The Healey Library receives hundreds of new books a month
and maintains a searchable
list of all new materials. The list below is a small sample of new books and other items recently added to the library's catalog.
Cluster, D., & Hernandez, R.
(2007).
The history of Havana.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dick Cluster is a member of the UMB faculty and the Associate Director of University Honors Program. He authored this book in collaboration with a Cuban scholar. Read more about the author and the book in the University Reporter.
Eldredge, N.
(2005).
Darwin: discovering the tree of life.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Review from Booklist, November 1, 2005
"In anticipation of the bicentennial observance of Charles Darwin's
birth in 1809, paleontologist and author Eldredge has organized an
exhibition that coincides with the publication of this abundantly
illustrated primer on Darwin's life, thought, and legacy." [Read review] Also read the review of the book and the related exhibition in American Scientist.
Kline, D., Burstein, D., De Keijzer, A. J., & Berger, P.
(2005).
Blog!: how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture.
New York: CDS Books.
Review from American Journalism Review, February/March 2006
If you are reading this blog, then you already know what they are. But did you know that there are more than 83.9 million today versus 23.5 million a year ago. From business to politics the influence of blogs should not be underestimated. While the authors briefly examine the history of blogging most of the book is devoted to exploring the blog revolution and "what it says ... about changes in our overall media, culture
and society." [Read review]
Mann, S., & Senn, M.
(2006).
Sally Mann.
New York: Gagosian Gallery.
This is a fully illustrated catalog from Sally
Mann's 2006 exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery. The large format photographs hauntingly depict Mann's three children as well as selected works from her Battlefields series.
Politkovskaya, A.
(2005).
Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy.
New York: Metropolitan Books.
Review from Russian Life , July/August 2006
Politkovskaya writings take on even more significance since her murder last October. She was an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and the Chechnya war. Her articles exposed the West to the corruption and brutality present in the Russia government. In Putin's Russia, Politkovskaya writes "about crooked business deals, the disgraceful state of the Russian army, terrorism, Vladimir Putin and, well,
anything else that infuriates her." [Read review]
Stuart, T.
(2007). The Bloodless Revolution: a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Review from The New York Times Book Review, February 25, 2007
Tristram Stuart examines the history of Western vegetarianism from Europeans’ first encounter with Indian vegetarianism to the present. Stuart fills the book with accounts of well-known vegetarians, such as Gandhi and Thoreau, to the unknown. These figures seem to one thing in common, “the mark of dissent.” [Read review]
The Nation.
New York, N.Y.: J.H. Richards.
The Nation is now available full-text beginning in 1865.
"The Nation is America's oldest weekly magazine, the flagship of the
left and now the country's most widely read journal of opinion.
Published to inform the national debate on critical issues of the day,
The Nation seeks to enlighten and empower a community of concerned
citizens & influential readers."
If you would like to recommend a book to add to future lists, please email me
at tina.mullins@umb.edu.
In 2001 MIT announced that it would provide free and open online access to its course materials. Six years later there are 1,550 courses from 34 departments available on the MIT OpenCourseWare site. Course materials include syllabi, lecture notes, problem sets and solutions, reading lists, even a selection of video lectures. Carnegie Mellon University followed suit with its Open Learning Initiative (OLI). While OLI only offers a handful of introductory courses, they are more in depth. Each course contains modules, which are designed to be equivalent to semester long class. An online tutor guides you through difficult concepts and you can participate in group experiments and virtual labs. Open University is an online university in Great Britain. It offers course for credit as well as free access to over 200 of its online classes. The freeware offers study skills, virtual labs and the opportunity to communicate with other learners. There are now over a 100 institutions around the world that offer opencourseware including, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Tufts University. 
