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 HarperCollins Acquires Houghton Mifflin Harcourt By Laura Winnick On March 29, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced that it will acquire the Books & Media segment of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), which will be operated by one of its subsidiaries, HarperCollins Publishers. |
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 The Importance of Being Seen | Trans + Script By Elsworth Carman and Jackie Gosselar Jackie Gosselar is a Systems and Discovery Services Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley. They shared their experience as a bisexual, nonbinary librarian, and provided some insight into the value of being part of an organizational culture that makes space for all identities. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
PREMIUM The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast PassageBy Erika Fatland Will appeal to fans of travel books who enjoy additional background and history of destinations; particularly good for readers familiar with the areas around Russia. |
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PREMIUM What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want To Be?Ed. by John Hausdoerffer, Brooke Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson & Katherine Kassouf Cummings Recommended for readers interested in environmentalism, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, and Indigenous peoples in the U.S. |
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PREMIUM Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in CommandBy Kent Masterson Brown An instructive book about Civil War generalship that will engage and inform anyone interested in the dynamics of command from the perspective of those in charge. |
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| | | | PREMIUM Soundbite: The Admissions Secret That Gets You into College and BeyondBy Sara Harberson Occasionally the author’s promotion of her approach comes across like an infomercial. Overall, however, the inclusion of exercises, examples, and Soundbites from real students results in an extremely useful guide for parents, students, counselors, and educators. |
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 Broadening Broadband | Editorial By Meredith Schwartz The challenge for libraries is, first, to obtain and spend federal funding, and second, to parlay that temporary help into a permanent paradigm shift. The new equipment will outlast the emergency. It is up to library leaders to document its ongoing impacts, so that when breakage and age take their inevitable toll, funders will find it unthinkable not to replace and upgrade the gear. |
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 ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Literary Criticism By LJ Reviews
Intimations, Becoming Human, Re-Enchanted, and more in literary criticism titles: April 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. Intimations: Six Essays.
Smith, Zadie
Penguin Books
2020. ISBN 9780593297612. $10.95 2. Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World.
Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman
New York University Press
2020. ISBN 9781479890040. $89.00 3. Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children's Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century.
Cecire, Maria Sachiko
University of Minnesota Press
2019. ISBN 9781517906580. $27.00 |
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