We take pride in featuring titles from our vast collection each month on the first floor of the library — whether surrounding a theme, national holiday, or cultural event. This month, April 2020, we’ll share titles available to our community online on a few topics, including some titles that we hope will entice you to stay home and shelter-in-place so that we can all safely get back to campus as soon as possible!
50th Anniversary of Earth Day
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. (Earth Day even has an official website!) This year, many Earth Day celebrations have gone online! Check out the Sul Ross Sustainability Blog for more opportunities to celebrate.
eBooks
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Beyond Earth Day by Gaylord Nelson is known and respected throughout the world as a founding father of the modern environmental movement and creator of one of the most successful and influential public awareness campaigns ever undertaken on behalf of global stewardship: Earth Day. Now in his eighties, Nelson delivers a timely and urgent message with the same eloquence with which he has articulated the nation's environmental ills through the decades. He details the planet's most critical concerns--from species and habitat losses to global climate changes and population growth. In outlining his strategy for planetary health, he inspires citizens to reassert the environment as a top priority. A book for anyone who cares deeply about our environment and wants to know what we can and must do now to save it, Beyond Earth Day is a classic guide by one of the natural world's great defenders.
ISBN: 9780299180409Publication Date: 2002-10-08 -
The Man from Clear Lake by On Earth Day 1970 twenty million Americans displayed their commitment to a clean environment. It was called the largest demonstration in human history, and it permanently changed the nation's political agenda. By Earth Day 2000 participation had exploded to 500 million people in 167 countries. The seemingly simple idea--a day set aside to focus on protecting our natural environment--was the brainchild of U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. It accomplished, far beyond his expectations, his lifelong goal of putting the environment onto the nation's and the world's political agendas. A remarkable man, Nelson ranks as one of history's leading environmentalists. He also played a major role as an early, outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War, and as a senate insider was a key player in civil rights, poverty, civil liberties and consumer protection issues. The life of Nelson, a small town boy who learned his values and progressive political principles at an early age, is woven through the political history of the twentieth century. Nelson's story intersects at times with Fighting Bob La Follette, Joe McCarthy, and Bill Proxmire in Wisconsin, and with George McGovern, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Russell Long, Walter Mondale, John F. Kennedy, and others on the national scene. Winner, Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize, University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299196400Publication Date: 2004-03-23 -
EDUCONOMY. Unleashing Wellbeing and Human Centered Sustainable Development by Investing in People is the world priority of the 21st century. The wellbeing of people is at the center of the agendas of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, UN, OECD, ILO and all major development organizations. But the concern for people is not new. The celebrated books of Economics Nobel Awardees Theodore Schultz's Investing in People. The Economics of Population Quality and Gary Becker's Human Capital were published decades ago and challenged the same human dilemma. Yet, with few exceptions, most countries are still struggling for effective formulas to put people at the center of development. The core issue is that investing in people means improving the quality of education for all. But the main problem is that countries continue to take education as an expense, not as an investment in people. National budgets consider education as a sunken cost, rather than as an investment expected to produce high returns to secure quality improvement as necessary condition for sustainability. Shortcomings are abundant but one thing is certain: unless the quality of education for all is placed front and center in development agendas, chances for progress in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environment are curtailed, human centered sustainability and wellbeing will be restrained and inequality will persist. The main problem it is not income inequality, it is education inequality. In the Knowledge Economy the human (as) resources formula is no longer working. Segmentation of the economy and education is probing increasingly counterproductive. The EDUCONOMY is a human centered structure for progress to optimize returns and minimize costs of investing in people. Gallup and Brandon Busteed coined the concept Educonomy to enhance the importance of quality in education backed up by extensive surveys and data bases. Lepeley's EDUCONOMY. Unleashing Wellbeing and Human Centered Sustainable Development takes the discussion into new dimensions and addresses the complexity of the challenges. People are the DNA of Sustainable Development. Says Lepeley challenging old constructs and presenting innovative formulas pioneering human centered economics and economics of wellbeing that frame the Balanced Sustainable Development ESTE (economic, social, technology, environment) Model. ESTE is the product of the Educonomy built on three fundamental pillars: the Talent Economy, the Agility Economy and the Quality Economy convergent with demands of the Knowledge Economy. In the ESTE Model education is no longer a national expense, it is an investment that secures high rates of returns and social and economic inclusiveness anchored in quality standards for all.
ISBN: 9781641134927Publication Date: 2019-01-17 -
Futures Worth Preserving by How can the paradoxical conceptual overlap of nostalgia and sustainability in cultural constructions of the present be used in order to make previously unexplored territory within the study of culture accessible? This collection of essays and artistic contributions aims at answering this and other questions. It problematizes the relationship between past-oriented practices of sustaining and future-oriented forms of remembering. The present becomes the moment in which both notions overlap: Cultures have to position themselves, both in relation to what they have once been and to what they aspire to become.
ISBN: 9783837641226Publication Date: 2019-09-17 -
Sustainability Is the New Advantage by During the last 150 years, we have stressed the oceans, warmed the planet and overextended almost every natural resource. To create real change will require a generation of leaders and businesses that think and act differently. "Sustainability Is the New Advantage" identifies the skill sets, best practices, and new ideas needed to teach a new generation to start, grow, and manage sustainable organizations.
ISBN: 9781783089468Publication Date: 2019-04-15 -
Unlocking Sustainable Cities by This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change.Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - from transforming abandoned public spaces and setting up community co-operatives, to rewilding urban nature and powering up civic energy.Paul Chatterton explores the power of these city experiments that harness the creative power of the collective, focusing on five themes: compassion, imagination, experimentation, co-production and transformation; and four city systems: mobility, energy, community and nature. Imagining radical alternatives, such as car-free, post-carbon, common and 'bio-cities', this is a toolkit for unlocking real urban change.
ISBN: 9780745337012Publication Date: 2018-11-20
Magazines and Journals
- Try out Flipster titles! (See: How do I use Flipster? for help.)
Director of Access, Instruction, and Outreach Betsy Evans recommends YES! Magazine for its entire philosophy that focuses on equity, diversity, and environmental sustainability.
Databases
Note: All of the Library's subscription databases can be found at Databases A-Z.
April is National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is a celebration of poets and poetry that began in 1996. Scroll to access poetry from the library in the form of eBooks, online journals, databases, and more.
eBooks
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Window Poems by Composed while Wendell Berry looked out the multipaned window of his writing studio, this early sequence of poems contemplates Berry's personal life as much as it ponders the seasons he witnessed through the window. First designed and printed on a Washington hand press by Bob Barris at the Press on Scroll Road,Window Poems includes elegant wood engravings by Wesley Bates that complement the reflective and meditative beauty of Berry's poems.
ISBN: 9781582436234Publication Date: 2010-10-01 -
Welcome to the Anthropocene Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question--"Where do we fit in the universe?"--is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her poetry leads us to question human hierarchies, loyalties, and consciousness, and challenges us to find some humility in our overblown sense of our cosmic significance.Now, welcome to the Anthropoceneyou battered, tilting globe. Still you gleam,a blue pearl on the necklace of the planets.This home. Clouds, oceans, life forms span itfrom pole to pole, within a peel of airas thin as lace lapped round an apple. Fairand fragile bounded sphere, yet strangely tough--this world that life could never love enough.And yet its loving-care has been entrustedto a feckless species, more investedin the partial, while the total goes unnoticed.-- from "Welcome to the Anthropocene"
ISBN: 9781772123685Publication Date: 2018-01-31
Collection Development and Serials Librarian Elizabeth Davis recommends Welcome To The Anthropocene by Alice Major (2018). The description of the book entices, offering that "Major's most persistent question—“Where do we fit in the universe?”—is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change."
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Lava Lamp Poems by Colleen Higgs launched Modjaji Books, the first publishing house for southern African women writers, in 2007. Her first collection of poetry, Halfborn Woman, was published in 2004. She lives in Cape Town with her partner and her daughter.
ISBN: 9781920397258Publication Date: 2010-12-01 -
The Carrying by WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ALA NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying--her most powerful collection yet. Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility--"What if, instead of carrying / a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"--and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: "Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza, something brutal." And still Limón shows us, as ever, the persistence of hunger, love, and joy, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. "Fine then, / I'll take it," she writes. "I'll take it all." In Bright Dead Things, Limón showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood"--"the huge beating genius machine / that thinks, no, it knows, / it's going to come in first." In her follow-up collection, that heart is on full display--even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.
ISBN: 9781571315120Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Dean of Library and Research Technologies April Aultman Becker recommends The Carrying Poems by Ada Limon. She specifically points to the poem Time is on Fire saying "it resonates right now with me because it explores the way time passes, something we're all noticing these days."
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Poetry for Beginners by This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2017 is "Ancient Enmity". IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. From 22-26 November 2017, over 20 invited poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong to read their works based on the theme "Ancient Enmity." Included in the anthology and box set, these unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.
ISBN: 9789882370241Publication Date: 2018-03-13
Archives' Digital Collections
Senior Archivist Melleta Bell shares Walter Fulcher's handwritten translations of La Golondrina from a recently launched digital collection of the Archives' own collection. She writes: "The verse [translated in Fulcher's letters] became lyrics as composed by Narciso Serradell Sevilla (1843-1910) who was imprisoned and exiled to France during Mexico’s war against the occupying French in the mid 1800’s. This song is pervasive throughout Mexican culture and is known and appreciated worldwide, translated into other languages, recorded by many artists. I grew up hearing it not realizing the extent of its popularity. More about Walter Fulcher can also be found with his online materials. It has been described as a “veritable hymn . . . expressing nostalgia to moments of loss, departure, and exile.”
Magazines and Journals
- Try out Flipster titles such as The Sun or The New Yorker. (See: How do I use Flipster? for help.)
- Magma Poetry Journal features contemporary poetry with a different editor for each issue
- The American Poetry Review focuses on contemporary poetry and literary prose
- Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry exclusively publishes short poetry, usually no longer than 12 lines
Databases
Note: All of the Library's subscription databases can be found at Databases A-Z.
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Twentieth Century American Poetry This link opens in a new windowContent: Includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.
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Twentieth Century English Poetry This link opens in a new windowContent: Contains the poetry of over 285 English poets from 1900 to the present day.
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Films On Demand This link opens in a new windowContent: Provides access to thousands of programs grouped into convenient subject-specific categories. New programs added monthly.
Related links: Films on Demand Help
Director of Access, Instruction, and Outreach Betsy Evans recommends sorting through some of the featured poetry videos in the Films on Demand database. One that caught her eye is the N.Y. State of Mind episode from a PBS series Poetry in America where host Elisa New breaks down the Nas track and "herald[s] the transformation of America's long tradition of urban verse by hip hop artists, and . . . affirm Nas as the standard bearer for contemporary poetry of the street."