Student Art Exhibit in the Library

November 5th—December 1st

Meet the Artists
Thursday, November 20th from 11:30—12:30
Light lunch provided by SGA

DVDs NOW AVAILABLE courtesy of HCC Plant City campus PTK

Movies
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Once were warriors
A mighty heart
The nativity story
The devil came on horseback
Amelie

Documentaries
Sicko (Michael Moore)
Not for Ourselves Alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (Ken Burns)
Thomas Jefferson (Ken Burns)
Race to the moon: the daring adventure of Apollo 8
Hoover Dam
Fighting for freedom: Revolution & Civil War
The medicated child
Two days in October
Unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of Jack Johnson (Ken Burns)
Mark Twain (Ken Burns)
Horatio's drive: America’s first road trip (Ken Burns)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
My country, my country
Death in Gaza
Slavery and the making of America
The voyage of La Amistad: a quest for freedom
Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery (Ken Burns)
The Civil War (Ken Burns)
Jean Sibelius: the early years; maturity & silence
Frank Lloyd Wright
White light, black rain: the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

TV
The universe: explore the edges of the unknown (History Channel)
Roots
South Park Seasons 6-10

New Books Available Now

Books that can be checked out

General Interest
In defense of food: an eater's manifesto
Faking it: how to seem like a better person without actually improving yourself
Work, life, and family imbalance: how to level the playing field
Money for nothing: one man's journey through the dark side of lottery millions

Test Preparation
The Best test preparation for the CLAST, College Level Academic Skills Test

Technology and Industry
24/7: how cell phones and the Internet change the way we live, work, and play
The thief at the end of the world: rubber, power, and the seeds of empire
The Second Life Herald: the virtual tabloid that witnessed the dawn of the metaverse
Nanotechnology 101

Women’s Studies
Inuit women: their powerful spirit in a century of change

Politics
Brothers: the hidden history of the Kennedy years
Gaming the vote: why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it)
The climate change challenge and the failure of democracy
Divided America: the ferocious power struggle in American politics
Presidential elections: strategies and structures of American politics
The media effect: how the news influences politics and government
Hillary Clinton

Nature and Animals
Crocodile: evolution’s greatest survivor
Bears: a brief history
Platypus
American chestnut: the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect tree

Florida Studies
Florida’s seashells
Everglades: an ecosystem facing choices and challenges
Florida’s hurricane history
Florida’s rivers

American History and Economics
On the road to freedom: a guided tour of the civil rights trail
Freedom: America’s competitive advantage in the global market
American Indians and the law
The logic of life: the rational economics of an irrational world
This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War
Blue skies, black wings: African American pioneers of aviation
Are we Rome? : The fall of an empire and the fate of America

World History
The Mycenaeans
Constantinople: capital of Byzantium
Marie-Therese, child of terror: the fate of Marie Antoinette's daughter
India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy
The history of Kuwait
Lenin's private war: the voyage of the philosophy steamer and the exile of the intelligentsia

Psychology and Sociology
The disposable male: sex, love and money: your world through Darwin's eyes
Making multiracials: state, family, and market in the redrawing of the color line
The loss of sadness: how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
Why immigrants come to America: braceros, indocumentados, and the migra
Beauty bias: discrimination and social power
Lifting the weight: understanding depression in men, its causes and solutions
American babies: their life and times in the 20th century

Arts
Egypt art
Roman art
Latinos in the arts
Asian cinema: a field guide
The judgment of Paris: the revolutionary decade that gave the world impressionism
Calatrava
Mies Van Der Rohe
Lucian Freud

Literature
Everything I needed to know about being a girl I learned from Judy Blume
Beowulf: a new translation
Why Shakespeare?
Sexy thrills: undressing the erotic thriller
The country of the blind and other selected stories / H.G. Wells
The nutcracker and the mouse king / E.T.A. Hoffmann and The tale of the nutcracker / Alexandre Dumas
The portable Jack Kerouac
Road novels 1957-1960 / Jack Kerouac
The Penguin book of modern African poetry
The secret agent: a simple tale / Joseph Conrad
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
The rainbow / D.H. Lawrence
Anne of Green Gables / L. M. Montgomery
"So has a daisy vanished”: Emily Dickinson and tuberculosis
Toni Morrison's The bluest eye
Latino writers and journalists
A blue hand: the Beats in India

Religious Studies
Religion and American politics: from the colonial period to the present
Prescribing faith: medicine, media, and religion in American culture
Religion and film: an introduction
Fundamentalism
The parapsychology revolution: a concise anthology of paranormal and psychical research
Monkey trials and gorilla sermons: evolution and Christianity from Darwin to intelligent design
The Jesus legend: a case for the historical reliability of the synoptic Jesus tradition
Science and Asian spiritual traditions
Alien worlds: social and religious dimensions of extraterrestrial contact
Head and heart: American Christianities
Amish grace: how forgiveness transcended tragedy

Sports
Latino athletes
The ball is round: a global history of football
Iceman: my fighting life / Chuck Liddell
Alex Rodriguez
Jesse Owens

Military and War
Ask & tell: gay and lesbian veterans speak out

Science
Latinos in science, math, and professions
Star maps: a history, artistry, and cartography
Hubble: the mirror on the universe
Earth from space: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Endless universe: beyond the Big Bang

Health and Medicine
Opium
Barbiturates
Peyote and mescaline
Methamphetamine
Medical abbreviations: 28,000 conveniences at the expense of communication and safety
Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
Inside the body: fantastic images from beneath the skin
Vaccinated: one man's quest to defeat the world's deadliest diseases
From snake oil to medicine: pioneering public health
Natural treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome
Fact and fiction of healthy vision: eye care for adults and children
Breathing space: how allergies shape our lives and landscapes

Nursing
Math for nurses
Critical care nursing made incredibly easy
Wound care made incredibly visual!
Nursing care planning made incredibly easy
NCLEX-RN review made incredibly easy!

Business
The essential guide to business etiquette
The small business owner's manual: everything you need to know to start up and run your business
Women in business: the changing face of leadership
Survival tactics: the top 11 behaviors of successful entrepreneurs
An easy out: corporate America's addiction to outsourcing
Her turn: why it's time for women to lead in America
What men don't tell women about business: opening up the heavily guarded alpha male playbook Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything

Linguistics and Education
The history of special education: a struggle for equality in American public schools
Governance and the public good
The academic bill of rights debate: a handbook

Popular Culture
The Notorious B.I.G.
Frankenstein: a cultural history
Slash
May contain graphic material: comic books, graphic novels, and film
Dark victory: the life of Bette Davis

Crime and Criminal Justice
The Innocence Commission: preventing wrongful convictions and restoring the criminal justice system
Blood on the table: the greatest cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Terrorism and global security
Who cares for our children? : The child care crisis in the other America
Silenced! : Academic freedom, scientific inquiry, and the First Amendment under siege in America

Agriculture and Food
Beans: a history

Popular Fiction / Bestsellers
The Black Tattoo
One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey

Graphic Novels
Pride of Baghdad

Books that can be used in the library
Dictionary of Business Terms
The pronunciation of placenames: a worldwide dictionary

New Books

The Native American world beyond Apalachee: west Florida and the Chattahoochee Valley
The five-minute linguist: bite-sized essays on language and languages
Magill's medical guide
Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Neoclassicism and romanticism: architecture, sculpture, painting, drawings, 1750-1848
The welfare state nobody knows: debunking myths about U.S. social policy
Wine: from Neolithic times to the 21st century
Butterbox babies: baby sales, baby deaths: new revelations 15 years later
Metropolis: the American city in popular culture
Energy use worldwide: a reference handbook
Spirit, science, and health: how the spiritual mind fuels physical wellness
Road dogs and loners: family relationships among homeless men
A guide to historic Tampa
Kitchen literacy: how we lost knowledge of where food comes from and why we need to get it back
David
A history of smuggling in Florida: rumrunners and cocaine cowboys
Unions in crisis? : the future of organized labor in America
Black Elk speaks (audiobook)

DVDs now available from the library

Action/Adventure
300
Flags of our fathers
Gladiator
Henry V
Letters from Iwo Jima
Sin City
Book Adaptations
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their eyes were watching God
Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1995)
Jane Austen’s Emma (starring Kate Beckinsale)
Jane Austen’s Emma (starring Gwyneth Paltrow)
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick papers
Charles Dickens’ Dombey and son
Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield
Anthony Trollope’s The Barchester chronicles
Anthony Trollope’s He knew he was right
George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
George Eliot’s Silas Marner
George Eliot’s Adam Bede
George Eliot’s Middlemarch
George Eliot’s The mill on the floss
Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s profession
Classic Films
A clockwork orange
Some like it hot
Comedy
Smoke Signals
The sisterhood of the traveling pants
Drama
Brokeback Mountain
The Queen
Hamlet
Skins
Documentaries
Fat: what no one is telling you
Ghosts of Rwanda
Through deaf eyes
Jonestown: the life and death of Peoples Temple
In search of myths & heroes
Auschwitz--inside the Nazi state
Walking the Bible: A journey by land through the five books of Moses
Secrets of the mind
Raising Cain: Exploring the inner lives of America’s boys
Gothic cathedrals: Notre Dame to the National Cathedral
Desperate crossing: the untold story of the Mayflower
Discounted dreams: high hopes and harsh realities at America's community colleges
The war tapes
Super size me
Secrets of Mary Magdalene
The Tuskegee airmen
Anne Frank remembered
Martin Luther King: I have a dream

New Books

Books that can be checked out
General Interest
Pedal power: the quiet rise of the bicycle in American public life
The improving state of the world: why we're living longer, healthier, more comfortable lives on a cleaner planet
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals
Culture and customs of the United States
Women’s Studies
Opting out? : Why women really quit careers and head home
Politics
One night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the dream of dignity
Nature and Animals
Nature and the environment in pre-Columbian American life
The powerful bond between people and pets: our boundless connections to companion animals
Heritage of care: the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
History and Economics
A farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world
Blood and soil: a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Family life in 20th-century America
What makes a terrorist: economics and the roots of terrorism
Money: a history
Carpetbaggers, cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: exposing the invisible empire during reconstruction
Roanoke: the abandoned colony
Math
Unknown quantity: a real and imaginary history of algebra
Psychology and Sociology
Sperm counts: overcome by man's most precious fluid
Asylum: a mid-century madhouse and its lessons about our mentally ill today
Creative anger: putting that powerful emotion to good use
Beyond bad girls: [gender, violence and hype]
Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets
This is your brain on music: the science of a human obsession
Bipolar children: cutting-edge controversy, insights, and research
The architecture of madness: insane asylums in the United States
The transgender phenomenon
Child abuse and stress disorders
Not quite white: white trash and the boundaries of whiteness
There is no such thing as a natural disaster: race, class, and Hurricane Katrina
Arts and Literature
Racism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Racism in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings
Bloom’s guides: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Shakespeare on masculinity
Rococo
UNStudio
Hiroshige
Religious Studies
God in the classroom: religion and America's public schools
American religious democracy: coming to terms with the end of secular politics
Can God intervene? : How religion explains natural disasters
The destructive power of religion: violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Decoding early Christianity: truth and legend in the early church
Nuns: a history of convent life, 1450-1700
The Upanishads
The Dhammapada
Horse-and-buggy Mennonites: hoofbeats of humility in a postmodern world
Sports
Drugs and sports
Military and War
King, Kaiser, Tsar: three royal cousins who led the world to war
Betraying our troops: the destructive results of privatizing war
The coldest winter: America and the Korean War
Our savage neighbors: how Indian war transformed early America
Warhorse: cavalry in ancient warfare
Thermopylae: the battle that changed the world
American military technology: the life story of a technology
Power at sea
People
Amerigo: the man who gave his name to America
Anne Frank's tales from the secret annex: including her unfinished novel Cady's Life
Johnny Depp: a biography
The three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III
Judy Blume: a biography
Science
Contact with alien civilizations: our hopes and fears about encountering extraterrestrials
The future of the universe
Microcosmos: discovering the world through microscopic images from 20 X to over 20 million X magnification
The new cosmic onion: quarks and the nature of the universe
Philosophy
The shorter Leibniz texts: a collection of new translations
Health and Medicine
Understanding bioethics and the law: the promises and perils of the brave new world of biotechnology
The ghost map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world
A second opinion: rescuing America's health care: a plan for universal coverage serving patients over profit
Alternative medicine
Understanding the antioxidant controversy: scrutinizing the "fountain of youth"
Business
The essential guide to business etiquette
Linguistics and Education
Living languages: multilingualism across the lifespan
Popular Culture
The video game explosion: a history from PONG to Playstation and beyond
Online social networking
White weddings: romancing heterosexuality in popular culture
Blogging America: the new public sphere
Children and consumer culture in American society: a historical handbook and guide
When the girls came out to play: the birth of American sportswear
Crime and Criminal Justice
Forensic science: modern methods of solving crime
Guys and guns amok: domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombing to the Virginia Tech massacre
Women behind bars: the crisis of women in the U.S. prison system
Smuggling and trafficking in human beings: all roads lead to America
American furies: crime, punishment, and vengeance in the age of mass imprisonment
Public executions: the death penalty and the media
The book thief: the true crimes of Daniel Spiegelman
Neither angels nor demons: women, crime, and victimization
Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Zoos and animal welfare
Military draft
Religion and sexuality
Labor unions
Hunting
Reproductive technologies
Self-mutilation
Espionage and intelligence
Sex offenders and public policy
Working women
Violent video game effects on children and adolescents: theory, research, and public policy
Brewing justice: fair trade coffee, sustainability, and survival
Downloading music

Books that can be used in the library
The atlas of human migration
Firefly encyclopedia of the vivarium: keeping amphibians, reptiles, and insects, spiders and other invertebrates in terraria, aquaterraria, and aquaria

New Books

Inside the minds of healthcare serial killers: why they kill
Sacco and Vanzetti: the men, the murders, and the judgment of mankind
Pop-porn: pornography in American culture
Children at play: an American history
Family life in 19th-century America
The strange case of the Broad Street pump: John Snow and the mystery of cholera
Scientists confront intelligent design and creationism
Best of the brain from Scientific American
Bloom’s modern critical views: Langston Hughes
Bloom’s modern critical views: Sylvia Plath