas Ostler
Find it in the Library at call number PA2057 .O88 2007

Monday, August 2, 2010

A Whale for the Killing

Famed Canadian author Farley Mowat's account of his (doomed) efforts to save a trapped fin whale on the south coast of Newfoundland. According to the forward, Mowat's masterful telling of this terrible story inspired Greenpeace to refocus its efforts on saving whales in the early 1970s.

A Whale for the Killing
by Farley Mowat
Find it in the Library at call number QL795 .W5M66 2005